So has Aether crashed again?

[Domeric]

When other MMOs have managed their maintenance schedules to one allotment of six hours a week (or wow's usual fifteen minutes a week) and FFXIV is taking down servers first, for 24 hours, then multiple time sin the days after, player faith in the company free falls. This thread is proof enough of that.

People expect maintenance. They don't expect multiple alotments that equate to well over one full day of maintenance.

[Mysteltain]

When other MMOs have managed their maintenance schedules to one allotment of six hours a week (or wow's usual fifteen minutes a week) and FFXIV is taking down servers first, for 24 hours, then multiple time sin the days after, player faith in the company free falls. This thread is proof enough of that.

People expect maintenance. They don't expect multiple alotments that equate to well over one full day of maintenance.

Free falls? And using the official forums as a measure of player confidence? I'd wager less than 10% visit the official forums regularly, and of them around 1% even bother posting. That is not even a decent enough sample size to make that claim. The amount of hyperbole in some threads these days is staggering. But such is the internet, I guess...

[Domeric]

Free falls? And using the official forums as a measure of player confidence? I'd wager less than 10% visit the official forums regularly, and of them around 1% even bother posting. That is not even a decent enough sample size to make that claim. The amount of hyperbole in some threads these days is staggering. But such is the internet, I guess...

I was waiting for this.

It literally doesn't matter who comes to the forums and who doesn't. I didn't comment on forum patronage, I commented on player faith.

It's true that a marginal number comes to the forums (you have no idea what percentage and neither do I) but your suggestion is that the only people who care are the ones voicing it. There are a plethora of people who care right now but don't visit the forums but do care about being able to play the game during their prime time. I'd be curious to see how tumblr and twitter fair re: continuous lapses in paid service.