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[Miyu20]

I agree, constantly getting hit with eevery "Emergency Maintenance" is getting very grating. They really need to start alternating the start/end times for these as to not always hit the same group of people. It's seriously making me reconsider continuing to play this game. Also if it truly was an emergency they shouldn't be waiting til a specific time (being midnight pacific) to be pulling servers down to fix them. Find an issue? Take them down within a reasonable time frame (give a few hours notice) and fix and bring them back up.

All they would need to do is push it forward 2 to 3 hours and alternate and that would alleviate some of this annoyance.

That would be difficult for them to do. They choose to do it at 4P.M. JST for a reason. Granted I don't know what that reason is and why it must be done at 4P.M. every time however it must be something to do with their work schedule. The Japanese people don't finish work strictly at 5:00 like we commonly do in North America. At the same time though, they have lives and they need to go out for drinks after work just like the rest of us. It's a fine line. I would like to know why they couldn't alternate maintenance every once in a while though. That would be nice to get a reply on that...

...They could easily push it back by 6 hours and still not affect that many people since it'd be starting at 10pm in japan, and 6am-2pm for NA/EU depending where in those areas you lived. Neither are high population times since people are usually getting ready for sleep (in japan) or getting up for or are at work (NA/EU) at those hours.
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If they did this, it would cut into the thousands of Japanese Salary workers playing times. These busy people only have the late hours to play the game and from what I understand from playing on the Japanese server and talking with these people, this is a considerable number of active subscribers in Japan. Final Fantasy is very big over there (as you should know.) Final Fantasy XIV is a huge hit over in Japan.