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Regarding the timing of this maintenance: remember that not everyone is in the same city as you. (Although it feels that way!) :-) People all over the world are playing CoH. It's the middle of the night for half the world.

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Yep, there are players around the world but these are US servers (EU has their own servers - not sure about Asia). It is prime time for EDT, close for CDT, not so close for MDT, and afternoon for PDT. Considering the population distribution for the US, that means it is (or is about to be) prime time for over half the population. I know little about population distributions in Canada so can't comment on them.

This couldn't have waited until later tonight or early tomorrow?

They just have to bring down the servers for a non-critical patch (yes, lag is bad but the game is still playable) at the beginning of prime time?!?!

The patch is a good thing but the timing sucks.