Why Monday?

[Jonny_Tapas]

You know SE... on Mondays like you know right when you reset the cap and Bahamut's Coil.

Many groups are eager to farm out their Mythology cap to get their cool new piece of gear... Or make their runs through Coil and open their boxes...

This is the 2nd week in a row that there has been maintenance on Monday night.

Now I don't suggest weekend maintenance at all but um... later in the week when people are already capped, or have finished up their coil routine for the week... Might be a better time.

[Arkista]

In that much of a rush to cap out for the week? Takes a few hours for T1-T4

[Seirra_Lanzce]

because "Hotfix"

[Tupsi]

Yeah, Monday is the only day you can play XIV, Tuesday - Sunday the game is offline.

[Blarp]

Yeah, Monday is the only day you can play XIV, Tuesday - Sunday the game is offline.

It usually is offline for at least one or two more days Tusday - Sunday, so you're partly correct anyhow.

[WiseWolfHolo]

In that much of a rush to cap out for the week? Takes a few hours for T1-T4

more like 40 min

[Judge_Hellboy]

Maintenance has been Monday night / Tuesday morning for me almost every week since the game launched. I'm work nights so it is quite noticeable to me. I don't complain, I just work extra hours / make Monday night grocery shopping night.



- Life is Life -

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

Indeed, OP. A better practice would be to have a maintenance that ends exactly when the reset happens. That way, the maintenance effectively ends the 'ARR week', and when the game is back on, fixed and ready to roll, you're free to play your char(s). That's the experience I got in other well managed MMO's, including free to play.

On a side related note, a weekly maintenance is a bit much for a game as recent as ARR. It was normal for MMO's a decade ago, but even those have managed to evolve to a weekly reboot (5 minutes off), if any, and a maintenance every 2-3 weeks. Nowadays I'd expect a maintenance every month or so, with the occasional reboot should that be required. Especially for a game that doesn't feature cutting-edge tech (ARR is made of basic instance servers, a zoned overworld, there's no phasing, no cross-realm features, no realm-wide balanced mechanics… It's all pretty basic tech in terms of end-user experience). That being said, Rube Goldberg machines… oh well you know.

[Hrist_Valkyrie]

Obviously it's to give you an actual reason to like Mondays. Mondays have gotten a really bad rep. Especially from that damn cat Garfield.

[Marxam]

Another reason to hate Mondays.