Why All the Maintenance?

Thrasher91604

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad there's support as I assume it's necessary. But why? None of my other online resources are taken down with such high regularity? Was the backend designed (or implemented) terribly crufty? Are all MMOs like this?

ProfessorKittyhawk

The loading screens and falling to your death bugs have remained after the last two patches. Be great if they fixed em this go around, but I'm not holding my breath.

Nifty2g

let them fix the game and not grief over server down time

Thrasher91604

Are they fixing or doing maintenance?

Qyrk

All MMOs are like this. More often following a major update like IC

Rosveen

I remember the time when we didn't have maintenance for weeks and the game practically started falling apart. So many little things, slow downs and broken respawns, you normally wouldn't mind but when they start piling up...

Maintenance is good for you. Let them fix what they have to fix, refresh the rest.

Thrasher91604

Wow. I guess the technology really is bad and flakey. There's no good technical reason for it. This may be my first and last MMO once I finish with the main story. Too bad. Not sure if worth bothering for the IC DLC. That may have been a waste of $22 or so. There's nothing more frustrating to me that unreliability. Especially if it's due to bugs or poor design.

I'd rather play reliable single player than this.

Xendyn

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Wow. I guess the technology really is bad and flakey. There's no good technical reason for it. This may be my first and last MMO once I finish with the main story. Too bad.

I'd rather play reliable single player than this.

This is normal for an MMO so yeh. Some have even been known to do nightly reboots.
And these days, there is no such thing as a reliable or non-buggy game, single or online. They all seem to release them now and patch them later.

Chieve

Is it gonna be the same thing as PC or do they work and better the code for consoles?

MikeB

Well considering you can't even fast travel to Rivenspire on xb1, I say its well needed.

Thrasher91604

I have to say that Witcher 3 was must less of a pain in the ass than this game. And it is MUCH newer. This game is how many years old now, and they are still having serious problems with reliability and performance?

Plus I could control which patches are applied or not. This is a mess. Hell network service outages halfway across the country broke this game. You'd think they'd bother to have redundant services after how many years?

Xendyn

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

I have to say that Witcher 3 was must less of a pain in the ass than this game. And it is MUCH newer. This game is how many years old now, and they are still having serious problems with reliability and performance?

Plus I could control which patches are applied or not. This is a mess. Hell network service outages halfway across the country broke this game. You'd think they'd bother to have redundant services after how many years?

One and a half.
You sound like you think it's been out a decade lol.

Danny231

They do this to stop the game from braking. So if you want a broken game, they then wouldn't bother. At lest they fix it when they get time. It happens same time every week or about that.

Thrasher91604

Just saying if it were properly designed and not buggy, this shouldn't happen.

Imagine what would happen to our financial systems if this were to happen.

Oops we lost your money. Too bad.

There would be a legal doodoo storm.

Danny231

To be honest the game works fine there are a few bugs now and then. but they get round to fixing them .

Thrasher91604

Poor frame rates and sensitivity to network outages have not been fixed.

Qyrk

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Just saying if it were properly designed and not buggy, this shouldn't happen.

Imagine what would happen to our financial systems if this were to happen.

Oops we lost your money. Too bad.

There would be a legal doodoo storm.

you're comparing your experience from single player games to MMOs. Sorry but you have no grounds. You are just new to the way MMOs work (you see this in ANY MMOs, and there are constant fixes and maintenances); and because it's new to you and you don't like how it works, you leave. Fair enough, just be informed next time.

Danny231

That's why they do the weekly maintanice:) so that game works smoothly till next week . It's nothing to worry about mate!

Thrasher91604

There's no excuse for poor software. [snip]

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Rosveen

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

I have to say that Witcher 3 was must less of a pain in the ass than this game. And it is MUCH newer. This game is how many years old now, and they are still having serious problems with reliability and performance?

I've seen many games compared to TW3 in many different aspects, but this has got to be the most pointless one. Are you seriously saying that ESO should require less maintenance because a significantly smaller offline game doesn't need any? [snip]

Weekly maintenance is a normal thing in MMOs.

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Qyrk

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

There's no excuse for poor software. [snip]

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EDIT: Oh and its not the software, it's the server, which requires CONSTANT maintenance and fixes that is NORMAL for MMOs.

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[edited for flaming & to remove quote]

Danny231

@Rosveen exactly what I was saying!

Qyrk

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Qyrk wrote: »

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

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see my note above. It's not a software. It's a server. Look it up, make yourself informed. Servers need constant maintenance, not only this game but also OTHER MMOs. You CANNOT compare this to Witcher as it is a single player offline mode.

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Thrasher91604

You do know that servers have software in them right? I don't think you know the basics of the technology to start lecturing people on being informed.

Thrasher91604

You haven't provided any explanations.

Danny231

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert Can one of you deal with this post please. It's getting out of hand thanks!

Rosveen

Danny231 wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert Can one of you deal with this post please. It's getting out of hand thanks!

I sincerily hope the Creative Director has more important things to do than moderate forum posts. There's a report button in the bottom right corner of every post, feel free to use it.

Danny231

It's not showing up

Ruben

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

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What MMO games have servers with no maintenance? Are they enjoyable? Is the user experience better than the ones with weekly maintenance?

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Thrasher91604

So what you are saying is that all MMO software is poorly implemented and/or designed?

icontested

I can't understand maintenance either. I view maintenance like having surgery. I don't want to be put to sleep and even a doctor to help. I'll just grab a kitchen knife and cut myself open and do some other things and that's it. Maintenance.. What a joke