Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[VelKallor]

Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers
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.

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

[Trobon]

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

I mean it is a Japanese game and we should expect it to work on their time. However, I think holding onto something you were told by a completely different group of people on a completely different game and using that in an argument is in no way helpful.

[Nightingaile]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

GW2's problem is they push game break bug fixes to the next update thats planned, even if they know the problem and have the fix ready. Or they did at least when I played.

There was an issue with the Ice Dragon world event that completely broke it. They had the fix in like 3 days. Didn't get deployed until a month later.

[Fyrebrand]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal.

OMG, GW2 is so awesome for this. I can barely remember any times the game was ever down.

GW2's problem is they push game break bug fixes to the next update thats planned, even if they know the problem and have the fix ready. Or they did at least when I played.

There was an issue with the Ice Dragon world event that completely broke it. They had the fix in like 3 days. Didn't get deployed until a month later.

Really? I dunno, maybe, but at the same time they would push out plenty of on-the-fly hotfixes and patches in between major updates. And the game wouldn't even have to go down for maintenance. I remember many times when you'd get a message that a new update patch was available, and you could keep playing at your convenience for up to an hour, as long as you didn't leave the map you were on. So I would finish up what I was doing, download the patch, and back into the game I go in a matter of minutes.

[Trobon]

I always wondered why I didnt experience server down time in GW2 when everyone in FF14 said it's normal. Was beginning to think I had imagined it. Turns out GW2 sets up new servers with the new patch while the old ones are still running. New logins all go to the new servers and the old servers host the old players until they log out. So there's never any downtime unless everything has to go down. Better way of doin it imo...

Though I wouldn't expect many people in this forum to appreciate this or *any* criticism of their beloved dev team. And who knows - maybe there's some reason they cant do things the same way as GW2 servers. I'm not a server technician.

I imagine there is a fundamental difference here because the server worlds are all segregated from one another unlike GW2 which has one shared world split into multiple shards dynamically. While this would be a great way of dealing with it here I do think it might be unfeasible.

[ForctyusGold]

use this free time to spend it with friend or family or anything i think this emergency one the last one were at same time.

[KayRadley]

OP needs another hobby.

[Kolsykol]

This might come as a shock to some people.

But there exist other countries other than the US and the entire world doesn't have to bend over backwards to please and correct themselves by the US.
Tired of this crap and that attitude.

Thanks god that the cinematic i was looking ended without being interrupted, otherwise I would have been really disappointed. I just hope there wasnt another after that one....

Anyone know if there is another cinematic in "The Unbroken Thread" after watching the cinematic after talking to the "Aspiring Amaro Trainer."? I got disconnected after that.

I suspect that it's the same as if you join a dungeon or whatever during a cutscene, the quest is basically just cancelled and you can do/ accept it again and the cutscene will play.

As I recall, we WOW OCE players asked why the maintenance was during OUR primetime?

What were we told?

"Its an American game. For Americans"

The rest of the world often gets left out of events and competitions that game companies have too ( reminder that things are rather centralized in the US, a game studio existing in the US doesn't make the employees all Americans ).
The attitude is very much '' it's for Americans and everyone else is an afterthought '' with most American media.
So it becomes pretty frustrating when the same people who have basically everything catered to them directly already get mad when something/ someone dares not to cater to them and make them prio number 1 for once.

[Darthgummibear]

As someone in the U.S. who basically lost a day of play because I got home from work an hour before it started, get over it. This is the first time I've seen downtime since I started playing last month. It's only what...9 hours? 9 hours out of almost a month? For a game with a substantial global audience? Get over it. This isn't WoW, it's not made by an American company. Other countries exist. You'll live.