Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Why is it taking as much time as a huge patch for hotfixes and how they doing infrastructure when they just said they couldn't add more to the servers from the chip shortage?

Infrastructure is more than servers.

They are probably doing routing updates and network changes in prep for the cross datacenter update.

[Hausti]

Where are the bait memes for this thread?
Come on guys ^^

[TaleraRistain]

No, it was never early morning NA. It was always 6pm - 11PM PST start time, unless emergency maint.

I didn't want to rely on potentially faulty memory so I looked back at the Lodestone. For the first couple of years I played, it was midnight to 3am PST.

I was curious why I remembered different times and it's because they also used to do NA/EU and JP separately.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I didn't want to rely on potentially faulty memory so I looked back at the Lodestone. For the first couple of years I played, it was midnight to 3am PST.

I was curious why I remembered different times and it's because they also used to do NA/EU and JP separately.

I don't think they did. Patches always released at the same time across servers so no region got content early.


They may have done hotfixes that late, but major patches used to be 12 hours, those times have shrunk.

We used to also have maint every week or 2, but not we sometimes go mo this without one.

Things have gotten much, much better.

[TaleraRistain]

I don't think they did. Patches always released at the same time across servers so no region got content early.

I just went back to 2014 and read from there forward to about 2019 on the Lodestone maint page. And they weren't flagged as Emergency. They did eventually stop doing it. I forget which page.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Servers being down for one evening is not the end of the world, play something else today.

[Andanie]

Final Fantasy maitenence usually come at "annoying" times for Westerners, but to be fair- they also are always consistently finished on time and the fixes and changes are implemented with little trouble? It's a trade off I think. They also don't' seem to have that many. My only issue with them is self imposed- I always forget.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I just went back to 2014 and read from there forward to about 2019 on the Lodestone maint page. And they weren't flagged as Emergency. They did eventually stop doing it. I forget which page.

Oct 2013 2.05 HotFixes
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...29f93cf6167e52

8pm - 3am PST

March 2015 10PM - 4am PST
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...1bbad63e282f2e

Dec 15, 2015
9p.m. to 3a.m. (PST)
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...160fecbd50a1be

Its always been this way.

Note, ALL of these are All Worlds Maintenance.

Specific world/datacenter maint happens at various times.

[Zachia]

Maintenance is Maintenance and it will always happen regardless of Where, when, why, who. My concern how ever how does a hotfix and maintenance on the server take 9 hours. Hotfixes for WoW didn't even cause servers to go down.

[SnowVix]

I don't know about you, but I'm going to paint some Warhammer models tonight! I'm sure my wife will appreciate me going to be earlier than normal as well.

I'm thinking Civ: Beyond Earth myself

Edit: and as I say that, it decides it doesn't want to start up.