Here it is, Friday morning. My PC updated with no problems after Wednesdays patch. My ps2 is another story, and I'm wondering why this has to happen to me ><

When CoP was released I had the SAME THING happen to me, so I'll admit this is getting a little old. Keep in mind I can still play on my PC so I'm not so much upset as I am frustrated. Problem is me and my husband like to play together so we need 2 working systems to do that.

Anywho, My ps2 is happily downloading the 777 files last night. Slowly, but not stopping altogether as it had Wednesday and most of Thursday. We make it all the way to installing the files. I figured, great, we can play together after work tonight (Friday). When we get to 93% ... it freezes. We let it sit there for 30 minutes praying for it to start again. No luck. So we turn off the ps2. Go to start it today (knowing full well this happened with CoP). Got the lovely message "Version update unsuccessful. Please Reinstall FFXI".


i knew it was coming. I just wish I wouldn't have to go through reinstalling the game, and probably 4 hours of patching. And whose to say the same thing won't happen again if there is still lots of congestion? I wouldn't mind re-doing this most recent patch but if only there was some way to have it keep all the other updates. Hmmm.

Okay people, quit complaining about the lost time on this forum, the server rush is over, you should be able to update successfully now.

What I wanna know is...All that ambigious stuff they've added, WHAT happened?!

1. Most importantly! Where/what are the items of "similar" nature to the ones that were monopolized? (<--Is praying they've made the hairpin questable, but that's a pipe dream.)

2. So the oztrojia coffers have been changed so thieves can't pick em...Uh, cool..I have a 45 THF (wonder if I have assassin yet, I'll figure out when I log) I use to farm, guess I won't be farming astral rings when it gets to that point. Did they add new items to the coffers though? Snipers/archers? =P

3. Why is the taru from windurst in Jueno? Anyone found him/figured out what he's doin there?

4. Can you actually succeed in promivyon now if your whole party isn't rng/nin and a whm?

5. I'm guessing stroper chymes don't spawn within 12 minutes of each other now. Confirm that? How did the empster and lizzy get affected if at all? IMHO, I hope they make them spawn MORE OFTEN. (only for selfish reasons...) (not like dhamselflys or anything, but you know what I'm sayin.) If they flood the market with hairpins and leaping boots, they lose their value to the gil sellers. Yes, that sucks for people who farm them, but something had to be done, yeah? Then again, that could lead to a monopoly over them like the chyme...Hmm, They could have taken the opposite approach too, and made them spawn like every 8 hours or something. That won't deter any gil sellers, they were there 8 hours a day anyway. And then they could sell it and it would just be worth more anyway. I wonder...cuz MAN, I have no idea what would be better.

There were probably more, but i forget, and I'm at work. Somebody figure this out and post so I can check back later! Haha.



Edited, Thu Dec 9 11:44:49 2004

Stupid SE! Why do i gotta wait! ya think they would address this slow moving congestion issue.. I cant stand it! my 3rd attempt at downloading the update has failed and i need to kill a rabbit !! or I think I will just pass out!
Wait! updates done! :) forget all I just said.. I love S.E. <smile>

Stupid SE! Why do i gotta wait! ya think they would address this slow moving congestion issue.. I cant stand it! my 3rd attempt at downloading the update has failed and i need to kill a rabbit !! or I think I will just pass out!
Wait! updates done! :) forget all I just said.. I love S.E. <smile>

3rd attempt at the patch..all other d/l's failed...

Annoying ,yes but not the end of the world ( but i can understand peoples frustration).

Edit:i see its one of THOSE updates (i.e big *** much time to download-type).

Ack well time t play something else till the d/l finishes.

Edited, Thu Dec 9 04:40:28 2004

i've been waiting to finish my update since about 4PM EST (you can update before the maintainence is done sometimes). at 2:15AM EST, I had the network busy sign, so i said try again. For some reason, it took maybe 10 minutes after that to download the stuff. has anyone else recently experienced this? or was I a lucky-***? Just wondering if the congestion problem was fixed or not.

I spent my time at a college basketball game playing in the pep band. Wright State University vs. Miami University, Oxford. WSU lost (54-59) in overtime (should have lost it earlier cause we couldnt make our stupid free throws). I spent the rest of my time watching TV. there seems to be a lot of crap on TV, I am noticing.

For those of you who are waiting, I hope you dont have to wait too much longer. I would love to be able to tell my computer to download the file while I go do something else. That way the file is downloaded by the time I get back. but, alas, thats not the way FFXI works. dont nkow why, but i wish I could.

Happy Hunting ^^

(found it) >>> new nm promyvion holla second area cerebrius or something like that droped remanant of cerebrius and 2 of the map items was kind of tough for but we knocked it out

I read the updates. it seems to me, that they are changing the effects of food. my understanding is that now, the different types of food will focus on different stats. Maybe it was like that before and i just didnt notice. but it seems to me that this is goign to work out well for the players, because now I will have a better understanding with what to eat for certain increases.

The problem with this change is that the food description in allakhazam will be wrong for a little while. people will have to try different things and report what the effects are so that the description can be changed.

Hope the crew here doesnt stress too much over this ^^

Just want to say I'm just as angry as most of you all are. Just do homework and other stuff while we wait for the update to download and install. Square Enix should do something about it other than apologizing "for the inconvience"

Plants will die, Gilsellers will find another way to take over the economy in Vana'diel and the rest of us will always be wondering when Square will do something about it other than trading for Trick Staffs and the like.

I just hope that they remember the number one reason why FFXI is still around ... it's us!

I hope to see all of Pergatory at some point tonight!

Tristyn :)

For an update that is so big it really is ******** up a lot. I mean you think they'd have realised the download issue and attempted to buy one or two more download servers or perhaps make a 3rd party download in a zip file or something to take some stress of us PS2 users. Square Enix is so damn retarded about doing everything through playonline though, I mean have you ever seen a 3rd party update or patch? This isn't the first time my attempts at downloading updates has failed because of server overload. How can they expect people to log on after maitenance and download a 14/21mb file? It's ridiculous and they dont even have the balls to address it! There's more info about the lag/overload than there is on playonline! Just when I think SE is actually trying to make the players happy I log on and have to watch as 30 mins go by only to get a server overload error! SE I hate you...

Edited, Wed Dec 8 23:56:13 2004

From pol site:



Considering I mine often in Zeruhn Mines (Asura server) I hope to god they don't nerf getting iron ores for the simple fact my Smithing's at lvl 13 currently, and I don't want to think about having to buy all that iron...