All Day Maintenance and Compensation: My Thoughts

[Sigma-Astra]

Duh? Injecting the ToS again distracts from the argument. The OP was not making a case about the ToS, nor indicating there was some legal wrong. Clearly the thrust of the argument was therefore about principle. Bringing up the ToS is akin to derailing the thread.

It doesn't? When you agreed to the Terms of Service, you agreed that not only do you accept that a 24 hour maintenance period can virtually occur sometimes and that it's not the fault of SE, but you also agreed that they also don't owe you a dime on the principle of it. You can argue against it as much as you like, but there it is in writing. If anyone thinks making a forum topic about it now is going to change SE's stance on it, you're sadly being way too optimistic about it.

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.

Once you clicked that little button that says you've agreed to the ToS, you've essentially thrown out your rights to complain against it. The OP feels that they deserve a "free day of play" as a paying customer because of 24 hour maintenance and while SE has sometimes reimbursed us for such things when it was an emergency, they will not over scheduled content updates. There's never been a history of such a thing. That is the principle of the matter. You may not like it, but that portion of the ToS was explicitly designed to counter people like the OP.

It is not something that SE needs to compensate their subscribers for at all nor will it logically harm anyone to not play this game for one solid day and half of the time, who on earth would be playing this game for exactly 24 hours with no kind of rest, bathroom, social, or food breaks? That's extremely unhealthy. I've never known anyone to be playing this game straight for 24 hours.

If losing one day equals out towards a person feeling that they're not getting their money's worth, then unsubscribe and talk with your wallet. But, if you're still paying the sub fee while complaining, well.....