Maintenance on EUROPEAN/US TIME GAMING

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Originally Posted by Etoilemourante

If SE was US , he need dont save all US time too... i dont have problem with any communauty but start to be tired of JP prior for all... its strange he can work on server midnight to 6am.... in my land technitien dont work night time... so its only for JP's ppls not miss 1 sec game....

maybee need down price for ppls who are victims to maintenance and full price for ppl who dont are...

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It is business tactics to schedule server maintanance (or any maintanance that requires nework outage) for the time that least affects the running of the business, example if you work as a network technician or engineer for a UK bank, you arent going to take the network offline for 5hr maintanance at 1pm because it causes the bank to millions of £, $, euros, yen w/e currency you use each hr, you therefore schedule the 5hr maintanace for night time when it will have a small effect on the running of the network.

FFXI is differant though, they cant schedule maintanance when no one is using the servers, so they look at thier records and check what time the least people play which is EU prime time, then if all the EU player rage quit over it theres less effect on SE than if all the JP players rage quit if maint was in JP prime time.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

It is business tactics to schedule server maintanance (or any maintanance that requires nework outage) for the time that least affects the running of the business, example if you work as a network technician or engineer for a UK bank, you arent going to take the network offline for 5hr maintanance at 1pm because it causes the bank to millions of £, $, euros, yen w/e currency you use each hr, you therefore schedule the 5hr maintanace for night time when it will have a small effect on the running of the network.

FFXI is differant though, they cant schedule maintanance when no one is using the servers, so they look at thier records and check what time the least people play which is EU prime time, then if all the EU player rage quit over it theres less effect on SE than if all the JP players rage quit if maint was in JP prime time.

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And after SE try got more player EUR... maybee need try again... EUR ppls are not sheep... and when unfair, just go other games... no one rage if maintenance was 1/3 or 1/5 time on prime time, but when is 100% yes... specialely when surprise on event time...

Most EU players don't really mind that much about it.

I think that they should just stop maintenance for good, it always takes time out of someone's paid play, somewhere.

Really though, it may seem biased but if you think hard enough about it, it's really not. And by the way, you should probably cool down before typing next time (@ OP), it makes people's eyes hurt when you smash keys like that ; ;

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Originally Posted by Etoilemourante

And after SE try got more player EUR... maybee need try again... EUR ppls are not sheep... and when unfair, just go other games... no one rage if maintenance was 1/3 or 1/5 time on prime time, but when is 100% yes... specialely when surprise on event time...

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If you are really that angry about it, make a formal complaint instead of crying about it on this forum.

There are proper ways to do things here.

Sorry for not readng through all of this.

I think SE should like check thier own Census now and acording to that they do every Maintance during a prime Period for EU/NA while the proper times with less loging would be JP.

Sorry again if this was mentioned before. But its kinda bugging me. As thou honestly..... its not a big Deal.

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Originally Posted by Eri

Sorry for not readng through all of this.

I think SE should like check thier own Census now and acording to that they do every Maintance during a prime Period for EU/NA while the proper times with less loging would be JP.

Sorry again if this was mentioned before. But its kinda bugging me. As thou honestly..... its not a big Deal.

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They do. They timed it when the least number of people are online, according to the census.

Its great how the people who are never effected by this and coming on saying whats the big deal, i bet half these people will be on here moaning if some thing in game happened that affected their game play.

It doesnt matter when Maintenance is done because its going to affect someone so there is no point in crying about it. Take the time off to do some house work, read a book, watch a movie, whatever. If its the end of the world to you because you cant play a game for a few hours, you need some help.

I do have to say I agree with this somewhat. Here in the U.K, maintenance always hits from 17:00 - 22:00 which effectively denies a whole days play, for those who play in the evening. Often, when one maintenance occurs, an "emergency" one happens within a few days to fix all the bugs discovered once the previous update went live.

We seem to get maintenance at least every month, with the often second installment a few days after. This might not seem like much, but adding this up at 2 per month = 24 per year, roughly translated to 11/12 months playable for 12 payments. SE were very quick to refund us all a whole month when unforseen circumstances knocked the game out for 10 days, but we miss out a lot more than that simply due to our timezone.

I fully understand that SE's largest playerbase is in Japan, but it would be nice if they would play fair occasionally. Why not start maintenance at 06:00 Japan time sometimes, then maybe 09:00 or 12:00.

That would affect other parts of the world as well, but would at least not Always deny play for the exact same group of players.