Ff14 Server Down
Final Fantasy XIV servers are now down today for the 4-hour maintenance that is in preparation for FFXIV patch 3.01. All Worlds are affected by this downtime and it started on July 6 at 11PM PDT, and has an end time of 3AM on July 7. This converts to FFXIV maintenance between 7AM and 11AM in BST for UK players.A quick blog post arrived shortly before the FFXIV server status changed, which explained they would be “performing maintenance on all Worlds”.
While most gamers knew the servers would go down today and why it would be taking place, clarification was given in regard to game update 3.01.You would have seen the World Transfer Service suspended just before servers went offline. Also, players were advised that you won’t have the ability to “make reservations for Ceremonies of Eternal Bond” until July 7, 2015 at 2AM PDT.How did this Final Fantasy XIV server maintenance impact your gaming today?
From the time of posting, you should see servers return in around 3.5 hours. Service will return on time unless unexpected problems arise with the work for patch 3.01.
Ff14 Server Downtime
A: This is a 3 part answer:Realms: It's a best guess about the status of a given realm within a region. If the ping results are too high for 1 or more hosts or we have problems connecting to the game ports for multiple servers, we mark all realms within a group as having problems. The only time an individual realm is marked as degraded or offline is when FFXIV reports it as offline.Datacenter: each datacenter has a single server that handles login (once you're in the game client), realm selection, displaying your characters on a realm, and creating new characters. We highlight the name of the datacenter with the guessed status of that lobby server.Global Services: We display status for the Login and Gate servers.
Login is where you type in your username and password. We report if this page loads successfully. The gate server isn't actually a server in the flow of logging in, rather it shows general status that FFXIV reports to game client. If the 'gate server' is down, the FFXIV client prevents people from logging in.
A: Global and Datacenter status is similar to the Server Status described previously. The difference on this page is that we list all the possible server IPs for a given datacenter/region. Not all of these IPs will be used at a given time, but when a realm reboots (like for patches) it can move to any of the IP addresses in this list.
We report the status of all IPs to help you know if any server in the group may be having issues.Ping times shown here are the round-trip time from to each of the FFXIV game servers. If any of the pings are over 200ms, it's likely there are issues with the internet between this server and the game servers. This can help show potential problems with the game servers.