Why is it that they have to publish updates in the middle of the day? I'll admit I don't know much about maintaining data integrity, managing servers, and things like that, but wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense to do an update immediately after the servers are backed up from the night before? So, like if a server goes down at 5AM, and is done backing up at 6AM, then put out the publish at that time?
The reason why I'm whining is because I just spent an hour and a half fighting the Rikktor spawn. Took him down to 10% when bam, Origin up an vanished. I'll be dead of course. The 10 or so pinks I had on me & my protector will go poof because I logged out in a spawn area. I didn't look at them closely, but I know there were some pretty good ones (no taming I'm sure). Of course, there's the matter of the 12 PS that I was about 3 minutes away from getting.
I don't know, there could have been server messages saying Origin is going down in 10 minutes or something. I know I didn't see anything, but it's possible I missed it because my screen fills up with text when I'm fighting like that. I mean, I don't know why they need to do a publish in the middle of the day, but if they know they are going to be doing it, couldn't they say something like a day or two in advance? This was some kind of secret or anything.