Please no more weekly maintenances, we take back what we said!!

Bigevilpeter

Apparently they are making weekly maintenances because the community asked for it, well if I ever did I personally I take it back

Please only do maintenances when its urgent, no need for the 9 hour weekly maintenaces for a few fixes, I don't mind playing the game with a few bugs than not playing it at all.

Just write down all the bugs you have and do one maintenance a month and fix everything at once, the technical issues you faced today would not have happened if not for the maintenance downtime, so apparently these maintenances do more harm than good and I know the game won't be much better after this maintenance.

Please no more, you suck at patching and fixing games!!

VoiDGhOs7

Well said!

/sarcasm.

supernico

Monday is Sunday for online games

Forestd16b14_ESO

We ?

But wouldn't be so bad if the maintenance actually did anything.

SanSan

So you'd rather have a 1-3 day maint fixing all the bugs?

Patouf

We all want they change their servers, server engineers and the code, because the ESO code is not poetry =D

karakondzula

I purchased ESO + this month for the first time ever after year and a half of playing. First and last time. The schedule, amount and duration of maintenances on EU is just insulting. Its been a year since they officially stated that they are working on PVP performance and nothing has changed and nothing is gonna change. Forces me to play only in mornings for a enjoyable experience there, and now these 10 hour maintenances.

Xarc

Each monday, big "maintenance". Each maintenance, a technical issue.
When servers will be back we'll get a big lag on evening.
For EU ppl it is a lost day to play ESO.

Bigevilpeter

SanSan wrote: »

So you'd rather have a 1-3 day maint fixing all the bugs?

No other game needs that much freaking time to make fixes!!

Maybe eso made you feel thats the norm, but they are one of the worst patching and fixing company i ever saw

cjthibs

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

SanSan wrote: »

So you'd rather have a 1-3 day maint fixing all the bugs?

No other game needs that much freaking time to make fixes!!

Maybe eso made you feel thats the norm, but they are one of the worst patching and fixing company i ever saw

Please just quit before your rage boils over and you end up doing something stupid.

itehache

People then would complain about Zos not giving enough attention to maintenance But yeah, those 12 hours of maintenance today are crazy.
I asked my boss not to have any monday off, that's how I deal with maintenance days xD

Bigevilpeter

well i went back to playing SWTOR thnx to the freaking long downtime, and im starting to get hooked again

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cjthibs

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

well i went back to playing SWTOR thnx to the freaking long downtime, and im starting to get hooked again

Enjoy yourself!


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DaedraPrinceSatan

They should change the maintenance time to Monday midnight. 00 to 06.
Or even better, get better people who actually can do their job properly...

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Apparently they are making weekly maintenances because the community asked for it, well if I ever did I personally I take it back

Please only do maintenances when its urgent, no need for the 9 hour weekly maintenaces for a few fixes, I don't mind playing the game with a few bugs than not playing it at all.

Just write down all the bugs you have and do one maintenance a month and fix everything at once, the technical issues you faced today would not have happened if not for the maintenance downtime, so apparently these maintenances do more harm than good and I know the game won't be much better after this maintenance.

Please no more, you suck at patching and fixing games!!

Where did you come up with this? Weekly maintenance has been here since launch. (2014 launch). It's not the community's decision! Did the last thread not inform you as to why they HAVE to d maintenance? The first 3-4 months of the game we had 2 maint a week, Monday and Thursday. And yes, any "AAA" MMO has weekly maintenance. WoW, Diablo, etc all do weekly maintain. EVE does it daily!!

newtinmpls

When we "miss" or "skip" a maintenance, I think the game suffers. I'd rather have it.

Browiseth

Why are these long maintenance times even that much of a problem with people? It can't be that hard to find something else to do for half a day.

Bigevilpeter

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Apparently they are making weekly maintenances because the community asked for it, well if I ever did I personally I take it back

Please only do maintenances when its urgent, no need for the 9 hour weekly maintenaces for a few fixes, I don't mind playing the game with a few bugs than not playing it at all.

Just write down all the bugs you have and do one maintenance a month and fix everything at once, the technical issues you faced today would not have happened if not for the maintenance downtime, so apparently these maintenances do more harm than good and I know the game won't be much better after this maintenance.

Please no more, you suck at patching and fixing games!!

Where did you come up with this? Weekly maintenance has been here since launch. (2014 launch). It's not the community's decision! Did the last thread not inform you as to why they HAVE to d maintenance? The first 3-4 months of the game we had 2 maint a week, Monday and Thursday. And yes, any "AAA" MMO has weekly maintenance. WoW, Diablo, etc all do weekly maintain. EVE does it daily!!

no other game take that ling weekly maintenances and no ive played most said game and there wasnt weekly maintenanaces. oh and also i played eso before and there wasnt weekly maintenances and if you didint read it there was a direct response from ZOS saying exactly that they are doing weekly maintenances as per request.

no idea who requested but thats what they said

idk

Lol.

But seriously, Zos, thx for maintaining the game.

Acharnor

DaedraPrinceSatan wrote: »

They should change the maintenance time to Monday midnight. 00 to 06.
Or even better, get better people who actually can do their job properly...

Midnight for who??

visionality

I doubt Zenimax does maintenance to annoy players, so if necessary I'll take it. But I feel it's extremely customer-unfriendly to not automaticalls give you a maintenance schedule. And not somewhere in a thin forum thread that maybe someone finds or not but on the game launcher and in your local time. Updated if something unexpected happens.

Shouldn't be too difficult to implement, should it?

FailSaucePro

Weekly maintenance is great, it's just that twelve hours downtime is a little ridiculous once or twice a week.

svartorn

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

SanSan wrote: »

So you'd rather have a 1-3 day maint fixing all the bugs?

No other game needs that much freaking time to make fixes!!

Maybe eso made you feel thats the norm, but they are one of the worst patching and fixing company i ever saw

So you've apparently never played WoW or any other MMO.

Well, welcome to reality.

Bigevilpeter

newtinmpls wrote: »

When we "miss" or "skip" a maintenance, I think the game suffers. I'd rather have it.

how exactly does the game suffers? i never noticed a difference between now and before the weekly maintenance

mitchtheelder

I agree totally, pls no maintenance. The game is full with bugs anyway so let us play we lost the whole day damn.

Bigevilpeter

there will always be people who will defend the company no matter what they do and beleive their excuses

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Apparently they are making weekly maintenances because the community asked for it, well if I ever did I personally I take it back

Please only do maintenances when its urgent, no need for the 9 hour weekly maintenaces for a few fixes, I don't mind playing the game with a few bugs than not playing it at all.

Just write down all the bugs you have and do one maintenance a month and fix everything at once, the technical issues you faced today would not have happened if not for the maintenance downtime, so apparently these maintenances do more harm than good and I know the game won't be much better after this maintenance.

Please no more, you suck at patching and fixing games!!

Where did you come up with this? Weekly maintenance has been here since launch. (2014 launch). It's not the community's decision! Did the last thread not inform you as to why they HAVE to d maintenance? The first 3-4 months of the game we had 2 maint a week, Monday and Thursday. And yes, any "AAA" MMO has weekly maintenance. WoW, Diablo, etc all do weekly maintain. EVE does it daily!!

no other game take that ling weekly maintenances and no ive played most said game and there wasnt weekly maintenanaces. oh and also i played eso before and there wasnt weekly maintenances and if you didint read it there was a direct response from ZOS saying exactly that they are doing weekly maintenances as per request.

no idea who requested but thats what they said

Ok, seriously, are you new to ESO? They have done maintenance since launch! April 2014. If they did not do maintenance the game would be unplayable. Dont ever defrag or clean files on your computer, what happens?
I played WoW too, and yes they have weekly maintenance, so I call shenanigans. I suggest you read up on what is actually involved in maintaining a MMO of this size, or re read my earlier post of maintenance details. I am happy they do weekly maintenance, as I've seen how horrible the game plays if they go for a few weeks without it.
And Zos, Please close this thread. as it is beating a dead horse worse than "Auction House" threads.
And again!!! Maintenance is to "Maintenance" servers! "Patches" are to fix bugs. Patches are done during maintenance, but maintenance is not a "bug fix" in it's self. Yes there are bugs, but the game is so much better than it used to be. You should have played beta! lmao!

Lyrander

the maint was better when it was 2 a week.

at least it never lasted more than 4 hours back then (or rarely)

AtmaDarkwolf

Other games do daily Maintenance each night. An hour or so every single day.

Truth is, those games are often much more stable. Yea, there are still bugs, it HAPPENS(Anyone with a computer SHOULD know this and stop harping and b!tching every time there's any 'unexpected' downtime)

I would actually be alright if they decided to do a daily 'restart/maintenance' of an hour or so. It WOULD require them to be working more often, but for 'less' time each round (spread it out, less fatigue, etc) but it would also require a LOT more communication between the teams at ZoS(Which from what I've read from reviews written by former ZoS employees, is NOT one of their strengths, which would perfectly explain how stuff, seen, documented, reported, etc, in pts still show up in live a month+ later...)

Edit: Whoever posted about defraging.. not since the days of windows 98 have we needed to defrag. I mean, if your still doing it, your doing something wrong More specificlly with windows 7 and on, it pretty much defrags your drives 2-3 times a day. And if u have a SSD it just HARMS the disk-Besides no matter 'where' the data is physically stored on a SSD it takes no difference in access time (Think of a SSD as a giant stick of ram)

Asata

A 2-3 hour maintenance would be acceptable. A 12+ hour maintenance every single week isn't even remotely acceptable.

And all these people that seem to think it's necessary have no flipping idea what's involved with running a game server. You don't need to restart the server every week unless your server hardware truly sucks.

You don't run into technical issues that cause 12+ hour delays before even bringing the servers back up if you actually test your patches before pushing them to a live environment. It's just unprofessional and incompetent to be honest. That alone can be said about literally any kind of software development, or service.

Where's the testing? There shouldn't be technical issues every single time. This kind of stuff happens when you don't properly test and then try to push something live only to find the problems then that you have to deal with, which you should have dealt with days ago during your testing.

*sigh* It's pointless to even bring this stuff up.

Lyrebon

Not sure why they can't do maintenance like ArenaNET and clone the server to do the maintenance on, then have everyone switch over to that server once it's running without errors and close the old server when it hits zero population. If ANet can manage it, theoretically any game developer as big as Zenimax should be able to.