Let's Talk BS about this Maint for 4hours.....

[Nighthawk]

Bayohne,

It's not the time more or less of the update but someone there knew exactly when this patch would be implemented and you can't even give us a heads up. Sometimes I wonder about SE but you think you will say "Thank you for understanding in this matter." We don't understand what we do understand is that SE can't even tell us when each patch will be and please don't tell us someone decided at the last second and said hey let's do it NOW.

All we ask is to let us know even if it's 24 hour notice but let us know but it seems to be to much to ask for.

[Zezlar]

"Maintenance is never targeted to disrupt the play of one region over another, so please don't think that it is."

I would believe this if I actually seen a maintenance in another time zone other than ours.

[Firon]

are you sure? how many patches or hotfixes have been done during jp prime time in the year and a half the game has been out? i'm not a eu player so they come back up close to my prime time, but i can see their point in the fact every single one has been done within their time.

would it be so bad to rotate the times on when they are performed? at least the eu players wouldn't feel like the black sheep that are targeted for every down time.

why they hell would the dev team work stupid hours just so you can play during "Primetime". Unless your gonna come out of your pocket to pay SE's workers to working during retarded hours you should just stfu.

[darkstarpoet1]

why they hell would the dev team work stupid hours just so you can play during "Primetime". Unless your gonna come out of your pocket to pay SE's workers to working during retarded hours you should just stfu.

then don't say it's not targeted against another time zone. like i said it don't impact me because i am not on that time zone, but i can understand the issue they see. don't say something when that it, in fact, exactly what is being done. just come out and say it's always done at this time because this is when the staff is working and is the most logical time. that's the issue of why it is done that way and i understand that, but don't come out with a lie about it. just state the truth and you get alot more respect from me, but i have zero respect for a lie.

edit: after looking at your ignorant post again let me explain to you that there is something called reading comprehension and you may want to look into it. when someone states they are not on the time zone being affected and that it doesn't go into theirs then it would very possibly mean that person is not having their playtime bothered so they are not asking for anything that is related to them.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

"Maintenance is never targeted to disrupt the play of one region over another, so please don't think that it is."

I would believe this if I actually seen a maintenance in another time zone other than ours.

Bla bla bla.
If you're a worker, you'd happily work at 4:00 AM for a maintance so a pinco on the other side of the globe can play 4 more hours ? I think not, nor you too. So please stop thinking they're robbing, they're doing a job.
A world-wide job.

[Kasenai]

why they hell would the dev team work stupid hours just so you can play during "Primetime". Unless your gonna come out of your pocket to pay SE's workers to working during retarded hours you should just stfu.

/golfclap
Because they run an international game.

[Firon]

then don't say it's not targeted against another time zone. like i said it don't impact me because i am not on that time zone, but i can understand the issue they see. don't say something when that it, in fact, exactly what is being done. just come out and say it's always done at this time because this is when the staff is working and is the most logical time. that's the issue of why it is done that way and i understand that, but don't come out with a lie about it. just state the truth and you get alot more respect from me, but i have zero respect for a lie.

That should be common sense tho If anyone thinks the dev teams works 24 hrs a day are just plain stupid. I assume 90% of the ppl here have jobs they know people have work times etc. So what i am saying is are they that dumb that they can not understand that this si the best time to do them, but alas i realize this is the FFXIV forums and the folks here aint playing with a full deck.

[Pistolere]

can't you guys just get drunk and pass out for four hours like normal losers

[KelyraYumi]

Maintanence was always 10am-12pm in New Zealand but this one is 9am-1pm. Works perfectly usually, because I'm normally in class then. And when I'm not, maintanence gives me a reason to leave my computer and enjoy at least some of the day. I get that it's a pain for EU players though, but I highly doubt they're doing it just to piss you guys off. I know i wouldn't want to have to get up at 4am to start working on a maintanence, just so it wasn't such an inconvenience to some of the other players. Go do something for a few hours, it'll be good for you

[V3rdict]

why they hell would the dev team work stupid hours just so you can play during "Primetime". Unless your gonna come out of your pocket to pay SE's workers to working during retarded hours you should just stfu.

Because right now, it's 7am in Tokyo. STUPID-MAD HOURS, BRO!

They could easily do updates per region, too. Bring down the US servers before or after primetime (or in the AM), then do the EU servers, then do the JP servers. From what I've noticed, most other games with international servers do it like that. Looking at the time differences, the only difficulty would be the EU servers, I suppose, but then I've seen them taken down with US servers as well.

I'm going to assume there's -some- staff who are there overnight to at least call the people who bring down/up servers in case of an emergency or moderate to some extent. It's not too out of line, considering the game/servers and all the other hardware runs 24/7.