Compensation for death times

[SoulsGuardian]

Since release there have been way too many maintenances causing less time to actually play (gameplay death time)
A lot of people are mad about this. While maintenance is needed, it is also required to keep players happy.
The ideal alternative approach I see is to reward players with some sort of discount, or in-game rewards such as unique items, gil, or others.
What kindof rewards you would like ( besides the obvious less maintenance, fix shit quickly )

[zakalw3]

No rewards are necessary.

Maintenance is.

[Arriverderci]

Edit: Oh I see.
In that case, no lol.
It's only 3 hours, I just wanna know what they are trying to fix.
Till Mait's every other day is annoying.

[Terius]

Remind me how bad the cost is for dying again?

Oh right, 1 gil per piece to repair and the couple hundred teleport.

Lol, I do not mean player death, I mean gameplaydeath time, time you can't play due to maintenance

That's called downtime. Never heard it used as 'gameplay death'

You agreed they could take the game down anytime they needed to btw.

[SoulsGuardian]

Lol, I do not mean player death, I mean gameplaydeath time, time you can't play due to maintenance

[Tagihi]

I mean gameplaydeath time, time you can't play due to maintenance

You know it's a big reason why they have this maintenance? Let them have it as needed. Rather than having spam with 100 different posts about how bad and buggy this game is ..
Some games have weekly maintenance schedule and no crying about it. Emergency maintenance is when something really bad has happened and they need to fix this quickly before more players encounter bug or something similar.

There is another game called Real Life! Oops I missed one or two hours of play, no i want Compensation!! But this world will not disappear tomorrow ..

[Valcro]

The only time I've ever seen a MMO developer willing to throw a freebie at players is when they had to do extended maintenances for a day or longer. In the event that ever took place here, I would ask for a three day double exp weekend.

That doesn't mean I can't do math. I totally agree with all the maint added together the hours of downtime are adding up fast. But things like double exp etc to make it up to people is a concept that is very alien to SE so they just ask you to accept it and live with it. It's also apparently an alien concept to their Japanese customers because I can't believe if they were to support such things that they would just ignore it.

The FFXI team finally did give players a double exp thing not long ago and are about to do it again soon after a few people brought the possibility up to them, so they are aware. I just feel here they will look at the game and go, "well, you've already got great exp so suck it up and please accept our apology and trust that the maint keeps the game going" but it's not about what we already have. It's about good PR with your customers. They've done the impossible and saved this game. I strongly suggest they don't ease up and do what they can to keep that momentum going.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

I dont feel the need to be rewarded or compensated for maintence time if its only a few hours once a week, its needed to keep the game running. But if they were need for an extended downtime like 12-24hrs or say it went into emergency maintence repeatedly over a series of days maybe double exp would be nice treat.

On simliar note: can you imagine how this place will explode if 2.1 ended up sending it into emergency maintence due to unfore-seen problems, it would be like angry villagers with torches and pitch forks storming the monsters lair

[Huginn]

it does kinda suck that you can not play and that it happens at the same time each maintenance. Maybe SE should give you an additional day's worth of subscription for each maintenance if that is your prime time. or maybe you would like the $.06 per maintenance that you paid in fees. or maybe a whole $.30 back for the whole day, if you think that is necessary

[Asiaine]

....A lot of people are mad about this......

I'm not mad.
I welcome maintenance.
I know they are not doing it for fun, and it will only make the game better.