Excessive Maintenance

[Nyalia]

The last 'emergency maintenance' we had was to make an item freaking dyable. It is honestly a little ridiculous unless what they fix are core system problems that prevent the game from running.

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...

[TetsuyaHikari]

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...

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).

[Krr]

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.

It was an emergency maintenance "to apply a hotfix." There are pre-scheduled, weekly maintenances that do what you describe. If an emergency maintenance is to address server stability, it is mentioned in the notes. This happened repeatedly at launch.

If the FFXIV servers need multiple "emergency maintenances" a month on top of their scheduled weekly ones to be stable, across two completely different server host sites (one in JP, one in NA), whoever is managing their server architecture needs to be fired.