All Worlds Maintenance (Dec. 12)

[Maxxthepenguin]

Americans trying to sound cool about they wouldnt complain if this happened in their prime-time, silly+1.

Bump that QQ meter up to 7!

So I got bored Q_Q

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hahahahaahahahah perfect

[Transpec]

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[Tiggy]

This is obviously for the Christmas event. It is that time of year again. People just always need some stupid excuse to bitch.

[Olo401]

At the following time, we will be performing BLUE GARTR bitching on all boards. During this period, RATIONAL DISCOURSE will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience.

* This bitching will be accompanied by an eight-page thread. After bitching is complete, the update changes will automatically display after you press the "F5" button. After that, please complain about how the Quadav are overpowered again.

[Date & Time]
Dec. 12, 2007 from 8:00 to 13:00 (PST)
* Bitching completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
BLUE GARTR

I lol'd hard and fell off my chair at work..

[Olo401]

Can posting about how a maintenance affects your playtime be a bannable offense yet?

THIS MAINTENANCE SUCKS BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO __________ THAT DAY, NOW I HAVE TO PUT MY ______ INTO _______ JUST TO PASS TIME!!!!

Fill in the blanks.

THIS MAINTENANCE SUCKS BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO whack off to mifra bewbz again THAT DAY, NOW I HAVE TO PUT MY johnson INTO a whiny bitchy girlfriend JUST TO PASS TIME!!!!

You were all thinkin the same damn thing.. admit it.

[Mochang]

Well, the 1 time a month when I am glad school takes up my time. I just wish SE was on EST but whatever, gotta learn to live with it

[Demonsparta]

I'd say that this launch is slightly worse than ToAU, but not by a significant margin.

ToAU
4/17/2006 - Final Planned Pre-Expansion Maintenance
4/18/2006 - 2 hour maintenance
4/19/2006 - 2 hour maintenance
4/19/2006 - ToAU Service Activated
4/24/2006 - 2 hour maintenance
4/27/2006 - 2 hour maintenance

WotG
11/19/2007 - Final Planned Pre-Expansion Maintenance
11/20/2007 - 2 hour emergency maintenance
11/21/2007 - WotG Service Activated
11/21/2007 - 2 hour emergency maintenance
11/21/2007 -11/30/2007 - fuckload of registration server problems
11/28/2007 - 2 hour maintenance
12/5/2007 - 2 hour maintenance
12/6/2007 - 5 hour emergency maintenance
12/12/2007 - 5 hour maintenance

Its the same rate of maintenances, its just that it hasn't stopped.








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[Rhinox]

bunch of shit

These maintenances are just that, MAINTENANCES!! They ARE NOT the 3-4 month FFXI updates. Stop expecting new quests/items/AF in maintenances that are just there to fix existing problems.

If you reread the OP it's stated that a Version Update will follow the maintenace. I could be wrong tho

[ronin sparthos]

Its gonna be a patch with just fixes, no new content or anything. Just a bug fix, maybe a few campaign tweaks.

[Shabazz]

/rant on

I wish people would be educated to the fact that Maintenance is going to occur after expansions etc, nothing is made of pure completeness nor is it bug free. Take this into consideration and their debug list must be huge for this expansion, they are simply fixing in order of priority and implementing the fixes in stages to ensure the stability of FFXI. While square have skilled people at work, their priorities are not focused on releasing expansions that have every bug removed due to time/scale->cost. SE follows a strict pattern as do most companies when producing games, the procedure makes sure vital bugs are removed, bugs are listed in order or priority and necessity to have fixed, they are fixed and tested on the test servers, maintenance is scheduled, bugs are patched.

They are doing their job by doing these maintenances, you could say " but they should of made it without these bugs", you sir/madam made yourself look a complete prat as for 1. please try making something of this scale and not have problems, 2. even the best of games have their problems even console wise, you'd just have to point at Pro Evolution Soccer 2008/GTA5 etc.. and are never bug free.

Back to the main point; Moaning will never cease, but I'd like it if people were that little bit smarter to consider why a "Maintenance" occurs and why so many after an expansion(usually logic follows unless you live in a world where you think games are made with complete accuracy). Even the simple programs being used today aren't made accurate nor are they free from bugs neither sometimes made with concise code.

/rant off

[Zekyr]

I think most people realize that.

I just think they're irritated at HOW MUCH it goes on. If they tested things properly beforehand, most of these issues would be apparent, with a few glitches getting through. But to say no one on the dev team bothered actually playing a 2h job, or tried some of the nyzul areas with broken mobs, etc, at ALL, shows a severe lack of attention to detail and what appears to just be a rush to get content out.

In addition, people would probably prefer things to actually get fixed in updates, not "lets see what issues they took care of and what new problems they created because every time some issue gets addressed new ones get created" like it seems now, which again reflects seemingly poor testing. "Hey guys, this mob is spamming bene, what should we do?" "I don't know, lets change these 3 lines of code, that should stop it." "Won't that fuck something else over?" "Who knows, lets find out."

With better testing we would only need 2-3 post-update fixes after a new expansion, and just to smooth the glitches out that were unexpected. We understand nothing runs perfect. But having day after day of emergency and planned maintenance would be frustrating to any customer, regardless if it was a game or any other service. I think people would rather SE take like a 30 hour maintenance and fix everything for good then leave it alone for 1-2 months rather than having minor 2-5 hour ones 3-4 times a week.

[karril]

Thats one of the things i always liked about EvE is that its down 1 hour every day, and they use that time to fix things for the most part.

[ondori911]

Addiction is not a bad thing. Its all about how you deal with it

There is a couple thousand people atm having shakes and crap because SE is doing another maint.

[Weavus]

having minor 2-5 hour ones 3-4 times a week.

I believe since the release of WotG, we've had at the most, two maint a week which had happened twice.

I've seen people complaining that this always happens on their day off. So you can't devote a WHOLE 24 hours to the game? OH MY GOD NO!!!! What a travesty. We have way too many spoiled brats playing this game.

[Xavier]

Thats one of the things i always liked about EvE is that its down 1 hour every day, and they use that time to fix things for the most part.

I actually like that system too. Ultima Online did the same thing, daily scheduled maint. from 5-6AM (or was it 6-7AM, I forget).

[Darkmoon]

The 15 min, all out slaughter fest at the Brit graveyard was the best right before the servers drop, and nothing was saved! Good times...

[Max™]

Thats one of the things i always liked about EvE is that its down 1 hour every day, and they use that time to fix things for the most part.

I actually like that system too. Ultima Online did the same thing, daily scheduled maint. from 5-6AM (or was it 6-7AM, I forget).

Well, it would make HNM camping a little less annoying.

The idea of having a completely rotating schedule for an event just isn't appealing here.

[Yabby]

Thats one of the things i always liked about EvE is that its down 1 hour every day, and they use that time to fix things for the most part.

I actually like that system too. Ultima Online did the same thing, daily scheduled maint. from 5-6AM (or was it 6-7AM, I forget).

At those times i would never see an HNM again