ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TODAY!

[MageBlack]

People are not in an outrage because we are only given 24h notice. People are upset by the sheer volume of maintenance's that are taking place.

Sorry, I guess with me being casual, I have hardly been affected by the maint's. My prime time has been most weekdays from 9-midnight PST.

What is the emergency that has to wait 24-48 hours before they fix it? That's not an emergency. If the issue is okay to be live for 24-48 hours already, then it's probably okay to be live for a couple of more days and just have one weekly maintenance like every other MMO on the market.

You may be right, Maybe these things could wait or can be identified and fixed within a few hours. I could be wrongly assuming that things might be more complicated than that.

SE has had 10 outages over the past 37 days for just the NA/EU data center (causing you to not be able to play). That's a maintenance very 3-4 days. How is that even remotely acceptable to anyone? F2P games have better up time, and still get issues fixed.

I guess i'm just more forgiving than some people. Sorry for not understanding that this kind of thing really does get people upset. I thought it was just an over-exaggeration but with how often you have said this last part in this thread, it really seems to strike a nerve. I don't know what else to say, I hope your suggestions and insight will be a revelation to the devs and you get what you are hoping for. Good luck in your crusade.

[EmiliM]

So 6/40 of his list, to make his point, were even applicable to his argument.

Actually, the filtered list missed the maintenance on the 23rd, the 16th, and the 3rd, So we've had 9 maintenance sessions in the past 5 weeks. Not complaining but I can understand how it can start to get on people's nerves.

[DSN]

"At the following time, in order to address high server stress, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will be unavailable." - Nothing reduces stress on the servers like taking them offline the night myth tomes cap is reset. Hell lets turn the servers off every Monday ... wait but what do we do tomorrow when people who couldn't play today all try to cap? Do we start turning servers offline from 4PM - 12AM? That would reduce 'stress'

If the servers are so over 'stressed' maybe they shouldn't oversubscribe resources so much.

To reiterate for all the white knights who are missing the point - its not the fact maintenance is occurring people are getting frustrated with it the frequency and lack of consistency behind it. It doesn't matter how much notice we are given, it does not matter where it is posted, the problem is the increased frequency and lack of consistency behind it.

If you are required to do weekly maintenance no one has any problems with that just pick a standard time and use this existing window to do other work if required. These daily / every other day maintenance are getting old quite fast. If there were bugs being fixed or qualities of life being increased just let us know what they are, this will eliminate a large number of your complaints. If you don't have to release trade secrets or plans from the STF which people get and understand you can be as vague as 'Combat RMT Initiatives' or 'Fix client / server exploit' but when it's 'were take the game down for 4 hrs and you wont notice any difference before or after' this only exasperates the frustration players feel.

[Gilraen]

There was another thread not unlike this one where they felt they weren't paying for maintenances. I wholly disagree, I'd be mad if they weren't using my money to maintain the game. The fact that they even have these maintenances means someone found something wrong and they're fixing it. I don't get the backlash. As has been said many, many times, someone somewhere isn't going to be able to play for the duration of the maintenance. Today it just happens to be you. Find something to pass the time, it's just a few hours. You'll live.

[whilke]

Sorry, I guess with me being casual, I have hardly been affected by the maint's. My prime time has been most weekdays from 9-midnight PST.

You may be right, Maybe these things could wait or can be identified and fixed within a few hours. I could be wrongly assuming that things might be more complicated than that.

I guess i'm just more forgiving than some people. Sorry for not understanding that this kind of thing really does get people upset. I thought it was just an over-exaggeration but with how often you have said this last part in this thread, it really seems to strike a nerve. I don't know what else to say, I hope your suggestions and insight will be a revelation to the devs and you get what you are hoping for. Good luck in your crusade.

It ultimately doesn't irk me enough to cancel my sub today. I can absolutely understand anyone who is annoyed by it though. If the pattern continues however, I'll probably follow that path eventually.

[Serial_Killer]

I'm gonna call it again. Emergency Maintenance by Nov 6.

[Tarta]

I logged in.
Maintenance in 15 minutes.
Hmm...

Log out.
Expecting the same yet again next play sessions.
*shrug* Such wow

[Kaisersoke]

All I know is that one more week like this one with (what five now?) so many maintenance sessions and I won't be re-subscribing. I understand that maintenance is a must for any solid MMO but having maintenance so frequently while fixing... nothing, is irritating. I highly doubt these downtimes have been urgent EVERY single time they took the servers down.

[xanj]

Oh noes!!!! SE are fixing broken things how dare they.

we can hope

[Kaisersoke]

There was another thread not unlike this one where they felt they weren't paying for maintenances. I wholly disagree, I'd be mad if they weren't using my money to maintain the game. The fact that they even have these maintenances means someone found something wrong and they're fixing it. I don't get the backlash. As has been said many, many times, someone somewhere isn't going to be able to play for the duration of the maintenance. Today it just happens to be you. Find something to pass the time, it's just a few hours. You'll live.

It's almost up to a 24 hours down time in the past week and for people like me who mainly play late at night, are barely getting any play time in at all with these frequent maintenances. I'm glad they're fixing problems but I'm disappointed they're draining my play time and money instead of lumping all their problems into one maintenance and giving us a reasonable warning.