Two maintenances

[fireslash]

I only want picnic maintenance if you promise to bring that really nice checkered blanket. . . and a good amount of red wine and french bread, or no deal.

thats one expensive picnic

[Nix]

thats one expensive picnic

But just imagine how much fun it will be~

[Pyroxene]

come on !! we have a limited edition cans of beer

.............I'm listening

[Raeletta]

Ahhaha oh god, just no. Yes, adaptability is important but how dare you make such basless assumptions on someone's skills in that way. I'm sorry but that is plain rude.
I happen to be pretty good at what I do, thanks. And I can adapt~ flexibility is important but honestly usually I'm only ever covering the later shift as opposed to earlier shift (which does make adapting to the overnighter much easier since I usually sleep at around 5~am anyhow.) I do also take my work very seriously, since you know, people's lives hang in the balance. People > gametime.

You're completely misreading the tone~ and 2~3 comments about peoples' cats doesn't make this entire conversation centered on it. The QQing you assume we're doing is merely musing~ 2 totally different things, the latter comes with a whole lot less whining.

I understand you're bored, but coming into a thread with a misguided superiority complex is just making you look bad. :x

I'll be as rude as I wish, I managed it for 2 years, coming home at a time when maint was always on, and soon enough I'll be managing it again, though I'll arrive home likely half an hour before maint usually happens instead of midway. You can manage it too.

The thread looks like complaints, you got what you should have expected: people treating it like the same old complaint.

If it makes me look bad, well, so be it. I don't consider myself superior, but if you think I do, that's your view, go nuts.

[Pyroxene]

I'll be as rude as I wish, I managed it for 2 years, coming home at a time when maint was always on, and soon enough I'll be managing it again, though I'll arrive home likely half an hour before maint usually happens instead of midway. You can manage it too.

The thread looks like complaints, you got what you should have expected: people treating it like the same old complaint.

If it makes me look bad, well, so be it. I don't consider myself superior, but if you think I do, that's your view, go nuts.

You're pretty when you're tired

[Nix]

I'll be as rude as I wish, I managed it for 2 years, coming home at a time when maint was always on, and soon enough I'll be managing it again, though I'll arrive home likely half an hour before maint usually happens instead of midway. You can manage it too.

The thread looks like complaints, you got what you should have expected: people treating it like the same old complaint.

If it makes me look bad, well, so be it. I don't consider myself superior, but if you think I do, that's your view, go nuts.

You go ahead and think what you wish pumpkin :3 I wash my hands of you because honestly You are not worth my time. and just because your schedule allowed you to do something, doesn't mean that everyone else's does too. This is, the real world of course.

As for 'ermahgerd this looks like a thread of complaints!" You'd be surprised at how few actually have treated it as such, and even an apology from one that realized that wasn't the case~

I'm sorry you feel the need to be a complete ass~ Maybe, just maybe, your posting here tonight made you feel a little better. I hope that we could give you the little ego boost you so desperately crave.

And now, sleep calls~ :3

[Raeletta]

Getting treated like a troll or an arsehole, not a realist.

I love the OF.

[Airget]

This maintenance is unwarranted, the only reason they're doing two separate sets of maintenance is because of the crafting gear. They do not want world first FC's to use crafted gear and clear the raid straight away. I don't get why, if people want to mix and match melded gear that should be their prerogative not SE's decision.

That's not why lol. The changes are staggered because they had to make unexpected alterations to crafting/gathering based on feedback given from those classes. See the real question is would you rather wait til Thursday to do Savage Mode Alexander or have the opportunity to do it today and tomorrow while of course suffering a second update because the changes to craft/gather would of held back this patch had they decided to hold off and do it in one patch.

[ajx]

Im paying for a 30 DAY subscription every month I atleast want to be able to play it.
So far since 3.0 dropped we've had maintenance on the following days (All of which are during my normal play time):

June 18-19th (24hr Maintenance)
Jun 24th (4hr maintenance)
Jun 29th (4hr maintenance)
July 8th (4hr maintenance)
July 13th (4hr Maintenance - ended up being 5hrs Aether was still down)
July 14th (Emergency Maintenance for all worlds)
July 20th (4hr maintenance today to drop partial 3.05)
July 22nd (likely 4hr mainstenance to drop the remainder of 3.05)


That being said, I'm all for maintenances to implement patches, but lately its been getting out of hand. A lot of times it was for very very minor bug fixes (or atleast as far as we're told) that likely could have waited for 3.05 .
So as far as I can see this is 8 days (out of my 30 day sub) that I'll have lost the ability to play during my available time slot. And the month is not yet over, who knows how many more will follow, as there will likely be bug fixes for 3.05 in the coming days.

I'm not sure how your month is not over yet . There are 30 days in a calendar month (example: 18 June -17 July or 24 June -23 July). In the 2nd mentioned time frame that does not include expansion patch there were 7 maintenance (6 scheduled , 1 emergency) within a 30 day period.

While i understand the frustration some may get. From a business perspective when you pay a month subscription it is to play it up to a max of 30x24 hr = 720 hours per month. Now 7 maintenances net around 30 hours which is around 4% downtime during an expansion month. This is quite a good feat.


Another business perspective from a game developer point of view, SE does not wish to give preference to one player Base over the other like say Blizzard does when they release their content patches 1 day in advance to their American playerbase before releasing it to Europe and the rest of the world. SE wants the JP / NA / EU playerbase to get content /hotfixes at the same time ( for the time being anyway ). This makes it impractical for them to have longer maintenances as they're bound to affect during peak times at which a bigger majority of their player Base will get impacted .

Todays maintenance was :

11 pm - 03 am PDT
2 am- 06 am EST
6 am - 10 am GMT
3 pm - 7 pm JP time

So it makes more sense to select shorter but more frequent maintenances that could annoy some but will affect a much smaller number of their customers than extending the above maintenance times by starting 4 hours earlier or ending 4 hours later.