So has Aether crashed again?

[Kurenai_Night]

Cant log into sargatanas.. probably has something to do with the new cross server pf stuff

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I like how people are coming in to say "lol it's just a game, stop being so emotional."

Stuff breaks and happens, yes. However, an expected downtime for the patch (reasonable), followed by an unexpected hiccup forcing an emergency maintence (again, reasonable), followed by the servers dying again (now it's getting annoying) in the span of 72 hours? That just looks plain bad on a company that are being funded from the subscriptions of their customers.

[mageman1842]

WTFH SQ fix your servers.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

[SDaemon]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

Can't speak for LoL, but it happens to WoW with content patches and expansions every time.

[JediFirefly]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

This rarely happens on WoW (at least when I used to play it) BUt WoW had a much different maintenance structure. The game was brought offline weekly for a 6 hour maintenance.

[SDaemon]

This rarely happens on WoW (at least when I used to play it) BUt WoW had a much different maintenance structure. The game was brought offline weekly for a 6 hour maintenance.

WoW still has regular maintenance as well as rolling start hotfixes, but at least since Cata it has had regular maintenance and crashes following patches and expansions.

[Domeric]

WoW still has regular maintenance as well as rolling start hotfixes, but at least since Cata it has had regular maintenance and crashes following patches and expansions.

Legion's release was flawless and actual 6 hour maintenance is rare. most of the time it's just rolling restarts on Tuesday morning.

[Nabiri]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...bd736edcefd1af

Hoping to be able to play in the morning then.
Doubt it'll be back up tonight as the cause is under investigation.

[TaleraRistain]

Yes, I have seen this in every MMO I've ever played after patches and I've been playing them since early EQ. Code can do unexpected things. Hardware can do unexpected things. Putting them both together can cause unexpected things, especially with a major change like the cross-server PF. I'm honestly surprised we haven't been down more. I remember days of patches in EQ or EQII or WoW after massive changes were put into place.