Greetings,

Thank you for the feedback on instanced content and your experience with the initial release of Patch 4.2. We apologize for any inconveniences that were caused by these server issues during the first few hours of the patch release.

In our first follow-up on the Lodestone, Yoshida mentioned that we would be considering extending the play time of affected service accounts.

As a result of the length of the Patch 4.2 maintenance and the subsequent emergency maintenance required to address the instance server issues, we have decided to extend the play time of all service accounts with active subscriptions as of January 30 by 1 day. Information on qualifying service accounts can be found on this Lodestone post.

Again, we would like to sincerely apologize for the emergency maintenance and the inconvenience this caused for players who had been looking forward to the release of Patch 4.2. We appreciate the feedback offered and hope that you will continue to enjoy FINAL FANTASY XIV.