so whats the emergency maintenance for?

[Gilraen]

Blame Sony for this one, Sony Europe decided to let people activate the Heavensward pre-order codes too early. Some downloaded and installed the update and broke their games. There was a thread about it not the other day, had a GM post in it a couple times.

[FallenArisen0990]

Ugh, people complain about every little thing. You could get an item for free from SE and people will still complain how they didn't earn it or w/e.

[Cellia]

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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.

Exactly. This is precisely what I mean. They rush to fix too fast and end up costing us more down time when they mess up instead of at least trying to be "right first time". Its impossible to be 100% right first time but... at least appear to have the effort of it. I'd say its probably around 40% right first time since I started playing.

[Cellia]

There's a difference between a gamebreaking bug and an inconvenient bug. If it's gamebreaking, it's important to note it in patch/hotfix notes. How often do you see many of these in these emergency maintenances? I don't see them often. It's almost always small, insignificant, or non-urgent fixes/additions to the game.

These things can be thrown in with patches they needed to do anyways. They do not demand a separate maintenance every time they notice something is a little wrong.

Edit: Also, it should be noted that every maintenance takes away from our paid subscription time. Is it a lot of money going down the drain? No, but the principle is still there.

Ya this is also what I mean. Also like my last reply as well.
[off topic but screw this 1000 character limit...]

[Clavaat]

ITT: Non-software developers

"But that game does it this way! *pout pout pout*"

[Cellia]

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

the sega comment was supposed to be extreme sarcasm I'm sure lol.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Ugh, people complain about every little thing. You could get an item for free from SE and people will still complain how they didn't earn it or w/e.

Yep, that happened already with the free gold dyes everyone got when Square goofed up on its drop rate. People proceeded to complain that "everyone will have one now".

[Cellia]

and now im getting disconnected from the server. good job with that emergency update SE. lol...

[Voltron_HD]

Bad google translation:

"final fantasy XIV: blue sky I sugared" ROFLMAO!

[DukeBurden]

People cry cause the maintenances take away their play time. Losers, go do something else! Surely there are RL things to take care of or TV to catch up. Walk your dog, something!