Talk:Harmonic Wizard Cup/@comment-81.166.196.19-20140427095826/@comment-24850617-20140427115747

And you are not seeing my point either. I'm not saying that it will screw them, I'm saying someone will get screwed. And not sure if you saw my edit, but the main reason why game companies choose to follow certain timezones is because of the location of the server.

The turnover time, i.e. when it changes from one day to next day in game, is usually when the maintenance is done. So, the reason why the timezone is chosen is so that maintenance times fall within the 9-5 working hours of the staff manning the servers. Choosing timezones to suit gamers is not going to take priority over ungodly hours for maintenance staff, it doesn't make business sense.

The timezone is not chosen arbitrarily and is not going to be so easily changed as you seem to be thinking. Sure, it may just be changing a few numbers, but it also means finding engineers to do maintenance at odd hours, which obviously is going to be more expensive than usual.