5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[Derceto]

"The numbers are pretty impressive: a total of 1.8 million players, who've made 6.71 million characters, and played for over 400 million hours' (about 1.57 million years) worth of gameplay time."[/I]

Perhaps you just need to learn to read between the lines. 1.8 million active players is nowhere near accurate as that number is their approximate total sales to date. This statement is nothing more than misleading info that makes the game look more popular than it really is. You know, positive publicity and all that, self induced.

Reference to SE's boasting that XIV surpassed XI's subscriber numbers by passing 600,000 concurrent subscribers, I am curious why they would not have announced other milestones. Such as.... 1,000,000 "concurrent" subscribers, then 1,500,000. In any case, you can keep taking media reports at face value if you'd like of course, but the truth is far from what people are told. Marketing words, nothing more.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Perhaps you just need to learn to read between the lines. 1.8 million active players is nowhere near accurate as that number is their approximate total sales to date. This statement is nothing more than misleading info that makes the game look more popular than it really is. You know, positive publicity and all that, self induced.

Reference to SE's boasting that XIV surpassed XI's subscriber numbers by passing 600,000 concurrent subscribers, I am curious why they would not have announced other milestones. Such as.... 1,000,000 "concurrent" subscribers, then 1,500,000. In any case, you can keep taking media reports at face value if you'd like of course, but the truth is far from what people are told. Marketing words, nothing more.

They have noted other milestones in other Interviews.

[Delorean]

hey guys lets whine about necessary maintenance to keep the game running in prime condition

that way they will stop doing so much maintenance and then we can play a game that doesn't work and complain about how we aren't getting our moneys worth and how they should fix all the problems in the game at the snap of our fingers

[MysticDreamz]

I have an acute case of Trolliosis. Give me a fix... oh wait. Too late.

[KogaDrake]

Its an MMO, big patches usually result in extr downtime in the week or two following. 2.16 made alot of changes and created some problems so we have some extra emergency maint this week. In a week or so everything will be back to normal with nearly no server down time, and the process will repeat again at 2.2, 2.25, 2.3....

Those who started playing 1 week ago talk about its all that happens because they only playing 1 week, a time which started right after a major patch. They are still in their "free" play time that came with the game and are not even truly playing to play yet and QQ as if they had paid for 6months and not been able to play at all..

Not that I like the extra downtime, but lets get real, it happens anytime major changes happen because the amount of code and how much things interact in ways one would never expect lets things get past internal testing and makes it to live and they need to fix things ASAP. sometimes it reverting a change (see issues in coil with 2.16) and sometimes it is making new bug fixes, and sometimes its protecting sensitive data (game or personal) that needed emergency no notice downtime. This happens in every MMO I have ever played (some have it much worse then XIV, some less so), and it is something I expect will be present in every MMO I play in the future.

[Mur4masa]

Snip

They sold 1.8m copies off the game and said they had 600k active subs.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/...g-subscribers/

That's one of the links, I actually first read it on another website. Still looking for it, it was on their facebook page.

[Noshpan]

That butter looks like a sad creeper.

[Lucke]

Which one are you?

Poster 1: "I'm right! You're wrong cause I said so!"
Poster 2: "You're not right, I'm right!"
Poster 3: "None of you are right. I have no opinion"
Poster 4: "I'm an IT Professional! hurrdurr!"
Poster 5: "I'm the voice of raisins! I mean reason!"
Poster 6: "Oh look! A unicorn!"

[Kimura410]

hey guys lets whine about necessary maintenance to keep the game running in prime condition

that way they will stop doing so much maintenance and then we can play a game that doesn't work and complain about how we aren't getting our moneys worth and how they should fix all the problems in the game at the snap of our fingers

Could not agree more. Id hate to be an mmo developer, you honestly cant please everyone. But youre right. When the controller bug was happening last week, people were like "this is unacceptable, they need to fix this NOW". but if they did it right then, people who scheduled raids that day would be upset. i think a half hour wouldve been a bit nicer or even an hour of notice so that raid teams could plan around it instead of being taken by surprise, but in the end, its a game, we will live. not the end of the world if we dont raid this day or that, or even if we miss an entire week. it happens. the game was unplayable on our raid night this past monday. i welcome the maintenance if it makes the game work.

[Nero]

They sold 1.8m copies off the game and said they had 600k active subs.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/...g-subscribers/

That's one of the links, I actually first read it on another website. Still looking for it, it was on their facebook page.

Yeah, i've seen that, but note that it is from early November 2013, so basically 4 full Months ago.



This one is from 2 weeks ago: click

"And with nearly two million active subscribers, you won’t find yourself wanting for company, either. Enjoy!"

Another recent one: click

" Since then, the game boasts a healthy 1.8 million active subscribers."

We can argue back and forth if that is total sales or actual active subs, or if they just say "active subs" out of the blue, so i hope SE does the same they did in XI and do a yearly Census, which will include the actual official numbers. Not to mention SE is "back into blacks" thanks to XIV and i am not sure, if that would have been possible with just "total sales" and 600k subs. But yeah.. lets just wait for official numbers.