So will this be standard practice that maintenance will be during the start of Aussie prime time? Thanks a lot to all you whining americans that screwed us over in yet another game.
Every damn game we cop maintenance and can't play....
Just for once it would be nice if it wasn't us that gets the short end of the stick on everything.
We already pay more than anywhere else.
We already have worse latency than anywhere else.
And we get to lose our ability to play during our prime time.
So tell me how this is fair?
Again maintenance during Aussie prime time
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10-01-2013, 04:25 PMHelliAgain maintenance during Aussie prime time
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10-01-2013, 04:33 PMFreyar
It isn't, but it's got to be done when staff are available and preferably when concurrently connected users is at it's lowest. They have the numbers, we don't, but we can hypothesize from other games.
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10-01-2013, 04:40 PMAsHerO
nice chick ugot there. Well dont worry, ur not the ony 1. i took 3days off fro work just to geek a little and now this crp happens. i feel you
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10-01-2013, 04:46 PMKraggyKorProbably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
As I have posted before, Aussies suffer because your government and ISPs make it not worth a company's while to set up a server farm locally: ask Blizzard, they wanted to set up a WOW farm, they really did, but had to walk about due to the onerous regulations and commercial demands made upon them. -
10-01-2013, 04:56 PMHelliAlready debunked this oft-repeated lie. As I posted in another thread where you spewed out this garbage:Quote:
Originally Posted by KraggyKor
This is very outdated and also not very factual information. In fact there is one ISP that has continuously invited Blizzard to open servers in Australia, with Blizzard totally ignoring them (Internode). Blizzard claimed that the biggest ISP here was the roadblock (Telstra) because their infrastructure went through a single fibre-optic line in San Diego (problem with this claim is that Optus, not Telstra own that line). This puts a large shadow over the accuracy of Blizzard's claims. Blizzard's other claim is it is not economically viable. And in fact later, Blizzard came out and said oh wait maybe it was Optus we were talking to, we don't recall.
(source: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/11/09/a...simon-hackett/ and subsequent linked articles)
There has been servers opened in Australia by quite a number of game companies: EA games have, LOL does, and I know there are others I can't think of off the top of my head.
So instead of just throwing out that same nonsensical piece of garbage every time Australia is mentioned, read for comprehension and understanding.
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10-01-2013, 05:53 PMmrwuss
Someone will always get the shaft. Personally I am happy it is not during my play time.
Thanks for taking one for the team. -
10-01-2013, 06:00 PMAhielia
Maintenance will always be during someone's prime time.
And so they do it when the least amount of players are being affected.
What would you have them do, never do maintenance on their servers, or do maintenance when a lot more players are going to play? -
10-01-2013, 06:03 PMHelliOh we couldn't have more people affected now could we (read americans). Heck that would hardly be fair to ruin their play experience. /sarcasmQuote:
Originally Posted by Ahielia
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10-01-2013, 06:09 PMAltena
Dude it's 2hrs long.. And it isn't even our peak time. 5-7pm? Most of us barely get off work before 5:30.. let alone get home and eat.
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10-01-2013, 06:13 PMFleshOpera
...somebody doesn't like Americans lol
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10-01-2013, 06:20 PMHelliMaybe for you. But some people DO finish work earlier than that and would like to play. When one is in bed by 9pm that is half the evening gone already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Altena
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10-01-2013, 06:21 PMHelliActually I like americans, have many very, very close american friends. But lets face it, americans are the whiners of the internet, and think the world should revolve around them (even many americans admit this).Quote:
Originally Posted by FleshOpera
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10-01-2013, 06:29 PMzeke181It might be during YOUR prime time but I think for most of us its fine. By the time dinner is done and the baby is asleep its 8pm. Bed by 9? What, are you 15?Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
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10-01-2013, 06:29 PMGonzothegreat198
so thats what 4 hours of maintenance at the START of your primetime. Why don't you go back and look at how many FOUR to EIGHT HOUR maintenance periods us Americans had to deal with DURING our prime time. And you say you have something to complain about? Go and look up the definition of primetime, unless you aussies have a different definition to primetime than the rest of the world.
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10-01-2013, 06:30 PMmrwussYou understand the irony here right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
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10-01-2013, 06:46 PMFeilina
Has the OP ever taken a look at a picture showing timezones?
Isn't SE placed in Japan with +9 GMT?
My last holiday told me that Australia is in nearly the same zone(s).
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10-01-2013, 06:55 PMDanteMog
Actually funnily enough there have been American Threads saying exactly the same thing, but Aussies are always shafted in all games so i'm not gonna hold my breath for changes, should be in American prime time in my opinion. their threads were funnier to read, especially when they start saying they are the center of the world etc...
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10-01-2013, 06:59 PMmrwussIt has been said many times over that service is done when the techs are in the office. That office happens to be based in Japan and those hours are when they deem it time to work on the servers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Feilina
This always goes out the window when someone needs to justify a self entitlement problem. -
10-01-2013, 07:12 PMGonzothegreat198Hence why all the Silicon Valley/Bay Area MMO's were having their maintenance time during Aussie/Asian primetime hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrwuss
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10-01-2013, 08:07 PMHelliLOL, not everyone works 9-5 cushy jobs. Work for some people starts at 6am. That means being up by 4.30am latest.Quote:
Originally Posted by zeke181
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10-01-2013, 08:12 PMSuirieko
No matter when the maintenance is occurred, it's always disrupting somebody's primetime location. It has disrupted JP's primetime, Na's primetime, EU's primetime, and of course AUS's primetime as well. Find something else to do, surely you can find other games or watch TV or something. two hours of maintenance won't kill ya. Maintenance happens for a reason.
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10-01-2013, 08:18 PMzeke181
So when you said "Aussie prime time" you actually meant "my prime time" because lets be honest most of the population probably does a 8-5.
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10-01-2013, 08:27 PMAltaneenXIVI didn't care in the slightest when it went down "prime time" in the US, but...... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
The one thing I remember seeing in those "This is Murica's prime time gdi!!1! derp" threads every time was that every time one was made, an Aussie would jump at the chance to beat their chance and say "It happened to us all the time, but you didn't know because none of us ever complained about it."
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10-01-2013, 08:28 PMSuiriekoIt's funny, whenever I see these maintenance time, I'm like "Welp, FFXIv's down, I'll find something else to do". However, I find these "OMG YOU SPOONY DEVS RAN MAINTENANCE DURING MY PRIMETIME. HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!11one" to be VERY amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltaneenXIV
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10-01-2013, 08:29 PMFeilina
With 1.0 and on the europeans had the short end of the stick. It was around 9pm and usually took around 2-4 hours.
So who cares, we just played something other or went to bed. -
10-01-2013, 09:03 PMHelliTotally agree 100000% on this. We need maintenance during US times just so we can laugh at them.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanteMog
Here's a couple of thread links for old times sake :)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ime-time-hours
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...HAT-WE-PAY-FOR
It's the fact that we are always shafted when it comes to maintenance rather than actually not being able to play that annoys me....and that SE bowed under US screaming about it :( -
10-01-2013, 09:04 PMCeelo_MageMaybe play an aussie game ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
are there any good aussie games out there ? -
10-01-2013, 09:04 PMlordjoosie
It could be that SE just hates Australians. Or it could be that SE is bowing to the whims of the evil Americans, just like the rest of the world. Or it could be that there aren't enough of your 13 dollars a month in Australia to justify the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would cost to put servers and staff in your country.
You'll have to decide which one you think is the case. I'm gunna assume they just hate Aussies. -
10-01-2013, 09:07 PMCeelo_MageHey now easy on use mericans ! our Govt just shut down last night lolQuote:
Originally Posted by lordjoosie
lol though lol
obamacare messing everything up lol -
10-01-2013, 09:17 PMHelliWasn't Obamacare messing stuff up, it was your pro-corporate ultra-conservative republicans did that. Even people outside the US know what's going in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceelo_Mage
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10-01-2013, 09:21 PMVandylYou only know what the liberal media tells you....Quote:
Originally Posted by Helli
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10-01-2013, 09:25 PMzeke181Knifey spoony? Unfortunately the servers are down right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceelo_Mage
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10-01-2013, 09:31 PMHelliIf you knew anything about Aussie media, you would not say that at all. Murdoch (think Fox News) controls 70% of the media here and you don't get much more pro-corporate, ultra-conservative than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandyl
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10-01-2013, 09:48 PMEnkidoh
If you're having problems with maintenance times, try playing on a Japanese server instead of a US one - here in Australia we're a completely different time zone (the US is a day behind us after all), so of course US server maintenance is going to impact us.
Because Australia is around the same time zone as Japanese time though, their server maintenance works out well for Australia (I live in Perth, WA by the way so a connection to the US would be even further for me than someone in say Sydney). Also the ping times are reduced compared the US ones as well.
As for that whole thing about the state of the US government at the moment, I don't think we should really be discussing that here due to it's political nature (and hence against the forum ToS). -
10-01-2013, 09:58 PMPanceaRight, because Fox news is such a giant shining beacon of truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vandyl