Aether Worlds offline question

So ALL Worlds, not just Aether Worlds now, are apparently offline right now for emergency maintenance.....heres a thought SE, why not just perform the emergency maintenance AND the actual maintenance you were planning on doing later this evening on All Worlds? I hope you'll do that cause in all honesty, seeing as how you were planning to bring down all worlds at 10pm PST tonight anyways, this emergency maintenance on All Worlds plus another maintenance tonight, is really inconvenient.

tl:dr please dont hit the same servers with two instances of maintenance on the same day, that would be again very inconvenient and not a very good use of time.

Aethers issues arn't everyones issues. We've always had our own little error bubble.
I welcome multiple maints, more so since one is a hot fix and this is a "whoops, it broke again" maint.

I highly doubt they'll cancel tonight's maintenance. They're doing that one on all worlds, not just in Aether.

It would not be more convenient for them to do that...and they wont.

Only aether is having issues and they will obviously not close all other data centers to do a maintenance early because of a single data center.

Sucks, but thats how it is =/.

To be honest scheduling tonight's Maint now for aether exclusively brings about the issue of burning up our data center again due to having all data centers logging into Aether data center just to play the game. It's a bad idea.

Do you really want them to slap on a handful of extra hours of maintenance suddenly? That's what you're asking for. While I get that 2 instances of it are a headache, expecting them to just move up plans for a scheduled hotfix to RIGHT NOW when servers have a critical immediate issue that needs addressing is a bit much. Do they have the work force available right now to do it? Is the hotfix actually ready to be deployed?

I mean, I really do get the frustration about it, but stop and consider the reality of what you're asking. Companies tend to schedule things for a reason.

I mean, if the servers are down now anyway, it does seem like it would be more efficient to just do tonight's maintenance now.

ONLY Aether is down right now. If you look at the Server Status list all the others are currently online.

What was even the problem? I hear people calling this a "Fatal" or "Lethal" issue with the Aether Worlds, no where that I have read so far has even bothered to explain WHAT the problem is.

Major Patch Notice to everyone. Things will break. You can't TEST STRESS, Live environments to the scale needed. Also you can think of what might go wrong.

As a paid Game Tester. I get a clean build of the software with no info about the software. Why. Because when DEV test they go from point A to B to C to D... I goto A B ooo what's this. CRASH / BROKEN CODE / I got stuck when I went here. And they go.. How did you get there. I upload play video. and they patch.. and test and give me a new build a few days later.

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What was even the problem? I hear people calling this a "Fatal" or "Lethal" issue with the Aether Worlds, no where that I have read so far has even bothered to explain WHAT the problem is.

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If you're referring to my separate post from this in which I used the word lethal - I was over dramatizing the situation to elicit a discussion of the issue and what may be it's cause.

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Originally Posted by Ootarion

What was even the problem? I hear people calling this a "Fatal" or "Lethal" issue with the Aether Worlds, no where that I have read so far has even bothered to explain WHAT the problem is.

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Excluding everyone from all the servers of a data center is a huge problem, dont you agree? and at least from what i know(please correct me if they did tell us the cause of the problem), they didnt tell us nothing but 'we're having of techinical dificulties', soo we dont know what the problem is exactly or what is causing it.

They rarely tell us what the problem is... if ever.
It's none of our business for the most part, we're all just nosy and want to know.

Not to mention if you start announcing problems with your programs, machines, so on so forth, it will cause a downward spiral of misinformation and serious doubt, amongst both the players and the projects partners.

I see the issue here. OP thinks "ALL SERVERS" are currently under maintenance because of how it's worded on the website.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...dfdf6fef567f65

All Aether Data Center Worlds Emergency Maintenance

He sees all and assumed it was all worlds, and I will admit that it's a redundant to use "All" in this scenario because "Aether Data Center Worlds Emergency Maintinence" is actually all the information you would need to know that said Data Center is down.

But no OP, only the Aether Data Center is down atm, not All Data Centers and to further expand, the reason they refrain from doing certain patches like the Tuesday/Monday one and tonight's at and earlier time is because they plan the patches to be done after the weekly reset. So even if they could do tonight's patch earlier it would conflict with DOH/DOL weekly reset which is something they try to avoid.

yeeeahhhh its only Aether that's down right now.

Here's hoping it goes up before I need to go to bed tonight.

Aaaaaaand its gone beyond the scheduled time in which they said this emergency maintenance would take *sigh*

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Aaaaaaand its gone beyond the scheduled time in which they said this emergency maintenance would take *sigh*

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I was just discussing with my discord that I was waiting for someone to make this very post. Thank you for making my prediction come true.

I just hope someone is generous and posts here when they come back up. Frustrating to keep starting the client to check data center only to be kicked out of the program.

Currently able to get to character select. world is full 25 in queue!

I just logged in a few minutes ago. Only one in my FC atm.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/