Change Maintainence Time

[Kerwin]

Choose a different time. You effect the same people with your static time. Give us late nighters a break, we can't choose our free time.

Did I mention time?

[Lithera]

I believe you missed the part where this maintenance is EMERGENCY. That means they do it as soon as possible. Regular maintenances tend to get moved around. A few recent ones have started as early as 9pm PST which seems like that would have the game coming back up right around when your playtime is... Unfortunately most of the time they're going to pick time periods that affect the least amount of players. Besides ensuring the minimal amount of player disruption it also ensures that the servers don't get bum rushed the second they finish and bring them back online which normally results in strings of login errors and potentially follow up maintenance for a crashed server.

[Sparktacus]

This is getting pretty absurd. The fact that it always happens at this time, and a day after the patch is ridiculous. I have been patient during many of their zerg maintenance-thons where we have like 6 in a matter of a couple weeks, but when you need to have so many always putting them at the same time is alienating the players in that timeframe. Pushing it back to 3am pst even occasionally will ensure that the pst NA doesn't get the shaft nonstop with this malarchy. Again, rotating the times is the more appropriate response to this.

[Tatsuo]

After playing almost 10 years of FFXI, I got used to this.
Stop complaining, it won't change anything. Go do something else for 2 or 3 hours.

[Zileth]

Have none of yall ever play a MMO?

Normally all patches/ maint happens on the same day at the same time. Most MMO's I played have kept there HOTFIXs happening around the same time and the only time it changes depends how much needed the hotfix is

[gamesmart]

From a business standpoint, to SE this is the best course of action - minimizing impact on the majority of players - (mostly) past US prime time, and before JP prime time, the two largest customer bases for this game. Imagine the complaint threads that would appear if they did rotate maintenance times as all the people getting the short end of the stick have been suggesting - especially if one just "happens" to land in the middle of US prime time.

Sparktacus, would you rather maintenance happen a week after the patch, during which time people might find and possibly exploit game-breaking flaws? I'm happy SE's just addressing issues in a timely manner. Emergency maintenance is named so because there's stuff that needs to be fixed here and now. Scheduled maintenances are common in any MMO - we don't even get scheduled maintenances every week like other games do - our last two scheduled maintenances happened on August 18 and July 29.

[Taruranto]

Yes please Yoshi, work overnight 'cause we can't stay 4 hours without the game.

[Kaethra]

I'm going to say the same thing I've said in other games. If you don't like the maintenance times, play games made in your region. Of course this maintenance affects me pretty directly too since I'm also a late time player. But them's the breaks. I've been enjoying US times for other MMOs in which other players (mainly EU) are affected by our times.

[AttacKat]

Choose a different time. You effect the same people with your static time. Give us late nighters a break, we can't choose our free time.

It is the law of supply and demand.

SE used to always have maint during the early AM JP hrs during the initial release weeks, which always meant during the peek DAY time in US. This resulted a major setback for NA based players since maint were always during NA peek times. SE then changed it to after 12am PST, so it impacts as least NA based players as possible. It was the best time slot they can squeeze in w/o effecting the majority of the NA playerbase, and you just happen to be within that time slot.

It is very unlikely SE will change the maint timeframe.

[Kiara1]

And if course people who arent affected are coming here saying "deal with it"
Yes please change the maintrnances to different times. They always affect me and if theres a maintenance, that means I cant play that day.
How is it fair that I lose one day of gaming EVERY DAMN MAINTENANCE when I pay as much for my subscription as everyone else.
Yes it would affect more people if they changed it time to time, but it wouldnt affect THE SAME PEOPLE over and over.