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

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.

SWTOR, WOW and FFXIV all reset Tuesdays for maintenance. Just seems to be a popular day to do it. As noted here for MWA, it just sucks that we consequently lose a few hours of one of the two primary dailies (other being Thursday, obviously) instead of a few hours of the only daily that occurs twice per week.

If you think about it Tuesday is probably the most logical day for a maintenance. They are off on the weekends, so when they get back on Monday they make sure everything is ready to shut down the servers and prep for maintenance. Then first thing Tuesday maintenance happens so that if it has to be extended for some reason they have all day to fix what's broken.