Will FFXI really be down for ten hours on the 13th?

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Originally Posted by lowkey

Oh you were lucky. Back in my day we used to have 36 hour maintenances, every day, that started half an hour before they started, and when it was all done the developers would send hitmen to our house--I say it was a house, but it was really just an old septic tank, but it was a house to us--and murder us. But we were much happier back then.

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is someone preparing for Father's Day Stories?

A very long maintenance period has always accompanied any sort of hardware-related maintenance. This is nothing new. Hopefully we don't end up seeing emergency maintenance tomorrow during NA prime time as well, though.

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Originally Posted by Sfchakan

A very long maintenance period has always accompanied any sort of hardware-related maintenance. This is nothing new. Hopefully we don't end up seeing emergency maintenance tomorrow during NA prime time as well, though.

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Oh we will, this is SE we're talking about. They don't care much for their NA player base.

Just so you guys know they extended it to 2:30 pdt.

Does anyone know if the game's still down? I just tried connecting, but when it goes to update I get an error message saying the "network is busy or there are connection problems."

Thanks, I'm fairly new to the FFXI (been playing for a little over a week now), so this is the first maintenance period I've experienced, and I wasn't sure what to expect. I was trying to make sure it wasn't a connection issue on my end that needed to be resolved. Good to know I'm not the only one having issues with the update.

sadly i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but prepare for a long wait when updating this game. for large updates like this one you're going to be looking at 4-6 hrs of updating sometimes. i have cable/dsl internet and that's about what it usually ends up for me. best bet is to just wait a day, then update it while you're sleeping, unless you have saintly patience.

really don't understand why SE don't just offer direct downloads for updates on the website, pc users could update it so much faster that way, rather than depend on their lame ass launcher...

Yeah, it was a hard night. But got in some other games. But I've still not been able to DL the update. Oh, hello forums btw!

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Originally Posted by Glamdring

is someone preparing for Father's Day Stories?

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Nah, it was a half-assed Monty Python reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

Live at the Holloywood Bowl. still have a video tape of it, classic stuff! speaking of which, maybe something to watch during update... "...and Rene' DeCartes was a beery fart, 'I drink therefore I am'"...