yo whats with these everyday maintenance tho?

[DCILuther]

I remember FFXIV having maintenance every other day back then too XD

[KazuneHypnotik]

most mmo ive played only have it once a week and its not 4 hrs long..
2 at most

Yeah, it feels like we are paying for maintenance instead of paying to play the game. I understand that HW is still new but still.. 4 hours?? You would think with all the 4 hour maintenances that they would fix the problems lol. Owell, I have a few movies to watch anyways :P

[Ayuhra]

I'm still curious what this maintenance is for. I've accepted the time off but to know what it's for would be nice. : )

Honestly it wouldn't shock me if this thread has something to do with it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...al-node.-Money!

[Rekujin]

The problem lies with XIV not having PTR servers (Player Tested Realms) so they always release expansions/patches without any thorough testing... then we suffer in the end from 4-hour long maintenances 2 to 3 times a week :\ It's unacceptable. I have no problem with emergency maintenance like the one today, but having the servers go down 2-3 times a week is just poor service, especially for Oceanic players who get hit right through prime time every single time.

Hot Fixes shouldn't take 4 hours, at most a server restart is enough.. 15 minute downtime, even an hour... but 4? It's pretty bad when you see a major patch come out and you automatically say "welp, time for maintenance 3 times a week"

[Zumi]

The problem lies with XIV not having PTR servers (Player Tested Realms) so they always release expansions/patches without any thorough testing... then we suffer in the end from 4-hour long maintenances 2 to 3 times a week :\ It's unacceptable. I have no problem with emergency maintenance like the one today, but having the servers go down 2-3 times a week is just poor service, especially for Oceanic players who get hit right through prime time every single time.

Hot Fixes shouldn't take 4 hours, at most a server restart is enough.. 15 minute downtime, even an hour... but 4? It's pretty bad when you see a major patch come out and you automatically say "welp, time for maintenance 3 times a week"

FFXI had a test server and only like maybe 3 people would play it at a time and it didn't acomplish much.

[Inferiae]

Honestly it wouldn't shock me if this thread has something to do with it: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...al-node.-Money!

It's been there since launch (I've capped crystals about two times already). If it was an issue, they wouldn't make an emergency maintenance in prime time, specially since it's only clusters.

[Rekujin]

FFXI had a test server and only like maybe 3 people would play it at a time and it didn't acomplish much.

FFXI would only go down once a month for 2 hours, mind you that was after 2 expansions... so I guess their dev team learned a lot. It's 2015 though, seems pretty crazy we still have these tech issues

[Gwyenne]

Emergency maintenance


.....Emergency

E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y

As in.. something went wrong.

[Sapphic]

It's been there since launch (I've capped crystals about two times already). If it was an issue, they wouldn't make an emergency maintenance in prime time, specially since it's only clusters.

Also they would have the deleted the post talking about it.

[Brundlefly]

Not to try and put down the dev team, but having to constantly do maintenance on the game is a sign of poor skills on somebodys end. I love FFXIV and all, but I've never played a game (mmos included) with so many long maintenances. I pretty much expect at least 3-4 maintenances a week after HW launched.

You must not know much about software development or what happens during maintenance. Most of the time they take care of backups and QA test patches that were just put in. So the next time your character data gets corrupted, which in my case has been never (sign of skilled employees), you can thank SE for having backups of your data.