All Worlds Maintenance (Sep. 19)

[Eldelphia]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews21043.shtml

Sep. 14, 2011 23:30 [PDT] From: FINAL FANTASY XI
All Worlds Maintenance (Sep. 19)

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

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

* 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.

* You may receive errors such as "POL-1160" or "POL-0010" during the download process due to heavy server traffic. If you are unable to access the update, we ask that you please wait a while and then try again.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding in making this a smooth version update.

* The details of the version update will be announced separately on Sep. 19, 2011.

[Date & Time]
Sep. 19, 2011 from 10:00 to 11:30 (PDT)
* The completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XI

[Tribe]

10am-11:30pm yea?


I know they use military time

[SephYuyX]

Either it's only a 1.5hr maint, or they screwed up the times.
Lets be honest, it wont be only 1.5hrs long.

1:00PM to 2:30PM in superior time.

[SephYuyX]

2011年9月20日(火) 2:00より3:30頃まで

I guess theyre just being really optimistic.

[Myrrh_Quetz]

The Maint will be 1 hour and 30 mins, the emergency Maint will be 8+ Hours.

[Cail]

Seems like its one of those pre-maints, then the actual maint on the 20th? idk

[Buffy]

Seems like its one of those pre-maints, then the actual maint on the 20th? idk

I would agree, but it says it will include the version update.

[Julian]

Seems like its one of those pre-maints, then the actual maint on the 20th? idk

Uh, I don't know where you get that idea, but no.

[Chun Liroy]

Were the other updates for level cap raises this short? Seems like there's a TON of content they're adding, but low maint. time. Maybe this is due to the test server?

[TacoTaru]

The Maint will be 1 hour and 30 mins, the emergency Maint will be 8+ Hours.

This is my thought as well.

[ByeByeTasai]

Didn't they say that the test server would greatly reduce maintenance time?

[Cail]

Uh, I don't know where you get that idea, but no.

only thought it out loud cuz 90 mins seems REAL short for an update...hell, even their emerg. maints are always 2hrs

[Septimus]

Were the other updates for level cap raises this short? Seems like there's a TON of content they're adding, but low maint. time. Maybe this is due to the test server?

Didn't they say that the test server would greatly reduce maintenance time?

This is what I am hoping as well. But Square knows that disappointment always tastes better when it is proceeded by hope.

[Gwynplaine]

only thought it out loud cuz 90 mins seems REAL short for an update...hell, even their emerg. maints are always 2hrs

Yes it does seem odd because iirc the act of rebooting the servers at all takes a minimum of 2 hours.

[Colenzo]

maybe the short maintenance has something to do with the new test servers having the patch on them already?

[Outlaw]

It will be nice if it's just an hour and a half. I almost want it to be 10:00am-11:30pm though, just for the lulz.

[Spira]

shortest version up maintenance I've ever seen.

I'm guessing it probably has to do with them reducing the number of checks they need to do for the game in such an event since theres the test server.

[Shenrien]

I hope they're lazy about it and accidentally slip in the GM moogles, infinite gil for everyone.

[Septimus]

On a related note:

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/pol...ews21047.shtml

Downloadable file size and time required for FINAL FANTASY XI version update that is scheduled on September 19, 2011 **:** (PDT) are as follow. This is based on 1Mbps DSL environment.

[File size for clients with "Chains of Promathia," "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" and "Wings of the Goddess" installed.]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: 62.6MB
About 1 hours, 12 minutes

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: 98.2MB
About 12 minutes

Xbox 360 Version
Downloadable file size: 104.0MB
About 56 minutes


[File size for clients without "Chains of Promathia," "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" and "Wings of the Goddess" installed.]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: 47.1MB
About 1 hours

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: 80.6MB
About 10 minutes

Xbox 360 Version
Downloadable file size: 83.3MB
About 44 minutes, 30 seconds

*Please note that the above times are the total approximate time for file check, download, and installation. The above times are for reference only. Download times depend on individual users' network environment and may vary from those shown above. Also, this update will require more time if previous version updates were not completed.

And as of this quote the time is listed as "September 19, 2011 **:** (PDT)". I wonder if the times on the other note are correct.

[Kaisha]

I'm surprised the update is a whole hundred megs.

Do they have us redownload an entire monster model for reskins or something?