ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TODAY!

[Felis]

For people saying it hasn't been that bad, must be have bedtimes at 9pm. The rest of us night owls this affects us. Just look at the amount of maintenance for the last month..




What's going on? They said in this one tonight its for overcrowded issues. I haven't seen that problem since EA...

Can you filter out all the maintenances that have nothing to do with game servers at least?

[Yoona]

An early one too. Aren't you guys sick of it? It seems like SE is deleting all posts related to maintenance complaints.

Confirmed SE is deleting them.

Confirmed sick of these maintenances every two days.

[Rekujen]

All MMORPG I ever played had a set day every week in which the game would be brought down for the weekly maintenance. It's not different with FFXIV.

lol, except FFXIV is every 2-3 days, not weekly.

[MageBlack]

There's been a simple solution offered several times. I'm sorry if you didn't get it.

Do weekly maintenance once a week like practically every other MMO on the market. If it really is an emergency maintenance the servers should be going down now, not after a 24h notice. Emergencies are unavoidable and you have to live with them, but you can't schedule an emergency. If the issue is okay to stay live for the next one or two days then it's also okay to stay live for the next four days until your next normal maintenance window.

People are in this much of an outrage with 24hours notice, could you imagine the uproar with an hours notice?

Besides that, Looking at that one screenshot of maintenance's, i see a lot of those are either followup or PS3 specific, or they are planned maintenance's. the odd emergency maintenance isnt really that bad. Are you honestly suggesting they are labeling a maintence that isnt urgent as an emergency? I don't think it is SE's preference to have this many service interruptions. Or do you think they do this "just cause"? I'm just confused as to what reasoning you think SE is using here. Not trying to be rude, just trying to understand.

If you read between the lines:

1. For actual emergencies bring the servers down and then up again as soon as possible. People are going to be annoyed no matter what you do anyway....
2. For everything else not deemed urgent, roll it into regular maintenance (Tuesdays).

For the record, I expected this and am expecting it for at least another couple of months. What I wasn't expecting was SE would pick such unusual timings. 1800-2000GMT would put it at early morning Japan Time, mid morning for most Oceanic players and early afternoon for NA customers, Hardly what I'd consider prime time.

I think this is what they are doing already. I'm pretty sure SE would prefer as few interruptions and as little downtime during them as possible. I don't think they enjoy all this maintenance any more than the players do...

[whilke]

People are in this much of an outrage with 24hours notice, could you imagine the uproar with an hours notice?

I think this is what they are doing already. I'm pretty sure SE would prefer as few interruptions and as little downtime during them as possible. I don't think they enjoy all this maintenance any more than the players do...

People are not in an outrage because we are only given 24h notice. People are upset by the sheer volume of maintenance's that are taking place.

What is the emergency that has to wait 24-48 hours before they fix it? That's not an emergency. If the issue is okay to be live for 24-48 hours already, then it's probably okay to be live for a couple of more days and just have one weekly maintenance like every other MMO on the market.

SE has had 10 outages over the past 37 days for just the NA/EU data center (causing you to not be able to play). That's a maintenance very 3-4 days. How is that even remotely acceptable to anyone? F2P games have better up time, and still get issues fixed.

[Serial_Killer]

Confirmed SE is deleting them.

Confirmed sick of these maintenances every two days.

Yes they are. I know it for sure this time because another one of my main posts got deleted too. Looks like they're trying to hide this issue as much as possible.

[Sinth]

Yes they are. I know it for sure this time because another one of my main posts got deleted too. Looks like they're trying to hide this issue as much as possible.

Right, its a massive coverup of the maintenance... that they post about... it totally couldn't be that there are redundant, duplicate, absolutely useless complaint threads... could it?

[Duuude007]

For people saying it hasn't been that bad, must be have bedtimes at 9pm. The rest of us night owls this affects us. Just look at the amount of maintenance for the last month..




What's going on? They said in this one tonight its for overcrowded issues. I haven't seen that problem since EA...

Let see, you are on an NA/EU server, playing on PC, and you think all forty of these messages are separate instances of maintenance that apply directly too you?

More like Fourteen.

Filtered.

[Sinth]

Let see, you are on an NA/EU server, playing on PC, and you think all forty of these messages are separate instances of maintenance that apply directly too you?

More like Fourteen.

Filtered.

More like 6 after you remove the emergency maintenance (unscheduled) and follow-ups.

[Duuude007]

More like 6 after you remove the emergency maintenance (unscheduled) and follow-ups.

So 6/40 of his list, to make his point, were even applicable to his argument.

Ama-za-zing.