Blue mage is a waste of potential, change my mind.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Hotfixes don't always mean "while the servers are live". The devs use hotfix as "outside normal planned maintenance" which is a valid definition.


People using this as an example of the devs not having a clue is just rediculous.

Hotfixes mean: Fixing issues that cannot wait till the regular patching schedule.
It's a software equivalent of "Hot-swapable" - To change during usage.

Hotfixes in almost every single videogame with server services are done server side without the need of stopping the service.

If SE is waiting on their "patch" schedule or "maintenance schedule" to do a hotfix, and they have to stop the service, then is not a hotfix by definition.

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So yeah, make of that what you want. Maybe SE does things their own way and they use the terminology in a misterious form beyond the life of us mere mortals whos hotfixes are server-side and with the whole system running. At worse, we might have to log back in or download some small packages of new data.

But yeah, the misterious ways of Square-Enix. Praise brother and sisters.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Hotfixes mean: Fixing issues that cannot wait till the regular patching schedule.
It's a software equivalent of "Hot-swapable" - To change during usage.

Hotfixes in almost every single videogame with server services are done server side without the need of stopping the service.

If SE is waiting on their "patch" schedule or "maintenance schedule" to do a hotfix, and they have to stop the service, then is not a hotfix by definition.

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So yeah, make of that what you want. Maybe SE does things their own way and they use the terminology in a misterious form beyond the life of us mere mortals whos hotfixes are server-side and with the whole system running. At worse, we might have to log back in or download some small packages of new data.

But yeah, the misterious ways of Square-Enix. Praise brother and sisters.

A hotfix is a software update designed to fix a bug or security hole in a program. Unlike typical version updates, hotfixes are urgently developed and released as soon as possible to limit the effects of the software issue. They are often released between incremental version updates.


There are many definitions of hotfix. Using one tailored to make the devs look bad just makes your point fail.

If you have a disagreement with what they do, better to state that directly than go " Oh, so if they can't even use this term right, they must be completely oblivious to whatever else they are doing."

[Alexandre_Noireau]

There are many definitions of hotfix. Using one tailored to make the devs look bad just makes your point fail.

If you have a disagreement with what they do, better to state that directly than go " Oh, so if they can't even use this term right, they must be completely oblivious to whatever else they are doing."

Im using the one that is the standart use for the industry and the MMORPG genre.

Again, if SE doesn't abide by that, all the power to them. But don't call a hotfix what is not a hotfix.
Is like calling a "hot-swappable" a piece of hardware that needs the PC to be shutdown to be installed, or having to download drivers for a "plug and play" divice.

There are of course more significant nuances to these terminologies, some that escape the domains of you (i presume, might be wrong) and i. But go outside the bubble of FFXIV, and check what the 99% of the developers out there mean by hotfix.
Words are more defined by their common usage than their intended one or their book definitions. Is how languages work.

For the gaming industry and MMORPGs, hotfixe means: Quick, without shutting servers, serverside bug/issue fixes that are out the normal maintenance/patch schedule. Anything else, is not a hotfix.