Maintenance started 43 minutes early :(

As title says got booted and cant get back in with message undergoing maintenance..

Announcement said it started in just under 1 hour from now :(

EDIT: Bet you 10,000gil it wont come back up 43 mins early

EDIT2: I live in a closed hole, and since i dont have millions of gil maybe never got targeted.. Seems people getting hacked (well somehow being forced) to purchase millions of gils in single items on market wards.. If this patch was put forward to fix this issue all the better.

yep, got the same problem here

Same i am sad... messed up my df...

If they did it to fix the money disappearing hack, let's be happy.

Yeah, my entire group just got kicked right before final boss in AK.

SE... you failed hard here.

Redacted. After I did some reading, I am happy that this has happened. Should have happened sooner.

it's because of the current hack going on in case you were not reading the boards
better now than later

Hah! Yes I got 90k and sure enough .. maint started.

Seems it was important. Prolly because of this: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...hile-logged-in

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Originally Posted by Haru

As title says got booted and cant get back in with message undergoing maintenance..

Announcement said it started in just under 1 hour from now :(

EDIT: Bet you 10,000gil it wont come back up 43 mins early

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There appears to be some shifty security business afoot that may have necessitated the early start for the maintenance. This is one of the few occasions where getting them down as fast as possible was a good thing.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-market-board


That's why I bet you.

Ugh.. Finallllllly got into a Duty finder for my class quest for Stone Vigil, I was all happy after days of queing as a DD :( :(

Eeeh yeah.. I was like 'ok I'm just gonna make these (was crafting stuff to sell) and log out at the inn--*90k'd*--- okay maybe not.'

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...hile-logged-in

Yeah was in the middle of a craft when I got booted. Good thing it was a low level synth haha.

I was right before the end boss for Amdapor Keep when 3/4 of my party was kicked out of the game (the fourth was my friend, who said he was the only one left).

I'm guessing someone hit a button they weren't supposed to yet. Oh, well.

Just finished last pull of Stone Vigil...now no boss, 40 minutes early...we have Daylight Savings Time on the PST/PDT timezones. Your server time was right, maybe the technician needs to update his watch or look at his (smart) phone...

Was in the middle of an HQ synth. :(

At least it wasn't too costly of one.

There went 9 Animal fat. So damn annoying..

Wow look at all these post of trade hacks.. I wonder if i got hit i never checked.. Does it only affect the gil on your retainer?

I thought all purchases come out of your main character not retainer..

I wonder if they will do rollback XD..

I don't mind getting kicked out for maintenance, I'm fine with it despite the fact I was in the middle of Garuda Hard Mode. I just hope SquareEnix knows what they're doing when they risk a few thousand subscriber's character data by doing so, if that still applies nowadays.

warning would be nice - imagine if you just handed 300k worth of items for someone else to craft? or d/c'd mid craft? i'd be pissed

No warning; no time to teleport to a sanctuary. How, rude.

Maybe there's a good reason, but ... WE LATE NIGHT PLAYERS ARE PEOPLE TOO! [sob]

Edited to add: Ah, I see there is a good reason (the crazyawful gil hack). But I stand by my frustration that my regular playtime is the usual maint-time.

That hurt... no chance to log out safely, no chance to get to an inn.

I'm so mad right now. I just want to scream DERP!

Stick to the time table I got off work at 2:00 AM EST today and was looking forward to the later 1:00 AM PST maintenance start time. Got to play for 30 minutes. So ridiculous seeing as its the second maintenance this week too.

FFXIV ARR: the world of maintenance.

But as much as I hate maintenance I love the game. I just hope they are Ko'ing more gil sellers and bots.

i actually d/c'd mid-craft. only lost maybe 90 gil worth of mats but imagine if it was something expensive like tome mats :\

I'm on the west coast. Maintenance has been starting between 9PM-11PM which is the time a lot of people on the west coast plays.

I thought they were going to push back the maintenance to 1am which would be better but they decided to take down the servers without warning around 12AM. No exp bonus for me since I couldn't get to a sanctuary

But wait, I thought they did maintenance for fun! You mean it actually is meant to fix stuff?
My whole world is different now!

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Originally Posted by gadzi_h

Stick to the time table

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Much like a tornado, there are occasionally emergencies that require sudden action. If they'd stuck to to the time table, you might not have had any gil by the end of the hour.

Managed to get to the Inn just in time, but where was the notice saying it was going to start early? Just glad I managed to finish my synths in time - sorry to hear those who got kicked mid synth and those in dungeons :(

Not happy... Actually, I sort of am... Was in a pretty bad DF. Everyone in the group seemed to think I had threat issues on the second boss of WP when it wandered off and started swinging everybody XD

In terms of the Maintenance starting early, I was perfectly happy with logging out at 1AM for the Maintenance, I wanted to quietly complete my DF and then go to bed. I was going to stick to Square-Enix's maintenance schedule, but then they had to go and start it 43 minutes early...

Like, wtf? If you're going to screw around with millions of players, at least make an announcement that you're going to start maintenance earlier than anticipated... Rather than just kicking them off of the server before the scheduled start time.

Dudes, quit yer whining. Literally hundreds of millions of gil and more was stolen within a short period of time from thousands of players. It's totally worth an emergency maintenance no matter what your precious lil ass was up to.

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But wait, I thought they did maintenance for fun! You mean it actually is meant to fix stuff?
My whole world is different now!

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Maybe they can add a new guild for maintenance in game. :) That sounds like a lot of fun, tie it in with the gil seller spam, and you get XP for reporting. I'd be at level 50 for sure.

See i was about to bitch. Then i realized what the problem was and i shat bricks. Lucky i only have 30K on my character

I realize but are people not reading earlier post about people losing millions before server went down?

All servers? Lodestone says only Aegis.

Is it possible they shut the servers down quickly to get a jump on the hack? If they announced it even giving them a little time is it possible the couldn't be caught? Just a thought.

Honestly, I thought the reason the servers went down earlier than what was listed on the site/log in was because Japan does not observe DST as North America and some regions of Europe, or call, cant remember. Japan was once on the DST rotation as well, but they left it over 50 years ago.

The current system issue is a viable reason too, though.

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Originally Posted by alien52

I realize but are people not reading earlier post about people losing millions before server went down?

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Looks like this thread was started at 3:19 and SE just posted the reason for the early shutdown at 3:42. So we went argo before SE told use what was going on. I'm not so mad now. I use the market all the time and I'm sure thousands of others do too.

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Originally Posted by Kat_Manx

Dudes, quit yer whining. Literally hundreds of millions of gil and more was stolen within a short period of time from thousands of players. It's totally worth an emergency maintenance no matter what your precious lil ass was up to.

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Most people don't actually mind, and snapping back isn't going to stop the few QQers.

Personally, I hope this gets fixed for everyone involved WITHOUT SE doing a game-wide rollback.

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Originally Posted by Ken_8O

Is it possible they shut the servers down quickly to get a jump on the hack? If they announced it even giving them a little time is it possible the couldn't be caught? Just a thought.

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They most likely did it for damage control reasons. They'd still have to review everything that went on with this the same as if they had done it at the scheduled time. Given the severity, expect a big extension to the scheduled time of the maintenance.