All Worlds Emergency Maintenance (Jul. 21)

[Zeb]

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

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

[Date & Time]
Jul. 21, 2009 from 10:00 to 12:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XI

* 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 these services.

* Maintenance operations will delete any reservations for Pankration matches and Maze Tabulae registered to NPC Duplidoc for Moblin Maze Mongers. Players who are scheduled to participate in Pankration matches, those who will enter Assault, Salvage or Einherjar areas, or those who will participate in Dynamis or Limbus at the time of the maintenance, we ask that you please wait until maintenance is complete before engaging in these activities. Please note that we cannot replace items that are lost during the maintenance process.

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

[Fridell]

Obvious.
Now's their chanse to add real content to this update.

[sruon]

Obvious.
Now's their chanse to break even more pre-existant and unlinked content.

If only.

[Renzy]

Saw it coming from a mile away

[Thorshammer]

Saw it coming from a mile away

we also could add tomorrows emergency maintenance and day after tomorrow and.. well all the upcoming days.... weeks.... lulz

[Murdock]

there will be at least 1-2 more to follow this. there always is.

[acheronn]

Could someone translate that to EST for me?

[arshesney]

From Job adjustments part I notes:

To ensure a smooth gaming experience for all, testing and adjustments will be carried out to the fullest extent that time permits.

Yeah, right.

[Ragnus]

Could someone translate that to EST for me?

Add 3 hours
???
Profit.

Kinda glad they're fixing it. I was wondering how Yorin would stack with gear and merits.

[Isiolia]

We all know SE's "testing" involves letting an intern try out the content once as a reward for buying the dev team lunch. Unfortunately, Sundi was still hungry so the poor guy only got 15 minutes before he was sent back out.

[Cutriss]

To ensure a smooth gaming experience for all, testing and adjustments will be carried out to the fullest extent that time permits.

Yeah, right.

Hey...I find "smooth" to be a good way to describe 100% NTE activation.

I'm sure BST/DNC thought their 24-hour Drain Samba buff was pretty "smooth" too.

I'm sure THF thought their 24-hour SA buff was pretty "smooth" too.

I know COR thought their 24-hour QD buff was pretty "smooth" too.

Wow. SE seems to have a track record of giving us these little gems and then taking them away. You'd almost think they were being sadistic, telling us, "Hey, this is pretty awesome, right? Well, TOO BAD."

You all know the saying though. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained away by PURE FUCKING COMPLETE INCOMPETENCE.

Oh, and ib4 wannabe game developers defending SE's noodly binaries.

[Tempyst]

ib4 armchair quarterbacks who know everything about designing a tri-platform mmo

[Argettio]

If my maths work out that's 6pm to 8pm GMT (or 7-9pm BST).

Bye bye dynamis-xarc.

Every fucking time right in the middle of UK/EU prime.

[Cutriss]

ib4 armchair quarterbacks who know everything about designing a tri-platform mmo

Gee. Does the server code run on three platforms?

[Vedder]

Could someone translate that to EST for me?

If you go from PDT to EST, it's a 2 hour difference ... but I'd have to assume you mean EDT, in which case it's a 3 hour difference or 1-3pm EDT.

[Tempyst]

Gee. Does the server code run on three platforms?

Don't worry dude, I know your experience in making a qbasic text parser back in 1989 makes you the expert

[terranova]

I'll be sleep when maintenance is done.

Incoming ninja nerf some skill that will piss people off.
Incoming avatars SMNs can't use.
Incoming SE fuck ups.
Incoming slew of fixes SE must make due to fuck ups.

Yeah so as I was saying.

You never fail me SE.

[TaruMortis]

Yeah so as I was saying.

You never fail me SE.

That's like saying "Watch guys, the sun is going to rise today." There's ALWAYS maint. after an update.

[terranova]

We're all their beta testers anyway ;p.

[Spekkio]

Don't worry dude, I know your experience in making a qbasic text parser back in 1989 makes you the expert

by the same token, i develop for multi-os uses as well as mobile and game consoles every time i post a webpage. the number of target platforms is irrelevant if the pertinent code does not directly interact with them. regardless, given that most of the glitches were minor, on the order of a relic ws not working or ninja tool expertise proc rate, they didn't do that bad. still, they'd have to actually have any changes of significance to have a chance at breaking something, wouldn't they? my magic 8 ball theory still stands.