Seriously...? No word from SE 20 hours now...

[Eisengrim]

They don't care that much about datamining...they pretty near cough everything up in the patch notes these days anyways.

If I remember correctly, they've gotten xivdb.com to remove datamined information from their site until the servers were back up before, so it seems to be something they care about for some reason.

[Molkot]

Maybe they are using the patching as a way to throttle the logins. So people don't all hit the servers at once and bring them down?

[Lithera]

Anyone stopped to think that the client download is on the datacenter servers which may not be booted back up and ready to go yet? Do you guys also want hourly tweets from the techs saying "There There...don't worry...the patch is still on time. Here's an instagram pic of one of the server stacks getting rewired". They're taking longer than previous patches to put the client update up but that can easily be technical problems.

[ArkNova]

Do you guys also want hourly tweets from the techs saying "There There...don't worry...the patch is still on time. Here's an instagram pic of one of the server stacks getting rewired". They're taking longer than previous patches to put the client update up but that can easily be technical problems.

Actually yeah that would be cool to see the hardware behind the game, you get a gold star!

[KaedrianLiang]

Anyone stopped to think that the client download is on the datacenter servers which may not be booted back up and ready to go yet? Do you guys also want hourly tweets from the techs saying "There There...don't worry...the patch is still on time. Here's an instagram pic of one of the server stacks getting rewired". They're taking longer than previous patches to put the client update up but that can easily be technical problems.

As soon as you hit the FFXIV shortcut, that white window that pops up saying "checking update/launcher version" that's the server the patch information would be stored on. It's up and running. There's an ulterior motive behind delaying the patch.

[SongJoohee]

As soon as you hit the FFXIV shortcut, that white window that pops up saying "checking update/launcher version" that's the server the patch information would be stored on. It's up and running. There's an ulterior motive behind delaying the patch.

Since 2.0 you've been able to launch the launcher and log-in during maintenance but the usually Green Log-in button after logging in blacked out. The game checks for version updates after you log-in in the launcher, not when the launcher launches, it checks for launcher updates when the launcher is opened, not game updates.

Conspiracy theories ahoy.

[Lithera]

Since 2.0 you've been able to launch the launcher and log-in during maintenance but the usually Green Log-in button after logging in blacked out. The game checks for version updates after you log-in in the launcher, not when the launcher launches, it checks for launcher updates when the launcher is opened, not game updates.

Conspiracy theories ahoy.

This. Thank You.

[Stumpedify]

As soon as you hit the FFXIV shortcut, that white window that pops up saying "checking update/launcher version" that's the server the patch information would be stored on. It's up and running. There's an ulterior motive behind delaying the patch.

Not quite right. That is the version check for the LAUNCHER. The client update is separate to that and always been tied to the server it contacts after logging in.

[KaedrianLiang]

Since 2.0 you've been able to launch the launcher and log-in during maintenance but the usually Green Log-in button after logging in blacked out. The game checks for version updates after you log-in in the launcher, not when the launcher launches, it checks for launcher updates when the launcher is opened, not game updates.

Conspiracy theories ahoy.

Not quite right. That is the version check for the LAUNCHER. The client update is separate to that and always been tied to the server it contacts after logging in.

We are talking about 2 different things. I'm talking about the patch server you guys are talking about how the game is updated.

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

Anyone stopped to think that the client download is on the datacenter servers which may not be booted back up and ready to go yet? Do you guys also want hourly tweets from the techs saying "There There...don't worry...the patch is still on time. Here's an instagram pic of one of the server stacks getting rewired". They're taking longer than previous patches to put the client update up but that can easily be technical problems.

While I get the point, and agree, am I the only one here who thinks the instagram pick would be cool to see?