A vulnerability in the PHP programming language has caused a growing list of online titles, including Final Fantasy 14, Umamusume: Pretty Derby, and Pokemon Champions, to temporarily undergo emergency maintenance to implement a security patch. The issue came up after Final Fantasy 14 underwent two separate periods of server maintenance for unrelated issues.
Given that some modern video games require an Internet connection to play, this inevitably means that routine server maintenance will occur and render access temporarily unavailable. While downtime is usually brief, Final Fantasy 14 underwent 24 hours of server maintenance on October 12 to implement Patch 7.57, which introduced Same-region Player Matching to its Japanese servers. An additional round of maintenance to implement some hotfixes was later conducted on October 20.
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Days after Square Enix sent out a warning to Final Fantasy 14 players concerning a round of account breaches, some players are completely unable to log into the game. Square Enix posted a notice that it had temporarily taken FF14's login servers online to implement a security patch, with no timetable for a return...
