24 hour patch in this day and age?

[Chiramu]

I can understand 8 hours... but 24 that is insane..

So you want your character to be deleted from the server from a rushed maintenance? They are expanding the servers for load, and the information of EVERYONE'S characters are on those servers. It is taking so long because you cannot rush in and change things because if information is lost from the server it is lost forever.

Read what they wrote on the lodestone... It is right there. I certainly don't want to lose all my hard work because someone from the playerbase expects the dev team to rush maintenance.

[Narukuchan]

Ah I was wondering when a thread regarding the patch maintenance would come up and voila, here we have one. Honestly if it ensures we don't have to have several 2 -6 hr emergency one's, immediately of a few days after this incoming patch that's fine.

I will however during this time be spending my time on TERA, because PvP there as my priest is always fun and enjoyable, and being impossible to kill and a pain in everyone's ass is +100.. xD

[Tsuwu]

These are human people.
Doing a job.

Inefficiency is the name of the game.
Nothing inherently wrong with that.
They deserve time to do their job right (which isn't programming the software, this is just the people at Frontier installing the new software on essentially 18 massive 128 unit racks of machines. It takes time.) and you deserve a day off the game. I'm going spelunking, personally.

[Elazu]

I have never heard of any game going down for 24 hours in the years and years i been playing for a patch maintenance... sure they might add some hardware to try and compensate for their horrible latency issues which haven't gone away much still... but really 24 hours to install a patch and do a quick hardware test??

I can understand 8 hours... but 24 that is insane..

There's an easy fix for latency issues: Don't live in Australia.

[Shneibel]

so what's next ? complain about 1 day refund for 24h maintenance ? I think someone will....soon

[IzumiYuki]

I'd rather they take their time with the maintenence. It would be bad if characters are lost.

Right now, Rift, which just had its expansion a few hours ago have 3 servers with missing characters for all accounts, for 5 hours now. I would be angry if that happened to FF14.

[Kazza2003]

People who open up such threads have way too much time anyway. Be happy that new content is coming and stop complaining about not being able to play for 24 hours straight. Do something productive in that time, for god sake.

[Tiggy]

OP clearly doesn't understand mmo history with updates, how the tech works, or even how the internet works.

sure they might add some hardware to try and compensate for their horrible latency issues which haven't gone away much still...

A) That's not why they are adding hardware. Read the actual maintenance notes please and you might learn something.

B) That's not what's causing the lag. The actual cause has been extremely well documented and is due to the network backbones in the United States.

[Leigaon]

They could push it out and double the emergency ones that will follow if that will keep you happy. There's a lot of reasons to give it 24 hours and it's more than a simple quick run command and it's solved. Sure some things will still be broken after the patch and they'll fix it but they need time to fix as much as they can and make sure things work correctly. It's not insane.

[Nomad-phx]

that 1 hour extension that cockblocks people from capping new tomes 2x day 1 lol