I have noticed that a lot of the maintenance recently is starting at 8pm pacific time. For those of us that work full time, that is during the middle of our prime playing time. Please start maintenance after 11pm pacific time.
:mad:Maintenance starting too early in the day
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11-11-2013, 03:07 AMakhnaten:mad:Maintenance starting too early in the day
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11-11-2013, 05:26 AMLurkios
Agreed.
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11-11-2013, 05:27 AMZozorozo
Again, as always,
The Programmers are physically in Japan.
If they need to start at 8pm then they are starting earlier than normal. This is because dun dun dun......
They think they need more time. -
11-11-2013, 05:32 AMLurkios
Again, as always,
The maintenance can run later, as opposed to earlier. -
11-11-2013, 05:35 AMZozorozo
Ok.... it can run later....
So instead of starting it at the beginning of their shift, they do it in the middle of their shift....
Programmer> Hey Boss, we're a little worried about the maintenance on Monday. We think there might be a problem.
Boss> Naw, it interferes with West Coast America Players. Do it in the middle of your shift.
The day of the maintenance
Programmer > Boss, I can't get the server back up because I didn't have enough time.
Boss> That's ok, you can have overtime. We'll just take it out of the development budget for the next expansion pack.
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Really, they work a shift. If they are starting EARLY they think they need more time. Personally I say good for them. Take all the time you need for maintenance. -
11-11-2013, 05:47 AMnickim
agree.
feel not happy about this. it starts 8pm it's too early. what about people who can only play during night time?
and the maintenance happens like 2 times a week !!!!
are they going to give us a refund for the time they doing maintenance??
why always do maintenance in NA's prime time ?
this is getting very very annoying. -
11-11-2013, 11:03 AMXx-DarKOrioN-xX
No matter what time they choose it'll be unfair to someone, all they can really do is to do their best to be equally unfair to everyone, but that's besides the point, they're doing a lot of maintenance at the moment trying to make everything stable for the likes of you or I, it won't go on forever. That's just my opinion anyway. I doubt very much they'll offer you compensation, maybe once it's over they're offer EERYONE compensation for having to be so patient, but I doubt they'd offer it to you as an individual. I mean, who'd do that math? Maybe 4/5 effected days of a month? Is it really worth the £2 (or so) back?
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11-11-2013, 01:05 PMSilmarilosI 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. Honestly, how the F hard would it be to just do 2 different maintenance runs, 1 for Japanese Servers and 1 for American (EU could go with whatever fits the time better). It is getting ridiculous and quite frankly, it is making me consider stopping playing this for a few months until they stop screwing over everyone who does not live in Japan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xx-DarKOrioN-xX
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11-11-2013, 01:27 PMakhnaten
Don't start talking to me about programmers being physically in Japan. Programming these days takes place around the world in a 24 hour cycle. They could easily have the team in a different time zone deploy the code to the servers, like every other large company. The only reason for doing it during the prime playing time of the customer is a lack of thought and consideration.
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Originally Posted by Zozorozo
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11-12-2013, 12:10 AMDaenerys_Sedai
I understand that they cannot appease everyone, but they do have the ability to at least do it by server region. Why have JP and NA servers (beyond the slight ping diff) anyway if not for this? (I'm sure there are a multitude of reasons, but it seems to me that this would be a primary reason for having regional servers..)
Of course, I wouldn't mind the time choice if it were only once a month instead of twice-a-fricking-week. -
11-12-2013, 01:37 AMXx-DarKOrioN-xXErm...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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silmarilos
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. -
11-12-2013, 02:33 PMrenachiWith 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?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xx-DarKOrioN-xX
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11-12-2013, 02:40 PMDuuude007Theyve fixed a lot. Pay attention to hotfix notes.Quote:
Originally Posted by renachi
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11-12-2013, 03:16 PMNVSGamer
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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11-12-2013, 06:47 PMSilmarilosQuote:
Originally Posted by NVSGamer
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. -
11-13-2013, 03:01 PMrenachiMaybe 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duuude007
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11-13-2013, 11:22 PMDaenerys_Sedai
Looks like SE listened..maybe? Friday morning's maintenance is from 1 to 3 PST.
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11-13-2013, 11:33 PMPinworms
There is no good time for maintenance - someone always loses. Please let SE do the job we pay them to do without the QQ
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11-13-2013, 11:51 PMDaenerys_Sedai
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. -
11-14-2013, 12:23 AMForever4Sakened
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?