Why not release it earlier?

[Kranel_San]

This is but a personal opinion of mine, but in case the maintenance from the company's side concludes before schedule by quite a time. I see no reason why they'll not launch the early access earlier. I understand schedule is important, but when the chance presents itself to have it much sooner than planned, why not take it? Let people have fun.

Of course, I'm saying this IN CASE the maintenance from the company's side concludes. Otherwise, it should stick to schedule, and this is by no means an assumption that it did conclude.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If by early you mean tomorrow afternoon, that won't happen.

If by early you mean an hour or so early? That may happen

They want people to have time to download a massive update so as many can enjoy it at the same time as possible.

It's 2 days. You'll be fine.

[AmiableApkallu]

The maintenance announcement literally says, "This maintenance will not end before the scheduled ending time."

If I had to guess, SE wants everyone to be able to plan on logging in at/after a specific time rather than being stuck to their PC or console hoping that the servers come up early.

[MistakeNot]

The maintenance announcement literally says, "This maintenance will not end before the scheduled ending time."

If I had to guess, SE wants everyone to be able to plan on logging in at/after a specific time rather than being stuck to their PC or console hoping that the servers come up early.

Weird. Because if you look at the EU version of the announcement it doesn't say quite the same thing.

" Completion time is subject to change.
(This maintenance work will not start earlier than the scheduled time.)"

I suppose the NA version is the correct one though, because that's how they have done it in the past.

[Fawkes]

There's probably people who care about "World First Level 100 Picto/Viper" or something.

[Andevom]

Weird. Because if you look at the EU version of the announcement it doesn't say quite the same thing.

" Completion time is subject to change.
(This maintenance work will not start earlier than the scheduled time.)"

I suppose the NA version is the correct one though, because that's how they have done it in the past.

I seriously hope the NA version is correct, because them releasing the content earlier than the announced time is always hard to plan around, and results in wasted, sleepless hours of spamming the login on the chance they go live early (which they did *a lot* in the past).

[SomeRandomHuman]

Weird. Because if you look at the EU version of the announcement it doesn't say quite the same thing.

" Completion time is subject to change.
(This maintenance work will not start earlier than the scheduled time.)"

I suppose the NA version is the correct one though, because that's how they have done it in the past.

None of the x-pac early access maintaince times have ever ended early. Even if they finish early, they boot them up to the point the only thing left to do is flip the "enable logins" switch until the scheduled time.

[CassandraJean]

Weird. Because if you look at the EU version of the announcement it doesn't say quite the same thing.

" Completion time is subject to change.
(This maintenance work will not start earlier than the scheduled time.)"

I suppose the NA version is the correct one though, because that's how they have done it in the past.

I think that is really saying "it will NOT end early, but it could end later" which is highly unlikely but they have to say it as a disclaimer so people don't freak out.

[KisaiTenshi]

The maintenance announcement literally says, "This maintenance will not end before the scheduled ending time."

If I had to guess, SE wants everyone to be able to plan on logging in at/after a specific time rather than being stuck to their PC or console hoping that the servers come up early.

They probably want to avoid a repeat that has happened with every previous major patch. Remember Rauban Extreme? Pippin Extreme? (name solo stance) Extreme?

The point of the Early access is to reduce the impact of this. Endwalker had the additional problem of unable to acquire additional equipment, which lead to some pretty long queues that they had to close the free trial accounts for a while.

Will this be the patch that goes flawless? *shrug* none of them have, and has only been worse with every major patch. Maybe there will be a reverse of misfortune on this.

Next time they might need to shuffle Early Access on a per server basis. On a congested server like Balmung? you have to click "queue ticket" in the launcher and the game doesn't launch until your server has room. On Dynamis? instant login. If the server runs out of tickets, Sorry.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that, because if it does, and you want to play early access, you're going to want a character on a non-congested server JUST to do that next time.

At any rate, it's usually just a week of issues and it eventually stabilizes.

[Graveyardprincess]

tbh i know its set in stone but seeing how small of a amount we had to download to update Idk why it was 48 hours now, consindering that at tops even with slowest internet would max take 8 hours, and for those of us with quick or decent max it will take is an hour took me 20mins and im only on 500mps atm, there no way in hell for anyone is that amount going to take above 8 hours to download, unless your time traveling from the dinosaur era people with dial up.


I dont mind, but i dont see why it is that long for such a small size to download/update