Emergency maintenance for...

[Atomnium]

3 hours to make a few cash shop items dyeable? Come on SE, you can do better than this.

Fixed it for you.

They are not cash shop items if you did the event last year ^^

Felis is always around to troll people bad kitty!

[Magis]

And seriously... indulge me this:

How come Final Fantasy XI can do partial maintenance, where players don't even have to log out (usually just have to zone out from affected zones), and Final Fantasy XIV - A "Realm Reborn", has to do a "full" logout maintenance everytime?

I've been pointing this out in various thread many... many times. Could someone really explain and not treating us like fools?

This isn't just a server side fix. They are going to release a patch. They can't activate the servers till that new patch is deployed otherwise people will log in with outdated clients or try to login with new clients on outdated servers.

[Kenji1134]

What I would like to know is, why does an emergency maint have to happen on the exact day and time that my ceremony of eternal bonding was planned, 2 weeks in advance... For such a trivial hotfix...
What was fixed? Who was complaining?

[SayuriHime]

They did more than that... now...

[kyuven]

Here's how I see it:
"OK we finished our backend stuff, tweaked this and that...are we ready?"
"No, we need a changelog! Something to justify to the players why we took the servers down!"
"Crap, we can't tell them what we ACTUALLY did! Just, um...ummm...we were planning to make those silly valentine's day outfits dyeable, right?"
"I don't think so...we haven't made seasonal items dyeable before?"
"But SOMEONE did work on it. Quick, throw it in there and post a changelog. Better they think we took the servers down for something stupid than for nothing."
"What DID we actually do?"
"Removed Ogawa's Minecraft data."
"Really?"
"Yeah. How it got on there in the first place is beyond me. Also, we totally case modded the whole thing. They have racing stripes now!"

[Elazu]

#lodestone

[LineageRazor]

For folks suggesting this could have waited for the next patch...

We're in the Valentione's Day event period NOW. NOW is when the vast majority of folks who would be willing to fork over real-life cash for these glamour items at all are more likely to do it. They want to boost sales of that product, and making them dyable certainly DOES make them more attractive as a purchase.

Certianly, there are folks who would be willing to buy them outside of the holiday season it was created for, but from a business perspective this was a pretty wise move. It is unlikely that even the people most pissed off about this "frivolous" maintenance will actually quit the game over it, so there's essentially nothing for them to lose, and lots for them to gain.

I'd imagine they TRIED to get the dyable version out for the last update, but weren't able to manage it in time. Rather than miss the opportunity entirely, they decided on emergency maintenance to patch it in. I doubt it's something they'll make a habit of doing - but I also doubt that they'll hesitate before doing it again in the future, if they think it's worthwhile.

[Atomnium]

We're in the Valentione's Day event period NOW. NOW is when the vast majority of folks who would be willing to fork over real-life cash for these glamour items at all are more likely to do it. They want to boost sales of that product, and making them dyable certainly DOES make them more attractive as a purchase ... from a business perspective this was a pretty wise move. It is unlikely that even the people most pissed off about this "frivolous" maintenance will actually quit the game over it, so there's essentially nothing for them to lose, and lots for them to gain.

So yeah, meanwhile they ruined wedding days of people like Kenji just to make some more extra cash, that's not what I call respect to their customers in a p2p game :

What I would like to know is, why does an emergency maint have to happen on the exact day and time that my ceremony of eternal bonding was planned, 2 weeks in advance...

I feel sorry for you Kenji, I'm a bit disgusted to say the least.
3.0 better be mind blowing with months of contents to look forward at with all money they are actually getting from cash shop -.-;

[SendohJin]

Al that is necessary is already in the EULA.
You get what you signed up for, nothing less.

and apparently nothing more, which is the difference between good companies and bad companies.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Yes. You guys are right. SE is a horrible company, atrocious, the worst out there. Because they did an emergency 3 hour maintenance for god knows what and some dyeable items.

If that bothers you to the point where you feel offended by their audacity to run a maintenance whenever they feel the need to and for whatever reason, feel free to quit.

Either that, or grow a backbone and live with this minor inconvenience that occurred in your life.

Gods forbid you actually have to deal with a real problem.