Behemoth failed earlier---and now Excalibur has failed.

The Excalibur Fate hit right after they shut down Moon for 10 minutes to do emergency maintenance on it. The Fate kicked off at 3:33 AM EDT. On a middle of the week night. We had around 180-ish total people (across all instances) working on this thing, and were only able to get it to barely above 50%.

And now we too get the fun of a "you get locked out of Red Alerts and Mech Ops for eight hours" deal... LONGER if we can't get enough people in for the retry at 11:30-ish AM, and it fails AGAIN.

Dear Square Enix: With the REAL world going to literal HELL IN A HANDBASKET, we absolutely DO NOT NEED RIDICULOUS, POINTLESS, SADISTIC ***STRESS*** FROM THE GAME WE COME TO IN ORDER TO GET AWAY FROM THAT KIND OF BRUTAL STRESS THAT WE'RE LITERALLY LIVING WITH IN THE REAL WORLD.

It is utter BS that multiple players (and also streamers who've made videos about this) have been TELLING you since you STARTED this "Build Fate" thing with the Cosmic Exploration, that you NEED to retool it to be more fair for worlds with low population, get it to sync for lower numbers of people, and to do SOMETHING about NOT throwing them on us in the middle of the night for people on that world, on a weekday, WHEN MANY HAVE WORK THE NEXT DAY AND NEED TO SLEEP AND CANNOT GET IN TO DO YOUR RIDICULOUS FATE.

And then on TOP of that---and this is why I say "SADISTIC," players whose "world failed the Fate" because we couldn't get your minimum of 400-ish people in to do it, getting PUNISHED by having our Red Alerts and Mech Ops we need for player advancement HALTED until we DO finally "pass" the Fate, after 1-2 retries???

We've TOLD you and TOLD you this is not only UNFAIR, it's also PUNISHING your player base and DEMOTIVATING PEOPLE both for doing this Cosmic Exploration stuff but also for just getting in the damn game AT ALL. Your continued silence on this and refusal to act, certainly makes it seem this sadism is DELIBERATE, rather than that someone just accidentally screwed things up in designing this.

And that's DELIBERATELY CRUEL to people. I personally don't NEED a game I use to destress and reduce my daily doses of "extra cortisol because of all the cruel things BEING DONE TO PEOPLE IN THE REAL WORLD RIGHT NOW," to HAND ME SOME MORE. I don't NEED NOR WANT the place I come to try to calm down from all that, to hand me MORE of it, and ramp my blood pressure back up. Cardiology meds can only do so much, you know: people trying to be mindful about their stress do not need gratuitous deliberate ramping of stress like this.

THIS IS NOT FUN. THIS IS NOT ENTERTAINING. THIS IS NOT IMMERSION IN SOMETHING GOOD. THIS IS DELIBERATE MEANNESS TO PLENTY OF YOUR PLAYERS. YOU NEED TO FIX THIS, BECAUSE PEOPLE ***WILL*** START WALKING AWAY FROM YOU IF YOU WON'T OWN THIS AND FIX IT.