Three and a half hours of maintenance

Yarlenzey

From my perspective that is 17:00 - 20:30.
Starting an hour earlier should have meant completing 'on time' e.g. now.

Rozenwyn

It's the next DLC patch.. chill out ffs

Balsagna

After 3 years you would think people would understand it takes as long as it takes. You act as if they want it to take longer so there's 87 threads on the forums from people complaining.

It's annoying, yes, but it's not like they are saying "oh snap Yarlenzey is mad, hurry it up!!!"

ConeOfSilence

Play something else for a while then. I have been playing BF1 while waiting.

Morgul667

Id say its not gonna be up for another 2-3 Hours minimum

AzraelKrieg

You poor thing. You want compensation? Too freaking bad. Grow up

Nifty2g

Balsagna wrote: »

After 3 years you would think people would understand it takes as long as it takes. You act as if they want it to take longer so there's 87 threads on the forums from people complaining.

It's annoying, yes, but it's not like they are saying "oh snap Yarlenzey is mad, hurry it up!!!"

I've been playing another game lately and each time they have maintenance they post their patch notes a day before the patch, they listen to feedback and developers keep players up to date on what is going on with the maintenance and why it's taking longer if it is.

Really don't understand what is holding ESO back from doing this.

Yarlenzey

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

You poor thing. You want compensation? Too freaking bad. Grow up

"grow up"

lol.

I logged on at five and got one the 'one minute' warning.
No, I don't want compensation (assuming that your know what that is), just what I paid for. Normally described as 'fee for service'.
How much do you get paid to be a pratt?

Waseem

last time they sped up patching the game was in unplayable condition for 14 hours and they did "emergency maintenance" for more hours all over again
every monday there is
1) patch
2) unexpected issue
sometimes fixing the unexpected issue take 10 mins others 10 hours, depends on human error and un-optimization

Yarlenzey

Balsagna wrote: »

After 3 years you would think people would understand it takes as long as it takes. You act as if they want it to take longer so there's 87 threads on the forums from people complaining.

It's annoying, yes, but it's not like they are saying "oh snap Yarlenzey is mad, hurry it up!!!"

Well, they started an hour earlier. That may not affect you, but it affects me and my time-planning.
I expected a six o'clock start and planned around that.

So. As they started earlier, one could assume that would like to finish on time, to satisfy the important folk i.e. USians

But as ever, if maintenance goes on and on and on, then I'll come here and whinge about it.


Your participation, is entirely optional.

Yarlenzey

Waseem wrote: »

last time they sped up patching the game was in unplayable condition for 14 hours and they did "emergency maintenance" for more hours all over again
every monday there is
1) patch
2) unexpected issue
sometimes fixing the unexpected issue take 10 mins others 10 hours, depends on human error and un-optimization

'expect
Sorry.
"Every Monday" there is "unexpected issue" <<< dwell on that for a while.

Should read 'Every Monday there is a problem'.

This time they started one hour earlier, as 'risk mitigation' - fine.

But now, TIME IS UP.

Please stop accepting poor service!!!!!

Slick_007

Yarlenzey wrote: »

Well, they started an hour earlier. That may not affect you, but it affects me and my time-planning.
I expected a six o'clock start and planned around that.

So. As they started earlier, one could assume that would like to finish on time, to satisfy the important folk i.e. USians

But as ever, if maintenance goes on and on and on, then I'll come here and whinge about it.


Your participation, is entirely optional.

it was posted on the forums at the top in the little banner all day, so you had plenty of opportunity to see when it was going to start and plan accordingly.

our participation and heckling is mandatory.

Aluiries

Aww! How cute... I would rather they take their time with the update than have more downtime later in the week.

Sergun

not yet tested

Berenhir

Yarlenzey wrote: »

Waseem wrote: »

last time they sped up patching the game was in unplayable condition for 14 hours and they did "emergency maintenance" for more hours all over again
every monday there is
1) patch
2) unexpected issue
sometimes fixing the unexpected issue take 10 mins others 10 hours, depends on human error and un-optimization

'expect
Sorry.
"Every Monday" there is "unexpected issue" <<< dwell on that for a while.

Should read 'Every Monday there is a problem'.

This time they started one hour earlier, as 'risk mitigation' - fine.

But now, TIME IS UP.

Please stop accepting poor service!!!!!

Terms of Service wrote:

ZeniMax may patch, update, or modify a Service at any time with or without notice to You. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ZeniMax has no obligation to make available any patches, updates or modifications or correct any errors or defects in the Services.

Haquor

Yarlenzey wrote: »

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

You poor thing. You want compensation? Too freaking bad. Grow up

"grow up"

lol.

I logged on at five and got one the 'one minute' warning.
No, I don't want compensation (assuming that your know what that is), just what I paid for. Normally described as 'fee for service'.
How much do you get paid to be a pratt?

Dude, they are implementing a new DLC. Why are you so mad? Go watch the block or speak to a human lol.

And you are getting what you paid for. Even if they werent going live with hotr they would have to conduct maintenance at some point.

Ffs entitled much?

Sergun

can they be more friendly with customers ?

AdicusDio

Invincible wrote: »

[snip]

They probably average millions a month + whatever they already have from outright sales. They are NOT some starving indie group. They are probably closer to the billion $ mark and have LOW overhead. If a movie pulls 53 million a week JUST from theater sales, these guys make more from crown store and sub sales.

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Berenhir

AdicusDio wrote: »

Invincible wrote: »

[snip]

They probably average millions a month + whatever they already have from outright sales. They are NOT some starving indie group. They are probably closer to the billion $ mark and have LOW overhead. If a movie pulls 53 million a week JUST from theater sales, these guys make more from crown store and sub sales.

I suppose you pulled your numbers from a place where the sun never shines? The smell...

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Haquor

Seriously, people act like this game is the only thing they have to do and thier lives just fall apart when they cant play for one evening a week. That is honestly the impression you are giving with your response to downtime.

Be thankfull there is maintenance. Oh god imagine the results and the posts if they just didnt conduct maintenance.

The server is down for maintenance for i guess less than 4% of the year. Assuming about 6 hours most weeks. Come on....

Banana

Take as long as you like. Im going to sleep then to work

fred4

Nifty2g wrote: »

Balsagna wrote: »

After 3 years you would think people would understand it takes as long as it takes. You act as if they want it to take longer so there's 87 threads on the forums from people complaining.

It's annoying, yes, but it's not like they are saying "oh snap Yarlenzey is mad, hurry it up!!!"

I've been playing another game lately and each time they have maintenance they post their patch notes a day before the patch, they listen to feedback and developers keep players up to date on what is going on with the maintenance and why it's taking longer if it is.

Really don't understand what is holding ESO back from doing this.

What's the game? Any good?

birch44

WoW has been going for over a decade and people still [snip] about maintenance. I wouldn't hold my breath on that stopping.

I would much prefer them to do it right than do it fast.

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Blacksmoke

Boohoo a new DLC gets released and maintenaince is longer then normal
We had 6 hours of maintenaince for no DLC launch in the past *** happens.. go outside take a walk sniff a flower and stop crying.

Glamdring

Hold the maintenance for another hour or two. Just back home from work, need some food, a quick nap and watch GoT thenim ready for the new DLC.

Tallest_GNOME

Ehh... I just wanted to kill some skeletons and loot tons of garbage!

Magdalina

What's "on time"? There's never been any schedule for servers to go up and there definitely isn't one on dlc patch day. It'll probably be less than 12 hours. Maybe not if they run into "unexpected issues" though. *shrug*

wesly.backersb16_ESO

Reading all those negative comments ,I'm sure humanity is doomed to destroy itself by impatient red-button pushers.

Phantorang

Stop waiting for something you cant do anything about, it will take the time it takes, quit wasting your time and go do something else instead.

Sylosi

birch44 wrote: »

WoW has been going for over a decade and people still [snip] about maintenance. I wouldn't hold my breath on that stopping.

I would much prefer them to do it right than do it fast.

On the other hand Guild Wars 2 (outside of about 3 times in 5 years) has no downtime for patches. (nor for that matter do many websites/apps that in cases like Amazon or Google are dealing with scales that dwarf games like ESO).

Technology has moved on since WoW released, it is sort of a pathetic that most MMORPGs have not moved with the times.

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Ratzkifal

It should be named "four and a half hours" now ^ ^