It says server going down for maintenance AND update but whats the update.
Also really crappy that they cant even announce when this would be, taking server down 3 hours before EU daily reset good job… keep screwing over EU
Downtime is estimated to last up to 8 hours, as the team will be making changes to the backend structure of the game to prepare for the content update coming later this month.
do u not see the highlighted post at the top of the forum site… or yknow “official news”… you gotta be trolling and havent seen the “shitstorm” today has caused in some of the players…
I think OP just doesn’t grasp the concept of a patch that does nothing for the user to see. No content, no bug fixes, nothing like that. Just backend changes that shouldn’t rly impact anything on user side since they are groundwork for future updates.
And to be fair, it is weird. Patches usually do affect users in some way.
Don’t you know? Back end changes are another word for ‘the update isn’t ready and breaks stuff’.
Sure, they could be adding extra columns and tables to the backend databases as well as new integration api’s, but that doesn’t mean much to us and could be done during patch night.
Yes, I’ve done large database patching for vendors before.
I think OP is pointing out they we actually dont get patch notes even for big updates we get summaries. Thats why things like the rapport changes were first brought up by a user or when they changed the date for when the event ended and were not stated in any official communication until pointed out by users. Better examples of patch notes are FFXIV or even the KR version of the game.