5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[Delorean]

hey guys lets whine about necessary maintenance to keep the game running in prime condition

that way they will stop doing so much maintenance and then we can play a game that doesn't work and complain about how we aren't getting our moneys worth and how they should fix all the problems in the game at the snap of our fingers

[Kimura410]

hey guys lets whine about necessary maintenance to keep the game running in prime condition

that way they will stop doing so much maintenance and then we can play a game that doesn't work and complain about how we aren't getting our moneys worth and how they should fix all the problems in the game at the snap of our fingers

Could not agree more. Id hate to be an mmo developer, you honestly cant please everyone. But youre right. When the controller bug was happening last week, people were like "this is unacceptable, they need to fix this NOW". but if they did it right then, people who scheduled raids that day would be upset. i think a half hour wouldve been a bit nicer or even an hour of notice so that raid teams could plan around it instead of being taken by surprise, but in the end, its a game, we will live. not the end of the world if we dont raid this day or that, or even if we miss an entire week. it happens. the game was unplayable on our raid night this past monday. i welcome the maintenance if it makes the game work.

[MysticDreamz]

I have an acute case of Trolliosis. Give me a fix... oh wait. Too late.

[KogaDrake]

Its an MMO, big patches usually result in extr downtime in the week or two following. 2.16 made alot of changes and created some problems so we have some extra emergency maint this week. In a week or so everything will be back to normal with nearly no server down time, and the process will repeat again at 2.2, 2.25, 2.3....

Those who started playing 1 week ago talk about its all that happens because they only playing 1 week, a time which started right after a major patch. They are still in their "free" play time that came with the game and are not even truly playing to play yet and QQ as if they had paid for 6months and not been able to play at all..

Not that I like the extra downtime, but lets get real, it happens anytime major changes happen because the amount of code and how much things interact in ways one would never expect lets things get past internal testing and makes it to live and they need to fix things ASAP. sometimes it reverting a change (see issues in coil with 2.16) and sometimes it is making new bug fixes, and sometimes its protecting sensitive data (game or personal) that needed emergency no notice downtime. This happens in every MMO I have ever played (some have it much worse then XIV, some less so), and it is something I expect will be present in every MMO I play in the future.

[Lucke]

Which one are you?

Poster 1: "I'm right! You're wrong cause I said so!"
Poster 2: "You're not right, I'm right!"
Poster 3: "None of you are right. I have no opinion"
Poster 4: "I'm an IT Professional! hurrdurr!"
Poster 5: "I'm the voice of raisins! I mean reason!"
Poster 6: "Oh look! A unicorn!"

[LemmingKingXXX]

Which one are you?

Poster 1: "I'm right! You're wrong cause I said so!"
Poster 2: "You're not right, I'm right!"
Poster 3: "None of you are right. I have no opinion"
Poster 4: "I'm an IT Professional! hurrdurr!"
Poster 5: "I'm the voice of raisins! I mean reason!"
Poster 6: "Oh look! A unicorn!"

Poster 7: "If people would stop being so damn militant and confrontational maybe they'd actually convince people who don't already share their point of view the benefits of their opinion."

[Kluya15]

Please SE get what ever you keep breaking fixed, this has been going on 2-3 times a week since beta and still has not been fixed... I love this game but even my friends are getting fed up and starting to leave... 20-30 people just stop playing every week and those are numbers just from our free company. With numbers like this this game will be dead in about a year. Its just inviting bad publicity and reviews..

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/category/2

go ahead scroll through the pages add them all up since the start... all 177 posts.. say only 90 of them are/were actual maintenances... that is about 3 maintenance a week..

yes the 20-30 people who quit the game are not just due to maintenance, its lack of economy, lack of content, dungeon lock outs and they are already skinning dunegeons before creating new zones and creating new dungeons... here slap a .

Your FC sounds like a daycare for 3 year olds

[Laf]

best mmo incoming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrwIVGifd4

[Iecerint]

So, what did this maintenance actually fix? I can't find notes.

I've noticed that selling things on MB defaults to Confirm again and the PS3 doesn't have the annoying mouse cursor. What else?

[Magnesium02]

There is a Hot Fix thread that they use to post updates. The one thread contains all the hot fix details and the thread title is updated whenever there is a new one. I can be found in Forum Top > English Forums > Bug Reports > Fixed.

Link

Or if lazy simply expand below.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Hot Fixes (Feb. 26)
The following issues have been addressed.

•The servers would crash under certain circumstances.
•The Manor Sentry does not disappear after its HP reaches zero in the last encounter of Haukke Manor (Hard).
•Character movement lags considerably and/or actions take an unusual amount of time to trigger in certain instances. (PlayStation®3 version only)
•Character movement and controls are unresponsive for a brief period after interacting with NPCs or viewing event cutscenes.
•The graphics in certain cutscenes during the quest “The Rise and Fall of Gentlemen” do not display properly.
•Characters appear to float in the air momentarily after dismounting.
•Transferring an item to a retainer will sometimes result in the icon of the transferred item remaining in the player’s inventory instead of disappearing.
•When placing an item for sale in the marketplace, the initial cursor position is on the “Cancel” button.
•When using the text command “/action(/ac” or “/petaction(/pac)”, if a target character is specified, but that target character is not present, the game will automatically select a viable target and carry out the command.
* With this current hotfix, if the specified target is not present, the error message “The target name you have selected is invalid” will display and the action will not be carried out. If a target is not specified, the action will be carried out automatically on a viable target, just as if the action had been enacted from the hotbar.
•The mouse cursor is visible when using waymarks even if "Locked to Cursor" is selected for ground targeting settings.
•A player's application to a free company will not be received when an application to a different free company is canceled prior to submission.
•The client will sometimes crash under usage of a CPU with greater than 32 cores. (Windows version only)
•Screenshots will always be saved as “High-quality PNG” even if settings are changed to be lower. (PlayStation®3 version only)
•A section of Help text does not display properly on the World select screen during character creation. (PlayStation®4 beta test version only)