In the 871 days since June 25, 2017, when Fate/Grand Order first released its Global/English version, there have been server downtimes, there have been connection issues, and of course players have dealt with the trivial and irritating interruption of real life now and then. However, the bravest and boldest few have always managed to squeak in a login every day before the daily server reset, whether that meant waking up at 3 AM or excusing oneself from a work meeting to 'go to the bathroom', despite the windows of opportunity to do so sometimes being as short as 2 hours in the middle of the night.

In fact, having an unbroken series of logins from the very first day of the server (colloquially known as a 'day 1 streak') is sometimes considered a sort of badge of honor by veterans. The subset of players who'd managed to hold onto that achievement tended to take a good deal of personal pride in it... But everything changed when the fire na- when the Christmas 2018 Revival Lite event began.

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Standard server maintenance before an event takes anywhere between 2 to 6 hours. Yet when players attempted to log in, they were met with everyone's least favorite message: extended maintenance. Over the course of Nov. 12, players began to get more and more nervous as the messages continued to update with later and later times until eventually just announcing the end time for maintenance as 'TBD'.

The previous longest-ever maintenance was a nerve-wracking 21 hours in Sep. 2018, which spawned a colossal amount of bizarre memes, like a running joke about drawing Servants longer and longer as the maintenance wore on that persists to this day. But last night at 8 PM PDT, the unthinkable happened as the maintenance hit a full 24 hours. Every login streak in FGO Global went kaput. Players with day 1 streaks who managed to log in and continued to hope beyond hope that some miracle would save them were met by the cold truth.

I felt a great disturbance in the servers, as if millions of login streaks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Even worse, the interrupted logins came during the 8 Million Downloads Campaign, denying players one or more login rewards, including a whopping 10 free Summon Tickets, among other things. Therefore, players lost cumulative login streaks, weekly login streaks, an event login streak and the pursuant rewards, and a full day of event farming (which is relevant for many players due to Revival events being on a much shorter schedule than standard events).