Maintenance Every Night

Reverb · May 2017

Maybe you should see this unexpected downtime as a gift, and use the time to call a therapist and talk through your irrational anger issues.

Runs · May 2017

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

It is 12:00 (24h system) on EU... a maintenance in the middle of the day.... WTF ?!

-edit- that made me think of KISS...

Seri · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

Epona222 · May 2017

Lieblingsjunge wrote: »

Oh and when that's said. What about the people who work nightshifts? If it would be maintenance mid-afternoon, even if they would live in your time-zone: They wouldn't be able to play.

Oh wait, as long as you get to play it doesn't matter how everyone else feels right?

And this ^ agree completely: my husband often works nights and since I'm retired I tend to fit in around his schedule - I get utterly sick of people who think the only valuable employment is 9-5 Monday to Friday and if you're not at work then you're some sort of slacker - truth is, 9-5 works fine if your job is doing something that isn't protecting life (like insurance sales or admin in some office), but wouldn't work very well in a hospital where people need to be looked after around the clock, or for fire services "oh sorry your house is on fire in the middle of the night, but since all the best and most worthy people work 9-5 we clocked off 7 hours ago, good luck with your house". "Oh sorry, I couldn't care for you during the night after you had surgery, all the normal people clock off at 5pm don't you know, try not to get too much blood on the floor" etc. etc.

Sorry, bit of a rant there, there does appear to be a bit of an "if you don't work office hours Monday to Friday you're not pulling your weight" type attitude that *really* annoys the you know what out of me

- And I quoted your post because it's good to see someone acknowledge those on sometimes difficult shift work.

SHADOW2KK · May 2017

Must have missed the daily maintenence OP, live in fantasy world much?

Rage much?, you do know you do not have to be here?

Right?

The game does not revolve round you OP, your daytime is anothers night time, time zones.

Adapt.

pattyLtd · May 2017

Ahh so you are the one they base the time on to do unscheduled maintenance to fix game breaking isues..... interesting

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Seriously OP just accept it and if it helps you don't plan on playing the game at all for the next two weeks or so then you won't have to get all upset about it every time it happens. Frustration is understandable you as many others just want to play the game but nobody is giving you the short straw deliberatly. Get over yourself.

Lieblingsjunge · May 2017

Epona222 wrote: »

Lieblingsjunge wrote: »

Oh and when that's said. What about the people who work nightshifts? If it would be maintenance mid-afternoon, even if they would live in your time-zone: They wouldn't be able to play.

Oh wait, as long as you get to play it doesn't matter how everyone else feels right?

And this ^ agree completely: my husband often works nights and since I'm retired I tend to fit in around his schedule - I get utterly sick of people who think the only valuable employment is 9-5 Monday to Friday and if you're not at work then you're some sort of slacker - truth is, 9-5 works fine if your job is doing something that isn't protecting life (like insurance sales or admin in some office), but wouldn't work very well in a hospital where people need to be looked after around the clock, or for fire services "oh sorry your house is on fire in the middle of the night, but since all the best and most worthy people work 9-5 we clocked off 7 hours ago, good luck with your house". "Oh sorry, I couldn't care for you during the night after you had surgery, all the normal people clock off at 5pm don't you know, try not to get too much blood on the floor" etc. etc.

Sorry, bit of a rant there, this "if you don't work office hours Monday to Friday you're not pulling your weight" type attitude *really* annoys the you know what out of me

This deserves an awesome. I wonder how disastrous things would be if everyone worked 9-5.

Turelus · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

I'm pretty sure the A and B after the fullstops should be capitalised.

kagorsa · May 2017

Where is dolly parton when you need her

.

SHADOW2KK · May 2017

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

I'm pretty sure the A and B after the fullstops should be capitalised.

Lol, or ask him where he would like his `break`

Betsararie · May 2017

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Bringer · May 2017

I told you guys BG would end up being a disaster but you didnt listen! First we have this 3 hour downtime to fix them, but before you know it... it'll be three weeks. Just you wait.

Coggage · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Why don't you do it during the day when people are at work or ...

People who DO work and who are enjoying a day off might want to play as well. Plus, I'm not complaining even though that is the case.

Turelus · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

cellobuddy · May 2017

As luck would have it, I had the opportunity of playing at various time slots since Vvardenfell went live. I can personally attest that this time slot was the emptiest by far(actually got to solo a world boss without a full group showing up and helping). They know what they're doing. They have usage logs to figure out what times bring the least inconvenience. Suck it up, buttercup. And go to bed. Kids need a lot of sleep; Screwing up your circadian rhythm doesn't help.

Reverb · May 2017

Since you're not listening to any of the rational responses here, let me try a more blunt approach:

Dude, shut up. Seriously.

SilverWF · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Why is there maintenance seemingly every night now?

It's unbelievable.

There is a midday in Russia...

Tryxus · May 2017

Buggy game is unplayable
Maintenance makes the game unplayable

...

I'd go with the lesser of 2 evils, even if it doesn't agree with my schedule

SHADOW2KK wrote: »

..., live in fantasy world much?

Yeah, it's called Tamriel

Betsararie · May 2017

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I assume you're mad because I proved the haters wrong by coming up with an OBJECTIVELY better maintenance time for the NA server of 6:00 AM PST / 9:00 AM EDT. The perfect time.

AzraelKrieg · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

Coggage · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

You're right. Thinking was definitely not a factor.

Betsararie · May 2017

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I get that this is surprising to you but you should understand that what is surprising to me is someone caring what time their staff has to work. I don't really care if they have to get up a couple hours early if it makes the game better for everyone.

AlienSlof · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

my point is please change it to during the day when people are at work

It IS during the day here in Britain.

ArterionAU · May 2017

Gotta admit it's annoying having every maintenance at night my time. I'm Aussie and can only play at night, Logged on to play Morrowind before first chance I got since early access and it was being taken down in 10 minutes. Would be cool if they mixed the maintenance times up imo, It is what it is.

AzraelKrieg · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I get that this is surprising to you but you should understand that what is surprising to me is someone caring what time their staff has to work. I don't really care if they have to get up a couple hours early if it makes the game better for everyone.

You are a special kind of stupid, aren't you?

Turelus · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I assume you're mad because I proved the haters wrong by coming up with an OBJECTIVELY better maintenance time for the NA server of 6:00 AM PST / 9:00 AM EDT. The perfect time.

That's not how a service works, they provide a service as they desire, you choose if you want that service.

Betsararie · May 2017

Coggage wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

You're right. Thinking was definitely not a factor.

Maybe one day you'll understand that 6:00 AM is the time they should be doing maintenance. Objectively this is the best time to do it.

But according to you I'm not thinking?

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I get that this is surprising to you but you should understand that what is surprising to me is someone caring what time their staff has to work. I don't really care if they have to get up a couple hours early if it makes the game better for everyone.

You are a special kind of stupid, aren't you?

I actually think you must be.

Epona222 · May 2017

Blanco wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

Seri wrote: »

Blanco wrote: »

service the servers separately... problem solved. Why is that impossible for a company as large as ZOS?

All that money and they can't even do *that* ??

Give me a break. Give me. a. break.

Here on the west coast we are getting screwed by the scheduling of the maintenance.

Based on the old maintenance windows, the NA servers would be going down basically at this time anyway, while the EU maint was performed late night/early morning for EU.

As an Aussie being affected by this, I'm still going to admit that despite your claims of 'tons of people' being online now, it's actually the least populated timeslot of the game.

So I will say this for the NA SERVER , here in NA aka the U.S. we have PST and EDT which are 3 hours apart from eachother. Of course we have other time zones, such as central but no time zone is more than 3 hours apart from another... besides Hawaii... which nobody cares. It's an island with very few people

I have not done research on which time truly has the least amount of people on in NA, but I would be surprised if it was night time because, that is the best time to play. At night.

The optimal time for maintenance for NA (Not talking about EU, they should have their own schedule because their time zones are drastically different), would be somewhere closer to 6:00 AM Pacific. If you do 6:00 AM PST you are doing it when everyone is at work. I have to say that would be better for everyone.

Did you stop to remember that ZOS is on the East Coast and it might be done at times which are beneficial to their staff?

No.

This did not factor into my thinking because it's not a factor.

We're the customer. We pay the money. They work for us. Not the other way around. lol

I assume you're mad because I proved the haters wrong by coming up with an OBJECTIVELY better maintenance time for the NA server of 6:00 AM PST / 9:00 AM EDT. The perfect time.

It's not the... *calm down Epona, no need for expletives*... emergency services. No one is going to die. No matter WHAT time maintenance happens, no matter WHAT time the servers are down.

DeadRune · May 2017

I think at this point he's just trolling. That's like saying you can walk to your local store which only opens at 8am and demand they open at 3am because you want to buy some Mountain Dew to fuel your lack-of-game-induced rage.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Think some of these posts are getting out of hand? Shut it down or snip, mebbeh?