How about some

[Lacy]

There is a good reason why they put maintenance times during the main American time zones. If they didn't Garuda would only last 5 hours maybe 6 tops. Now since most of the American LS's are asleep Garuda will last close to a day.
If I wanted to make content last this is what I would do.

[Lux_Rayna]

There is a good reason why they put maintenance times during the main American time zones. If they didn't Garuda would only last 5 hours maybe 6 tops. Now since most of the American LS's are asleep Garuda will last close to a day.
If I wanted to make content last this is what I would do.

If its designed to be anti-blm/brd then it would take ppl ages to figure it out lol.

[ChickNorris]

There's actually some significant benefits to being JST for most of these updates. Most notably the first few hours where the bugs/possible crashes and quick fixes will all happen during that few hours when NA players are playing. So by the time JST players get on there's been 6 hours of hotfixes in place so they get a smoothly running game.

Don't yell at me yet, check the past update and hotfix notes, they're almost always within 2~4 hours of a major update for an all worlds emergency maint. that lasts another 2 hrs

hehe, why on earth would I yell at you? Additionally, I am not going to check this, I honestly don't care. There is not a single situation that anyone can post that will make me have an empathetic response to having/not having a video game available.

[Ricky]

This game has more Japanese players, is developed in Japan, and is made by the Japanese, so no, you have to deal with the times scheduled and get over it

[Vonleo]

hehe, why on earth would I yell at you? Additionally, I am not going to check this, I honestly don't care. There is not a single situation that anyone can post that will make me have an empathetic response to having/not having a video game available.

edited dont care anymore lol

[Delsus]

Dude your stretching it......if i was going to say all of america i would have said it but i didn't so please don't try and turn this into a "oh hes an american he just thinks of himself" situation and just FYI im canadian. Even if we are in the same time zones or whatever or if you have some sort of agenda against americans or something.

Wow things that bad between Americans and Canadians, I'll ask other Canadian people, you must think North America is the only continant in the world.

I said that because I have seen very few Canadians crying about it, its normally americans, yes I should have said North America but it still amounts to the same thing MOST people =/= MOST North Americans, you just wanna troll everyone that doesn't agree with you, why should my play time be disrupted by North Americans, If I was gonna be like you I would be crying on the STO forums about how my playtime is disrupted by maintanance but I don't why because I couldn't care less, it happens not alot I can do about it, (oh and yes STO does officialy support EU so don't try throwing that there)

What makes North America more important than EU? The times they choose are the ones that inconviniance the fewest members, if they start it earlier they will be affecting the huge Japanese prime time, any later they will be starting in the heat of NA prime time, they start in the heat of EU prime time (start of NA) because there is usually less people on at those times, and no giving me BS like the post quoted, SE has the numbers.

[Enfarious]

hehe, why on earth would I yell at you? Additionally, I am not going to check this, I honestly don't care. There is not a single situation that anyone can post that will make me have an empathetic response to having/not having a video game available.

I actually didn't mean you specifically I was mostly just using what you said as a leapfrogging point, sorry if it sounded more directed than that.

Fair enough on the no empathy though, I don't feel crazy hurt by when the maintenance happens, I would like to see it roll around the clock though to be more "all time zones" friendly, as I said in another post somewhere in page 2 of the thread, I'm not looking for it.

[Vonleo]

Wow things that bad between Americans and Canadians, I'll ask other Canadian people, you must think North America is the only continant in the world.

I said that because I have seen very few Canadians crying about it, its normally americans, yes I should have said North America but it still amounts to the same thing MOST people =/= MOST North Americans, you just wanna troll everyone that doesn't agree with you, why should my play time be disrupted by North Americans, If I was gonna be like you I would be crying on the STO forums about how my playtime is disrupted by maintanance but I don't why because I couldn't care less, it happens not alot I can do about it, (oh and yes STO does officialy support EU so don't try throwing that there)

What makes North America more important than EU? The times they choose are the ones that inconviniance the fewest members, if they start it earlier they will be affecting the huge Japanese prime time, any later they will be starting in the heat of NA prime time, they start in the heat of EU prime time (start of NA) because there is usually less people on at those times, and no giving me BS like the post quoted, SE has the numbers.

See again your shoving words into my mouth which i find quite funny. Where in the world did i say NA was the most important? please tell me because all you have is assumptions which is complete "BS".

Also this thread was created maybe 15 minutes ago? so using the "your the only NA player to complain about this" excuse doesnt fly.

[LillithaFenimore]

Okay. I know everyone hates that the fact that maint. seems to always be against the Euro's and the NA's players times...however I don't think SE will ever cater to our requests...they didn't in XI why on earth would they now...I've made peace with this...so let me make a suggestion of what I do when this occurs...



Now, I know many of you are die hard FFXIV fans...and I'm enjoying it myself a lot too. However, I promise this MMO is fine...you can at least play it during maint. It's fun pending on what you decide to do...

^(Thought I would just try and lighten the mood with a bit of a laugh)

[Ryuko]

True but if they are TRYING to make this game a international game they should try to make the maint hours appeal to world wide players not just japanese players is all im saying.

If this was a game where there were different servers for different time zones (for instance, JP servers, NA servers, EU servers), I could see your point. It would be a nice convenience if they did 'rolling restarts' to implement the patch... but, that's not the case here. Every single server is international, and although it sucks during patch day, we'll soon forget about this when we are enjoying all of the new content.

As someone else mentioned, when the patch is finally over... it is early midday for the Japanese. Many of them are still at work or school when the patch is ready to play. Most of the European players are asleep when the patch is 'ready to go'. In an interesting turn of events, the NA are probably the most likely to play the patch FIRST (barring the hardcore fans that don't work, or will skip work to play... or just won't sleep that night...)

We will only have a few hours to play before we go to bed (if we choose to go to bed) and then the rest of the world is a 'day' ahead of us... but this is the way it works. NA are technically at the 'end' of the day (if you look at the international dateline). It's just where we live.