Emergency Maintenance would solve nothing.

[Blacktestament7]

So I am seeing cries for "DO MAINTENANCE!"

Uh...

What would that solve, exactly?

What needs to happen, is people need to log off and go to bed, and let some people through. We are having these problems because the servers are just inundated with ridiculous floods of people all trying to do the same things at once.

If they don't do maintenance, people will eventually get tired of the waits, log off, and go to bed which is exactly what needs to happen.

If they did maintenance, then you force everybody to log off (which hinders progress), and then set a time that everybody can set their alarms to, so that they can all try to log on simultaneously, and we're back to square-freaking-one all over again.

Maintenance is not the answer. It would only make matters worse.

I did that, got back on. Still a problem. And the problem got worse. And now I can't do pretty much anything except fate grind and crafting/gathering. Serves me right, for thinking maybe I'll just come back later and shit will die down. I mean it's not like more and more people won't get on repeatedly because they payed for a game to play.