Originally Posted by paraphin

some other games show a counter until the game goes down. that would be a great help. if you knew that you just got 10 minutes until maintenance, you could rush through some stages and use up all gathers and RPs.

This is genuinely something I think would help a lot of people feel less bothered by maintenance times. It's probably been suggested a billion times to them though.

A good chunk of the maintenance got done during the early hours of the night (in my timezone), 2am-8am, so for me the timing of the maintenance actually worked out. So perhaps I'm not really capable of rightly understanding your point of view, Paraphin. Sorry if my previous post came off as harsh, I can really respect the want to Min-Max your every moment out of a game and my comment isn't directed at people who are bothered because the maintenance disrupts their schedule. I can understand being bummed out because you wanted to play and you can't, and for some people the timing meant a solid 20+ hours of not being able to log in ( Sleep, wake up to maintenance starting, head to work for 8-12 hours) which is basically a kick in the crotch.

I'm just kind of bothered by people feeling entitled to being recompensed for the game needing to be down to move servers when it's for our own benefit/we were told about the half-day long move a week ago. When I saw the notice for the maintenance I basically wrote today off completely as a no-play-day/sign in and out day. Easier for me to do than people who've been daily players for a year, for sure. But those hardcore, serious business players who feel strongly enough about their min-maxing to be bothered by the long downtime are the first ones I'd expect to make a change to their schedule to accommodate the maintenance (if at all possible), the people I'd have expected to have logged in as soon as the daily roll-over came to get their days and runs started.
(Maintenance started about 2 hours after the daily roll-over, so realistically those hardcore players who log in for the start of the day to get a jump on their daily quests/raids/weekly mission would have gotten their runs in pre-maintenance.)

Nutaku/Discord's got a really shit reputation from what I've gleamed from the forum and it's probably well deserved from how they've acted in the past/how the act comparatively to DMM but to be honest they haven't really done anything in this time. Maybe they started the update a bit early but eh, doesn't seem like something meant to piss off the players intentionally.