I have and still am. This Karen attitude would get you laughed at and they’d tell you to work on something else, go for a walk or attend the meeting that was scheduled due to this predictable downtime by your sector.
LOL, OP is mad
You’re a sassy one! and I like it 
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They really dont care about their players. Things like this are so simple and meaningful for players. Its like if the train is going to depart early and you dont get an announcement. Sucks that some a hole decided to tell you to shut up just because you had a legitimate and simple complain.
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We started the dungeon with 55 minutes until server reset. DoS is a 43 minute timer. We should’ve had 10-15 minutes extra. Instead, we don’t get notified that there’s early maintenance until roughly 2/3 through the dungeon.
We got kicked out of the dungeon at 1048 EST, with 55 sec left on our timer and 15-20sec left on Mueh’zala. So I wasted 42min+ time spent forming group and arriving at dungeon, which is - keep up here - close to an hour.
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Oh no, 15 whole minutes…
Not like you didn’t have an entire week to finish up whatever it was you were doing…
It is if this is the most important thing in his life.
Also forgot to say. Ffxiv always sends out announcements in game and reminders about maintenance. Its hard coded to their system and they make changes when needed. So whoever tells you this is impossible is a troll
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Bingo. Want to tell me that working in IT / finance, it’s easy to schedule a shutdown and unacceptable to be anything but exact about the timing? Sure. That’s finance. That’s Big Real World Stuff.
It’s a game. Calm down.
Honestly that does suck.
blizzards ego is so tall that this law takes effect:
“time moves slower as gravity increases”
Oh boo hoo it’s 15 minutes.
Go outside, honestly
Ha, true.
Although if that were the case, I’d say THAT is the real problem, and their grievance with the server shutdown is merely a trigger.
Sorry, it doesn’t mean I THINK anything you said. Just another incorrect usage of entitled!
Only thing it does is make Blizzard look bad and incompetent!
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Incorrect. I gave 1 simple scenario to illustrate the self righteous jerkiness of your response.
Any number of reasons people might be playing “up to the wire”. Regardless of reason a company having advertised a time window should keep it without profound reason not to.
This is not even a validly debatable point, this is not a small company with “eh good enough” being acceptable for things entirely in their control. If you advertise a time table you honor it.
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It’s cool you remembered to add your FF14 advertisement.
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No, I’m mad that THEIR POSTED SCHEDULE said I had time to do something, and we didn’t get warned that I DID NOT have time to do it until we were already most of the way done.
If Blizz had posted that server maintenance was at 745, I’d have gone and done something else. This isn’t about some last minute thing I needed to do, it’s about the fact that with the information we were given I had time to do it.
Blizz not following their own program then wasted my time. That’s not ok.
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Not gonna lie I’m surprised there aren’t many more of those in here… People will find any opportunity to Advertise that game.
Its about respecting players and their time. 15 min is not that great i agree but its more about the idea that players do not matter enough for blizz to send out a message. Multiply 15 minutes by 1 million players now you wasted 15 million minutes of time.
Steve Jobs had a huge issue with wasting peoples time and it showed in everything he did.
“ Saving Lives
| Author: | Andy Hertzfeld |
|---|---|
| Date: | August 1983 |
| Characters: | Steve Jobs, Larry Kenyon |
| Topics: | Software Design, Inspiration |
| Summary: | Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster |
We always thought of the Macintosh as a fast computer, since its 68000 microprocessor was effectively 10 times faster than an Apple II, but our Achilles heel was the floppy disk. We had limited RAM, so it was often necessary to load data from the floppy, but there we were no faster than an Apple II. Once we had real applications going, it was clear the floppy disk was going to be a significant bottleneck.
One of the things that bothered Steve Jobs the most was the time that it took to boot when the Mac was first powered on. It could take a couple of minutes, or even more, to test memory, initialize the operating system, and load the Finder. One afternoon, Steve came up with an original way to motivate us to make it faster.
Larry Kenyon was the engineer working on the disk driver and file system. Steve came into his cubicle and started to exhort him. “The Macintosh boots too slowly. You’ve got to make it faster!”
Larry started to explain about some of the places where he thought that he could improve things, but Steve wasn’t interested. He continued, “You know, I’ve been thinking about it. How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day.”
“Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?”
We were pretty motivated to make the software go as fast as we could anyway, so I’m not sure if this pitch had much effect, but we thought it was pretty humorous, and we did manage to shave more than ten seconds off the boot time over the next couple of months.”
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I honestly can’t contemplate how people get this fired up about how a video game. If you really think it’s that big of a deal then I don’t have much else to say.
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