Maintenances?

[BreathlessTao]

I know they are needed. I believe when I'm told that there are games out there that have it much worse - with even more frequent maintenances, or the lack of them which means the game suffers that much more.

But does it really have to be like this? It's basically a routine now (I don't even think "emergency" is still needed in the Lodestone post titles): maintenance to push the patch live, next day or the day after another maintenance because of whatever ~unforeseen~ issues. So much so they might as well call it planned, instead of emergency. And the sad thing is, this doesn't make it any less annoying.

I'm just really curious about what on earth goes wrong time after time, with pretty much every patch, so that it has to be like this.

[Keydah]

There's always bugs that won't be uncovered until they're released at a huge scale. Yeah, they test them out as much as they can before launching it, but they can't find every single possible situation or have thousands and thousands of people doing things at once like the playerbase will be.

[Shadow-Nova]

are hotfixes ever finished earlier or pretty much on time thanks

[Raeletta]

There's always bugs that won't be uncovered until they're released at a huge scale. Yeah, they test them out as much as they can before launching it, but they can't find every single possible situation or have thousands and thousands of people doing things at once like the playerbase will be.

This.

Always expect one. That said, on the whole, there are so very few bugs with each patch that it's hardly a problem. If the patches were lower quality you'd see more maintenances, maybe at less convenient times. Expecting perfection however, is just unrealistic.

[Raeletta]

are hotfixes ever finished earlier or pretty much on time thanks

These hotfix-type patches often finish an hour or so early, but it's no guarantee, they give the time-frame for a reason.

[Alinea]

They forgot to fix something

[Ignnis]

Welcome to coding. Adding something often breaks something else, sometimes it's harder to figure out what that something else is until it's too late :/

[Adire]

They should really throw these fixes into planned maintenances that they were going to do anyways if the fixes are for insignificant things.

If they aren't insignificant problems, well, that's just a shame. I haven't played any other MMO with so many "emergency maintenances"

[Mature]

don't see what the issue is here for maintaining the server and sorting errors. In other hand people should be grateful That they are at least aware AND doing something about it.....

[Seif]

Just do a test server please. I'm sure there are enough eager players to participate in them and it would save the rest of us the frustration of these halts. I get that accidents happen BUT can't you just randomize the times of these maintenances just a little bit. They ALWAYS happen at the same time which is always in the morning here that is the only time I have time to play which means every single maintenance cuts my playtime. Having even + or - 2 hours variation to these maintenance times would make them much more fair to everyone.