Another patch, another day or two of downtime... I've played a lot of online games and although I've always seen these kind of issues occur, I've never seen them appear as often as they do on FFXIV. This happens every time a patch is released and it's always the same - I might not mind so much if we got an apology or acknowledgement that it's gone wrong but instead we always get the generic we are encountering difficulties message followed by either no updates or extremely poor ones on the current situation. Obviously I know you'll always get scheduled downtime but this is crazy, it happens with every single patch - If you've got issues why not invest more into your backend systems? Or at least look like you care about the fact thousands of people aren't able to play for a service they pay for.

Rant over : )