ANOTHER MAINTENANCE TODAY!

[whilke]

Just because you don't experience the bugs before a maintenance doesn't mean they aren't there. Someone found the bug, someone reported it (oft times not the same someone) and Square fixed it. This is how I hope my monthly fee is being spent, improving the game so that they can move on to future content. I don't mind waiting for said future content if it means the game isn't going to implode at that time.

The game is not going to implode if they bundle four maintenances a week into just one.

You guys do understand that when someone reports a bug it's not getting fixed the next day right?

1.) The bug is reported
2.) The bug is verified
3.) The bug is then found and fixed
4.) The bug is then tested (might go back to #3 a couple of times even)
5.) They put together a new server build
5.) They deploy the new build to an internal staging server to run their regression suite.

AND then they announce that in two days they will deploy those fixes to the production servers. Most bugs that are found by players are already going to be live on the servers for at least a week before that process can finish. What is a few more days?

[Mythrella]

Grinding from 56-60 on Yetis solo because you ran out of quests was good?

and since we're being nostalgic and the servers will be up shortly...I give you Baneus, Feb 2005:

EDIT: SERVERS UP, SERVERS UP, SERVERS UP

OMG it's Baneus.

I remember you.

In the mountains.

(I mean GD ♥)

[Gilraen]

The game is not going to implode if they bundle four maintenances a week into just one.

You guys do understand that when someone reports a bug it's not getting fixed the next day right?

1.) The bug is reported
2.) The bug is verified
3.) The bug is then found and fixed
4.) The bug is then tested (might go back to #3 a couple of times even)
5.) They put together a new server build
5.) They deploy the new build to an internal staging server to run their regression suite.

AND then they announce that in two days they will deploy those fixes to the production servers. Most bugs that are found by players are already going to be live on the servers for at least a week before that process can finish. What is a few more days?

Depending on the severity and impact if that bug, it can mean the difference between gaming as normal and a rollback. So far Square hasn't had to resort to a rollback but I think the backlash from a rollback would be far greater than what we have now.

[UltimaRose]

How about gathering all the bugs, exploits, hot fixes during the week and pick 1 day out of the week to take the servers down. A day that the entire player base is aware of, a day that we all expect it to be "maintenance day." Unless of course it's a critical bug, then by all means take the servers down. The random, frequent, excessive amount of downtime is ridiculous. No matter when they decide downtime, it's gonna screw someone over. But if we all expected that same 1 day a week is going to to be unavailable, I think it would be more understandable.

[JagerForrester]

*inserting viable solution

Make an "English Forum Maintenance Petition." Tally up a reasonable maintenance start time and ask SE to shift their schedule to accommodate it, regardless of their own data. If this petition idea won't work, suggest a better idea.

Let's see 18 pages of Players finding a suitable solution.

[Gucci_Charms]

#CryMeARiver

[Reiterpallasch]

I dont get why some people get upset when we post about constant maintenance. Do they work for SE or something? The post is clearly titled Maintenance. If you don't like it, don't come in and read.

Maybe because there are 50 other "ERMAGHERD! MERNTERNERNCE!" threads that could be posted in instead?

Posting in one thread keeps forum clutter down and keeps relevant information all in one spot. Sure, we don't work for SE, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't get upset when people take a big wet dump on the forums every time there's a maintenance, either.

[Grailer]

If they had 2 servers . Both mirror images of each other , They could fix one then shut down server , swap to the fixed one and bingo we didn't get any long downtime.

but wait that would be the smart choice.

[Eekiki]

If they had 2 servers . Both mirror images of each other , They could fix one then shut down server , swap to the fixed one and bingo we didn't get any long downtime.

but wait that would be the really, really expensive choice.

Fixed that for you. You do realize they have way more than two servers, don't you?

[Victor]

Thanks to this maintenance I was finally able to get the Boughbury Burning achievement, hurrah!