Maintenance Blues

TheTraveler

I will add my voice to the choir of voices asking : PLEASE, ZOS, please change either maintenance day or guild trader day to not both be on the same day... we are losing tons and tons of in-game money, and its simply not fair to make it almost impossible to secure a guild trader for the week.

Sneaky-Snurr

akelley48081ub17_ESO wrote: »

If it takes a little extra time to get rid of nails on a chalk board sound take as much time as you need.

@akelley48081ub17_ESO Knowing @ZOS, the nails will still be there. And even worse, the nails are bent due to failure in removal.

Holycannoli

It's pretty crazy that maintenance takes 8-12 hours. I mean what are they doing all that time? Sipping Mai Tais and getting a tan?

Trublz

At least there is an ETA and they are communicating. I'd say our game time loss is a forum win

C4rt3r_H4ll

@Sneaky-Snurr
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Vindemiatrix

Sorry for the noob question... how are you posting pictures and vids? The image posting and URL posting drop-down menus in my dialogue box aren't working at all.

Asgari

Maitanance usually take a few hours big deal. So what in a few years of being live they have a couple of extended maitnances. I'd rather them keep it down half a day than have issues rushing it back on.

FearlessOne_2014

Princess_Asgari wrote: »

Maitanance usually take a few hours big deal. So what in a few years of being live they have a couple of extended maitnances. I'd rather them keep it down half a day than have issues rushing it back on.

I think any reasonable person to include myself would agree with your statement.

10/10 Much rather a 2 week long maintenance then any of the bugs that are currently present in this game now.

BigBragg

This Minion really knows how to pull off maintenance blues.

AlexWars

I don't know- the long wait times brings us all to the forums. That is the bright side. The other bright side is, the minion^

Mclane15

This is about my 8th MMO, And I'm pretty sure on all the others devs posted the patch to download as soon as the servers came down. Am I missing something here? Its kind of lame waiting for a 12 hour maintenance to finish before starting a 2gb+ patch to download. With 2.5 mb/s internet service, 12 hour maintenance becomes 24 hours of downtime. There's something wrong with your planning if the patch isn't packaged and ready before the servers come down.

Holycannoli

Princess_Asgari wrote: »

Maitanance usually take a few hours big deal. So what in a few years of being live they have a couple of extended maitnances. I'd rather them keep it down half a day than have issues rushing it back on.

I would agree too but last time they had an extended maintenance they broke grouping and the group finder, so what's the benefit of being down 12 hours?

Epona222

OMG download just started

AlexWars

Maybe game time should be added to the accounts. But regardless, I can handle a 12-hour downtime over a bugged system(s) anyday.

Mclane15

FearlessOne_2014 wrote: »

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Princess_Asgari wrote: »

Maitanance usually take a few hours big deal. So what in a few years of being live they have a couple of extended maitnances. I'd rather them keep it down half a day than have issues rushing it back on.

I think any reasonable person to include myself would agree with your statement.

10/10 Much rather a 2 week long maintenance then any of the bugs that are currently present in this game now.

What a load, I will gladly deal with a few face model glitches, broken group finder, and bugged crafting surveys and not have 50+ hours of downtime in 2 weeks. Definitely not two whole weeks of DT

BoloBoffin

I forgot to get my last nirnhoned item into the research pile yesterday, and now I have been waiting ALL THE DAY to get it done! Gosh, Zenimax, I think you should just give me a free one-handed ax with nirnhoned trait for all this inconvenience!!!

(will it work? fingers crossed)

Trublz

At 13% DL and servers are online!

Palidon

Problem with ZOS is they let their game system problems and bugs pile up and then this is the end result. Players have to wait hours because of their incompetence and lack of interest to address issues in a timely manner.

So far 10 hours of maintenance down time and counting. Well I will get back to Wolfenstein. Have had a blast today playing it today.

Holycannoli

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Last time it happened was back in 2014.

It just happened like last week, except technically that was a patch and not maintenance - as if that matters.

Trublz

22%

Garldeen

Vindemiatrix wrote: »

Sorry for the noob question... how are you posting pictures and vids? The image posting and URL posting drop-down menus in my dialogue box aren't working at all.

You can either the picture icon box this text box and it will give you a box to paste a url in, or you can cut out the middle man and just type [img ]http://myimage.png[ /img] without the spaces next to the ] and [ . Can't give the example with the correct layout or it tries to paste an image Edit. I seem to have a random image tag at the end of post. Ignore that, not sure how that is there. Doesn't appear in the draft[/img]

Autolycus

BigBragg wrote: »

This Minion really knows how to pull off maintenance blues.

Seriously underrated comment. + over 9,000

TheTraveler

We've lost our guild trader now for the fourth time in 2 months due to the prolonged NA maintenance on a Monday morning. Our close to 500 membership all lose a lot of money because of ZOS's incredibly bad planning and insensitivity to player's needs.

silvereyes

TheTraveler wrote: »

We've lost our guild trader now for the fourth time in 2 months due to the prolonged NA maintenance on a Monday morning. Our close to 500 membership all lose a lot of money because of ZOS's incredibly bad planning and insensitivity to player's needs.

I'm sorry to hear that. I feel your pain. There's another thread devoted specifically to the contemporaneous kiosk flip / maintenance downtime. Maybe encourage your bummed-out guildies to go raise a ruckus over there?
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/283769/poorly-thought-out-maintenance-times-and-their-conflict-with-economy-mechanics#latest

CapnPhoton

wonkydog wrote: »

It got so bad here that I've started doing some work to pass the time!!

I would say that's a good idea in most cases