(really) Server is up PC NA

HerrKeinTipp_MrNoTip · June 2022

Pathetic, ZOS.

protofeckless · June 2022

Merenwen_812 wrote: »

1:00PM EDT

Right.

Cuwen · June 2022

Come on now. Surely everyone expected the crashing and maintenance after this came out, right? Happens every time ESO brings out new content now, and has for about 2 years. I don't understand why they're fine with this being the norm now. Shouldn't they anticipate it and work out any bugs ahead of time? I mean, if your community even expects this, then ZoS should, too, and get better at new releases.

Morgaledh · June 2022

Crismac wrote: »

Conversation going on after patch...

Hey, we completed the patch with lots of time to spare...

But it should have taken longer...

Oh well, boot it up...

Hmm, I think we forgot a step...

We are now down for maintenance...

This. Thanks for the laugh!

RevJJ · June 2022

So players in Asian/Oceanic time zones lose a day of being able to play? What a surprise.

imno007b14_ESO · June 2022

Ha ha, it was completely expected. I was talking to a friend in-game last night who told me she had today off and would be able to play the expansion, and my reply to her was basically, "Yeah, hopefully, if the server isn't down most of the day." We can only hope there won't be multiple other down-times today, but I'm not counting on it.

Galbsadi · June 2022

Aehallh wrote: »

I returned to game about 2 months ago. Since has been nothing but false claims of their maintenance times. Have they ever stuck to a schedule?

So, while you won't have any of your NA stuff, you can always change region to EU and play now.

twev · June 2022

Aehallh wrote: »

I returned to game about 2 months ago. Since has been nothing but false claims of their maintenance times. Have they ever stuck to a schedule?

WEll, TBH, when they say the servers are coming down in 15 minutes - they're usually pretty close to hitting the mark.

KitsuneShoujo · June 2022

You'd think ZOS would have gotten better at this over the years... I know bugs and errors can popup at the last minute, I've done scripting for mods and if there's just one comma or bracket out of place the whole thing is borked, but they have how many people in QA?

mekops_ESO · June 2022

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

Merenwen_812 · June 2022

Cuwen wrote: »

Come on now. Surely everyone expected the crashing and maintenance after this came out, right? Happens every time ESO brings out new content now, and has for about 2 years. I don't understand why they're fine with this being the norm now. Shouldn't they anticipate it and work out any bugs ahead of time? I mean, if your community even expects this, then ZoS should, too, and get better at new releases.

I expected it and knew there would be no playing it til tonight. Made sure to grab my daily bonus before I went to bed last night :P

tohopka_eso · June 2022

Well, on the plus side I'm at work for another 4 hours. Maybe I'll be able to download the patch by then.

KitsuneShoujo · June 2022

mekops_ESO wrote: »

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

I like the way FF14 does it, plan for the whole day to be down; 24 hours. Then when it comes up early, you just made your whole player-base happy.

zaria · June 2022

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

not even visited the new zone.

mabdastardseb17_ESO · June 2022

Sat here waiting is down time nearly over
contemplating the start of total war
I hope this time doth pass quick
as waiting is like arsenic upsets
me stomache and me ass
At least he can go and chew
the grass

So let me gather mats mate
the brothel let me plant mate
a house for the ladies of the night
theres something about this version of
the phantom thats not quite right.

Morgaledh · June 2022

zaria wrote: »

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

not even visited the new zone.

fknluld.

Also lul at your "close air support from the death star."

Cuwen · June 2022

imno007b14_ESO wrote: »

Ha ha, it was completed expected. I was talking to a friend in-game last night who told me she had today off and would be able to play the expansion, and my reply to her was basically, "Yeah, hopefully, if the server isn't down most of the day." We can only hope there won't be multiple other down-times today, but I'm not counting on it.

Yeah. A lot of us don't even plan to play the day of release anymore for ESO. I would never take the first day of release off. I haven't planned to play it until Friday.

Holycannoli · June 2022

So long as the servers are up by the time I get home from the office.

Inaya · June 2022

I didn't plan to play but when I downloaded the patch it appeared that we would be able to, hence the disappointment. Luckily I planned today to do some house cleaning and took the week off.

Maybe someone who knows more about these things can answer this because this does happen to all games on launch day.

Don't they have some server that they test it on to see what it screws up before going live? Or is it just that you cannot duplicate a server that has so many players on it?

Tornaad · June 2022

I think what they need to do with maintenance announcements is to listen to Scotty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRqXYsksFg

Plan for the worst case, announce that for the time, and then if everything goes right, they look like they are getting done faster. And if not, they have already planned for it, and thus no need to adjust expectations after the fact.

Finaldeath · June 2022

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

mekops_ESO wrote: »

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

I like the way FF14 does it, plan for the whole day to be down; 24 hours. Then when it comes up early, you just made your whole player-base happy.

I prefer the way GW2 does it, zero downtime... ever. Only real downtime the game has is when something goes wonky and has to go down for an hour or two, that has happened extremely infrequently. We get more downtime in this game each week for "routine" maintenance than i think GW2 has had the entire time it's been out and it came out nearly a year before this one.

BMZ19 · June 2022

Another epic fail for the ESO dev team. Since I started playing 3 or 4 months ago, every single scheduled maintenance has been late. Total lack of any accountability. Time to cancel my ESO Plus. That will probably be the only way to get them to live up to their promises - hit them in the wallet.

Cadbury · June 2022

Well, I guess all we can do is...

Bouldercleave · June 2022

Finaldeath wrote: »

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

mekops_ESO wrote: »

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

I like the way FF14 does it, plan for the whole day to be down; 24 hours. Then when it comes up early, you just made your whole player-base happy.

I prefer the way GW2 does it, zero downtime... ever. Only real downtime the game has is when something goes wonky and has to go down for an hour or two, that has happened extremely infrequently. We get more downtime in this game each week for "routine" maintenance than i think GW2 has had the entire time it's been out and it came out nearly a year before this one.

I think that we would ALL "prefer" that too.

But then we would be playing GW2.... There is a reason that we are here instead of there.

KitsuneShoujo · June 2022

Finaldeath wrote: »

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

mekops_ESO wrote: »

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

I like the way FF14 does it, plan for the whole day to be down; 24 hours. Then when it comes up early, you just made your whole player-base happy.

I prefer the way GW2 does it, zero downtime... ever. Only real downtime the game has is when something goes wonky and has to go down for an hour or two, that has happened extremely infrequently. We get more downtime in this game each week for "routine" maintenance than i think GW2 has had the entire time it's been out and it came out nearly a year before this one.

True, I prefer that too, but GW2's infrastructure is set up to allow for actual hotfixing.

BMZ19 wrote: »

Another epic fail for the ESO dev team. Since I started playing 3 or 4 months ago, every single scheduled maintenance has been late. Total lack of any accountability. Time to cancel my ESO Plus. That will probably be the only way to get them to live up to their promises - hit them in the wallet.

That would require a significant amount of paying customers to cancel, and I think ESO has enough whales that even then they wouldn't feel the hit.

Finaldeath · June 2022

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Finaldeath wrote: »

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

mekops_ESO wrote: »

IDK why they dont just post a 12 hour downtime for major updates, then when it comes up early we feel blessed. At least we can plan around that.

Thats called "pulling a scotty"

I like the way FF14 does it, plan for the whole day to be down; 24 hours. Then when it comes up early, you just made your whole player-base happy.

I prefer the way GW2 does it, zero downtime... ever. Only real downtime the game has is when something goes wonky and has to go down for an hour or two, that has happened extremely infrequently. We get more downtime in this game each week for "routine" maintenance than i think GW2 has had the entire time it's been out and it came out nearly a year before this one.

I think that we would ALL "prefer" that too.

But then we would be playing GW2.... There is a reason that we are here instead of there.

I am confused, are you saying you prefer this game and because of that it can't possibly do what GW2 with the servers so that they never need to go down?

I never said to go play GW2, i said the way GW2 handles servers and maintenance is a million times better than virtually every single mmo (or really, any online game period) on the market and that the tech to make something liek that happen actually exists so there is no excuse for half a day routine maintenance other than incompetence.

KitsuneShoujo wrote: »

True, I prefer that too, but GW2's infrastructure is set up to allow for actual hotfixing.

It is more than just hotfixing, they can release entire expansions without any downtime other than how long it takes someone to download the update.

Xandreia_ · June 2022

Aehallh wrote: »

I returned to game about 2 months ago. Since has been nothing but false claims of their maintenance times. Have they ever stuck to a schedule?

nope, never.

phaneub17_ESO · June 2022

I got on just enough time to grab Ember and was about to head to Isobel then the maintenance message popped up. I high tailed it out of there and did the Deshaan dolmens with Ember until it went down, got her to level 4 in those last 15 minutes. My biggest hope is they don't rollback the servers, it's not her level that troubles me its the fact I immediately threw on my best companion Epic gear on her and don't want to lose it.

WitchyWarrior · June 2022

Now it's 3pm

Damn

Merenwen_812 · June 2022

WitchyWarrior wrote: »

Now it's 3pm

Damn

was about to come post the extension on the extension :P