The Maintenance Never Ends

The_Conjurer

I swear maintenance is being performed every single day. It's not once a week any more.

Diminish

They need to do maintenance for their maintenance. Logical, right? Ask any ZoS employee...

Vipstaakki

The alternative isn't any better. You will either get maintenance or infinite errors. You won't be able to play all day long no matter what.

Balsagna

Stop whining

idk

Lets see, we had unplanned maintenance because an exploit was discovered.

Then we had some downtime because of an unexpected issue.

I guess Zos could have put off handling the unexpected issue Thursday night to appease those that have an aversion to maintenance. Would be funny since they would then complain because they cannot log into the game.

While Zos does have more maintenance than their peers, it seems rather short sighted to complain about them doing something about some issues with the game.

ccfeeling

No other solution I think

Elsonso

There was a maintenance over the weekend?

ThePrinceOfBargains

Vipstaakki wrote: »

The alternative isn't any better. You will either get maintenance or infinite errors. You won't be able to play all day long no matter what.

Or C. They can fire the current team and hire competent developers.

ccfeeling wrote: »

No other solution I think

The other solution is getting a new dev team.

STEVIL

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Lets see, we had unplanned maintenance because an exploit was discovered.

Then we had some downtime because of an unexpected issue.

I guess Zos could have put off handling the unexpected issue Thursday night to appease those that have an aversion to maintenance. Would be funny since they would then complain because they cannot log into the game.

While Zos does have more maintenance than their peers, it seems rather short sighted to complain about them doing something about some issues with the game.

the amount of whining is a constant.

if they patch things with maintenance, they get it for doing maintenance.
if they hold off, they get it for not fixing things quick enough.
if a patch fixes a lot of things, they get it for too many changes at once.
if a patch fixes a few, they get it for not responding to obvious needs.

its almost like in some/many cases the happy/unhappy is not tied to events and results mostly, just pre-formed attitudes in search of an outlet de jour.

surely that cant be the case.

Banana

Bulldozer through the server room please and start again. Ill be happy to wait.

PlagueSD

They're still trying to fix this error:

The Uninvited

Community: ZOS, FIX YOUR SERVERS!!!

ZOS: Okay, fixing servers.

Community: NOT NOW!!!

idk

STEVIL wrote: »

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Lets see, we had unplanned maintenance because an exploit was discovered.

Then we had some downtime because of an unexpected issue.

I guess Zos could have put off handling the unexpected issue Thursday night to appease those that have an aversion to maintenance. Would be funny since they would then complain because they cannot log into the game.

While Zos does have more maintenance than their peers, it seems rather short sighted to complain about them doing something about some issues with the game.

the amount of whining is a constant.

if they patch things with maintenance, they get it for doing maintenance.
if they hold off, they get it for not fixing things quick enough.
if a patch fixes a lot of things, they get it for too many changes at once.
if a patch fixes a few, they get it for not responding to obvious needs.

its almost like in some/many cases the happy/unhappy is not tied to events and results mostly, just pre-formed attitudes in search of an outlet de jour.

surely that cant be the case.

Very much the case with @The_Conjurer . He/she certainly conjured up an exaggeration.

Yamenstein

TheMaster wrote: »

Vipstaakki wrote: »

The alternative isn't any better. You will either get maintenance or infinite errors. You won't be able to play all day long no matter what.

Or C. They can fire the current team and hire competent developers.

ccfeeling wrote: »

No other solution I think

The other solution is getting a new dev team.

Because that will stop the complaining? Doubt it. People will find something to complain about.

Everstorm

Everything man builds requires maintenance.

CMFan1966

This is my first MMO and I love it. I understand that maintenance must happen. I am in no way complaining whatsoever, but I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed that maintenance starts in just 30 minutes or so. Tonight is the first night in weeks I could have played all night if I wanted to. It's not their fault that my schedule lined up this way.

FluffyReachWitch

It's common for sneakier bugs to need fixing after a major software update, and we did just get Horns of the Reach. Last week's unforeseen maintenance only happened the way it did because it was incredibly urgent. Otherwise it would have been a tiny hotfix or something for the upcoming incremental patch.

ofSunhold

I've never been as happy about maintenance as I am about this one. Lots of weird little bugs with this update, and I know they plan to fix them today. All win.

Ihatenightblades

What i dont get is this last week/week and half i been getting stellar performance not even joking maybe DC 5 times total in that 10 or so days

Hope they can manage to keep it like that

Betsararie

The Uninvited wrote: »

Community: ZOS, FIX YOUR SERVERS!!!

ZOS: Okay, fixing servers.

Community: NOT NOW!!!

lol man.

The servers have never been, and most likely never will be, fixed.

WHEN have they been fixed? never

They are not going to be fixed tomorrow. Nothing will be different.

Epona222

CMFan1966 wrote: »

This is my first MMO and I love it. I understand that maintenance must happen. I am in no way complaining whatsoever, but I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed that maintenance starts in just 30 minutes or so. Tonight is the first night in weeks I could have played all night if I wanted to. It's not their fault that my schedule lined up this way.

Although there has been some unscheduled downtime this week, this is actually the regular weekly maintenance slot, and the servers are nearly always down (for PC/Mac) at this same time every week - so don't ever make plans to play at this time.

Aeorath

Hello everyone!


Since I am very new at this game (2 days old), do you happen to know how long does this maintenance last?

Betsararie

Aeorath wrote: »

Hello everyone!


Since I am very new at this game (2 days old), do you happen to know how long does this maintenance last?

LOONGG time. Long time.

Many hours.

WuffyCerulei

At least they take time to do maintenance. I'd rather they do that instead of doing nothing at all.

Swifigames

I don't mind the maintenance so much. Just let's me know that there are people in place to "handle" things on a regular basis.
There was a period of time a couple months ago though where I'd log in to play and I ran into the maintenance wall during my multiple attempts to play throughout the month (god that sucked). This was before I started catching the update ticker on the top of the forums here. I'm glad they do that...cause it threw me for a loop not so long ago and I took a break.

Honestly, I'd be concerned if other types of similar games didn't take maintenance this seriously.

Betsararie

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

At least they take time to do maintenance. I'd rather they do that instead of doing nothing at all.

Fine.

I'd rather them do maintenance and it take a total of 1 hour.

Rohamad_Ali

I would not be as bothered by all these maintenances if things that mattered actually got fixed . I don't care if a costume looks goofy is sets are still bugged and mechanics are still broken .

amir412

The_Conjurer wrote: »

I swear maintenance is being performed every single day. It's not once a week any more.

Well it is needed for such complex game (:

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

STEVIL wrote: »

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Lets see, we had unplanned maintenance because an exploit was discovered.

Then we had some downtime because of an unexpected issue.

I guess Zos could have put off handling the unexpected issue Thursday night to appease those that have an aversion to maintenance. Would be funny since they would then complain because they cannot log into the game.

While Zos does have more maintenance than their peers, it seems rather short sighted to complain about them doing something about some issues with the game.

the amount of whining is a constant.

if they patch things with maintenance, they get it for doing maintenance.
if they hold off, they get it for not fixing things quick enough.
if a patch fixes a lot of things, they get it for too many changes at once.
if a patch fixes a few, they get it for not responding to obvious needs.

its almost like in some/many cases the happy/unhappy is not tied to events and results mostly, just pre-formed attitudes in search of an outlet de jour.

surely that cant be the case.

stop being a fanboy and start adding some constructive criticism...we are here for over 3 years aren't we? if we QQ it means WE CARE and we have hopes and we want *** DONE. if we would go dead silence then the game would go dead...yes I hate it every time we get maintenance cuz it usually screws more things than it fix...and yes im 1 of those who kept his sub since early access unlike those that come QQ and go...tbh I rather have ZoS doing 24 hours maintenance if that would mean the rest of 6 days we can play without interruptions and without bugs and other ***.

ofSunhold

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I would not be as bothered by all these maintenances if things that mattered actually got fixed . I don't care if a costume looks goofy is sets are still bugged and mechanics are still broken .

Yeah, but they might as well get the low-hanging fruit while they're fixing things.

The art dept has really been on their game since Morrowind. Wait, did I just non sequitur? Sorry. Happens.

Yarlenzey

STEVIL wrote: »

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Lets see, we had unplanned maintenance because an exploit was discovered.

Then we had some downtime because of an unexpected issue.

I guess Zos could have put off handling the unexpected issue Thursday night to appease those that have an aversion to maintenance. Would be funny since they would then complain because they cannot log into the game.

While Zos does have more maintenance than their peers, it seems rather short sighted to complain about them doing something about some issues with the game.

the amount of whining is a constant.

if they patch things with maintenance, they get it for doing maintenance.
if they hold off, they get it for not fixing things quick enough.
if a patch fixes a lot of things, they get it for too many changes at once.
if a patch fixes a few, they get it for not responding to obvious needs.

its almost like in some/many cases the happy/unhappy is not tied to events and results mostly, just pre-formed attitudes in search of an outlet de jour.

surely that cant be the case.

Also, once folk start complaining about downtime, the usual horde of 'counter-complainers' pop into each and EVERY discussion about it, to raise the 'just lie back and think of England' flag.

The complaints about downtime are justified. "Maintenance" to introduce new products, technically, is not "maintenance" it is DOWNTIME. Or put another way: OFFLINE.

If either of you want to settle for second-best, that's OK. I and others here are not.
Please take your personal brand of negativity to another topic of discussion.

Alternately, please start some discussions on the positive aspects of the ESO 'product'. I look forward to reading them.