All Worlds Maintenance (Oct. 7)

[Groovebox]

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

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

[Date & Time]
From Oct. 7, 2010 23:00 to Oct. 8, 2010 3:00 (PDT)
* Maintenance completion time may be subject to change.

[Affected Services]
FINAL FANTASY XIV

Gawd, please have a decent patch for us...

[Hyan]

Aahh, soon I can finally find myself a better cross-pein hammer and h2h weapon..

[Balb]

I don't have the game yet, with good reason, but this is one of the first maintenances I've been waiting for to see how quick SE is reacting to adjusting a lot of the problems that players have been reporting since the release. Let's hope a lot of wrongs are righted(?).

[Synbios]

Fingers crossed. It does seem rather strange given SEs history to have a 4 hour maintenance in the middle of the night (US).

[Hyan]

They already told us the marketplace is going to have a few adjustments. That may be all or there may be more things (bug fixes).

[Don Katsu]

unable to connect to world server... did they mean 19:00 to 04:00? <_<

[ArchDizzle]

Nope, wife is playing atm.

[miokomioko]

It's going to be some face-palm if all they did was put (weapons/tools) or (alchemy materials) after the name of each ward in addition to the simple tax relief.

[Hyan]

That's what they said they would do.

[jwang]

Hot diggity, launcher has a new update loading right now. ~1 hr remaining on maintenance!

[miokomioko]

That's what they said they would do.

Yeah, and if that's all they do, it's not going to be a big enough change to matter yet. Let's just hope there's a little bit more to it than just a tiny tax relief for customers when the seller isn't retarded.

[Gokulo]

I wonder if they will still upload patch notes only after maint is done...

[Neg939]

All Worlds Maintenance Completed (Oct. 8)
The all world server maintenance on FINAL FANTASY XIV scheduled to end on Oct. 8, 2010 at 3:00 (PDT) has been completed at 2:30 (PDT).

[Date & Time]
From Oct. 7, 2010 23:00 to Oct. 8, 2010 2:30 (PDT)

[Affected Service]
FINAL FANTASY XIV

Wards haven't been renamed ; ;

[Gokulo]

- The chat log will no longer close while entering text during the following processes:
- When viewing a bazaar
- When setting up a bazaar
- During gathering
- During synthesis


Fuck yes D:

[MrSamuels]

So yeah, the real patch notes

2010-10-08 09:30 From : FINAL FANTASY XIVFINAL FANTASY XIV Version Update (Oct. 8)
A version update of FINAL FANTASY XIV was performed at the following time.

* The software client will begin updating automatically the next time you run FINAL FANTASY XIV.

[Date & Time]
Oct. 8, 2010 at 10:00 (GMT)

[Affected Service]
-FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Important Update Details]
- Made an adjustment to how experience points are distributed amongst party members. Instead of dividing a total number of experience points by the number of players who participated in the battle, it now distributes the total amount of experience points equally amongst all players in the party.

- The chat log will no longer close while entering text during the following processes:
- When viewing a bazaar
- When setting up a bazaar
- During gathering
- During synthesis

- An issue wherein a player would be unable to progress with the quest "Futures Perfect," if they join a party during the cutscene has been addressed.

- An issue wherein a player would be unable to start a levequest if they initiate a teleport at the same time has been addressed.

- Implemented a countermeasure for an issue which prevented players from gaining skill points during battle.

- An issue wherein the FINAL FANTASY XIV client would shut down when a player adds or removes a new party member has been addressed.

- An issue wherein players would take damage when executing a macro command for an area of effect action that is centered on themselves has been addressed.

- An issue wherein messages in tell, party, or linkshell chat would not go through properly has been addressed.

- Implemented a countermeasure for an issue where an item would not display properly under a certain condition.

- A rare issue wherein an item data would get corrupted during a server outage has been addressed.
* We have confirmed that if a player attempts to put this corrupted item into their bazaar, it would cause the server to go down. We are currently in the process of addressing this issue, but until then, we have temporarily restricted the bazaar function for players with these corrupted items. We will be providing an update on this situation once we have a better idea on when the the actual fix will take place. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

- An issue wherein the login queue would not work as intended during server congestion has been addressed.

- Implemented a countermeasure to prevent server outages under a certain condition.

- Other miscellaneous issues have been addressed.
* The previously announced improvements to the market system are currently in the final preparation stages and will be ready by the version update next week. Please keep an eye out for future announcements regarding this matter.

[Elcura]

Wonder if party play sucks less now? These are steps in the right direction for sure, I'm curious to see what next week holds for us.

[miokomioko]

Party skill gaining probably doesn't suck anymore, but I don't know about the hate issues.

[MrSamuels]

Just gonna say this, unless we have three mobs on us, the gladiator i group with can hold 1-2 mobs perfectly fine at rank 20, he has gained a hell of a lot more threat moves since the begining and threat is nowhere near as much of an issue for us anymore

[crazyrabbit]

- Other miscellaneous issues have been addressed.
* The previously announced improvements to the market system are currently in the final preparation stages and will be ready by the version update next week. Please keep an eye out for future announcements regarding this matter.

? mini-update or somethng more?

Chatlog thing is realy nice and the party exp seems to be just what people wanted. This might give a little hope to the raging masses.

[Gokulo]

A similar update like that I guess.