5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[Siobahn]

What the hell kind of QA do you work in that a single mistake leads you to jail time?

Nuclear power. That whole "one mistake and people can't live within 50 miles for a long time" thing makes people uncomfortable when you say "oops."

[ReplicaX]

While the beta is using a dedicated world server, seems they are using the same instance servers as the rest of us. At least, that's my guess considering how hard it was hit on Monday after the restrictions were reset, much harder than it has been in weeks prior.

Have you read any of the changes with the Datacenters since launch? Instance servers have pre-assigned worlds. They are located in those pre-assigned worlds Datacenter (NA/EU and JP). They went even further to separate login congestion and gave the groups in each datacenter names:



Notice the groups are not mixed by physical location of the datacenters but grouped by physical location.

So again how does the PS4 beta which is located on the Japanese Datacenter effect the NA/EU Datacenter when each physical Datacenter has its own World Servers and Instance Servers.

[Instrumentality]

EQ launch was 1999. There weren't a TON of other MMO's to learn from back then. In 2014, you would think SE could do a little research in order to prevent repeating bad decisions made in MMO's of the past.

They're obviously working on fixing their problems?

This game's uptime isn't that bad, no matter how you shade it.

[necrosis]

I'm a new player within the last 2 weeks and my impression is that the game is either very laggy with multiple disconnects within dungeons or it's under maintenance. The first time I have ever seen an 10 hour downtime in any game happened last week.

Feb 26 - 5 hours
Feb 25 - 3 hours
Feb 21 - 3 hours
Feb 20 - 2 hours
Feb 19 - 10 hours
Feb 18 - 2 hours <-- This is when I started playing

So far, 25 hours of downtime since I started playing. That is more than a bit excessive.

10 hours overnight? Such inconvenient.

[tynanrii]

this would prob be answered if i toke the time to look , i am fairly new/returned back to game but is there no public test server that players can go into and test the patch's before they go live? that way square could find and squish the bugs before they come to the live server hence less maint and less whining , one other thing that drives me nuts is when a mmo company does these emergancy maint they never tell you whats wrong or what there fixing till after its over ,there has to be at least one poor sod in the office not doing anything that could be on there forums saying hey this broke and were trying to fix it.

[Xaosyn]

Some of you need to let us complain in peace please.
If you don't care about this 5 hours long maintenance then fine, go do something else.
They can't do a proper update without adding more bugs. This one might even add some more...
I'm sure lots of people have an exemple to demonstrate how this game is poorly coded.
Lots of content have recurring bugs and they couldn't care less.
If things had been done properly by competent people from the beginning, we wouldn't need that much maintenance.
If this game wasn't a Final fantasy, I would have been long gone.

[Ecks007]

So let me get this straight.

People from your Free Company are leaving because SE is fixing (possibly) game-breaking issues and stabilizing the servers to reduce (possible) lag?
Oh wow.

Btw, that emergency maintenance is only for the Primal Data Center, won't appearantly be affecting others, so.

:/ Well that sucks. I wasn't expecting yet another maintenance when we JUST had one last night for roughly 2-3 hours (that was suppose to have fixed the issues). Now we're expected to be down around 5 hours? This is a bit frustrating. How's a guy suppose to play on his day off?

I enjoy the game but it's kind of hard to enjoy a game when you can't play it.

[Tiggy]

Nuclear power. That whole "one mistake and people can't live within 50 miles for a long time" thing makes people uncomfortable when you say "oops."

Sounds like there is a big difference between a gaming company and nuclear power. I'm pretty sure we are capable of understanding how irrelevant the life and death situation of nuclear power is to gaming, and I'm sure we have the ability to put that into the correct perspective.

[Huginn]

He means pre-order 2.0 veterans who got all 50's in less than a week at launch and are the one's who screamed at everyone in Titan HM to FRKN DOJ PLUMES RILLY WOW. Those gaiz. -_-'

Understood. i now feel foolish for having posted that last entry as i see it looks a bit insulting. If i weren't so lazy i would look through and find it to edit, but i am lazyman mclazyton

[Kyrosiris]

Some of you need to let us complain in peace please.

Complaining out of one side of your mouth about issues and then the other side of your mouth when SE tries to fix said issues (i.e. via emergency maintenance) kinda makes you a hypocrite.

Just sayin'.