Soo should we strap in for weekly maintenance at this point or...?

[JohnJacobAstor]

This is the 3rd time servers have gone down for maintenance in 3 weeks, just wondering if this is going to be the new normal going forward. Feels like every other time I've sat down to play I've had to cut it short due to maintenance. It doesn't help that the time chosen for maintenance is peak hours for east coast, when everybody is back from school/work.

[Nixxe]

They seem to intend to keep rolling out hotfixes for Pagos, so I wouldn't be surprised if we had weekly maintenance for a bit, then more weekly maintenance following 4.4.

[Canadane]

It doesn't help that the time chosen for maintenance is peak hours for east coast, when everybody is back from school/work.

Considering it's a Japanese game, one could be surprised this doesn't happen more often.

[JackHatchet]

I remember in the early days of Warcraft that the servers would be down for the better part of every tuesday. And this happened for years! I don't even remember when they phased that out. But I'm sure someone somewhere is getting a good chuckle at how FFXIV is having more downtime in the middle of their expansion cycle than WoW did just dropping a new expansion.

[Squintina]

I wouldn't count it as 3 times. The one for the 6th was literally patch 4.36 itself. Surely you can allow them to give us new content (regardless of whether you like it or not).

This is only the 2nd hotfix, though I would imagine this actually might happen again as I'm sure they're getting LOTS of Pagos feedback for things to fix up.

Personally it doesn't bother me. I used to play WoW during WOTLK when they'd have 12+hour maintenances every tuesday. I'll just play another game for a while, or watch something.

[MistakeNot]

This is the 3rd time servers have gone down for maintenance in 3 weeks, just wondering if this is going to be the new normal going forward. Feels like every other time I've sat down to play I've had to cut it short due to maintenance. It doesn't help that the time chosen for maintenance is peak hours for east coast, when everybody is back from school/work.

It is normal for them to come out with a few hotfixes after each patch - they have done that pretty often. We don't get new patches every month though, so between each patch there isn't much other maintenance.

[hynaku]

What gets me shows NA has a bigger player base than Japan player base does. So why they pick prime time for NA player to have there maintenance.

[Hestzhyen]

ITT: people who didn't play through early 2.x

Didn't even need an expansion or a patch to see the servers going down once a week for hours at a time, sometimes more!

It's a good opportunity to catch up on other games, maybe some shows... our usual time works best but I don't see an issue with them spreading the pain now and then. Maintenance windows are tricky when you have a 24x7 global operation.

[Macleod]

Japanese game? So what. Pretty sure the server I play on is still located on the North American continent, where North American people are employed to monitor and maintain these servers, and typically work at normal North American business hours. There is no excuse for maintenance during North American prime time unless there's an emergency game breaking bug.

[Hestzhyen]

Japanese game? So what. Pretty sure the server I play on is still located on the North American continent, where North American people are employed to monitor and maintain these servers, and typically work at normal North American business hours. There is no excuse for maintenance during North American prime time unless there's an emergency game breaking bug.

Do you want to tell SE that they have to coordinate three separate maintenance windows for patching? Will you be there to make all the adjustments to the deploy methods to account for this? If you can do it better without costing them a fortune, I'm sure they'd love to hire you!