maintenance every 2 days....

I understand that they didn't want to rush things but it is getting to the point i want to beat my head off the wall!! already 2 maintenance this week now a 5 hour maintenance during prime time NA playing hours on a friday night.. that is 3 maintenance within a weeks time of the upcoming 24+ hour maintenance coming starting monday night/tuesday morning. Please SE I love this game been here since beta phase 1 and want to be here a long time but the steady several times a week maintenance since release date is making people question the game life here. People are starting to wonder if its more broken then 1.0 at this point and to be honest we run a fc with 512 members but we are cutting around 15-20+ members every week who have not returned to the game or played in over 30 days. I am glad that new people are joining the game to keep the numbers up but how many of the are going to stay with things the way they currently are. We need long time players to keep the game going long term.


http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...4dc4b7b960a8bb

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

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Originally Posted by ladyJ

i want to beat my head off the wall!!

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Your head is on the wall?

I frankly don't care how much maintenance time they take this week. I'm really waiting for next patch anyways. I only logged on this week to do coil and hit myth cap.

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First of all, the maintenance you posted is ISP maintenance in which there may be dropped connections for some or all players briefly. They are not taking the servers down, but there may be intermittent service interruption during this time.

Secondly, for major content patches which have been stated to require additional / changes to existing network infrastructure, downtime is required. Lastly, you are greatly overexaggerating the number of maintenances. I believe there have only been 12 or so maintenances in the last 60 days, 10 of them being scheduled.

It is a pain but we have to grin and bear it for the release of 2.1

Called growing pains for square. Every company had gone through the server maintenance stuff in the last 10 years. FFXI they got to mellow on the structures, because different time and age. While the rest world mmos were going through this stuff on there games. Servers are not cheap and most them would start small and then need to improve once they got a successful game. Just in last 3 years a lot of people have gotten spoiled. Since most the big gaming companies have there structure all ready set up and easier and faster to fixed, nowdays. It still sucks though and I believe a lot of it was from the failure of 1.0 and they were to afraid to invest in a strong server structure.

It comes down to "deal with it", since you can't really do anything about it. SE could move the times, but then a different group would be affected.

At least i appreciate SE doing constantly Maintenances to fix bugs, implement hot-fixes, improve server-structure and so on. I prefer that over playing on broken servers.

please check this thread from lodestone site and cycle through the pages there have been significantly more maintenances then any game i have ever played. FFXI almost never had any. They are not ISP maintenances the ones listed shut the servers down at least for one hour minimum each time they occured.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

Pseudopsia this is kind of the point you barely play the game enough as there is lack of content as you state your self log in to do coil cap myths and then dont play the rest of the time. There are lots out there who enjoy to play the game but want it to get better so it holds the interest of users to stay playing the game want to play it more. Lack of content and maintenances several times a week is frustrating to a lot of players but I am really hoping / praying it gets righted after the 2.1 patch.

I must honestly say that these sorts of complaints are becoming very wearisome. I would rather the devs do their maintenance to keep the game running as smoothly as they are able (despite complaints about the lag and what-have-you), than to experience random disconnects in areas where it did not happen before.
One cannot have his/her cake and eat it too. It's at a time that you feel is inconvenient, that's unfortunate, but maintenance has to happen some time or another. We all would rather be playing this at the time, yes, but there are a myriad of other things to fill that small amount of time in with. I hardly see why necromancing this same complaint each maintenance will change anything.

OP, also know that you're not the prime target of my statements, but it's just a little silly to see maintenance complaints every, single time there is maintenance. If things are unstable, isn't it a better sign that the devs are hopping right on it to rectify the issue rather than let is sit and fester of which people will immediately complain "SE doesn't care about their game. They won't fix anything!" But in the same breath we have complaints about maintenance, how often it happens, and it being at a time people do not agree with.

Come on now. The lack of sense this makes is astounding.

Last night's maintenance lasted one hour and twenty-five minutes, and it was in the middle of the night.

Tonight's maintenance is not SE's maintenance, it's maintenance being done by their ISP in Montreal. The servers are not being brought down, but there may be connection drops during the maintenance window.

Don't worry. Everything will be okay.

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please check this thread from lodestone site and cycle through the pages there have been significantly more maintenances then any game i have ever played. FFXI almost never had any.

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FFXI had them as well. I was affected by them every couple days. You probably did not notice them, because they were not going on during your Playtimes. Same goes for me and FFXIV, i hardly get affected by the Maintenances and so i would not notice that they are actually happening.

Welcome to MMOs in general. Just gotta take it with a grain of salt.

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Pseudopsia this is kind of the point you barely play the game enough as there is lack of content as you state your self log in to do coil cap myths and then dont play the rest of the time. There are lots out there who enjoy to play the game but want it to get better so it holds the interest of users to stay playing the game want to play it more. Lack of content and maintenances several times a week is frustrating to a lot of players but I am really hoping / praying it gets righted after the 2.1 patch.

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Well gee, if there's 'Nothing to do' then why are you in the game during these 'maintenance' periods?

12/13/2013 12:10 PM
[Follow-up] Network Maintenance Canceled (Dec. 13)
Network maintenance that we planned to conduct from Dec. 13, 2013 9:00 p.m. to Dec. 14, 2013 2:00 a.m. (PST) has been canceled. Please note that we will notify you if we decide to postpone the maintenance to a new date/time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

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please check this thread from lodestone site and cycle through the pages there have been significantly more maintenances then any game i have ever played.

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I counted 11 maintenances in the last month and a half, with 4 of them being emergency.

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FFXI almost never had any.

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LOL please tell me when you started playing XI. I can almost guarantee unless you were living in Japan it was at the very least 1 year after release. And even if you did start on NA launch, there were still maintenances every week and emergency maintenance almost every other week for the next year after that. Whenever there were large content patches (like 2.1) Maintenances were extended to 8-12 hours.

Regardless, this thread is pointless. What is crying about maintenance do for anyone? Nothing. There are problems, they need to be fixed, the downtime required is for the greater good. Or would you rather play on servers which could crash at any second?

FFXI definitely had its share of maintenance cuz I recall that was the only way to reset the spawn times for NMs that were farmed by other groups.

thanks for the update mayin hopefully if planned well they will schedule isp maint. during the 24 hour game time down time maint. with se paying for such a server load / bandwith they should be able to arrange it to coincide.

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Last night's maintenance lasted one hour and twenty-five minutes, and it was in the middle of the night.

Tonight's maintenance is not SE's maintenance, it's maintenance being done by their ISP in Montreal. The servers are not being brought down, but there may be connection drops during the maintenance window.

Don't worry. Everything will be okay.

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They canceled it already.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...a2e16e65c9b689

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12/13/2013 12:10 PM
[Follow-up] Network Maintenance Canceled (Dec. 13)
Network maintenance that we planned to conduct from Dec. 13, 2013 9:00 p.m. to Dec. 14, 2013 2:00 a.m. (PST) has been canceled. Please note that we will notify you if we decide to postpone the maintenance to a new date/time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

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This cancellation of maintenance really inconvenience me :p

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please check this thread from lodestone site and cycle through the pages there have been significantly more maintenances then any game i have ever played. FFXI almost never had any. They are not ISP maintenances the ones listed shut the servers down at least for one hour minimum each time they occured.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

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You obviously haven't played many MMOs at launch, they are all like this, once the major issues are ironed out, and the server/network structure is nailed down it will be smooth running, just like all established MMOs.

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This cancellation of maintenance really inconvenience me :p

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Make another thread complaining that because of the scheduled network maint. you made plans but now that it is canceled, all of your plans are screwed up. Don't forget to add [Devs please respond]

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Make another thread complaining that because of the scheduled network maint. you made plans but now that it is canceled, all of your plans are screwed up. Don't forget to add [Devs please respond]

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It needs a petition, too.

It is somewhat annoying, but if the players are having issues while playing the game, fixes need to be done. I won't complain beyond a huff, a puff and a grumble since I am usually one of the people having difficulties and maintenance tends to fix it for a time.

is it just me or is it only happen on NA/EU servers?

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is it just me or is it only happen on NA/EU servers?

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JP datacenter was yesterday

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JP datacenter was yesterday

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uhmmm JP only have 1 maintenance this week.... .

Most MMO when released are kinda bleh. They need lots of maintenance to get things right, at least SE is fixing these issues instead of ignoring them. The server seems to have improved quite a lot since release, I am impressed :)

Haha and as someone who played FFXI since release...I most definitely remember FFXI maintenances. They would always be at the absolute worst NA possible time available and then..once it was finished, it would take anywhere from 1-8 hours to download the update. Don't forget too if you got dc'ed from the update due to too many people trying to download it..you had to start all over again!! annnnnnnnnd don't forget the awesome emergency 8 hour maintenances they had after their previous one xD

Remember that time FFXI's servers kept getting DDoS attacked? It was like a month of the game going down for emergency maintenance almost daily.

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uhmmm JP only have 1 maintenance this week.... .

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NA: Dec. 13, 2013 from 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. (PST)
JP: Dec. 12, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (PST)

PSN: Dec. 9, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (PST)

NA: Dec. 6, 2013 from 1:00 a.m. to 1:50 a.m. (PST)
JP: Dec. 5, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (PST)

ALL: From Dec. 2, 2013 10:00 p.m. to Dec. 3, 2013 1:15 a.m. (PST)
ALL: From Nov. 27, 2013 10:00 p.m. to Nov. 28, 2013 12:35 a.m. (PST)

PSN is independent, but effects both (all PS3 players). All means both. So. No JP are getting just as much as NA.

I don't mind all the maintenance done on the data centers, servers and game. The way I see it, the sooner they do it, the sooner I can get back to play and the issue fixed (hopefully).

Can we all agree to just stop bumping these pointless threads? (yes I realize this bumps it, but damnit, im sick of seeing this crap on the front page for days on end).

Thanks for this thread, OP!

Because 9pm pst is prime time right? Lol they do this stuff later at night for a reason