5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[ElysaProudmoore]

I know right? SE should never maintain the servers, surely that would be maximum uptime and everyone would love it right?

lol very cute

[Ryuko]

Wow! Thirty minutes after maintenance began and already ten pages of people complaining on the forums. This is amazing.

The internet is so fleeting... as soon as people can log back in, this thread will die, and everyone will get their FFXIV fix again. No one will complain... until another 'emergency maintenance' happens!

As for me, I'm just curious what could possible have warranted a five hour maintenance with less than 15 minutes notice. I seriously wonder what was broken, and I hope I find out.

[Phe]

why give a notice at all?

if they give us in coil or dungeons a message 13 min before the servers shut down,
we don't need a message at all.
just shut 'em down.

then i would be annoyed 13 mins later and the forum drama starts 13 mins later as well.

[Enkidoh]

Game suffers major technical issues: players angrily demand SE fix it immediately.
SE takes game offline for maintenance to actually fix said issues. Players angrily demand the servers be brought online again.

SE can't win - no matter what everything they do is wrong in players' eyes.

[Fumamyena]

Ok people, lets tell the whole community what the exploit or bug they found was before we go into maintenance so everyone can exploit it. The MMO is still only 6 months old, my how quickly people forget all of the problems games like WoW, FFXI, GW, SWG, EQ, and others had when they were first released. Leave it to the internet to be filled with trolls. If it is that detrimental to your existence that a video game is down for a few hours, you need to find other things to fill your time besides drinking Mountain Dew and eating Doritos in front of your computer (or PS3). You are all the same people demanding content, they give you content, then you complain about said content. The same content has a glitch because they cannot simulate 100k+ people using in every possible way because under a very specific circumstance a problem arises. They find the problem, and address it immediately and you complain.

[Fumamyena]

To the OP, maybe you should put a disclaimer on your FC charter that this is a new game and maintenance will happen if you cannot deal with it, you need not apply. Maybe then you wouldn't have to deal with mass exodus. I have a feeling based on your post they are not leaving due to the maintenance, they are leaving because your FC is filled with whiny trolls like yourself.

[Instrumentality]

Game suffers major technical issues: players angrily demand SE fix it immediately.
SE takes game offline for maintenance to actually fix said issues. Players angrily demand the servers be brought online again.

SE can't win - no matter what everything they do is wrong in players' eyes.

Yeah, but those people are crazy and we should all laugh at them.

[Shirai]

some of us actually dont have anything else to do... i dont have a social life, i just play video games all the time.

And you have nothing else to play in the mean time?

My excuse for being on the forums is that I am on the train home and forgot to bring my book.
So I have to get my drama from elsewhere.

[cotti]

do you teach an english in an university?

No, but it is the first time I actually used that expression. Double-checked it and now I got the rule. Thank you for the tip.

[Marionette]

Wow! Thirty minutes after maintenance began and already ten pages of people complaining on the forums. This is amazing.

The internet is so fleeting... as soon as people can log back in, this thread will die, and everyone will get their FFXIV fix again. No one will complain... until another 'emergency maintenance' happens!

As for me, I'm just curious what could possible have warranted a five hour maintenance with less than 15 minutes notice. I seriously wonder what was broken, and I hope I find out.

Well there is currently two thing posted in this that elude to it.

Twintania is apparently double divebombing.

And people are being randomly kicked out of dungeons.

Both of which are very big problems. But until we know more we cant confirm if these are the actual cause.