This is ridiculous Squeenix.

[Tint]

Speaking of yesterday maintenance, what was it for?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ated-(Sep.-29)

[Kuzonoha]

I understand the frustration, heck I was ready to log in myself, however I'd rather the bugs be dealt with sooner rather than later. If you had a bunch of ants crawling around in your computer, I bet you'd want them out immediately.

[l1ghtchas3r]

The OP is absolutely right. People are paying for this and some of us have very limited time and what limited time we have has been taken up with nonsense. I stopped playing for a while because of junk like this- every time I could play there was randomly maintenance. Pick a day and do maintenance regularly, if you MUST do hotfixes or whatnot, have a sandbox or test server of some sort to figure things out on, get it together, THEN implement it quickly. This should have been more than dealt with within the 24 hours FFXIV was down for for this patch.

Players will beta test FOR you in order to experience the content first, find bugs and you can even cherry pick the players that will help you find bugs. Other companies have had sandboxes/test realms, it works.

I have never seen a game with this much random downtime. It shows blatant disregard for their customer's time. What difference does it make if they "fix things" if we can never play?

[Rita1989]

This game does not have that much maintenance aside from patch days and even if they had testing weird bugs will pop up from time to time and emergency maintenance will happen after patches.

[Kaelah]

If they left the bugs/issues in without fixing them, your thread would be complaining about that instead. Go outside, clean your house, talk to friends.

[MrPresident]

because the point of the maintenance is to fix an actual flaw ^^

Granted. But they've just had 24 hours to implement the patch, then 4 hours yesterday to fix any potential problems caused by it. What on earth did they do in the 4 hours yesterday to now need another 3 today?

Necessary or not, that's quite a lot of down time in a short period.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

Servers are back up, early.

[AskaRay]

So where were these crazy "too much maintenance" threads like......................the two months before 3.4 came out
I mean if the game does have so many unscheduled maintenances.

[Darkstride]

Why are there always so many apologists whenever someone points out a potential flaw? I'll never understand the strange fan base of this game.

Because people instantly play victim before considering whether the issue is actually a flaw.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

What on earth did they do in the 4 hours yesterday to now need another 3 today?

Implementing new items for crafters and gatherers, mostly.