When will 1.6 go live?

OndursKelto

Sorry if it's a dumb question. And I know the talk the last days or so has been largely about the excitement for the patch notes. Now I'm wondering if there is some down time prior to it going live. I have my launcher up incase the patch comes in today...

Sallington

With the release of Tamriel Unlimited Special Ultra Power Edition I would assume.

rawne1980b16_ESO

It will be released sometime between "soon" and "we'll have more information about that shortly".

DirtySmeegs33

right now!

Rescorla_ESO

As long as there are no obvious crash bugs, exploits, memory leaks, etc then IMO I say give it a week on PTS and then go live. Reason for that opinion is that with a patch of this magnitude, there won't be enough players on PTS to adequately test it. There will be numerous bugs that slip thru the cracks. If after a week on PTS 1.6 appears to be stable, the real test will start when the entire player base gets their hands on it.

OndursKelto

Rescorla_ESO wrote: »

As long as there are no obvious crash bugs, exploits, memory leaks, etc then IMO I say give it a week on PTS and then go live. Reason for that opinion is that with a patch of this magnitude, there won't be enough players on PTS to adequately test it. There will be numerous bugs that slip thru the cracks. If after a week on PTS 1.6 appears to be stable, the real test will start when the entire player base gets their hands on it.

This is more or less what I expected. I'm not familiar with how this stuff rolls out. Thnx

Ahdora

Rescorla_ESO wrote: »

As long as there are no obvious crash bugs, exploits, memory leaks, etc then IMO I say give it a week on PTS and then go live. Reason for that opinion is that with a patch of this magnitude, there won't be enough players on PTS to adequately test it. There will be numerous bugs that slip thru the cracks. If after a week on PTS 1.6 appears to be stable, the real test will start when the entire player base gets their hands on it.

There will be more people testing this release on PTS than any of the previous ones, I assure you.

Craglorn was up for two weeks on PTS, iirc. It needed longer. Hopefully this one will be in longer since many more systems are being tested.

Sallington

Rescorla_ESO wrote: »

As long as there are no obvious crash bugs, exploits, memory leaks, etc then IMO I say give it a week on PTS and then go live. Reason for that opinion is that with a patch of this magnitude, there won't be enough players on PTS to adequately test it. There will be numerous bugs that slip thru the cracks. If after a week on PTS 1.6 appears to be stable, the real test will start when the entire player base gets their hands on it.

I don't think we'll see it before the game goes B2P, since the cash shop is part of the patch.

Also, 1 week is nowhere near long enough for a PTS patch of this size.

So, my guess is March 17th.

Ahdora

Sallington wrote: »

Rescorla_ESO wrote: »

As long as there are no obvious crash bugs, exploits, memory leaks, etc then IMO I say give it a week on PTS and then go live. Reason for that opinion is that with a patch of this magnitude, there won't be enough players on PTS to adequately test it. There will be numerous bugs that slip thru the cracks. If after a week on PTS 1.6 appears to be stable, the real test will start when the entire player base gets their hands on it.

I don't think we'll see it before the game goes B2P, since the cash shop is part of the patch.

Also, 1 week is nowhere near long enough for a PTS patch of this size.

They said that the cash shop wasn't going to be in the 1.6 push to live servers. Don't think they're going to wait until March to push it to live. I could definitely be wrong, though, as what they say doesn't mean much anymore.

rawne1980b16_ESO

I don't think we'll see it live as soon as some people here think.

A week for a patch of that magnitude, with that many changes?

I expect it will go live in roughly a month to two months.

ben_ESO5

Had to recycle this from the PTS forum:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Slurg

They've said they're doing character copies of both NA and EU to give everyone a chance to test with their own characters. Both character copies have to be done separately. So at least two weeks. Maybe more, looking at the known issues that they'll probably try to fix before it goes live. But definitely before March 17, ready or not. They have execs and marketing people to please.

Darklord_Tiberius

I think they want to give it enough time on the PTS to work out any bugs. I also think they wont wait until March 17th because they wont want to launch this big of a patch right when new players are going to joining the game or old ones coming back.

If they have serious issues with 1.6 when it goes live, that would look really bad to the new crowd of people coming into the game. My guess is 2-4 weeks on PTS, that still would leave 2-3 weeks on live server to push out any incremental fixes before March 17th.


Just my opinion.

Nyghthowler

Download on PTS today; goes live tomorrow!

EU will get it next week directly to live but still get to log into their PTS for a day so they feel they got to participate in the testing and feedback...

Romo

Slurg wrote: »

They've said they're doing character copies of both NA and EU to give everyone a chance to test with their own characters. Both character copies have to be done separately. So at least two weeks. Maybe more, looking at the known issues that they'll probably try to fix before it goes live. But definitely before March 17, ready or not. They have execs and marketing people to please.

yes absolute minimum is little over 2 weeks, each server(NA and EU) playtesting a week apiece.

Then they decide with the corporate wonks, whether they need further testing or release it raw like usual.