5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[Huginn]

OP is correct. some of the most veteran players on my server have completely vansihed over the last 2 months, poof gone, sick of the server issues.

The "most veteran" player that i know of who have left the game have done so because of the radical changes the game underwent between 1.23 and 2.0. NONE of the players that i have ever met have left because of maintenance times. To think that long time players would leave due to maintenance down time is ludicrous.
As for the alpha and beta 1.0 players that i know, we put up with the game in its current state because it is 1: the best MMO currently available (though not the best that has existed) and 2: we have hope that it will continue to be fun and will develop into a better game.

My question to you is this; How do you define veteran players if you did not know them before the 2.0 alpha?

[Siobahn]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Kneel and loot for half an hour. Thousand player queues. Servers crashing and being offline for hours or days. Get disconnected and great another thousand player queue.

That lasted for over a month. I don't know what fantasy world you lived in where this didn't happen, but it assuredly did.

A whole MONTH!!?? That's way longer than FFXIV's server probl.......... oh wait. No it's not. It's 1/6 the duration.

[KupoNuts]

That lasted for over a month.

Which is why it was quickly forgotten. We're six months in, and things like that are still happening.

[Mellie]

1. If you can not find anything else to do while they FIX something, if it is 1 hour or 5, then you really need a life outside the game.

2. If you are quitting because of maint/fixes/updates then go right ahead, less griefers to deal with in the game then when it is up.

3. If you can not understand what EMERGENCY means then just wow....

4. Granted, more notice would have been nice, but hey, deal with it. It is a game, it is not killing you, and if it is refer to number 1.

I love you (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡

It's like everyone's all "(ノಠ ∩ಠ)ノ彡( \o°o)\ BAD SQUARE ENIX. FIX THIS COIL BUG NOW!"

When SE does that and takes down for emergency maintenance = (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ "SQUARE ENIX WHERE MY GAME AT?! WHY YOU TAKE IT DOWN!? LEAVE IT UP!!! RAGEE"
P.S = ^ Example of one maintenance issue that could have possibly happened.

ლ(●ↀωↀ●)ლ

[Grizzlebeard]

You never played EQ or WoW at launch.

Or Vanguard. Or GW2. Or Rift at launch. Or SWTOR at launch.

You didn't need to go there. The scars still haven't healed.

[Instrumentality]

How long has to go by then in your opinion until its fair to be upset over the fact the game is broken every few days?

I would rather they fix broken things immediately than delay them at all. If the game has to be down for hours or days or weeks that's fine. Fix your stuff. I want a complete gaming experience. What I don't want is bugs destroying players' chances to enjoy the game properly, which is what has been happening over the past several days.

[PlanckZero]

the emergency maintenance is longer than the scheduled maintenance was

A scheduled maintenance has been... scheduled... they've had time to figure out what they're working on and how long it is going to take them to fix.

An emergency maintenance is an... emergency... they have to estimate how long they think it will take to fix and then tack on extra time for a worst case scenario.

If they schedule an emergency maintenance for too short a period they end up with people foaming at the mouth with unbridled rage over waiting an extra hour, while if they finish the emergency work early they just get an indifferent "what took you so long" before people go back to not caring how much work goes into maintaining a game like this.

[Tiggy]

http://www.tentonhammer.com/wow/edit...-launch-of-wow

Some people just love wearing those rose colored glasses. In ten years someone out there will probably be quoted as saying "ffxiv's launch was nearly perfect. All they needed was more content."

[Instrumentality]

You didn't need to go there. The scars still haven't healed.

Shouldn't have chanced another Vision™.

[Quiz]

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