All Day Maintenance and Compensation: My Thoughts

[whiskeybravo]

Hate to be that guy but

You acknowledge that disruptions of service may occur and waive any causes of action against Square Enix in any way arising from or related to any such disruptions of service.

By accepting the ToS and playing the game you've already waived any right to seek compensation for service disruptions. In general I feel where you are coming from, and I think if the service was indeed down for an extended period of time SE would seek to make it right with it's customer base, much like how they halted auto-demolish of houses during the hurricanes last year. Many companies made efforts to relieve consumers around that time, even for people who weren't affected.

Outside of emergency maintenance downtime we really only have a handful of 24-hour maintenance's per year, maybe 4 tops? Big patches simply don't come out that often.

It's the principle of the matter, and it's on principle (and potential consequences of it) that the situation is properly discussed.

If you really have a problem with it then start a petition to change the ToS. As it stands you accepted the terms in order to play the game. Now I certainly don't agree with companies that try to shoehorn in obscene stipulations into the ToS, and I'm always very careful to read them now just to make sure there is no tomfoolery being proposed. But that's kinda where it starts - with consumers actually reading the damn things and protesting them to be changed before agreement.