Thread: Potential upcoming events (Updated: 7/6/2016)

Originally Posted by ToTeras

Did the game always have so early maintenance on Tuesdays? The game day isn't resetting until an hour and a half from now and they're not adding any new events, what do they need 2 hours maintenance for?

3 Hours actually...I guess they like to make the Monday daily shortened which suck for me as I only get 3 opportunities to do dailies over the course of the day. 2 Hours after the change over (Just before bed), then on my lunch hour during work and lastly after work, but on Monday's by the time I get home they are already doing maintenance.

I guess it may be just a set time that is used for all maintenance whether they are adding content or not. That way if anything goes wrong during the update they still have time to correct and fix it and I guess the same could be said when removing events, things can still go wrong thus why the maintenance time may be so long.

But without actual insight to the devs routine I can only speculate.

Random throw in: We hit page 100 in this thread lol

Just an anecdote, but many other studios that run online servers have commented that regular maintenance times are usually very generous so as to be able to correct any potential hiccups within that window when it comes to implementation. I'd say 95% of maintenances only take 15 of actual work max but sometimes there are problems that stretch this to 10X as long so they can still fix and be within estimate. It's like telling someone to be somewhere an hour before you actually want them there so they are much less likely to be late. I also don't know how often Aigis comes out of maintenance early if things are smooth, many do but some games always wait until specified time to bring server back online. Probably depends on level of overall traffic around that time.

The silly thing is thry cut short what many consider the main day they farm dailies. Why cut it short when we have two spirit farming days and cutting one of those short doesn't matter as much?

Or they could give us weekend dailies. Having those on DMM makes a massive difference. I guess we are slowly getting there with awakening orb rollout but the dailies don't have to be tied to that.

The maintenance time is almost certainly just the most convenient day/time for them to do it. The fact that it does overlap with Golden Armor does suck for those with inflexible schedules though.

Hm, Final Fantasy XIV, a big great MMORPG, also have weekly resets on Tuesday... Is it some sort of Japanese tradition then?

Originally Posted by ZeroZet

Hm, Final Fantasy XIV, a big great MMORPG, also have weekly resets on Tuesday... Is it some sort of Japanese tradition then?

There's weekly resets for world of warcraft too. That's mostly for raid dungeons though. And then I remember wow servers going down for maintenance at specific times, Its been too long for me so I can't remember when.

Its just a fact of life anytime people is playing on a game with bunch of accounts on it on the internet.