Originally Posted by flink

The event maps are back. Maybe only for a couple more hours.

Ack, I was asleep. Must have been a premature glitch. I first noticed that earlier at game reset (when I'm very much online).

Didnt manage to get all the ampys I wanted, but those are extras anyway.
I had been trying to get 3 big blue dragons. From 5 runs not even a single one dropped. Un-fucking believable, even with the extra chests dropping each time.
Will quickly try to get my 2nd Moonwine and then continue with the Xmass event.

They even removed the shop. Good thing I spent most of the nectar I got.

Originally Posted by Drip

Uhmmm why should it be Pacific time? They've set their anouncements to UTC for quite a while, and even crudely followed it. The reason they use UTC is because it doesn't have daylight saving time applied to it, which saves headaches for people when those flip around, since DST doesn't change on the same date for every country or even local region. So players (and developers for that matter) only need to adjust when their own DST flips, and aren't affected by both their own DST change and the time DST flips for wherever the server may be.

Some Nutaku games also run assets directly from the DMM servers, making it a pain even for Nutakus developers themselves to keep track of servertimes and DST. Scheduling by UTC times simplifies that as well, and makes it easier to make appointments between Nutaku developers and DMM maintenance crew.

Actually, I thought they were based in California, but they're based in Montreal, Canada. Which means that EST would apply in this situation. And I'm talking about when they determine the start and end of an event, not how a server operates specifically. It makes no sense for them to base a server shutdown in the middle of the day, when they could do it in the early morning or late night where traffic is significantly lighter. Money talks, and money talks when traffic is busy.

Do not mind the semi random maintenance times, even last night i just leveled, completed a map for three stars the first time and they started the maintenance before i got the rewards, do not care. But their lack of consistency is anoying me a bit now, i am pretty sure i checked the expiry date of the shop at it was 15th Dec, but as soon as even is over the shop no longer accepts the nectar/currency.

As opposed to the first Event i did, which was the Dipladenia one, the shop was selling stuff for a week after the event was over...
know I had 250-500 more ie one more purchase. Not crying/writing flaming email to Nutaku but just starting to be anoying. I started playing this game for the "artwork" but also i wanted a game that involved minimal playing time, not having to worry about a early closing of the shop because they can, early maintenance with like 10 mins warning, rushing every last attack to get maximum rewards etc etc.

Originally Posted by Drip

Uhmmm why should it be Pacific time?

It's not PST, you're correct, but here's hard proof that it's NOT UTC.

Since they're based in Montreal, they operate on CST. Again, it makes more sense to operate according to the customs of the region. Since EU operations tend to have their own servers, they then have their own scheduled time for events, etc., much like any online game around the world.

Again, I'm not talking about the operation of the servers, I'm talking about where the players are in relation to the servers. and what kinds of events and how they are planned. It makes no sense for them to use UTC for servers based in North America, where marketing budget is mostly allocated to this region (e.g., comic/anime cons, sponsorships, advertisements etc.)

And no, their servers are not in Ireland. Their payment processing is, because Ireland is a very well known tax haven for corporations, so the money processing is handled there.