so whats the emergency maintenance for?

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

I wish it was to add the option to default to "commence" on controller. ^^;

[Adire]

I've played many MMOs. None of them had so many maintenances. While I do appreciate bugfixes, I'd rather they do a (slightly?) longer maintenance once a month than 1 or more 3 hour maintenances every other week. The other MMOs I played did that, and it worked far better.

[Raeletta]

I've played a lot and many of them have weekly maint o_O
I have never felt they over-do their maintenances, they often finish them early too.

[Fenral]

I've played many MMOs. None of them had so many maintenances. While I do appreciate bugfixes, I'd rather they do a (slightly?) longer maintenance once a month than 1 or more 3 hour maintenances every other week. The other MMOs I played did that, and it worked far better.

As someone who played a Cathar in SWTOR back when a certain update actually deleted my skin color, and then left it broken for a month and a half... No. Just no.

If you have a serious bug, and you know how to fix it, don't sit on it for a month just to avoid depriving a few people of a few hours of playtime. Take a nap, watch a movie, read a book, and enjoy that bugs are actually getting fixed in a timely manner.

[Adire]

I've played a lot and many of them have weekly maint o_O
I have never felt they over-do their maintenances, they often finish them early too.

I've played The Secret World, LOTRO, SWTOR, a few Perfect World games, 9Dragons, Runescape....none of them had this many maintenances...

As someone who played a Cathar in SWTOR back when a certain update actually deleted my skin color, and then left it broken for a month and a half... No. Just no.

If you have a serious bug, and you know how to fix it, don't sit on it for a month just to avoid depriving a few people of a few hours of playtime. Take a nap, watch a movie, read a book, and enjoy that bugs are actually getting fixed in a timely manner.

There's a difference between a gamebreaking bug and an inconvenient bug. If it's gamebreaking, it's important to note it in patch/hotfix notes. How often do you see many of these in these emergency maintenances? I don't see them often. It's almost always small, insignificant, or non-urgent fixes/additions to the game.

These things can be thrown in with patches they needed to do anyways. They do not demand a separate maintenance every time they notice something is a little wrong.

Edit: Also, it should be noted that every maintenance takes away from our paid subscription time. Is it a lot of money going down the drain? No, but the principle is still there.

Edit again: Also, Fenral's bug in SWTOR is one that should have been fixed ASAP. Just clarifying that it is a gamebreaking bug. Most of the hotfixes on here do not seem to be for very gamebreaking issues though.

[CelestiaYasuhiro]

*Resub today*
*Maintenance*

Every time.
Wanted to submit a world transfer application too.
Oh well.

[Sujaki_Nhakal]

I've played a lot and many of them have weekly maint o_O
I have never felt they over-do their maintenances, they often finish them early too.

You never player WoW i guess. They either restart ther Servers weekly or pull them down for 6h.

[Tictania]

Just in on the JP forums, the hotfix is for the PS3/PS4 heavensward pre-order issues.

Bad google translation:

Final Fantasy XIV: newborn eorzea HotFixes (2015 / 05 / 21)



■ fixed following bugs.•PlayStation ® 3 version, and PlayStation ® guest book purchased a "final fantasy XIV: blue sky I sugared" 4 Edition PlayStation ® fails version check "Final fantasy XIV: newborn eorzea", when you download "final fantasy XIV: blue sky I sugared" data, enter a product code in the Store, will be able to login.
* This problem is European PlayStation ® have been raised if you download in the Store. There is no impact because Japan and North America began to enter product code, do not.

You are be able to login by * this bug is "final fantasy XIV: newborn eorzea" must be reinstalled. Visit the reinstallation of the client and apologize to you, sorry, but thank you.

[Moonleg]

I saw a thread a couple of days ago stating that EU PS4 users (I think it was) were able to pre-download the majority of the Heavensward content now, but it messed up the game version so they were unable to log in after doing that. The solution until now has been to re-download the game, all 15 GB or so. For a lot of players I believe that's more than a hassle.

It's possible this maintenance is to fix that problem server-side. A large chunk of players being unable to play at all IS a game-breaking bug by its very definition.

[Chihaya]

So, emergency maint for the console peasants