are people really complain about maintenance after everyone is rushing back to try the new patch? smh
are people really complain about maintenance after everyone is rushing back to try the new patch? smh
FFXIV actually to me seems to have a less intensive maint schedule than other games like WoW.
WoW has maint EVERY Tuesday for like most of the day, yes it isn't during NA prime times mostly but its every week.
FFXIV can go a couple of weeks sometimes with no maints unless there is a new patch of content, and yes sometimes after patches you will get another maint close by due to errors that they cannot foresee.
With how much code and content they add sometimes, it is surprising there are not more errors, humans are not infallible, and they can check, recheck, and test till the cows come home but they may miss something because it requires some kind of outlier conditions to cause it to error. A sequence of unfortunate events maybe.
I don't like maint either, I like to play, but there is no point in complaining about the maint they need to do to keep the game updated with content and running well.
Maybe OP is getting unlucky and nights he is able to play is usually maint, but that means you really do not get to play much, and you are getting unlucky or stuck on days they usually do maint if they need to. This is not really the games fault, since it is up and running 95% of the time, just you are not available to access it.
I'd like to see a couple of things:
1. Scheduling maintenance at the time when the fewest people log in. I'm not sure when this is on the NA/EU servers.
2. Possibly scheduling maintenance at different times of the day so different groups are inconvenienced.
Patch 2.51 maintenance was at 9 PM pacific, tonight's NA maintenance was 11PM pacific, and it seemed like our server was pretty busy. 7AM GMT is probably great for people on GMT (unless they play all night or before breakfast) but couldn't it be shifted a bit later, like during the work/school day?
Last edited by Avenger; 02-26-2015 at 04:27 PM.
^ This. Please think about what you would rather have before you complain. Broken servers or the occasional inconvenient maintenance to fix it? And before you ask, yes, this is my normal playing time too. To be honest, SE's servers are actually far more stable than some triple A games I could name. There's several that go down off and on for a week after a major patch. We get what? One...two small emergency patches after a major content update? If that?
Im glad they are having maintenance it means more people came back to game then they expected! I love seeing friends i havnt seen in months, and i know it sounds stupid but i love seeing the golden saucer full it brought new life to the game!
Actually, tonight's maintenance began at 11:00 P.M. PST. It's not exactly primetime for NA players, especially since it's a Thursday, lol. If this was on a Friday or the weekend, you'd be onto something here, but as it stands... Maintenance usually takes place at around this time or a little sooner during the week when it's not as packed anyway.I'd like to see a couple of things:
1. Scheduling maintenance at the time when the fewest people log in. I'm not sure when this is on the NA/EU servers.
2. Possibly scheduling maintenance at different times of the day so different groups are inconvenienced.
Tonight's NA maintenance was 9PM pacific, and it seemed like our server was pretty busy. 5AM GMT is probably great for people on GMT (unless they play all night or before breakfast) but couldn't it be shifted a bit later, like during the work/school day?
Err, it was? I thought it was to perform necessary emergency maintenance on the server, and while they were at it, they uploaded a small patch to make an item dyable. Just because that was the only change to the game code doesn't mean that's all that was done during maintenance. Rebooting servers, applying OS updates, updating firewall settings - it could have been any number of things that they have no need or desire to tell us about.
Saying they could have just not done the maintenance or that they could have done it at a different time is making a loooot of assumptions...
(The links below are sadly outdated. I hope to get around to updating things at some point.)
Desynthesis Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivdesynth
Airship Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipguide (\v/) Airship Quick Reference: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipqr
Airship Logsheet: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshiplog (/|\) Airship Builder Tool: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipbuilder
Are you seriously complaining about maintenance timing? Even if the maintenance time was suitable for you, It won't be for someone else living in a different time zone.
You're just unlucky..
I think the key is to not have maintenance during prime time. Maintenance did seem a lot more frequent for the period after FFXIV's launch, to the point that basically gave up on FFXIV for a while since maintenance seemed to be magically synchronized with the times I was available to play...
Yeah, they don't include the specifics regarding how they go about handling server stability in the patch notes. The patch notes contain in-game stuff, like that item that was made dyeable. Just because that's all you see in the patch notes doesn't mean that's all that was done, but many are quick to assume that (especially if they really have no experience running a server).Err, it was? I thought it was to perform necessary emergency maintenance on the server, and while they were at it, they uploaded a small patch to make an item dyable. Just because that was the only change to the game code doesn't mean that's all that was done during maintenance. Rebooting servers, applying OS updates, updating firewall settings - it could have been any number of things that they have no need or desire to tell us about.
Saying they could have just not done the maintenance or that they could have done it at a different time is making a loooot of assumptions...
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