Quote Originally Posted by Cerberus8700 View Post
Hi, a newbie here!

I started playing a few days ago and so far I'm loving it! It is a bummer that this issue happened fairly as soon as I started my journey but I can't really fault them for a big scale downtime like this.

I have to say though, from reading some of the comments here that some people come across as toxic and intolerant and holier-than-thou. I hope that's not a representative of the majority of Eorzeans!
No, the majority are quite casual and fun people. There are a lot of jaded people in the ‘playing for years and too addicted to stop but don’t enjoy it anymore’ crowd but that’s in all MMOs.

Also with regards to the outage, it’s not a good first impression for you, but since I start again in January there has been one long (all day, weekday) maintenance to implement a huge content patch.

Otherwise the game is always up. I think it goes down fairly regularly on a weekday morning for a couple of hours maintenance but most people won’t be playing at this time. Servers are usually steady.