This is ridiculous Squeenix.

[l1ghtchas3r]

Guys, stop being rude. I wasn't rude, I was constructive. If I came off as rude I apologize, as that was not my intention. My boyfriend and I have very limited time to play and are upset by the 31 hours of maintenance in the last 72 hours. Being upset about that and offering suggestions isn't "dramatic" or "playing the victim".. it's actually quite the opposite and constructive. The people here calling names and attempting to psycho analyze random people on forums, however, are only being destructive. Please just stop. We don't need to be hateful or nasty.

[-Snowtiger-]

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

why not skyrim and fallout 4 are great

[CUTS3R]

why not skyrim and fallout 4 are great

And pretty much every GTA ever. :P

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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.

Except it isn't a flaw. The whole point of "emergency maintenance" is an unexpected issue occurred and they are fixing it. I mean, hey, they could just launch the patch and not update errors at all. But how long would it be until we saw threads crying "omg, Square! Fix your game!"?

Shock horror. Developers aren't perfect.

[-Snowtiger-]

Pick a day and do maintenance regularly, if you MUST do hotfixes or whatnot, have a sandbox or test server of some sort to figure things out on, get it together, THEN implement it quickly. This should have been more than dealt with within the 24 hours FFXIV was down for for this patch.

Players will beta test FOR you in order to experience the content first, find bugs and you can even cherry pick the players that will help you find bugs. Other companies have had sandboxes/test realms, it works.

I have never seen a game with this much random downtime. It shows blatant disregard for their customer's time. What difference does it make if they "fix things" if we can never play?

I did this any time Paragon did it. God i miss them...

[Culfinrandir]

I think the fact that Primal has had a lot of downtime since 3.4 may have made it seem that there's been far more maintenance than there actually has.

[l1ghtchas3r]

I think the fact that Primal has had a lot of downtime since 3.4 may have made it seem that there's been far more maintenance than there actually has.

Just Primal?

[Felis]

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.

Please point out the flaws in bug fixes

[l1ghtchas3r]

Please point out the flaws in bug fixes

The problem isn't in fixing bugs, obviously, the problem is that FFXIV was down for 31 hours in the last 72 hours (approx). This doesn't have to happen, there are ways around it.

[-Snowtiger-]

they don't refund the lost time either.... buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut BLIZZARD does! and they are asymmetrical GARBAGE!..... but they do that right at least.... also you can be a big mean cat.... i wanna be Nanaki.....