15 minutes warning on maint

[Almantia]

Is the server room on fire? :p

[Shirai]

They better have a good explanation ready for this.

Maint during a weekend is a lot of pissed off players.

[Clou777]

JUST got a full group together for plasm farm after trying for an hour, we arrive at the veil then we get the warning 10 mins for maint..... so pissed off!

[Alk]

Lost 55k bayld to yesterdays maintenance cutting off Wildskeepers. This is even worse though and I'm sure a big amount of players will suffer the same fate now...

[Legomike]

RMT and greeter moogles..

[Karah]

RMT and greeter moogles..

LOL It didn't even dawn on me till you mentioned that! Good lord they're giving away MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILIONS of gil on king pops to the thousand of RMTs. ZOMG THE ECONOMY!!!!! THE WORLD IS ON FIRE!

[Shirai]

That would be a valid reason.

[Darkshade]

Well. Great start.

[Vivivivi]

Just started wildskeeper reive :(

[Lotto]

3 emergency maintenances already (as always), what's the purpose of the test server again?

[Kapao]

Was killing tojil, got to to 13%. Seriously could've used some warning.
WE DEMAND COMPENSATION!

[Kyrogu]

they cut my fucking dyna run in half. they better fixing my shitty proc rate

[Darkshade]

Was killing tojil, got to to 13%. Seriously could've used some warning.

What was your time remaining? Just curious.

[Almantia]

"An issue was addressed where players were online for too long."

[camaroz]

"An error occurred in which players were able to log in."

We apologize again for the inconvenience this has caused you and wish you the best of luck!

[Kapao]

15+ mins. If we had 2 more minutes we would've finished the run.

[Darkshade]

15+ mins. If we had 2 more minutes we would've finished the run.

Ouch. /10char

[Kriegsgott]

"An error occurred in which players were able to log in."

We apologize again for the inconvenience this has caused you and wish you the best of luck!

a good one i lold hard :D

[Ayre]

This is really aggravating, was about to get heat wave weather for SMN quest and they pull this shit.

[Leelink]

Posted on Japan Playonline (Translated from Google)

I will inform you of the situation for emergency maintenance work which is being performed currently. Because it was confirmed that the unimplemented items such as drop in Battlefield of a System of loot related is in an abnormal state, I was allowed to carry out maintenance work urgent. We are promoting and responding to scrutiny, but the prospect of maintenance work is completed is not standing at the present time. As soon as there is progress on the situation, I will inform you again. I deeply apologize that we are apologize for any inconvenience to customers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　Symbol undecided end time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date & Time 　　　　For ※ scheduled end time, I inform you through.

[Glamdring]

I've been on vacation this week, 1st time I've been able to play on weekdays for over a year. So, daily maint cutting it in half. this blows...

[bigdave]

yeah im not happy loosing 75k bayd either

[Eri]

Just entered Salvage.

Great job on not noticing us. So ye GJ SE...

[Cowardlybabooon]

There were login issues taking place in new zones. People zoning in and just getting stuck on the "downloading data" screen. Happened to me 5x on one character before I gave up and another friend had the same problem.

[Zumi]

3 emergency maintenances already (as always), what's the purpose of the test server again?

If you ever downloaded the test server you will know that only like 2-3 people are ever on it. Basically you can't test stuff by yourself.

[Anjou]

Bulls--t if you ask me.

[Randwolf]

Nice to see that the updates still break the game in new and exciting ways. Battlefields dropping "unimplemented" items...

[Vivivivi]

Test server (as I see it) is for testing new features that might need a more critical eye from the actual playerbase than from SE's own internal quality assurance process. Zumi's right, typically only 2-3 people are logged in, but I see that number go up when things like Monstrosity are first deployed.

Despite my own frustration with repeat emergency maintenance periods, I can understand it's simply not possible to catch all critical bugs until after masses of people discover them.

[Almantia]

If you ever downloaded the test server you will know that only like 2-3 people are ever on it. Basically you can't test stuff by yourself.

That's an idea... shut down the live servers for a week and put all chars into Test. Keep all the exp, bayld (in the case of a New item like Adoulin) and when test is complete, transfer everyone back to Live and let them KEEP the stuff they got. When a player launches Adoulin, they get the bayld, exp, etc that they got playing Test.

If your test server borks and the endgame NM is killed with Dia I, giving participants Pants of Uberocity, wind back the test server! The main reason why ppl don't play test is that 4 weeks in a test server does dick all for your Live server char.

[Kristal]

Posted on Japan Playonline (Translated from Google)

I will inform you of the situation for emergency maintenance work which is being performed currently. Because it was confirmed that the unimplemented items such as drop in Battlefield of a System of loot related is in an abnormal state, I was allowed to carry out maintenance work urgent. We are promoting and responding to scrutiny, but the prospect of maintenance work is completed is not standing at the present time. As soon as there is progress on the situation, I will inform you again. I deeply apologize that we are apologize for any inconvenience to customers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　Symbol undecided end time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date & Time 　　　　For ※ scheduled end time, I inform you through.


All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jul. 12): Follow-up

We would like to take a moment to explain the current situation with the ongoing emergency maintenance.

We are conducting emergency maintenance because we confirmed an issue wherein certain battlefields were dropping unimplemented items as loot.

While we are currently in the process of investigating the issue, the completion time is unknown as of this moment. New updates will follow as additional information becomes available.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Date & Time]
From Jul. 12, 2013 19:30 (GMT)

* Please note that the completion time is currently unknown.


Think it's those capes?

[Almantia]

Delete from playerinventory where itemid= (select itemid from unintenteditems.itemid)

[Elavon87]

I don't think so, it must be something subtler.. barely noticed, to bring everything down in a matter of 15mins.
Capes were dropping everywhere lol

[Aleeanne]

We would like to take a moment to explain the current situation with the ongoing emergency maintenance.

We are conducting emergency maintenance because we confirmed an issue wherein certain battlefields were dropping unimplemented items as loot.

While we are currently in the process of investigating the issue, the completion time is unknown as of this moment. New updates will follow as additional information becomes available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Date & Time]
From Jul. 12, 2013 12:30 (PDT)

* Please note that the completion time is currently unknown.

Evidently all of those back pieces that everyone has been getting are items they haven't "Technically" implemented yet. So i would hold on to those suckers. If you got them coolness. But that is what I am thinking.

[Almantia]

The problem is that Galkas were missing from Adoulin. Haven't seen on in days. They probably got banned by elfs.

[Almantia]

Evidently all of those back pieces that everyone has been getting are items they haven't "Technically" implemented yet. So i would hold on to those suckers. If you got them coolness. But that is what I am thinking.

*cough* salvage bans * cough*

[Edyth]

Lost 55k bayld to yesterdays maintenance cutting off Wildskeepers. This is even worse though and I'm sure a big amount of players will suffer the same fate now...

No sympathy from me unless that reive was over 2 hours long. They spammed us with warnings yesterday.

[Asymptotic]

The test server is useless for things that cannot be defeated solo.

[Almantia]

Any update from the JP forums on this disaster?

[Redryno]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQG1vb4LqgXleoHnUq9J1-IfkbqSWQE4zBvLq-AR3-GgjbyGcBE

[Anjou]

ugh so annoying, just spinning my wheels here

[Infidi]

Time to do more testing of Monstrosity. D:

[Almantia]

Time to do more testing of Monstrosity. D:

mon·stros·i·ty
/mänˈsträsətē/
Noun
Something, esp. a building, that is very large and is considered unsightly.
Something that is outrageously or offensively wrong.

Defines this patch pretty well :D

[Almantia]

Originally posted 20.25 UK time when servers went down, it's now 23.25 UK time. 3 hours so far. Ossum.

[kewitt]

I hope they extend repeat login..
My window to login has passed today.

[Siviard]

I don't think it's the capes. IMHO, I think it's the weapons from the new Naakuals that give +188 skill....

[Garota]

Originally posted 20.25 UK time when servers went down, it's now 23.25 UK time. 3 hours so far. Ossum.

Sheesh... How much longer?

[Aleeanne]

i hadnt heard about anyone getting the weapons on my server but then again i tend to stay by myself when my better 1/2 isnt playing lol

[Aleeanne]

Him =======>>>>>>

[Leelink]

Update from JP Pol like 10 mins ago (again google Translate)


I will inform you of the situation for emergency maintenance work which is being performed currently. It has carried out a detailed investigation continues, prospect of maintenance end is not even standing at the moment. As soon as there is progress on the situation, I will inform you again. I deeply apologize that we are apologize for any inconvenience to customers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　Symbol undecided end time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date & Time 　　　　For ※ scheduled end time, I inform you through.

[Iseeupee]

I have had the game for 5 days. first day was 13 hours to download and install all the updates and now 4 days of maint. I kind of think I should ask for an extra week of game time.

[Anjou]

Here's what they need to do:

Tell the NA and EU players what is going on, because the only way we know what's going on, is because someone is translating from the JP area of the forums.

[Spectreman]

Is the server room on fire? :p

I thought that hehe.

[Plasticleg]

As if SE cared about NA/EU. lol.

[Morier]

Here's what they need to do:

Tell the NA and EU players what is going on, because the only way we know what's going on, is because someone is translating from the JP area of the forums.

They did let us know what was going on.They say check information section, it is your own fault for being too lazy to look.

[Apie]

I hope they extend repeat login..
My window to login has passed today.

It's a universal time, doesn't matter where you are, so your "window to login" hasn't passed yet, it's just slightly until 16 hours until it passes, you have plenty of time for today's login (day 3 started just over 8 hours ago)

[Fynlar]

No maint should happen with that little warning unless it's something pretty damn severe.

If it really is something like "reives are giving capes, we didn't mean for that to happen" that's going to spell some rage.

[Almantia]

And you are sitting here typing over a problem. Why are you so sanguine about all this? It's been 4 hours since the game went offline. Don't you have anything better to do than hang around on a forum?

[Morier]

And you are sitting here typing over a problem. Why are you so sanguine about all this? It's been 4 hours since the game went offline. Don't you have anything better to do than hang around on a forum?

Nope lazy day and love reading people freaking out over maint.Not a big deal to me, it happens.

[RyujinSephy]

No maint should happen with that little warning unless it's something pretty damn severe.

If it really is something like "reives are giving capes, we didn't mean for that to happen" that's going to spell some rage.

I'm guessing since Monstrosity was getting mixed reviews, they'll slowly add getting AF4 set from there and that's where the capes were supposed to be from. But I'm hoping I'm wrong. ; ;

[Almantia]

Peace Morier, think we're both busy talking on this forum instead of playing xi... wish it'd come back up! /salute

[Morier]

Peace Morier, think we're both busy talking on this forum instead of playing xi... wish it'd come back up! /salute

Well I am talking you are raging on how they ruined your day over EMERGENCY maint, and cussing the employees.

[Daemon]

Is the server room on fire? :p

It probably has something to do with the intern... I mean that's who everyone blames first..

[Vivivivi]

No maint should happen with that little warning unless it's something pretty damn severe.

If it really is something like "reives are giving capes, we didn't mean for that to happen" that's going to spell some rage.

Really hope this was not the case... if it was why not do the zone specific maintenance... Pretty sure by now the Wildskeeper rieve we all started minutes before maintenance is now a long lost cause.

[Almantia]

Aight, emergency maint (by lack of foretesting) and a now 4 hour maint (which blew up our Adoulin NM 18 man attack) is trivial. Just tell me when it's ok to be angry at the programmers who failed.

[IvyKyori]

I've been away for a few hours, is XI up yet? Nvm, got my answer.

I had kept myself logged in because I was doing stuff with ls members and if they were still on and doing it, I was gonna finish helping em out. Only to find myself dc'd. :(

[Morier]

Aight, emergency maint (by lack of foretesting) and a now 4 hour maint (which blew up our Adoulin NM 18 man attack) is trivial. Just tell me when it's ok to be angry at the programmers who failed.

You can test and test all you want, going live is a whole diff thing. Unless you are on the dev team and know what happened you are talking out of your ass.

[Iseeupee]

It probably has something to do with the intern... I mean that's who everyone blames first..

Its those North Koreans!

[Daemon]

Its those North Koreans!

Hack the planet!! Hack the planet!!! They're trashing!!!

[Aleeanne]

They did let us know what was going on.They say check information section, it is your own fault for being too lazy to look.
acctaully just looked in the Information section and the only thing there is the notice of the emergency maint. and the follow up that is on the NA page, EU page has 2 follow ups with the last one being 3 hours ago(basicly said they still looking but cant find nothing). So i guess we are all just sitting and waiting, waiting and sitting lol.

[Daemon]

Fixing things in the game we play is customer service also.

His post and my reply was deleted lol.

[Morier]

acctaully just looked in the Information section and the only thing there is the notice of the emergency maint. and the follow up that is on the NA page, EU page has 2 follow ups with the last one being 3 hours ago(basicly said they still looking but cant find nothing). So i guess we are all just sitting and waiting, waiting and sitting lol.

They said what the problem was, your "still looking and finding nothing" is complete bs.

[Zepheron]

SO was my follow up to +1 it in here!

[Morier]

His post and my reply was deleted lol.

Good, no need for it. There was a problem they made a decision to stop anymore damage and fix it. Kudos to them.

[Zepheron]

His post and my reply was deleted lol.

So was my follow up to +1 it in here.

@ Morier If you think fixing things in the game was the basis of my original post, you obviously enjoy using a myopic amount of thought to exercise sarcasm for your own pleasure. {mental masturbation}

[Camiie]

I'm guessing since Monstrosity was getting mixed reviews, they'll slowly add getting AF4 set from there and that's where the capes were supposed to be from. But I'm hoping I'm wrong. ; ;

That would seriously make me quit.

[Morier]

So was my follow up to +1 it in here.

@ Morier If you think fixing things in the game was the basis of my original post, you obviously enjoy using a myopic amount of thought to exercise sarcasm for your own pleasure. {mental masturbation}
Customer service in all its fashions. What I pointed out is just one.

[Trumpy]

I hope its not the capes as I see them as a good way to keep players doin Reives. I kinda wish they would add something to the original zones we had reives in too so people would continue to want to do them. Unless somehow with the way things are now Reives wont impede traveling as much as they have been and the bivoucs do actually stay up a while. I mean its an awesome system but when its so bad u cant get anywhere cause of the way Reives USED to be was damn annoying.

[Aleeanne]

[EU] All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jul. 12): Follow-up 2

Regarding the previously announced emergency maintenance, we are continuing to investigate the matter.

Unfortunately, we are still unable to determine the completion time of the maintenance. New updates will follow as additional information becomes available.

We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

[Date & Time]
From Jul. 12, 2013 19:30 (GMT)

* Please note that the completion time is currently unknown.



sorry but when they say "we are continuing to investigate the matter" in the very last post they made, that usally means they havent found all the answers and still looking for final fix solution. Thus the reason for my abbrevated and supposedly sarcastic comment. oh and btw. that post was done 2 hours after the last post on the NA section. So it seems they are trying to communicate more with EU than NA.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I don't think so, it must be something subtler.. barely noticed, to bring everything down in a matter of 15mins.

Never forget how long it took the devs to notice the pet death aggro/supertanking bug.

Better yet, they only now fixed the damage Doomed Pilgrim does.

[RyujinSephy]

Predicting 3 more hours of maintenance... any other guesses? lol

[AJ666]

They should remove collision on Reives, so its Optionallll, also I wish they didn't discontinue Tetra master .

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

I kind of think I should ask for an extra week of game time.

With a character name like that?

You do know you have to be at least 13 to play this game, right?

[Archades]

i cant help but think of .hack a bit

[Wyrmnus]

SE's gonna have to pull one straight outta nexon's Apology handbook after this one if you get what I mean.

[Aleeanne]

lol slightly

[Zepheron]

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[Iseeupee]

With a character name like that?

You do know you have to be at least 13 to play this game, right?

what is wrong with my character name?

[Lithera]

I wonder exactly how complicated FFXI's drop tables are. Go in...delete items from monster drop table (or reive reward drop table if it's that) and done...

[Iseeupee]

I just read in the Japanese forum they estimate 4:30 jst saturday

[Tsuzee]

Sure, then the problem with going through every character to see who got drops and deleting them.

[Mnejing]

I just read in the Japanese forum they estimate 4:30 jst saturday
That time would've already past already since its currently 10:35am JST, Today is Saturday over there. Obviously going be up before JP prime time and etc.

[fernando]

Thank you,Mnejing..

[Iseeupee]

This is what it translated to. Maybe its 430 pm jst.
Notice of all World emergency maintenance work (7/13): follow-up 3
I will inform you of the situation for emergency maintenance work which is being performed currently. We carried out a detailed investigation continues, but the prospect of maintenance end does not stand even doing this time. As soon as there is progress on the situation, I will inform you again. I deeply apologize that we are apologize for any inconvenience to customers. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　Symbol undecided end time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date & Time 　　　　For ※ scheduled end time, I inform you through

[Lithera]

To hell with deleting drops...it's their screw-up. Let the people keep the items. Especially if it's a wildskeeper reive issue. You take that item and that person just wasted their bayld on no drop because SE can't program their way out of a wet paper bag. It isn't the same as the Salvage duping because you can't control what loot drops into the pool and have no idea that it's not supposed to be in the game. I doubt it's the capes because they'd have done this three days ago. Capes were dropping like candy the same night as the update and they've updated twice subsequently for other reasons.

[Tsuzee]

Hmmmmm, this was posted with all 3 JP Follow posts, how come we get left in the dark. EU got 2 Follows and hey NA with 1..........

日　時：2013年7月13日(土) 4:30より終了時間未定
　　　　※終了予定時刻に関しては、おってお知らせします。

Undecided end time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date and Time
※ About the scheduled end time, I inform you through.

[Mnejing]

This is what it translated to. Maybe its 430 pm just.

4:30pm JST would be written as 16:30 JST.

[Dsherman]

4:30 (assuming 24 hour clock) on Saturday is the time it went down.

[Sleih]

The 4:30 JST would in fact be AM, since 3:30PM EDT was when the servers went down...

[Zilus]

Just started wildskeeper reive :(

/comfort next time wait fer me! lol

[Zilus]

also try some vo5 hot oil youre hair is a mess o.0

[Apie]

Predicting 3 more hours of maintenance... any other guesses? lol

nope, just passed your 3 hour prediction by 5 minutes :(

[Vivivivi]

nope, just passed your 3 hour prediction by 5 minutes :(

48 more hours

[RalphTheGalka]

Little Johnny's mule gets an item it wasn't supposed to and the servers go down most of the day during weekend prime time. I'm having a really hard time believing that the handful of items that entered into the game during the *entire week* was so game breaking that this couldn't have waited until Monday. Turn off the offending events, let us play, and deal with it on Monday.

[Kapao]

So has one of the 4 programmers woken up yet?

[Zumi]

So has one of the 4 programmers woken up yet?

It's 11:22 AM in Japan they should of been at work at 9.

[Lithera]

Not on a Saturday

[Stompa]

This waiting around is preparation for the queuing you will have to do if you want to pop fafnir in the next 6 months. Btw re; RMT farming wine etc. from the lol-in INT-insult event, I wonder why SE implemented this during the mogbonanza months where RMT have their dormant chars activated for the MB month, this is the only 2 months when they get all the empty chars reactivated to buy/claim marbles, so giving them 2x honey wine (etc.) per mule for free seems a bit of a mystery to me. Why not wait till August to do the Lol-in, when most ppl including RMT close down all their bonanza mules for another year.

[SMD111]

here is a google translation of the latest from SE

I will inform you of the situation for emergency maintenance work which is being performed currently.

A result of the investigation, in Battlefield in the "rock peaks Horure", failure has occurred to the setting of the drop items, in addition to (appear under the name "..." ※) unimplemented items, then drop in the normal we check the status of items never is dropping. In addition, we confirm that the problem has not occurred in the area and other Battlefield other than "rock peaks Horure".

For this reason, for the area other than "rock peaks Horure", will end the maintenance work around 13:00. For "rock peaks Horure", preparation of bug fixes to complete continue, we will continue to maintenance work. End time concrete, will be announced as soon as determined.

I deeply apologize that we are apologize for any inconvenience to customers.

Chronicle

Up to 13:00 time from Saturday, 4:30 July 13, 2013: Date and Time
※ "rock peaks Horure" only pending completion time
Will continue the maintenance work.

[kewitt]

FFXI goes offline so people can go play FFXIV beta... lol!

[RyujinSephy]

So it will be up at 1pm in Japan. The game was taken offline due to a malfunction in one zone?

[Flyinghippress]

Not sure how Adoulin broke Horlais Peak lol. But hurray for an estimated end time.

[MDenham]

That's what it looks like, and it looks like it's entirely due to an improper drop table on the server.

[Lithera]

So it was items from the wildskeeper reive in the Ravine?

[SMD111]

So it will be up at 1pm in Japan. The game was taken offline due to a malfunction in one zone?

that is what it looks like just so peopl knows its 12:35 in japan as i post this

[Lithera]

Ohh Horlais Peak lol

[Gippo]

There's something flawed when we have to translate the JP forums to get answers when we're on the official forums.
Oh wait, nobody care's about gaijin

[Trumpy]

just a moment ago i found the NA post for this

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/35485-NA-All-Worlds-Emergency-Maintenance-%28Jul.-12%29

Scroll down to post 3

I kept reloading themain page thinking it would be there but it was on the forum instead!

[Flyinghippress]

Games up!!!!

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

here is a google translation of the latest from SE

I now feel less informed than when I started.

[Fynlar]

Basically, some "."s were dropping in Horlais Peak and this was apparently so impendingly disastrous to game BARANCE that the whole servers had to be taken down for hours immediately to isolate and eradicate the cause.

[Milva]

Is people not getting xp/bayld/items in new Wildskeeper Reives fixed?

[Datsik]

Nope, GM just said they can't return any key items since there policy is against it

[Ralos]

So I got home from work this evening and thought to myself "Hmmm FFXI or FFXIV: ARR Beta"

As I made dinner I pondered which game I would pass my time with.

Having recently completed the latest series of missions, accompanied with the fact that I only still play this game because I want all the story line, I decided I would jump into beta and do some more testing. As I said good bye to my friends after a night of dungeon running, zone exploration and chocobo fights, and all around fun, I jumped onto the ffxi forums to find disaster had struck in my absence....

now to go to bed, another day closer to Aug. 27th ^_~

[kylani]

So I got home from work this evening and thought to myself "Hmmm FFXI or FFXIV: ARR Beta"

As I made dinner I pondered which game I would pass my time with.

Having recently completed the latest series of missions, accompanied with the fact that I only still play this game because I want all the story line, I decided I would jump into beta and do some more testing. As I said good bye to my friends after a night of dungeon running, zone exploration and chocobo fights, and all around fun, I jumped onto the ffxi forums to find disaster had struck in my absence....

now to go to bed, another day closer to Aug. 27th ^_~

I also decided to login in to the beta. Played a bit, realized how much more I prefer FFXI, logged out, did some housework, went to bed.

[Godofgods]

They better have a good explanation ready for this.

Maint during a weekend is a lot of pissed off players.

Be glad they are a company that takes care of there game, and is willing to work on it in such short notice. Better then a company saying to hell with it while it breaks down.

[Crimsonwizard]

Am I just really unlucky or did they remove the capes from the new Reives?
Made 60K Bayld, over like 10 hour's, got lotsa statue parts, crafting materials, a Staff-1, but not seen any capes at all.

[Babekeke]

Is the server room on fire? :p


They better have a good explanation ready for this.

Maint during a weekend is a lot of pissed off players.

It's nice to see that they are actually doing EMERGENCY maint rather than the "emergency" maint that's such an emergency that it can wait until 17:00 GMT to only piss off the EU players.

[Demon6324236]

It's nice to see that they are actually doing EMERGENCY maint rather than the "emergency" maint that's such an emergency that it can wait until 17:00 GMT to only piss off the EU players.That, or they just chose not to announce it till then so it would seem more like an emergency, because I don't know about anyone else but to me, this seems fairly minor and I think it could have waited, or only been a few areas down, not the entire game for 9 hours.

[Vivivivi]

I have to agree that this was not handled well. While I don't know the specific facts, and while the problem could have potentially appeared more severe than it actually was, my group entered a Wildskeeper rieve minutes before the emergency announcement. Many had never done a wildskeeper before and were very excited about it, when everyone came back not only were tags gone, they were not refunded either the bayld or key item. I'm gonna jump on the "wth is going on with ffxi" train.

[Babekeke]

That, or they just chose not to announce it till then so it would seem more like an emergency, because I don't know about anyone else but to me, this seems fairly minor and I think it could have waited, or only been a few areas down, not the entire game for 9 hours.

As I understand it, from what was commented on, The whole server had to be shut down in case other areas were experiencing the same problem (probably took 8 hours to wait until the maint team came into work, then 1 hour to do the job).

I can only hope with all my heart that the 'unimplemented items' that people got were Judge's Armour or weapons. Or that it's new delve boss gear and if you hold onto your '.' item until it becomes implemented, you have it sat there ready to use :)

Of course, I do feel bad for those that wasted bayld to do a wildskeeper reive just before this maint started.