Really love the game, but your service forced me to quit.

[Pinworms]

It just so happens the maint is during your play times. It sucks but what would you rather have...a broke game or one being fixed? At least you know SE is working and not sitting around eating cookies. SE can't appease everyone. I have never ran into maint problems thank goodness.

[Lurkios]

So..the tl;dr version is you quit because they do maintenance for no longer than a couple hours a night? Something all MMOs do which in all reality can actually last all day sometimes all week?

Please, Tupsi... find me a single major MMO, just one, that does maintenance "a couple hours a night".

It just so happens the maint is during your play times. It sucks but what would you rather have...a broke game or one being fixed? At least you know SE is working and not sitting around eating cookies. SE can't appease everyone. I have never ran into maint problems thank goodness.

Emergency maintenance is understandable. The Gil exploit for example, that maintenance was, most certainly, called for - despite the rather rude 1 minute warning. Some of these problems I see being fixed I could hardly classify as an emegency, however. Things like a mob not responding correctly in some rare instances. In my opinion, that could waited for the end of the week. The few dozen, or even hundred players affected by a mob that wont move in a dungeon most people can't access does not justify a 4 hour downtime for the entirety of a server itself. That could have waited for the end of the week.

The term "emergency" is being seriously abused, as is the concept of "unplanned maintenance". If it's really an emergency fine, otherwise one set day a week is plenty.

[Sayura_]

SE can't appease everyone.

Actually, they can by rotating maintenance times.

Revolutionary, I know.

[Lecreuset]

I miss GW2 where you'd get a message saying an update has been applied, relog to get it. Thats it, no maintenance require... was so nice....

XIV is so out dated.

Why do you miss it? it's still there, you can go back and play it

[Tupsi]

I don't blame you for quitting. The people here can't seem to get past their die-hard fanboy immaturity and put the shoe on the other foot.

Yes, because realizing a new MMO having maintenance when it doesn't inconvenience most of SE's playerbase makes you a fanboy. "Put the shoe on the other foot" would be a huge mistake by SE which is why they changed it to the time frame they did because it was Noon-3PM (or later) PDT, which is smack in the middle of most people's primetime.

Tell me Sayura, how is it SE's problem if someone only has 3 hours a day to play and those 3 hours happen to be in the frame they do maint? Let's not forget the fact the game has 99% up time. Serious answer only or don't bother answering.

Actually, they can by rotating maintenance times.

Revolutionary, I know.

Nope, they either do it when it inconveniences the least amount of people (which is what they do) or they do it when it inconveniences most and satisfies the least amount (which is what you obviously want.)

[Cendres]

Nope, they either do it when it inconveniences the least amount of people (which is what they do) or they do it when it inconveniences most and satisfies the least amount (which is what you obviously want.)

Actually I'm honestly surprised they have done the maintenance at the same time, usually in MMOs the devs will rotate the time so it's not the same group of people getting penalized every emergency maint. You are defending SE for nothing, they are servicing a global community they really need to start actually thinking about what that means.

It's simple things like this that SE constantly fails at getting. White knighting the situation doesn't help either.

[Tupsi]

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Ah right, forgot this community will say you white knight unless you sympathize with everyone's situation. You're right, they should put it in everyone's prime time, no one will complain.

they are servicing a global community they really need to start actually thinking about what that means.

Which is funny, because considering when they run their maints currently, it's actually right before a lot of people in Japan (their home playerbase) is getting off work. As someone said earlier: How are people suddenly forgetting about the many, many other days a month the game isn't down for maintenance? Those days suddenly doesn't exist?

[Sayura_]

Yes, because realizing a new MMO having maintenance when it doesn't inconvenience most of SE's playerbase makes you a fanboy. "Put the shoe on the other foot" would be a huge mistake by SE which is why they changed it to the time frame they did because it was Noon-3PM (or later) PDT, which is smack in the middle of most people's primetime.

Tell me Sayura, how is it SE's problem if someone only has 3 hours a day to play and those 3 hours happen to be in the frame they do maint? Let's not forget the fact the game has 99% up time. Serious answer only or don't bother answering.



Nope, they either do it when it inconveniences the least amount of people (which is what they do) or they do it when it inconveniences most and satisfies the least amount (which is what you obviously want.)

Read Cendres post. It's SE's problem because this is a global game with global servers.

[Pwnznewbz]

People forget that WoW, the god among god mmos, had a terrible launch plagued with server issues for months. That game is in good condition now, and has been for years, but it started as a steaming pile of server crap that rarely worked or let players log in. Then, Bliz made the same mistake with D3.

So, SE has had less than 3 months to get their stuff in line... they will get it fixed soon enough. The amount of patch content they have lined up and scheduled is enormous compared to other mmo games, so at least there is that.

[Tupsi]

Read Cendres post. It's SE's problem because this is a global game with global servers.

JP servers are split from NA/EU actually, so there's no actual "global" servers this go around, there's just no oceanic servers.