Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

now you know how everyone else feels about maintenance on NA games in the middle of the day for europe and asia..

but seriously your addiction is showing, go read a book

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Originally Posted by Ronduwil

Surprise surprise. You're a night owl, so naturally all of your online friends are going to be night owls. That's hardly representative of the player base as a whole. The dozens of people that you've met playing all night online are all night owls, so the vast majority of the the millions of players that this game has are obviously night owls too, according to you. I'm not buying that.

1. Most IT workers are salaried, so there is no overtime involved.
2. Once you've successfully done the update on a set of servers, then it pretty much becomes a queue a script and then you're done kind of issue. We're not living in the 1990s anymore. Automation is standard now. Do you seriously think an engineer is sitting on the other side of the server every time you run a Windows update or update your Zoom client?
3. I'm not saying that they can't start their maintenance at 10 am in Tokyo. I'm saying that they can stagger the maintenance windows so that once the APAC servers have been successfully updated, they can leave a script in place to update the NA and EU servers at later times. It would take days to work this out, not months.

And at one time, FFXIV 1.0 reflected their "wish." Their "wish" isn't the world of law. It's just their current philosophy. It's OK to ask them to revisit that point of view. It's OK for them to say no, but but it's also OK to ask. Their wish, at one time, was also for Viera to be exclusively female.

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HI, I'm an IT worker. I work in a lab datacenter for one of the largest telecoms in the US. I'm hourly, and not allowed to get overtime.

I service more systems than SE has for its datacenters combined, if images we've seen are anything to go on.

Oh, and by myself BTW. I don't handle OS deployment or networking, but I do management config, switch OSes, troubleshooting and repairs.

In an 8-4 window during the day.

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Originally Posted by Ronduwil

Surprise surprise. You're a night owl, so naturally all of your online friends are going to be night owls. That's hardly representative of the player base as a whole. The dozens of people that you've met playing all night online are all night owls, so the vast majority of the the millions of players that this game has are obviously night owls too, according to you. I'm not buying that.

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awesome job of reading something incorrect into something I said. I work 7am to 3 pm pacific, I am a day walker. I said "many people I play with"

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Originally Posted by Ronduwil

1. Most IT workers are salaried, so there is no overtime involved.
2. Once you've successfully done the update on a set of servers, then it pretty much becomes a queue a script and then you're done kind of issue. We're not living in the 1990s anymore. Automation is standard now. Do you seriously think an engineer is sitting on the other side of the server every time you run a Windows update or update your Zoom client?
3. I'm not saying that they can't start their maintenance at 10 am in Tokyo. I'm saying that they can stagger the maintenance windows so that once the APAC servers have been successfully updated, they can leave a script in place to update the NA and EU servers at later times. It would take days to work this out, not months.

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I am happy then that all they need to do to run tests is something they can accomplish without people since its all just a script that no one has to keep an eye on or have people available if a problem comes up.

I am also happy you know how employment works all over the world. I bow to your superior knowledge. I really do, I know there are differences between Canadian and American labour practices, so I did not assume that Japan worked exactly the same way as your country.


anyway, I am done here. I concede that in your view, NA should be fully accounted for and maintenance times should be adjusted so that no one is without their fix during times that anyone in NA might want to play. you will not budge from that and I have little desire to try and move you from your NA is the center of the universe viewpoint.

good luck in your crusade.

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Originally Posted by Ronduwil

And at one time, FFXIV 1.0 reflected their "wish." Their "wish" isn't the world of law. It's just their current philosophy. It's OK to ask them to revisit that point of view. It's OK for them to say no, but but it's also OK to ask. Their wish, at one time, was also for Viera to be exclusively female.

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Please, just go do other activities when a MMORPG is updating or maintenance.
I went to play DayZ and finished FF7R during that maintenance, it is not difficult.