yo whats with these everyday maintenance tho?

[ErzaScarlet77]

is it gilgamesh and balmung fault again?
i bet it is..

[Rekujin]

I miss the days of FFXI... maintenance once a month and only 2 hours lol.

[niwaar]

I miss the days of FFXI... maintenance once a month and only 2 hours lol.

What are you talking about? There was barely a major patch that did not have a maintenance extension. There were patches that went on for 2-3-4 extensions. A Maintenance due to come back up at 11am was routinely pushed through til 5 or 6pm.

[ErzaScarlet77]

most mmo ive played only have it once a week and its not 4 hrs long..
2 at most

[Kaela]

is it gilgamesh and balmung fault again?
i bet it is..

Yeah Balmung was too much for our buddy Greg to handle. Where things got broken. Therefore things gotta get fixed. Don't worry Hildy is taking the fall for it.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Last maintenance notes had lots of Alexander stuff in it.

[Ayuhra]

A haiku:

The code was willing
It considered your request
But the chips were weak.

[Neuflune]

There is a weekly maintenance (happened yesterday). Today it's an emergency maintenance, it was not planned, something must have been terribly broken.

[KamikazeMan]

Not to try and put down the dev team, but having to constantly do maintenance on the game is a sign of poor skills on somebodys end. I love FFXIV and all, but I've never played a game (mmos included) with so many long maintenances. I pretty much expect at least 3-4 maintenances a week after HW launched.

[Brundlefly]

Not to try and put down the dev team, but having to constantly do maintenance on the game is a sign of poor skills on somebodys end. I love FFXIV and all, but I've never played a game (mmos included) with so many long maintenances. I pretty much expect at least 3-4 maintenances a week after HW launched.

You must not know much about software development or what happens during maintenance. Most of the time they take care of backups and QA test patches that were just put in. So the next time your character data gets corrupted, which in my case has been never (sign of skilled employees), you can thank SE for having backups of your data.