To the person in charge of scheduling maintenance

[HealBus]

Considering that WoW gives a big F U in their maintenance times to Oceanic consumers I guess it is only fair when the favor is returned.

[Destro]

Jesus just suck it up, us oceanic/asian players were having maintenance from 6pm to 3am for YEARS! The world is NOT just America!

[Hamdy-Lopez]

Well, which time zone do you want to piss off by having downtime? Japan? Europe? You're complaining that the servers are down from 5pm-3am for you, in Japan they are down from 10am till 8pm, as it's SE it'll probably over-run so the Japanese players probably won't be able to play at all that day.

Oh ok, so they are being extremely inconsiderate to their JP players as well. Way to further prove my point. This is a PLANNED maintenance. They can choose any time they want, and rather than inconvenience their own employees, they are going to inconvenience millions of players who have already been let down on their purchase up to this point.

[ShadowHunterrX]

Oh ok, so they are being extremely inconsiderate to their JP players as well. Way to further prove my point. This is a PLANNED maintenance. They can choose any time they want, and rather than inconvenience their own employees, they are going to inconvenience millions of players who have already been let down on their purchase up to this point.

You know the WHOLE WORLD play this game ? Ofcourse somebody gets the bal with these planned maintenance. If the times were in you favor , did you still make this thread ? No , ofcourse not.

I dont care when they start maintenance. I just hope they fix this mess and that we can play normally.

[KogaDrake]

Well I am EDT and am not thrilled about the maintenance time, what I can say is if your going to have to take a GLOBAL game down for 10hours, some country/time zone is going to get it worse than others.

JP miss day and early evening (and potentially hole evening if everyone floods login the second it ends)
EU likely has it the best as they will be sleeping for a large amount of it.
NA loses one evening of play and the login flood should be over by the time we log in.

Point is we are all losing 10hrs of game time, and I am sure SE had to account for the length of time, their work schedules, and server loads when scheduling.

And really, lets be fully honest here, if they pushed it back a few hours to be nice to the PST/NA players, most of us would be stuck in 1017 anyways, so be happy they are getting it fixed so you can play when you want to play

[Lokiie1984]

Its a 10 hour maintenance, out of a 24 hour day. When would be a better time? That's almost half a day, no matter when they stuck it, it would be effecting everyone. I figure just get the thing over with.

[Raidenz]

things like this make me feel ashamed to be an american. world wide game and we think its just for us

[AyaAkali]

I was just curious who exactly you were considering when you scheduled these maintenance times? You posted it as PDT 5pm-3am. For everyone in the US and Canada, you pretty much just said "We're gonna take the whole day from you".

I feel as if this whole FFXIV experience has been one occurrence after another where the customer is always considered last. We all know this game is great, but maybe just once you could think of us.

Unbelievable. Every other country for every American MMO gets stiffed with this problem on a weekly basis. But then, every world map you've ever seen probably just has "HERE BE DRAGONS" scrawled across everything that wasn't North America, so I guess it's not entirely your fault.

Oh ok, so they are being extremely inconsiderate to their JP players as well. Way to further prove my point. This is a PLANNED maintenance. They can choose any time they want, and rather than inconvenience their own employees, they are going to inconvenience millions of players who have already been let down on their purchase up to this point.

I take it all back. It has to be your fault. Your entire country would have fallen apart by now if everyone was this daft.

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Ugh, just my luck. Of course its Tuesday night from 7pm to 5am (cst). Work 12 hour shifts all week 7am to 7pm. Tuesday night was my one night off when I switch from days to nights. My plan was to stay up all night and get a good 10-12 hour marathon session in. Now I'll be up all night with absolutely nothing to do. Couldn't have been tonight or Wednesday night.

Not really complaining since this needs to be done. Just sharing my personal story of bad luck and frustration.

[KitCat]

That's 9pm to 7am where I am in Canada. A bit of a bummer that it'll be an early night, but the bulk of it is when I'm sleeping.

Couldn't have turned out much better for me. Maybe 11-9 but oh well.

They're based in Japan. Can't expect them to cater to NA