Really SE?! Really....?

[Denmo]

Well I know Square Enix is trying their hardest but seriously?! Another 5 hours for them to do this? I like to stick with one game and I had just started playing again. Square Enix have lost a hell of a lot of their customers already for it to take them approx. 12 hours for the servers to be back up and running. I wouldn't of thought a minor problem like this to fix would take 5 Hours. Don't get me wrong guys I am a pretty patient person overall but another 5 hours and I don't even think its a minor problem when they put the time in Final Fantasy XIV game right before it got disconnected. Any of the MMORPGs I have been on take 2-3 hours at the most for a minor bug like this to fix. On top of that SE is a huge corporation so 5 hours for a bug fix like this should not take 5 hours.

Nice first post!

[Relic]

First world problems.

[Sputnik]

you think people are mad now, just wait until they extend the emergency maint

[Denmo]

you think people are mad now, just wait until they extend the emergency maint

Because I'm totally gonna be around for that at 4 AM.

[Answa]

Cry more. Your tears are delicious.

[SwordCoheir]

I did not post this thread to discuss what people do with their life outside of FFXIV, nor did I post to discredit what the current Dev Team is trying to make of this game. The point was to express the discontent with the constant inability to play a game we (the players) are paying a monthly subscription for due to releasing content that is not stable or properly prepared to be released. I fully appreciate the work that has been put into this game. I have seen where it began and how far it has come along. However, having a magnitude of unscheduled down time affects the opinion of the masses towards SE's capability to continue building this game.

Well that's just the problem with programming for any game, word processor, OS, drivers, or other software. Regardless how much you test there's always going to be some flaw or bug in the programming that the developers miss, and the more expansive and large the program is the harder it is to find, test, and catch these bugs in the act. Sometimes it's mild and negligible and for the most part things run smoothly, other times it's drastic and fatal.

But I digress, MMO's are perhaps the most notorious types of software for bugs and glitches since content is constantly updated, a large part of data is getting adjusted and you can't always predict how the game is going to react to that change.

[Kallaks]

Well that's just the problem with programming for any game, word processor, OS, drivers, or other software. Regardless how much you test there's always going to be some flaw or bug in the programming that the developers miss, and the more expansive and large the program is the harder it is to find, test, and catch these bugs in the act. Sometimes it's mild and negligible and for the most part things run smoothly, other times it's drastic and fatal.

But I digress, MMO's are perhaps the most notorious types of software for bugs and glitches since content is constantly updated, a large part of data is getting adjusted and you can't always predict how the game is going to react to that change.

Thank you for the mature response, I can fully appreciate and understand your position on the subject matter.

[Asiaine]

Do they have 'test' worlds where they deploy the next big change and players are allowed to go play there before it is released to the 'real' worlds?

[insaneshadow]

Emergency maintenance right after a patch? Square Enix is just that damn good. *Puts on sunglasses and drives off on a motorcycle he stole from an elderly man*

[Answa]

Do they have 'test' worlds where they deploy the next big change and players are allowed to go play there before it is released to the 'real' worlds?

Of course they do. But they can't predict how the worlds will react with 4000+ characters when they only use a small fraction of those during testing.