The only game to patch during prime time

[LordSideKicks]

Logic is this. The Sun revolves around planet Earth. America is on planet Earth. The rest of the world is in America. End of story.

[Evangela]

Do you know that USA is not the capitol of the planet Earth? and it's NA/EU servers?

[BakaChin]

The OP is correct. SE said the players ie paying customers in NA are more than double that of Japan. As a business you should accommodate the most customers you can not the opposite.

Your kidding me right? This is a JPRPG designed by Japanese for Japanese gamers alike, this is not WoW. America is not the prime country of earth..deal with it

[Anapingofness]

It should be, you're a customer, you paid for this shit. You can complain if their services are not as your expectation.

And this is very unprofessional for a game company this big. Just saying.

I don't have any problem but it's also funny that people who don't agree make it like a big deal for them too, even though in the end it's their own benefit if SQEX listen to this complaining.
If you don't really care when they're going to do a maintenance then you don't have any reason to disagree with the OP, do you?

The only way that this stuff will get fixed or their services improve is if they maintain the game and fix what is broken.
There is no magical hammer space where they can patch the game w/o inconveniencing anyone.
All regions will feel the effect of the long maintenance, some more some less depending on their time zone/peak hours for that region.


I don't see how this is unprofessional in the least. Unprofessional would be to allow the current problems go unresolved.

The reason I disagree w/ the OP and those who share his views is because they're behaving like nabs. They're behaving as if this maintenance schedule was made up specifically to spite them and their game time. Well, ya know, guess what- they're not that special and they need to stop spewing vitriol and discontent throughout these forums for things that don't require such a volatile reaction.

[fides5566]

*Slowclaps* Bravo! Bravo! If your grammar is any indication of your intelligence, I'm sorry for whoever employs you. It also says worlds about our American Educational System.

Right, insulting me with out any knowledge claps to you too. BTW, I'm not an american, but judge from your reply ... yeah you might be right!!

Yeah I didn't work for MMO company, congrats you're right!! but I worked for the company much more larger than just MMO company. It's on the different scale in term of infrastructure, we have to maintain our up time 24/7 and have full back up servers when the main one are down. So, tell me about that.

I'm going to stop now, you guys don't use any reason any more. No reason to drag on, cheer.

[Nekotachi]

This thread... is a shocker... For one day a week... go out hang out with friends have a few drinks... It's not gonna be the end of the world if you miss a night a week of gaming. From what i see there's a lot of people from NA not fussed about missing a night of gaming for maintenance. Think of the bright side... more stability... better quality. Think about the people that have to work on the Maintenance... If you want them to cater to NA. They'll be a graveyard shift... is that just?

[Gramul]

It's normal work hours in Japan.

So, does Japan not have night shifts?
I guess it might be hard with stone set business hours being the standard...but they tend to be the most fun.

[Kafeen]

8pm - 6am Eastern time? ?!

?!?!?!

!??!?!?

It was either going to be during EST prime time, PST prime time, GMT prime time or JST prime time. Across 10 hours of maintenance, probably more than one.

[Shori]

LOL'd so hard

for me its perfect as the game comes back online just after my post-round so about midday for me. poor USA has to find life beyond FFXIV for one night.

The OP is correct. SE said the players ie paying customers in NA are more than double that of Japan. As a business you should accommodate the most customers you can not the opposite.

No, that was the combined NA/EU players. Theres even oceanic and middle eastern on those server who are mostly unaffected.

[Spoko]

I remember when at start of Star Wars: Old Republic maintenance was hiting bad EU players (same issue: often we were loosing our glorious "prime time") and all those friendly american players telling us to "deal with it". /end of trolling

Though, I must point out Blizzard closes ALL their servers down whenever they do any maintenance.

Actualy Blizzard closes us servers and eu servers on diffrent times - its one day difference. Wow eu and us servers dont share any data - you cant play with eu account on us servers and vice versa.

I think the main reason why maintenance must be done same time, is that all servers share many services and data - first and most important - duty finder and main pve juice - dungeons. So technicly it would be very hard if not impossible to turn off only part of servers when adding a new content or implementing critcal fix.

More cons then pros atm.

Cya in the dungeons