server maintenence ruins the "predict the fall of garuda" event?

[Kinseykinz]

I think Bayohne must have /heart attack when he saw the 5hr maintenance at home, too.
lots angry ppl will pop.

Rabble Rabbe Rabble!!

OMG DELI! You Did It! You gave yourself a tail! ...You're like 'Franken-galka' now

[Azurymber]

People need to quit QQing over this stuff. It's not the current dev teams fault that everything they have to work with is crap. If you're looking for someone to point a finger at it should be Tanaka. If his crap ass team didn't screw everything up from the start we wouldn't be dealing with this sort of thing. We should all be thankful that Yoshi-P and his team are working hard making the best of a bad situation on top of having the responsibility of 2.0. Cut them a little slack. If you're greeding that hard about winning a piece of gear or that upset over the fact that this could in turn effect the outcome, then you're looking down a pretty narrow hall. Especially considering that for the most part these weapons still aren't as good as Ifrit weapons.

You can't blame tanaka for server issues. If this team were competent they would design things to work with the bad servers. Instead you get stuff like ifrit where half your party gets hit when they are nowhere near cracks or lava due to server lag. The current team just ignores all the server problems and assumes things will work.

For example there is no reason why anyone should get "cannot enter because of server congestion." If thats going to happen, put a queue in. It's not exactly a huge programming feat to do that.

This team is a mess.
They instanced the entire world, in a game where instances don't work well
They built fights that require exact timing in a game where most ppl have server lag
They somehow managed to mess their server merge up so ppl randomly disconnect every 5 minutes for 1 day and are fine the next day
They come to the conclusion that people want to do the same boring server-laggy fight 200+ times to get all the weapons
They don't implement a simple if statement saying "if user has ifrits bow somewhere, drop a diff weapon" so ppl get the same weapon 4 or 5 times and can't give it to friends
etc...

you can't blame tanaka for everything.
Now maybe they will redeem themselves in 2.0
but if 2.0 is anything like this it will fall flat on its face as 1.0 did.

[Kinseykinz]

I get the Great Gatsby one, dont' get the Richard one. ^^

Names of 2 of the Big, Elite, 'World 1st, 2nd, 3rd Kill' Type LS leaders that are DEF. NA and not JA.

[Elexia]

So how are the winners going to be chosen now?

Seriously azury, I know your sole purpose in life is to find the negative in everything SE does, but do you really think they'd take into consideration the fact the game would be down as part of the "x hours after release?" Most servers didn't even START Garuda yet.

[NefarioCall]

I'm going with the side here that this 5 hour downtime has occurred before...
pretty much every time and several more and then again.
The chances of there not being a server crash were probably less than the chances of there being one...
Kind of like betting on odds in a casino...
if you didn't account for server crashes in your time estimate, you bet on the lower odds.
It's fair.

[r4ptur3]

It's fair.

OR IS IT?!?!?!?!

/discuss.

[Azurymber]

Seriously azury, I know your sole purpose in life is to find the negative in everything SE does, but do you really think they'd take into consideration the fact the game would be down as part of the "x hours after release?" Most servers didn't even START Garuda yet.

I don't try to find the negative in everything they do.
They just make a -LOT- of mistakes. And rather than fix them, they make them over and over and over and over and over again.

a year ago when i said the game would end up with a server merge everyone flamed it and said i'm too negative and it would never happen. It did.

I'm a -realist-.
And realistically almost no other MMOs have nearly as many problems as FFXIV does, especially with patch releases.
If SE can't pull things together 2.0 will fail worse than FFXIV did. and then it will probably be the end of the game.

I don't want that since i love the game. so i point out problems instead of being a fanboy and pretending everything is perfect.

[Cthulhu]

Azury can I play the game you made? Because I'm sure it's awesome and has no flaws. I bet the patches hit and there are no problems either.

[TheVedis]

Anyone who didnt take the possiblity of the servers having hiccups or a maintenence into account deserves to have their low low guess tossed out


everything factors in after all

[Serdapi]

This is why its called "prediction." You had no idea that this would happen NEITHER DID SE! So they should just go by the original times picked from the time they released 1.22.

That is the fairest way to do it. Some people might have accounted on this, others might not have. That is the whole point of predicting things, its a guess.

Just because you didn't predict this means you get extra time. You guessed WRONG, get over it.