Are we paying for maintenances?

[Chimber]

He did say NA maintenance. It shouldn't matter that it's 6pm in Japan.

[Hiroradius]

It's kinda obvious that this update/maintance is adding the new fates that will launch on Friday, that's also why it's longer than the normal 2-3 hour one's they usually do at 12:00 am pst to 2/3:00 am pst.

This one is probably also implementing some fixes against all the hacks and exploits that the RMT sellers have been using in the past week or so.

It does suck about this maintance and the maintance in what seems like every 2 days right now, but still the hackers have been attacking this game hard for the past few weeks. Really causing a lot of issues, and if they need to shut the game down for 12 hours just to fix it and really put an end to it, then good. But as of right now, I truly believe that they need to bring more GM's on during all hours of days and nights on each server, if they don't have enough.. hire them, bring on some GM's for 3 months to help with this.

[JoeyDegala]

I never use this forum (or any in general) and the only reason why I'm here now is because the server is down, yet again.

I agree with the original post and I'm equally annoyed at this paid service system. Pay to play the game and instead, I'm here venting my thoughts which is such a waste of time and effort but I've got to vent somewhere >.<!!

Came home from work only have a couple of hours to spare, wanted to log in and do some crafting. Like many others I'm sure, I don't have time to sit on the computer all day and the when I do have spare time I expect to be able to login and enjoy a service that I paid for.

This is the third time in the space of less than 1 month, I've experienced down-time and as a result can't play at all for the day.

As a result of my experience with these annoying maintenance sessions, I don't really think I'll be renewing my service next month.

[AunaYuuki]

It's kinda obvious that this update/maintance is adding the new fates that will launch on Friday, that's also why it's longer than the normal 2-3 hour one's they usually do at 12:00 am pst to 2/3:00 am pst.

This one is probably also implementing some fixes against all the hacks and exploits that the RMT sellers have been using in the past week or so.

It does suck about this maintance and the maintance in what seems like every 2 days right now, but still the hackers have been attacking this game hard for the past few weeks. Really causing a lot of issues, and if they need to shut the game down for 12 hours just to fix it and really put an end to it, then good. But as of right now, I truly believe that they need to bring more GM's on during all hours of days and nights on each server, if they don't have enough.. hire them, bring on some GM's for 3 months to help with this.

Better then a broken game right?

[lebirath]

i see your pain.. but oh well..

i work from 6pm est to 7am est.. 5/7 days so exc for couple of hours on my working days, i only have 2 real days of play time. It WOUD help A LOT if they could try to schedule this maint one day per week every week even ... last week i couldnt play much bc maint, this week my day off tnt and tomorrow, well tnt didnt happen. i did got some nice play time during afternoon

[ASnogarD]

Must say I am also starting to get a tad annoyed at the amount of maintenance occurring, it almost feels like each time I log on there is a maintenance warning or some sort of situation where the servers may go down and as a player who is already limited by real life constraints to my game time, these downtimes hit quiet hard.

I have experienced many MMO starts and while many of those had issues not many was down for hours on end and so often, and certainly not this long after release... and definitely not after making a total hash of the initial launch then gaining the trust of fans again then re-launching the MMO.

I wonder if SE kind of figured the game was going to flop and skimped on the hardware. I could see that happening as subscription based MMO's are prone to failing on decent starts, its hard to see one kick off properly after a disaster - pull title - re-make - re-launch .

[Saevel]

The bottom line is that this is something you need to accept. If you don't feel like you're getting the product you paid for, you can elect to stop subscribing, at least until the inevitable time that maintenances become less frequent.

Also, the idea that scheduled or emergency maintenances are occurring in order to facilitate character transfers is ludicrous.