PlayOnline Server Maintenance (Oct. 13)Follow

Doh! ><

Oh well. We'll survive. ;)

arg. all this downtime really grates with me, especially as when you translate the times into europe it pretty much always involves us missing an entire evening's play.

a robust infrastructure really shouldn't need this much downtime, it's almost as if each ff server is run on one box only with no hot spares or server mirroring from some giy's garage or something.

hmm....

JP Times:

Friday 14th October

0:00-10:00am

Gonna **** a few people off, that one. Lots of Kids off school with colds/flu right now.

This is my favorite part of all these maintenance posts - there is always at least 1 person that posts this.

Yes they picked this exact time, just to **** you off because they knew it was the ONE day you get off work :P

I dunno if its for xbox360, but one thing that's on my mind when I read about THIS maintenence which directly follows the Monday Maintenence:

1). Why didn't they do this maintenence when they did Monday's?
2). Why didn't they do this maintenence when they did Sunday Night's?
3). PLEASE tell me this maintenence is going to get rid of some of this freaking Lag/DDoS/Unable to Log in crap that we've been experiencing.

Maintenence is a very necessary evil, but I HOPE this maintenence will actually result in something good. I hate it when they do maintenence, and 2 days later, BOOM, DDoS/Lag/Disconnects all over again. Then I have to ask "um, wtf was that maintenence 2 days ago For anyways?"

I don't mind maint. if it actually solves a problem and makes our online experience better. I do get annoyed, however, when maint. doesn't seem to solve anything, and/or when they turn around and do another maint. 2 days later...

--Xylia

It’s yom kippur, half of the country is probably off.

I'll take planned downtime over "unscheduleded maintenance" anyday, i.e. Search problems/Ah/Mail problems and all that fuzzy stuff.

At least you can plan around planned downtime/schedulded maintenance.

sounds like they finally wised up about server problems. Maybe Uncle Billy gave them some new servers to help with the Xbox release(planning ahead maybe?).

Well this is ******* super, that'll be another canceled sky raid because of maintence....had 2 byakkos lined up, and some general farming.

But no I'm tried of them putting maintenance directly during NA prime time, I mean come on, how about some 23PDT-8PDT....oh wait that would **** of thier real customers.

Thanks for the laugh, guys. :) Maintenance announcements always produce a good chuckle for me when the 'OMG' posts begin.

I get this picture in my head about the kind of lives you all lead. Lives where your whole world revolves around a game, where there are no friends other than those pseudo-acquaintances you perceive you have in game. One where there is no real grass, flowers, trees ... indeed any world at all outside your little black computer 'box'. That little box where pizza is shoved in one side, and a string of expletives and a mound of garbage comes out the other. I can just 'see' your surroundings and how limiting they are.

And, I have to laugh out loud, because otherwise I would cry. Since I am trying to cut down on my Kleenex budget and since laughing is good for your health (good medicine for cancer, wards off depression, and a good guffaw can clear out your smoggy lungs), I appreciate your contributions to my health! /smile

Edited, Wed Oct 12 11:46:45 2005 by Alumni

I'll get caught up on all the stuff I've been recording on TV. :)

I'm kinda glad they picked the 13th. I take a very important Certification exam that day and not having FFXI open means I may actually arrive at the testing center on time!

As for being related to Xbox 360 I doubt it. I think it's related to what happened on Sunday.

For shame, playing a video game on Yom Kippur. ;p

What would your bobbeshi think?! Be a mentsch, forget ffxi, and go to shul. Gey gezunterheyt. ^-^;

Oh, and just a side-note... half of what country? I don't think I know another Jewish person where I work. O.O;