Servers offline during July 4th Holiday?

[diverscott]

Do you guys realize how spoiled and self-centered it makes Americans look?
I understand that it's a minority I think most Americans get it too and aren't complaining, but these threads only really pop-up when it happens on a US holiday lol.
Or when a holiday happens on a different day in the US ( like Halloween vs All Saints Week ).

You realize how obnoxious this pattern is?
Believe it or not but the world doesn't spin around the US and the rest of us have holidays too that doesn't line up like we'd always want to with the game either.
And we don't complain when a US studio follows a US schedule

Tbh if we did complain about it we'd probably get mocked for it even worse and 9 out of 10 of the people who complain about it here would suddenly understand how silly it is and tell us '' it's a US studio duh ''.

I'm not complaining or trying to be US-centric. I'm curious to the rationale they used. Did they look at the calendar and discuss the fact that a great majority of the North American data center would be on holiday break, therefore presenting an opportunity to put FFXIV into their holiday plans? Or, is the scheduling simply a result of the "Well, we always patch on Mondays" line of thinking? It seems that having a Wednesday patch cycle makes more sense, worldwide, as it falls in the middle of the business/school week, when populations in game are lowest.

[Kurando]

A lot of games companies put their big patches out on a Tuesday because it's often the quickest they can get it out to the consumer, especially when it comes to other platforms. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo etc will use that Monday or even some of Tuesday to do any final checks to ensure the patch is safe for their platform before sending it to the masses. The business hours of the companies also need to be considered as well, if a patch is due to go live at 6pm GMT on a Monday, obviously that's not going to be the same everywhere in the world, e.g. Japan offices would be closed at this time, so they wouldn't have had chance to perform final checks.

But alas the moral of the story is, the US is not that important. There are plenty of Europeans, Central/Southern Americans, Canadians, Asians etc residing on NA data centres, and most do not care about US public holidays the slightest.

[Jojoya]

I'm not complaining or trying to be US-centric. I'm curious to the rationale they used. Did they look at the calendar and discuss the fact that a great majority of the North American data center would be on holiday break, therefore presenting an opportunity to put FFXIV into their holiday plans? Or, is the scheduling simply a result of the "Well, we always patch on Mondays" line of thinking? It seems that having a Wednesday patch cycle makes more sense, worldwide, as it falls in the middle of the business/school week, when populations in game are lowest.

I doubt they plan schedules around US consumer availability. Far more likely the schedules are planned around the availability of their employees and contractors.

Most of us don't have an issue with this. We have things to do with friends or family or other games to play if we're not forced to be working on the holiday.

Do you and your friends have nothing else to do other than play FFxIV? Could be a good opportunity to try out other games to play.