Red_Feather wrote: »Maybe the place that does the servers has a lot of games and stuff and they don't turn it back on until they are done maintenance for every single one of them. 😯
fgoron2000 wrote: »the thing that I noticed was that the banner said "maintenance" and not "patch maintenance" and if nothing else, they always at least say the word "patch" when there's actually a patch being applied during weekly maintenance. However, when I started up the launcher, a patch was indeed being applied, so my guess is that it was something last minute that they discovered they had to do before they started, and then in their haste they put up the wrong banner. Just a guess tho'...
@ OP and all who are frustrated right now:
I get the frustration but I suggest not coming to forums in the future complaining that something in-game doesn't work if you're gonna get your hackles up when they're taking their time to apply fixes.
i genuinely wonder and i mean it. i am very curious to know what exactly are they doing almost every week for so many hours. performance is untouched after every maintenance so the only think i can think of as a requirement for a weekly maintenance is a simple server reboot. I just can't understand what else is needed every week and why it always take that much time (often extended)
Probably exactly that, just a scheduled restart of the entire server infrastructure, with a patch including all changes pushed that week (or changes that have been pushed back a week or two). Maybe if they feel there's no need to do a scheduled restart, or they feel it'd be too impactful on players, they'll skip it for a week or two.
The thing is, most other games can get this done in a quarter of the time it takes ESO/Zenimax, if even.
I'm clearly in the minority regarding this particular thread, but as much of an inconvenience as maintenance is, I prefer that they take the time to do it rather than continuously have more and more bugs mounting.
If they didn't do maintenance, and the bugs continued to grow in number, then you would all be complaining about that. Better that they do the work and have it take a few more hours than you'd like, than to not do it at all.
But this isn't other games. Regarding comparison to other games, I would submit that WOW is a good basis. But WOW actually goes down weekly. Most often for 4-8 hours with common extensions to 12+ hours.