Wyntar Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 how do they say its off peak... for America yes indeedy,2am to 8am.But how is 8am till 2pm off peak in europe. Off peak is the early morning hours as in the American maintenance times. Once again Europe, which by the way is a lot larger thathe USA , gets the bullet. TRION manage to seperate the two so it cannot be rocket science can it?? Wise up BioWare it is just a small point that could lose many subs...and do not get me started on AntiAlising, textures etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeinasindorei Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 how do they say its off peak... for America yes indeedy,2am to 8am. But how is 8am till 2pm off peak in europe. Off peak is the early morning hours as in the American maintenance times. Once again Europe, which by the way is a lot larger thathe USA , gets the bullet. TRION manage to seperate the two so it cannot be rocket science can it?? Wise up BioWare it is just a small point that could lose many subs...and do not get me started on AntiAlising, textures etc etc. They are aware of this issue and complaint and have commented on it already. It's somewhere in the Dev tracker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovarBoy Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Just deal with it, that are the regular times for maintenance right now. And I think they will NEVER change. So NA > Europe, that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordrakgore Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Was the top reason I gave when cancelling my sub. It's just plain unacceptable to have maintenance during daytime the last oh 7y at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeinasindorei Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Was the top reason I gave when cancelling my sub. It's just plain unacceptable to have maintenance during daytime the last oh 7y at least. 7 years? What are you talking about? The reason they gave was so that they could push content out to all regions at the same time. It's either this, or wait a day or more to get the content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesperascit Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) how do they say its off peak... for America yes indeedy,2am to 8am. But how is 8am till 2pm off peak in europe. Off peak is the early morning hours as in the American maintenance times. Once again Europe, which by the way is a lot larger thathe USA , gets the bullet. TRION manage to seperate the two so it cannot be rocket science can it?? Wise up BioWare it is just a small point that could lose many subs...and do not get me started on AntiAlising, textures etc etc. Actually any time that people are typically at work or at school would be Off-Peak. Peak hours are usually around the evenings when most people are getting home. EDIT: Trion could make them seperate down times because US players could not access EU servers and vice versa. If BioWare does the same thing you'll just have a bunch of US players making alts during their downtime on EU servers and vice versa during EU server downtime. Edited January 8, 2012 by Vesperascit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchmeifucan Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 meh The downtime usually hits me at 8pm my time /cry But I go and have a teaspoon of cement and that makes everything better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclekaula Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Their reasoning for doing it during the times they do makes sense to me. I get up at 4AM PST so it affects me as well, but you know what? I just do something else during that time. Clean, do your dishes, laundry, watch a movie, or research your AC. Works for me :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDozen Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I didn't know that 8am to 2pm was peaktime in EU. Learned something new today I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYIImAPizza Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Actually any time that people are typically at work or at school would be Off-Peak. Peak hours are usually around the evenings when most people are getting home. EDIT: Trion could make them seperate down times because US players could not access EU servers and vice versa. If BioWare does the same thing you'll just have a bunch of US players making alts during their downtime on EU servers and vice versa during EU server downtime. thats wrong you can play on both eu an us servers in rift and they still managed it and do you know why? because what you said never ever happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HELhikari Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Because it's during the day on a weekday, and therefore most people are either at work or school. People who work shifts or irregular work patterns, alas, get shafted. I suspect they're always going to be on the loosing side though. I have quite a bit less sympathy for people who just sit around at home all day do nothing but play computer games. (Except for the people who have a good reason for doing so, of whom I am sure there quite a few. They're always exempt.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyntar Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Actually any time that people are typically at work or at school would be Off-Peak. Peak hours are usually around the evenings when most people are getting home. EDIT: Trion could make them seperate down times because US players could not access EU servers and vice versa. If BioWare does the same thing you'll just have a bunch of US players making alts during their downtime on EU servers and vice versa during EU server downtime. what version of RIFT do you play..You CAN access both the USA and European servers from one set of discs/account ... there is an option as you launch the client. Its easy to find.I have Characters on both side of the pond... I am in UK ,but do have fun on the USA side too. Take a good look round its great. So to that end it kinda makes your point invalid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeinasindorei Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 what version of RIFT do you play..You CAN access both the USA and European servers from one set of discs/account ... there is an option as you launch the client. Its easy to find.I have Characters on both side of the pond... I am in UK ,but do have fun on the USA side too. Take a good look round its great. So to that end it kinda makes your point invalid Do the EU servers get new content at the same time as the US servers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesperascit Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) what version of RIFT do you play..You CAN access both the USA and European servers from one set of discs/account ... there is an option as you launch the client. Its easy to find.I have Characters on both side of the pond... I am in UK ,but do have fun on the USA side too. Take a good look round its great. So to that end it kinda makes your point invalid I JUST logged into Rift like 5 minutes ago to double check and there were 2 servers that said Oceanic next to them, the rest I am pretty sure are US servers. I assume if they had US and EU servers listed they would mark them as such so you know which one you should roll on. EDIT: Ok I found the option you are referring to. It's not exactly something you find right away. And most people never bother to go into the settings of a launcher. So I stand corrected, you CAN roll on either so long as you change the Region in the launcher settings before launching the game. Edited January 8, 2012 by Vesperascit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gestas Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Was the top reason I gave when cancelling my sub. It's time to move on, brah. Why are you still here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeExil Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 But how is 8am till 2pm off peak in europe. . If I am not mistaking people between that hours are at a) school b) work c) college Of course if you don't have classes in the morning like I do then it sucks for us but if you do, then there is no problem At least that's what I understand with all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclekaula Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 If I am not mistaking people between that hours are at a) school b) work c) college Of course if you don't have classes in the morning like I do then it sucks for us but if you do, then there is no problem At least that's what I understand with all of this. Please stop making sense, this is a QQ thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeExil Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Please stop making sense, this is a QQ thread. But...but aww man, now my life has no meaning...making sense was my way of life, you ruined me! D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth-Rammstein Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I live in the eastern timezone of the us and honestly I'd rather have that 8am-2pm maintenance time you are talking about. I work second shift and usually end up being up all night and sleeping all day so those hours would work very well for me....but unfortunately that would never happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyA Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 People who work shifts or irregular work patterns, alas, get shafted. I suspect they're always going to be on the loosing side though. Yep I work shifts and that tends to be the case in most things, quite often on a Tuesday I leave for work at 3pm so maintenance screws me most of the time. This Tuesday I happen to be off so lose a good few hours there. People say, "Just do something else that day" but for people like me who works shifts like 3pm - 11pm, 5pm - 2am, 12pm - 10pm, 8am -5pm randomly every week and whose days off are different every week it doesn't work like that. With my shifts this week my day off on Tuesday would have been a good chance to play a bit before my girlfriend gets home from teaching which I'll be missing with the maintenance. That being said, maintenance is what it is and my job is what it is, I'm always going to get screwed working the rubbish hours I work when most of my friends work 9-5. I'm doing the Bupa Manchester 10k charity run in May so I'll be getting out for a run Tuesday while they do maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keii Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 It's always 5 o'clock somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blurble Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I thought peak hours were after dinner time, since the standard work shift is in the 9-5 area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpooled Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 not complaining (much) about the maint times after coming from FFXI and getting totally shafted there.. but please remember:- 1/ not everyone has a job (some actually are house-wifes/husbands)2/ 8am-2pm is ONLY in the UK and i think Portugal, majority of EU is +1 - +4 GMT3/ if maint is extended (which can happen in a new game) for 3 hrs, that puts it slap bang in the middle of vast majority of EU prime.4/ ppl do have a right to complain (even though its now getting old, not just this type of thread, but 85% of the threads on here), if you dont agree with them, you dont need to reply and feed the trolls seeing as it will drop to page 3 in less than 10mins due to the other 10k moaning threads also, these threads are getting boring now, there was a perfectly good one on the forum and adding to that thread would have more impact than another thread saying the same thing then getting bashed by loads of NA players saying 'deal with it, etc' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kshahdoo Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 how do they say its off peak... for America yes indeedy,2am to 8am. But how is 8am till 2pm off peak in europe. Off peak is the early morning hours as in the American maintenance times. Once again Europe, which by the way is a lot larger thathe USA , gets the bullet. TRION manage to seperate the two so it cannot be rocket science can it?? Wise up BioWare it is just a small point that could lose many subs...and do not get me started on AntiAlising, textures etc etc. The game is getting boring so I actually don't care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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