It is peak hours in Australia. We don’t have an AU server so forced to us America West which means a 7 pm to 10 pm downtime every night 
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That does suck, hopefully in the not so distant future the down times are quicker and occurrence lessen.
in my world these are emergancy hotfixes outside of a set weekly/month scheduled maintenance cycle. These guys in the last few days are patching a patch to patch a patch and redoing hotfixes on the fly geez. poeple would get fired here for that.
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Eve Online does it once a day. So, y’know, it’s not “every other game in the world”.
dont be “that guy” … no one likes “that guy”
Agreed. If players cant handle a little downtime to get patched-updated-fixes, they should just give up on PC gaming. Valheim-New World- Final Fantasy-PUBG-Fortnite- (and just about every other big name game takeoff the past 5 years or more) ALL started out this exact same way. So, there you have it. Its not just a handful of game that do it like many are forgetting (or started playing well after launch and never experienced.)
Maybe they will shorten the time… The servers are visible already
I don’t mind the patching and to be honest, the game runs perfectly for me without any issues yet. I just don’t get to play much other than in the evenings and that’s when the servers go down. Would be nice to stagger the down times to give each region a break at least until they create local regional servers.
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Maybe its for health reasons 
All jokes aside, it does indeed suck. However to use an example, if we have an internal issue we do not disclose all the details to our customers. I’d have to think that is common practice, and honestly see no issue with it.
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Its ok and im sure going forward that lost ark will also have set days for maintenance. Its judt with things being so unstable right now they’d rather fix things quickly.
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like I said… some people don’t mind getting fucked in the ass… and will say… thank you sir, may I have another…
the excuse of “this is just amazon, get used to it” is exactly what I said above…
people who think like this need to have higher standards for themselves, and hold companies accountable… we have become ENTIRELY too complacent for incompetence over the years…
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Yes! THAT right there, I totally 100% agree with (an actually said in my post) They need to incorporate an IN ADVANCE (24 hrs at least) Incoming Scheduled Maintenance message at the log in screen and one that runs at the bottom (as a constant reminder) for players. This Tweeting and a flash across the game screen (while most are in battles) and dont know was that part of the game that they missed or a downtime warning that these guys threw up periodically in gameplay that gives like 1-2 hours of a short flashing notice. I actually slammed them a Tweet yesterday about these crappy notices and their lack of utilizing such a simple reminder.
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the sooner you go back to your previous game(s), whatever it was or whatever they were, the happier you will be 
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i’m not saying that for anyone else’s benefit but your own. whatever games you were playing works. lost ark is not the best, it’s just one of the newest western releases. it’s not gonna be popular in na (and probably eu lmao) like it is in korea. different market audiences.
i bet you i will receive “it shattered launch records” from fan___s that totally missed ‘new western release’ part of this comment lol.
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Amazon is the biggest joke of the gaming genre. They got the biggest server park in the world but cant manage bigger servers.
New world launch week was a joke now lost ark that has been out for like 2/3 years now this launch week already got 4 maintenances in 6 days that’s rubbish. Its that i wanna play the game because i really like it but this is the last time im gonna play a Amazon published game.
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If they do it every week, It is harder for the devs to know if the patch actually worked and also to get to know if anything else fails because of a patch (regression) they could fix it asap. It’s better for development. You mention other games updated once a week, you may investigate more about software deployments because of big content/fixes deployments causes bugs and issues that may take days of research and days for fixing an test it. I’m sw engineer so I know what I’m talking about. I would not accept my product owner to ask us for a release that will have 20 issues fixed on one week, that should be done in a month. I’d rather prefer divided patches in a row that I could know how to maintain the SW. So when the system achieves a more stable version the deployments will be weekly or monthly depending on how much the add content to it.
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You should take your own advice, bud. It’ll make life easier for you.
I know, it’s prime time for me too, but if you look at the actual graphs with the actual player counts from around the actual world, it’s the lowest player count time available.
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Are you going to be okay?
Well, maintenance is better than doing nothing. They are doing SOMETHING. Don’t whine about it.
The best thing about this is that it clears off all the AFK macro users.