Please "rotate" the Emergency Maintenances (unable to play)

[Alexb150]

I do agree and I'm an "American" that SE should do their work when it best fits their employees. Like I said before what you are asking is for SE to rotate their entire work schedule just to fit you which has already been done once because of "Americans whinning and complaing which I thought was pathetic as well) I doubt they will do it again, because like I said you do want to keep your audience happy, but you would want your employees to be happy too, and having to change your shift or have a dynamic shift sucks, and puts more strain on their workers.

Hmm not really. The only change they`d need to make is from doing it from first thing in the work day to mid/late afternoon.

[ReplicaX]

its kinda funny that when maintenance was during American peek hours they all bitched and moaned but now its affecting others they have their usual "suck it up" attitude

I'm American and I was against the complaints. Still stands to this day, let them fix the game.

I'd say you are taking it even lower by labeling/blaming an entire nation of players.

[AlphaGod]

Because of work and family, I have a fairly limited amount of play time. Every single maintenance has landed on a day that I can actually play. The time change that happened didn't really help me much even though I'm east coast US, but if they used various days of the week it would help a lot. Ultimately though I don't care when they do it as long as the problems get fixed and maintenance slows down altogether.

[SaintAjora]

I'll just repeat myself too.

You do realize these are mostly emergency maintenances? I'm pretty sure no one was sitting around, making up the normal maintenance schedule, and said "3 times a week is good".

They find out there's a problem, find out the time period the least amount of people are playing, and schedule it then so they can fix it as soon as possible. They're not going to find a problem, then wait until regular maintenance to fix it.
This is a brand new game, so it has a lot of things that may go wrong until it smooths out enough that the only maintenance we have to look forward to is the scheduled weekly/monthly/whatever they go with. When they go wrong, sometimes it's best to fix them as soon as possible.



By the way, although I'm in North America, my sleep/work times means that when maintenance happens, it's almost always an hour or less after I wake up and eat and would like to play, so it's not like I don't understand. And my main is a dps, so I'm going to spend almost that full hour just in the queue, with no time to actually do the dungeons if they pop. I just see outside my own personal bubble.

So much for this train of thought that somehow everyone defending it is doing so because they're unaffected. Some of us just care more about the big picture than ourselves.

And yes, it sucks that the time when the least amount of people is your special time, but it's probably always going to be your special time. Moving it around isn't going to do anything but inconvenience more people than it does now. It's called a necessary evil. Someone's going to be put out, and if you have to choose between 100 people and 35 people, you go with the 35.

And again, this isn't even a long term thing. It is a brand new game with lots of things popping up that couldn't have been anticipated until massive amounts of people ran at them. Eventually that becomes rarer and rarer. So there's no need in complaining about it now, like it's a permanent or long term thing.

[LovelessG]

Hmm not really. The only change they`d need to make is from doing it from first thing in the work day to mid/late afternoon.

You do understand the company is in Japan right and they are not 24/7

[Crafter]

You do understand the company is in Japan right and they are not 24/7

They used to do maintenance starting at 1 am, 2 am, and etc. JP time before.
7 am, 9 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm JP time.
(I googled FFXI maintenance time)

I say they were pretty close to be 24/7..., back then

[Alexb150]

You do understand the company is in Japan right and they are not 24/7

You do understand time differences? 9am in japan would be roughly 5pm in the US(I`m not up to date on the time difference), and 2pm in Japan would be roughly 5pm in NZ. I may be out by an hour or so but I`m sure you get the idea

[Alexb150]

I'm American and I was against the complaints. Still stands to this day, let them fix the game.

I'd say you are taking it even lower by labeling/blaming an entire nation of players.

I`m not blaming an entire nation at all. if people complaining are from American then that means they`re American, correct? I never said others didn't complain but a majority of the people complaining that maintenance was during American peek times were Infact Americans. shocking I know

[ReplicaX]

I`m not blaming an entire nation at all. if people complaining are from American then that means they`re American, correct? I never said others didn't complain but a majority of the people complaining that maintenance was during American peek times were Infact Americans. shocking I know

its kinda funny that when maintenance was during American peek hours they all bitched and moaned but now its affecting others they have their usual "suck it up" attitude

Generalization, try not to use it multiple times when attempting to prove a point in a discussion.

[Alexb150]

Generalization, try not to use it multiple times when attempting to prove a point in a discussion.

you`re right, next time I`ll go and count how many complained and how many didn't. I`ll even put it into a little pie chart if you`d like?