Do we get the day back?

[Nezerius]

If other games push out patches relatively quickly without many problems, why can't it be done here?

Chances are that it has something to do with SE having to go through Sony to get the patch out on the PS4/3 as well, which might take up some time.

Games that are exclusive to PC, like WoW, don't have this issue, meaning it takes less time to push content patches out.

[ElHeggunte]

Compared to maintenances most games have? Yes, it's VERY long. Even the regular patches are longer than average compared to most games. Like WoW's for example, 1 hour usually vs the 3 XIV has.

What? WoW's maintenance periods are usually three hours (11am to 2pm EST). Are you thinking of restarts? Most games average several hours for regular maintenance, most of them also doing it weekly. XIV doesn't have weekly maintenance and only has these day-long periods every few months during major patches. For that matter, major patches aren't always accompanied by 24-hour downtime. So if we could stop pretending this game has long, regular periods of downtime, that'd be great.

I swear, you guys are ridiculous. Not a single one of you would likely have been online for anywhere near that full 24 hours anyway even if the servers weren't down, so piss off with these threads already. If you want monetary compensation so badly, go dig around for forgotten loose change in your couch cushions. You'll probably find more crumb-caked change down there than what SE would owe you for a day's worth of maintenance.

[Adire]

1)I didn't have any connection or buggy issues after HW. That's not to say other people didn't, however it was not an issue across the board. Maintenance/restarts/downtime affects all servers on WoW.

2) There are -no- maintenances that is 1 hour. 1 hour is simply for restarts and occur with the addition of *no* content at all, any content patches are far longer.

1) Not saying everyone did have connection/bug issues after HW, however some did (myself included) and server outages still happen occasionally. It happens in WoW, it happens here as well. I also personally have strange connection issues sometimes in FFXIV, mostly in dungeons, that I have nowhere else. I see others complain about it somewhat often as well, maybe it's an Aether thing.

2) https://us.battle.net/support/en/art...aking/20039305
This is how it usually goes in WoW.

Many of FFXIV's 3 hour patches are also incredibly tiny changes with no content added. 24 hour patches are also extremely rare in other games.

angry snip

Calm down. Look at the lodestone.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/category/2

As you can see from just this page, not even going back further than a month, FFXIV DOES have bouts of weekly maintenances. Not every single week since the game was launched, but for several weeks in a row every so often they do it. That's all I was saying. And please view the link I gave the other person.

And it's also not your place to be condescending about the value other people place on their money. A few cent to someone who works their butt off for it or doesn't have much money or just values their money more might consider the amount lost from a possibly unnecessarily long maintenance to be more impactful than you find it, and how is it your place to judge them for that or for simply asking questions about it?

Well gee Idk. The arguments I presented that you blatantly ignored.

• The size of this patch.
• The amount of processes that can create bugs.
• The amount of time it takes to check for bugs, despite a program doing this at an amazing speed for hours.

If your class said anything about how a MMORPG works. It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than just networking.

You don't think other MMOs have to deal with these things too? Yet somehow they manage to do it much faster. You don't think that's worth wondering about?

[Archvile78]

Sorry were you trying to say something?

N-Nothing...must've been my imagination. As if there could be thread of 80+ pages...still going to this day when it could've ended on page 2.

Hahaha..haha.haa... ;_;

[Lexia]

Um, what?

If other games push out patches relatively quickly without many problems, why can't it be done here?

Anyone that has played XIV for decent amount of time knows that SE doesn't do things like other companies do.

[Cleftobismal]

N-Nothing...must've been my imagination. As if there could be thread of 80+ pages...still going to this day when it could've ended on page 2.

Hahaha..haha.haa... ;_;

I stopped paying attention to it because of one word: Troll


As what I feel may be going on in this thread.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Calm down. Look at the lodestone.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/category/2

As you can see from just this page, not even going back further than a month, FFXIV DOES have bouts of weekly maintenances. Not every single week since the game was launched, but for several weeks in a row every so often they do it. That's all I was saying. And please view the link I gave the other person.

There are only 4 instance of All worlds maintenance in that link, 5 if you count the current patch. There is PSN maintenance , specific datacenter maintenance , lodestone and mogstation maintenance listed that bloats the maintenance list to look full of stuff.

So, going back to the start of November, there are only 4 that impact everyone.

Hardly a lot of impact there, and certainly not weekly.

[Cleftobismal]

You don't think other MMOs have to deal with these things too? Yet somehow they manage to do it much faster. You don't think that's worth wondering about?

http://www.360doc.com/content/09/011..._2341619.shtml


Are you saying this after you read this? Your answer you oh so passionately seek are in there.

Seriously.

Check the Security section on Cheat prevention and exploit.

+Data Management
+Code Quality (This Is OH SO IMPORTANT)
+Server side
+Just read the whole thing its a great read.


Personally. I've never in my life played a MMORPG where I ran into minimal bugs after a major patch. FFXIV seems to be the only game I can recall that achieved this. Yet those Bi weekly and weekly maint. mmo's everyone else on this thread seems to talk about just don't seem to cut it.

Not every bug can be found. That is a definite fact.


The amount of bugs resolved though is up to the team that runs the QA's. (Quality Assurance)

[Archvile78]

I stopped paying attention to it because of one word: Troll


As what I feel may be going on in this thread.

Same, though sometimes i get that morbid curiosity and check the thread to see how bad it's gotten. Though i suppose it's been shit since like page 3. |:

Sorry for the slight derailing~

[Adire]

I stopped paying attention to it because of one word: Troll


As what I feel may be going on in this thread.

Of course, anyone who disagrees with you or the popular viewpoint must be a troll.

There are only 4 instance of All worlds maintenance in that link, 5 if you count the current patch. There is PSN maintenance , specific datacenter maintenance , lodestone and mogstation maintenance listed that bloats the maintenance list to look full of stuff.

So, going back to the start of November, there are only 4 that impact everyone.

Those are the ones I'm talking about.

All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Nov. 2)
(5 day seperation)
All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 7)
(7 day seperation)
All Worlds Maintenance (Nov. 14)

I'm sure I can find more of this, even longer bouts actually that I recall, if you really want me to.

You're referred to as a troll because you've been talking nothing but nonsense the entire time.

Hit my daily post limit, but:

I disagree because this doughnut sucks.



Okay? Did it taste bad? Does it smell bad? Did it make you sick? Was it even made like a doughnut?


I view anyone as a troll who can't put up a reason what they hear, feel, saw, smell of whatever they're trying to argue.

The just because I say so is never gonna win me over to your side.

This guy posts this gem, and you're saying I'm talking nonsense. That's hilarious.

I've given him a very simple argument. What makes XIV a special case, why is it acceptable and understandable that it takes so much longer for minor and major patches than the average MMO?

All he continues to do is post link after link of walls of text that the average reader passing by will not read, that has no explanation at all of why XIV requires longer maintenances than other MMOs. Which I'm guessing is the oh-so-popular obfuscation of information technique employed on the official forums in debates. Post a link, people see you posted a link and might assume you've disproved the person you're debating with.

https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS

I see many lasting more than 1 hour and some on consecutive days.

I see far more 1 hour maintenances. Are we looking at the same page?