Ichy
09-14-2004, 09:42 PM
We appologise for any inconvienience this may cause.
Sound familiar? You must be a FFXI player. Is it just me or has this become an all too often used catch phrase for SE and PlayOnline?
As if the network problems while downloading the newest update weren't bad enough (I got booted after 1:45:00 of DL and had to start from SCRATCH, as well as spend an hour just trying to re-connect again), it seems to me that everytime server maintenance is underway and you're just itching to get back on there and play you can pretty much count on it being extended a few hours. In case you aren't a player and just enjoy perusing this forum, trust me, it happens almost 70% of the time.
This is one of my only days off from my job which pays for this game and I've spend most of it waiting for the servers to come back up, thinking it's all right, I'll get on before supper. Nope, uh uh, no dice. It's down until 20:00 in my time zone, now. My compensation?
We deeply appologise for any inconvienience this may cause.
I know, I've degenerated to mild ranting due to my upset, and it's as much of a pain for other players, and I'll get my chance to play later, however what do I have to look forward to now (for today) when the servers finally go live again? Less than enough time to PT effectively before I have to go to bed so I can go to work the next day, and no Gil to do anything else with because the servers were down all day resulting in noone buying any of my stuff I have for sale.
So. The good thing in all of this? There was a problem with the game, they jumped right on it, the problem will be fixed, again, asap. At least SE has got a perfect track record on this one. Now if they could just do something about that ugly slow loading new gui in the viewer...
/rant
Sound familiar? You must be a FFXI player. Is it just me or has this become an all too often used catch phrase for SE and PlayOnline?
As if the network problems while downloading the newest update weren't bad enough (I got booted after 1:45:00 of DL and had to start from SCRATCH, as well as spend an hour just trying to re-connect again), it seems to me that everytime server maintenance is underway and you're just itching to get back on there and play you can pretty much count on it being extended a few hours. In case you aren't a player and just enjoy perusing this forum, trust me, it happens almost 70% of the time.
This is one of my only days off from my job which pays for this game and I've spend most of it waiting for the servers to come back up, thinking it's all right, I'll get on before supper. Nope, uh uh, no dice. It's down until 20:00 in my time zone, now. My compensation?
We deeply appologise for any inconvienience this may cause.
I know, I've degenerated to mild ranting due to my upset, and it's as much of a pain for other players, and I'll get my chance to play later, however what do I have to look forward to now (for today) when the servers finally go live again? Less than enough time to PT effectively before I have to go to bed so I can go to work the next day, and no Gil to do anything else with because the servers were down all day resulting in noone buying any of my stuff I have for sale.
So. The good thing in all of this? There was a problem with the game, they jumped right on it, the problem will be fixed, again, asap. At least SE has got a perfect track record on this one. Now if they could just do something about that ugly slow loading new gui in the viewer...
/rant