oh plz enough already

[Doo]

Would you rather them do nothing at all? Hard to play the white knight card at a time like this.

Of course I want them to fix the game and just stating the obvious that the maintenance is too frequent when compared to other mmos. White Knights going "You pay for maintenance" shoot, what if a mmo is down 99 percent of the time for maintenance?

[Slate]

Of course I want them to fix the game and just stating the obvious that the maintenance is too frequent when compared to other mmos. White Knights going "You pay for maintenance" shoot, what if a mmo is down 99 percent of the time for maintenance?

If a service was down 99% of the time, it would not make money and close down. Stop white knighting the OP :P

[Gucci_Charms]

OP and anyone else complaining they cannot play this game for a few hours because of maintenance clearly suffer from internet and video game addiction. Sorry Feel bad for you if you cannot step away from FFXIV: ARR.

[Badguy]

OP and anyone else complaining they cannot play this game for a few hours because of maintenance clearly suffer from internet and video game addiction. Sorry Feel bad for you if you cannot step away from FFXIV: ARR.

I would like you to quote any post in this thread that states anything about how they are mad that they can't get to play for a few hours today, go ahead, i'll check back in a few hours. Pretty sure the thread went WAY over your head.

[Knosis]

I would like you to quote any post in this thread that states anything about how they are mad that they can't get to play for a few hours today, go ahead, i'll check back in a few hours. Pretty sure the thread went WAY over your head.

What do YOU think the thread is about? The title asks SE to cut back on maintaining the game. Which is very silly.

[Gucci_Charms]

What do YOU think the thread is about? The title asks SE to cut back on maintaining the game. Which is very silly.

Badguy clearly cannot understand the message behind this and related threads. Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids!

[ashikenshin]

probably something RMT are exploiting and they need to fix it ASAP. Expect bannings.

[whilke]

probably something RMT are exploiting and they need to fix it ASAP. Expect bannings.

Just curious. What is as soon as possible about a maintenance scheduled 24-48 hours in advance? That sounds like the opposite of as soon as possible to me, but that's just me.

[ashikenshin]

Just curious. What is as soon as possible about a maintenance scheduled 24-48 hours in advance? That sounds like the opposite of as soon as possible to me, but that's just me.

that's as soon as possible they may know the exploit but they have to program the solution. They also have to test this solution and see if it doesn't break something else. This is not magic you know?

[whilke]

that's as soon as possible they may know the exploit but they have to program the solution. They also have to test this solution and see if it doesn't break something else. This is not magic you know?

No software development company is scheduling maintenance for a specific time until the new fix/build/patch is ready to deploy. What if during testing of the fix they found a new use case that doesn't fix the issue? What if when deploying the fix to their staging environment they find out it causes a much bigger issue then when it was just in QA? What if it just took development longer then expected to find and resolve the issue? Often times a bug is going to go back to development to continue fixing until QA is satisfied that the issue is fixed, and no regressions are introduced.

When they are scheduling these emergency maintenance's they have whatever they want to do ready to go (could be OS updates, could be bug fixes, could be physical hardware/network changes/whatever).

And no, it's not magic. It's software engineering at it's basic level.