Update game during down time.

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03-24-2011, 04:41 AM
disturbed

Update game during down time.

here's just a idea..... we all know there will be an up date soon, and they cant keep the servers up and running full time just yet... but why not during the time we are down and the blackouts permit it, why not just do the updates now?..... no one is on server and they have the time to do it, just get it done and over with? lets just say they have 12 hrs of power b4 a blackout.... our updates usualy last that long anyway, do it b4 they get the servers up full time?
03-24-2011, 04:51 AM
annewandering

hmm well it takes electricity may be the reason. I have thought about this too but realized it defeated the purpose of shutdown.
03-24-2011, 04:56 AM
Insaniac

I don't think they are done programming and testing it yet. It wasn't even supposed to go live til mid april.
03-24-2011, 05:08 AM
annewandering

Thats probably true, insaniac. It would be nice to come back and have it all done wouldnt it, with no more downtime for awhile. Oh well at least we will be back on game and that is going to make a lot of us happy. :D
03-24-2011, 05:16 AM
Daniel_Hatcher

They wouldn't have been able to merge the servers either. Seeing as it went down unexpectedly not everyone could collect things from their delivery boxes, so it'd be lost.
03-24-2011, 05:23 AM
annewandering

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

They wouldn't have been able to merge the servers either. Seeing as it went down unexpectedly not everyone could collect things from their delivery boxes, so it'd be lost.

So true. That would be a disaster.
03-24-2011, 05:24 AM
Raka

If they tried to update now and had a Power Outage during the process, some of the files may get damaged probably, otherwise I think they would have tried to work on it. But even then, yeah, the request to conserve power > Updating a Games content.
03-24-2011, 07:12 AM
Karumac

As they said in one of their announcements: Public Transportation has been spotty at best. Some of their employees have been unable to even get to work.
03-24-2011, 12:46 PM
Starcade

Quote:

Originally Posted by disturbed

here's just a idea..... we all know there will be an up date soon, and they cant keep the servers up and running full time just yet... but why not during the time we are down and the blackouts permit it, why not just do the updates now?..... no one is on server and they have the time to do it, just get it done and over with? lets just say they have 12 hrs of power b4 a blackout.... our updates usualy last that long anyway, do it b4 they get the servers up full time?

They're not done with all the testing necessary to make the next major version update -- else they probably would've done so at the end of this "extended maintenance".

(Hence, the delay in the actual date of the update from "mid-April" to some undetermined point in May...)
03-24-2011, 12:47 PM
Starcade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raka

If they tried to update now and had a Power Outage during the process, some of the files may get damaged probably, otherwise I think they would have tried to work on it. But even then, yeah, the request to conserve power > Updating a Games content.

I think what the OP meant was the situation that, once the game was assured to go up (these Power Outages could happen almost any time during the Spring, Summer, and beyond!!), they would do the version update.
03-24-2011, 12:51 PM
Haptic

I wonder if stones will add up when they boot up the servers :(. lol sorry wrong topic.
03-24-2011, 12:57 PM
Yarly

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Originally Posted by Haptic

I wonder if stones will add up when they boot up the servers :(. lol sorry wrong topic.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...2942#post32942

Your question, answered about almost a week ago. Of course if you took the time to read anything instead of being lazy, you would have known this.
03-24-2011, 02:44 PM
Ryozen

Not everyone sits on these forums all day.
03-25-2011, 02:44 AM
Starcade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryozen

Not everyone sits on these forums all day.

Nor do I, but you can tend to read some of the actual posts from Square-Enix (OK, maybe not Tanaka's, but you get my point...). I think part of the annoyance is that, even after they posted it, we still get constant questions of it and have to wonder whether the askers are actually trolling us.