Why is this still a thing?
What technology is stopping you from having a global patch in 2025?
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Probably the same reason timezones exist.
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The same reason no other mmo company does this?
sure 
I always like to think of it as they are patch testing for us on release days. If major issues happen they find out first and maybe we arenât so badly hit. What I like to think but just how it is, one of lifeâs great mysteries. Your loot vault will be available in a few hours instead
I mean, like, I could say you have a point, but it is hard to really compare other MMOâs to WoW, especially when NA and EU isnât exactly connected by each other.
Like, I know for NA, the times when they apply new patches or bring the servers down, they try and do it where there is very little interuption to the majority of the playerbase, incase things go wrong, I could imagine it would be the same for the EU too.
All I know is that patches or downtimes usually happen overnight here for me (Yes, Iâm an Oceanic Player)
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Youâre still missing the point of the post. They do downtime overnight.
Maybe youâre too new to realise the 24 hour difference of NA content and EU content
Then that is probably the reason why as I mentioned:
Canât tell me the majority of players are awake at night.
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Im trying to be polite as possible
do you realise I canât play the same content on EU at the same time, the NA players get it, because there is literally a 24 hour difference, this isnât a timezone issue
Well we do global launch, but tbh i pref it this way because they are testers for us only time it matters is WFR which gives them around 16 hour head start if they are lucky. But 21 years nearly playing does not matter much im used to it but i can see what you mean.
Ok, so 3am CET is usually when the servers go down for the EU if I got that correct. (Would be the same for when they apply patches as well).
Wednesday 3am CET is Tuesday 6pm Pacific. If you convert it the other way, Tuesday 7am PT is Tuesday 4pm CET. In otherwords, one way or another, converging with peak times when majority of the players would be on and playing, no matter how you look at it.
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Patch Release Timing
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Weekly Reset Differences: WoW servers have different weekly reset times for EU and NA regions. For EU servers, the weekly reset occurs on Wednesdays at 04:00 UTC, while for US, Latin, and Oceanic servers, it happens on Tuesdays at 15:00 UTC. This means NA players typically get access to new content or resets a day earlier than EU players.
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Patch Deployment: Major content patches (e.g., Patch X.Y or X.Y.Z) are usually rolled out on Tuesdays for NA servers and Wednesdays for EU servers. This staggered release means NA players may experience new content slightly earlier, which can be significant for competitive events like the Race to World First.
Nothing, they manage global releases for expansions, they just choose to not do it for weekly reset and patches.
And yet, timezones are still everything to do with this.
If you moved the EU Servers to bring down the servers to apply new patches at the same time as the NA, then youâre impacting more people who would be getting home who just want to play the game. Blizzard has those times specific exact for when there would be less traffic within the servers, reducing the amount of players impacted by the downtime to a minority instead of a majority.
Like, to put in another term, I am from Sydney, and yes, I do play on the NA. For me, the servers would be down on Wednesday around 1am in the morning for when the NA Servers go down, because for NA, they have to bring the servers down at times when it would impact the least amount of players in all of the Americaâs and in the Oceanic Locations.
EU Servers mostly cover the EU, and they have to look at the right time to bring the servers down at the right time when it is going to impact the least amount of players.
And if they did it exactly on the same time for the EU to EU Times as they would do for NA times, then that would mean the EU would then get the patches earlier than the NA.
Blizzard does it this way to impact the least amount of players.
EDIT: And also, technically, the EU players would be waiting 13 hours after a patch drops on NA before it drops on EU. That is how also timezones actually works. The Earth is not flat after all.
Server Maintenances and Patches in NA usually take place in the morning hours of Tuesday in Western Americas, when the 1st shift of engineers in California go to work. In EU it takes place during midnight / morning hours of Central Europe because thatâs when the 2nd shift of engineers on NA side is at their office, since itâs afternoon then in California
False, itâs around 12 hours.
NA Maintenance is around 07:00 PST, or 14:00 UTC time
EU Maintenance is around 03:00 CEST, or around 02:00 UTC
14:00 â 02:00 is 12 hours difference
^^ This pretty much.
Reset would start coming at dreadful times for EU if we were to follow the US resets.
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As soon as Blizzard invents a time-travel machine, the Timezone issue can be resolved 
I like them being our beta testers
often plenty goes wrong on tuesday that then doesnât go wrong on wednesday.
arenât there servers that run on oceanic as well or are they included in the US schedule for maintenance because they are considered Amerika & Oceania?
I think your scenario ishonestly too big of an outlier to be given a solution to your problem that isnât join a realm in your timezone.
There is, and Oceanic has always been part of the NA Region since the game was released in 2004.
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