We wanted to pass along some info as to why sometimes you'll run into the server or area going down but not see a notice about it:


Servers are monitored 24/7/365, and if anything goes wrong we immediately get to work on restoration. In the event that these issues affect a large amount of players, multiple areas, and the problem persists for a long time, we will make an announcement on the Lodestone and support center, but I’d like to explain why we do not want to do this for other issues.

In the case that the issue occurs only for a short time or the range of its effect is not very wide, we do not make an announcement via News since it has the negative effect of burying more important announcements.

We apologize that there are not other means of checking server status, but for A Realm Reborn we will be working on a feature for the launcher that will allow you to check on the server status.

Also, we have received comments about “ninja patches” for materia creation rates and dark light equipment drop rates, but this has never taken place. There would only be two cases when a decision to perform this kind of patch would take place and that is when something is left out of the patch notes or if the game is behaving in a way that was not originally planned due to a bug or other reason.