Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Krotoan]

First message on the board and complains already

It is very rare for most people to seek out the forum JUST to be positive. A LOT of people come here initially because they are coming here with a problem or to see if OTHERS are having the same problem.

While there is very little we can do about the maint hours.. lets not bag on people for coming to forums to do what people have been coming to game forums forever to do: Voice displeasure.

[Iscah]

Stop trying to take stuff out of context and blame it on the game being made in Japan. You forget OP that Yoshida himself put up a letter regarding the issue with servers, namely with the large influx of players(more than likely due to Activision's failings) coming from WoW and other places. They're having to do that infrastructure work so that the game doesn't crash because of so many people coming in at once. Lobby Crashes are more than likely to happen if the infrastructure isn't done before November.

What's "out of context" about it being a Japanese game getting maintenance during Japanese daytime hours?

This complaint pops up every time there's a maintenance session that cuts into American prime time. It's not unique to this infrastructure test.

[Violyre]

Plus I know in my job, we don't take our systems down in our business hours. We do our maintenance in off hours.

Sounds like you might be in the business of things that aren't global. It's hard to find a time to take things down that won't affect all clients when people are always on.

[Breakbeat]

I have a very weird IRL schedule. Most often, I can play somewhere between the hours of 10pm and 6am, Pacific time.

So, this maintenance does wipe out an entire day of gameplay for me. But I am flexible, I am not the center of the universe, and I understand that sometimes online games need maintenance. So, I'll play a few extra rounds of Homescapes and Rise of Cultures. I'll catch up on Celebrity Masterchef UK. I'll read a bit more of 'Project Hail Mary'. I'll go outside, listen to music, whatever.

My life is tres boring, if I do say so myself, but it's not so bad that I can't occupy myself for nine hours if my primary pastime goes away temporarily.

[Jin-]

FFXIV might be the only game I know where EU players don't get S** on with the maintenance times

[Imora]

Meh, I stopped playing WoW when they finally tried to bill me for the sub when it launched. Felt like stuff was getting nerfed on a daily basis because people on their forum kept crying about getting killed in PvP on a PvP server...

Based on the things heard and observed since then I had no reason to go back. It literally sounded like an initially decent game flushed down the toilet due to bad decisions being made to appease the obnoxious part of their forum community that was only kept afloat by Blizzard's marketing department.

Means you played it for about 10 days then because it's always been a subscription based game.

the whining was well and alive during the closed beta too.

[Ligier]

I know that are shocking news but the world isn't a flat disk.

Wait whaat!... Are not living in Discworld...damn it!

[Juun]

I have to sleep at that time cause I have a very early shift. So Im good. Can def play once I get home from work too!

[Sotaris]

They always been that way.

It's a JP game and maint usually occurs over there so just deal with it. It's not like these long maint occurs that often.

Sounds like you might be in the business of things that aren't global. It's hard to find a time to take things down that won't affect all clients when people are always on.

This. We deploy updates to our systems at my work too but we only have to consider CET and EET timezones (+1 hour difference) but here you have to consider NA, EU and JP timezone. It's impossible.

[Illmaeran]

I don't know about you, but I'm going to paint some Warhammer models tonight! I'm sure my wife will appreciate me going to be earlier than normal as well.