More downtime? More maintenance?

Op is totally valid for wanting them to spread the downtimes around a little. It's dumb that only one group gets hit by the brunt of these maintenance periods over and over again when they pay for the service just like everyone else. In my case, I work nights, so on my downtime I'm online at night. It sucks when they consistently pick those hours to take shit down, but i get why it happens that way.

Honestly I'm less mad about that and more mad about people in this thread who think anyone up late is just unemployed lol. You do realize not everyone works some bullshit 8 to 5 office job, right

strange complaint ngl. have you never played a live service game before, OP? that said, they have maintenance during hours that don't involve their team (fully located in JST, as SE only hires tokyo-based devs) doing night shifts. extremely avoidable night shifts. the maintenance affects JP players the most anyway, because it targets afternoon hours.

/e: which is to say that Japanese part-timers and college students are just as affected as EU players, if not more. i don't think your butthurt over a Japanese game being developed in Japan during Japanese business hours trumps their right to not have to pull night shifts, actually. tho i think they can do the thing cursed gachas do where maintenance gives you apologems. give me gold chocobo feathers after maint 8)

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Originally Posted by madmonk1008

...It's ridiculous to pay for a game when there's so many days that I can't play it!!!!

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> Look inside
> Less then a day game downtime (16 hours and 7 minutes) from august

me when a game goes down for emergency maintanence to fi xsomething: *proceeds to open steam and plays 1 of the 50 games i have for a few hours, play league or take a nap*

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Originally Posted by Mercury_Grey

me when a game goes down for emergency maintanence to fi xsomething: *proceeds to open steam and plays 1 of the 50 games i have for a few hours, play league or take a nap*

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Tactical nap!

I'll play devil's advocate and say: In Endwalker, they mentioned that they would upgrade both the server capacity and the equipment. But from what I see, according to the ongoing maintenance, it didn't happen.

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Originally Posted by kentribal

I'll play devil's advocate and say: In Endwalker, they mentioned that they would upgrade both the server capacity and the equipment. But from what I see, according to the ongoing maintenance, it didn't happen.

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They do upgrade it but they only take advantage of it in extremely specific ways. They clearly could make the server code take better advantage of it, because they just seem to do the status quo (adding lua scripts, excel tables, models, animations and textures with their development software).

It has nothing to do with the maintenances though. Those are due to QA missing things that subsequently needed fixing.