Emergency maintenance

[Kewitt]

[9:02 p.m.]Emergency maintenance will be performed on all Worlds from Dec. 7, 2021 10:00 p.m. to Dec. 8, 2021 2:00 a.m. (PST).
[9:02 p.m.]Please log out before the maintenance begins.
[9:02 p.m.]See the News section for more details.


Just quit now if you're in the queue.

[Merkhen]

In order to accompany patch 6.0 HotFixes, we will be performing emergency maintenance during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
Dec. 7, 2021 10:00 p.m. to Dec. 8, 2021 2:00 a.m. (PST)
* Completion time is subject to change.

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XIV

* Certain features in the FINAL FANTASY XIV Companion app will be unavailable until maintenance has ended.

* Any duty recorder data recorded prior to this maintenance can no longer be replayed after this maintenance, or may not replay correctly even if replayable.

I was 500 on queue, started a 7k, but I'm ok with this, they going to fix 2002.

[JohncarterIx]

Thats good i can see my charter for 3 days lol

[Anemic]

I thought this was a troll post, but after a quick check on the maintenance status page; it seems correct. Hopefully it is good news for all

[Accolades]

I thought this was a troll post, but after a quick check on the maintenance status page; it seems correct. Hopefully it is good news for all

The good news is you get to wait in the que again. People need to realize this problem is NOT going to get fixed. This release was a mistake. Square is in damage control mode.

[CaptainFishSticks]

The good news is you get to wait in the que again. People need to realize this problem is NOT going to get fixed. This release was a mistake. Square is in damage control mode.

Damage control over...what, exactly?

They knew this problem was coming and did everything they could to try and minimize it, but hardware shortages and pandemic limitations prevented them from being to do anything meaningful. They knew this. They told us this. We received at least a month's warning in advance that launch was not going to go smoothly.

Tens of thousands of people per server are actively trying to play during this period and the servers are struggling to accommodate for us all.

This comes after a period of extraordinary population growth for the game that brought the servers to their knees moreover.

I don't know what you want them to do at this point. It's not like they completely ignored these problems and just made us fend for ourselves. They've been transparent about these issues every step of the way.

I swear, the most toxic WoW players brought over their pessimism and just so desperately want to share it with the rest of us.

[GamesGainingTTV]

It's considered toxic in this community to complain when it's been SEVEN DAYS since people have been able to play the game because SE, who knew over a year ago this problem would occur, did not take steps to prevent it? You can't even say "oh it's covid theres no parts to make more servers". Every single launch in MMO history has had a large influx of people to try it out and servers have always been overloaded, it's very clear that they did not take steps to prevent this. You can claim they said they were doing things to try, but the fact that they waited SO LONG to even attempt steps shows how poorly this was planned. Go ahead and respond with your flames, but as someone who played wow for 15 years, has 5 level 80's (Non-boost) on GW2, a 65 on rift when it was level cap, a level 100 on DFO, among many other games. It's common sense that this was going to happen and they waited way too long, knowing full well that this would be the result.

[Gameovers]

It's considered toxic in this community to complain when it's been SEVEN DAYS since people have been able to play the game because SE, who knew over a year ago this problem would occur, did not take steps to prevent it? You can't even say "oh it's covid theres no parts to make more servers". Every single launch in MMO history has had a large influx of people to try it out and servers have always been overloaded, it's very clear that they did not take steps to prevent this. You can claim they said they were doing things to try, but the fact that they waited SO LONG to even attempt steps shows how poorly this was planned. Go ahead and respond with your flames, but as someone who played wow for 15 years, has 5 level 80's (Non-boost) on GW2, a 65 on rift when it was level cap, a level 100 on DFO, among many other games. It's common sense that this was going to happen and they waited way too long, knowing full well that this would be the result.

So they knew Blizzard was abusing their workers, which in turn made big time streamers leave WoW which in turn in record breaking timing all came to XIV which in itself broke records which was just like what 2 to 3 months BEFORE EW released? You mean SquareEnix knew all of THAT? Fuck if they did I want that shit cause they can predict the future no matter how random it can be.

[Floortank]

It's considered toxic in this community to complain when it's been SEVEN DAYS since people have been able to play the game because SE, who knew over a year ago this problem would occur, did not take steps to prevent it? You can't even say "oh it's covid theres no parts to make more servers". Every single launch in MMO history has had a large influx of people to try it out and servers have always been overloaded, it's very clear that they did not take steps to prevent this. You can claim they said they were doing things to try, but the fact that they waited SO LONG to even attempt steps shows how poorly this was planned. Go ahead and respond with your flames, but as someone who played wow for 15 years, has 5 level 80's (Non-boost) on GW2, a 65 on rift when it was level cap, a level 100 on DFO, among many other games. It's common sense that this was going to happen and they waited way too long, knowing full well that this would be the result.

There may have been signs that WOW as a game was failing, but everyone expected it to keep trudging along for another expansion at least, and then maybe, if that one was bad, we might see this sort of influx.

Nobody predicted Blizzard would be unmasked and cause the entire WOW playerbase to flood to FFXIV a year into Shadowlands. I mean, seriously, get real.

[Jadedsins]

It's considered toxic in this community to complain when it's been SEVEN DAYS since people have been able to play the game because SE, who knew over a year ago this problem would occur, did not take steps to prevent it? You can't even say "oh it's covid theres no parts to make more servers". Every single launch in MMO history has had a large influx of people to try it out and servers have always been overloaded, it's very clear that they did not take steps to prevent this. You can claim they said they were doing things to try, but the fact that they waited SO LONG to even attempt steps shows how poorly this was planned. Go ahead and respond with your flames, but as someone who played wow for 15 years, has 5 level 80's (Non-boost) on GW2, a 65 on rift when it was level cap, a level 100 on DFO, among many other games. It's common sense that this was going to happen and they waited way too long, knowing full well that this would be the result.

You got to understand, most of the people agree with you, and think this is unacceptable how they handle this. It is just that this game has a cult, and that cult is VERY loud.