Emergency maintenance for...

[Abbul_Stonecleaver]

So my group lost precious hours of T13 learning for this? -_-

We won't get into T13 now until Sunday night. Mostly due to our own scheduling, but last night we were scheduled to start at the exact time maintenance began

[Magis]

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

Feb. 5, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Feb. 6, 2015 12:00 a.m. (PST)

3 Hours of maintenance.

WoW was: 5AM-11AM PST

6 hours of maintenance.

What are you talking about "all day"?

[Vrankyl]

Feb. 5, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Feb. 6, 2015 12:00 a.m. (PST)

3 Hours of maintenance.

WoW was: 5AM-11AM PST

6 hours of maintenance.

What are you talking about "all day"?

I think this post hits one the biggest reason why this is such a problem though. 5AM-11AM PST on a Tuesday the majority of NA is at work or school, vs the 9PM-12AM any day which is when us working adults get our play time in. Granted this is actually a NA issue since I know these times are actually based off of Japan times so they can do maintenance on all servers at once, it just sucks its always during my prime play time is all. Thankfully I have Dragon Age to occupy my time when this is down.

[Magis]

I think this post hits one the biggest reason why this is such a problem though. 5AM-11AM PST on a Tuesday the majority of NA is at work or school, vs the 9PM-12AM any day which is when us working adults get our play time in. Granted this is actually a NA issue since I know these times are actually based off of Japan times so they can do maintenance on all servers at once, it just sucks its always during my prime play time is all. Thankfully I have Dragon Age to occupy my time when this is down.

100% this is the problem, but complaining to SE about mandatory maintance which is outlined everywhere on the site that it happens is kinda pointless. Shits gonna go down, even if they aren't bug fixing something visible to you, they are still replacing hardware, running tests on the HDDs, fixing stuff server side that they don't want players to know about, etc.

Complaining cause Japan (or WoW's case West Coast US) are in a different time zone than you is pointless. MMO players knew this 5 years ago so why the hell are there now posts complaining about it?

[Noxifer]

Wait.... Maintenance didn't take the announced three hours.

Yes, the initial said:

[Date & Time]
Feb. 6, 2015 from 5:00 to 8:00 (GMT)

* The completion time may be subject to change.

But then the "FFXIV: ARR has been updated" notice said:

[Date & Time]
Feb. 6, 2015 at around 06:25 (GMT)

So shouldn't that mean that the maintenance only took one hour and twenty-five minutes? Or have I misunderstood something?

(Still, seems like a slightly too trivial thing for an emergency hotfix, though. I can agree with that.)

[Magis]

Wait.... Maintenance didn't take the announced three hours.

Yes, the initial said:

But then the "FFXIV: ARR has been updated" notice said:

So shouldn't that mean that the maintenance only took one hour and twenty-five minutes? Or have I misunderstood something?

(Still, seems like a slightly too trivial thing for an emergency hotfix, though. I can agree with that.)

Any change probably has to be unit tested, approved, pushed to the production servers, tested again, etc. It's not just changing a database entry. 1 hour and 20min sounds about right TBH.

[Transmigration]

Who cares? You're upset that they took the server down for a few hours to add something? You couldn't find anything else to do with your life during that time?

[Quesse]

Can I just say it?

I hate the cash shop.

There I said it. I feel better.

[Stihllodeing]

Blah blah endless complaining, guess we need a complete breakdown of what every employee at SE did during the maintenance to make people happy.

I want a full breakdown. Including but not limited to:

*What they ate for lunch.
*Who went out to smoke and who didn't.
*Who was supposed to be working and who got caught online surfing.
*Names of the pimps and pimpettes that went home for lunch for nookie.
*And last but not least, who had to go home early to take care of personal issues like: sick children, family emergencies, doctors appointments, etcetera (LOL excuses!)

Ya dig!!?

[HaelseMikiro]

Geeze, when WoW had downtime Tuesdays where the game would be offline for the whole day EST......

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

Feb. 5, 2015 9:00 p.m. to Feb. 6, 2015 12:00 a.m. (PST)

3 Hours of maintenance.

WoW was: 5AM-11AM PST

6 hours of maintenance.

What are you talking about "all day"?

Sorry mate, I think we just have different definitions of "all day".
I mean maintenance (or just really poor server stability, like during the early access to ARR) that makes quality service un-deliverable to customers for the majority of a calender day.
On occasions that WoW had this you'd see additional time added to your subscription, a la this screenshot