Way too much maintenance

[Bishop81]

Software has bugs. When you got to take it down, you got to take it down.

/shrug

[kanjitai]

NA servers are going to be down tonight and tomorrow night, this is getting absurd. It seems like every other day there is maintenance or patches or hotfixes.. is this even real life lol.

I came back for HW. It's almost been one month and in that time there's only been one emergency maintenance. The rest of the maintenances have been planned. I remember when 14 relaunched. It seemed like every few hours the servers had a meltdown.

[Twilite]

Uhm.. this is routine imo. Sometime before the December 2004 update in FFXI, SE had to do a ton of emergency maintenance(most of which were to combat DDoS), some were 8 hours long. After awhile you get used to it. At least they care enough to do these things, while some dev teams out there just let the servers run on auto-pilot.

[mbncd]

If I were them I'd be kinda inclined to merge the first patch maintenance time slot with the ISP instability. If they're working down to the wire they could put anything unfinished into the next patch session which is only a day or two later. There will probably be emergency maintenances as well (as there usually is after patches) so this isn't looking like it'll be a good week to play in general.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the patches and if the lag being worse than usual lately will be fixed too that's a big yay from me! I just like things being organised in a way that results in less constant issues.

[dragorian]

Op no new content for you. Me and everyone else is welcoming it

[Adire]

We don't fix things around here. We complain about the fixing of things around here.

Right.

Meanwhile, this is footage of things being fixed around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh3tuL_DVsE

[Felis]

NA servers are going to be down tonight and tomorrow night, this is getting absurd. It seems like every other day there is maintenance or patches or hotfixes.. is this even real life lol.

During this time, players may be temporarily unable to connect to Worlds on North American data centers or may be disconnected from the server.

"may be temporarily unable to connect" is not the same as down