This is ridiculous Squeenix.

[Tint]

Can we please have at least one day without emergency maintenance?

do you even know what "emergency" means? an emergency maintenance is nothing wich you can decide not to have. emergencys happen.

[MrPresident]

Why are there always so many apologists whenever someone points out a potential flaw? I'll never understand the strange fan base of this game.

[Eul]

There's been about as much downtime because of 3.4 as Eve Online has in a dozen major patches. I'm not even exaggerating. Can we please have at least one day without emergency maintenance?

Do you want game with bugs? Because that's how you get game with bugs.

[Jandor]

Eve Online has some of the best servers in the gaming world.

And they take those servers down to do maintenance every day at 11am GMT. I'm not sure about nowadays, but it used to last about half an hour to an hour.

[Tint]

Why are there always so many apologists whenever someone points out a potential flaw? I'll never understand the strange fan base of this game.

because the point of the maintenance is to fix an actual flaw ^^

[Zafrei]

isn't this the 1st emergency maint. since 3.4 hit?

Second. First time I've played during a patch launch and I've got to say I'm with OP. In total we're talking 32 hours downtime. Never have I played an mmo where a patch required an initial 24 hours in the first place, or an MMO where a further eight hours of emergency hotfix time is required. Sure stuff happens, but why are timings so long for FFXIV?

Also when emergency maint has been required in other mmos I've played, it's a shorter time period and we're given some details as to what the fixes actually are.

[ColorOfSakura]

There's been about as much downtime because of 3.4 as Eve Online has in a dozen major patches. I'm not even exaggerating. Can we please have at least one day without emergency maintenance?

Monday - Maintenance To implement the patch
Tuesday - No Maintenance
Wednesday - Secondary Maintenance to hot fix any initial bugs plus allow for them to implement Gatherer/Crafter reset stuff (as they've done since like...3.05) - Two hours
Thursday - Emergency Hotfix Maintenance due to possible game breaking bugs or exploits. - Projected for three hours, possibly shorter.

We had one day without emergency maintenance. It was /PATCH DAY/. Wednesday's maintenance is a normal thing with every major patch and has been since they moved crafting/gathering reset to Thursday.

Two hours on one day and three hours on the next isn't world ending. At least the game gets fixed in a timely manner. As opposed to certain other games which sit on massive bugs for weeks to months before anything is done about them.

[mp-please]

Meanwhile on games managed by nexon we have 8-12 hours weekly maints, most likely extended for another 5 hours for no actual reason, no fixes or patches and servers crash left and right after a couple of hours servers are up.

It's great.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

Thursdays maintenance was expected because if you remember they did the same thing in 3.3. Servers went down in 48h after patch went live to add crafting/gathering for thursday. Also, it's common for them to finish maintenance early.

[CUTS3R]

I know this one is for a WT bug but, why didn't they just fix it during yesterday maintenance? They were probably already aware of the issue.



Speaking of yesterday maintenance, what was it for?