If a 24 Hour Maintenance, One free day?

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Originally Posted by Reishi

you can't really actually be telling people to go play on tuesdays...! whole week - ruined! mood - ruined! next week everythings out of order for one monday loss - whole life: RUINED!

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I smell comical overreaction/sarcasm.

Most people already are getting a free day. If you normally have in game commitments on a Monday, you are now free to do whatever you want with the day instead!

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Originally Posted by Lunavi

But they did actually give us was it 2 weeks of free time because the servers made it hard to access the game? SE is one of those few video game companies that still has what is called goodwill. So I would not see it as an impossibility, but for 1 day it is unlikely.

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That was most likely to avoid legal consequence

buh.. but.. its monday.. monday is coil day

#sheldon

They gave us all fair notice it would be a 24 hour maintenance. That's a whole day.:P

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Originally Posted by AjoraOak

While everyone knows the ToS says that, it'd be a nice thing for them to do for their paying customers that aren't able to play at all on monday (most likely). It's one of those small things that make people feel their support of the game is appreciated.

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Congratulations!! You get $0.49 back on your subscription. YaY!!!!

*wakes up the day after party...looks over and finds OP still sleeping...checks phone...*

Duuuuuuude....what happened last night...?

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Originally Posted by Gravehill

It's cute how everyone on this forum thinks that a Terms of Service agreement actually holds any sort of legal weight. You cannot side-step legal boundaries just by including things like that in your ToS, and it's pretty much universally accepted by courts that nobody actually reads terms of service agreements. I'm not saying I think we should be compensated for this, that's completely ridiculous - but people on this forum put way too much stock in ToS'. They aren't a legal force-field. Blizzard was forced to compensate and recall Diablo 3 in several countries due to the fact that the box did not make it clear about online requirements and down-times, despite the fact that it made it very clear in the ToS.

http://www.geek.com/games/blizzard-i...rmany-1497239/

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I didn't say it was legal. I just said (well, in so many words) that SE ain't gonna do sh*t for self-entitled plebeians as long as they don't have to. THAT'S what a Terms of Service is. They can say F U for as long as they like, if they like, and they are under no obligations to give any f*cks.

Maintenance is something that they are not giving refunds for, nor will a single day of interrupted service hold any sort of water in a court of law, especially when that company states, explicitly, that you're PAYING for maintenance. Oh no, you missed a day. Go milk a cow or hug your children.

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At the risk of sounding like too much of a jerk, you DO bring up valid points. You were just aiming them in the wrong direction. Hat tip to you, sir.

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Originally Posted by BlueMage

Some games do this. WoW does it a lot. I'd frequently find lots of bonus playtime to compensate for maintenances, ironically at times I wasn't even playing anyway. It would be nice if SE did this, but I wouldn't my breath for that kind of service from SE.

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Game companies compensate for major unplanned downtime. Like in the case of this very game where we got roughly a free extra week due to the poor server performance and constant downtime early on.

This particular maintenance is something that was planned for and announced quite some time ago so it should come as no surprise that the servers would be down for roughly a full day. There's no reason whatsoever to "compensate" that.

I also can't remember the last time Blizzard did any kind of real compensating for regular downtime, largely because I can't remember the last time they even had major downtime outside of normal weekly maintenance and patch days. Now they'll frequently credit trial and inactive accounts with a few days of free time so you can see the new content and maybe resub, but they largely don't just pass out free days to everyone even if their servers are experiencing major problems.

Is this thread for real? People will literally complain about anything.

I'm sitting here reading through this thread and I think to myself... All you dragoons in Tron Dragoon Armor look the same.