The parable of the Rabbi and the goat

To be fair, all the other games (inc. Riders of Icarus, Dirty Bomb, and First Assault) except for Mabinogi, Vindictus, and Atlantica are running on either CET for Nexon Europe games (Combat Arms, WarRock, CSN:Zombies) or UTC (all the other games mentioned incl. Dirty Bomb) time on both NA and EU servers. I would bet that they'd change the server time in Vindictus to UTC after the migration in February, too. Trust me, I was quite as shocked as many of you were when I noticed that everything reset at 4pm Pacific when I was playing Riders of Icarus in the NA servers.

For games that are serviced by NexonEU that kind of makes sense.

If they're so used to UTC, why was it done as an afterthought to MapleStory?
It wasn't in the original maintenance notice (though Nexon's web notices are often lacking important details) and no thought was given to events and other time-dependent content. I'm sure people can get used to a 4PM reset (and 3PM in summer), but having everything from Kritias Invasions to Moon Bunny Pirate attacks unavailable during prime playing time is ridiculous. I mean, the bunny events only work 6AM to midnight, which while annoying to non-Americans kind of made sense for PST time. But now that means they don't run between 4 and 10 PM PST, which is when most Americans play.
I guess they clean forgot about it, and then halfway through the maintenance somebody said, "Did you remember to set the server time to UTC?" and the others were like, "Oh, right". I guess we should be grateful they remembered to put it in the notice at that point, because otherwise we'd have been a lot more confused.

There's a poll on the official forums where most of the community appears to agree that the NA servers should be kept on PST and EU servers to be on CET. That might have a trickle down effect on all the other games, or at least for Vindictus, if this is done.

Well, duh. Seems like a no-brainer to me, especially when Nexon never explained what's so great about UTC. Of course people want their "normal" server clocks back. I am kind of surprised at the number of people who want PST for all servers, though. Why do the Americans want to force their timezone on the European server? Well, maybe they just didn't read all the options. They just look at the first line, it fits their personal concerns, they click it.