Maintenance Schedule

[Hanmerreborn]

Guess it's time to resurect my 3012 character. Friday prime time, how convenient >.<

Also...why do people keep saying it's Friday prime time? The 19th is Thursday...

[Kolobo]

Also...why do people keep saying it's Friday prime time? The 19th is Thursday...

Sorry oh Infallible One. It's not less annoying on a Thursday. And they say Friday because that is what the sticky up there says, which was out before the announcement on Lodestone.

[Erudain]

So are we getting one these post each week?
pls Square just sticky this for everyone to read:

Manteinance is at the same time for all worlds...reason for this is that the authentication servers are all in JP, is what allows us to create characters on those servers, so when they go down all worlds go down.
NA is only a data center, no devs, no authentication server or mant team on this side of the ocean.

Actually what SE is doing is what any successful international company would do, screw the less possible ammount of customers.

Mant times are:

8AM to 10AM +/- hours in Japan, Australia, SE Asia. Everyone is either working or at school.
1AM or 2AM to 3AM or 4AM in Europe (Lon, Par, Ber respectively). Thats an off hour, everyone is sleeping
4PM - 6PM in NA (PDT) prime time for most NA

If you think NA has more customers than JP + Aussies + Europe combined, then I want some of what you're smoking

[Norbi]

Actually what SE is doing is what any successful international company would do, screw the less possible ammount of customers.

Mant times are:

8AM to 10AM +/- hours in Japan, Australia, SE Asia. Everyone is either working or at school.
1AM or 2AM to 3AM or 4AM in Europe (Lon, Par, Ber respectively). Thats an off hour, everyone is sleeping
4PM - 6PM in NA (PDT) prime time for most NA

If you think NA has more customers than JP + Aussies + Europe combined, then I want some of what you're smoking

Not really a water-tight argument.

If they started maintenance 3 hours earlier (I know, 5am for Japan isn't all that practical to have people up and working, but bear with me for the sake of my point), it would miss NA primetime (4-6pm EST instead of 7-9, so most of the continent would still be at work/school during maintenance), Japan + Australia + SE Asia would still be unaffected (5-7am, most people probably aren't online), and maintenance for Europe would be at 10PM/11PM/midnight/1AM as per the times you listed. Some parts of Europe would get hit, but the other places you listed would remain unaffected.

If they started maintenance 7 hours later, basically none of your listed timezones would be affected. It would start at 3PM in Japan, Australia, SE Asia. 8/9/10/11AM in Europe. 11PM NA (PDT).

I'm not arguing that they change the maintenance time, I'm just trying to show that it's not 'NA' vs 'the rest of the world'. Having one uniform maintenance time world-wide is always going to affect one small portion of the playerbase when you compare it to every other timezone. If maintenance were moved to impact Europe, NA+JP+Aussies would be fine. If maintenance was moved to impact JP+Aussies, NA and Europe would be fine. Your whole argument is based off a false premise.

[lyse20]

stop complaing about something thats not importan.
they will have maintenance when they want, not when you want.
ofc they could make the time ok for everyone ONCE the game is older and fixed EVERYTHING thats needs to be done.

You all bitch about Errors but once they intend to fix it YOU start making this stupid Threads over and over again.
Face it, try the IRL Game you might find that better since its never stops unless you are the wrong place at the wrong time(or right place at the right time or some other mix'es)

[Bulwyf]

People are paying for a service and have every right to complain when they are being denied use of said service. On top of that this is becoming a weekly nightmare for those of us who can only play during prime hours during EST. Not every one is some kid in high school or college who has gobs of copious free time. Some people have jobs and families that limit play time to what PRIME time exactly connotates.

[Jayrune]

Jesus these forums are becoming toxic fast!

Yeah, 2 hours at prime time during the week matters for those of us who have a day job in the western hemisphere, and thus only a few hours of time we might be able to play in the first place, and that time frame is the same time frame as the maintenance.

[EvokerKeii]

2 hours prime time is my whole evening of play time. :/

[Bulwyf]

2 hours prime time is my whole evening of play time. :/

Same here. These white knight trolls who defend anything in this game are tedious. This is a valid complaint and concern for anyone that has limited play time that is being cut short every week.

[Riko_113]

Same here. These white knight trolls who defend anything in this game are tedious. This is a valid complaint and concern for anyone that has limited play time that is being cut short every week.

First off, I wish idiots would stop using the term White Knight incorrectly.

Second, the issue is not people defending the game in this case. It's the fact that a few people who can only play the game 2 hours once a week complain when a company is working to fix issues affecting MILLIONS of people. GET. THE. F@#%. OVER. YOURSELVES.