Can we PLEASE get maintenance at different times of the day?

[Twilite]

No thanks. Keep it the way it is.

[Sanja]

How is that a bad time? I get home late too, but the game needs to be worked on. People in different time zones are going to experience it differently. I live on pacific time, so maint happens an hour or so before I need to go to bed on a work day. Boo. I'm currently staying on Atlantic time, which means maint starts at 3am when I am already well asleep and not playing anyway. For most people off pacific time, midnight-3 or 4am is not gonna be an issue unless you don't have a job or work night shift. SO /shrug

[DracotheDragon]

it happens from 6am til 10 am normal for me, i find that good :P

and if youthink its bad happening at 11pm til 4 am in the US you don't have much to complain about since it is MID DAY TO AFTERNOON in japan, it always takes place partly in there primetime D:


edit: after reading though this thread allow me to sum this up to anyone who just joined

"LOOK AT ALL THEESE STRAWS I AM TRYING TO GRAB, OH WHY DO SE HATE ME, I MUST HAVE ALL MY TIME AVALABLE FOR I AM THE SOLE CUSTOMER IN THE WORLD"

[Kallera]

Nuuuuu, it's the one thing we EST people have!!!!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

This again?

[mbncd]

I strongly agree with rotating update schedules. Yes, I'm Australian, but my play hours are erratic as all hell anyway so it doesn't hit me too badly. It's the concept that I agree with rather than my own selfish wishes. People should share the burden. Because of my erratic hours, I may be hit harder if they implement that change, but if we have any sense of empathy we can all clearly see that repeatedly hitting one group of people while everyone else just says "deal with it" and refuses to take any hits for that person is just ... wrong. Those people are supposed to deal with it but if it comes to one of these other people having to deal with it that's suddenly a whole other story. Oh, the joys of disregarding the few when you aren't part of a targeted group. It doesn't matter when you play or where you live. You get the benefits of these updates. Benefits come with costs. Currently, a small percentage of the player base is paying those costs, when they're the least able to reap the benefits.

As for SE being based in Japan, I'm still pretty convinced that that can be done by other people at any time and any location. Checks and whatnots can be done on in house builds (which can be exactly the same as the versions we play on) at any time in advance. A lot of stuff can be automated. Anything that needs to be checked in real time can be checked by other people. They can make it work.

[LineageRazor]

I don't think what the OP is asking for is unreasonable. Because FFXIV is a global game, no matter what timeframe you pick, SOMEONE is going to be inconvenienced. For that reason, it seems fair to me that they should switch up the maintenance times so that the same people aren't getting hammered over and over and over again.

I'm an EST player, so I'm living the good life as far as maintenance periods go, but I do recognize the injustice.

[Tuathaa]

At least they are consistent with their time some games after an xpac are whenever they feel like it.

[Sicno]

No thanks. Keep it the way it is.

I wonder if you would say the same if all the maintenance windows were at the times where you play

[Judecca_Penombra]

-shrugs- Maintenance is usually 2am-5 or 6am here, I usually go to bed with it then wake up fresh and ready to play