maintenance

[xod]

these every two day maintenance are ruining the game. You can't take the game down every other day in prime time and expect people to pay 15 dollars a month for it. It's like every other night now. Really disgusting, I just log on to play and there's a maintenance for two hours in an hour. Disgusting, there was a maintenance two days ago, and one two days before that, and one two days before that. Seriously, what's the deal? Why am I paying 15 dollars a month for a game I can only play half the week?

[Xatsh]

12am is prime time?

[gamesmart]

I'll take an offline online game over a broken online game.
...Wait, what?

[KariArisu]

I'll take an offline online game over a broken online game.
...Wait, what?

Except it's not broken. 99% of the players have no idea why the maintenance is necessary.

[xod]

yes, 12 am is prime time to a ton of people, including myself.

[blowfin]

It's always prime time somewhere, and they have to do the maintenance. To be honest I'd rather the game goes down for an hour or two to fix issues than having them persist, but that's just me.

Ruining the game is probably a bit over the top. It's impacting your play time which is pissing you off. Not much more or less than that.

[IvoryFox]

15 dollars?

Also, maintenance and emergency maintenance happens in any MMO.

Unless you're playing GW2. In which case, enjoy your con...*giggles* tent...

[xod]

i play in the day for a bit and i play at night. when it go's down every other night for 2-4 hours it just blows. At least wow maintenance (as an example) is once a week, set 8 hours and done. This 2-4 hour every other night stuff is really silly. And no, I don't want to play wow, but it's an example of a maintenance style that works. It's a set day, set time. And they don't break it. Once a week, 8 hours, every week. if there's hot fix stuff it's usually while it's still up or it go's down for like 10-15 minutes tops... The maintenance schedule here, well there is no maintenance schedule. They just take it down randomly every other day.

[DragonFlyy]

i play in the day for a bit and i play at night. when it go's down every other night for 2-4 hours it just blows. At least wow maintenance (as an example) is once a week, set 8 hours and done. This 2-4 hour every other night stuff is really silly. And no, I don't want to play wow, but it's an example of a maintenance style that works. It's a set day, set time. And they don't break it. Once a week, 8 hours, every week. if there's hot fix stuff it's usually while it's still up or it go's down for like 10-15 minutes tops... The maintenance schedule here, well there is no maintenance schedule. They just take it down randomly every other day.

LOL there are tons of people the bitch whine and moan about Blizzard going down for 8+ hours once a week and site that SE does it better with 2-4 hours every few days. It's all a matter of perspective.

[blowfin]

i play in the day for a bit and i play at night. when it go's down every other night for 2-4 hours it just blows. At least wow maintenance (as an example) is once a week, set 8 hours and done. This 2-4 hour every other night stuff is really silly. And no, I don't want to play wow, but it's an example of a maintenance style that works. It's a set day, set time. And they don't break it. Once a week, 8 hours, every week. if there's hot fix stuff it's usually while it's still up or it go's down for like 10-15 minutes tops... The maintenance schedule here, well there is no maintenance schedule. They just take it down randomly every other day.

Well yeah if you're comparing it to WoW, then SE do their maintenance much differently.

There's no way there'll be weekly scheduled maintenance for XIV once it matures a bit, they'll do maintenance as little as possible. Sometimes with months in between. Just at this early stage of the game there are lot of things to address. It will get less and less frequent, people just have to learn to deal with it when it effects them. Once XIV stabilises the maintenance will be much less obtrusive than the weekly WoW outages.