emergency world maintenace already...........

[Tsukino_Kaji]

A rollback would make sense

It would actualy humor me to see them retract an update completely.

[wildsprite]

It would actualy humor me to see them retract an update completely.

yes but they wont, they would rather add more work to their workload than rollback and fix the update on the test server

[Alistria]

Come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen them do it... I wonder if they don't have the capibility

[wildsprite]

yeah might be something to do with the original code that prevents them from doing that, had not thought of that

[Alistria]

If they can't do it it's likely due to lack of Software to do it with, either that or they don't keep regular backups of the DB's

[Nawesemo]

not every developer writes code the same way as each other so a different person having to work with someone elses' code to make his work may look at it and go "huh?!!!!"

I lol'd @ this ;p

[geekgirl101]

I lol'd @ this ;p

My husband does it all the time when he works at home, hehe. He also invents a few new profanity words which maybe one day could end up in the Oxford Dictionary.

[Tagrineth]

It's very possible that during the first maintenance, they tried just fixing the error, and when that didn't work, it became

"Well fuck, four hours isn't long enough for this, we have to rollback and rewrite the update code..."

or something to that effect. Wouldn't surprise me one bit, and it's something that can very easily happen with any codebase, especially one as haphazard as most SE code seems to be.

[Atomic_Skull]

If I had to guess why it's taking so long I'd say it's probably because of spaghetti code.

[Urteil]

Today is undeniable proof of incompetence, can we have the FFXIV team please.


I'm sure they could do that game, and this one on the side.