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

[Tsukino_Kaji]

It's up now.

Indeed.

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[ScorpiusMaximus]

17:15!! YAY!!

[SMD111]

I can imagine how bad they feel about this inconvenience and I'd say they shouldn't!
Take your time even if it were to become days; fixing things in haste is the last thing you want them to do, I assure you. :]

Here Here

Hmm... You would think there would be some kind of update about the maintenance extension.

it would be nice but who knows maby the site dev is already at home

[Dragoy]

I would be more understanding and supportive of your cause if SE would continue to update the extension after ETA has passed. At this point, it's just unprofessional and out of hand. Please notify your customers when you fail to meet a deadline. It's a common courtesy to do so in any sort of business...

Yeah, I know and it's expected customers would be pissed off, really.

And I do agree, that they should have updated the estimation way sooner, preferably PAST their expectations so that the players wouldn't be waiting for naught.

That, and getting the translations right would help haha!

But it's more or less the lack of staff that caused this as well, I would guess. I'd still say they're doing a good job, and unexpected happen and if/when it happens when not so many people are available, it can be a disaster what comes to fixing it asap. Though, if I had to play the guessing game even more, I'd easily imagine people being called from bed to work on this.

Imagine your favourite community representative moogles flying all over the place in distress. Not that they're there, but just imagine it, dang it!


Anyhoo, it is up as noted. We shall see if it stands. :]

[geekgirl101]

((claps)) nice work SE, eager to see these new changes.

[OMEGA_HACK]

eh...was on COR earlier, not happy about the update for them, way to fail SE...

Maybe PLD will be 'wanted' idk, really wish they would show some love to DRG and unlink Jump abilities like they have now done with NIN abilities, but I know DRG is like the red-headed step child of SE HQ.

[noodles355]

Waiting a whole day for FFXI? Wow that sucks. Imagine if you had to wait just under 2 months. I can tell you first hand that it sucks. Luckilly i only have another 5 hours of updates to wait for. Too bad it's 8:40PM and I wont be able to play tonight.

[Octaviane]

So....SE stuffed up big time not only with the bug (plus could have been others), but with an error in translation and lack of communication.

Look how many people rushed to take advantage of the bug before it was found and fixed. At least one person has been banned already.

17 pages of responses in this thread so far. I guess what I am saying is, chill out. It's not the end of the world that you can't play for several hours. You should all know by now that any Update will be followed by Emergency Maintenance. Plan accordingly and don't bother updating for at least 12-24 hours. The NM's will still be there as will eveything else, just like the sun rises every day.

You can only speculate on why Emergency maintenance took so long. Cursing SE up one side and down the other isn't going to make it any different. It just raises your BP and RF. (Blood Pressure and Rage Factor). Think about how they might be viewing some of your responses................

The sad thing is that SE's competition is more than likely laughing their socks off right now at this fail. I believe that FFXI has barely a skeleton crew available at any given time and is running on empty coffers thanks to FF14, the earthquake and some pretty poor management.

Perhaps a better solution than rushing in to appease the masses and address all the demands for everything from A-Z would have been to push back the roadmap a couple more months to make sure that everything could be properly tested before releasing the various updates. We would still have bugs and maintenance, it seems to be SE's way, just perhaps not as bad as this.

SE does need to improve on it's communication skills, that is a given. Unfortunately they appear to operate like a Secret Society with the player base as Rank and File to be fed snippets of information only as and when the need arises.

Still and all, the amount of actual downtime we have had over the years many of us have played is small. Just don't get so bent out of shape about it. There's a real world out there beyond the doors of FFXI, get out and enjoy it while you can. There are also many other games you can play, just so happens that despite it's many problems, FFXI is still the best out there, you all rush right back here, so quit bitching.

[Runespider]

Look how many people rushed to take advantage of the bug before it was found and fixed. At least one person has been banned already.

I doubt anyone was actually banned for this, or that they even bothered to roll back people that abused it.

[Tagrineth]

eh...was on COR earlier, not happy about the update for them, way to fail SE...

Maybe PLD will be 'wanted' idk, really wish they would show some love to DRG and unlink Jump abilities like they have now done with NIN abilities, but I know DRG is like the red-headed step child of SE HQ.

Honestly? Soul and Spirit Jump are ridiculous enough on their own. I completely do not mind losing access to Jump and High Jump for them.