Please call it "Daily Maintenance"!

[Zyph]

Hmm I played Rift at release, If I remember correctly even the beta. But I can't remember anything leaving me with so many bad impressions as SE does. CCP is Eve isn't it? I played two chars parallel and that also didn't leave so many bad impressions as SE does. Not sure why. Maybe it's just cause I'm deeper in to FFXIV then I was into any of those two games...


That was more directed towards the people sprouting that line around then towards SE. But indirectly SE actually does that too. Everytime they tell you it comes with 2.0. They just take a bit more care of theyr PR.






It's not really about just one 4 hour maintanance. It's more about that in my opinion the emergency patches get to much. I would rather prefer to have something like a weekly standard maintanance window where you actualy can plan around it then to have unpreditable breaks all the time.
From other MMORPGs I'm used to less emergency patches. Little problems get fixed in standard patch windows and only big ones actually get an emergency window. If if those all actually are problems worth an emergency patch then we are back to something needs to change.

I get you, maybe the taste of the horrendous launch still lingers for you, I know it does for me still, that's why I think 2.0, even if it doesn't deliver in everything it promised, will be a breath of fresh air.

But yeah, that's the nature of MMOs, something unforeseen will happen and break when you crowd-source your QA to the players. Typically that's what test servers are for, but even then test servers never ever get the traffic and APM that the live servers do.

It's just happening more frequently for FFXIV due to the engine and duct-tape patches.

Maybe I'm just used to this process, therefor am never surprised. I'm sure the entire FFXIV team, from QA to devs to management to Yoshi-P are all sick of this cycle, which is probably why they're just as excited for 2.0 as the rest of us.