All Worlds Maintenance (Apr. 27)

[Dein]

At the following time, we will be performing server maintenance all worlds of FINAL FANTASY XI. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience.

* The World Transfer Service will be unavailable starting 30 minutes before the maintenance. Please wait until after the maintenance is completed before attempting to use this service.

[Date & Time]
Apr. 27, 2009 from 9:00 to 14:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Maintenance Details]
- System maintenance

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

Just added recently. 5 hours of maintenance for the Feast of Swords?

[Epical]

Gah. =\

Guess this gives me time to play Orange Box.

[Patriclis]

Someone needs to make SE go to the corner when they break stuff so they learn to stop.

[Cantih]

fucking euro prime maint again

eh, Monday was a free day anyway, but still.

[Falisa]

You know compared to other MMOs, SEs amount of bugs is really not that bad >_> And they get the shit fixed quickly, with this RDM issue being an exception. Working as a GM for another MMO, you can definitely see a difference. Annoys me seeing people bitch about how many bugs FFXI has.

[Antithesis]

What exactly do they mean by System Maintenance?

[Kohan]

You know compared to other MMOs, SEs amount of bugs is really not that bad >_> And they get the shit fixed quickly, with this RDM issue being an exception. Working as a GM for another MMO, you can definitely see a difference. Annoys me seeing people bitch about how many bugs FFXI has.

Though from a different perspective, I feel the same way (and if you'd like to see why, "superior settings" of 50 posts per page are required, else that link won't work properly).

Unfortunately, we cannot expect people to understand without having worked in the industry. As it is, however, Square-Enix's ability to repair bugs, gradually add content (even if in the tiniest bits), and their having released fairly solid expansions is incredibly impressive. Despite their being a Japanese development house which rarely dabbles in PC endeavors, and FFXI's code having originated in PlayStation 2 development, they've released and maintained a game with significantly fewer glitches than most Western efforts.

This is part of the reason I appreciate and enjoy FFXI as much as I do. Despite the language barrier between the English and Japanese divisions, and even though I generally don't care for Square-Enix as a developer, they did remarkably well with their first MMO. They still are doing well. It impresses me.

Regardless, the average person will not understand the gargantuan amount of work that can go into fixing what appears to be the simplest error. That's just the way it goes.

[Cairthenn]

What exactly do they mean by System Maintenance?

Their system is flawed. They are attempting to fix this.

[Kipling]

They won't fix smn burn. They haven't yet and they won't. And banning for SMN burn is just retarded, lol.

[Izzy]

They need to fix Afflatus/Auspice not giving an accuracy boost when you miss.

[Xno Kappa]

What happened to my first post in this thread.

Anyways, this seems pretty in line for when they usually do maintenance anyways. Sucks for us in GMT timezones but whatever.

[SephYuyX]

Gah, they always have maint when im not home.

[Thorshammer]

whats broken this time? -.-

[phrost]

They won't fix smn burn. They haven't yet and they won't. And banning for SMN burn is just retarded, lol.

ninja deleting my post is cool too, cocksuckers.

[Qeomash]

Regardless, the average person will not understand the gargantuan amount of work that can go into fixing what appears to be the simplest error. That's just the way it goes.

Exactly. I'd love to see any number of the people who always yell SPAGHETTI CODE to come up with a system that handles millions of tiny math calculations in combat, the position of 100+ mobs in a zone, the rudimentary pathing of said mobs, 30+ players in the zone, the timers for respawns, and the checks if one of said players has crossed into said mob's aggro range and is even aggro-able...

...all at the same time. And that's not including in and out packets, which would also take a monstrous amount of processing power if not done right.

...So Square has to go for optimized calculations, and if one minor sign change somewhere causes SA to work from the front, I'm not surprised.



As for the Maintenance...I imagine they're doing what they say: System maintenance. Servers need defragging, cleaning, and maybe OS software upgrades, too.

[Spira]

Though from a different perspective, I feel the same way (and if you'd like to see why, "superior settings" of 50 posts per page are required, else that link won't work properly).

Unfortunately, we cannot expect people to understand without having worked in the industry. As it is, however, Square-Enix's ability to repair bugs, gradually add content (even if in the tiniest bits), and their having released fairly solid expansions is incredibly impressive. Despite their being a Japanese development house which rarely dabbles in PC endeavors, and FFXI's code having originated in PlayStation 2 development, they've released and maintained a game with significantly fewer glitches than most Western efforts.

This is part of the reason I appreciate and enjoy FFXI as much as I do. Despite the language barrier between the English and Japanese divisions, and even though I generally don't care for Square-Enix as a developer, they did remarkably well with their first MMO. They still are doing well. It impresses me.

Regardless, the average person will not understand the gargantuan amount of work that can go into fixing what appears to be the simplest error. That's just the way it goes.

Agreed. Unfortunately for developers, they're never given enough credit for what they do because much of it isn't visible to the players. Its like a stage production really, they do all the backstage work.. and its a painstaking process, but what people will see are only the stars of the show, and they will only celebrate those people most of time. Good work will almost always go unnoticed by the masses. They will only voice the bad.

To say the least, SE has done an extremely good job with FFXI in terms of coding, since it is to date the only MMORPG that spans 3 distinctly different platforms and allows for all 3 of them to play together.

So.. having to do maintenance like this isn't something that is unexpected. In fact, there are times when FFXI goes without maintenance for months, and this isnt easy. I dunno bout others ,but I find an occasional maintenance once in a while (although there are some emergency ones just after a VU) a lot less annoying than a weekly one

[SchuldigGER]

why are there so many banned ppl in this thread ?

[antihero]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/73881...into-shit.html

basically instead of one führer, they have a gestapo now. see you all in a few days-week

[test123]

ALWAYS MONDAYS ON MY LIMBUS!! gdi

[Meian]

So.. having to do maintenance like this isn't something that is unexpected. In fact, there are times when FFXI goes without maintenance for months, and this isnt easy. I dunno bout others ,but I find an occasional maintenance once in a while (although there are some emergency ones just after a VU) a lot less annoying than a weekly one

Indeed. Every month to fix little things here and there (bugs etc) maybe not exactly "add" content but meh.