The most important part of the game is still up and available for play. At the top of the page, click "Charge ZEN", and then "Purchase ZEN". When the servers come back up, you will be ahead of all the others on here who have wasted away the downtime by posting on these forums, instead of boosting their ZEN count!
You don't have to pay staff overtime. It could just be a cron job that runs. Turn the servers off at 8pm, make an automated forum posting, then turn the servers back on at midnight. It really wouldn't cost anything extra, and only would take a few minutes to set up a few scripts and add them to crontab.
I hope they will offer a "Weekend Warrior" pack to allow those of us able to afford it to play during the weekend server-load-reduction "maintenance". It doesn't really make sense to take the servers down during the weekends for everyone, especially when the load could be controlled by adjusting the price-point of the…
Everyone is overreacting over this decision. It has nothing to do with appeasing the EU players. By taking the servers down during prime time on weekends, they have found that the servers do not become as loaded or exhibit performance issues. In fact, tonight has been a huge success - the server performance problem during…