That was back when the game was actually good... lol
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Nobody cares about your WoW problems, WoW was only down ONCE A WEEK.
FFXIV is starting maintenance as soon as some people finish work, then it's back up when they need to sleep and repeat another dull work-day. Get over yourself, not being able to play every 2-3 days? you're damn right they should do something about it.
Grinding from 56-60 on Yetis solo because you ran out of quests was good? :(
and since we're being nostalgic and the servers will be up shortly...I give you Baneus, Feb 2005:
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...t/ffaefed5.jpg
EDIT: SERVERS UP, SERVERS UP, SERVERS UP :D
The maintenance improves the quality of the uptime.
Furthermore, the quantity of players experiencing downtime is at its lowest with their most common scheduling, therefore the argument is moot.
In the end, not changing their chosen time of days for maint is among the best decisions they could make on the matter, and history suggests that in time, the frequency will more than likely become reduced.
I still find it funny that some people here really believe that more issues are getting resolved when they do four maintenance a week compared to one. Guys, at the end of the week, the same amount of problems are going to be fixed.
The only difference is how long those problems stay live on the servers. Since most of these maintenance's are already scheduled for 1-2 days out, they are really not that critical to fix right away anyway.
I don't even see what bugs/issues they've fixed over the past week. Besides a couple of turn 5 fixes (did they really need to do global maintenance on content that less then 20% of the population is doing?)
Just because you don't experience the bugs before a maintenance doesn't mean they aren't there. Someone found the bug, someone reported it (oft times not the same someone) and Square fixed it. This is how I hope my monthly fee is being spent, improving the game so that they can move on to future content. I don't mind waiting for said future content if it means the game isn't going to implode at that time.