Maintenance on EUROPEAN/US TIME GAMING

[Kimble]

Ok, if you dont care about anyone has to think/say about this, then close topic. A rep can still reply to you if they wish.

[Daremo]

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Looking at past Census results... Japanese Midnight is consistently the time with the highest number of logins. The time with the least logins is mid to late morning in Japan.

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[SIZE="6"]Rage[/SIZE]

Wait, pause rage... Thinking about it a bit, if JP midnight is the peak login time, that also makes it the beginning of the decline, which typically leads to the JP morning nadir. So if they're aiming to work through the nadir, rather than start then, it makes a little more sense. Midnight is still early enough to be awake, waiting 2~3 hours for logins to drop off would result in a less alert maintenance crew, and if it goes long, be more likely to run into the lesser peaks of the spread out US primetime.

[SIZE="6"]UnRage[/SIZE]

Ok, so Europe is mostly boned by circumstance, rather than ill intent. Cutting off right at, or just after the peak time is massively counter-intuitive, but there is sense to it.

[Etoilemourante]

Ok, if you dont care about anyone has to think/say about this, then close topic. A rep can still reply to you if they wish.

i just dont care of you Kimble... IG or here...

Constructive post np, post for you say i lie or other , dont need it...

I look for see if others Ppls share my think and more got SE ppls who give me respons, and not shit excuses : technitian work only on night on JP... i want SE take 1 official position on this...

[Kimble]

You should prob post in the EU forums then if this is an EU issue, Further more, there are french forums there so you can speak in your native language so what you are trying to say is easier to read and makes more sense.

[Byrth]

Yeah, it's kind of bullshit to complain about this after seeing the census. Doing it in JP primetime would piss a lot more people off than EU (lol, that dip) or NA (pitiful hump) primetimes. I don't like being locked out either, but they're obviously aiming to piss off as little of their playerbase as possible when they schedule maintenance. You want maintenance to be JP time, recruit some friends in Europe and boost EU primetime.

[Octaviane]

I hope have 1 SE guy who respons me... and not only players... each GMs say me its true its very annoyne and encourage me to come here post and try get SE teams change this...

I seriously doubt that a GM told you to do that.

If you can't be without your FFXI fix for 5 hours you are in serious trouble. Maintenance wasn't scheduled to annoy you or anyone else, it was done for a reason and scheduled as quickly as possible.

[Korpg]

Anyone know what the e-maint was for today?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Anyone know what the e-maint was for today?

Auction house crashes I think.

[Korpg]

Auction house crashes I think.

That it? Man what a waste of a 5 hour maint.

[Zyeriis]

Anyone know what the e-maint was for today?

What i posted on page 3:

This "emergency" maintenance is likely due to what happened sometime between midnight and 4am EST last night. The search function completely crashed on Phoenix, couldn't check LS member list, friend list, do any type of search, inviting people was hard as well. There were several hiccups with the search feature during the day prior to this as well. And no, this was not just me, it was everyone in linkshell and there were shouts about in Port Jeuno (because theres always shouts in Port Jeuno).

Summary: It took them hours to perform "emergency" maintenance. Interpret as you will.