All Worlds Maintenance (Dec. 17)

[Jackyl]

Dec. 15, 2008 08:00 [PST] From: FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Maintenance (Dec. 17)

At the following time, we will be performing maintenance on all FINAL FANTASY XI worlds to accompany the version update. During this period, FINAL FANTASY XI will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.

* This maintenance will be accompanied by a version update. After maintenance is complete, the update will automatically begin after you press the "Play" button. After that, please follow the instructions on the screen.

* 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]
Dec. 17, 2008 from 8:00 to 11:00 (PST)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Kang]

Took them long enough to patch all the broken shit.

[Zragnarok]

I think they add MMM... Well, at least, I hope they do

[Dohorehn]

adding maze mongers?

[evilpaul]

The Relic Crossbow simulator was pretty cool, imho.

[heartslaught]

If this means if I can actually play with my new hellfire+1 properly, then this will be wonderful.

MMM on top of it, I'll like it even better *starts writing down nms to camp*

[Crisco]

Assuming whoever was interviewed was telling the truth, this is for MMM.

[The Stig]

Nah they're adding the christmas shit...

The crossbow thing was painful though, I was messing around on THF and ended up not using it after a few shots.

EDIT: I read that interview but I was under the impression that MMM isn't being added this fast, because it's only been a week. Typically a delay like that doesn't usually mean "oh we'll release it next week" for a big game/company like this. Besides a version update should follow with it, right? =/

[Kang]

I think they add MMM... Well, at least, I hope they do

Yes please. This is what I wanted specifically from the update last week.

[Naash]

Whatever you do... Please fix ranged attacks....

[Twigs]

Nah, they have not had nearly enough time to actally fix MMM. This will be for Christmas event, MMM will be next summer.

[Kang]

Hahahaha next summer.

[The Stig]

He's not too far off either. It is simply too unlikely for such a big scale game/company to release something they pushed back a week after they said "it is being delayed".

[Kang]

He's not too far off either. It is simply too unlikely for such a big scale game/company to release something they pushed back a week after they said "it is being delayed".

The sad part is that your right. SE is terrible. Speaking of terrible things by SE, anyone played Last Remnant?

[Kaslo]

Nah, they have not had nearly enough time to actally fix MMM. This will be for Christmas event, MMM will be next summer.

except the interview said they were planning to delay it a week, which would be this week...

[Quetz_Jamal]

He's not too far off either. It is simply too unlikely for such a big scale game/company to release something they pushed back a week after they said "it is being delayed".

Delays like what? WOTG Body pieces came along quite swiftly....err wait.

[sleekmotorwurkz]

If I recall correctly, they dont do version updates to flip the switch on events. All the xmas gear is already in the dats, they just need to turn them on. They definitely need a verison update to fix the xbow issue and probably a few other ones that happened since last week. Whether or not MMM is in it, remains to be seen once they post the details.

[Odin'sLaw]

The sad part is that your right. SE is terrible. Speaking of terrible things by SE, anyone played Last Remnant?

i actully liked the Idea of it But the battle system is overly overly OVERLY floored like a 30 stone man Drop kicking a child with glasses in the face then kicking him when he's down....poor kid :/

[The Stig]

Oh ok. I didn't catch on with the "we'll release it next week" thing on that interview, but that's partially because I'm not incredibly interested so if I did read it no where in my mind did it tell me to get excited. Apologies.

One thing people mentioned was the Gothic set not providing bonuses as an issue. Although it's not in the dats (otherwise we'd get the rest) but do you think they went back to the old system of "Set Gear" (in the ToAU era) where you have to have all 5 pieces for it to work, and it simply hasn't been released and/or designed yet? Just a thought, seeing how those 2 pieces aren't gotten in the WoTG, because I was wondering if the 2 pieces sets you get in FL Assault give bonuses, I don't recall anyone collecting both pieces of a FL set.

EDIT: Actually it just occured to me the FL pieces have been 2 set pieces for a while. So disregard what I said I suppose =p, lol

[Octavious]

I don't know if it's been said anywhere, but I've noticed strange behavior on some monsters and the distance they seem to link. It could be the incredible amount of EXP i was doing last weekend (yay for winter break) but I swear there were some 'wtf' moments when out of nowhere a random mob runs up and links. Ah, and I think someone mentioned this but mobs in Xarcabard (Eyes Specifically) would appear, blaze spikes, then disappear. I don't like David Blaine screwing with my Mobs. >_>;