5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[tynanrii]

How will we know when it's back up? Just a case of keep trying to log in?

if you open the launcher at the bottom of it there is a lil pink or green world button and icon pink means offline green means good to go you ccan also click on it to see specific server status's or if you have a smart phone you can goto the play store or apple market and get a app for server status's

[Markwolves]

What is the app called?

[Kyrosiris]

Some people, like myself, play at night because we work night shifts. When we are off it's pretty hard to have a normal day so I am usually gaming while most people are sleeping.

Every maintenance window chosen will negatively impact somebody. Considering that it is the middle of the night in JST (2:20 AM, roughly), I am going to make the extreme logical leap and assume that this maintenance was done out of necessity (given the whole "emergency" bit in "emergency maintenance").

I used to work third shift myself. The usual maintenance window of MMOs fell right in my "I just got home" timeframe. But the companies that put out these games are not stupid - they are going to schedule them for the time that impacts the least amount of the playerbase and isn't also achingly inconvenient for the technicians who have to perform said maintenance. This maintenance, on the other hand, was unplanned and unscheduled, but obviously necessary.

[Instrumentality]

Oh, I don't think the game has poor uptime. I'm rarely affected by maintenance, and even when I am, I find other things to do. My point is that it seems like SE devs have never played another MMO in history. They make mistakes that have been found, brainstormed, fixed, re-fixed, and finalized in other games. Their QA department seems to basically skim through new content, instead of actually reviewing it.

They make mistakes made by other people that have nothing to do with them, on server infrastructure that is nothing like theirs, with entirely different design teams, design processes, QA teams, QA processes, and, actually, entire different cultures both nationally and corporate-level. I'm more amazed that they haven't messed up more things, which is probably a credit to what they dealt with in FFXI.

[Siobahn]

Sounds like there is a big difference between a gaming company and nuclear power. I'm pretty sure we are capable of understanding how irrelevant the life and death situation of nuclear power is to gaming, and I'm sure we have the ability to put that into the correct perspective.

It's certainly obvious that you are incapable of understanding the importance of PROFESSIONALISM in all aspects of the workplace. Keep up your childish attitude, though. I've heard a lot of employers look for people who only care when it's life or death >.>

[tynanrii]

What is the app called?

the one i use is ffxiv server crystals and ffxiv information on a android

[Laf]

their i486DX2 second hand servers finally broke down?

[Netheren]

I'm a new player within the last 2 weeks and my impression is that the game is either very laggy with multiple disconnects within dungeons or it's under maintenance. The first time I have ever seen an 10 hour downtime in any game happened last week.

Feb 26 - 5 hours
Feb 25 - 3 hours
Feb 21 - 3 hours
Feb 20 - 2 hours
Feb 19 - 10 hours
Feb 18 - 2 hours <-- This is when I started playing

So far, 25 hours of downtime since I started playing. That is more than a bit excessive.

Yeah I just start playing also a couple weeks ago, and the amount of downtime is pretty much assuring I dont subscribe to this game.

And to the people defending it saying blah blah blah game had issues at launch.

A. This isnt launch. Its 6 months after its re launch of an utter fail game launch.

B. Its ten years later, maybe upgrade your motorola pager SE?

C. Ive seen free games with better server performance.

[Tiggy]

Some of you need to let us complain in peace please.
If you don't care about this 5 hours long maintenance then fine, go do something else.
They can't do a proper update without adding more bugs. This one might even add some more...
I'm sure lots of people have an exemple to demonstrate how this game is poorly coded.
Lots of content have recurring bugs and they couldn't care less.
If things had been done properly by competent people from the beginning, we wouldn't need that much maintenance.
If this game wasn't a Final fantasy, I would have been long gone.

Just as you have the right to complain we have the right to let them know we appreciate their hard work. We also have the right to let them know we think some people are over reacting. Your opinions are the only ones, nor are they the only ones that matter.

[Xaosyn]

Complaining out of one side of your mouth about issues and then the other side of your mouth when SE tries to fix said issues (i.e. via emergency maintenance) kinda makes you a hypocrite.

Just sayin'.

You didn't understand my point at all.
Typical buzzkiller sighted.