Maintenance Oct. 27-28

lol I know Aethaeryn, it's all good. That word just gets thrown around a lot on this site, so I was answering anyone who might've thought my original post was 'trolling' (whatever the eff that is). Thanks for helping me clarify, Torunya and Marik were just the only ones to actually wish me a happy b-day. XP

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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I just based that estimate in the last patches. I think the last one was like 1.7gb. ; ; But I COMPLETELY agree about getting to start the download early. Don't other online games have that as an option? Even FFXI, I think.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

It's not for the content, really. It's long due to the housing stuff that people complained about, so the database work and to handle more instances is why it's taking so long. Something like the 2.4 content, based on the notes alone, isn't a full day's work to implement.

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Obviously you missed the other part of the post "among other stuff" being that database work or what ever else they doing.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

I just based that estimate in the last patches. I think the last one was like 1.7gb. ; ; But I COMPLETELY agree about getting to start the download early. Don't other online games have that as an option? Even FFXI, I think.

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XIV does as well - except this one, due to the popular complaints about not being able to buy a house, is causing a complete change/upgrade in hardware and software, therefore you can't download the patch until they're back up and update pushed out to us.

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Originally Posted by Miitan

*Deep inside an underground lair*

Shadowy Figure 1: Hey look, it's Katsushiro's birthday today!
Shadowy Figure 2: Let's extend the 24 hour maintainence by an hour!
Shadowy Figures: *high five*

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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YES.THIS.

Don't you dare tell me that I'm not going to be able to get my house because some jackwagon with a top-tier internet connection just flounces on and buys up a half-dozen plots across their alts while the rest of us are still struggling to even connect to the patch server!

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

YES.THIS.

Don't you dare tell me that I'm not going to be able to get my house because some jackwagon with a top-tier internet connection just flounces on and buys up a half-dozen plots across their alts while the rest of us are still struggling to even connect to the patch server!

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It's like the launch of 2.0 all over again! lol

Seriously, though, SE should have done what I originally thought was happening... One maintenance for the data expansion. One maintenance for the actual patch. This has just been (and will probably continue to be) annoying and confusing.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

causing a complete change/upgrade in hardware and software

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Why are they turning off the machine that we download the patch from in order to update the game servers? Those should preferably be two physically separate sets of servers.

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

Why are they turning off the machine that we download the patch from in order to update the game servers? Those should preferably be two physically separate sets of servers.

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It's how SE has always been honestly lol, with XI..DQX...and now XIV. The update is likely on the lobby servers already but they're probably waiting to get everything back up and running. They did it during pretty much every update to the servers during XI's 12 years that accompanied a major update.