How has every other major MMO solved the problem of downtime other than FF14?

[Avoidy]

Actually, they've always given sub time for any maint that extends beyond 24h.

Is that so? I genuinely don't recall one going over that time, so I'll just take your word for it. What I'd like to actually see is for things like sub timers (and to a greater extent timed things like plants) to simply freeze while the game's offline, but this is definitely better than nothing.

dang who's actually gonna read all that. this is such low bait.

Damn, great community coming through!