Elite Mark Fix?

[DeceptionsWrath]

I'm sorry, but all these "how dare they take the servers down for this" posts are ridiculous.
It's 3 goddamn hours. Get over it. They could take down the servers to change one strand of hair on Minfilia's head if they like. You agreed to the TOS. Maintenance happens. Deal with it.

Love the defenders! While i agree it is only 3 hours, and i really don't care there is maintenance atm, this is 3 hour maintenace for what? The 3-4th time they had 3 hour maintenance this month? Not to mention the 7 hours for the update? Not complaining, just saying. 3 hour maintenances add up you know.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

Love the defenders! While i agree it is only 3 hours, and i really don't care there is maintenance atm, this is 3 hour maintenace for what? The 3-4th time they had 3 hour maintenance this month? Not to mention the 7 hours for the update? Not complaining, just saying. 3 hour maintenances add up you know.

Strange, isn't it? It's almost as if they do maintenance... weekly to ensure all aspects of the game are running smoothly or something. Also, homework for tonight: go have a look at how many of those maintenances conclude half an hour or more before the original scheduled time. The three hours includes a buffer in case something else gets snarled up by their fixes; if nothing goes wrong it's usually 1.5 to 2.

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who chose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

Okay, so... what about the people who are in the middle ground? The people who occasionally break from the other stuff they usually do to go form a hunt party for a few hours, split up and have members searching in every zone, maybe have one guy hooked into a smaller linkshell of people likewise actively seeking out hunt mobs so they can cover more ground, and grind out a couple hundred seals in 3-4 hours of work? Players who actively combat the negativity through example, like responding to a "lol dead" shout with "Aww..." or the linke? People here love to talk and talk about the "hunt zergers" and all the casual no-skill no-lifers who "do nothing but afk by the aetheryte all day until they get told to lemming to zone+coord", what about people who actually approach this crap sensibly and at the very least are out there actively trying to track these things down? What about us, hm?

[Double]

Strange, isn't it? It's almost as if they do maintenance... weekly to ensure all aspects of the game are running smoothly or something. Also, homework for tonight: go have a look at how many of those maintenances conclude half an hour or more before the original scheduled time. The three hours includes a buffer in case something else gets snarled up by their fixes; if nothing goes wrong it's usually 1.5 to 2.

Even though they do more maintenance than some F2P games..

What does their servers run on? Better question would be, is a name-check for an npc really maintenance worthy? I can deal with incorrect spelling after seeing Roes in Noscea having "zzzxre" as name for so long.