Anyone know

[Rocond]

There will be a post on the Lodestone that says ffxiv has been updated. Then you can start your client like normal and login and it will update. After the update it will just say the servers are offline until the maintenance is over.

[OliviaJ]

Thanks Rocond! Who else is staying up till it's live?

[Astrapls]

Thanks Rocond! Who else is staying up till it's live?

It'll be 7am for me, so I can just wake up as normal.

or COULD if I slept at night. Luckily I took a nap and will stay up and join the great housing brawl.

[Rizon]

The release date for Patch 3.3 is 7 June. SE will not bring up the servers until all of the continental US has reached that date i.e no sooner then 0100 PDT (IMO). Patch D/L is usual available 5 hours prior to scheduled end time.

[FinaSel]

It's 7:00 PM for me (and probably everyone in my server), so everyone will be on and there will be a mad rush for housing.

I would rather have to stay awake until 6 AM and have a better chance at getting one of the houses I want.

[Niwashi]

I don't think many people would expect the game servers to be up. They're not supposed to be yet. But the patch servers should be available by now if they're planning on bringing the game back up in less than six hours. Any maintenance on the patch servers should have been handled in the first 18 hours of the maintenance window (or better yet, the first twelve), not during the last few hours while people are supposed to be downloading the new version.

[radhaz]

lobby server is up, 21:44 PST
Civilization, Ho!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNqlhPFc4Y

[Niwashi]

Well, instead of the Version Check error it's been giving up until now, it's now just giving the "game is unavailable for play during maintenance" error. But it's giving that error WITHOUT starting the download. So apparently we still can't get to the patch servers.

Come on, SE. We know it's unavailable for play, but at least make it available for download.

[Alestorm]

my plan is simple: sleep (strange concept, I know) and begin downloading the patch before I leave for work.

[Rizon]

Patch is available for download