24 hour patch in this day and age?

[Tiggy]

Some of those aren't even maintenance and done are for specific servers. If you were trying to make a point I think you failed.

[dcdistro]

Some of those aren't even maintenance and done are for specific servers. If you were trying to make a point I think you failed.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

lol, ya it's not the players failing here ... I am just pointing out that they should have a handle on this by now.

[Tiggy]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

lol, ya it's not the players failing here ... I am just pointing out that they should have a handle on this by now.

You sorted some of the bad ones out of the list which is good but you still have some bad ones.

10/07/2014 [Maintenance] “PSN” Maintenance (Oct. 13) has nothing to do with SE. They are just letting people know what sony is do. That's not on them.
The Bahamut maintenance is also server specific so doesn't effect the majority of players.

So when it really comes down to it there are only 5 maintenances that effected me and my server. Of those 5 I was awake for all of 0. Meaning the net effect on me was 0. So yes, I'm perfectly fine with what they've been doing.

If you were trying to make a point I think you failed. As I said. Simply pointing to that list doesn't prove something. Every one of those must be taken in context. In context that list only means something to me because next monday I won't be able to play. That is literally the only thing on that list that effected me.

Two of the "maintenances" you pointed out are entirely invalid - October 16th's maintenance never happened, and PSN maintenance isn't within SE's control at all.

Good catch! Make that 0 of 4 that made a difference to me.

[gamesmart]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...egory/2?page=1

lol, ya it's not the players failing here ... I am just pointing out that they should have a handle on this by now.

Two of the "maintenances" you pointed out are entirely invalid - October 16th's maintenance never happened, and PSN maintenance isn't within SE's control at all.

[Dyvid]

[Tupsi]

Sorted..what out exactly? Some games have weekly 24 hour maintenance. Weekly.

[PandaOnAcid]

I'd rather them announce downtime that takes longer than they expect it to, than downtime equal to what they expect but delay it when things don't go as fast as planned.

[mpbrezic]

OP, ignoring the MMO part of it, do you work in IT, or in a data center? I hate when someone whines about work but has no understanding of what is involved. The hardware upgrades significantly changes the scope of the maintenance. Our last project to upgrade infrastructure, which just added 2 enclosures and 16 blade servers took 8 hours. And that doesn't even include building out the virtual servers. That is simply, rack, stack, cable, and configure network access. A legit data center is not your moms basement. Work has to be done with pristine care.

I am not a software guy but i assume configuring OS, virtual servers and any database replication would take quite a bit longer. And after that, then you can actually apply the patch, which probably would only be 6-8 hours.

[Tupsi]

Not to mention it also has to be taken into consideration if they're on a relational or Hadoop setup..

[Squa11_Leonhart]

see!! Tupsi knows!