Says all world maintenance

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Half huh. Well, considering all my coworkers are here with me Im not seeing the half :p

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We were all off on Good Friday at my work instead lol

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Originally Posted by MorbolvampireQueen6

whats frustrating about this full day then right after maintenance for all worlds not even a day after it comes back up. they should post phone the alk world maintenance for at least 2 days

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What? The all worlds is DURING the full day maintenance.

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Originally Posted by MorbolvampireQueen6

whats frustrating about this full day then right after maintenance for all worlds not even a day after it comes back up. they should post phone the alk world maintenance for at least 2 days

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All worlds is tonight.... It is just piggybacking off of the current maintenance, you won't have access to NA worlds until after all worlds maintenance completes.

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Originally Posted by MorbolvampireQueen6

whats frustrating about this full day then right after maintenance for all worlds not even a day after it comes back up. they should post phone the alk world maintenance for at least 2 days

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You should give those timers another check, the "all worlds" happens at the same time as the tail end of the NA maint, so it actually doesn't exceed the 24 hours.

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

Really not happy. I came back to the game today after a break and had an achievable deadline for completing the Hatching Tide event, only for the servers to go down earlier than initially posted. This clash means that now I’ll have to wait for the Spriggan out to appear on the Mogstation so that I can complete the set, and this also means an expense that I shouldn’t of had to pay extra for. Thanks devs.

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You had weeks to do it. Your laziness isn't the fault of Square Enix.

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

Really not happy. I came back to the game today after a break and had an achievable deadline for completing the Hatching Tide event

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Obviously not. You had 12 days to do a 30-45 minute event. I think this one is on you.

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

Really not happy. I came back to the game today after a break and had an achievable deadline for completing the Hatching Tide event, only for the servers to go down earlier than initially posted. This clash means that now I’ll have to wait for the Spriggan out to appear on the Mogstation so that I can complete the set, and this also means an expense that I shouldn’t of had to pay extra for. Thanks devs.

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This is entire your problem. You had a week or two to get it done. Do not blame the developers for something that is COMPLETELY your fault.

So much for community spirit. Like I clearly pointed out, I was away. I had a real-life issue (which I won’t be disclosing to a bunch needlessly rude people) which trumped playing FFXIV. My beef is that the event was clearly advertised as finishing at a specific time which then clashed with maintenance. Better planning would have easily avoided this.

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

So much for community spirit. Like I clearly pointed out, I was away. I had a real-life issue (which I won’t be disclosing to a bunch needlessly rude people) which trumped playing FFXIV. My beef is that the event was clearly advertised as finishing at a specific time which then clashed with maintenance. Better planning would have easily avoided this.

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Again, you had weeks for an event that took 15-20 minutes if you rush it. You're telling me over the span of 12 days you couldn't find 20 minutes to quickly get it over with? I find that rather unlikely. The announcement was made a LONG time ago.

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

Better planning would have easily avoided this.

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The NA maintenance was announced back in February and again a week before it was actually due to happen, that's plenty of planning in advance. Not waiting to do the event on the last couple of days could have been avoided

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...980b38456abf54

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...70b70f55a68e2c

Well, time to roll a character in Europe or Asia.

And again, I took a hiatus from the game due to a real-life issue. I hadn’t played the game for weeks. Upon my return TODAY, I looked in the lodestone and saw the advertisement for the Hatching-Tide event. There was a clear expiry date and TIME. So the fact that the devs started the maintenance when there was only a few hours left for the event is NOT my fault.

I logged in and was rushing the event, and was just approaching the NPC for the last part of the Spriggan outfit when the server went down.

https://i.imgur.com/ape6YwQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/vNUEkav.png
The launcher also had these.

There was a rep post regarding exactly that, Skylocke.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...06#post4952906

The fourms Dev Tracker keeps a log of all developer and community rep posts, to help us keep track of new information from them.

It just seems a bit odd that they’d move maintenance to clash with an already advertised and active event.

I’ve been playing FFXIV since PS4 release and I’ve only ever missed one other event because I was on pre-booked holiday at the time. So being called lazy is unjust.

Mon->Tuesday maintenances are the usual and they want to make sure they have enough time to really stress and test the world visit system before Shadowbringers. But putting it in only a week after EU's would have been odd. Later and they may not have much leeway with the stress testing (and inevitable fixing).

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

It just seems a bit odd that they’d move maintenance to clash with an already advertised and active event.

I’ve been playing FFXIV since PS4 release and I’ve only ever missed one other event because I was on pre-booked holiday at the time. So being called lazy is unjust.

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I'm sorry that a game made plans about a year before now and that they didn't realize that a holiday that isn't prominent in Shinto faith was right around the same time. I'm also sorry to tell you that they reserve the right to take the game down for any reason with no compensation for its player base. I'm even more sorry that you didn't think to double check information on something we knew was going to happen since this past fall.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

I'm also sorry to tell you that they reserve the right to take the game down for any reason with no compensation for its player base.

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While you are correct, they have that right, we are actually all getting an extra day of gametime added to our subs because of it. Even those that don't specifically play in NA servers.
What a nice Easter gift!

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Originally Posted by Canadane

While you are correct, they have that right, we are actually all getting an extra day of gametime added to our subs because of it. Even those that don't specifically play in NA servers.
What a nice Easter gift!

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Indeed they are, but they are not required to. I can understand why people are upset, but this maintenance has been out and known about for a long while. So calling SE out for the players' mistakes is just dumb.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

While you are correct, they have that right, we are actually all getting an extra day of gametime added to our subs because of it. Even those that don't specifically play in NA servers.
What a nice Easter gift!

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Hold up? We are ALL getting an extra day? I thought it was just NA people.

If it's everyone that's pretty neat.

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Originally Posted by Crystal_Raven

Hold up? We are ALL getting an extra day? I thought it was just NA people.

If it's everyone that's pretty neat.

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Everyone with an account can play on any server. Sure they COULD go and find only accounts that have a character on NA servers, but whos to say someone didn't want to make a new character on an NA server today.
Everybody with an active account gets an extra day! :D

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Originally Posted by SkylockeWindshifter

So much for community spirit. Like I clearly pointed out, I was away. I had a real-life issue (which I won’t be disclosing to a bunch needlessly rude people) which trumped playing FFXIV. My beef is that the event was clearly advertised as finishing at a specific time which then clashed with maintenance. Better planning would have easily avoided this.

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Sometimes life is like that but they still gave us plenty of warning in advance. RL takes precedence over any game, so perhaps you were partly the victim of circumstances largely out of your control. The event didn't take very long to do though (seriously, one NPC solves most of the puzzles for you) so there may have been some procrastination at play here as well.

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Originally Posted by Hash_Browns

Oh, I knew the 3AM maintenance was coming, just trying to clear up some confusion, as that post appears lower on the list on The Lodestone.
People are most likely clicking the first [Maintenance] post about worlds, and expecting that to be the times.

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This is exactly what's going on. It really should have been the first maintenance post up there, at least for NA. My entire FC was confused until one of us looked lower down on the notices, we had no idea the server was going to be down all day.

Shame that the servers had to go down, but hey at least they gave us ample time to prepare for it, on the brighter side of things for me at least this gave me the perfect chance to properly discover the forums.

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Originally Posted by KarmaLad

Shame that the servers had to go down, but hey at least they gave us ample time to prepare for it, on the brighter side of things for me at least this gave me the perfect chance to properly discover the forums.

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Welcome to the mad house may i suggest bringing a drink along as things can get salty around here :P

What am I missing here? It states that it begins on the 22nd at 6:00 PM PDT. It's only 4:15 PM. Grrr.

You missed these.
https://i.imgur.com/ape6YwQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/vNUEkav.png

I see. I guess that's not the one they show when I have logged in for the past couple of days. So it's going to be 6 am tomorrow then?

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Originally Posted by Gamerstate

I see. I guess that's not the one they show when I have logged in for the past couple of days. So it's going to be 6 am tomorrow then?

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The one that was shown when people login is the All Worlds Maintenance page as this is also Patch 4.57 maintenance that adds in the World Visit system. Game will be back up 3am PDT or 6am PDT April 23.

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Originally Posted by Hash_Browns

Just wanna point out that this might be where some of the confusion is coming from:

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Just wanna say, in all fairness, surely much of the confusion is from the All Worlds Maintenance being the one you have to click through to play. NA Expansion is much easier to ignore/overlook by comparison. And, considering all the maintenance notices that got pushed out all at once for 4.57, overlooking NA isn't so unreasonable.

That said, players on NA data centers proooobbbably should've taken special note of that one post buried in there that sounds like it would be important and probably affect them.