All World Maintenance Extension (Sep. 14)

All World Maintenance Extension (Sep. 14) The scheduled FINAL FANTASY XI server maintenance on all Worlds has been extended to Sep. 14, 2004 17:00 (PDT) as noted below. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. [Date & Time] Sep. 14, 2004 10:00 to 17:00 (PDT) [Affected Services] FINAL FANTASY XI

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What?
# Sep 14 2004 at 7:15 PM Rating: Decent
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Just downloaded the patch. Why'd all of you say it was 2 hours? It took me 25 minutes on 1.5mbps DSL...
Bitching a bad thing?
# Sep 14 2004 at 7:02 PM Rating: Decent
Okay, but im tired of hearing people talk about how they hate to hear people ******** about maintanence. These are peoples opinions, we shouldn't stifle them! People are upset and thats all there is to it. It makes sense to me that this thread was started to give people a forum for how they felt, which, if you're going to take the time to post about this problem, is most likely going to be of the negative nature. So please, if you have something constructive to say, take it elsewhere :) Just kidding, I'm not looking to get a bunch of angry replies from Squeenix praisers.
Update?
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:59 PM Rating: Decent
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It's over... but I see no update. :O Maybe it was serv maintenance only, so no downloads. O.o
heh
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:41 PM Rating: Decent
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lol i'll make it easier. You got a 24 hour clock. When it hits 13:00 it's 1:00. When it's 15:00 it's 3:00. 13=1, 14=2, 15=3, etc etc So you basicly recount to 12 after you pass 12:00. About 99.99999 % of you probably already know this. Now, you always got a maint. starting PST time of 10am so for eastern it always starts at 1 pm, central 12pm, mountain 11am, and pacific obviously 10am. Then in this case you add 7 hours to your starting time and you know when this ends.

I don't know what's all the fuss about prime time. Our prime time doesn't really even start til about 8pm eastern time, which is when PST folk are finally home at 5pm and you got everybody who plays FFXI daily in NA online and then perhaps those that don't play daily. Anyway, sure we eastern folk hate but it's better than having a downtime of 10 hours or more, or having it take place AT 6pm or later on OUR time. I'm damn glad it starts earlier in the day.


Let's look at Japan. It's about 8:30am there right now. Let's say at 9am FFXI is back up for them. -7 hours and maint started at 2am. Interesting, it really does start during their offpeak time! Shouldn't square like.....do it during the day lol? Poor bastards have to stay up during the night to fiddle around with the servers. All 100+ of them. Kinda seems like they are favoring their home country, the bastards ^^ How dare they!!!! Anyway, if they did maint during their time of 10am, it would be starting here at 9:00 PM(they are 13 hours ahead of us, 9pm here is 10am there) OMG!!!!!!!! HELL NO!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!! **** THAT!


So, as you can see, we are better off with the way things are now. I mean really, how many of us NA's are playing during the day right now? With adults working and kids at school? Not very many.

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:43:42 2004
RE: heh
# Sep 14 2004 at 7:00 PM Rating: Decent
THNANK YOU!

all this complaining is driveing me karazy
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# Sep 14 2004 at 6:32 PM Rating: Decent
Sigh. I hope when the Maintence is over that the update won't take forever. :P

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:37:08 2004
keep crying
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:29 PM Rating: Decent
I still dont get why people are crying? At least they let us know what are the issues and they are doing this for a reason. If you dont like upgrades and maintenance then maybe you should play just a plain rpg. Im tired of ppl saying I pay 13 dollars a month and they have maintanance and all this other crap. They are not ripping us off. There are many, many event that they have worked on for us that they didnt have to do. Maybe it is an inconvience for some players but you just have to deal. If you dont like it then play some other game and dont give SE your money. I know that I will as long as there are Expansions and updates.
RE: keep crying
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:34 PM Rating: Default
it's UpDATES, not upGRADES...
RE: keep crying
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:39 PM Rating: Decent
well Excuuuuse me princess
RE: keep crying
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:43 PM Rating: Decent
memories *happily sighs lost in thought* i have that DVD =P
RE: keep crying
# Sep 14 2004 at 9:13 PM Rating: Decent
as do i.
continious bitching
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:29 PM Rating: Excellent
OMG....will this constant ******** ever end? I believe many ppl here have made it clear that there is a very good reason for 2 days worth of maintenance.

SE is trying to make this game better! Don't you get it!? FFXI is nothing but a network of servers. And just like your home PC...it can glitch and have problems. And these problems or glitches or bugs whatever you want to call them can very often take a lot of time to repair. I'm sure that some of you can understand what I'm getting at here. Quit your ****************
As it was said before...your constant ******** and whining isn't going to make a dent on what SE does. Go find something else to do.
RE: continious bitching
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Indeed Ayanamix- they're not just apply patches here, they're releasing a whole expansion, and opening the system to whole other country of gamers (Europe). I don't think any of the people here ******** about the maintenance has any concept of how much work goes into the massive behind the scenes changes all this requires.
The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:13 PM Rating: Decent
Ok. Everyone should know what matinence really is. It's where the FFXI Admin. get a 'Free Play' without much lag. They edit the mobs and get like 'oodles of gil and 'exp. They probably getting the last touches on their levels or something. But, thanks for the ahead-of-time notice about the extended matinence(Sarcasim)!
I am very happy that Paladins are getting raise now at level 50! After I come home from a long day of school and grueling football practice I want to relax....but, friggin' FFXI is still down. $13 a month times about 1,500,000 FFXI characters equals $19,500,000 a month in American currency. That's about $234,000,000 a year, I think our hard earned money should prevent 'lil problems like this and motovate the workers of FFXI.
RE: The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:22 PM Rating: Default
And where exactly do you get your information? Do you have ANY evidence to back this up? the only way you would know is if you were one of them, which means you just admitted guilt. they edit the mobs? do you have any idea how long that would take? not to mention that it would take the FUN out of the game. And why would the admins want to play with just them on anyways? Do you realize how boring it is when NO ONE is online? And for the record, there is no problem, its called maintenance, which is making sure the game doesn't break, which would cause problems in the game, and then even more downtime. If you have a problem with them getting so much money, talk to them or quit, no one here cares about your whining.
RE: The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:51 PM Rating: Decent
LOL! omg, he wasn't serious. XD Gawd, you didn't even catch the oh-so-obvious 'Sarcasm!; note there. =_=

*dies*
RE: The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:30 PM Rating: Default
dude omfg it was a joke even if it was funny or not. dont take everything so seriously. i dont mind the matinence at all, just lighten up, jeez
RE: The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:29 PM Rating: Decent
Actually, this maintenance IS fixing bugs which were in yesterdays update. That said, maintenance is the upkeep of a system to prevent problems arising and fixing any active or latent problems with the system.

That said, I don't mind that there's maintenance. Better a stable game than a ****** one that crashes and hangs all the time ^^
RE: The Real Reason for Matinence
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:21 PM Rating: Default
oops. double-post, ignore this one.

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:23:39 2004
Waiting Suxz
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:13 PM Rating: Decent
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this is horrible, another dang server maintenence, yesterday took all day i couldnt play before work and had to wait 2 hours to update my system, and then today another maintenence after work, man will i be angry if i need to wait through another 2 hour system update today.
LMAO!
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:12 PM Rating: Decent
I think its quite funny how ppl are still ******** about this and there is only less than an hour wait left for this to be fixed. Go clean your room or read a book or something. Its not that serious
RE: LMAO!
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:27 PM Rating: Decent
If you take MavHunter's advice and read a book, might I suggest a good novel by Wilbur Smith(actual name, lol). He has written many adventure novels that are a lot of fun to read. Yes I know it sounds like I am an uber-nerd/dork/geek, but aren't we all for playing a video game for an average accumulated time of like 10 days(if you ever play long enough to get to 30+)? I suggest Birds of Prey, as it is the original, and one of the best books. He has written 26 I believe...
RE: LMAO!
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:38 PM Rating: Decent
Quote:
but aren't we all for playing a video game for an average accumulated time of like 10 days(if you ever play long enough to get to 30+)?


10 days!??? wow man. I'm like at 80 or something lol. 77 last time i checked abotu a week ago
.......
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:11 PM Rating: Decent
Meh...maintenance does suck...but I look at it this way. This game is gonna rock after all these long drawnout updates, maintenances, and the comming if CoP. Big deal. So you all have to live in the real world for once. Deal with it. I'm sure all of you have other things you can do. Me? I sat and played Star Ocean: Till the End of Time for the last 2 days. =)

So quit your whining and complaining and deal with it.
WTF
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:07 PM Rating: Decent
This really sucks for people in EST (like me) RIGHT IN THE FRICKEN MIDDLE OF THE DAY!!!!!
1-7pm ARGHHHHH its soo annoying ><
upgrades
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:00 PM Rating: Default
ffxi is a great game and form time to time they do need to do upgrades and patchs to maintain the servers, so just relax and everything will be put back into order,give me some time to get some stuff done.
RE: upgrades
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:17 PM Rating: Default
good message, no need to post it 4 times, really.
upgrades
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:55 PM Rating: Default
ffxi is a great game and form time to time they do need to do upgrades and patchs to maintain the servers, so just relax and everything will be put back into order,give me some time to get some stuff done.
and.....
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:54 PM Rating: Default
and wtf is up with the patch like 5 new areas a few new quests and some new gear sounds to me like a $29.99 patch hehe were are the new adv jobs and what about new classes..... oh wait there is the great bahamut (do i detect sarcasim[comic book guy], are you kidding this bady is off the charts [dr. fink], ohhh a sarcasm detecter thats a REALLY good invention [comic book guy]) but can we summon him or is he only gonna tell us that the end is near like in the pics at playonline
RE: and.....
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:56 PM Rating: Default
expansion i mean
upgrades
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:54 PM Rating: Default
ffxi is a great game and form time to time they do need to do upgrades and patchs to maintain the servers, so just relax and everything will be put back into order,give me some time to get some stuff done.
upgrades
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:53 PM Rating: Default
ffxi is a great game and form time to time they do need to do upgrades and patchs to maintain the servers, so just relax and everything will be put back into order,give me some time to get some stuff done.
attempt to upgrade
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:47 PM Rating: Decent
ffxi is a great game and from time to time they do need to upgrade and maintain the servers, so just relax and wait for everything to return to normal gives me a chance to get some things done.
LIGHTNING BOLT!
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:46 PM Rating: Decent
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/9271/ <-- theres an idea to pass the time (yeah i know everyone's seen it but its still funny as hell)
RE: LIGHTNING BOLT!
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:58 PM Rating: Decent
one word "HA" that was great
RE: LIGHTNING BOLT!
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:54 PM Rating: Decent
man.. Their paladin must have been really good. The blm was spamming lightning bolt so much I'm surprised he was able to keep hate. Did anybody notice a thf SATA off the pld? They shoulda had a Rng too to lay off a good barrage... dam NOOBS
RE: LIGHTNING BOLT!
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:52 PM Rating: Decent
lol ive seen this before. great stuff
Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good
I cannot let this rest, this is absolutely ridiculous

Is there a single one of you posters that has MMORPG programming experience? Do any of you actually think that you have ANY IDEA what is involved?

Are there are any of you who actually think that this server maintenance is NOT done at the time of day that there are statistically less people on?

Is there a single one of you who actually think that SE is just sitting around counting their money while your staring at your screen spamming retry?

THINK AGAIN

For those who take the "I'm a paying customer - I shouldn't have to wait" approach - I did the math, this is about 50 cents worth of game time. If you want, I'll send you a refund myself, you can grab a paper, look at the classifieds, see if you can get yourself a life.

Yeah - it sucks, I wanted to play today too. But I am NOT under the impression that the world revolves around me and I am NOT personally insulted that SE would do maintenance on "my only day off in a long time". And for those of you who may be confused, that WAS sarcasm.

Before you complain, REALLY THINK about the alternative to a system that does maintenance. One that never changes. Think - no RotZ - no advanced jobs - no summerfest - nothing. Is that really what you want, because I'm sure it would be MUCH EASIER for SE to do it that way (it would make counting the money much easier). I don't claim to have much programming experience, but I do have some, and believe me, it's absolutely friggin amazing that SE has done as good a job as they have keeping this game running.

Now, that being said - I deeply apologize for any inconvenience my message may have caused you.
RE: Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:45 PM Rating: Decent
I can't even get my website working the way I want it in a day. *lol*

All you complainers need to understand that coding isn't done by a press of a button. There's so much trial and error and nothing ever works the first try. >_> You should appreciate the fact that SE is making such an awesome game for you to play, and have it keep working and being introduced with new things.

Such whiners. u.u; I suppose you're used to crying to mommy when something doesn't go your way. Grow up. >_>
RE: Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well said, tgf.
RE: Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:30 PM Rating: Decent
Unfortuanatly, the world DOES in fact revolve around me... otherwise i wouldn't be very upset at all.
RE: Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:00 PM Rating: Decent
i've got like.........a few days of Visual basic programming done.............my mind shuts off tryin' to make PONG work........i'll get it eventually, but this, MMORPG, there must be eintein clones in chairs up in SE eh? that's what i'm thinkin'. who's with me?
RE: Unbelievalbe
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:50 PM Rating: Decent
I totally agree with you tgf. It is amazing how they do it...especially with something this big. i have programming experience too, and ATTEMPTING to do something like this is definetly no easy task. I applaud SE for being able to make tons of people happy with A+ work being done with their games, i.e. FFXI. Granted, the maitenence is annoying, but they dont even have to do it, but they want to to make people happy, and yes the almighty dollar. but SE deserves it. They work hard to keep us, the happy consumers, exactly what we are...happy. SO YAY TO YOU SE! i hope to work for you once i finish this Bachelors Program in Gaming Design ^.^
>.<
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Quit yo' ********

Anyway, if you have to ***** about the maintnence, go ahead and do your worst, all you can do is quit, and its foolish to quit the game for a days worth of maintnence a month, but your all acting like it isn't. Bleh, gives me time to do my homework.
/sigh
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
ffxi is a great game and from time to time they need to upgrade and maintain the servers, and to fix bugs in the system so just wait it out and soon everything will be back in order gives me some time to get some stuff done.
Squenix Screws Us
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:31 PM Rating: Default
Okay so as if yesterday wasn't bad enough they decide to give us MORE maintanence. Then they can't get their butts in gear fast enough to even get it done on time. What the crap are they doing with their time? We all pay like what 15-25 bucks a month to play this game? According to the Vana Diel Census taken in may there are over 500,000 people playing this game. That's a butt-load of money every month! Probably more the the GDP of some countries, and yet, all this company can do is "Deeply appologize for any inconviences" it may cause. I think Squeenix owes us all more than an apology. Hell, why not credit every character a thousand gil or something. ***** it, I'm gonna go smoke-a-bowl :) Peace all.

Edited, Tue Sep 14 18:37:14 2004
RE: Squenix Screws Us
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:50 PM Rating: Good
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...

And this is why Square implimented Blacklists.

15-25 bucks a month? Try $12, no more than any other major MMO on the market today- and this title is singularly worth that price tag, in my opinion. Why should they credit anyone anything- they're using the downtime to maintain the high quality of service and gaming we all enjoy.

If you have a problem with the downtime, quit, or call square and voice your concerns. I'm tired of this worthless bellyaching.
RE: Squenix Screws Us
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:37 PM Rating: Default
Boo-urns!
pissing me off
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:27 PM Rating: Decent
ok well there goes my long weekend off of work the days maintence happens and of course it doesnt happen while i am at college but as soon as i get out. so yeah i had planned to get to 30 and wwas 40k away from an emperor hairpin but looks like i wont be abel to do that till next weekend. personally i think all maintenence times should be in *** time since they are the ones who need addiction help for this gamei only get 2 days a week to even try playing there goes this week
RE: pissing me off
# Sep 14 2004 at 6:15 PM Rating: Default
so, your saying that an entire population should be inconvienenced so that you can play for the weekend? Get over yourself. And what makes you think that they are the ones with an addiction, you expect thousands of others to wait just so that you can get to lvl 30... WOW, thats all i have to say. BTW, ITS TUESDAY!!! THATS NOT THE WEEKEND!!!

Edited, Tue Sep 14 19:16:57 2004
I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:25 PM Rating: Decent
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Okay I posted this elsewhere but it has been helping me relieve boredom. And will also take out your frustrations, hopefully. hehe have fun


RE: I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:55 PM Rating: Good
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This is freaking ridiculous! The bubbles come back way faster then I can pop them! If they don't fix this soon I'm going to have to take my business elsewhere!

^_~
RE: I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
lol heeee man u must be bored lol cool
RE: I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:35 PM Rating: Decent
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heh yeah. I'm a bit bored been popping bubbles between laundry loads. ::girl:: btw.
RE: I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:28 PM Rating: Decent
oh good link thank man its dead just like FF 11 servers lol
RE: I know your bored
# Sep 14 2004 at 5:30 PM Rating: Decent
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:sigh: sorry I tried to put in a link. Using the url button but it isn't working. It is a fun site so you can "always" copy paste the url.

sorry again I don't know why the button isn't working to add links.
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