Weekend Maintenance is BAD

Wednesday is a good day, or even Tuesday but on the weekends really? Wouldn't it make more sense to check the number of people logged in at any given time/day find the least busy time and make that maintenance time. I know the game is new, but I also know there was a beta testing period, and so many maintenance's I've lost count. I just want to play my game. I waited for the game to come back, I waited for the tiny window to beta test. I wait in line to play on a legacy server, we wait and wait and wait when does it stop?

The maintenance is for server instability. Last few hours have had servers mass-disconnecting about 80% of the players repeatedly.

But yeah, don't know why they didn't do it last night alongside the JPN datacenter.

...maybe they only have one repair team that gets shipped across the world every night. :rolleyes:

1 AM on a Friday counts as the weekend now?

It's friday night for some of us, so yeah, I guess it IS the weekend. I do see how it is frustrating, but the truth is, if the servers need maintenance then just go ahead and fix stuff, I would rather wait a few hours then come back and not be disconnected every 5 mins. But I guess as one of the players who experiences those difficulties, I have a different view.

OP. Do you want the server maintenance times from the release version back? I don't think you do.

Prime time maintenance? No thank you. 1AM PST Maintenance is so much better than 7PM PST Maintenance...

Plus, the maintenance today was actually NEEDED. Servers were crashing constantly. Do you want that?

If your weekend starts on thursday its your fault.

shit, y? i dont play on friday or saturday nights... seems like the perfect time to me.

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Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch

1 AM on a Friday counts as the weekend now?

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Originally Posted by ZaelC

If your weekend starts on thursday its your fault.

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so like
timezones

Rather have maintenance and game playable and somewhat stable during the weeks. At least show there fixing the servers. Sucks for now since the game still new in mmos terms and there still trying get there data centers iron out. Unlike some games were used to playing at one time they used have same issues. This game they were unable to expect the demand had no cash to gamble that the game would be as big of a hit as it became. Do to the failure of 1.0 So the data center structure just seemed overwhelmed and outdated. IF read there plans for the 16-17th game outage it makes sense. Once the new hardware comes in i bet we will see a more structure outages in a month. To plan your days,nights and work schedules around.

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Originally Posted by Bladeglory

But yeah, don't know why they didn't do it last night alongside the JPN datacenter.

...maybe they only have one repair team that gets shipped across the world every night. :rolleyes:

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I honestly don't know how a server maintenance team is setup or if they have to be on site, but if they do wouldn't that mean the maintenance can only happen during business hours in the area of the servers?

Seriously? More maintenance threads? See you in a few days...

Did the maintenance start already? Usually, I can't log in on maint. But now I can get in and get the couldn't load char data from NA servers message.

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Originally Posted by BillyBones

Did the maintenance start already? Usually, I can't log in on maint. But now I can get in and get the couldn't load char data from NA servers message.

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Maintenance is scheduled to end in 30 minutes.

Usually I try to keep things civilized in my replies but I'm really getting tired of these topics. So have some gifs that illustrate what I think.

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Originally Posted by TawdryClay

It's friday night for some of us, so yeah, I guess it IS the weekend.

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Friday night isn't the weekend either, sorry.

its just 2 hours damn it

Friday is not weekend (Friday at 10:25 GMT)

LOL OP talks about picking low player volume times...when that's exactly what they did. The maintenance period was during what is easily the lowest volume period of the day and during what most people still consider late Thursday night. I'd wager Thursday nights are also the lightest night of the week. Also it's better they do the maint. separate for each data center. If theyd done the maint at the same time as JP then the game would have been down at the very start of NA prime time and right int he MIDDLE of EU prime time. So not only would there be primetime downtime for a large number of people but they'd be turning everthing back on in prime time which would likely make the login servers take a shit and we'd be back in 1017 hell for a couple of hours if not longer.

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Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch

Friday night isn't the weekend either, sorry.

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Really depends where you are Friday is the weekend for some people.

However having said that, maintenance will be at the best time for the game, someone will always have an issue since it's global, SE cannot cater for everyone.

I dunno, I have 2 huge assignments due in on Sunday so I'm all for weekend maintenance... The way they're doing things, works so perfectly for me it's odd. 2.1 hitting as soon as I'm done with Uni for the year. Maintenance when I have work... ;D

JK I'd rage otherwise.

I think it's been established that no time is good enough for anyone for maintenance.

I think since browsing the forums from launch, I've read literally every single day and
time as being "BAD" for maintenance.

Let's just not have maintenance and let everyone keep playing until the game crashes.

Game was crashing last night. Was watching my brother play a bit and when he got out of the dungeon he just finished, the game crashed. Logged back in and there was a queue to get back on the server, so as others said it was a mass DC. One of the people in one of his LS's got booted while crafting a multi stage craft and lost all of his items. Probably 12+ runs of WP/AK down the drain for him, assuming the items he lost involved Phil tome items.

Maintenance is a far better option than just letting things persist with the crashes.

yeah how dare they... I want them to let me d/c every two minutes again like last night so our FC 15 min or less WP can take 45 minutes again. We died more in WP last night than I have in the last month in WP.

Was so fun to die over and over to lag/dcs.

I wanted to rant about it, plain an simple. I know why they need it, I don't know why the pick the times they do it is just ANNOYING. Other games plan maintenance's better, here it's like whoops wind blew time to do maintenance. Rarely do I have a weekend off work, I work for a small business it is either I work or the boss does. It just seems maintenance always falls on those days I have off, where I can spend the whole night playing my game. Do they purposely pick my days off, No but sometimes it sure seems like it.

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Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch

1 AM on a Friday counts as the weekend now?

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which is also 4 in the morning where I live... 10:00am in EU. Not really the weekend until afternoon or PM imo.

Friday - Sunday is the weekend if it is 4am or 4pm.

12/13/2013 12:10 PM
[Follow-up] Network Maintenance Canceled (Dec. 13)
Network maintenance that we planned to conduct from Dec. 13, 2013 9:00 p.m. to Dec. 14, 2013 2:00 a.m. (PST) has been canceled. Please note that we will notify you if we decide to postpone the maintenance to a new date/time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.