Says all world maintenance

[Vahlnir]

So much for community spirit. Like I clearly pointed out, I was away. I had a real-life issue (which I won’t be disclosing to a bunch needlessly rude people) which trumped playing FFXIV. My beef is that the event was clearly advertised as finishing at a specific time which then clashed with maintenance. Better planning would have easily avoided this.

Sometimes life is like that but they still gave us plenty of warning in advance. RL takes precedence over any game, so perhaps you were partly the victim of circumstances largely out of your control. The event didn't take very long to do though (seriously, one NPC solves most of the puzzles for you) so there may have been some procrastination at play here as well.

[Kurando]

Better planning would have easily avoided this.

The NA maintenance was announced back in February and again a week before it was actually due to happen, that's plenty of planning in advance. Not waiting to do the event on the last couple of days could have been avoided

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...980b38456abf54

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...70b70f55a68e2c

[MsQi]

Well, time to roll a character in Europe or Asia.

[SkylockeWindshifter]

And again, I took a hiatus from the game due to a real-life issue. I hadn’t played the game for weeks. Upon my return TODAY, I looked in the lodestone and saw the advertisement for the Hatching-Tide event. There was a clear expiry date and TIME. So the fact that the devs started the maintenance when there was only a few hours left for the event is NOT my fault.

I logged in and was rushing the event, and was just approaching the NPC for the last part of the Spriggan outfit when the server went down.

[ExKage]

The launcher also had these.

[Canadane]

There was a rep post regarding exactly that, Skylocke.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...06#post4952906

The fourms Dev Tracker keeps a log of all developer and community rep posts, to help us keep track of new information from them.

[SkylockeWindshifter]

It just seems a bit odd that they’d move maintenance to clash with an already advertised and active event.

I’ve been playing FFXIV since PS4 release and I’ve only ever missed one other event because I was on pre-booked holiday at the time. So being called lazy is unjust.

[SomeRandomHuman]

It just seems a bit odd that they’d move maintenance to clash with an already advertised and active event.

I’ve been playing FFXIV since PS4 release and I’ve only ever missed one other event because I was on pre-booked holiday at the time. So being called lazy is unjust.

I'm sorry that a game made plans about a year before now and that they didn't realize that a holiday that isn't prominent in Shinto faith was right around the same time. I'm also sorry to tell you that they reserve the right to take the game down for any reason with no compensation for its player base. I'm even more sorry that you didn't think to double check information on something we knew was going to happen since this past fall.

[Canadane]

I'm also sorry to tell you that they reserve the right to take the game down for any reason with no compensation for its player base.

While you are correct, they have that right, we are actually all getting an extra day of gametime added to our subs because of it. Even those that don't specifically play in NA servers.
What a nice Easter gift!

[SomeRandomHuman]

While you are correct, they have that right, we are actually all getting an extra day of gametime added to our subs because of it. Even those that don't specifically play in NA servers.
What a nice Easter gift!

Indeed they are, but they are not required to. I can understand why people are upset, but this maintenance has been out and known about for a long while. So calling SE out for the players' mistakes is just dumb.