Excessive Maintenance

[Kyousha]

Err, it was? I thought it was to perform necessary emergency maintenance on the server, and while they were at it, they uploaded a small patch to make an item dyable. Just because that was the only change to the game code doesn't mean that's all that was done during maintenance. Rebooting servers, applying OS updates, updating firewall settings - it could have been any number of things that they have no need or desire to tell us about.

The ONLY statement Square Enix mentioned was that the emergency maintenance was to make a single item dye-able. That's why everyone was assuming it was the only reason they brought down the servers to perform maintenance. They certainly may have done other things, but like I said, they neglected to answer us about it.

7-10AM is primetime... That doesn't fit my definition and I have to say that, as unfortunate as it is for those who can only play those hours, I have a hard time seeing how the downtime could be any better for us in the EU in that it is in the time when the fewest EU players are online.

I can't speak for EU players about when primetime may be... but I do know that, for the NA servers from 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M., my server only has 1/10 of the players online (or less). I have 8 fairly active linkshells, and hardly anyone is online when I check during these times. Surely it's similar in EU, though? D: And "your" definition is not automatically the correct one. In fact, no one's is; no matter what time they schedule maintenance, there will NEVER--EVER--EVER--EEEVVVEEERRRR be 100% satisfaction. That's just life.

Anyway, here is my input in this thread:

In NA, maintenance is scheduled very late at night, typically from midnight until 3:00 A.M. my time. I don't think this is unreasonable--GO TO BED, it's BED TIME. I would say the "primetime" ballpark for NA is 2:00 P.M. until about 11:00 P.M..

For EU, maintenance is typically 7:00 A.M. until 10:00 A.M.? ...ish? I don't think that's too unreasonable, either: I'm sure about >50% of people are at work making money, and most of the rest are busy trying to wake up, eating breakfast, going for their morning jog or... well... still asleep. A lot of people you see online overnight or in the early mornings are AFK anyway, lol (at least on my server, and I'm sure most others).

I'm sorry, but many of the people complaining here either don't understand how deciding maintenance times work, are upset because they think the world revolves around them or are simply just unlucky. For those of you who say "every single time I log into the game, I'm hit with maintenance," if you only play the game once a week--as you're implying--you probably don't have enough time to get your money's worth out of the game. I would just unsubscribe and save money if you have THAT many other dedications in your life. D: And, no, simply breaking up with your girlfriend will only make more issues, i'm sure. I'm positive the person who said that was mostly joking. Don't listen to them. lol.

[BobbinT]

I would just unsubscribe and save money if you have THAT many other dedications in your life.

Well... I do need to remind you of at least one point: If this is just mere MMO games, then it was quite good suggestion. However this is an MMO under a powerful brand, a "Final Fantasy" brand. Alot of ppl do willing to invest their time here for being a FF game. Heck, alot even willing to fight over for concert tickets whenever they're being held. Even MMO like WoW (which the current ARR is based from) has weaker backing brand as FF does. I do love old warcraft games, but IMO they're didn't have strong background history as FF does. Sometimes, those kind of reason are the one that makes ppl willing to stay, and if this kind of problem happens alot on someone's prime time, I guess it's understandable if they want a more reasonable maintenance hours shifted now and then.

The ONLY statement Square Enix mentioned was that the emergency maintenance was to make a single item dye-able. That's why everyone was assuming it was the only reason they brought down the servers to perform maintenance. They certainly may have done other things, but like I said, they neglected to answer us about it.

I would've more upset (which I did) when the previous maintenance was just for adding dye option, which is something many don't really need at cost of gaming time being cut out from many subscribers. However, I don't really upset with the latest maintenance. While it doesn't gave us any information, at least they don't crap you out with useless information such as adding dyes. At least on my part, I understand that the maintenance just simply for just server maintenance.