Shutting game down for 1 hour today to fix node wars during time when most are playing it. So can do this but they let so many thing go and not fix or take months to fix. Then it done on Maint day. Market took over a week to fix but Node war have to shut game down now.  So everything else is not importain but Node wars is there are a lot of guild that do not do node Wars and only do life skills and this cut into there time or maybe set up for life skill to run a number of hours and it get kill.

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=1167&countryType=en-US

Normal play time for NA, but for EU it's not.

There will be always an issue with time when the player base life's around the globe and it seems that they would like to fix it before the next node war. Node wars are a big part of gameplay in BDO and I am happy to have it fixed now rather than later. And yes some things are just easier to fix than others and I wouldn't compare a problem which just effected a few players with a problem which easily effects several hundereds. I for myself could easily life a week without buying or selling a Pen Item.

Oh look, they even cancelled the nodewar today, so we got maintainence during high traffic times for absolute no fkin purpose

Meanwhile u rush and change normal maintainence "because kOrEaN hOliDay"

They do regular maintenance in the middle of the day every single week for the EU playerbase so my only response to NA complaints about this half-maintenance is this:

For me, anyway, it's not so much the timing of the outage, it's the timing of the notice.  I get that emergencies happen, but this doesn't sound like one of those.  Apparently they had other ideas...

well earyer today it said one hour then they made it 2 hours

Isn't it normal practice for something unplanned like this to offer some sort of "compensation"?  Doesn't have to be much, but some sort of material acknowledgment that activities were interrupted.  And lost training time etc.

edit: Ah, there it is.  Thanks!