so whats the emergency maintenance for?

[Cellia]

seems like every time I come back from a break the streak of maintenances comes right afterwards. so many shadow maintenances its irritating as hell.

[WHS]

Hotfixes on patch 2.57 apparently needed some hotfixing but instead of calling it hotfix on the hotfix they just call in emergency maint. lol

[Exodus-E]

Hotfixes on patch 2.57 apparently needed some hotfixing but instead of calling it hotfix on the hotfix they just call in emergency maint. lol

*Ahem*

Yo dawg, I've heard you like hotfixes.
So I've put a hotfix in your hotfix so you can hotfix while you hotfix.

[RyuRoots]

Most likely something incredibly minor that could easily wait until a regular maintenence, but this is SE we're talking about. Even Sega/Sonic Team had a better track record with this stuff in PSU, and that's saying a whole hell of a lot considering how they borked just about everything else in that game.

[VanilleFang]

Most likely something incredibly minor that could easily wait until a regular maintenence, but this is SE we're talking about. Even Sega/Sonic Team had a better track record with this stuff in PSU, and that's saying a whole hell of a lot considering how they borked just about everything else in that game.

SE isn't THAT bad. And at least they keep up to date with maintenance. Better than playing other games that just patch the game, then have them shut down for 2 days while they fix it, then bring it back and then constantly do "live maintenance" to fix something, or disable this specific something. They DO do live maintenance, sometimes, but not as often as other games that I've played. And things definitely are much "healthier" here.

[Tiggy]

SE isn't THAT bad. And at least they keep up to date with maintenance. Better than playing other games that just patch the game, then have them shut down for 2 days while they fix it, then bring it back and then constantly do "live maintenance" to fix something, or disable this specific something. They DO do live maintenance, sometimes, but not as often as other games that I've played. And things definitely are much "healthier" here.

Some people can't help but exaggerate.

[Tuathaa]

Some people can't help but exaggerate.

You haven't played SWToR then. It was exactly as described for quite some time.

[Gralna]

Everytime I hear people complaining about maint and why they think it wasn't necessary

[KisaiTenshi]

Most likely something incredibly minor that could easily wait until a regular maintenence, but this is SE we're talking about. Even Sega/Sonic Team had a better track record with this stuff in PSU, and that's saying a whole hell of a lot considering how they borked just about everything else in that game.

Oh for crying out loud. Emergency Maintenance = Someone found some way to exploit something and it's spreading rapidly, or the last patch was lagging/crashing people more than some set threshold. If it was an actual "emergency" eg A large chunk of internet connectivity falling into the ocean, requiring NOC's to rapidly route around damage, it would not be something within SE's power to rectify. The worst case scenario for a 2 hour maintenance is likely firewall/routing equipment changes, which in turn requires patching the servers and clients, albeit in minor ways.

If you noticed, the launcher/patcher AND the game client were both updated. The game client patch was the same size as last time. So you can logically draw a conclusion of something net-code related, otherwise no game client patch would have been necessary.

And no Sega does not have a good track record.
http://kotaku.com/pso2-update-brings...bug-1250176828

Some users reported that their free HDD space increased after downloading the update. Others reported entire games, such as Battlefield 3 or Final Fantasy XIV, or anime files being erased. Many PSO2 players reported unrelated data being wiped from their computer after downloading the update. It seems data that shares the same drive is affected.

Yeah... erasing stuff after an update... very very very bad.