All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jul. 21)

[Shadowhusky]

A version update of FINAL FANTASY XI was performed at the following time.

[Date & Time]
Jul. 21, 2009 at 12:00 (PDT)

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

[Important Update Details]
- The price that the following items could be sold to NPC for has been adjusted:

Green Curry Bun / Yellow Curry Bun
Black Curry Bun / Red Curry Bun
G. Curry Bun +1 / Y. Curry Bun +1
B. Curry Bun +1 / R. Curry Bun +1

...Wow, really SE?

[Gergall]

They've been messing up NPC prices on items since at least CoP release. How difficult is it to put a process in place to decide on NPC prices before adding them to the game?

[Damane]

the maintance was just to fix THAT?!

[Spekkio]

cata? ninja tool proc rate on new ja? i don't see how the update could take that long to change a couple of constants...

[Gere]

It takes them about 2hrs to reboot the servers regardless of what changes they're making.

[Neoex]

It takes them about 2hrs to reboot the servers regardless of what changes they're making.

cause you work for SE's IT Team and know how long it takes to bring up a MMORPG server, gg.

[Spekkio]

It takes them about 2hrs to reboot the servers regardless of what changes they're making.

they can take down some of the server shards and bring them back up in minutes as evidenced by when they need to quickly remove an NPC for one reason or another. a good example iirc was when they downed ssandy and only ssandy when there was the exploit w/ the gambling NPC and replaced him with the moogle.

[nivlac]

We're all their beta testers anyway ;p.

classic and true xD

[Narse]

Anyone know old vendor prices?

[Sekundes]

I doubt that was the only reason for it. As much as maintenance bugs me I'd rather them take 2-??? hours to fix something than try to fix it in a hurry and fuck up 25 other things in the process.

[Khamsin]

Regarding time conversions, it gets trickier when going from PDT to EST (2 hour difference) versus PDT to EDT (3 hours).

Speaking of which, I saw someone earlier in the thread erroneously claim that EST was 3 hours ahead of PDT.

[Blackwidow]

Why the Fuck do BSTs get their own time?

Because SE won't give them jack else.

[Teorem]

cause you work for SE's IT Team and know how long it takes to bring up a MMORPG server, gg.

If you weren't being so quick to be an ass in your response, you could have at least looked to see whether what he was saying had any truth to it.

Which, it does:

Audience: With the recent server down time is there any way that Square Enix can keep us up to date with what's exactly going on? "Maintenance has been extended" doesn't really explain anything.

Sage Sundi: Every time we change something within the server, whether it is hardware or software, we have to reboot the entire system in a specific order and it can take up to two hours. So working for two hours then doing the reboots can takes up to four hours. We will take the suggestion about keeping players more up to date back with us to the development team.

Obviously there are instances where corrections involving only specific, localized zone data can be made easily and within a few minutes, but for things like NPC selling prices, they certainly aren't going to down every area with a NPC in it individually with the game still active so they can update with the correct base prices, however their central database pushes them out.

As an aside:

Regarding time conversions, it gets trickier when going from PDT to EST (2 hour difference) versus PDT to EDT (3 hours).

Why would this even matter? What states in either the Pacific or Eastern time zones *don't* observe Daylight Saving Time?

[Gergall]

What states in either the Pacific or Eastern time zones *don't* observe Daylight Saving Time?

Part of Indiana chooses not to change their clocks. Consequently, they spend part of the year as Eastern time and part of the year as Central time.

(No less annoying than changing your clocks, IMHO. Every time they see something listed as Eastern or Central they have to stop for a split second and remember which one they are currently using.)

[Narse]

I believe Arizona does not change times as well.

[Anomander]

I believe Arizona does not change times as well.

Correct, neither does Hawaii.

[Izzy]

I'm sad no one got my "Nobody likes a Ted" reference a few posts back

[Arthars]

nothing is fixed!!!!

the worst update in FFXI history

and then folowed by the worst emergency maintainance

inc 2nd emergency maintainance fixing bells

[Rocl]

nothing is fixed!!!!

the worst update in FFXI history

and then folowed by the worst emergency maintainance

inc 2nd emergency maintainance fixing bells

Maybe for you, but man some of those augments are suh-weet

[Arthars]

Maybe for you, but man some of those augments are suh-weet

yea the randomness is awesome

but comparing to "real" version update, this one is nothing close at all YET

that weskit sure make it slightly better tho but still underwhelmed by waiting 3 months

hell that weskit update coulda been in last update if they want, than to split FoV augments into 2 update, cos from what i see, theres no change to the system

only thing i see and like this far is, sweet campaign buyables :D