Maintenance during prime evening time for NA servers

[Iscah]

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.

Why be concerned? Whatever they're doing, it's something they've planned to do that may take that much time. It's not like they're going to have the servers down longer than they actually need to.

And if what they're working on isn't strictly what they've said in the one-line description, there's no point fretting over that either.

[RitsukoSonoda]

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.

Nah WoW just went down regularly outside of maintenance when I played it during the original launch. If you look at the full notes aside from the hotfix it's also for infrastructure maintenance. The latter part of that being the more time intensive part of it.

[Zachia]

oh where are these notes if i my ask ?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

oh where are these notes if i my ask ?

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...3c39765fe37b24

They are likely making adjustments which may include cabling changes, new switches, etc, in prep for the cross datacenter functionality.

[StriderShinryu]

For those who are for some reason concerned, also keep in mind that any number they're giving is essentially an expected maximum outage. It's better for them to say "It'll take until 10" but get things back up by 8 rather than say "It'll take until 8" but then have it go over estimate and take until 10. They'll get a lot less flack for coming back up "early" than they would be coming back up "late," especially if people have planned around getting in game as soon as the servers were scheduled to go back up.

[TaleraRistain]

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.

I mean if you want to cherry pick things to look correct, go ahead. Go back to about page 53 and there are plenty of instances of maint at 12 to 3 or 11 to 2/3 or sometimes specific NA/EU that is 11 to 6, including one that involved infrastructure. Even the one that did some major structural changes was midnight to midnight. It's been a gradual drift earlier and earlier over the years, but it was much later for an extended period of time in the early game.

[RexVex]

Maintenance will always been at a prime time for someone. No matter what, there will always be someone who is unhappy with the time, and technically, not everyone will win when it comes to maintenance time.

[Fyrebrand]

I have some bad news for everyone. Yoshi-P accidentally spilled his coffee on the office computer, frying the hard drive. That was the hard drive Final Fantasy XIV was being stored on, and there were no back-ups. Now they will have to remake the entire game from scratch, reusing graphical assets from FFXI and FFXII. Please look forward to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Revengeance, releasing in winter 2023.

[Vahlnir]

I have some bad news for everyone. Yoshi-P accidentally spilled his coffee on the office computer, frying the hard drive. That was the hard drive Final Fantasy XIV was being stored on, and there were no back-ups. Now they will have to remake the entire game from scratch, reusing graphical assets from FFXI and FFXII. Please look forward to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Revengeance, releasing in winter 2023.

[Darkpaw]

Funny that no one pieced together the fact that “server infrastructure” is probably needed for the implementation of cross data center play, which will launch before Endwalker so they can do live troubleshooting. So it’s not really anyone’s fault so much as it is they are ya know. Fulfilling their word to the fans.

Also they are probably updating some of their firewalls and such to try and prevent more DDOS attacks so yeh just food fod thought.