5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

Yup getting 90ked as well.
Will we have another emergency maintenance? :D

Not yet "up". You login and 90k within a minute.

Either 90k or "Server full: Players in queue: -[.....]"

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Originally Posted by Damifino

You misunderstand. These are not people leaving the Free company except by removal for inactivity. And that number is real.

20-30 players removed for 30 days of inactivity every single week.

There is nothing wrong, and a LOT good about our free company. This number is due to players resigning from the GAME leaving their characters enrolled on the FC.

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Oh so they aren't leaving. Someone doesn't play for 30 days and you boot them then act like they left. You do realize sometimes people have real life issues to attend to? Our FC had someone leave for 40 days due to work and a surgery. They returned eventually and they are still a member of the guild. (this is just one of several examples I could list) You can't use kicking people as a proxy for them leaving. It is not the same thing.

Hmm 26,858 players in queue for Hyperion right now.

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Originally Posted by AmandaHuggenkiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVfzx5Pe-A

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HHAHHAHHA!! I got this playing on loop now.

Hey kids.

NA data center is back up according to the lodestone. Now dry your tears of entitlement and go play. I'll see you all this evening along with the rest of the adults when we get home from work.

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Originally Posted by Dorin

Good one being productive and browsing Final fantasy XIV forums while at work, you sure are mature an exemplary worker.

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It's called lunch time, Chuckles.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Oh so they aren't leaving. Someone doesn't play for 30 days and you boot them then act like they left. You do realize sometimes people have real life issues to attend to? Our FC had someone leave for 40 days due to work and a surgery. They returned eventually and they are still a member of the guild. (this is just one of several examples I could list) You can't use kicking people as a proxy for them leaving. It is not the same thing.

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Yes, there are situations like that,though fairly rare, and maybe once a month we have someone return to us.

It's still a better thing than a big fluffy member count when those people are in fact, inactive and never to return.

Don't bother trying to log in until the maintenance notice is completed. The servers that do say they are online will just get you kicked off as you try logging in.

Yup. Everything is back to normal. Log in after the maintenance and BAM! - immediate 90K.

Hmmmm this seems oddly familiar....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU44zSlJQag

I am just glad they are doing it at a time I do not play...yay for me! I seem get jacked every time their is maintenance and this time it is not me....they better not announce another one tonight from 11 to 2am...that will suck.

Why are people pissed when they can't play for 10/24 hours? Does that really effect you? If you are complaining that that is your only time to play, then obviously you have other things in your life that can take up your time. Ya'll just need some sunshine.

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Originally Posted by Markwolves

How will we know when it's back up? Just a case of keep trying to log in?

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Sometimes, server is back up like 15 to 30 minutes before the stated time. E.g. in five hours, quite possibly four hours forty-five minutes. That and communism was just a red "herring."

While ppl are bitching here and there, it's about 1 AM when they started this emergency maintenance, and they're slaving their asses the whole night till sunrise to fix this problem.

While I admit that I'm also disappointed, I do feel the pressure they had, taken from my own experience working in IT field, sacrificing our sleep just to make sure the system would be ready when official work hours started. And having worked at company that's actually on 24 hours services, having directors from other departments barging through our doors and keep checking the progress even makes this more tense. And even had to hunt through disposable area looking for used cardboard boxes for our emergency sleeping mattresses, making us no difference than beggars. And yet, we have to fight our drowsiness just to concentrate on status displays. To make it worse, we actually had to camp at office for days, even weeks. Had to pop some pills and emergency vitamins just to keep our bodies in check.

ah... those were the days I had... lol

Anyways, time to sleep. lol

The last two days, we'd get people with 90k errors in every duty we were in. Left and right, people would be asking in the FC chat or LS for someone of some role to join a duty in progress to take their place. For instance, we did a Tam-Tara completely without a healer up to the final boss, then had a friend enter the duty in progress to help us finish it. Or a Brayflox's Longstop where the tank vanished into disconnection hell after the first boss and needed to be replaced.

Then there was an announced maintenance. This went faster than announced. Cool. I was actually on for a bit and got to play a bit during a break.

I hope they fix whatever has been broken lately, because the last patches have introduced all sorts of issues, it seems. I for one appreciate that they're just doing it and not wasting any time on explaining what was broken till after the fact.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...9e6066bf9e9750

The recovery operations that are currently underway for FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn are now scheduled to end at approximately 18:00 (GMT) on Feb. 26, 2014 for the North America/Europe data centre Worlds.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

[Date & Time]
Feb. 26, 2014 from 16:00 to 18:00 (GMT)

* The completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Worlds]
- Adamantoise
- Balmung
- Behemoth
- Brynhildr
- Cactuar
- Cerberus
- Coeurl
- Diabolos
- Excalibur
- Exodus
- Faerie
- Famfrit
- Gilgamesh
- Goblin
- Hyperion
- Lamia
- Leviathan
- Lich
- Malboro
- Mateus
- Midgardsormr
- Moogle
- Odin
- Phoenix
- Ragnarok
- Sargatanas
- Shiva
- Siren
- Ultros
- Zalera

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Hmm 26,858 players in queue for Hyperion right now.

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Funny how server can only hold 6k player at same time, but yet, there a 26,868 in Q =D

Tried to log in to mateus world full 18,343 people in queue
5 mins later 18,245 in queue guess it'll be rady by tomorrow lol

this just in more server maintenance to fix the emergency maintenance they just maintained :) working as intended!!!

Oh, nice to know Squeeny actually uses a standards and human-friendly GMT on their EU notices.

We could cut costs on carpool and skirt child labor laws if we'd just dress our children as chocobos and ride them to work.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...od-d6bnigm.jpg
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http://www.gameinformer.com/cfs-file...2D00_610x0.jpg
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Originally Posted by Killashandra_Rei

Hmmmm this seems oddly familiar....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU44zSlJQag

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LMAO

I'm actually laughing my ass here! XD

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Originally Posted by Damifino

And that number is real.

20-30 players removed for 30 days of inactivity every single week.

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Hold on a second.. you remove 20-30 people from the FC, because they are inactive for 30 days and THAT makes you believe they've quit the Game? Sorry but that is just an assumption. We have a couple FC-Members which did not log for over 100 days, but they do play on a different server with their rl-friends, GF/Wife/Husband w/e. The only reason they are still in the FC is because they are long-time friends from 1.0 or even XI. Some of them pop into vent and say hello here and there, but they are far away from quitting the Game. 2 were not on for over a month cause of their heavy-work schedules, but will be back as soon as it changes again.. so really, you do not know if they've quit, you simply assume it so its a "made up" number and far away from being "real".

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Originally Posted by DCILuther

This is just not good. 2 Maintenance in a row?

I do hope they fix it before tonight. I can't have 3 nights in a row being 90k'd every time I go into an instance. And don't blame my ISP and whatnot. That's not the issue, as many other folks on my server are having the same complaints.

Finally, stop blaming the user/player then defending SE when clearly SE must do something about the issues. It's better to acknowledge that there are issues and work together, rather than be in denial and blame others.

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That's funny because 1000's of other people are not getting that, you may want to talk to your ISP.

For all we know this could have been something that...ERASES YOUR ACCOUNT! so be happy they're fixing whatever this is immediately! maintenance is always a inconvenience but i'm happy to have it! I'm also happy they CONTINUE to promptly attack whatever issue the game might be having to insure my money spent on it will be the best as CURRENTLY possible. Kudos to SE!!! keep up the good work!

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Originally Posted by Fumamyena

That's funny because 1000's of other people are not getting that, you may want to talk to your ISP.

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It's not her ISP. It's the Primal Data Center. Hence, the 6 hour maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Fumamyena

That's funny because 1000's of other people are not getting that, you may want to talk to your ISP.

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its funny that the shit "Talk to your ISP" still going, its problems in ther side not ISPs

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Originally Posted by Pr0c3ss0r

Funny how server can only hold 6k player at same time, but yet, there a 26,868 in Q =D

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That's the lobby server not the world server.

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Originally Posted by Pr0c3ss0r

Funny how server can only hold 6k player at same time, but yet, there a 26,868 in Q =D

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7.5k according to SE when they increased their servers after the launch incidents actually~

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Originally Posted by Killashandra_Rei

Hmmmm this seems oddly familiar....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU44zSlJQag

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This was HILARIOUS. Thank you for the laughs!

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Originally Posted by Gildarts

its funny that the shit "Talk to your ISP" still going, its problems in ther side not ISPs

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Have fun with your 90ks then, because I have never seen one in an instance, the only time I see one is if there is an issue on my end, or just today in the post-maintenance rush.

Explain that one for me please.

You can enter the game. Seems they fixed it.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Have fun with your 90ks then, because I have never seen one in an instance, the only time I see one is if there is an issue on my end, or just today in the post-maintenance rush.

Explain that one for me please.

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3 medals of white knighting, keep the good work ~

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Originally Posted by Thorauku

Ohh. A white-knight. It's perfectly normal to do a maintenance, but to announce it 15 minutes before the stipulated time? You've gotta be kidding me.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/emergency?s=t

In case you don't know what emergency means

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Have fun with your 90ks then, because I have never seen one in an instance, the only time I see one is if there is an issue on my end, or just today in the post-maintenance rush.

Explain that one for me please.

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Hahahahahha.

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Originally Posted by Gildarts

its funny that the shit "Talk to your ISP" still going, its problems in ther side not ISPs

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1860700

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1872017

I'm not going to bother any more. Please read. Lots of helpful posts in these besides what I linked.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Have fun with your 90ks then, because I have never seen one in an instance, the only time I see one is if there is an issue on my end, or just today in the post-maintenance rush.

Explain that one for me please.

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lol really? Are you sure you want your name next to that post?

Seems your logic goes something like this then:


It works for me. So it's clearly not an issue on SE's end.


This is about what you're getting at is it? I mean, it's not what you said word for word, but clearly what you're implying.

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Originally Posted by Damifino

You misunderstand. These are not people leaving the Free company except by removal for inactivity. And that number is real.

20-30 players removed for 30 days of inactivity every single week.

There is nothing wrong, and a LOT good about our free company. This number is due to players resigning from the GAME leaving their characters enrolled on the FC.

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You obviously aren't having much trouble replacing those members since 512 is the maximum membership for a FC and yours currently has 506 per the lodestone.

I agree with the OP. There is a difference in emergency and prompt. if there is some hotfixes they want to deploy, then they should apply the fixes by region within the non-peak hours. using emergency label so they can do it during their work day instead of when least impact to customer base is poor management.

in all cases there should be a minimum window of the longest event so not to disrupt / alienate their customers.

the bottom line is that if they tested their code before releasing it better, we wouldn't have all of this. Oh, and before someone replies with 'you cant test everything': yes you can. They control the servers, the zones, the abilities jobs have and the boss. There are unit tests which can fight the boss 1000's of times in a day using every ability available.

This Monday night there was a lag spike which clearly indicated that the servers lagged and not the players or the internet. Titan literally paused for 20 seconds then resumed (not rubber banded).