Quote Originally Posted by Lithera View Post
Anyone stopped to think that the client download is on the datacenter servers which may not be booted back up and ready to go yet? Do you guys also want hourly tweets from the techs saying "There There...don't worry...the patch is still on time. Here's an instagram pic of one of the server stacks getting rewired". They're taking longer than previous patches to put the client update up but that can easily be technical problems.
As soon as you hit the FFXIV shortcut, that white window that pops up saying "checking update/launcher version" that's the server the patch information would be stored on. It's up and running. There's an ulterior motive behind delaying the patch.