ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TODAY!

[Baneus]

No, they are scheduling it to maximize player convenience, and it is obvious.

Look at the scheduled maintenances, and consider which primetime around the globe it impacts the most.

Australia/Oceania.

Now, consider which time zones around the world have consistently contained the fewest subscribed player number for the average world-wide MMO.

Australia/Oceania... again.

I already mentioned a much more reasonable time frame which would only affect the following people:

The unemployed (all countries) (irrelevant, the unemployed should be finding a job).
Students playing games when they're supposedly "studying" (US) (also irrelevant, because Students).
Off shift workers (US) (a minority group compared to everyone else)

EDIT: and while it's not hard to find the correct time, I'm pretty sure the NA notice was in GMT not PST earlier, what was the point in changing it?

[Rawry]

I already mentioned a much more reasonable time frame which would only affect the following people:

The unemployed (all countries) (irrelevant, the unemployed should be finding a job).
Students playing games when they're supposedly "studying" (NA) (also irrelevant, because Students).
Off shift workers (NA) (a minority group compared to everyone else)

EDIT: and while it's not hard to find the correct time, I'm pretty sure the NA notice was in GMT not PST earlier, what was the point in changing it?

Fixed

/10char

[Rawry]

Because we are clearly playing a western game on a western time schedule. We only request that they possibly change up the times once in awhile, aka pushing it back even 1 hour is good enough.

I think you failed to see my point mister/misses flamey. Posts like this make me laugh because north Americans think that if they cry enough they will get their way (I'm North American btw so settle down) but I'm sorry not everything should be catored to us.

[b14ckrose]

I think you failed to see my point mister/misses flamey. Posts like this make me laugh because north Americans think that if they cry enough they will get their way (I'm North American btw so settle down) but I'm sorry not everything should be catored to us.

You are right. Not everything should be, but so far nothing has been catered to us. Which is my point. And if you think any part of either of my two previous posts is flaming, well I don't even know what to say.

[Rawry]

You are right. Not everything should be, but so far nothing has been catered to us. Which is my point. And if you think any part of either of my two previous posts is flaming, well I don't even know what to say.

You getting to play the game isn't enough? I hate to be that guy.. but as the tos says they can bring down the servers anytime they wish...

[b14ckrose]

You getting to play the game isn't enough? I hate to be that guy.. but as the tos says they can bring down the servers anytime they wish...

That's funny because I actually didn't get to play today. Yes it is their game they can bring it down whenever they want. I am not demanding they cater to us, I can't demand nor request anything from SE. I'm only hoping that they are more willing to think of their NA fanbase that has to come home from a 9 to 5 (9 to 6 in my case) work day, driving an average of 40 (maybe more with traffic) minutes to get home, cooking dinner, eating dinner, and taking a shower, which by the time those basic necessities are completed is already 9pm before we can sit down relax and play.

By that schedule, on non maintenance days we can play a few hours before sleeping and on maintenance days normally occurring at 11 or 12pm, that is 2 hours at the most. Do you work and take care of yourself Rawry? If you do and don't mind only being able to play 1 hour or less on maint/emergency maintenance days which occur much more frequently than once a week, then I applaud you. For most of us however it sucks and I hope you understand that we do not just teleport home when we get off work at 5-6pm into our computer chairs with final fantasy 14 already open and in a dungeon with 3-7 other players waiting for us to play. Just factor in 30 minute duty finder times for those who work and only have dps classes.

I don't know what you are trying to get at by constantly trying to play devil's advocate with me, but my point still stands and I know others who work fully understand me. The fact that you don't just hints to me that you are not your own caretaker. However if you are, then I apologize in advance.

[Rawry]

That's it...we're the only ones getting slammed. People want to start saying that "Square enix does it when it's convenient for them" but WE are the paying customers. Are we paying to make it convenient for Square-Enix?

Perhaps it's not convenient for you but I bet it is for the people accross the pond where the games made.

[Wildsprite]

just my two cents but I for one would rather they get this game relativly stable before they put patch 2.1 out next month. honestly because that will introduce new content they will have to iron out the bugs of which will just add to the issues if they don't work em out as quickly as possible.

yeah I am a bit miffed they have to do these maintanances this often but really I would rather they be on top of this stuff

to those of you who think this is bad you really should have seen some of the bad maintanances XI had.

maintanance to introduce new content
--->patch takes hours because update servers are lousy
-->update complete
-->5 minutes into playing "we will be performing an emergency maintanance in 1 hour -_-
--->rinse--->repeat and this happened often.

[Aaron_T]

An early one too. Aren't you guys sick of it? It seems like SE is deleting all posts related to maintenance complaints.

Maybe because there's more than one of them and its asinine.

[Elim]

I'm happy that they're addressing problems so quickly. It's a nice change from other MMOs I have played. Good on them.

But it makes me wish that I hadn't started playing the game yet. I should have waited a few more months before starting.

I understand that most newer MMOs have a lot of maintenance/downtime, but FF14 has an excessive amount IMO. It feels like most of my money(sub) was spent on maintenance instead of playtime.

Just my feedback.