Hot Fix

[Kiara1]

It's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of common sense:

Do you affect the LEAST amount or do you AFFECT MOST OF YOUR PLAYERS? Which is the wiser decision? Calling people stupid for using common sense is kind of..... and not to mention, you state they're the rude ones?

Its easy to say when you don't get affected. They should rotate the maintenance so those of us working late and getting up early to play (which is my case) don't lose an entire day of playing every maintenance.
IT shouldn't matter if it affects more people since we are paying the same subscription as everyone else. So why not just rotatate maintenance times between 3 different times.

I can't take comments from people that can't understand this seriously.

[HEC-]

Its easy to say when you don't get affected. They should rotate the maintenance so those of us working late and getting up early to play (which is my case) don't lose an entire day of playing every maintenance.
IT shouldn't matter if it affects more people since we are paying the same subscription as everyone else. So why not just rotatate maintenance times between 3 different times.

I can't take comments from people that can't understand this seriously.

What you're suggesting makes as much sense as asking your local grocery store to have their closing hours "rotate" so you can shop there once you get back from your late shit ... :P After all - you're paying the same price for the groceries like anyone else there, right? And who cares about the other 10 or even 100 times MORE people who couldn't shop there that day because it was closed during the common, most busy hours, so they can make it "convenient" for you. Do you understand it finally??

[Kiara1]

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Well the grocery store don't have maintenances so I know it will be open between xx and xx hours everyday so I don't really think its the same thing

Like someone else said earlier

"Take a group of 30 players, tell them that they don't get to play one day a week from then on so that the 70 other people can have a better experience, sooner or later those 30 will get fed up. Alternate/rotate those 30 people throughout the full 100 so that everyone has equal chances and equal off time and no one will be hit anywhere near as hard as those 30 initially mentioned were."

[ReplicaX]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Hotfixes (Oct. 30, 2014)

An issue wherein the server would go down under certain conditions.

Server Stability > You

[BobbinT]

You know, I'm still wondering about these hotfix treatment and posted my thought on threads similar like this, which I now repeat again...

FFXI too, has frequent maintenance in a month, but majority of them only block partial areas and players can still resume their gaming on other areas not affected by it. The only forced-logout maintenance are only when SE adding major patch.

Now why can't this applies with FFXIV? Someone did remind me that there's like once a partial maintenance happened in XIV. But if you count it as overall, we have way too many forced-logout maintenance.

So I wonder again and again, what's so different between 2 games? They're both under same banner, so why can't both have similar treatment? This FFXIV-ARR has been running for more than a year now, so it has became larger question from back then.

[Tupsi]

Well the grocery store don't have maintenances so I know it will be open between xx and xx hours everyday so I don't really think its the same thing

Like someone else said earlier

"Take a group of 30 players, tell them that they don't get to play one day a week from then on so that the 70 other people can have a better experience, sooner or later those 30 will get fed up. Alternate/rotate those 30 people throughout the full 100 so that everyone has equal chances and equal off time and no one will be hit anywhere near as hard as those 30 initially mentioned were."

While true, it's more like:

"Take the NA, JP and EU playerbase, tell them they can't play so the Australians can play."

As said, it simply makes the most sense. It used to be Noon PDT, which affected...most players.

[kyuven]

I keep hearing "rotate rotate rotate"...
Did anyone stop to consider that rotating them affects the pay and work hours of the employees?
Right now it's actually kind of an ideal situation for them. 4-7 PM isn't technically peak hours for Japan (of course there are people who play, but the Japanese work day is a liiiittle longer than the west's) but it IS during business hours. It's the most cost effective to keep them this way, because it affects the least number of people and costs them the least because the staff is still on the clock.
Overtime work is kind of a sensitive issue in Japan right now because there have been an unusually high number of cases of people working themselves to death.

[Anapingofness]

Maintenance times are fine the way they are.
Yes, some people get inconvenienced (sure the same "group" gets inconvenienced) but some people will *always* be inconvenienced.
This is just the way of things.

People need to stop complaining about this already and deal with it. -_-;
I'd rather have "standard" maintenance time than one where it moves around. If it doesn't shift around then you can plan around that.
Also, I'd prefer a game that works then a game that is glitchy.

[Black_Wing]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Hotfixes (Oct. 30, 2014)


Server Stability > You

And you completely missed the point that we aren't saying to not do maintenance, just stop doing them always at the same time. If server stability was truly a big issue, they shouldn't wait til midnight PDT to fix it.

[Kerwin]

Another hotfix to fix a hotfix. When will it end?
(preping for tommorow)

Edit: Also I won't be reviving this thread anymore after this post, but I just wanted to prove a point that people like me get effected by these every time. Its a bothersome.