All Day Maintenance and Compensation: My Thoughts

[GunksFoy]

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Actually, they probably remote manage the servers and require no physical contact at all. It's probably all done from Japan. The amount of data for the patches should not take 24 hours to upload. And they should have already been tested for stability on a test server, so that should require minimal time. But sure, we'll give that maybe it's a procedural issue.

And indeed, it was planned and that is SE's decision. However, the OP's wish that SE grant us a few measly days is not that outlandish. All the people against him look at it as if his request for these few days is totally absurd because "it's only 3-4 days a year get over it" and fail to see from the other side "it's only 3-4 days a year, would SE even notice this financially (probably not)". And that's what annoys me. and why I gave him a vote in favor. I don't particularly care either way, the 24 hr maintenances are definitely an inconvenience, but is that big a deal? However, everyone seems to see the company is greater than the consumer and I would argue the opposite is true

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I tend to agree that demanding compensation for the small amount of time lost is unnecessary. However I wouldn't consider it absurd or petty. You pay for a product and expect to get full access to the service.