yo whats with these everyday maintenance tho?

[KamikazeMan]

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.

[Rekujin]

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.

And neither do you if you think it takes 4 hours to process all that data :P

Games like WoW apply hotfixes with a server restart, servers go down for literally 30 seconds and up and running again.

Not that I'm complaining... I'm not even that fussed to be honest.

[Kaedan94]

I wonder if this generation of entitled gamers even know what the word hyperbole means?

Everyday = BS. There was weekly maintenance yesterday and emergency maintenance today.

[Adire]

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.

This 100x.

I should be happy there's a maintenance though. More Witcher 3 time and maybe I can get some college work done!

[GiseleValkyrie]

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.

yeah the armchair "I know what I am talking about but I don't" post are always the best when things like this happen. Some people think they understand other peoples job when they don't actually

[Neuflune]

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.

Let me start it off with... back in my day... LOL!

j/k

Whenever there's a big patch (in this case, the expansion), there will be small maintenance sessions. They've already pointed this out before, and it happened back in 2.0; also, that 4 hour maintenance is just based on an estimate of how long it will take. If you didn't notice, servers are usually back up 30 minutes before the announced end of maintenance, sometimes a whole hour ahead too.

[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.

[ExiaQuanta]

So guys. anyone wanna bet on making a specific set of gear dyeable?

[KamikazeMan]

Let me start it off with... back in my day... LOL!

j/k

Whenever there's a big patch (in this case, the expansion), there will be small maintenance sessions. They've already pointed this out before, and it happened back in 2.0; also, that 4 hour maintenance is just based on an estimate of how long it will take. If you didn't notice, servers are usually back up 30 minutes before the announced end of maintenance, sometimes a whole hour ahead too.

I know. I've actually been playing since 1.0 launched so I'm pretty used to it...I'm a total FFXIV fanboy, lol. I'm just pointing out that FFXIV has more and much longer maintenances than the average MMO.

[phiore]

all the new stuff being released means there's more problems to find, i guess.

i also haven't played an mmo that's had to do as much maintenance as ffxiv, but the other mmos i've played also didn't update as often with as much content as ffxiv.