Why is NA down?

Jcarson0408

I get EU needs to be taken down so it could be fixed, it was functioning so poorly it could barely even be called up anyway. But why is NA down if EU is the one with the problem? They say they want people to experience the festival yet they are taking down a server that was functioning fine.

Salvas_Aren

because both servers and the client need to be on the same patch

Jcarson0408

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

because both servers and the client need to be on the same patch

I looked back and noticed the mention of a patch. Thank you for answering that. What is on this patch that they felt the need to release it TODAY?

Katheriah

Cuz if we can't have fun you can't have fun

Ragged_Claw

Perhaps they thought NA players might like to experience what it's like to be an EU player.

VaranisArano

Jcarson0408 wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

because both servers and the client need to be on the same patch

I looked back and noticed the mention of a patch. Thank you for answering that. What is on this patch that they felt the need to release it TODAY?

Hopefully the fixes that allow EU to actually play ESO. Apparently, NA has had the same sort of problems, but not as bad.

Honestly, PC/NA can be glad we havent had the same level of problems.

Cheezits94

Jcarson0408 wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

because both servers and the client need to be on the same patch

I looked back and noticed the mention of a patch. Thank you for answering that. What is on this patch that they felt the need to release it TODAY?

Read Gina's Post.
They are doing the patch that was meant to be done on Monday. That patch contains possible fixes for long loading screens and other issues.

BackAndAngry

WTB PC African server.... oh wait

Altaire

Server over heated, melting the Snickers mini's into cooling fans.

iiRenity

Katheriah wrote: »

Cuz if we can't have fun you can't have fun

Well played.

MajBludd

So you can RP as an EU player

Jayman1000

Because Saturday during day time is pretty good time to fix server, it's not problem, learn to adapt by play later.

darthgummibear_ESO

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Because Saturday during day time is pretty good time to fix server, it's not problem, learn to adapt by play later.

Yeah, on the weekend, during one of the most popular events that only happens once a year. Great time.

cyclonus11

Because NA is also unplayable.

nryerson1025

They probably already had to pay their team overtime because it's Saturday and you want them to pay double overtime and do it overnight on the weekend?! Get outta here!

Dev_Null_00

Cause ZoS employees don't know what in the hell they are doing.

Jcarson0408

Fantastic responses everyone. Thanks for the info.

Jcarson0408

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Because NA is also unplayable.

I was on NA when it went down, it was working fine.

LiquidPony

nryerson1025 wrote: »

They probably already had to pay their team overtime because it's Saturday and you want them to pay double overtime and do it overnight on the weekend?! Get outta here!

Salaried employees don't get paid overtime.

cyclonus11

Jcarson0408 wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Because NA is also unplayable.

I was on NA when it went down, it was working fine.

I was on NA last night and I could barely move and crashed out 3 times.

darthgummibear_ESO

They could avoid all of this if they simply posted patch notes when the server went down, instead of making everyone wait until the servers were live again wondering what the hell was going on.

Philtho

It would help if they put that this was an emergency patch. Otherwise it looks like they're purposely patching during a weekend during prime time during a new DLC release during a new event. Basically the worst absolute time to patch anything in the history of forever.

Korah_Eaglecry

nryerson1025 wrote: »

They probably already had to pay their team overtime because it's Saturday and you want them to pay double overtime and do it overnight on the weekend?! Get outta here!

double overtime huh? lol.

Night_Watch

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/499172/

Philtho wrote: »

It would help if they put that this was an emergency patch. Otherwise it looks like they're purposely patching during a weekend during prime time during a new DLC release during a new event. Basically the worst absolute time to patch anything in the history of forever.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/499172/

Not quoted as an emergency but we can see it is. NA and EU servers and client(s) need to be on same patch I am told.

VaranisArano

Dev Tracker, guys. They did announce it about a half hour beforehand: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/499172/pc-na-eu-patch-maintenance-oct-26-10am-edt

I use the Recent Discussions tab more often, and its also stickied there.

Araneae6537

Both servers were having issues (on NA the past few days I only noticed some longer loading screens) but the EU server was unplayable. I am glad they were able to move up the patch so that everyone could play this weekend. I hope they also give EU players some extra event tickets and plunder skills as I think many have had to miss a whole day. 😟

nryerson1025 wrote: »

They probably already had to pay their team overtime because it's Saturday and you want them to pay double overtime and do it overnight on the weekend?! Get outta here!

For all you know they may have been working overnight to have the patch ready to go this morning. Probably did.

Dev_Null_00

I like how ZoS thinks The US PLayers care about the EU server. Plus they cant figure away to patch one without breaking the other. They could never work on a real server that requires 99% uptime.

Philtho

Night_Watch wrote: »

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/499172/

Not quoted as an emergency but we can see it is. NA and EU servers and client(s) need to be on same patch I am told.

Yeah, I was just trying to point out the perception is important. I was initially angry that the only block of free time I have this weekend is now during a maint update. But speaking with people they were having lots of issues of dungeons not letting people exit, not able to login, everything glitching out. It's an emergency, and I would have been fine simply knowing that.

Oh well. More coffee and a book I guess.

iiRenity

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Jcarson0408 wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Because NA is also unplayable.

I was on NA when it went down, it was working fine.

I was on NA last night and I could barely move and crashed out 3 times.

The server seemed decent this morning, but I was also experience a bunch of problems with the server last night, too. Especially in Cyrodill. So many crashes.

Juhasow

Well since NA is few hours behind EU time wise I guess seeing how things went downhill for EU when more people started to login during saturday afternoon ZoS made prediction same thing can happen on NA server in few hours so they've decided to take both down and add some incremental patch to temporarily fix the issue.

Araneae6537

Dev_Null_00 wrote: »

I like how ZoS thinks The US PLayers care about the EU server. Plus they cant figure away to patch one without breaking the other. They could never work on a real server that requires 99% uptime.

Speak for yourself! Not all of us are selfish pricks!