'New' maintenance a success.

I wrote a bunch of times how Maintenance times/schedules were screwing around with Australian game-time, with increasingly bitter messages, culminating in my 'screw it, if these keeps up, I'm outta here'.

Someone listened to the piteous whining, about something that just did not affect 99.5% of all players (because maintenance at 9am on a weekday is hardly 'serious game time' disturbing), and Did Something.

That change of schedules from twice-a-week Monday/Friday maintenance, to Once A Week Thursday maintenance has been totally awesome. Mondays are now viable. Friday evenings are now a prime time extravaganza. No more 'oh, we can't start this TF because it's maintenance tonight', no more Annoying Admin Messages from Hell about impending maintenance on Mondays and Fridays, driving off the few people who bothered to logon.

It's been a remarkable change, which has revitalised The Game for many Australian and GMT+10 players in countries such as New Zealand, Japan, and Singapore.

Since I wrote such a lot damning the decisions to have regular and unannounced maintenance on so many days of the week, and had written nothing about the new 'revamped' schedule, I thought I'd correct my omission, and publicly applaud the people who made it happen.

Thanks NCSOFT, for coming up with a solution which has greatly alleviated a problem for us Aussies. Thanks very much indeed.

Excession.