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

[LTEvil]

The point is not the hours, but the frequency of the downtime.

Yes people expect updates and maintenance, but not every 1 to 2 days.

Yes people can accept maintenance, but not every sitting when they plan to play.

This is the point, it is not about any one persons personal gain here, if you had any ability to comprehend what you read, you would know this.

I await your witty retort as you seem like the type of person who just has to have the last say and are clearly right, because your 10 years of experience makes it so.

I support this message.

[Aaron_T]

There there.....

[Kluya15]

Cya when 2.1 hits. I love when people say a month of a game for $12 doesn't justify that they might miss a few hours here and there. Meanwhile, $12 is going to see a movie or buying lunch.

[ZohnoReecho]

Meanwhile people pay 70$ to play a 7-8 hours game.

[mindful]

If the OP you do not like maintenance fixes. It Does suck , but if there not fixing the game breaking cheat bugs there fixing. Reason there not telling us what all the maintenance most of the time is. Then the game just becomes, a cheat feast. Yea sucks they are in japan time and we got to go on there time frame. Yet they can pick any time and it will effect many people the same. We here in the Usa are not the only people playing. It also got more maintenance fixes early on in a mmo's cycles same for every mmo. Impossible to test everything with massive amounts of people. It only takes one accidental weird key combo from some one to find a glitch. It better just to play the game now then have 10 years of beta testing.

[Snitchie]

NO EU servers are the one thing im pissed about at this moment. The lagg is horrible from Norway on peek times. Unplayable , all I can do is craft..

[Tupsi]

I fail to see how you could claim to love this game, yet at the same time be actually glad that others can't play it.

The point is - The game has more uptimes by far than it does down time, this is why you see (usually the SAME handful of vocal people) complain when a maintenance happens at what is probably the best time frame they could have chosen. People seem to think SE has to conform for their schedule. I wonder if you could go up to your boss and demand s/he does things your way and at your own pace.

[Sayura_]

The point is - The game has more uptimes by far than it does down time, this is why you see (usually the SAME handful of vocal people) complain when a maintenance happens at what is probably the best time frame they could have chosen. People seem to think SE has to conform for their schedule. I wonder if you could go up to your boss and demand s/he does things your way and at your own pace.

ROFL. SE is not anyone's boss here. Fail.

FYI - a service should have a 99% uptime.

[Bahram]

So I get that this is a heated discussion, and I couldn't read all 15 pages (sorry!), but I have a question for the more technically minded. Sorry if this has been addressed or if this is a stupid question!

Guild Wars 2 had a system where you'd be able to play the game while they were performing maintenance, only bringing the servers down for ~5-15 minutes. The way this was explained to me is that they would work on the updates and maintenance on a different server, and then apply the update to the game in that 5-15 minute period. This was just wonderful, it obviously cut down on the times the game was inaccessible to the players. Is there some reason that Square can't do the same thing that ArenaNet does (or did, haven't played it in a while)? I'm not saying it's necessary for the game to be successful, but it sure would cause less downtime and irritate less people. That's usually a good thing.

[Tupsi]

Glad to see the community of Final Fantasy is still as toxic & delusional as before

Yet people still believe you don't have more uptime and acting like the game is always down just because it happens to fall into "your" playtime.