Servers offline during July 4th Holiday?

[diverscott]

With the extended weekend July 4th holiday, in the US market, many of us had planned to do some extra play in game. This would be a great opportunity to introduce new friends to the game and to accomplish some goals that were long put off. I am just curious why the scheduled maintenance could not be performed on July 5th.

From personal experience, the holiday period has been a time when I and many other friends have gathered together to have a good time. Most MMOs take advantage of the holiday to promote the game to new audiences and hold events to build the community. It seems counter-intuitive to close the doors and ask those players to go find another game to enjoy, for the day.

[liliths]

maybe they are assuming a lot off players be offline setting off explosives

[SenorPatty]

With the extended weekend July 4th holiday, in the US market, many of us had planned to do some extra play in game. This would be a great opportunity to introduce new friends to the game and to accomplish some goals that were long put off. I am just curious why the scheduled maintenance could not be performed on July 5th.

Probably because they considered the reverse: Many US players partaking in social activities that do not include ff14 on their list. You know, like attending bbq cookouts, walks on the beach, camping, etc.

[diverscott]

I think they gave little to no thought to the holiday, as it's in the US market and schedules are schedules.

[Harriks]

The US is not the center of the world. You can't expect a Japanese country to check every country for holidays when planning downtimes

[Kolsykol]

Do you guys realize how spoiled and self-centered it makes Americans look?
I understand that it's a minority I think most Americans get it too and aren't complaining, but these threads only really pop-up when it happens on a US holiday lol.
Or when a holiday happens on a different day in the US ( like Halloween vs All Saints Week ).

You realize how obnoxious this pattern is?
Believe it or not but the world doesn't spin around the US and the rest of us have holidays too that doesn't line up like we'd always want to with the game either.
And we don't complain when a US studio follows a US schedule

Tbh if we did complain about it we'd probably get mocked for it even worse and 9 out of 10 of the people who complain about it here would suddenly understand how silly it is and tell us '' it's a US studio duh ''.

[diverscott]

Do you guys realize how spoiled and self-centered it makes Americans look?
I understand that it's a minority I think most Americans get it too and aren't complaining, but these threads only really pop-up when it happens on a US holiday lol.
Or when a holiday happens on a different day in the US ( like Halloween vs All Saints Week ).

You realize how obnoxious this pattern is?
Believe it or not but the world doesn't spin around the US and the rest of us have holidays too that doesn't line up like we'd always want to with the game either.
And we don't complain when a US studio follows a US schedule

Tbh if we did complain about it we'd probably get mocked for it even worse and 9 out of 10 of the people who complain about it here would suddenly understand how silly it is and tell us '' it's a US studio duh ''.

I'm not complaining or trying to be US-centric. I'm curious to the rationale they used. Did they look at the calendar and discuss the fact that a great majority of the North American data center would be on holiday break, therefore presenting an opportunity to put FFXIV into their holiday plans? Or, is the scheduling simply a result of the "Well, we always patch on Mondays" line of thinking? It seems that having a Wednesday patch cycle makes more sense, worldwide, as it falls in the middle of the business/school week, when populations in game are lowest.

[VelKallor]

Id say its more a case "We have been working our rears off to get this done, we need to GET IT DONE, so we go on this date"

[diverscott]

Id say its more a case "We have been working our rears off to get this done, we need to GET IT DONE, so we go on this date"

Possibly. But why not today, then? I'm leaning toward the "We always patch on Mondays" theory.

[Ilisidi]

They always patch on Tuesday in the afternoon. So enough time to make last adjustments and deal with issues that came up after the weekend, but still three workdays to go till the weekend in case something serious happens. This time it's longer because changes to the hardware and the back end are involved. And it makes sense to therefore start on Monday since that'll will give them three days till weekend to deal with serious issues. The timing was likely just "x weeks from last deadline, y weeks till next context deadline". It's unlikely anyone even twigged to the fact that it's an American holiday, aside from making sure that the American offices would have anything prepped sufficiently and someone on hand to deal with issues for whatever the American office has to do during patches. And I suspect given that the American data centers are only involved for data center travel but not server stuff that the British office would support the NA Lodestone in case non-standard announcements are needed.

And they don't do it today, because it's Saturday, a day the typical office worker isn't working because it's weekend.