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

[caffe_macchiato]

Excessive maintenance? No, it isn't. It is a pretty normal level of maintenance for an MMO.

Many MMOs have a maintenance period once a week just for rebooting the servers. That's once a week, every single week.

This. Square Enix is a small company and doesn’t have the time or resources to excessively plan maintenance for optimal time periods. They’re a Japanese company, so they will always plan when Japanese players are usually offline. And given the very old infrastructure that Square has, it would be very devastating if the game didn’t have maintenance at all.

Also, it’s not like we have much content to play anyway. Most of my friends are finished with the game and are going back to WoW or other games. FFXIV isn’t something you’re supposed to play every day, only once a week if you’re a raider. Most people just idle and chat and they could easily do those things on Discord.

We should all be grateful that we only pay $13 a month, that’s cheaper than Netflix.

[Boblawblah]

Square Enix is a small company and doesn’t have the time or resources to excessively plan maintenance for optimal time periods..

you almost had me lol

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This. Square Enix is a small company and doesn’t have the time or resources to excessively plan maintenance for optimal time periods. They’re a Japanese company, so they will always plan when Japanese players are usually offline. And given the very poor infrastructure that Square has, it would be very devastating if the game didn’t have maintenance.

Also, it’s not like we have much content to play anyway. Most of my friends are finished with the game and are going back to WoW or other games. FFXIV isn’t something you’re supposed to play every day, only once a week if you’re a raider. Most people just idle and chat and they could easily do those things on Discord.

We should all be grateful that we only pay $13 a month, that’s cheaper than Netflix.

If they had maint for content patches by region, people would be complaining that jp gets new stuff first, they have better latency for wf races because na/EU groups had to jump to jp datacenters to participate, etc, etc.

This way, everyone gets fixes/content at the same time.