so whats the emergency maintenance for?

[Adire]

A large chunk of players being unable to play at all IS a game-breaking bug by its very definition.

Agreed, though it still doesn't change the fact that a ton of maintenances have listed very insignificant and non-urgent things only in notes.

Also, I'm not that savvy in this area, but couldn't this have been fixed without bringing the servers down? Especially since PC users are not affected at all.

[Raeletta]

You never player WoW i guess. They either restart ther Servers weekly or pull them down for 6h.

Uh, "many of them have weekly maint".

[GenJoe]

Uh, "many of them have weekly maint".

don't worry about her comprehension, she never took English classes in school I guess..


Anyway, I do feel like SE does way too many "hotfixes", this time it is unusual, but after any patch, they'll usually take it down the very next day for ~3 hours for hotfix meaning that some bug has slipped through the cracks and they weren't able to catch it before it went live.. This is why we need a test realm so we can test for bugs on a much larger scale instead of having a small in-house team testing them out.. Does anybody ever remember a single patch where it wasn't followed by a hotfix the day after?? I don't, I understand it's sometimes necessary but with FF14, it seems to be a 100% of the case.

[Dualblade]

Well if you live in NA, maint started around the time many would see as a good time to sleep (Not all, but many.) For the EU, this issue in paticular seemed to be affecting them the most if I'm correct so it was probably for the best in their case.

Really the hardest hit here are the JP players. Middle of the day for them.

[Adire]

I saw a thread a couple of days ago stating that EU PS4 users (I think it was) were able to pre-download the majority of the Heavensward content now, but it messed up the game version so they were unable to log in after doing that. The solution until now has been to re-download the game, all 15 GB or so. For a lot of players I believe that's more than a hassle.

It's possible this maintenance is to fix that problem server-side. A large chunk of players being unable to play at all IS a game-breaking bug by its very definition.

Well, it looks like people are going to have to reinstall the game anyways. I feel for you console players!

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A cookie for you sir!

That's what they had in TSW. A testlive version for players to assist in helping them find bugs and get feedback before finalizing the game's patch.

[Chiramu]

Well if you live in NA, maint started around the time many would see as a good time to sleep (Not all, but many.) For the EU, this issue in paticular seemed to be affecting them the most if I'm correct so it was probably for the best in their case.

Really the hardest hit here are the JP players. Middle of the day for them.

Afternoon>evening for JP location.

[EdgeFayth]

Today's maintenance is from 13:00 to 17:00 jp time (from lodestone: 日　時：2015年5月21日(木) 13:00より17:00頃まで). Acceptable, people usually work at this time.

[Airget]

Just in on the JP forums, the hotfix is for the PS3/PS4 heavensward pre-order issues.

Bad google translation:

Figured that was reason for emergency maint, since an issue where people who purchased heavensward on ps3/4 are unable to play because of some odd issue with the download that occured after inputting the code does warrant an emergency fix.

[Chihaya]

and this, quit whining and get back into the game (that queue)
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2ee12ed4256bfd

[Sicno]

By the way, it seems the update is up for download on PC. The servers are still down though.

EDIT: nvm, servers are up