Question about early access and stuff.

[OhnoozeMyToes]

I'm a new player so forgive my ignorance but early access for shadowbringers is tomorrow or tonight I guess right?

Is there maintenance tonight I guess? Was the expansion patch pre-downloaded?

How does this go in FFXIV?

[Foxkid]

The maintenance lasts from June 27 at 2 am till June 28 at 2 am (unless they finish early). So technically, tomorrow around 2:30-3 am it'll be playable for those with early access.

The maintenance is to patch the game to allow all the necessary information needed for shadow so those with early access can use them and those without the ea won't have their clients break or anything when a bunny, lion, dancer, or gunblade joins their queues or just stands nearby using abilities.

[Crystal_Raven]

Servers will be up at 9 AM GMT according to the last update we have.

The maintenance lasts from June 27 at 2 am till June 28 at 2 am (unless they finish early). So technically, tomorrow around 2:30-3 am it'll be playable for those with early access.

The maintenance is to patch the game to allow all the necessary information needed for shadow so those with early access can use them and those without the ea won't have their clients break or anything when a bunny, lion, dancer, or gunblade joins their queues or just stands nearby using abilities.

And you. TIMEZONES EXIST.

[Kurando]

Summer time also exists so it'll be 10am/11am for most EU countries but incase OP is in NA...
"Jun. 27, 2019 2:00 a.m. to Jun. 28, 2019 2:00 a.m. (PDT)"

[Foxkid]

Servers will be up at 9 AM GMT according to the last update we have.



And you. TIMEZONES EXIST.

I'm very bad at working with GMT, apologies.

[Andevom]

The patch will be downloadable sometime during the day, so you'll have enough time to have it downloaded well in advance of the servers being taken out of maintenance.

For expansion patches, expect the maintenance to last the full 24 hours. Don't deprive yourself of precious sleep trying to get in hours in advance; it's highly unlikely that'll happen tomorrow.

[OhnoozeMyToes]

Summer time also exists so it'll be 10am/11am for most EU countries but incase OP is in NA...
"Jun. 27, 2019 2:00 a.m. to Jun. 28, 2019 2:00 a.m. (PDT)"

So it went down last night/this morning at 2:00 and will come up tonight/this morning at the same time....?

Well then it should be good to go tomorrow afternoon hopefully.

[Andevom]

So it went down last night/this morning at 2:00 and will come up tonight/this morning at the same time....?

Well then it should be good to go tomorrow afternoon hopefully.

Yes, but be cautioned that due to the nature of Early Access, emergency maintenance is a likely occurrence. Things can break easily with the amount of strain the servers will be under, and being DDOSed is very possible too.

[Crystal_Raven]

Yes, but be cautioned that due to the nature of Early Access, emergency maintenance is a likely occurrence. Things can break easily with the amount of strain the servers will be under, and being DDOSed is very possible too.

DDOS has been going on for a few weeks now. Constant issues for people in central europe area, constant 90002 disconnects, or 90006, or lobby error 2002, things like that. For 2 weeks now.

[OhnoozeMyToes]

Yes, but be cautioned that due to the nature of Early Access, emergency maintenance is a likely occurrence. Things can break easily with the amount of strain the servers will be under, and being DDOSed is very possible too.

Yeah I kind of figured...hopefully it will go ok.