All Day Maintenance and Compensation: My Thoughts

[Lambdafish]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...716040e34a5b6/

They do compensate when it is justified. 24 hour maintenance to give you new content is not justification for compensation

[NanaWiloh]

You are complaining about losing one day of play time every 3-6 months!!! You have gone be on reaching for something to complain about it, too jumping 100ft into the air for one.

[AppleJinx]

Am I reading this right or are you seriously complaining about losing a day of play time every 3-4 months? Get a life dude.

[hynaku]

No clue why they need to have 24 hour maintenance here when another mmo I play had a 10gb new expansion and it was down for only 4 hours then back up again. Only thing can think of is they don't have the staffing to have them shorter for big patches and expansions. Which seems wrong when other mmo I play is a f2p one. Doesn't bug me I will just play another game instead that day. Now if it was more than 24 hours like 48+ hours I would complain then. I would miss bunch of dailies.

[Elamys]

I'm really glad to see that every single respondent agrees this is an absolutely ridiculous request/demand.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Well, yeah it may suck to have 24 hours without an MMO you pay for... but at the same time, the 24 hours costs you very little money wise. It's not like they do these 24 hour maintenances every week or every other week, either, so it's really no problem at all. Do something else for that day. Play another game, make plans for that day, grocery shop, take a walk, garden, write poetry about how you feel, do something.



These twenty-four hours (5)
Have left me feeling quite sour (7)
So, I'll play Jenga (5)


(And before you refute hour and sour, they are considered monosyllabic as per various sources.)

[Paladin776]

...stuff...

Not to sound callous or anything, but when you've gone through a ~40 hour and a 45 day emergency maintenance on a game you thoroughly enjoy, 24 hours just doesn't seem like a big deal.

[JumperX]

The OP is only whining because their plans probably canceled and got nothing to do. They got not games or the desire to go out cuz who knows.

I am sure that they don't say a thing when maint interrupt and bother other players with different timezone. The majority of people don't like to read the term of agreements a game imposes on its players. This is not a video game console. This is a MMO. Next time you play other MMO, go and read the term and conditions the MMO qill give youm

[Issac]

Eh, I get one day off a week, and it can be a little frustrating when that one day is a 24-hour maintenance. I guess I just play csgo or something when that happens...

[whiskeybravo]

Yes, the work analogy was not my strongest. And perhaps exact laws vary by employer and possibly even state/country. But at any rate, I haven't seen anything to make me change my mind on the subject. I think it's unreasonable to demand compensation because the game has 99.8% uptime instead of 100%.

Not only is it beyond absurd - it's just plain petty.