Emergency maintenance for...

[HaelseMikiro]

In other news, a local McDonalds closed it's store for 3 hours during the dinner rush to fix one of the grills.

But they also added a new Sandwich to the menu board.

[Hyouretsuzan]

Maint is old news now. Why are people still talking about this?

[Magis]

Maint is old news now. Why are people still talking about this?

Also the fact maintenance is a fact of MMOs. Is this everyone first MMO or something? Geeze, when WoW had downtime Tuesdays where the game would be offline for the whole day EST, these complainers would have freaked! There wasn't even patches going on, it was just regular server maintenance.

[Black91CRX]

i wasn't even home. So I'm fine with it...lol

[HaelseMikiro]

Also the fact maintenance is a fact of MMOs. Is this everyone first MMO or something? Geeze, when WoW had downtime Tuesdays where the game would be offline for the whole day EST, these complainers would have freaked! There wasn't even patches going on, it was just regular server maintenance.

when WoW had downtime for an entire day, all subscribers received 1 extra day to their subscriptions too

[Feyniphia]

I'm... extremely disappointed in SE right now... They have more important to fix and HAD to EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN the server for 3 hours just to make some stuff dyeable... not sure what to say to be honest... but SE, please be smarter on how you hotfix the game. This could have waited till next patch. Thanks.

[Lexia]

I see a lot saying about server maintenance and shutting down/rebooting and all that stuff but that not the case is I think people are upset that all that was done was make some gear dyeable. Cause it did say it was 2.5 hotfixes meaning dealing with the game not the servers running it. SE has stated in the past that they were taking servers down to work on servers or databases. I understand it takes time to do these changes and all that stuff but the point is it was not needed the dyeable gear could of waited until later time you know say 2.51 on the 24th?

[Raist]

Go back and look at the maintenance window histories... there are a lot that don't list anything that was done. It's because they did things that didn't adjust game features in any way, but were tweaks, adjustments to software/hardware--it could even be things akin to Windows Update. Do you really expect them to list out every little thing done to the servers? And yes... some of those things can take a long time to do. I can remember having to baby-sit AS400's for hours on end feeding hem CD's for RPM updates....a lot of which were just updates to OS features.

3 Hours is a drop in the bucket in the scope of large-scale server maintenance. I've worked with shopping cart systems that would take 2 hours of downtime weekly just to synch data and run a full backup--nightly downtime for differentials would sometimes still take a good 45 minutes of downtime (not all clients trust "live" backups of critical databases, so they may replicate or simply take them offline for backing up).

[Shiki_Lockhart]

I was sleeping as usual so maintenances are never a bother for me

[CYoung187]

Yep making a few items dyeable was all they did. Blah blah endless complaining, guess we need a complete breakdown of what every employee at SE did during the maintenance to make people happy.