Maintenance on 1/5/15?

Elsonso · January 2015

Paraphrased translation

"We have a new patch - version 1.5.8 is expected early next week.
The Live team investigated whether to start the server, in response to your concerns. In our view, the performance of the server does not really degrade, if they run longer without interruption."

Edit: @ZOS_KaiSchober‌ ... hopefully this captures what you said correctly. As usual, thanks for posting the information!

Vikestart · January 2015

Okay, things are getting pretty bad.

Everything is intermittently unresponsive; abilities not activating, effects not showing, enemies teleporting instead of walking/running, sudden ping spikes.

I just had everything stop working for 10 seconds or so.....

The game is getting unplayable, please RESTART the servers now!

Alphashado · January 2015

lordrichter wrote: »

Paraphrased translation

"We have a new patch - version 1.5.8 is expected early next week.
The Live team investigated whether to start the server, in response to your concerns. In our view, the performance of the server does not really degrade, if they run longer without interruption."

Thanks for the translation. That is an incredibly interesting comment. And only in German? o.O I'm no programmer, but I've been playing MMOs for 2 decades and this would be the first one where performance doesn't degrade if left unattended for weeks and weeks. Doesn't every device connected to any kind of network need a reboot? Your PC, even your phone.. Heck even the damned cable box needs a reboot or it goes bonkers.. The very first thing we ALL do when we have a problem with our modem is to unplug it.

Yeah.

Ahdora · January 2015

Rumba1 wrote: »

Last night I was finishing up Doomcrag in Rivenspire, in the second to last room.
The opponents are 2 lvl 30 undead, followed by a lvl 30 gargoyle. There was no way to stop the opponent spawning. the supposed que to destroy certain devices never appeared. I ended up in continuous combat for slightly over an hour killing 2 undead followed by a gargoyle every 40 seconds or so. Burned over 30 potions, had to re-provision mid battle, totally discharged my sword, and wrecked my armor to 50%.

It did raise me one whole level though

Plus I also had the 'beating your spell to the opponent' thing happen all night.

That's not a bug. You have to drag the gargoyle over to those statue things so that he will smash them.

Vikestart · January 2015

lordrichter wrote: »

"We have a new patch - version 1.5.8 is expected early next week.
The Live team investigated whether to start the server, in response to your concerns. In our view, the performance of the server does not really degrade, if they run longer without interruption."

I call bs.

Either the issues me and a lot of other people are seeing ingame is a result of unattended servers or the game is just horribly bugged.

Abilities not firing, effects not showing, enemies insta-move teleport, intermittent lag spikes, rubberbanding and even setbacks.....

I'd prefer it to be the former. The game isn't usually like this, is it?

Elsonso · January 2015

Alphashado wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

Paraphrased translation

"We have a new patch - version 1.5.8 is expected early next week.
The Live team investigated whether to start the server, in response to your concerns. In our view, the performance of the server does not really degrade, if they run longer without interruption."

Thanks for the translation. That is an incredibly interesting comment. And only in German? o.O I'm no programmer, but I've been playing MMOs for 2 decades and this would be the first one where performance doesn't degrade if left unattended for weeks and weeks.

I do want to point out that I took considerable translation liberty there and tried to convey meaning and not a literal translation. Hopefully, if Kai feels this is wrong, he will update my translation so that mistaken information does not get out. From my reading of the German, this sounds like the proper English translation, and I ran it through a few machine translators for second opinions.

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2015

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

Elsonso · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

Thanks!

KBKB · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/145083/no-maintence-again-pvp-servers-are-melting#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144802/game-is-done-teleporting-everywhere-fix-urgent#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144766/we-need-a-maintenance-badly-server-needs-to-be-reset-at-the-very-least#latest

Sorry to be rude, but do you even read the forums?

Alphashado · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

Thanks for the response Gina, but at the very least we just need a reboot. Unless the ESO servers are some kind of new super technology more advanced than:
1. Any computer
2. Any modem
3. Any smart phone
4. Any cable box
5. Basically any device attached to any kind of network.

Those of us that have been playing since launch are seeing stuff in game that is abnormal and the concern is in regards to the impression left on the new community members that we are all happy to see. As well as a smooth gaming experience for us.

yodased · January 2015

Yeah I read that as basically it has nothing to do with network code and the server itself hardware and software is fine.

Basically, back end guys saying its the front end guys fault.

"The problem ain't in the pipeline gents, its in whats being delivered through it"

KBKB · January 2015

ZOS is a joke that post confirms GG

HeroOfNone · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

Those of us in the IT world get this as "don't tinker with the furnace while the repair man is on vacation". The build that is deployed now has been working for the last few weeks prior without issue, though in recent weeks I've heard about some of the additional problems.

This is rough on some currently, but it would have been a lot more bumpy if patches were applied and something serious broke while everyone was away.

Razzak · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

And what about performance issues we've been having this past week? Will they also wait for this build?
Instead of running tests and whatnot, try playing the freaking game for a change. You will see there is abolutely no need for futher tests.

ers101284b14_ESO · January 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

With all due respect, if the constant server uptime is not the issue and you guys where planning on weekly maintenance since the game launched, then couldn't you just go ahead and do a maintenance just to make people happy?

Or would that be like giving a kid a cookie just to shut him up and you don't want to reward that type of behavior?

Nazon_Katts · January 2015

Just hop in-game and experience for yourself, instead of relying on some statistical and theoretical data. I went up from 50~80ms to 200~500ms with second long lag spikes of +999. With two different systems at two different physical locations and three different providers.

Stop monitoring and start fixing.

spryler · January 2015

Perhaps it is an example of the boy who cried wolf?

People rabidly complain about small/minor things all the time. They threaten to quit and predict the demise of ESO over (sometimes) inconsequential things.

Perhaps it becomes difficult as a Dev to know which are the threads that truly need attention. I mean if they did a reset or a quick patch for every flame-thread on the forums, the servers would never be available to play on.

KBKB · January 2015

spryler wrote: »

Perhaps it is an example of the boy who cried wolf?

People rabidly complain about small/minor things all the time. They threaten to quit and predict the demise of ESO over (sometimes) inconsequential things.

Perhaps it becomes difficult as a Dev to know which are the threads that truly need attention. I mean if they did a reset or a quick patch for every flame-thread on the forums, the servers would never be available to play on.

Silly post, this is wide spread there are about 6 threads in different forums all floating around about this.

pmn100b16_ESO · January 2015

spryler · January 2015

KBKB wrote: »

spryler wrote: »

Perhaps it is an example of the boy who cried wolf?

People rabidly complain about small/minor things all the time. They threaten to quit and predict the demise of ESO over (sometimes) inconsequential things.

Perhaps it becomes difficult as a Dev to know which are the threads that truly need attention. I mean if they did a reset or a quick patch for every flame-thread on the forums, the servers would never be available to play on.

Silly post, this is wide spread there are about 6 threads in different forums all floating around about this.

Read these forums much? There are probably 6 "i'm going to quit" posts about some mining node in Auridon that you still can't access.

ZOS_GinaBruno · January 2015

KBKB wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/145083/no-maintence-again-pvp-servers-are-melting#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144802/game-is-done-teleporting-everywhere-fix-urgent#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144766/we-need-a-maintenance-badly-server-needs-to-be-reset-at-the-very-least#latest

Sorry to be rude, but do you even read the forums?

Yes, that's why we're continuing to keep an eye on performance.

ers101284b14_ESO · January 2015

Just sitting here continuing to keep and eye on performance

Still watching that performance

Everythings fine on this end. Did you try disabling addons? We will keep watching

KBKB · January 2015

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

KBKB wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/145083/no-maintence-again-pvp-servers-are-melting#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144802/game-is-done-teleporting-everywhere-fix-urgent#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144766/we-need-a-maintenance-badly-server-needs-to-be-reset-at-the-very-least#latest

Sorry to be rude, but do you even read the forums?

Yes, that's why we're continuing to keep an eye on performance.

Less looking more doing please

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

renton1x1x1 · January 2015

pmn100b16_ESO wrote: »

totally awesome!! oh and reset the servers at least those poor hamsters must be really tired

freespirit · January 2015

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Just sitting here continuing to keep and eye on performance

Still watching that performance

Everythings fine on this end. Did you try disabling addons? We will keep watching

Damn now I need something to dry my keyboard with!!!

Classic case of want to 'lol' but definitely an 'awesome'

Rumba1 · January 2015

Ahdora wrote: »

That's not a bug. You have to drag the gargoyle over to those statue things so that he will smash them.

gods thats funny, so the statues only got smashed by accident when I Failed to keep them away from Verandis, and it took an hour to get all four.

Thanks Ahdora

Nazon_Katts · January 2015

KBKB wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

KBKB wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We haven't had a new build in a few weeks mainly because we wanted to make sure we had a stable build on both megaservers before the holiday break. That said, we are planning to release patch 1.5.8 next Monday, and will continue to keep an eye on performance and any potential critical issues. If we feel a maintenance before next week is necessary, we'll get something scheduled and will let you know.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/145083/no-maintence-again-pvp-servers-are-melting#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144802/game-is-done-teleporting-everywhere-fix-urgent#latest

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/144766/we-need-a-maintenance-badly-server-needs-to-be-reset-at-the-very-least#latest

Sorry to be rude, but do you even read the forums?

Yes, that's why we're continuing to keep an eye on performance.

Less looking more doing please

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

I agree. While I am certain that most of us do not mind you giving us the eye, I am equally convinced that we would rather be seeing you getting your hands dirty.

ers101284b14_ESO · January 2015

freespirit wrote: »

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Just sitting here continuing to keep and eye on performance

Still watching that performance

Everythings fine on this end. Did you try disabling addons? We will keep watching

Damn now I need something to dry my keyboard with!!!

Classic case of want to 'lol' but definitely an 'awesome'

You can lol me its fine. I know when I'm meaning to be funny.

freespirit · January 2015

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

freespirit wrote: »

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Just sitting here continuing to keep and eye on performance

Still watching that performance

Everythings fine on this end. Did you try disabling addons? We will keep watching

Damn now I need something to dry my keyboard with!!!

Classic case of want to 'lol' but definitely an 'awesome'

You can lol me its fine. I know when I'm meaning to be funny.

Actually I'm now more worried about developing very 'sticky' keys due to the amount of coke that hit my keyboard when I saw the first picture!!

and to anyone that cares, I would normally be ingame playing at this time of day BUT after resetting all my equipment, running a cleaner, all my adware, spyware and security software......

My game performance is still way worse than usual.....

Oh I checked my broadband out thoroughly as well, I am now pretty convinced these issues are not on my end.

glak · January 2015

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Just sitting here continuing to keep and eye on performance

Still watching that performance

Everythings fine on this end. Did you try disabling addons? We will keep watching

That fire performed really well on the product!

Oops, should be watching the product and not necessarily the fire.