Servers offline during July 4th Holiday?

[Shuuli]

I thought it is going to be an "ALL worlds maintenance for the new patch". Which means they do not give a flipping fuck what is going on around the world, they just want to do a maintenance so on tuesday (as usual) people have the new content ready. They wont change the full global maintenance for one region when US is not their majority market to begin with. Alas, I dont think their intention was to "frick" with US people, it is just generally how they do maintenance. Always on Mondays Everyone can kind of count with it because it has been like this for a long time.

[Akira_Kojima]

They probably expect us to be out looking at fireworks instead of playing a video game

[NanaWiloh]

To keep it short and to the point SE,Blizzard, etc. The only National holidays they recognize is those celebrated by their home country. 4th of july is an American holiday so only companies in the US will be or are making accomidations for it.

[DamianFatale]

maybe they are assuming a lot off players be offline setting off explosives

Not in my state. They are outlawed now. :/

[Catwho]

I was mad a first, and now we've determined that the in-laws are coming over for the 4th, so it has turned to gratitude. Because while I will be resenting every minute with them in my house, at least I can tell myself I'm not missing valuable FFXIV playtime

[Treesus]

People have already stated a number of rational explanations for this decision in the thread. The blunt fact is that its a Japanese company working on the game, the fact that we can even say "well maybe its because they expect less people to be playing" is already them showing more concern for the US player base then they technally need to. While it may not be optimal for you personally, the rational is there, and pretty obvious. Not to mention, as its already been stated, no other country is required to work around another when it comes to something like an MMO. Its 2 days. You will live. There are thousands of other games to play, including the super under rated indy hit "touching grass simulator, 2022". This is such a nothingburger of a thread that I cannot understand what in your head made you post it.

[TaleraRistain]

Just bad luck that our July 4th this year turned out to be on a Monday and it coincided with the time they were going to make major changes so it required 24 hour maintenance. It happens. As I said in the other thread, at least it's consistent. They're a Japanese company so they recognize Japanese holidays that their employees would be affected by. The US is in the same boat as the rest of the world that non-Japanese holidays aren't considered. That's fair.

There is a *tiny* double standard people have sometimes, though, where US companies catch heck when they do the same.

[hynaku]

July 4th is one day I never look foward to because of all the fires that get started each year from fireworks. Then theres all the loud noise from the fireworks late at night when have to get up early the next day for work. Another thing why sould maitenance take 24 hours for NA when their not adding any new servers to it like the EU and JP.

[Imora]

July 4th is one day I never look foward to because of all the fires that get started each year from fireworks. Then theres all the loud noise from the fireworks late at night when have to get up early the next day for work. Another thing why sould maitenance take 24 hours for NA when their not adding any new servers to it like the EU and JP.

Consistency. You're still getting a patch and datacenter travel.

[Shibi]

...Another thing why sould maitenance take 24 hours for NA when their not adding any new servers to it like the EU and JP.

I've done this sort of work at a global level, and very simplistically, the various teams normally work to a unified implementation plan under a single change manager. Each team completes each relevant step in all countries then moves to the next step. Where optional steps are needed for a certain country then that is done while others idle, then everyone moves on together again.

Like juggling one ball instead of 4, it's easier to oversee this way, rather than having 4 teams doing things at different times, and should a rollback or additional change be needed (as is often the case), or a problem need fixing (which is incredibly common) then all countries can do it together. If you are using different runsheets, and a problem is seen in one country, but the others have zoomed to the end... issues.

And further to this operational need, should the NA servers be running but EU, JP, and OC not... how do you think the login queues would fare?