Server Maintenance During Peak Time

[Rhysati]

You know... Morning for EU's will be Night for US's...
Afternoon for EU's will be Morning for US's...
It will always affect someone's prime time lol.

Not really. If they did the maintenance early morning, nobody in the US or EU would be impacted during prime time. Britain is 5/6 hours ahead of east coast. The maintenance could be from 3-5pm in Europe(using Britain as a baseline, though you can give or take an hour or two for further east if need be. Just shift the times), 10am-12pm EST, and 7-9am PDT. Boom. Nobody impacted(unless you count areas OUTSIDE of NA/EU).

Like I said, you could even put the maintenance an hour or two earlier and still be fine. Afterall, it's what all the other mainstream MMOs do. I don't see why FFXIV would be any different.

With all that said though, I'm not really all that bothered by not being able to play for 2 hours after work. I just find it a bit funny to see people acting like there is no way to avoid this.

[SoapySauce]

Square Enix is a Japanese company. How do you think WoW players in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world have felt about their maintenance for the past 9 years? America is not the center of the world, deal with it.

I Love You......

[frostmagemari]

I don't see why people are mentioning Japan at all in this. Japanese game this, Japanese game that... If you guys actually loaded up the game, you would see that all the Japanese servers are live and able to be played while the NA/EU servers are the ones that are down.

There are two groups JP and NA/EU, the JP server group is in Japan and can be worked on separately from the NA/EU group; The talk of JP prime-time play shouldn't even be entering into the conversation.

Listen buttercup. Guys in Montreal get info from Japanese team back in JAPAN. So they have to wait till JST. Live with it. It's two friggin hours

So, they have to wait for people in Japan to tell them how to maintain servers? Most of the work that's being done during the maintenance isn't updates or patches, or what-have you that needs to be done at the same time.

This is basic server maintenance. If the team in Montreal is so inept that they cannot maintain the servers properly without hand-holding from their Japanese counterparts, they have no business being on staff in the first place.

Also, if you read back to my earlier post in the thread, you'd see that i don't mind the two hour downtime. I think they're handling their server maintenance times stupidly, but i'm not up in arms about it... You on the other hand seem to be rather upset about things regarding the maintenance.

Sorry if posted already can only read so much complaining before skipping to end


"The hours between 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. (JST) has the lowest number of players and the effects of maintenance are lowest during this time frame. With the short maintenance occurring on Friday and Sunday mornings, it will reduce the need to have emergency maintenance like last night, and increase the stability and comfort of playing during weekend nights. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation"

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...vements-Part-3

So, to those who are using other places than "Murica!" are the lower % of the game, looks like you are the minority in this one =p

That's all well and good.. but.. they don't need to bring down the JP servers at the same time.. the JP servers are -up- during the maintenance right now... if that's the case, we shouldn't be affected by their time zone. They should maintain the Montreal servers separately at a time that best fits the NA/EU highest play percentages.

[Mazley]

I don't see why people are mentioning Japan at all in this. Japanese game this, Japanese game that... If you guys actually loaded up the game, you would see that all the Japanese servers are live and able to be played.

There are two groups JP and NA/EU, the JP server group is in Japan and can be worked on separately from the NA/EU group; The talk of JP prime-time play shouldn't even be entering into the conversation.

Listen buttercup. Guys in Montreal get info from Japanese team back in JAPAN. So they have to wait till JST. Live with it. It's two friggin hours

[Tiago]

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Well, why not then, be it at 8-10am GMT+1, 3-5am EST, and midnite to 2am PST?
Sounds more fair that way, since ppl in Europe at GMT+3, GMT+4 will be in their prime-time at 3-5PM GMT+1.

[Taytar]

This is madness I know, but maybe their employee's work 8-4/5pm? Guess what time the maintenance started JP 8am.... You can not like it all you want. Their reasoning sucks for us, but they open their day of business when they open their day of business, deal with it.

[DSWBeef]

Those 2 hours of gameplay that you are missing is really agonizing isnt it? OH THE HUMANITY!

Oh and this.

Square Enix is a Japanese company. How do you think WoW players in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world have felt about their maintenance for the past 9 years? America is not the center of the world, deal with it.

And im American...

[Palinq]

Square Enix is a Japanese company. How do you think WoW players in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world have felt about their maintenance for the past 9 years? America is not the center of the world, deal with it.

5-11am CEST is prime time in Europe?

[Vanex]

It kinda sucks but then guess some of us think of it in a "work around the clock" American type of way. That's not how all countries do things. We are kind of spoiled with the 24hr. Wal-Marts and all. I'm sure educated career techs in other countries don't stay at work until some ungodly hour so Joe American can play his game.

[Bernie]

Yeah, it's not like EU etc. finally got an acceptable timeframe and you have to live with what we had to so far...
Yeah.

Go away and accept it like a man. Got nothing else to do?

I read your message a few times. Still having trouble figuring out what your trying to say. Something about taking something like a man?

Anyway, my point was every other MMO has made an effort to offset their maintenance with times of inactivity---for which ever timezone they are effecting.

I think your mad about being in EU or something? But yeah if your a chick hit me up. Thanks