Duty Finder > Data centre (Primals Down?) 2002

[NightsOfTheLost]

To help lighten the situation, in order to make the merging of the new expansion, as leaky and less glitchy as possible, you need to do, not only week, but also weekend updates, whether is data, or patch info, to understand the flow of traffic during each time, weekend being the busiest, so since a new expansion is coming up, you need to understand, they have been patching and getting ready for it the last easy 6 months. Yeah it sucks, but it they want to make sure, all goes as smooth as possible for the millions of people buying the expansion. Sometimes sacrifices of time are made, so yes your paying for this and you can complain, but would you rather be all hyped and have a server not maintained that keeps crashing, as much as you would like to believe, stabilizing a server or several servers around the world with millions of players, is a tough task, i'm sure no one here will be crying when they play the other 90% of the time with little to no errors at all.

Food for thought.

[Aladire]

This has to be the worst time window for a maintenance ever in the history of gaming! I have never run across this on a weekend before.

To make matters worse, is that if you get dc from trying to get into a duty, then you cannot log back in. If you dc from internet issue in the world, you will be able to get on fine.

[Adire]

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Never played a game with an upcoming expansion with this problem before, maybe it's just me.

Also, they're only doing the maintenance on NA servers. So I doubt this is correct.

[Ryuko]

I think their biggest mistake was not having more visibility for this planned maintenance. Yes, it was on the lodestone... However, the usual "maintenance will be occurring" message was not there upon logging in to the launcher. So, a lot of people who are used to seeing it there (and feel no need to look at the lodestone) were caught by surprise. Also, as far as I noticed, that was no ingame notice or system message. I would have actually preferred if they just told us the servers would be down, rather than doing a live maintenance without notifying us of the maintenance through the client in the usual way. Anyway, I think I'm just going to give up and head to bed. I desperately need to catch up on sleep anyway.

If I had to guess about the live maintenance, I am hoping maybe they are testing server upgrades for Heavensward. After all, the game ALREADY has connection issues (not talking about just latency) during prime time, and that is only going to get 'worse' with more zones and more instances. So, I can only assume they plan to improve their datacenters in some way. That's really just a guess for me, because I can't think of much else they would do with a live maintenance. Maybe they will tell us when it's over.

[NightsOfTheLost]

Never played a game with an upcoming expansion with this problem before, maybe it's just me.

Also, they're only doing the maintenance on NA servers. So I doubt this is correct.

Yeah, why would you do this world wide when you can use lower man power and separate it for each time zone through the up coming weeks, saving money, time and authenticity for the game? Why save money or player time when we can just shut all of it down for a good day... Or do piece by piece insuring everything is done correctly. Unless you have been a server admin, consultant, tester, repair, programming or variable x,y, data testing, there is more to a server then most "gamers" understand. NA wont be the only ones feeling this before the patch, also have to consider time, people, those who translate two very different languages, not only through word, but mathematically,

[Elim]

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I don't think most people are upset about maintenance itself. People are more upset that there wasn't a warning that said, "BTW if you try to enter an instance you wont be able to log in for 7 hours lol".

[NightsOfTheLost]

I don't think most people are upset about maintenance themselves. People are more upset that there wasn't a warning that said, "BTW if you try to enter an instance you wont be able to log in for 7 hours lol".

Yeah but if you look only like 6 posts speak of "not knowing" the rest complain about the weekend, but I fully agree, the notice wasn't shared anywhere to what it should of been, which is bad managing on the senior programers.

[Mihana]

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Food for thought.

That food is spoiled. Much as I love this game and the work they put into it things have seldom EVER gone smoothly for them. Come expansion everyone will activate and there will be a whole slew of problems. I wouldn't be surprised if nearly the whole period of "Early Access" for pre-orders will be server downtime and the inability to connect to new areas like Ishgard and content. And expect it to multiply for up to the first week after everyone has access.

[Adire]

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That's assuming your theory is correct. As of this moment, we have no evidence pointing to such a claim being the case. And it still doesn't change the fact that I've experienced much more convenient maintenances done much less frequently in many other games with smoothly implemented expansions. So my technical knowledge or not, doing that is possible.

Still, assuming it even is, why pick the worst time of the worst day for the worst region for it? I'd love to back a slow, steady approach if it was done correctly and conveniently. This is not correctly or conveniently, however. I mean come on, they had a maintenance the other day where they took 4 hours to make the valentione outfit dyeable xD. They obviously have a bad sense of timing and prioritization.

[NightsOfTheLost]

That food is spoiled. Much as I love this game and the work they put into it things have seldom EVER gone smoothly for them. Come expansion everyone will activate and there will be a whole slew of problems. I wouldn't be surprised if nearly the whole period of "Early Access" for pre-orders will be server downtime and the inability to connect to new areas like Ishgard and content. And expect it to multiply for up to the first week after everyone has access.

I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, i imagine pre orders with basically be PRE alpha testing worldwide. Which yeah, but those who do make it in will see a whole new world open up, so kudos to those.