:mad:Maintenance starting too early in the day

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Originally Posted by Silmarilos

I have no idea why Square has decided to make it abundantly clear that the Japanese Servers take a higher priority to the American and European Servers.

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I didn't realize Japanese Server took priority, I can understand it though, the home server and the test servers are probably based in Japan. Would you wait up till stupid hours of the morning to do an update? I understand why people are upset, I get upset too, you've all just got to realize, like I eventually did, that these maintenances are intended to make the game better for us, not to make live easier for Squeenix.

There isn't one amongst us that has any right to tell them how to maintain their game, none of us have earned what they have. This is Final Fantasy 14. Not Final Fantasy 2.

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Originally Posted by Xx-DarKOrioN-xX

Would you wait up till stupid hours of the morning to do an update? I understand why people are upset, I get upset too, you've all just got to realize, like I eventually did, that these maintenances are intended to make the game better for us, not to make live easier for Squeenix.

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With how often they are doing the maintenance I can safely say that they are not making the game better for me in any way. When they are removing more than 1/3rd of my available play time over the course of three weeks and there are no patch notes at all for the month of Nov saying they have fixed anything except they say they fixed that market security issue. What the hell are they even doing for these "maintenance" sessions?

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Originally Posted by renachi

With how often they are doing the maintenance I can safely say that they are not making the game better for me in any way. When they are removing more than 1/3rd of my available play time over the course of three weeks and there are no patch notes at all for the month of Nov saying they have fixed anything except they say they fixed that market security issue. What the hell are they even doing for these "maintenance" sessions?

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Theyve fixed a lot. Pay attention to hotfix notes.

Have to agree. I don't mind the maintenance, but it starts at the times I play and ends when I have to to be asleep for work the next day. It feels like every time I want to play, there is some maintenance going on. My friends and I are just thinking of quitting due to this. Gonna just go back to playing console and pc games, this mmo maintenance nonsense gets on my nerves.

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Originally Posted by NVSGamer

Have to agree. I don't mind the maintenance, but it starts at the times I play and ends when I have to to be asleep for work the next day. It feels like every time I want to play, there is some maintenance going on. My friends and I are just thinking of quitting due to this. Gonna just go back to playing console and pc games, this mmo maintenance nonsense gets on my nerves.

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One of my friends cancelled his Sub today due to this precise reason. I will give them one month to fix their horrendous timing that screws over all people playing on US servers before I cancel mine as well and will come back next year when it doesn't require multiple maintenance hours a week during the time I am able to play.

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

Theyve fixed a lot. Pay attention to hotfix notes.

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Maybe you should pay attention, the last post in that thread is 10/24, there have been many "maintenance" sessions since then and nothing saying why.

Looks like SE listened..maybe? Friday morning's maintenance is from 1 to 3 PST.

There is no good time for maintenance - someone always loses. Please let SE do the job we pay them to do without the QQ

I think everyone understands that maintenance is going to happen and that SE is there to keep things running. Fine. No issues there. However, let's not forget that although we're paying them to keep this game up and running, we're also paying them to allow us to enjoy a month's worth (or something near to that) of game. If this were free to play, you'd hear no complaints from me. But I'm paying a monthly subscription and due to work and real life, there have been at least 5-7 days I could not play due to poorly timed and frequent maintenance. Therefore, it feels like I'm getting 75% of what I paid for. I am far from alone here. This isn't a simple matter of occasional updates/fixes. This is the 3rd time in a single week that maintenance is being scheduled and the 6th time this month (and it's only the 13th..)

So yes, SE needs to do what it needs to do--we get that, but it would be remiss of us to simply let them continue on this way under that pretense.

This was a big issue to me back in FFXI when my life outside of work = FINAL FANTASY. Find something else to play besides FFXIV or to do, read a book, check FB, sleep so you're good at work tomorrow? Chances are you'll play the game for almost a year, a few game days off won't hurt. I understand that's not an option to some of you, but if you can't change something.. Try to work around it?