Excessive Maintenance

[Faelandaea]

OP has a legitimate point, which is that repeatedly scheduling maintenance around the same time of day is likely to affect the same people/time zone repeatedly.

Which happens with every MMO I play. When you choose to play a game, you voluntarily and GLADLY choose to play based on the geographical location of the headquarters of the game in question. For a lot of MMO games these days, this is California, in the USA. Such is the case here, as well as with STO, SWTOR, Neverwinter . . . almost every game I play will base their maintenance time on the prime time of their locale - and in the case of the games I mentioned - PST - California.

I knew this before I started playing FFXIV, and you knew this before you started playing (any smart player who is interested in a subscription MMO reads forums, wikis, patch notes and other resources to gauge the information within against if they want to commit to the game or not).

Right now is my prime time. This is when I play the most, yet here I sit on the forums being entertained here because the server is down for maintenance. Do I complain? Fuck no. Because I am VERY happy that they are fixing stuff and getting back up instead of making fixes wait for some scheduled day next week. Get it down - get it fixed - get it back up!

[Avenger]

Right now is my prime time. This is when I play the most, yet here I sit on the forums being entertained here because the server is down for maintenance. Do I complain? Fuck no. Because I am VERY happy that they are fixing stuff and getting back up instead of making fixes wait for some scheduled day next week. Get it down - get it fixed - get it back up!

Fair enough, but there's nothing stopping me from dreaming of an even better (or at least fairer) world where they might spread the maintenance inconvenience a bit across time zones. Or (in secret moments of selfish weakness) that they might go back to the FFXI schedule of maintenance at Japanese midnight... ;-)

But yeah, we are lucky that the game is doing so well and they are fixing the bugs and adding content.

[Faelandaea]

Fair enough, but there's nothing stopping me from dreaming of an even better (or at least fairer) world where they might spread the maintenance inconvenience a bit across time zones. Or (in secret moments of selfish weakness) that they might go back to the FFXI schedule of maintenance at Japanese midnight... ;-)

But yeah, we are lucky that the game is doing so well and they are fixing the bugs and adding content.

And I completely understand your feelings. At least you word them like a wish or request, rather than some posters I have seen in this and other threads that make it seem like they have somehow been personally attacked or wronged by a maintenance update