Imagine, if you will...

[Marael]

So, you've been hearing about that FFXIV relaunch for a while now. You've heard good things, and bad things, but it looks like a game you want to try out. You figure it's been out for 6 months now, and they've probably gotten most of the major bugs worked out of it by now. You figure, yeah, sure, I've got the day off, a few extra bucks, I guess I'll give it a try. You buy the game, install it, get all set up and...

25 hours of maintenance...

F@#K!!!

That's the guy I feel for.

[HakuroDK]

Sounds like bad luck. If you had logged on a day earlier or a day later, you would've been able to play a little bit.

Ah well, you can play tomorrow!

[Ddmk]

I actually loled loud at this... Just woke my wife up!!!

[Nahara]

I'd feel bad for him over the fact that he should have noticed that the 2.2 patch was doing on today.

[NyneAlexander]

I feel way worse for all of us that have had a taste and have been yearning for new content/improvements for a long time. New guy doesn't know what he's missing, so he doesn't miss it.

[Zourin]

I see SE is continuing to excel at not keeping up with industry standards. Major content 'patches' from CCP are done within an hour. Even Blizzard can push within a six hour window.

SE just wastes everyone's time, then extends downtime because they spent most of it goofing off or not actually having a testing process for deployment.

[Teppie]

I see SE is continuing to excel at not keeping up with industry standards. Major content 'patches' from CCP are done within an hour. Even Blizzard can push within a six hour window.

SE just wastes everyone's time, then extends downtime because they spent most of it goofing off or not actually having a testing process for deployment.

Actually it's because they said they were changing the servers infrastructure on how it handles duties and resets, or something along those lines

[Justsomeguy]

I see SE is continuing to excel at not keeping up with industry standards. Major content 'patches' from CCP are done within an hour. Even Blizzard can push within a six hour window.

SE just wastes everyone's time, then extends downtime because they spent most of it goofing off or not actually having a testing process for deployment.

You can also look at it like this

Would you rather have a 25 hour maint or...

a 6 hour maint and a 5 hour extension, and a 5 hour extension and a 5 hour extension and a 5 hour extension.

Better to be safe than sorry, the latter will infuriate people more than the former.

[DefendPopPunk]

This reminds me of when it released on steam. Literally a day or two before they had one of those extended maintenances lol. It is what it is.