Why is there always maintenance when I can play?

[Lulu_the_Yordle]

Welcome to mmos. This is the 419, 356, 901, 112, 003, 920, 529 time I have seen this EXACT thread over the last 30 or so mmos I have played.

The answer IS: They spent 235, 098 hours carefully calculating your exact average nightly start up time and THAT is the truth.

You are very very special and by telling you the truth I am endangering my life. Any moment they will come to eradicate me for reaching out to you and tipping the scales. If by some great act of luck you get this message. Run and donot stop running. They will get you!

I've actually played MMO's longer than you think, since 1999 and really haven't had this issue before.
Plus being a troll doesn't do you any good other than destroying any credibility you might have had.

[Brutikus4th]

I've actually played MMO's longer than you think, since 1999 and really haven't had this issue before.

Wow! HOW have I seen this exact post that many times... and yet late night weekly maintenance and Patch cleanups post patch is SO normal to me but not you for over 18 YEARS.

Welcome to the nightshift! Glad you could finally run into us. :-)

[WhaleBiologist]

Wow! HOW have I seen this exact post that many times... and yet late night weekly maintenance and Patch cleanups post patch is SO normal to me but not you for over 18 YEARS.

Welcome to the nightshift! Glad you could finally run into us. :-)

This is why we need to improve education standards.

[Krystalynn]

I've actually played MMO's longer than you think, since 1999 and really haven't had this issue before.
Plus being a troll doesn't do you any good other than destroying any credibility you might have had.

I've been playing MMOs for a long time myself, and I have never, ever played an mmo with this many maintenance periods outside of the launch window. We're no longer in a launch phase, yet it's still Defcon 5 over there at SE. They can't keep taking it down every 2-4 days for the rest of the time I'm playing this between the hours of 10p-2a pst... this is twilight hour for a lot of us swing shift where I sleep during the day. This is my afternoon. I get that they're in Japan and that's their priority and I can deal with this being a once a week thing, but tossing the weekly maintenance coupled with emergency maintenance every other day and it just gets to be too much.

For hells, we had 27 hours of maintenance from Mon-Tuesday, and two damn days later they have a scheduled maintenance? It's freaking brutal. They can't keep this op-tempo up for the life of the game.