Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[skywarnmc27]

I do not understand why they would shut down the servers from 8 PM to 5 AM CST. Very odd time to do work. Unless they do not have NA employees and everything is done in Japan time zone +12/+13 hours.

[Theodric]

It's a Japanese game, so if important maintenance is to be conducted then that time is going to align with Japanese friendly hours...

Why would it need to not inconvenience North American players, specifically? The game also has a sizeable portion of European players...so no matter what time of day or night the maintenance happens to be, a portion of the game's population is going to 'lose out'. Even then, though, they can just do something else for a few hours.

[Vahlnir]

They aren't usually that early but sometimes they need to start them earlier. It happens. If they didn't need that amount of time I doubt they would take it.

"In order to implement Patch 5.58 HotFixes and to conduct maintenance on the infrastructure, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds at the time below, during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable."

I'm guessing that the earlier start time is the result of what is bolded/underlined above.

[Kes13a]

I am sure SE has NA employees, but.. so what?

as pointed out, its not a NA company and NA is not the center of the universe. take the time to sleep, go for a walk, catch up with friends or play something else. its good to get away for a bit ^^

[HyperiusUltima]

Stop trying to take stuff out of context and blame it on the game being made in Japan. You forget OP that Yoshida himself put up a letter regarding the issue with servers, namely with the large influx of players(more than likely due to Activision's failings) coming from WoW and other places. They're having to do that infrastructure work so that the game doesn't crash because of so many people coming in at once. Lobby Crashes are more than likely to happen if the infrastructure isn't done before November.

[RitsukoSonoda]

If it's something that needs to be done in every region then it will be done for every region at the same time. That way there isn't situations of various areas being behind. My question on this is why so many people in NA seem to think the entire world needs to revolve around their schedule.

[ViolaLance]

Now, just need one thread that reads that "schedule" maintenance is false advertising and that the player base be provided with free gifts or be taken to federal court under flimsy legal claims. As well one thread that reads any form of maint. is actually a coup to single out a handful of individuals who are now "forced" to do something else with their time and this act must be treated as a trade law violation and the company and naysayers taken to court.

This will complete the "WoW Refugee" bingo card.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Now, just need one thread that reads that "schedule" maintenance is false advertising and that the player base be provided with free gifts or be taken to federal court under flimsy legal claims. As well one thread that reads any form of maint. is actually a coup to single out a handful of individuals who are now "forced" to do something else with their time and this act must be treated as a trade law violation and the company and naysayers taken to court.

This will complete the "WoW Refugee" bingo card.

Meh, I stopped playing WoW when they finally tried to bill me for the sub when it launched. Felt like stuff was getting nerfed on a daily basis because people on their forum kept crying about getting killed in PvP on a PvP server...

Based on the things heard and observed since then I had no reason to go back. It literally sounded like an initially decent game flushed down the toilet due to bad decisions being made to appease the obnoxious part of their forum community that was only kept afloat by Blizzard's marketing department.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I do not understand why they would shut down the servers from 8 PM to 5 AM CST. Very odd time to do work. Unless they do not have NA employees and everything is done in Japan time zone +12/+13 hours.

Everything is done in Japan time zone.
Because its a game made and ran in Japan.
Maintenance effects the whole game, not just 1 datacenter.

This isn't like modding where it only effects your screen and it doesn't effect anybody else.

[Bacent]

To sum up every thread like this - No matter when they do any updates to the game, it'll be during SOMEONE'S main playing hours because it happens in every server in the world at the same time. We're all playing the same game. Unless it's datacenter specified it's for everyone at once.