Emergency maintenance notice... but no maintenance?

So twice now I've seen "We are beginning emergency maintenance" in system message purple and went to log out so I would get rested experience, and twice now I've seen no actual signs of maintenance happening. Now I'm stuck and can't get logged in because the world is full. Have people figured out how to turn their text purple to send fake alerts, or is there something else going on?

If the former is true, that REALLY needs to be fixed. If the latter is true, then what in the world is going on? There's nothing on Twitter or the launcher about it.

I logged out because of the same message and now I am getting 90000 and 10102 errors....

Lol the maintenance is on the log in sever as long as you don't log out you can continue playing while they tinker about.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...f970693da97582

Recovery from logon difficulties, and now I can't logon. Epic Fail

it's an invisible maintenance, feeding of the poor souls who try to log in, while the one inside are slowly consumed until they are 90ked.

Same, I logged out for the maintenance and now am getting 10102 errors and can't log in :(

Same here, this is just greaat!

I wasn't logged in but I have same problem that is mostly error 10102 or error 90000

They didn't tell you to logout they said "We are beginning emergency maintenance."

When they want you to logout they usually give the message "We are beginning emergency maintenance. Please prepare to log out,"

Reading comprehension was a skill we should have learned in 4th grade.

they say that message without a logout notification because it's NOT the actual server but the lobby servers that are going down. That is my theory

they did that yesterday but with no maint u guys baited yourselves GG

I am, with zero delay, getting the cannot load na/eu server cluster error. Before, when the cluster was 'up' but I was unable to load them, I'd have to wait 5-12 seconds or so for the screen to load up and show the error. Now I get it immediately. Maybe that's a sign of maintenance? I know the status says they're up, but I've heard rumors that SE hasn't been keeping the statuses accurate during emergency maintenance lately.
I don't know though, this just an observation.

this is all great and all but what about the cases where people are forced to log out/shutdown the game

Experience from last time i decided to stay logged in and not been kicked so leveling up my crafting.

proly they trolled people to logout so others can login ;p

My connection drop this morning.. Now all i get is error 10102....

I saw the Maintenance warning, ignored it since it didn't say "Logoff", entered duty finder and got booted with the famous 90000 error. Now can't log on. Oh well, think its time to hit some old school Final Fantasy on NES for a bit.

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Originally Posted by Katsuo

Reading comprehension was a skill we should have learned in 4th grade.

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There's a lot of other things you learn to do in school, such as drawing conclusions, context clues, etc. Forgive me if I assumed they weren't giving me information I didn't actually need, or simply not enough information at all. When I see "emergency maintenance" I assume down time, like obviously more than a few people do. If it was just maintenance on login servers, they could have said (as they have previously in similar situations), "We are beginning emergency maintenance. Players currently connected will continue to be able to play, but logins will be disabled for the duration."

Remember those multiple choice questions with D) Not Enough Information in 4th grade math class word problems? That's because there are some things you can't just divine from the limited information you have. I'm not sure what grade they taught that in, but I guess you didn't make it that far.