Quote Originally Posted by Brundlefly View Post
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.
Again: I've never played a game with so many maintenances. This problem seems to be exclusive to FFXIV compared to other big MMOs.