Emergency maintenance for...

[Gunspec]

I noticed a horde of multiboxers in Eastern Thanalan the day of the emergency maintenance, and they seemed to be up to more than their usual shenanigans. They were just winking in and out of the zone, standing two feet from a low level quest npc, all of the bots being low level themselves. They were there most of the day, and weren't there after the patch. Could be entirely unrelated, but if they were somehow repeating a quest for a silver or gold allagan piece reward, they would be raking in tons of gil per minute.

If such an exploit were discovered, SE would obviously do an emergency maintenance to remove the issue, but wouldn't list that specific info in a patch note so that Gil sellers would not be warned. And assuming the dyeable valentine's day clothing was already finished and in queue to be added to the next hotfix, THAT data would have been announced in place of the offending exploit.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

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?

I think that's just on your end. I've seen very little emergency maintenance's while playing this game.

[kyuven]

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?

The game goes down about once a week for 3 hours unless there's a big patch, which happens once a month.
They've been shifting when this downtime is so the same group of players (aside from those who play 12+ hours a day) won't be affected by the same maintenance twice.
I'd say in a given month there's 1 major patch and 2-3 emergency patches. Sometimes more in a month with a large patch.
I've seen much, much worse. It's really about average for an MMO that isn't 10+ years old.

[BobbinT]

You know... I actually don't really mind (albeit still questioning) if that latest maintenance was just for pure maintenance, since it does happen several times.

But what ticks me the most is the unnecessary glamour update. Can't they just do that on a quite major hotfix/patch instead of wasting several hours of ppl's game time?

[Roris]

You know... I actually don't really mind (albeit still questioning) if that latest maintenance was just for pure maintenance, since it does happen several times.

But what ticks me the most is the unnecessary glamour update. Can't they just do that on a quite major hotfix/patch instead of wasting several hours of ppl's game time?

The hastily put together coding, especially the server code and server architecture, really shines through. Just look at all the launch issues it had that were almost entirely server related, more so than the usual MMO issues, with some of them still being there. Hopefully they've been working on it and refining for Heavensward but I wouldn't hope for a lot. Remake or not the game itself is almost 5 years old, there's pretty much no excuse.

[Gralna]

The hastily put together coding, especially the server code and server architecture, really shines through. Just look at all the launch issues it had that were almost entirely server related, more so than the usual MMO issues, with some of them still being there. Hopefully they've been working on it and refining for Heavensward but I wouldn't hope for a lot. Remake or not the game itself is almost 5 years old, there's pretty much no excuse.

Server issues at launch were from servers being overstressed, there were way more people logging in than SE had anticipated.

[Roris]

Server issues at launch were from servers being overstressed, there were way more people logging in than SE had anticipated.

Nah, that's the usual server stress, they did a couple of other questionable things like keeping a player's session on pretty much indefinitely, that's why lots of people including me got stuck in limbo for almost 3 days without being able to play. It's part of their bad server coding in general, while some of that got addressed early on it still needs work.

[Calypsx]

It was worth it. My now pink Valentione outfit is super cute. Fashion always comes first.

[Songi]

Thank you SE for the dyeable event gear!

[BobbinT]

It was worth it. My now pink Valentione outfit is super cute. Fashion always comes first.

lol good for you. Wish I have a date here so I could at least revel. XD