Maintenance window

Quick question: do the patches typically take up the entire maintenance window or can servers come up early?

(returning player from 2 yrs ago)

Thanks!

Servers can come up early, but they never do when housing related stuff is added (New Wards/Apartments).

So...I'd say there's a chance they might come up early this time.

They usually finish late with full patches from what I can remember. Not by a lot, like half an hour. But not on time.

Don't think the servers will be opened before its scheduled time even with early completion.

Thanks for the info!

Oh I was wonder if there is early Maintenance can be done! Thanks for the answer and I just got back with this game once again but too bad... Maintenance day lulz

I'm a new player and was interested in trying to practice tanking again today. Guess it will have to wait until tomorrow.

Not really sure why a 24 hour maintenance is necessary for a patch, but longer than average maintenances compared with other games are the norm for FFXIV it seems.

If I had to guess, it might have to do with being multi-platform. It's admittedly an armchair opinion.

Even if maintenance is completed early, I expect they'll keep it closed until the weekly reset, only because they're adding a new 24 man with a weekly reward. Yes, it's new content and it might be unlikely that many people could clear it between maintenance and reset time, but if there's a chance of it happening, they'll keep it shut down.