Quote Originally Posted by Imotept View Post
So with Maintenance 4 times a month, thats 4 days of my 30 day subscription im paying for with no play time...
You have 5 posts, all 5 posts are complaining about maintenance times. Make 5 more or 500 more, it will not change anything. Maintenance is scheduled when there are historicaly fewer people playing. It is not a personal attack on you, it is not a personal attack against any timezone, region or group of people. It is unfortunate for you that your prefered play time is a during normal maintnance times. I myself find my normal play schedule cut in half when we have maintnance.

As far as rotating maintenance times, how does that make sense from a buisness perspective? People seem to forget that SE is a buisness, and FFXIV is their product. When you have to make a product unavailable, you do it when it effects the fewest number of people. If you have 1,000 customers and have to take your product away for repairs, would you do it when 50 of your customers are using it, or when 500 of your customers are using it? The correct answer is when 50 are using it. Is it "unfair" for those 50 customers that have the product taken away? Maybe, but if you must be unfair you do it to the fewest number of customers.

The vast majority of maintenances are anounced before hand, so here is a sugestion for you. Talk with your core group of friend that play during the same time as you and have a "backup" game so you can still socilize with your friends on the few days a month where you can not play FFXIV.