Maintenance During Prime Time?

[Ksenia]

I always get nervous when I am looking at an 8 hr down time. The reason I came back to FF14 was an 8 hr Down time in BDO. I'm pretty sure it will end up being what lands me back in BDO or some other game. Once I start something I kind of get lost in it and forget what I was doing before it. As per always, I pay FF14 on a 3 month schedule and I have half that left.

Oh well, maybe I will spool up Fallout 4 and nuke some super mutants.. been a while.

[SilverObi]

First. World. Problems. Jeez it's like not everyone lives in the same parts of the world, who could've imagined. Great work on having a complaint thread for a maintenance as is tradition. (and yes I'm complaining by commenting, doesn't make this thread any less ridiculous and whiny)

[Vahlnir]

They usually plan them (when they are actually planned) around a time that will affect the least amount of players. Game needs updated though, so sometimes it just isn't ideal for anyone. Emergency maintenances happen as well though that's usually only a couple times after a major patch. Beyond all of that I think they keep the game up and running pretty well because they are so quick to fix things most of the time.

[Snow_Princess]

List the changes that have been done to "cater" to the NA, I'm curious

[Ariyn]

They did this back during ARR, hitting the US hard during our prime times. Why have we gone back to doing that again? This would be the 4th time canceling a raid night for me and my group.

You'd think that since we all know this happens pretty regularly, people would just not schedule a raid night on a Monday. Logic, go figure /shrug

[Altena]

I don't really get what all the fuss is about..

Extended maints have nearly always started earlier.
This one is an 8hr maint.

This one also appears to be "infrastructure upgrade" which might mean they are actually doing work on the NA servers to some extent.
It might even be down to the NA server tech guys and when they are willing to work.

It's not like this happens all the time. Barring the odd emergency maint, you guys in NA get it pretty good.. Quit your crying. The world isn't ending.
Get on with other things. You will live. You will get to play the game after maint ends.

It's not even like maints are all that regular to begin with . . . .

[Paladinleeds]

Extended maints have nearly always started earlier.
This one is an 8hr maint.

Yeah, that's true. But when I first read it on the launcher notices I saw 7pm-3am. As a European, this seemed well off the mark (and also, why is it giving me PDT instead of GMT/BST when I'm a European? I'm already logged in by this point, it knows I'm using an EU/other areas account, not an NA account), but when I checked EU lodestone it said 3am-11am BST. That seemed more to the mark.

EU players thankfully once again aren't getting the shaft. But my word did the launcher notice give me a heartattack.

[S-r-ex]

EU players thankfully once again aren't getting the shaft.

We can be grateful in this case if only to circumstance. At least the days of waiting up to half a year at a shit PAL port *looking at you, FFX* are long gone.

[TaleraRistain]

It would be nice to get some sort of explanation for the creep. The last few patches have been getting earlier and earlier. They used to be 3 or 4 hours later than they currently are. If they want to swap times around, that's fine. But they need to actually swap them. This is becoming the new time and it's smack in the middle of NA prime time.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

It's probably more because they moved servers and need to schedule agreed time between everyone doing the maintenance.