Server maintenance

[MicahZerrshia]

OP missed the obligatory "SE has doesn't care about its players because now I can't cap my tomes"

Which is always my favorite because those other 6.5+ days just were not enough to get 450 tomes...

[Waeksyn]

What SE does do is change their times around to make it a little fair for everyone as requested by the ffxiv community

Not quite right. If you look at the data, the times are the same each and every time. They are all designed to finish the afternoon in Japan on the day of the weekly reset. The start times change based on the amount of time they need. I think the really long ones (24 hours) are probably driven by physical changes in the regional data centers. Everything else can be done remotely.

The maintenance times are all driven by operations resource considerations. SE does NOT change and has never changed the times around to spread out customer impacts.

[Maero]

OMG you will loose a day or whatever, big deal
This is not the first patch we have had .....

[Bixillarla]

OP missed the obligatory "SE has doesn't care about its players because now I can't cap my tomes"

Which is always my favorite because those other 6.5+ days just were not enough to get 450 tomes...

That doesn't apply this time though, ESO tomes will be uncapped with the patch so they can get all they want afterwards, no need to cap now.

[Lambdafish]

[Date & Time]
Feb. 23, 2016 from 0:00 to 10:00 (GMT)
* Completion time is subject to change.

Not sure what you are talking about OP, I think the timing is good

[Bixillarla]

[Date & Time]
Feb. 23, 2016 from 0:00 to 10:00 (GMT)
* Completion time is subject to change.

Not sure what you are talking about OP, I think the timing is good

Time zones. For Pacific zone it is 4pm today till 2am. That is prime time playing hours for most people in the zone, it is when they are off work or out of school for the day and want to relax with their game.

[Ashkendor]

I'm just gonna go to bed early tonight and get up at the asscrack of dawn to play some FFXIV. :P

[Lexia]

Time zones. For Pacific zone it is 4pm today till 2am. That is prime time playing hours for most people in the zone, it is when they are off work or out of school for the day and want to relax with their game.

Long maintenance happens like this once every 3 months are they really being that inconvenienced?

[Chessala]

You won't find sympathy here. Alternatives are:

1. No maintenance at all = no patch
2. separated maintenance for US time zone (which you will then whine about because everyone else got the patch about 12h before you.

Take your pick, BRU!