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I really hope that's the case but I doubt it, the gaming industry is notorious for its unending crunch and unpaid overtime.

I would be happy to help set up a "Elite Dangerous *Help staff get good pay*" forum post. If we all donate 1 credit of ingame gold I think we could make some good cash.
 
... corrected, sry, im not native speaker, lol

anyway, i will not be able to play until tomorrow based on previous downloads, as a lot of other cmdrs...
 
As for every patch, the schedule is such that

a) the game is not playable during european primetime
b) Frontier employees in the UK have to work overtime

I really don't see the benefit there. It sounds very much like a lose-lose. Then again it's maybe the Canadian offices who are solely responsible for patch rollouts, but I seriously doubt that.
 
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You get these complaints no matter where you go.

I work support for law firms. And let me tell you, their IT departments can give 2 week notices with reminders that a service will be down on the weekend and to pull whatever work they need off the server beforehand because IT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE.

There will always be that chucklehead Associate or Partner who thinks he's god's gift to the firm that ignores the warning, then blows a gasket and start firing emails at everybody of "how this can happen" and "how the firm is losing thousands" because of this maintenance window because he ignored the warning and can't do his billable time to ignore the family he hates.

It's what we call "going full user". And the OP? He just went full user.
 
And if they rolled the update in the middle of the evening in UK then the OP would be complaining if something went wrong.

Good job on making this change FD, good timing...gives y'all some time to address any issues the same day as the deployment.
 
As for every patch, the schedule is such that

a) the game is not playable during european primetime
b) Frontier employees in the UK have to work overtime

I really don't see the benefit there. It sounds very much like a lose-lose. Then again it's maybe the Canadian offices who are responsible for patch rollouts.

Didn't that office close down?

We will have it all up and running soon so all I can say is this, Sit back and relax all the worrying will only make you ill. I will download this game very fast as I live in UK. If there is any problems UK players will post here and let you know whats what.
 
YAY!!!!! SO GLAD!! Suits us, us in the U.S. East Coast perfectly!!!...by the time I get home and start downloading the game, is like 1 a.m. in U.K....you will all be sleeping and the servers clear for us to download at full speed!!!! LOL... YAY!!!

:p:p:p;););)
 
You get these complaints no matter where you go.

I work support for law firms. And let me tell you, their IT departments can give 2 week notices with reminders that a service will be down on the weekend and to pull whatever work they need off the server beforehand because IT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE.

There will always be that chucklehead Associate or Partner who thinks he's god's gift to the firm that ignores the warning, then blows a gasket and start firing emails at everybody of "how this can happen" and "how the firm is losing thousands" because of this maintenance window because he ignored the warning and can't do his billable time to ignore the family he hates.

It's what we call "going full user". And the OP? He just went full user.
Still none of that explains why 6PM GMT is in any way better than 10AM GMT when the latter
a) would affect european and north american players less
b) would be much more sensible with regards to worktime for Frontier employees in the UK.

Unless you're presuming that the majority of the playerbase lives in east asia or something, the ED update schedule has zero correlation to your chosen example of corporate IT maintenance on weekends.
 
YAY!!!!! SO GLAD!! Suits us, us in the U.S. East Coast perfectly!!!...by the time I get home and start downloading the game, is like 1 a.m. in U.K....you will all be sleeping and the servers clear for us to download at full speed!!!! LOL... YAY!!!

:p:p:p;););)

By which time all your base are belong to us!
 
whoever decided to make maintenance in peak time for most of players must be brainless, lolFD pls kick him out,but seriously perfect timing, plus if that is 1.2 release then it will not be possible to play for another x hours, cause download server is somewhere on Greenland.thank you for being so ... cant say cause of rules :p
Out of curiosity what time (uk time) do you think FD should do these updates? Also where are most of the players based that makes mid afternoon in the UK "peak time for most players"?
 
3pm GMT is noon in Halifax. Time for everyone to get to work, do a last-minute conference call and make sure everything's ready.
 
whoever decided to make maintenance in peak time for most of players must be brainless, lol
Gawsh, this thar Interweb is global you know, so it's always peak time somewhere and excellent timing for a patch/upload for most others. Of course, since the dawn of time the unlucky few always whine as if their region is of paramount importance. :D
 
Gawsh, this thar Interweb is global you know, so it's always peak time somewhere and excellent timing for a patch/upload for most others. Of course, since the dawn of time the unlucky few always whine as if their region is of paramount importance. :D

Yes, we in Hairy expect everything last, oh, oh, I mean first..... :D
 
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