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Sucks to be me =(

I got nos chool today and than maitnence starts at 11am...and won't end til 9pm, at which point my mom doesn't allow me to play games anymore cause it's a school night =(

Tuesday I had noschool and their was 5 hour maitnece -_- Sunday I logged out to mule and couldn't get back on.


-_- SE hates me ; ;

No i'd not say it was a conspiracy. I'd not even say i don't understand why they do it. It makes sense to shedule your downtime when it would affect least players. But at the same time when the same group get repeatedly affected by it, they're bound to get irked.

What would make sense, and seem fairer to me the typical EU player. Would be to distribute downtime around the useage. So shedule the majority of downtime for EU prime, a medium chunk for NA prime and some for JP prime.
For instance there has been two sheduled maints this week. Both bang right through EU prime. Would it of hurt too much to shift one of them slightly so that the same group don't have all of their playtime on the night removed by both. Say start this second one 5 hrs later. That way the EU prime timers and NA daytimers would at least get to play on one of the maitainences. Sure the JP daytimers and NA prime timers would sting, but once in a while would make EU feel less like SE just aren't bothered.

I'm not saying even to alternate between the time but to make the downtime at each time of day roughly proportional to the lpayer base at that time.

Please take your own advice.

P.S. If your going to use words like "incessant" it is best to make sure you spell words like "gets" correctly.

NA is gettign just as much sting as EU.

Maitnence Tuesday started in the morning and ended in the afternoon, maitnence today started in the morning and ends at night. both days I ddin't get much play out of it, and both were days off /sigh SE

As a business, they try to please as many people as possible. This is shown on updates and maintanence the most.

There main player base is asia (asians statistically enjoy this type of game more then anybody else), we then have the US market second. After this, you could put Europe, Canada, Austrailia, etc.

Therefore since about 60-70% of there Client base (just a number, but could be higher) is in asia/US, these are the customers they are going to attempt to please the most.

There have been maintenance directly in japan prime time, and there has definatly been downtime directly in US time, it just happens proportionatly less, since this is their main client base.

The reason you think it is always on your time zone, is because it affects you more when it is in your primetime. From what I have said, I will agree it is in your prime more, but this is because of statics that they have gathered over the years, and the least amount of logins ACCROSS THE WORLD tends to happen after Japan midnight (11AM est), therefore this is where they are going to put normal maintanance).

I am canadian, and they have had their last 3 major updates directly on a holiday for us (thanksgiving (a few days ago), august long weekend, July 1st (canada day), but it isnt a holiday for the majority, so it makes sence. The update on monday was a holiday in japan as well.

Believe me if they didnt care about us, would they really be giving us updates according to what people want/demand (ie. npc's, ranger updates, ninja updates, new endgame material, new rare/ex drops of monopilized NM items etc.)

There will always be people upset about downtime, but for the about 15 cents that this 10 hours is going to make up of your 12 bucks a month, I really dont think it is all too bad. People need to calm down a little, since every single maintenance there is a whole list of people here that get upset over something trivial like not being able to play a GAME for a few hours.

The problem is all these updates are not fixing the problems, they are just making them worse.

Thats where probably all the anger comes from.

If they are going to have downtime then actually fix something. You can guarantee that when servers come back up, within 24 hrs search will be done or login pol errors.

mark my words.

SE needs to fire their IT staff and get new ones, ones that actually know what they are doing.

Right now i think their Lunch room staff doubles as their server maint. staff.

The anoyance stems from Europe always being hit in the last 3 weeks we have now had to cancel 4 major LS events with practically no notice. I have no problem with scheduled maintenance or it being in GMT as usage stats show its the lowest. It's the sheer ineptitude of how it's set up to be honest that ticks me off.

I started the week on Monday and sorted out my plans, minor play and out on Monday, Tuesday out with the boys, Wednesday football and chill and Thursday actaully do bunch of LS and game things. After that I'm busy till Monday, so my one window of oportunity I leave is cool. Then in come SE with yet another bout of unplanned, unscheduled maint and it starts to get just a little anoying.

I hate to say this but I really do think SE commitment to the game goes as far as its monthly payments. If it was actually in anyway interested it would have dealt with both gil sellers and DDoS by now. How many Financials or even small comercials do you see with the kind of downtown attirbuted to DDoS on FFXI.

End of rant, it needs to be done, yes I get it, just please try for once to do it right. This whole moan will be withdrawn if I log back on to Seraph next to find DDoS fixed and our resident gil sellers banned.

OK ill point this out..everyone keeps saying these outages are to accomadate JP time...has anyone stopped to consider that this maintenance is normally during 9-5 PST? Does anyone know if Playonline is west coast USA and maybe they just do it during their normal business hours? Friggin conspiracy theorists.

If this is true which i doubt they have a test server for this which would imply the update has not been ... tested {Hmmm}

exactly. I agree fully with you, but even so there's no stopping you from slapping your PS2 or PC with a brick because you can't log on. XD (one of my own natural impulses @.@) lolol

Yah there should always be someone watching the servers or programmers ready in case something bad happens like a DDoS attack.
I'm pretty sure SE always has someone to monitor that sort of thing.

ffxi was not relaesed in china so they should ban all ip's from china.