Okay...first of all, quit the whining already. My goodness, the servers are only supposed to be down about another half hour.

Second, anyone that thinks they should get a discount for needed maintenance down time needs to rent a clue, as they obviously lack the brains to own one of their own. The terms of service explicitly state that there will be down times for maintenance as it is needed. They scheduled it in advance, and gave ample warning. Don't like it? Tough. :)

As has been stated repeatedly the net cost in US Dollars for the amount of down time is roughly a nickel. 5 Cents. 1/20th of a dollar. The time you spent pissing in moaning /should/ have been worth more than that.

The idea of multiple servers, running concurrently with mirrors is a good one, but it is also expensive and far from foolproof. And there are a lot of fools posting here. :) The cost of just /one/ of the servers is more than most of the folks reading make in like...five or more YEARS. And they have what, like 20 something servers to maintain?

Personally, I think that a couple or few hours every month of downtime is a small price to pay in exchange for not having to pay half again to three times as much money per month for the game. The fact that they DO so many updates, adding more game content, updates, patches, bug fixes, and so on is a GOOD thing.

Its sad to see so many ppl here are so hooked onto this game like a drug they start having fits when they they cant get their drug. All on-line games need to have work done on their servers too things need to be fixed things added and so on now cant u ppl just chill out for a few hours it will not kill u to go outside from time to time. But if the down till really ticks u off then quit the game and go back to playing Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo.

PDT what the **** is PDT? I duno this crap.

I'll go ahead and beat the dead horse.

If you have a car, and you wanted to drive it all the time on demand no matter what and never took it in for oil changes and regular mantiance just because you don't want to be with out a ride for a few hours, it would break. Little problems lead into big problems that lead into terminal failure. On the same note, you would never be able have a newer better stereo put in or anyhting upgraded because you wouldn't want drop it off for a short time. Heaven forbid the insurance! Those scum are charging you for when your not even driving it! They are trying to rob you blind!

If you are so addicted that you can't stand not to log on for a few hours you would probably shoot yourself if the whole server was messed up and had to sit around for possably days while they go through and fix everything. There is no reason to get mad at SE. They are doing a good job of introducing new items and trying to keep the game glitch free and fun for everyone. SE is not stealing your $.05. Think of that money going to pay all of the people that work on weekends and over the holidays to be there ready to fix a problem that may pop up so that you can play the game at your leisure.

>< AHHHH I cant take it anymore... I have no idea wen they'll reboot 4 eastern time... AHHHHH!!! G-DAMNIT... W.T.F.!!!




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can't they start showing time in GMT as well? <,< I have no idéa of what the time, they use now, is...

I cant connect now since 5 hours !!!! this sucks so ... i dont know why i pay every month ! everytime is there a maintenance or something i have big problems to connect after that !

well according to the clock on my computer the update should be done in about half and hour. so since there isnt really anything else for me to do i have decided to read all your comments while the server is down.

and by the way i agree with the people that like SE fixing the bugs and glichs cause with all the errors and what now the game would get annoying and *gasp* no longer be fun.

well like i said the server should be back up and about half and hour so i will have to find somthing to entertain my self for 30 mins till the server is back up

peace out

Edited, Wed Jun 15 12:32:19 2005

They're doing maintenance. That's GOOD. That means they are trying to make playtime more enjoyable. I don't know about you, but I don't like to experience glitches and bugs and stuff. I feel Squenix really cares enough to let us know a few days ahead of time.
Another thing, it's ONLY THREE HOURS! Pop in a few movies, go outside, spend time with family! Meh, doesn't matter if I say that. All you losers will still be camping POL waiting for it to get over so you can log on right away.

As for the maintenance in EU Primetime, this is a world-wide game, no matter when they do it it's gonna be in somebody's primetime.

You do realize that this is actually a good thing for EU players, ok for NA, and downright craptafic for JP players right? All NMs spawns are being reset, which means for a good while now, EU and NA will have those beautiful 24hr NMs and HNMs spawn windows on our primetimes. I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty fair price to pay.
Although I don't belong to any HNMLS, there is a certain 24hr spawn NM I want. The Dune Boots cactuar. Sure he's never really camped, only by us monks, but it's insane trying to figure out his ToD, now I can get a pretty decent idea of it. It'll be alot easier organizing the proper alliances for these kinds of NMs when you can say, "Oh yeah, he's gonna be spawning soon, so if I can just have about 30mins of your time...." instead of "Well I really have no idea, can you please wait untold hours....".

lol your saying a nickel? o.O
add about 2 million + nickels how many people play ffxi, or if YOU wanna do the math, try figuring and guess how many people would be on at that time. thats alot of ******* nickels

I was all pissed cause I was going to be out at the beach house with my girlfriend on Wednesday, but now it is all OK.

On my Birthday?! Cooommmmeeee on! I was aloud to stay home on that day from school, was gunna play FF11 all day as a sort of, present to myself, then they got maitenence!? DAMN!