Hot Fix

[Kerwin]

But honestly, I work a second shift and these maintainences always cut into the only free time of the day that I get. Would love less hot fixes. We've already had like 4 of them this month for minor things. I'll go play something else of course. But move the window a few hours earlier or later if you would be so kind. Thank you!

Edit: Bump for another hotfix. That makes 6 maintainences in the month of October!
Edit 2: Moar hotfixes!

[BatHead]

No matter when you schedule it, it's going to inconvenience someone. You'll just have to deal with it.

[Kerwin]

No matter when you schedule it, it's going to inconvenience someone.

Very true! But it is always at the same time whenever we have maintainence. So us late nighters or Europeans get effected by it every time is what I'm saying.

[dragorian]

But honestly, I work a second shift and these maintainences always cut into the only free time of the day that I get. Would love less hot fixes. We've already had like 4 of them this month for minor things. I'll go play something else of course. But move the window a few hours earlier or later if you would be so kind. Thank you!

players as your self are allways complaining i work a 3rd shift and i keept geting 90k/lagged all day who cares they need to fix it ud be whining even more if they did it now id like it fixed so i as a healer can stop inconvincing the pt every time i dc and they all die

[Kerwin]

players as your self are allways complaining i work a 3rd shift and i keept geting 90k/lagged all day who cares they need to fix it ud be whining even more if they did it now id like it fixed so i as a healer can stop inconvincing the pt every time i dc and they all die

Hard to read with your abbreviations but all I was simply stating was to move the window back or forward a few hours to not inconvenience the same people.

[Kerwin]

Relevant thread is relevant.

[Gralna]

would be nice if they moved schedule back or forth a bit, instead of having it at exact same time, every time. Even just an hour or two either way would be nice, yes people would still complain it's cutting into their play time, but at least it wouldn't be the same people every time.

[Black_Wing]

would be nice if they moved schedule back or forth a bit, instead of having it at exact same time, every time. Even just an hour or two either way would be nice, yes people would still complain it's cutting into their play time, but at least it wouldn't be the same people every time.

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.

[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.

[Chiramu]

would be nice if they moved schedule back or forth a bit, instead of having it at exact same time, every time. Even just an hour or two either way would be nice, yes people would still complain it's cutting into their play time, but at least it wouldn't be the same people every time.

The schedule is 4pm-7pm JST, it cuts into a lot of prime time for the JP userbase too(as well as everyone else from that timezone). It is during a time when NA is sleeping and they get up around the time the servers are up.

I think the maintenance times highly favour NA players and if they change the times they will get the rest of the NA playerbase whining on the forums.