July 4th 24 hr Maintenance

[Greyhawk]

Come on SE, why haven't you figured this out yet? Bringing down the servers on a holiday for a major portion of your subscriber base is very uncool.

Everyone seems to forget that this isn't a JP holiday, and they don't give a flying rat fk about the West.

[Greyhawk]

https://dotesports.com/mmo/news/all-...er-populations

You're welcome

Oh, and that's ignoring what other people have brought up about how the "USA" servers include a sizable number of people from Canada and the entirety of South America, meaning the actual "American" population is even significantly smaller in comparison.

Wonder how they are getting those numbers. They aren't citing any ways to obtain them and if they are just relying upon something like Steam, the numbers are way, way off.

[NanaWiloh]

Everyone seems to forget that this isn't a JP holiday, and they don't give a flying rat fk about the West.

And western mmo's companies dont give a F about them so their all equal.

[Fyrebrand]

[Puts on Morpheus glasses]

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU, Yoshi-P was trying to do Americans a favour by specifically scheduling the maintenance on a day where they'd be out celebrating and doing other things anyway?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

[Puts on Morpheus glasses]

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU, Yoshi-P was trying to do Americans a favour by specifically scheduling the maintenance on a day where they'd be out celebrating and doing other things anyway?

That would be some 4D Chess right there, and make me respect the man even more.
Plus it reinforces the Narrative: Its ok to take breaks, we encourage you to takes breaks.

[Xulcan]

Not a major holiday. 1 Country celebrates it. One. Not a major holiday. Not even close. Also, I suggest you check the numbers on the majority of where this game is played in a single country. It isn't the US. Surprise!

The American data servers have 12,701,623 of the 26,182,117 total characters in the game. That is nearly half the characters (48.512589719158% to be exact). While this is not an indicator of which country in the data center's region has the most players it still shows that it is the larges population for the game.

[Kurando]

The American data servers have 12,701,623 of the 26,182,117 total characters in the game. That is nearly half the characters (48.512589719158% to be exact). While this is not an indicator of which country in the data center's region has the most players it still shows that it is the larges population for the game.

And how many of those players are actually in other countries around the world (not the US) but call the NA data centres their home? Population is just a number without all the additional data behind it.

[Kes13a]

although it seems US people are the most offended, it has obviously escaped notice that this affects 100% of the player base, this includes everyone with a day off, who is taking a vacation, who is home sick etc...

surely a multinational company such as SE should poll their ENTIRE data base to make sure no one is off and might be adversely affected by this patch. /s

honestly, the lengths some will go to try and show how they deserve special attention is pretty amazing.

[DeadGilder]

My only thing with Mondays is that a lot of US National Holidays (i.e. when banks are closed) are on Mondays no matter what.
Martin Luther King Jr Day - Always Monday
George Washington's Birthday - Always Monday
Memorial Day - Always Monday
Labor Day - Always Monday

Then the ones that fall on either a Sunday or Monday are observed on Monday. This year that'd be Independence Day, Juneteenth, and Christmas. There's not a single one on Tuesday this year. Next year again, there are 7 holidays observed on Mondays, and only one on a Tuesday. And there's not one on a Wednesday either this year or next... It's not entitlement, it's "I get these certain days where I don't have to work when I normally would, I would like to do something I enjoy while having that day off and this is what I currently enjoy -- and it's planned such that has the most opportunity to not allow that to happen"

[Greyhawk]

although it seems US people are the most offended, it has obviously escaped notice that this affects 100% of the player base, this includes everyone with a day off, who is taking a vacation, who is home sick etc...

surely a multinational company such as SE should poll their ENTIRE data base to make sure no one is off and might be adversely affected by this patch. /s

honestly, the lengths some will go to try and show how they deserve special attention is pretty amazing.

It's not even being offended. It's more like disappointment, I think. I'd find your post more offensive assuming that I'm being offended out of disappointment.