Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Necrosaro123]

Thanks god that the cinematic i was looking ended without being interrupted, otherwise I would have been really disappointed. I just hope there wasnt another after that one....

Anyone know if there is another cinematic in "The Unbroken Thread" after watching the cinematic after talking to the "Aspiring Amaro Trainer."? I got disconnected after that.

[VelKallor]

Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers
I do not understand why they would shut down the servers from 8 PM to 5 AM CST. Very odd time to do work. Unless they do not have NA employees and everything is done in Japan time zone +12/+13 hours.

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

[Trobon]

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

I mean it is a Japanese game and we should expect it to work on their time. However, I think holding onto something you were told by a completely different group of people on a completely different game and using that in an argument is in no way helpful.

[Nightingaile]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

[ForctyusGold]

use this free time to spend it with friend or family or anything i think this emergency one the last one were at same time.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

GW2's problem is they push game break bug fixes to the next update thats planned, even if they know the problem and have the fix ready. Or they did at least when I played.

There was an issue with the Ice Dragon world event that completely broke it. They had the fix in like 3 days. Didn't get deployed until a month later.

[Trobon]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

I imagine there is a fundamental difference here because the server worlds are all segregated from one another unlike GW2 which has one shared world split into multiple shards dynamically. While this would be a great way of dealing with it here I do think it might be unfeasible.

[inopinatus]

Thanks god that the cinematic i was looking ended without being interrupted, otherwise I would have been really disappointed. I just hope there wasnt another after that one....

Anyone know if there is another cinematic in "The Unbroken Thread" after watching the cinematic after talking to the "Aspiring Amaro Trainer."? I got disconnected after that.

If you ever suspect you've missed a cutscene (or fumbled your controller and skipped one by mistake, ahem), go to an Inn room once quest is complete and interact with The Unending Journey to rewatch.

[Dawn_FF14]

Nah WoW just went down regularly outside of maintenance when I played it during the original launch. If you look at the full notes aside from the hotfix it's also for infrastructure maintenance. The latter part of that being the more time intensive part of it.

WoW doesn’t go down often these days. But whenever there is a Maintenance Window longer than a couple of hours, there will be complaining posts on the forum. I think the “tradition” is carried over.

[KayRadley]

OP needs another hobby.