Stagger maintenance times?

Once again I sit here, stripped of my enjoyment of FFXIV due to the times that SE perform maintenance always being during EU peak times.

Please SE, consider the option of staggering the scheduled maintenance times for the sake of fairness to all.

Right now I think its just after lunch in JP, why not do a maintenance 1st thing in the morning, JP time once in a while?

It was the same for the 5 years that I played FFXI.

Oh and no... I wont be emigrating to another country any time soon lol (before someone mentions it :P ).

I think you have to consider that human beings have to be up and conscious to carry out maintenance. This is done in their time, not ours, for that reason. They're always starting right after I get off work, but I'm used to this already. lawl

You could get your Skyrim on =)

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Originally Posted by Renshi

You could get your Skyrim on =)

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Yea I guess, but thats not the point I was trying to make :)

I'm ok with them doing maintenance whenever it suits them, but I do question why is a 2 hour maintenance needed to fix

"•A bug wherein the incorrect level is displayed on the Path Companion during main scenario quests."

Is that really so urgent...

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Originally Posted by Answa

I think you have to consider that human beings have to be up and conscious to carry out maintenance. This is done in their time, not ours, for that reason. They're always starting right after I get off work, but I'm used to this already. lawl

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I'm not asking them to get out of their beds at midnight or anything, just a few hours earlier in the day :)

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Originally Posted by neizero

I do question why is a 2 hour maintenance needed to fix

"•A bug wherein the incorrect level is displayed on the Path Companion during main scenario quests."

Is that really so urgent...

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^^^That too lol

Maininance is usually done when it least inconvinances users, which is usually over night or in the case of a school vacation times, however its harder for a world wide MMO, so they do it I assume when theres the least people online. In Japan they are at work now, in US they are at work therefore the majority of players that would be online are EU right now and it has always been known that EU players are of teh minoroty on FFXI and FFXIV so this time least inconvinances users.

Kinda gutting cos i'm in UK lol.

It's early morning for them right now I think, they could easily do some maintenances a few hours later once in a while.

Lol considering what they fixed, I don't understand why there is a maintenance at all. I would have understood if it was a
Need or Greed option on Ifrit loot, but this little thing here could have waited till 1.20 ;

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Maininance is usually done when it least inconvinances users, which is usually over night or in the case of a school vacation times, however its harder for a world wide MMO, so they do it I assume when theres the least people online. In Japan they are at work now, in US they are at work therefore the majority of players that would be online are EU right now and it has always been known that EU players are of teh minoroty on FFXI and FFXIV so this time least inconvinances users.

Kinda gutting cos i'm in UK lol.

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Sure... I can appreciate that totally, but it does sort of send an uncaring middle finger to those that always get caught up in it

I can't see them changing either but I've just had to spend time adjusting out LS event timetable because of the maintenance and its not the 1st time and probably wont be the last /sigh.

PS. I'm UK too

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Originally Posted by Shaedhen

It's early morning for them right now I think, they could easily do some maintenances a few hours later once in a while.

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Yea you are right... I got my times mixed up >_<

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

Sure... I can appreciate that totally, but it does sort of send an uncaring middle finger to those that always get caught up in it

I can't see them changing either but I've just had to spend time adjusting out LS event timetable because of the maintenance and its not the 1st time and probably wont be the last /sigh.

PS. I'm UK too

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It really does suck especially with what was changes, it wasnt really a game breaker. But we can always hope it changes sometime lol

A few times maint has caught our ls out on events, sucks but oh well thats life! :3

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Originally Posted by neizero

I'm ok with them doing maintenance whenever it suits them, but I do question why is a 2 hour maintenance needed to fix

"•A bug wherein the incorrect level is displayed on the Path Companion during main scenario quests."

Is that really so urgent...

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maintenance consists of more then minor bug fixes, do you want them to post dusted off servers etc. as well lol

Aye, maintenance can consist of reboots, server OS patching, backups, AND bugfixes. They would be doing maintenance whether or not a bugfix was tied to it, to help alleviate other issues.

I don't know about you, but when the servers are overdue for maintenance, Iv'e seen some wierd unpredictable situations in combat.

You deals 768 damage to Ifrit.
You defeat Ifrit.
You earn 634 experience points.
Ifrit Defeats you.
:o

I think the maintenance times are fine (for the EU zones), especially since it's during a week and most people are probably going to sleep earlier cause they have school/uni/work tomorrow. Sure, many people don't go to bed till late in the night and sleep at school/uni/work :P

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

I think the maintenance times are fine (for the EU zones), especially since it's during a week and most people are probably going to sleep earlier cause they have school/uni/work tomorrow. Sure, many people don't go to bed till late in the night and sleep at school/uni/work :P

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Although if it is early morning for them now, scheduling maintenance times every now and then a few hours later than normal (rather than always 21:00 GMT onwards) would be fine for NA time zones for exactly the same argument...and it would be before the Japanese get home from work to be affected. Would be nice to see some love for us EU timezone players occasionally :)

Is anyone taking into account that staggered maintenance would mean that people are online playing different versions of the game at the same time? That's not even possible; I doubt they'd ever allow it. They have to take the world down, update it, put the world back up. If it was staggered they'd be down all day.

Not what they meant by staggered :)

They mean THIS time maintenance should be at 2pm. NEXT maintenance would be at 4pm. A few weeks later and they have another maintenance? do it at 9am.

Ohhh; that'd be nice --- but I can see Japan going batshit when they lose their cushy 7-9am (when all the hardcores finally pass out but none of the daykids are on yet)

While maintenance does suck for those who are trying to play when it occurs, it will always inconvenience some group of people no matter what time it is going on. This is a global MMO where people from areas all around the world play together on the same server(s). With this in mind, asking them to change their schedule to cater to you seems a bit inconsiderate.

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Originally Posted by Nikita

[...]it will always inconvenience some group of people no matter what time it is going on.
With this in mind, asking them to change their schedule to cater to you seems a bit inconsiderate.

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Nope, because all we are asking for is to inconvenience a different group each time instead of ALWAYS doing it to the EU players.
It's kind of mean to always do it in our main play time.:(

Really? people are discussing this? it's only 2 hours for god's sake.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Nope, because all we are asking for is to inconvenience a different group each time instead of ALWAYS doing it to the EU players.
It's kind of mean to always do it in our main play time.:(

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I don't get how that makes it any better. Lol. How is landing it on someone else's main play time any different...?

Besides, rotating it...? Lol, that seems like way too much effort, and the OP was not asking for what you just suggested.

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Originally Posted by Nikita

I don't get how that makes it any better. Lol. How is landing it on someone else's main play time any different...?

Besides, rotating it...? Lol, that seems like way too much effort, and the OP was not asking for what you just suggested.

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Actually, she was.

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Originally Posted by Answa

Actually, she was.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

Nope, because all we are asking for is to inconvenience a different group each time instead of ALWAYS doing it to the EU players.

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Is not

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

Right now I think its just after lunch in JP, why not do a maintenance 1st thing in the morning, JP time once in a while?

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also not

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Originally Posted by AshToreth

I'm not asking them to get out of their beds at midnight or anything, just a few hours earlier in the day :)

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I can nit-pick, too lol :D

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Originally Posted by Nikita

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also not




I can nit-pick, too lol :D

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What do you mean, too?

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Originally Posted by Original Post

Please SE, consider the option of staggering the scheduled maintenance times for the sake of fairness to all.

Right now I think its just after lunch in JP, why not do a maintenance 1st thing in the morning, JP time once in a while?

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