5 hour emergency maintenance with 10 minutes notice...

[ElysaProudmoore]

yeah this is pathetic.. how long could it possibly take to fix what went wrong? so far we are on about what 20 hours of maintenance for this nonsense? lol.. what does square even do with all our money? if this game wasnt so amazing i wouldn't even think about staying with all this technical dicking around happening.... and then square enix is just like "whoops! sorry guys!"..... really tired of this crap. like they want people to buy/play their games... but they turn around with sillyness like this. maybe if they atleast seemed like they gave two sh*ts about the fact they are messing up hard and really pissing alot of people off it wouldnt be so bad.

[Axyliar]

NOT ANOTHER MAINTENANCE!

[Instrumentality]

I'm just curious if they successfully traveled back in time ten minutes to suspend that service.

Obvs they have an '88 DeLorean sitting around.

[AdamFyi]

I mean, I realize it must've been a serious issue for them to have to fix the game now, but such short notice is crazy!
At least a post somewhere explaining the issue they had to fix would be great. Instead of just generic maintenance.

Judging by the lack of notice for the emergency maintenance, some game-breaking glitch must have surfaced, most likely. If they were to announce said glitch publicly before taking down the servers on the maintenance notice, it would give a lot of people the adequate amount time to abuse and/or test this glitch themselves.

[NorthernLadMSP]

People never cease to amaze me. You're honestly complaining about emergency maintenance (that will hopefully fix the issue) that was needed because people all across many worlds in different parts of the world (North America and Japan, maybe more) were getting kicked constantly from every instance they tried to enter?

[Amaranth]

Bitch when somthings broke. Bitch while they are fixing it for you.

[Delsus]

You do? Last time I check, this is the only MMO that announces a maintenance with a timeframe like that. Heard of the word "professionalism"?

Well, probably the bug they found will cause destruction to Eorzea for them to actually do this. How I wish they announced what actually happened in the first place.

There are numerous reasons for them having this sudden maintenance, if someone was found hacking the servers, they would have to be shut down immediately or even a serious game-breaking bug was found, or perhaps someone has been found massively exploiting something which will affect game balance. It's obvious this is a very serious issue to push maintenance this suddenly. If they could have waited and given notice they would have done (like they always do).

[Craiger]

lmfao reduce (possible) lag .. sorry too funny!!! the only thing thats a guarantee is they will reduce subs.. server stability latency and lag has been a prob from day one!!!

Why do some people (like me), have zero problem at all with lag ?

On topic... We are talking about something that was announced 30 mins ago.... They probably had to shut it down as quick as possible for some reason, and to require them to explain it already, is just ridiculous.... We will know soon

[Metalios]

This is a common problem among MMO developers sadly. While yes it is good that they do maintenance to solves issues, however some of those maintenance's can be eliminated by proper code development and testing. This is a common process that has seemed to elude every MMO developer, thus you end up with emergency maintenance a few hours after a scheduled maintenance. In a F2P environment this would be perfectly okay as your not actually paying to play the game itself rather then purchasing digital goods from its in game item store (if it has one), but in a P2P environment this generally isn't acceptable as you're are providing a service which people must pay a monthly fee for, and as with any service based company they must deliver the level of service that is laid out in the contract or agreement. If you feel you're not getting that level of service then I would suggest you read your agreement with Square Enix.

[snakey77]

I'm just curious if they successfully traveled back in time ten minutes to suspend that service.

actually they just did maintenance earlier this is we done fucked something up maintenance