WTF Maintenance during Aussie prime time?

[Helli]

So it is early Friday evening, most aussies just got off work, and want to play FFXIV. But no.....because so many americans whined we now lose our prime time!

So again we suffer. Again we are the third-class citizens in a game...and we pay more! How is this fair?

And I bet we get told to just suck it up.......like we do in every other game, and get ignored by Square Enix.

[Gonzothegreat198]

So it is early Friday evening, most aussies just got off work, and want to play FFXIV. But no.....because so many americans whined we now lose our prime time!

So again we suffer. Again we are the third-class citizens in a game...and we pay more! How is this fair?

And I bet we get told to just suck it up.......like we do in every other game, and get ignored by Square Enix.

It's always going to be prime time for someone. The last 8 hours maintenance happend during US prime time, now this 2 Hour is during your prime time. If you read the posts SE puts out, they said they would try to rotate maintenance times.

[Rawanz]

Oh no. A maintenance. How dare they!
Seriously though, no point in bitching about it, there will always be someone having issues with the times it happens. Get over it. We dont all live in the same timezone. So they cant really schedule it at a time where everybody is asleep..

[Morthis]

Shockingly enough, no matter what time they pick, someone will find a way to complain about it. We've seen maintenance during NA prime time as well.

Either way though, even if they picked NA night/Aussie prime time for every single maintenance, I would still understand. Their NA player base is going to be way bigger than their Aussie player base.

[Gonzothegreat198]

I think they've even done one during EU primetime haven't they?

[Rawanz]

I think they've even done one during EU primetime haven't they?

They have yes.

[Rissy]

Then you should of been playing on JP servers, where amazingly enough, it's pretty much the same primetime...

[Freakshow198]

Count yourself lucky you even get to play. My game is crashing on launch. And I can't get a response from SE about it

[Kraggy]

Then you should of been playing on JP servers, where amazingly enough, it's pretty much the same primetime...

This is good advice.

@OP, every MMO Aussies play has this problem. BLizzard once tried to open a server farm for WOW in Australia but gave up due to the horrible market conditions and restrictions your government and the Australian ISP industry demanded. Blame them not MMO companies for the fact you don't get local servers.

[Helli]

This is good advice.

@OP, every MMO Aussies play has this problem. BLizzard once tried to open a server farm for WOW in Australia but gave up due to the horrible market conditions and restrictions your government and the Australian ISP industry demanded. Blame them not MMO companies for the fact you don't get local servers.

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.


Regarding the suggestion we should play on Japanese servers:

Even though Japan and Australia are basically on same timezone, for a number of Australians the ping is actually way worse to Japan than to Canada, making this not feasible at all. Then there is issues like language differences making it very difficult to find a community to play with if you are non-japanese speaking unless you have a large group of friends also join the same server.