Where is the emergency maintenance?

[jrollins89]

I figured there was no way in hell we wouldn't have maintenance last night, but here we are today and the servers have only gotten worse. Seriously, at least pretend to make an effort to fix the instanced servers.

Part of the reason monthly subscriptions are still a thing is under the guise of ensuring a high(er) quality of server connectivity and content stream. They seem to be holding up their end of the bargain with the content stream but these latest lagfests have been an absolute nightmare.

[KyroeFelix]

I haven't had any problems playing the game, instanced or not. Maybe the problem's on your end.

[Delsus]

They are probably still investigating the cause of the problem, they could have maintenance every day for 5 hours to "increase the stability of the instance servers" until they find the root of the problem.

They will be running simulations on their test environment to locate the root cause of the issue, if they don't find the root of the problem it will reoccur. Remember they changed the core of the instance system. They made huge changes and these could not have been tested under real time server load (you can simulate it but not on a live system with hundreds of thousands of connections).

Just because there is not daily maintenance doesn't mean they aren't investigating the issue.

[Sadana]

I'm surprised too... but Delsus's explanation makes sense. (props on the name btw :3 )

For anyone who says "maybe it's you", here is the official notice from SE about it:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...2cdc0938301863

[Lurkios]

Tossing maintenance times about without having a fix ready to deploy during one of them isn't going to help things much.

[NyneAlexander]

I haven't had any problems playing the game, instanced or not. Maybe the problem's on your end.

Theres always the one dude who likes to point out how since he has not has any issues, the problem doesn't exist. C'mon man. They released a statement specifically referring to instanced lag post 2.2. It exists and it sucks.

My guess is its tied to whatever they did to instanced servers to alleviate the amount of time that full parties had to wait for a free instance. I'd rather wait an additional 5 min for a free instance than have to deal with this perpetual lag. Lost so many swiftcasts, firestarter procs and raging/quelling strikes to the lag this weekend.

[KyroeFelix]

Theres always the one dude who likes to point out how since he has not has any issues, the problem doesn't exist. C'mon man. They released a statement specifically referring to instanced lag post 2.2. It exists and it sucks.

My guess is its tied to whatever they did to instanced servers to alleviate the amount of time that full parties had to wait for a free instance. I'd rather wait an additional 5 min for a free instance than have to deal with this perpetual lag. Lost so many swiftcasts, firestarter procs and raging/quelling strikes to the lag this weekend.

I'm sorry. I see someone bad mouthing the company about an issue I haven't had while playing for hours all weekend, I tend to think the problem is with the user.

[starswept]

I haven't had any problems playing the game, instanced or not. Maybe the problem's on your end.

Then a lot of players must have suddenly had problems on "our" end. Ain't that funny.

I imagine they are still looking into the problem.

[Wolf_Gang]

Yoshida here.
Some of our resources were not available over the weekend but we had people working round the clock.
Once we identified the problem we will administer the fixes during our normal maintenance period (tomorrow) this way players can still enjoy the new features of patch 2.2 on their weekend break.

[Silverharp]

......wait. I'm Yoshi P?! Awesome!