Maintenance Watch

[NuadaAkali]

Hello everyone. I'm starting up this thread to track the progress of the patch as it progresses. Earlier, people were a bit frightened about how the launcher wasn't responding. Let me clear up the issue in my own words: the launcher was most likely down due to some of the "tasks" that the dev team was talking about in the maintenance notes. Perhaps they had to do something with the launcher that required them to restrict access to it. It's anyone's guess at this point.

But on to more demanding news! To those of you that do not know, the launcher is back up. The patch can be downloaded right now, but the servers are still down. They've most likely implemented the patch by now and are headed to work on splitting the servers up. This is good news imo, it may be possible for the game to be back up in a matter of hours, depending on how many more tasks they have to complete. In any case, I suggest going ahead and downloading the patch while the servers are still down, so your launcher will be patched when they open the servers back up.

I'll keep an eye on the patch progress and notes and update the thread with anymore relevant information. If anyone catches anything of note or has some theories on when the game may be playable again, feel free to post them here. We can have a discussion and answer any questions people may have that are still in the dark about the whole thing.

~Nudada Aka'li <3

EDIT 1: The servers should be coming up around 2:30am-3:00am EST if we're going by the maximum time that was listed in the patch notes. Currently, it's 9:34pm at the time of this edit, meaning there is only roughly 5:30 hours left until the servers come up. In the meantime, why not join our discussion? It helps to pass the time!

[Panthur]

Ouch. It's over 3 GB. Download limits suck!

[NuadaAkali]

Yeah, the download is really taxing. I think it's also re-downloading all the game files as well, I don't think a patch would consist of another 3GBs, but I could be wrong.

[Demonchld]

patch downloaded very fast no issues 3gb patch is nothing WoW is 20GB game now ff is now 10 gigs with this patch and the graphics and FF are amazing

[NuadaAkali]

Well, patching generally means changing certain aspects of a game and adding in new content. A lot of content was added in, but I still suspect a majority of it was just older files being updated. If it really is 10GBs now, then i'd be wondering what exactly 3GBs was added in if the major points of this update was to split up servers. 1GB is still unaccounted for because the original files only consist of 6GBs, give or take a few MBs.

EDIT: Never mind, I just re-read the patch notes and realized i'm speaking out of my butt on this one. It seems like adding in base content is a big majority of it, the other 1GB is probably updates to correspond with the improvements to their servers that is supposed to add in more flexibility on them when it comes to multiple instances being ran at the same time.

[kristerrr86]

Patch downloading i wont get any sleep tonight :P it might just open sooner

[NuadaAkali]

Patch downloading i wont get any sleep tonight :P it might just open sooner

Haha. I'll be right there with you :3 Patching is going to take forever though, only kind of internet service I get around here in DSL.

[Zastai]

FFXIV is set up with giant .dat files, and patches seem to redownload the whole file instead of trying to apply some binary delta. On the one hand, it's more download than needed (and unlimited broadband is not a global given); on the other, it's easier to verify that the files are what they're supposed to be. The PS3 patch is smaller btw - 2GB instead of 3GB.
It's certainly better than FF11 (where it downloaded 10000 small files slowly) for a patch.

[NuadaAkali]

FFXIV is set up with giant .dat files, and patches seem to redownload the whole file instead of trying to apply some binary delta. On the one hand, it's more download than needed (and unlimited broadband is not a global given); on the other, it's easier to verify that the files are what they're supposed to be. The PS3 patch is smaller btw - 2GB instead of 3GB.
It's certainly better than FF11 (where it downloaded 10000 small files slowly) for a patch.

Which is the point i'm attempting to make when it comes to download speeds. Personally, I think downloads could be reduced down to about 500 MBs per patch, maybe 1GB for content releases like this one. I play on PS3 as well, i'd probably say it's something to do with less graphics options and all those "little" benefits you get from the PC version.

[kristerrr86]

I have a really good connection so the patch downloaded in about 30 minutes now its just the wait o_0