so whats the emergency maintenance for?

[Dualblade]

They show up as "Online" on my end, checkin now.

Yep, in game.

[Solaria_Luna]

*snip/stuff*
Bad google translation:
"badly translated quote sinp."

I wish they'd just put that quote of the bad translation in the quote.

That being said: TL;DR: Basically they fixed that issue that EU had with their preorder code from the Heavensward code claim site. (I honestly think they allowed the codes to be entered too soon (the code that's supposed to be entered in PSN)...theirs should have also said 'Pending' too after entering the code on the site where you claim (I'm still waiting for mine).

[Adire]

The fix was apparently to prevent the issue from affecting anyone else. The people who have already pre-ordered have to reinstall.

[KisaiTenshi]

Most likely something incredibly minor that could easily wait until a regular maintenence, but this is SE we're talking about. Even Sega/Sonic Team had a better track record with this stuff in PSU, and that's saying a whole hell of a lot considering how they borked just about everything else in that game.

Oh for crying out loud. Emergency Maintenance = Someone found some way to exploit something and it's spreading rapidly, or the last patch was lagging/crashing people more than some set threshold. If it was an actual "emergency" eg A large chunk of internet connectivity falling into the ocean, requiring NOC's to rapidly route around damage, it would not be something within SE's power to rectify. The worst case scenario for a 2 hour maintenance is likely firewall/routing equipment changes, which in turn requires patching the servers and clients, albeit in minor ways.

If you noticed, the launcher/patcher AND the game client were both updated. The game client patch was the same size as last time. So you can logically draw a conclusion of something net-code related, otherwise no game client patch would have been necessary.

And no Sega does not have a good track record.
http://kotaku.com/pso2-update-brings...bug-1250176828

Some users reported that their free HDD space increased after downloading the update. Others reported entire games, such as Battlefield 3 or Final Fantasy XIV, or anime files being erased. Many PSO2 players reported unrelated data being wiped from their computer after downloading the update. It seems data that shares the same drive is affected.

Yeah... erasing stuff after an update... very very very bad.

[Treble]

Are others able to login? I'm gettin a white box poppin up when I try to login after puttin in my password sayin "Unable to perform version check. Version information is not consistent between FFXOV Boot, FFXIV Updater, and FFXIV Launcher. Please restart the game.

Anyone else seein this? is this just something that means the patching isnt done and its sayin servers are up by they actually aren't and its more of a bug? or is something actually wrong with my game now and I need halp with it.

[Raeletta]

Are others able to login? I'm gettin a white box poppin up when I try to login after puttin in my password sayin "Unable to perform version check. Version information is not consistent between FFXOV Boot, FFXIV Updater, and FFXIV Launcher. Please restart the game.

Anyone else seein this? is this just something that means the patching isnt done and its sayin servers are up by they actually aren't and its more of a bug? or is something actually wrong with my game now and I need halp with it.

Restart the launcher. Nearly every single update comes with an update to FFXIVboot first, so the launcher knows what to check for.

[Kiara1]

I dont care im just glad that for once the maintenance didn't affect me <3
So this is what it feels like! To be at work when theres a maintenance!

[KisaiTenshi]

and people are getting disconnected or lagged out left and right now.

[Solaria_Luna]

Mine is working fine, yup, when I tried to re-enter game from the start menu it sent me out with an update to the launcher, then updated the game itself after I signed in.

[BreathlessTao]

At this point, I'm like "can we please have one week before HW without a maintenance?"... :| (I'm quite sure we won't, for a good while, after it's released.)

Also: oh well, console again. And hey it's only EU region again! I just.... idek what to think anymore. :|