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

[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.

[xenahawk]

Maintenance comes with the territory of mmo's though. Casual player or not you just sort of plan around it. I get that it sucks if the maintenance time over laps with a person's available time to play but really unless something has a hard deadline like if you dont do it by this time you'll never be able to get or do it, its nothing to get mad over or feel like your now behind.

[Kes13a]

I could not care less about what Blizzard does.

actually you should. considering it has a truly global subscription base and couldnt give two shakes of a rats tail who might be inconvenienced by maintenance, and was the big boy on the block for a while, AND Yoshi has said he was influenced by them.... you dont think that how they do things is just a little responsible for how other companies with a similar product are going to do things as well?

I know, you dont care about so no need to state it. you dont have to care about it to be honest, because SE isnt going to care about or change for you either. but I doubt they have a schedule up with your name on it and they plan when to inconvenience you and you only. maintenance is needed, they notify us and they do it. game comes up life goes on. if you cannot plan around something they give you plenty of notice on, thats on you, not them.

one of those unhappy facts of life apparently.

[LilyPendragon]

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It is acceptable to fuck over raiders since they are not worth anything to the game,

lmao

gr8 b8 m8, i r8 8/8

[Mosselyn]

I don't ever find it more than mildly inconvenient. If you life is so one-dimensional that the downtime is a BFD, you should consider broadening your interests a little.

However, I don't agree that it is a typical maintenance schedule. FFXIV has more frequent and longer maintenance periods than any MMO that I have played in the last 10 years, including GW2, WoW, Lotro, and ESO. I take it as a sign that their back end infrastructure is a bit of a mess, making applying patches or doing database maintenance a lengthy process. It is what it is.

[Kaurhz]

Major catastrophe, how ever will I recover?

Signed,
Unaffected casual player.

[Wayfinder3]

most casual players are not that reasonable
when maintenance hits them at 7PM all the way to 3AM they get really pissed off

Since when do you speak for all casual players, i can think of many casuals who don't care because they play the game casually and usually have other things to do. Just speak for yourself instead of hiding behind some banner of solidarity that doesn't exist

[Silverbane]

Major catastrophe, how ever will I recover?

To paraphrase the EW theme song "Don't be afraid, to forge ahead."

[Kes13a]

Since when do you speak for all casual players, i can think of many casuals who don't care because they play the game casually and usually have other things to do. Just speak for yourself instead of hiding behind some banner of solidarity that doesn't exist

I see that like me, you didnt get the memo advising we had our own offended spokesperson. maybe the post moogle was down for maintenance *shrugs*

[Kaurhz]

To paraphrase the EW theme song "Don't be afraid, to forge ahead."

Light the way.