Emergency maintenance for...

[Raist]

...Are people seriously complaining about not being able to play for THREE hours? For some cosmetic stuff? Really?

If anything, the break is good for everyone. The servers get a rest and can always do well from a refresh, and players can go find something else to do or call it a early night. Geez people, lmao.

The update took roughly 1.5 hours, not 3. Not sure when they actually came live again (was asleep... East Coast), but even if they stayed down for 3 hours it isn't all that unreasonable considering they may have bounced them in the process. It can take a good 30 minutes for a server to completely restart and get ALL services spinning up again.

Ever notice how long it takes for your PC/Laptop to do a complete power cycle and the hard drive to stop thrashing? That is a rotating disk, not an SSD. Your desktop comes up and the system appears to be booted, but in reality it is not. Some clients can churn for several minutes loading additional services and assets in the background after your desktop loads.

The delay is far worse on a server, more so for large clusters and arrays to be fully in synch and ready to go full bore again.

[dice137]

Regardless of the specifics, the servers weren't down all that long. There's little reason for the outrage, lol. Was it annoying if you had plans? Possibly, sure. But it ain't all that big of a deal.

[Giantbane]

Regardless of the specifics, the servers weren't down all that long. There's little reason for the outrage, lol. Was it annoying if you had plans? Possibly, sure. But it ain't all that big of a deal.

The issue is taking the game down at all just to make a few items dyeable. Doesn't seem like a good reason.

Although I have to admit I enjoyed the super A train hunts after the maintenance.

[Fynlar]

The update was able to be downloaded about 1.5 hours in. The servers themselves were still down for just about nearly the entire 3 hours.

[ExiaQuanta]

...Are people seriously complaining about not being able to play for THREE hours? For some cosmetic stuff? Really?

If anything, the break is good for everyone. The servers get a rest and can always do well from a refresh, and players can go find something else to do or call it a early night. Geez people, lmao.

I dont think they are annoyed at that fact that there was a 3 hour maintenance but are annoyed that the hotfix was for something complete "unimportant". IDK but pple have been finding issues here and there that can and could be game breaking and needs fixing. But instead, its for something along the lines of glamour.

[dice137]

I dont think they are annoyed at that fact that there was a 3 hour maintenance but are annoyed that the hotfix was for something complete "unimportant". IDK but pple have been finding issues here and there that can and could be game breaking and needs fixing. But instead, its for something along the lines of glamour.

I understand why people are upset. This was evident in the post I made last page. I think it's ridiculous to get THAT bothered over something so... trivial. So what if the servers went down for a while over cosmetic things? It's not the end of the world.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well this was more entertaining than playing the game itself

[Gilthas]

The issue is taking the game down at all just to make a few items dyeable. Doesn't seem like a good reason.

Why do people keep saying this? As MULTIPLE people have already mentioned, patch notes only contain visible changes to the game.

[Saseal]

Actually, ever since this emergency maint (I wasn't on at all when the maintenance happened, but was on this evening) the RMTs on Couerl..... have been pretty silent... o.o Got a total of maybe 5 or 6 for being on for 5ish hours o.o ...which is absolutely silent. o.o *Absolute bliss T^T*

o______o did they do something to help in the emerg maint, I wonder xD (Or am I in the Twilight Zone?)
If that was the case, I absolutely /bow /clap /thumbsup /rally /joy this emerg maint

(I just hope I'm not jumping the gun)

[Tauu]

This game does go down an awful lot. I don't have much time to play and it seems like 1/3 of the nights I get a chance to log in and get something done there's a maintenance. I don't remember FFXI being this way. Does this game go down every week?