ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TODAY!

[Duuude007]

That's it...we're the only ones getting slammed. People want to start saying that "Square enix does it when it's convenient for them" but WE are the paying customers. Are we paying to make it convenient for Square-Enix?

No, they are scheduling it to maximize player convenience, and it is obvious.

Look at the scheduled maintenances, and consider which primetime around the globe it impacts the most.

Australia/Oceana.

Now, consider which time zones around the world have consistently contained the fewest subscribed player number for the average world-wide MMO.

Australia/Oceana... again.

[Wildsprite]

just my two cents but I for one would rather they get this game relativly stable before they put patch 2.1 out next month. honestly because that will introduce new content they will have to iron out the bugs of which will just add to the issues if they don't work em out as quickly as possible.

yeah I am a bit miffed they have to do these maintanances this often but really I would rather they be on top of this stuff

to those of you who think this is bad you really should have seen some of the bad maintanances XI had.

maintanance to introduce new content
--->patch takes hours because update servers are lousy
-->update complete
-->5 minutes into playing "we will be performing an emergency maintanance in 1 hour -_-
--->rinse--->repeat and this happened often.

[Aaron_T]

An early one too. Aren't you guys sick of it? It seems like SE is deleting all posts related to maintenance complaints.

Maybe because there's more than one of them and its asinine.

[b14ckrose]

I think you failed to see my point mister/misses flamey. Posts like this make me laugh because north Americans think that if they cry enough they will get their way (I'm North American btw so settle down) but I'm sorry not everything should be catored to us.

You are right. Not everything should be, but so far nothing has been catered to us. Which is my point. And if you think any part of either of my two previous posts is flaming, well I don't even know what to say.

[Elim]

I'm happy that they're addressing problems so quickly. It's a nice change from other MMOs I have played. Good on them.

But it makes me wish that I hadn't started playing the game yet. I should have waited a few more months before starting.

I understand that most newer MMOs have a lot of maintenance/downtime, but FF14 has an excessive amount IMO. It feels like most of my money(sub) was spent on maintenance instead of playtime.

Just my feedback.

[Baneus]

No, they are scheduling it to maximize player convenience, and it is obvious.

Look at the scheduled maintenances, and consider which primetime around the globe it impacts the most.

Australia/Oceania.

Now, consider which time zones around the world have consistently contained the fewest subscribed player number for the average world-wide MMO.

Australia/Oceania... again.

I already mentioned a much more reasonable time frame which would only affect the following people:

The unemployed (all countries) (irrelevant, the unemployed should be finding a job).
Students playing games when they're supposedly "studying" (US) (also irrelevant, because Students).
Off shift workers (US) (a minority group compared to everyone else)

EDIT: and while it's not hard to find the correct time, I'm pretty sure the NA notice was in GMT not PST earlier, what was the point in changing it?

[Rawry]

You are right. Not everything should be, but so far nothing has been catered to us. Which is my point. And if you think any part of either of my two previous posts is flaming, well I don't even know what to say.

You getting to play the game isn't enough? I hate to be that guy.. but as the tos says they can bring down the servers anytime they wish...

[Rawry]

I already mentioned a much more reasonable time frame which would only affect the following people:

The unemployed (all countries) (irrelevant, the unemployed should be finding a job).
Students playing games when they're supposedly "studying" (NA) (also irrelevant, because Students).
Off shift workers (NA) (a minority group compared to everyone else)

EDIT: and while it's not hard to find the correct time, I'm pretty sure the NA notice was in GMT not PST earlier, what was the point in changing it?

Fixed

/10char

[Mikedizzy]

Complaining about fixing problems doesn't make the game any better. Maybe they should stop fixing problems? Oh, yeah... that'll go over REAAAL smooth.

We are not complaining about them fixing the issues...we are wondering if the times they are picking make sense for the majority of the players. These are not "TRULY" emergency maintenance issues or they would shut the servers down right away (that is an emergency) they are planning these times and the times that they are planning them suck for a ton of North American players. So there is a difference...we are not trying to be jerks here...we just cannot swallow the fact that North America is the one always gettting the short end of the stick...there needs to be some "rotating" of the maintenance times so that it is fair.

[Baneus]

Fixed

/10char

Indeed. You'll have to excuse me, I posted that after having a nap after dinner so I can do a bit of levelling later before I have to go to sleep for real