Too Many Server Maintenances!!!!

[madmonk1008]

Dude,
With all of the server maintenances that are absolutely wiping my time available to play this game, I think we should get a discount!
Why is server maintenance always at the same time? Why do you screw the same people out of being able to play the game every single time?
How about doing it during prime time so that the majority of people can see how ridiculous it is? And the 2nd and 3rd shift people can actually be able to play the game they pay for?
It's absolutely ridiculous.
You'll kick me out of a RANKED pvp match to pay for my subscription but you don't care about how you can't even keep your servers up.
The developers should be ashamed. It makes me hate this game and everyone involved in making it

[Shinku_Tachi]

*looks at join date and post count*

I see what’s happening here.

[Rithy255]

I agree I don't really even know any other game that locks you out for longer then a hour for maintenances in the first place, it's kind of ridiculous how some have been 24hours/48hours. And having random short maintenances.

[madmonk1008]

*looks at join date and post count*

I see what’s happening here.

What? That I came here to express my ill feelings towards the way this game is ran on this one topic?
Should I have been coming here already praising the game in endless topics?
What's the point of your post?
What is it you believe that I should have been doing this whole time?
I didn't realize I needed to have created 100 posts before my point of view could be taken seriously.

[madmonk1008]

I agree I don't really even know any other game that locks you out for longer then a hour for maintenances in the first place, it's kind of ridiculous how some have been 24hours/48hours. And having random short maintenances.

Thank you.
It's too much. It shouldn't take so long and it continuously targets a certain group of people because it's always during the same times. That's the *only* hours I have to play on those days.

[jomas_45]

I agree. Anybody who works in New Zealand can't play any day that they have a 4 hour maintenance. And it's for tiny things. No one can use these tokens until 7.4 anyway. We could have lasted with using Google to translate one line of text for two months. The Forked Tower raiders wouldn't have had to wait more than one month. They're all stupid and tiny, and if players could have a little patience, New Zealanders would get to play more.

Did you know that you can only play Frontlines for one hour a day on Materia? And that hour is smack bang in the middle of 4 hour maintenance each time? Did you know this is the only time Alliance Raids pop or fill? Did you know this is the only time we have the slightest chance of filling the Cosmic Exploration fates? We are tiny, and you set us back every time you do this.

[EchoingPulse]

You are paying for a service. You are paying for it to work correctly. If something is broken, Square is going to fix it so you get your money's worth.
Are you implying they shouldn't do daily/emergency maintenance and let things fall to pieces?

[Jeeqbit]

All MMORPGs do it at this time and the reason is because, quite frankly, most people do not play at this hour:
- NA are sleeping.
- EU it is very early morning and if they are awake, they are probably at work/school.
- JP it is not quite peak hours yet. Almost is.
- OCE peak hours would be in an hour or two.

So this time cleverly avoids those peak hours and the timing itself makes sense.

SE did say there have been too many emergency maintenances though. They wanted to put a stop to that. Unfortunately they didn't succeed yet and the patch has had a lot of bugs from what I've seen people say in the game. Whatever they are doing to address their internal QA issues, it hasn't worked yet.

[Rithy255]

Thank you.
It's too much. It shouldn't take so long and it continuously targets a certain group of people because it's always during the same times. That's the *only* hours I have to play on those days.

As someone from EU who usually is up very early yes... It effects me a lot sadly.

[Shinku_Tachi]

What? That I came here to express my ill feelings towards the way this game is ran on this one topic?
Should I have been coming here already praising the game in endless topics?
What's the point of your post?
What is it you believe that I should have been doing this whole time?
I didn't realize I needed to have created 100 posts before my point of view could be taken seriously.

If you were serious, I apologize. Your post read like parody regarding something that is extremely common in the MMO world.
EchoingPulse and Jeeqbit answered things sufficiently though. Maintenance for MMOs is normal, and Emergency Maintenance is especially normal after content updates.