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

[CaelThunderwing]

Game is online

[ScorpiusMaximus]

17:15!! YAY!!

[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.

[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.

[Kimble]

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.

PLD has been wanted again since voidwatch came out so no idea what you are talking about.

the COR update is not as bad as you all make it out to be.

[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.

[ShadowHeart]

cant think of any super benefit anyone could get from it that would upset game balance.... few people get a few easy levels (abyssea does that anyways) maybe spam a few xilbaba ... (get a few quick seals) which wont affect a lot not like he dropping empy weapons or +2 items

mind u i suppose they could of hit up titl... in attowha but time they would of farmed pops they maint would been up