Excessive Maintenance

[Krr]

Just because that was the only change to the game code doesn't mean that's all that was done during maintenance. Rebooting servers, applying OS updates, updating firewall settings - it could have been any number of things that they have no need or desire to tell us about.

It was an emergency maintenance "to apply a hotfix." There are pre-scheduled, weekly maintenances that do what you describe. If an emergency maintenance is to address server stability, it is mentioned in the notes. This happened repeatedly at launch.

If the FFXIV servers need multiple "emergency maintenances" a month on top of their scheduled weekly ones to be stable, across two completely different server host sites (one in JP, one in NA), whoever is managing their server architecture needs to be fired.

[Avenger]

Actually, tonight's maintenance began at 11:00 P.M. PST. It's not exactly primetime for NA players, especially since it's a Thursday, lol. If this was on a Friday or the weekend, you'd be onto something here, but as it stands... Maintenance usually takes place at around this time or a little sooner during the week when it's not as packed anyway.

Sorry, I was thinking of the patch 2.51 maintenance, which was 9pm - posted before finishing editing. Tonight mog station was down at 9pm but game maintenance was 11pm pacific. But lots of people who have work or school play in the evening rather than during the day.

[Anemone_Valesti]

MMO Forums, the only place where people complain about things getting fixed

[Tauu]

It just seems to me that something's not right when for some players the game is only up with no threats of maintenance about 75-80% of the times they're able to sit down and play. I hope SE can identify this as an issue worth looking into if they haven't already. Multiple maintenances per week at the same times shouldn't be considered acceptable if there's a way to do it better. Whether or not there is a better way, only SE can make that determination.

[Avenger]

MMO Forums, the only place where people complain about things getting fixed

Are you sure the OP wasn't complaining about the timing rather than the fixing itself? I don't think she's imagining that maintenance timing is frequently bad for many people in pacific-ish time zones, and it can be irritating when the same time zone is hit two times in the same week.

[Avenger]

Multiple maintenances per week at the same times shouldn't be considered acceptable if there's a way to do it better. Whether or not there is a better way, only SE can make that determination.

I like the idea of rotating the maintenance times to spread the impact over multiple time zones, if that's possible.

[Niqote]

MMO Forums, the only place where people complain about things getting fixed

That should be on a shirt... or at least a magnet.

I am sorry that this maintenance is inconvenient for you personally OP, but might I suggest doing some chores or something so that you have extra time to play once the servers are up again?

Speaking of which... *hears the washing machine play its ''yay the clothes are all clean'' jingle; and scurries off*

maintenance seemed to be diabolically synchronized with my free evenings!

Diabolos server... so THATS the reason for inconvenient maintenance times!

[Avenger]

Several posts seem to be suggesting that the OP is foolishly complaining about maintenance existing at all rather than the legitimate issue of it being repeatedly scheduled around the same time, instead of (for example) rotating times, which might do a better job of spreading the inconvenience over multiple time zones. I ran into the same problem after launch, and it was so disappointing because I really wanted to play the game but maintenance seemed to be diabolically synchronized with my free evenings!

[BobbinT]

Think I can understand OP concern regarding this. We do have to admit that majority of maintenance happens in same time frame, like that 7 AM - 10 AM GMT which we really experience alot. I do admit this makes quite disadvantages to players with that time range as their prime hours, regionally speaking. Even we all have to admit that we're having way too many same time range for maintenance.

Maybe next time need to rotate them as to benefit other region players, say having 7 PM to 10 PM aside from having 7 AM to 10 AM. Kinda unfair for certain region keep having their prime time cut out more often than the other region. ^^;

[DefendPopPunk]

Several posts seem to be suggesting that the OP is foolishly complaining about maintenance existing at all rather than the substantive issue of it being repeatedly scheduled around the same time, instead of (for example) rotating times, which might do a better job of spreading the inconvenience over multiple time zones. I ran into the same problem after launch, and it was so disappointing because I really wanted to play the game but maintenance seemed to be diabolically synchronized with my free evenings!

This. I felt he was upset about the timing and not the fact that we have maintenances. It's a reasonable concern for those who don't have any other time to play.