Game went down for update 4am. Update was available 5am. When I started it said 2 hours to completion. I go to sleep and wake up. It's 9am so 4 hours later and it is at 51% and has 4 hours to go. At least I wasn't kicked lol.
pretty sure i read somewhere it was a boat ride again so assuming valkurm or mhaura
I thought it was the waypoints, like the one right up from the AH in Ru'Lude gardens..
wouldnt you need to have the way point already to be able to use that, it doesnt just let you access any although im sure eventually you will be able to use once you have activated it
its always like this on update days.. just relax and try again in a few minutes. Its NOT your internet or system.. its theirs.
Since when ? I never have it this bad on update day.
Then you're lucky. Sometimes you get in, sometimes you don't. Its also a major expansion being released so everyone and their mules are trying to get in and download. SE's system is really bad for handling that kind of stress.
Finally made it past the POL1160 error and now erroring out on Verifying FFXI Version POL-1160 and POL-1161 error. Ok now at downloading latest version information 0% and holding. ...... POL-1161. You would think with so few servers now they would be able to handle the reduced load, but no.. Bet if my IP Address originated in Japan, I would already have Geomancer and RuneFencer unlocked and leveled to 99
yeah those new waypoint thingys are useable since like 2 weeks or before , theyre mini quests to get some warp access like warp to beadeaux and other spots which you cant get via OP warp and VWNM warp.
Well there's no point blaming SE, there was no way they could have predicted that congestion might increase on the day a new expansion came out... >.> *sigh*
Expansion update is expansion update. For new players, this is normal, relax and breathe. Over 5 hours left for me, time for the pub. See you later in SoA when I'm drunk :)
I've found the data bottleneck. It's all going through one of these:
Oh, and just FYI for anyone that is still holding off on ordering, here is what Amazon has to say. (I just ordered the plain expansion about ten minutes ago).
After so many years, environment still not sized correctly. I personally don't mind waiting - but I'm sorry, if after 10 years at my job and I still didn't fix an issue like this at my job - mine or somebody's head would be had.
It's really not even that much traffic to handle - when you consider other companies out there handling much more with no issues like this. I mean its every time, every expansion/big update.
Take a deep breath and relaaaaaaaaaaaax. FFXI is always going to be there. Just let the JPs have there fun first.
The best part of all this is that JPS might be saying the exact same thing from USA peoples right now on their forums ... Maybe go to 2ch FFXI game forum and look what anon people is posting there ... lmao
How many times have you all clicked Retry?? lol
Got on to the Downloading updates like 10 times now and failed each time....Oh well ill keep clicking away lol