24 hour patch in this day and age?

[Yukiba]

Makes me wonder how long maint will be for the expansion

[ReplicaX]

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

Try 2 days ago...In the tech forums lol.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-reimbursement

[Kuwagami]

long maint to make sure everything works

when the servers go live, loads of people will rush to go in

Servers won't support the overload

Servers will crash, random 90ks, extreme lags due to untestable conditions for the patch

After a week of hotfixes and people calming down the hype, everything will be enjoyable again for everyone <3

[Nadrojj]

Lol are you kidding me guy? In this day and age? #doyouevenprogrambro ? I doubt you have any idea what it's like to update something as massive as an entire game world. I'm sure you think they just check a little box, kick the flux capacitor, set it to 1.21 jiggawats and bam, game update! Go learn you something new while the game is down.

[studionevermore1]

^^ this comment is legendary!

Seriously the amount of work to update it's actually refreshing for a firm to be honest.

[Tupsi]

This is a much larger patch than any that have been introduced before.

This is to be determined, actually. Adding a new class doesn't make it a large patch for example, the data is already in the game. Now if it comes with hundreds of quests, tons of end-game content and tons of low and mid level content? Then it's a patch larger than anything introduced thus far. Otherwise, sadly this patch is quite small until we see what's in the patch notes. Remember, the literal main draw to this patch is the new class (which is only a handful of quests), Shiva and Final Coil.

[Tiggy]

This is to be determined, actually. Adding a new class doesn't make it a large patch for example, the data is already in the game. Now if it comes with hundreds of quests, tons of end-game content and tons of low and mid level content? Then it's a patch larger than anything introduced thus far. Otherwise, sadly this patch is quite small until we see what's in the patch notes. Remember, the literal main draw to this patch is the new class (which is only a handful of quests), Shiva and Final Coil.

Three new dungeons.
New tome gear.
Unlocked coil2. (get ready to see tons of people running this)

I agree it's probably not the largest, but there's more to it than you're giving it credit for as well.

[SinisterIsBack]

Then you haven't played many mmo's at all, Every MMO ive played has had a 24hour patch more than once. Do you even MMO bro?

This is to be determined, actually. Adding a new class doesn't make it a large patch for example, the data is already in the game. Now if it comes with hundreds of quests, tons of end-game content and tons of low and mid level content? Then it's a patch larger than anything introduced thus far. Otherwise, sadly this patch is quite small until we see what's in the patch notes. Remember, the literal main draw to this patch is the new class (which is only a handful of quests), Shiva and Final Coil.

Its not to be determined really.

We get -- New Job, New Class, New Coil, New Primal, New quests, More housing, SCOB unlocked, New Crafting reciepes (for all crafts), Rev Toll will be updated, the list goes on.

Yes, a much larger patch than we have seen thus far.

Why is it 24hour maintenance? Because once they put it in the game they have to test it too...

[Tupsi]

Three new dungeons.
New tome gear.
Unlocked coil2. (get ready to see tons of people running this)

I agree it's probably not the largest, but there's more to it than you're giving it credit for as well.

Since it's still the same format as every other update, it doesn't feel any bigger till we see what they didn't announce is being added simply because with the dungeons being cut off from the world (heck shiva's protocrystal is in an instance) it doesn't really feel like much changed ;p but it depends on how long 2.4 is and if they sneak in any other content we didn't hear about. 2.1 still feels like it'd be the "biggest" since it introduced LoTA and tons of job changes, including completely changing the way WAR played.

[JillyBean]

We've had 24 hr maints. before, couple of the first patches were.