[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, 'ï¼ï¼³ Ｐゴシック']Login Limitation After Emergency Maintenance (Aug. 25): Follow-up 4[/font]
Quote:As we previously announced, we are continuing to limit the number of logins in order to address the high server load. We are slowly lifting the login restriction, so if you are currently unable to login, please try again at a later time.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this is causing everyone, but we would like to ask for your continued cooperation to make this a stable environment.
This was just posted via the Twitter feed seventeen minutes ago.
(08-25-2013, 10:43 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote: [ -> ]At least this thread has managed to remain relatively tame compared to the sort of comments being posted on other FFXIV related sites. I shouldn't be surprised, but it's a shame how much entitlement and rot exists elsewhere within the community. I do wonder how some of the more horrid posters manage to function in the real world without bursting a blood vessel each time their routine is interrupted by issues that can't really be avoided.
Heh. Â You haven't been around many MMOs have you? Â You should totally check out the General Discussions forum or the Customer Support/Technical Support sections of the World of Warcraft forums on maintenance day. Â Especially if it gets extended.
Something others don't seem to realize is that Americans and Japanese have different work ethics.  People are expecting Yoshi-P and his team to act like American workers.  They're most likely too focused on the problem.  Which is good.  <Smiles.>
(08-25-2013, 10:47 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: [ -> ] (08-25-2013, 10:43 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote: [ -> ]At least this thread has managed to remain relatively tame compared to the sort of comments being posted on other FFXIV related sites. I shouldn't be surprised, but it's a shame how much entitlement and rot exists elsewhere within the community. I do wonder how some of the more horrid posters manage to function in the real world without bursting a blood vessel each time their routine is interrupted by issues that can't really be avoided.
Heh. Â You haven't been around many MMOs have you? Â You should totally check out the General Discussions forum or the Customer Support/Technical Support sections of the World of Warcraft forums on maintenance day. Â Especially if it gets extended.
I've seen a lot of that myself. It's a real shame, since all it really serves to accomplish is drive away enthusiastic players from posting on the official boards of most MMO's. I often asked players I met on WoW as to why they didn't post on the official site and the answer was almost always along the lines of '
it's an awful place'.
I think Eve probably had the most understanding community when it came to server downtime, of curse we are/were used to 23 hour days as Tranquility needs to have its hamsters changed daily, and that takes about an hour.
90000 survivor
3102 survivor
1017 survivor
 Hopefully I'll get in tonight! I can't decide if I want to make a putzing around character on a less populated server for times like this.
(08-25-2013, 10:46 PM)esperkitty Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:As we previously announced, we are continuing to limit the number of logins in order to address the high server load. We are slowly lifting the login restriction, so if you are currently unable to login, please try again at a later time.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this is causing everyone, but we would like to ask for your continued cooperation to make this a stable environment.
This was just posted via the Twitter feed seventeen minutes ago.
The link the tweet takes me to was posted at 11:28 am... are they reposting old news?
(08-25-2013, 10:52 PM)TheCurls Wrote: [ -> ]90000 survivor
3102 survivor
1017 survivor
 Hopefully I'll get in tonight! I can't decide if I want to make a putzing around character on a less populated server for times like this.
I thought about it, but it just seems kind of pointless since once the servers come back up I'll just abandon the character and never play it again.
Then again if I run out of other things to do I probably will anyway.
(08-25-2013, 10:51 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote: [ -> ]I've seen a lot of that myself. It's a real shame, since all it really serves to accomplish is drive away enthusiastic players from posting on the official boards of most MMO's. I often asked players I met on WoW as to why they didn't post on the official site and the answer was almost always along the lines of 'it's an awful place'.
Well, it is for the most part a terrible place. Â You have to have thick skin if you're going to step out in the WoW forums.
On the other hand, there are bastions of goodness. Â The Healing Forums and the Tanking Forums are two examples of places where you can get real advice, honest answers. Â The Healing Forums even has an Off-Topic thread that's like a chat lounge people hang out in.
(08-25-2013, 10:56 PM)Lake Desire Wrote: [ -> ] (08-25-2013, 10:46 PM)esperkitty Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:As we previously announced, we are continuing to limit the number of logins in order to address the high server load. We are slowly lifting the login restriction, so if you are currently unable to login, please try again at a later time.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this is causing everyone, but we would like to ask for your continued cooperation to make this a stable environment.
This was just posted via the Twitter feed seventeen minutes ago.
The link the tweet takes me to was posted at 11:28 am... are they reposting old news?Time stamp for the forum post saysÂ
Forum post for me says 2008 for me, and the Twitter post is just 32m old. Â Could be you're not logged into the Lodestone Forums.
This just came across my twitter feed:
Maintenance for NA/EU #FFXIV Datacenter Aug. 25, 2013 from 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. (PDT)
https://twitter.com/Elvinelol/status/371...88/photo/1
Edited to add: Now they're saying that our inability to log-in is the result of a bug. Â So which is it? Â Their server caps, or a bug? Â Ugh.
(08-25-2013, 10:56 PM)Lake Desire Wrote: [ -> ] (08-25-2013, 10:46 PM)esperkitty Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:As we previously announced, we are continuing to limit the number of logins in order to address the high server load. We are slowly lifting the login restriction, so if you are currently unable to login, please try again at a later time.
Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that this is causing everyone, but we would like to ask for your continued cooperation to make this a stable environment.
This was just posted via the Twitter feed seventeen minutes ago.
The link the tweet takes me to was posted at 11:28 am... are they reposting old news?
If it was from their home office, then their Twitter stamp my be local Japanese time - since Japan is about 11ish hours ahead of EST (not sure what time zone you are in).
Same here, Liadans. Â So, it's progress and work! Â I have faith in them! Â <3
(08-25-2013, 11:00 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: [ -> ] (08-25-2013, 10:51 PM)Theodric Brandt Wrote: [ -> ]I've seen a lot of that myself. It's a real shame, since all it really serves to accomplish is drive away enthusiastic players from posting on the official boards of most MMO's. I often asked players I met on WoW as to why they didn't post on the official site and the answer was almost always along the lines of 'it's an awful place'.
Well, it is for the most part a terrible place. Â You have to have thick skin if you're going to step out in the WoW forums.
On the other hand, there are bastions of goodness. Â The Healing Forums and the Tanking Forums are two examples of places where you can get real advice, honest answers. Â The Healing Forums even has an Off-Topic thread that's like a chat lounge people hang out in.
I'll try and check them out at some point. Granted, I can't post since my WoW subscription has been cancelled but I suppose it makes a lot of sense that the healing board is rich with friendly folk! I've always favoured the DPS role, personally - I tend to make all sorts of stupid mistakes if people put in charge of tanking or healing. I might give it a go in FFXIV, though.