Should we be paying if we aren't able to play when we want?

[axemtitanium]

Sounds like you paid for 3 months of the game, so you're paying the lowest monthly rate of $12.99 per month. There are 24 hours in a day and let's say there are 30 days in a month. That means there are 720 hours in a month. The amount of money you are paying per hour for this game is $12.99/720 hours = $0.018/hour (ie, 1.8 cents per hour). The current maintenance lasts for 6 hours. If Square Enix were to actually refund you the money that you would have paid for those six hours, they would send you a check for 10.8 cents. Enjoy!

[C-croft]

wahh wahhh first world problems, wahh wahh, *It's* crying bloody sand. *sniffle, sniffle*

And yes, I would say that to you in real life. Why? Because people such as yourself think your $12.99 is worth more than the next person's. News flash, if anyone should be complaining, I believe it's the EU group. Currency exchange rates have them by the peridots.

[ToxicFox]

The amount of money that 1 hour of access to the game cost is about a penny. If SE were to make a system to refund these pennies it would cost them a fair bit of cash to do resulting in higher cost for them which means more we have to pay for subs. It's honestly a waste of their and our time if they refund it. If the server were to go down for a week or two that would be a different matter but as SE has already shown they are more than happy to compensate people for unplayable periods.


Doing the math I pay about 0.0110972 or 799/72000 for 1 hour. Meaning 1 hour of access to the game really does cost me a penny.

[AccountBanned]

And yes, I would say that to you in real life. Why? Because people such as yourself think your $12.99 is worth more than the next person's. News flash, if anyone should be complaining, I believe it's the EU group. Currency exchange rates have them by the peridots.

No you wouldn't.

[C-croft]

No you wouldn't.

Yes, actually, yes I would. I'm twisted like that. Nice guy and all, but sometimes, it's too much.

[Brises]

The $12.99 monthly fee takes into consideration that most people don't play 24/7, and scheduled and unplanned downtime is also taken into consideration. If they were to guarantee 24/7 uptime, the fee would probably be higher.

[Zaels]

Why do people even bring up threads like this? Would you rather have no maintenance at all and see bugs and problems never fixed? And no addition of new content?

[Cobrauh]

What you prob should do is think of it this way. The price you pay right now is already discounting the maintenance down time. So when u look at it like that, you aren't paying for maintenance b/c its already in the price tag.
If they were to not "bill" you for maintenance time then the monthly cost would be $17 instead of $15 and then they would deduct the $2 for maintenance time. Thus, still paying $15. Understand?