Quote Originally Posted by Avenger View Post
OP has a legitimate point, which is that repeatedly scheduling maintenance around the same time of day is likely to affect the same people/time zone repeatedly.
Which happens with every MMO I play. When you choose to play a game, you voluntarily and GLADLY choose to play based on the geographical location of the headquarters of the game in question. For a lot of MMO games these days, this is California, in the USA. Such is the case here, as well as with STO, SWTOR, Neverwinter . . . almost every game I play will base their maintenance time on the prime time of their locale - and in the case of the games I mentioned - PST - California.

I knew this before I started playing FFXIV, and you knew this before you started playing (any smart player who is interested in a subscription MMO reads forums, wikis, patch notes and other resources to gauge the information within against if they want to commit to the game or not).

Right now is my prime time. This is when I play the most, yet here I sit on the forums being entertained here because the server is down for maintenance. Do I complain? Fuck no. Because I am VERY happy that they are fixing stuff and getting back up instead of making fixes wait for some scheduled day next week. Get it down - get it fixed - get it back up!