Maintenance Time AGAIN (Too Early)

[Serial_Killer]

Simple solution. Change maintenance times. They have the dumbest maintenance schedule. I recommend changing times to 4AM instead of 11PM. A couple of weeks ago they even scheduled a maintenance at 7PM which was prime playing time for most people.

Another solution would be to split maintenance times depending on servers so that we can go to an actual server that does Maintenance late instead of 11PM. I can't be the only one upset about the time they schedule these. 4AM is much more reasonable since most people aren't even playing then. If this keeps up, I may just quit.

[ZachFair]

I appreciate that Square is putting in the effort to solve issues within the game, but in addition to the time frame, wouldn't it be better to close down the servers for ONE DAY at 8 hours rather than FOUR DAYS at 2 hours each? It's getting to the point to where every single time I log in there is a reminder for a soon upcoming system wide shut down or a last minute announcement for an emergency maintenance shut down.

Gamers do not, and should not, pay monthly fees for a frequently non-accessable game and the frequency of downtime is downright unacceptable. I hope the folks at Square read this or perhaps do a simple google search because ARR is fast developing a bad reputation and if if this situation does not improve, Square will lose thousands of subscribers....which would be a complete shame considering that this is a great game

[Taliesin]

Of course they should, not like there are any other countries and time zones in the world out of 'Muricah...!

Something fair they can do though: change maintenance times every month, so that it's not always the same people who have to suffer from a loss of playtime.
But didn't they say that was in their plans already?

[Serial_Killer]

Yet another maintenance this coming Monday. This time, they're gonna do it even earlier. 9PM!!! This guys better be giving us free days of subscription with all these "Maintenance" and "Emergency Maintenance"

[ichnach]

HI, is it possible to rotate maintenance so people who work other than 9-5 PST can actually get play time? I work second shift EST and get maintenance sometimes 3 nights a week lately. It isn't fair to have it at the same general time when the whole world does not live in friggin California. Also, was "emergency" maintenance really necessary for turn 5 of coil when only a small amount of people can even do it? That could have waited till a scheduled maintenance easily.

[renachi]

Pretty sure they are doing the maintenance during periods that it will cause them the least amount of trouble. They are pretty much doing it Japan early afternoon time, so it is finished before their prime time/end of business day. I wish they would get a clue and have the NA servers run maintenance on NA time and just treat them as two separate schedules. Patches dont need to go in at the same time, maintenance doesnt need to be done at the same time.
They can just run two separate patch and login servers as well, there is really no reason for the NA systems and JP systems to be linked. The client can just have a setting to set to JP or NA server clusters and depending on what one you have selected will determine what login and patch server you use. Thus no need to cause problems for a large portion of the player base.

Then again with their programmers, making an adjustment as simple as that would probably take a year or more...