Today was a bad choice for NA maintenance.

[Angelov-Mercy]

And some players don't have today off as holiday, I means it's a Japanese game, their public holidays are not going to be the same. If they catered maintenance to avoid clashing with other countries' holidays nothing would ever get done quick enough.

True, the US and Europe are probably not their majority customers.

[Wynn_Storm]

To be fair, this was something that was announced months in advance.

Would you rather it be on Tuesday instead? Get one less day after reset?

I'd rather it be done Monday so i can have a fresh week to do everything.

[Gemina]

Good point! Better than doing it on the actual holiday!

Btw I love your signature, FF9 is so great!

Thank you! I was thinking about exchanging it for a FFVIII gif, but I've had a handful of compliments sent my way including during duties with peeps telling me they recognize me from the forums by my sig.

Anywho, I do understand that several people have today off and it just being the NA servers affects players from other countries as well. I'm not quite sure why they can't just wait until the day after an ongoing event that has the dates of said event posted on the lodestone. But then it becomes, "Why not wait until the day after the scheduled reset?" And then we have players up in arms because maintenance is then taking place in the middle of the work week. As such, I still have to stand strong with my OP and say it is just best not to cut things so close given SE's history with maintenance schedules. Gotta be proactive.

[Violet_Galaxy]

Well lesson learned. Read the Lodestone.

[MsQi]

To be fair, this was something that was announced months in advance.

Would you rather it be on Tuesday instead? Get one less day after reset?

I'd rather it be done Monday so i can have a fresh week to do everything.

Yeah, no matter what they do it will be convenient for some and inconvenient for others. People just need to learn to pay attention and take their lumps when they don't.

Would anyone ask their work to reschedule for SE? The people at SE have jobs too.

[Krojack]

This was announced 2 months ago. Not SE's fault people don't keep up to date on information.

A holiday was announced long before that. I guess it's ok to take down your services on days when you would most likely have more people logged into the game than any other normal non-weekend day.

"Lets take the servers down for 24 hours on a day that people will be home for a holiday" - Someone at SE

[SannaR]

I guess not everyone knows how much flux Easter has as it can happen in late March til now all depending on when an earlier Christian Holiday happens in the year as Easter is made to fall X days after the other holiday that I can't remember the name of. So, really those who chose to take today off are only taking it off this "late" because of how late it can be in the Christian Calendar.

[Krojack]

today is not a holiday. people in the UK who want to play, guess what? EU servers are still up until 6pm pdt!

So now the EU is the only place that exists in the world?

A little jab at the old joke where people accuse Americans of thinking everything revolves around them.

[Krojack]

And they had it scheduled way before whatever is going on today. Clearly they didn't change their scheduled maintenance for it, so...

You do realize that the holiday was scheduled LONG before SE even existed right? A lot of people have the Friday before and/or the Monday after off work.

[Krojack]

Well lesson learned. Read the Lodestone.

How would this change the fact that people still GET THE DAY OFF WORK? They aren't taking a vacation day. Read the original post.