ok you all make good points. ah.... yeppers I got nothing to say to that really LOL.

except... I sure wish they'd do shard maintenance at a good time sometimes out here too.

oh well.

if they did it at 7 am europe time that'd be 1am or 2am in the morning for them personally i like sleep i'm sure the devs do too now try working at 1 2 am on a computer in an office(asuming) and doing well i dont know but game maintence fixing things so on without blowing it up and taking a week to fix they get sleep we get good working game

true, yet couldn't they just hire a team in Europe?

They should maybe bring in seperate servers for Europe like CoH had , as it is really annoying times for maintenance for players in europe

Why would they, it's all the same server.

OMG 4 hrs is not the end of the world,stop complaining

Precisely good point.

Yes, just double their tech staff... Except then the servers are on the wrong continent and what they can do during maintenance is significantly limited, including but not limited to having almost no recourse when a problem comes up except waking up the US team and extending maintenance for things that the US team would incur a delay of a whole minute taking care of.

Or separate servers. Split the community of an already not huge game. I know European players like to talk about how many of them there are, but compare European peak hours to US peak hours (assuming roughly the same proportion of players from both play off peak hours, and those European servers will be fairly sparse. And guess what happens if they prove unprofitable or just significantly less profitable?

An entire continent reduced to KDF status.

Ok how bout hiring a night shift out there in the west then?

This would work, and it would mean Cryptic doing their small part to help the economy along