how is 5 hours half a day?

I imagine they could just *not* fix the issues on EU until the next regular patch. Careful what ya wish for.

Pelanora wrote: »

I really wish people would stop making these posts.

It's so petulant.

Yea, again and again and again ....

If they had to take into account inconveniences on holidays everywhere, the maintenance would never get done.

There's nothing petulant about complaining about maintenance on a widely observed public holiday. ZOS manages not to do this with US public holidays (of which, contrary to popular belief, there are about the same number, if not slightly more depending on the European country compared with national public holidays than those observed by most countries in Europe).

This isn't the first time this has happened and, yes, perhaps this one was an emergency. But do ZOS have a list? Are they aware these holidays exist? Because this is a paid-for product and they purport to provide a paid-for service in Europe and at the very least some sort of acknowledgement of the significance of the timing would help manage people's grievances.

I don't have a candle in this but "petulant" is complaining that maintenance is done on Tuesday at 1125 and therefore conflicts with my having fed the cats and taken my chihuahua to dog school because I work special hours as a trapeze artist. Complaining that maintenance on an entertainment product happens on a day that is for much of a continent a public holiday is essentially the opposite of petulant. It is very reasonable and should be a blindingly obvious issue for anyone working in the entertainment sphere.

JeroenB wrote: »

Rather beside the point, but as someone living in a European country where November 1st isn't any kind of public holiday, I'd be intrigued to know what it's a holiday for? Even the autumn school holidays here were last week, not this week.

All Saints Day (hence "Hallowe'en" -- All Hallows' (Saints') Eve).

JeroenB wrote: »

Ah, one of the religious ones. Thanks for the information. (I should really have guessed -- just checked, and eight out of the eleven public holidays we do have here in the Netherlands are religious in origin.)

Judging by the distribution in Europe (France, Spain, parts of Germany, parts of Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Poland, etc etc) it's mainly the historically very Catholic bits or the bits with Catholic history that observe it.

next thing you know they do a maintenance on Talk Like a Pirate Day. the travesty.

o_Primate_o wrote: »

next thing you know they do a maintenance on Talk Like a Pirate Day. the travesty.

You're talking about a national public holiday covering a population of going on 250 million people in Europe alone. Talk Like A Pirate Day it is not... And the problem isn't so much, in the case of urgent maintenance, that it gets done, it's that ZOS has seemed repeatedly oblivious to the very existence of such holidays and doesn't even see the wisdom of acknowledging that people are inconvenienced. It's not a very good look.