seven hours tho?

Rudrani

I still cant wrap my head around why maint takes so long.
Its merciless on asian-pacific players

I literally cant wrap my head around a 7 hour maintenence.

I_killed_Vivec

How about 8 hours?

DirkRavenclaw

This https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage#latest is the reason why it takes longer at the moment

0lbertikus

Extended maintenance incoming?

Alpharos7

What concerns me is not the length but the frequency of maintenance that ESO needs. Normally there is 6-8hrs of downtime a week, which is alot. Most other games will be 6-8hrs a month. I get that the game is huge, but a game needing this much maintance was built using spaghetti.

shimm

Maybe this is the big server replacement! Finally replacing the creaky old servers with new ones that have ssd drives!

Torwin

To be fair they did state some weeks ago, that while there's some work going to gradually improve the general state of the servers, the maintenance breaks are gonna be longer than usual.
I assume this would be one of those breaks.

TootieTazzy

Plus around 10 hours for Xbox the other day, too.

LordOsiris

And best is, always EU players are loosing time, never ever NA ...

AdamLAD

Whilst frustrating, if zenimax has a plan to fix the horrendous state of performance they can take as long as they like. I won't hold my breath though. We have asked for better performance for years and its got worse lol.

Blackbird_V

Alpharos7 wrote: »

What concerns me is not the length but the frequency of maintenance that ESO needs. Normally there is 6-8hrs of downtime a week, which is alot. Most other games will be 6-8hrs a month. I get that the game is huge, but a game needing this much maintance was built using spaghetti.

A good example is Guild Wars 2. Err..... Yeah it went down once within the last few years - even when they are updating the game - it can be played even when being updated (you're forced to update after 2 hours after patch hits). I don't understand why ESO maintenance is so *** long, even after all these years playing.

Baconlad

Ugh...finally get my shift swapped for a night shift for all day gaming and hit with maintenance! LOL my luck

JJOtterBear

its one day out of the week. we'll live.

zaria

Only one thing to do

Juomuuri

It's not fun to wait until 6 PM, and sometimes waaaay later if it gets extended. I remember many cases when it was already *the next day* when the maintenance concluded. ZoS seems to only care about NA servers, since in other games I've played, EU's maintenance is when it's night in EU, not during the day/prime time.

Rudrani

LordOsiris wrote: »

And best is, always EU players are loosing time, never ever NA ...

come live in asian/pacific, then you will know about how maintanence makes you lose time (sad face)

Lady_Galadhiel

7 hours and counting.

Rudrani

DirkRavenclaw wrote: »

This https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage#latest is the reason why it takes longer at the moment

I still cant wrap my head around it.
I always thought a company would do the time consuming things on a development server... then shut down the live server for the amount of time it takes to shut down, load data, restart.

i could see that taking... 20 minutes... ok maybe 2 hours for like terabytes of data?

Katheriah

Soooo when is it going to be online?

Auberon1983

PullaStormy wrote: »

It's not fun to wait until 6 PM, and sometimes waaaay later if it gets extended. I remember many cases when it was already *the next day* when the maintenance concluded. ZoS seems to only care about NA servers, since in other games I've played, EU's maintenance is when it's night in EU, not during the day/prime time.

That's the thing I don't understand is why NA and EU go down at the same time. It's only 8:02AM here in Phoenix (Arizona), but this is primetime in European countries. I sleep through the vast majority of maintenance, so I can't complain on a personal level.

I'm wondering if it's just a very small crew that handles the maintenance, and this is just simply easier on the workload.

Jaclynn

Me every time there is Maint. (like a child on a long road trip...) "Is it done yet? Is it done yet? Is it done yet? "

Baconlad

I don't think it's just about loading the patch to live. They gotta test those servers after load...also...them hamsters been running for a whole week. Let's give em some time to rest eh?

Seriously though...them hamsters been sleeping long enough. Put em back to work!

Rudrani

another thing i never really understood is why they take everything down AT THE SAME TIME.

Anyone figure that out?

Like.... if they took down PS4 NA for 7 hours, then put it back up and then took down PS4 EU... then people could even play some alt characters or something on an alt server.

Addictress

AAAHHH *clicking logon button repeatedly* what tha [Snip]

[Edited for profanity bypass]

Lysette

PullaStormy wrote: »

It's not fun to wait until 6 PM, and sometimes waaaay later if it gets extended. I remember many cases when it was already *the next day* when the maintenance concluded. ZoS seems to only care about NA servers, since in other games I've played, EU's maintenance is when it's night in EU, not during the day/prime time.

in most international games prime time is 10pm-midnight UTC though - on the EU server it seems to be a bit earlier, but not that much - on weekends that is a different story though.

tonne.backlinderb16_ESO

Rudrani wrote: »

I still cant wrap my head around why maint takes so long.
Its merciless on asian-pacific players

I literally cant wrap my head around a 7 hour maintenence.

And they refuse to tell what it is they do that takes so increadibly long time

kmcaj

Extended?

LordOsiris wrote: »

And best is, always EU players are loosing time, never ever NA ...

Not true. I'm NA and losing my playtime for the day unless servers come up now as scheduled. Then have an hour before have to get ready for work.

Lylith

shimm wrote: »

Maybe this is the big server replacement! Finally replacing the creaky old servers with new ones that have ssd drives!

that's some funny stuff right there!

ArchangelIsraphel

LordOsiris wrote: »

And best is, always EU players are loosing time, never ever NA ...

This isn't actually true. On the east coast of the united states, its already 11:07am here. We're loosing time too, and it's gradually ticking down. Yeah, you're loosing a lot, but I've been awake since 6:00 and that's 5 hours I could have spent playing the game and doing the things I want to level up.

BazOfWar

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

LordOsiris wrote: »

And best is, always EU players are loosing time, never ever NA ...

This isn't actually true. On the east coast of the united states, its already 11:07am here. We're loosing time too, and it's gradually ticking down. Yeah, you're loosing a lot, but I've been awake since 6:00 and that's 5 hours I could have spent playing the game and doing the things I want to level up.

While i sympathise you have downtime also it isn't quite the same as EU because this is our prime time play.

NicGroover

Another day lost. Thank you TESO...