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

[Cheremia]

Unexpected things happen, even if you test them 1000 times before going live.

Other games get more and more broken over time, and I'm not talking about MMOS.

Look at Breath of the wild, it became more broken over time with things that were never intended but just happen to work in weird ways because how could programmers have known these things, even if they tested it?

Maintenances are there to fix bugs, to add content etc.

If you're bothered by them adding things and fixing things, then i really fail to see the problems here

[SenorPatty]

Haven't read any of the responses in this thread but I hope no one replied seriously when you have this gold mine here:

It is acceptable to fuck over raiders since they are not worth anything to the game, but pissing off the casual, paying audience is going to paint a really bad picture of the game to them.

Wait hold up

"My brother in Hidaelyn, you telling me raiders play this game for free?" *Dumps casual gear and slaps on pentameldes crafted raid gear* "Ayo, where dem savage raids at?"

[Cheremia]

Haven't read any of the responses in this thread but I hope no one replied seriously when you have this gold mine here:



Wait hold up

"My brother in Hidaelyn, you telling me raiders play this game for free?" *Dumps casual gear and slaps on pentameldes crafted raid gear* "Ayo, where dem savage raids at?"

Ayo right over there, go straight to the shield that says „toxic raiders“ then go left across the street to the Pf/Static house and viola…

[Shibi]

[Date & Time]
Sep. 14, 2022 10:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. (PDT)
* Completion time is subject to change.

[Affected Areas]
- Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks
- Ul'dah - Steps of Nald
- New Gridania

15 minute maintenance coming up.

Rumour is that one was a bug that let you fly in the main cities.

[Xuled]

Too bad so sad. Play more hours then. If they didn’t do the maintenances, this community would cry about that instead.

[Boblawblah]

I somehow survived that 15 minutes that I couldn't go to Limsa last night. It was rough, but I did some mining instead of afking at the Aetheryte plaza. I was finally able to resume afking after 10:15 however and which point I went to bed.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I somehow survived that 15 minutes that I couldn't go to Limsa last night. It was rough, but I did some mining instead of afking at the Aetheryte plaza. I was finally able to resume afking after 10:15 however and which point I went to bed.

Hey, it really ruined it for all the people who spend their subs afking around the aetheryte!

[Avoidy]

These maintenance times consistently line up with when I get in from work, and they never seem to do it at a different time to inconvenience another timezone for a change. The issues they resolve are also usually related to super niche bugs that most people didn't notice (a furniture light being tilted; an animal sanctuary pet wandering past a fence), or some minor potency tweaks; even if it's a necessary fix, it's hard not to think "eight hours for this?" when I read the notes. That said, there's so little to do right now anyway, that it doesn't even bother me at the moment. They also gave a couple of days notice iirc, so I just logged in before work to do my island stuff.

So yeah, speaking as a casual player. Do I find the maintenances annoying? Mildly. If I were in a later timezone, I probably wouldn't notice them at all though. They give enough notice to plan around them, and the game's utterly barren of casual shit to do atm anyway, so who cares.

[Raoabolic]

Rumour is that one was a bug that let you fly in the main cities.

What rumor? It was magical seeing those people flying around the cities, lol.

[Xaruko_Nexume]

Still dont see why we cant fly around cities, at least outdoors.