So has Aether crashed again?

[Beeraga]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

[RoseOfTheRaven]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

And this issue commonly happens like EVERY patch too it seems x.x

[Vhailor]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

Agreed.

In fairness, I'm not sure the dev team (or anyone directly involved with FFXIV) is to blame. This reeks of corporate pinching pennies and forcing sub-standard equipment on everyone. Hard to say either way, but it's ridiculous to take 24 hours for a patch / maintenance and then have so many problems crop up.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Seriously this is a joke SE..... 24 hour maintenance followed by crashing servers followed by emergency maintenance followed by hotfix maintenance and now your garbage servers are crashing AGAIN within 3 days???

Get your shit together, you don't even have F2P game uptime FFS.

There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

[Vhailor]

There is only so much bug testing they can do without actually putting stretch on the serves. That only comes with allowing people to populate them again and adjust accordingly.

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

Sounds like you are more emotionally invested in a simple issue than I am lol. I just understand shit happens, since I work on server hardware for a living. It breaks, code breaks, its not perfect.

I share Beeraga's frustrations here. It's not so much a matter of emotional investment; it's the fact that saying 'well, shit happens' excuses SE completely for what borders on incompetence in this case.

I would understand your perspective if someone were blaming an individual, but a company...? SE could easily be investing enough in this title to not have this happen. I'm sure you know, as someone who works on server hardware for a living, that hardware on its last legs (as an example) is far more likely to break down than high-quality stuff. Coupled with the fact that this doesn't happen nearly as often with other major titles, even F2P titles, and we have a right to criticize.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

[Vhailor]

It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

Or... you know... upgrade its hardware. If it has a lot of people playing on it, it stands to reason that they should be able to invest more money in it. I don't see Blizzard having trouble, and they have FAR more people playing than FFXIV has ever had.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Or... you know... upgrade its hardware. If it has a lot of people playing on it, it stands to reason that they should be able to invest more money in it. I don't see Blizzard having trouble, and they have FAR more people playing than FFXIV has ever had.

You can't just "do a hardware upgrade"

That may be what some of 4.0s budget is for, just like 3.0s.

There's no emotional investment in getting half a tube of toothpaste when I pay full price.

I dunno, you seem pretty upset, that shows emotional involvement.

[NorthernLadMSP]

It also had less people playing on it, and the servers didn't really give you a choice on where to go. Aether is the most populated datacenter in XIV, and this, it has issues the others don't, namely, it can't handle the stresses it wasn't designed for. And more people keep transferring to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

SE just needs to perma lock the servers.

This I agree with, especially Balmung.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This isn't being caused my a bug; server uptime should in no way be affected by a patch. Plus, as others have stated, other companies really haven't had issues nearly this bad. In fact, even FFXI was better than this, to my recollection, and that was a far older game.

"Bug testing" in a colloquial sense. Keep in mind, few MMOs have major updates near as frequent or with as much added content. Compare WoW's update cycle (12-15 months) to XIV's (3-4 months). While the scale may be different, the constant updates give chance to more errors, especially if you're at all familiar with how easily code can break.