Excessive maintenance is starting to piss off the casual, non-raiding players.

[FireMage]

I can't imagine calling a game with a sub 1% maintenance rate excessive. Someone is concern trolling...

[NekoMataMata]

Most of the maintenance is in the middle of the night US time (don't know your timezone). It won't affect the majority of the playerbase.



Boo frickety hoo. So they have to wait another day to get what they want. . . talk about first world problems.

I laughed so hard at this.

Sure, there's way less players online, but how out of touch can you actually be? Middle of the night is a prime time for people in north american timezones that work and go to school.

Also can you be any ruder? You could easily sit there and rattle off all your problems and I can easily sit there and tell you how they're all first world and how someone else has it worse. That doesn't make it any better, now does it?


Anyways, the maintenance right now isn't that bad yet but it is worrying. You don't want to see it go any further than this.

[VerdeLuck]

there is another global game company, perhaps you have heard of them? Blizzard, a small indie studio

they typically do maintenance during their normal business hours. since the world is not one time zone, that tends to inconvenience people world over. you would think they would consider people outside their business hours in your world.. but they do not. why? money. after hours work generally means overtime which is more money to pay out.

plus there is generally a belief that all regions should get the updates at the same time (not time zone wise) so the idea of staggering maintenance is a non starter. sorry.

I could not care less about what Blizzard does.

[Silverbane]

they typically do maintenance during their normal business hours. since the world is not one time zone, that tends to inconvenience people world over. you would think they would consider people outside their business hours in your world.. but they do not. why? money. after hours work generally means overtime which is more money to pay out.

Plus your key people -- the ones you definitely want involved so nothing goes wrong -- may not want to work graveyard shifts. And they may be difficult enough to replace that you don't dare try to make them.

The last thing we want is this scenario:

Key_Developer: I got a date Monday night with the person I mentioned; it looks like I'll finally get lucky.
So can you find someone else to do the maintenance?

Manager: Sure, no problem. We'll just get an intern to do it

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[angienessyo]

I'm a raider and while I'm sad to lose out on some P8S prog tonight, the earlier maintenance also means I get to play more Splatoon 3 with my friends who haven't gotten to see me while I've been locked away in raid.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I laughed so hard at this.

Sure, there's way less players online, but how out of touch can you actually be? Middle of the night is a prime time for people in north american timezones that work and go to school.

Also can you be any ruder? You could easily sit there and rattle off all your problems and I can easily sit there and tell you how they're all first world and how someone else has it worse. That doesn't make it any better, now does it?


Anyways, the maintenance right now isn't that bad yet but it is worrying. You don't want to see it go any further than this.

Why would you have any concern. The maintenance schedule has gotten less over the years, not more.

We only get maintenance when we need it, and only for the time they require. Hence why we have frequent early ends for maintenance, but very, very, very few extensions. I can't remember the last time they had to extend one actually.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

The maintenance was through the night here in EU and servers were back up come morning.
I would rather they take the time to fix large issues than have us wait weeks because a few people get their knickers in a twist.

[LianaThorne]

I laughed so hard at this.

Sure, there's way less players online, but how out of touch can you actually be? Middle of the night is a prime time for people in north american timezones that work and go to school.

Also can you be any ruder? You could easily sit there and rattle off all your problems and I can easily sit there and tell you how they're all first world and how someone else has it worse. That doesn't make it any better, now does it?


Anyways, the maintenance right now isn't that bad yet but it is worrying. You don't want to see it go any further than this.

Prime time for one part of the US, js. East and Mid are into the night hours when people are asleep. The only people really getting screwed over are the West Coasters but again, you can survive one night without a game. Spend time with your family or friends or play something else. If you can't survive without FF then that's a whole other issue.

There's more people in the world than just the US and this thread is a reminder of why we're called the entitled country.

[SnowVix]

It's not a big ask to want a company that operates globally to consider and listen to players outside of their own region when they make decisions.

Cool anti-worker stance. Making the devs who monitor maintenance and patching burn the midnight oil so your precious entertainment isn't interrupted. How does it feel to hate the working class?

[Vahlnir]

I laughed so hard at this.

Sure, there's way less players online, but how out of touch can you actually be? Middle of the night is a prime time for people in north american timezones that work and go to school.

Also can you be any ruder? You could easily sit there and rattle off all your problems and I can easily sit there and tell you how they're all first world and how someone else has it worse. That doesn't make it any better, now does it?


Anyways, the maintenance right now isn't that bad yet but it is worrying. You don't want to see it go any further than this.

Regardless of when they schedule a maintenance, someone somewhere is going to draw the short straw. I'm an NA player, and a casual (for the OP, as if it really matters lol) and I am unbothered by their maintenance schedule. And yes, a lot of my play time is during those late-night hours. I just...don't play those nights. Life goes on.