How bad are maintenance times for you? (In your timezone).

moderatelyfatman · April 25

Hello Everyone,

I was referring to maintenance times in your particular time zone. I'm in PC NA and maintenance occurs during Asia-Pacific prime time (e.g. typically 6 pm-12 am prime time for me, 4 pm-10 pm for Japan and much of SE Asia, and earlier for Chinese players ). As you can see, this is not an insignificant portion of the player base getting affected.

The players in my guilds routinely schedule Monday nights as non-ESO nights so this isn't a huge problem. However, when there are other unscheduled maintenance sessions, we can easily lose a week of play per month whenever a serious bug or other issue needs to be fixed.

From the perspective of ESO+ subscriptions, we pay for a month but often we only get 3 weeks or less of service in return. This leads to players such as myself responding by delaying the renewal of their ESO+ subscriptions around times of major updates (e.g. new chapter releases, major patches) if we think there are going to be a lot of maintenance days. A recent example was with the PTS debacle where my ESO+ subscription ended on the Monday and I waited nearly a week to renew because I didn't want to pay money to not play the game. I will also not be renewing my ESO+ subscription again when it expires in May until at least a week after Gold Road ships for the same reason.

I wonder if there an ideal timezone (e.g. EU primetime) where the fewest number of PC NA players are going to affected by maintainance?

TaSheen · April 25

Not a problem for me. I don't care when maintenance/patches happens, I'm retired.

Xandreia_ · April 25

ill be at work, then i get to come home to my account unlocked ~(hopefully)

freespirit · April 25

We actually have a few Americans across all of my guilds on PC-EU, they play during our prime time because NA is quiet for them.

As far as maintenance times go, they usually suit me pretty well, servers come back up early to mid-afternoon where I am, unless there are issues ofc!!! 😈

evymyu233 · April 25

It happens to be after work time. If the server is under maintenance, I will go play Stardew Valley.

Hapexamendios · April 25

Maintenance usually starts at 7:00 or 8:00 pm here in Tokyo. Usually finishes between 1-2 AM. I miss about 2-3 hours on an maintenance evening.

SilverBride · April 25

6am - 2pm EDT translates to 3am - 11am PDT which is my time zone. Since I usually log on around noon or 1pm PDT this never affects my play time.

LadyLethalla · April 25

PC-EU, Australia east coast. Regular maintenance always starts between 6-8pm depending on the time of year. If it starts at 6pm and finishes early, sometimes I get at hour when the servers come back online.

MidniteOwl1913 · April 25

I usually log on about midnight PDT so if maintenance starts at 6 a.m. eastern time I'm ok. I usually stop about 2:30 a.m. But if it starts earlier than that yes it's a problem for me.

Shadow-Fighter · April 25

PC-EU, the maintenace will start 12-8pm but the event ends at 4pm.

I will be miss the last event ticket while at work.

But i am happy that the event is over!

Grec1a · April 25

LadyLethalla wrote: »

PC-EU, Australia east coast. Regular maintenance always starts between 6-8pm depending on the time of year. If it starts at 6pm and finishes early, sometimes I get at hour when the servers come back online.

Yeah, I'm further east so it always starts at 5.30 - 7.30 pm here. Still prime time though...

barney2525 · April 25

CST is not bad starts at 05:00 am usually over 0900

Shara_Wynn · April 25

I play during the daytime CET (UTC +1) on the EU server. The EU servers are normally down between 08.00 UTC (09.00 CET) to 13.00 UTC (14.00 CET) so maintenance cuts out most of my primetime playtime.

sarahthes · April 25

They are from 4-8am for me. Probably the best possible time of day they could be. My mornings are too busy to get online anyway and I'm out the door for work around 8am.

katanagirl1 · April 26

Unless maintenance is extended, it is done before I login in the mornings.

I find the event ending more troublesome, it is 7am for me. I have never got online by then to get the last day’s tickets.

MidniteOwl1913 · April 26

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Unless maintenance is extended, it is done before I login in the mornings.

I find the event ending more troublesome, it is 7am for me. I have never got online by then to get the last day’s tickets.

Yeah for me it's staying up until the 3:00 a.m.. Sometimes I feel motivated mostly not. During PST staying up until 2 isn't a problem for me.

xclassgaming · April 26

usually they start in the morning...about 8-9...then end at about 1-2pm. not the best but could be worse i guess.

Major_Toughness · April 26

Maintenance usually occurs from 9am until 2pm my time.
I work 9-5 so very rarely effects me.

Monte_Cristo · April 26

Usually starts at 6pm for me.

Vrienda · April 26

10AM to 3PM is the usual. Which means no gaming for most of the day. Tends to be when I forget to log on as I usually play ESO first thing in the morning.

XSTRONG · April 26

Useally most of the maintenance are when im at work so it dosent affect me that much and im not into events except for 2 or 3 so if there is maintenance during an event I dont care.

Edit: Sweden

AuroranGoldenEagle · April 26

PCNA maintenance is right on my prime time. Because I work late, I've missed a day or two here and there.

Not ideal, but don't think anything can or will change.

old_scopie1945 · April 26

I am a EU player, enough said.

DoofusMax · April 26

Maintenance generally starts for me in the wee hours of the morning (PC NA). In most cases, it's back up and running by mid-morning.

OtarTheMad · April 26

Maintenance times don’t bother me even slightly. If the game is down and I have free time I just do something else.

The game is fun but it’s not the only thing I can do to alleviate stress or have fun with friends.

Tandor · April 26

Downtime is rarely a problem for me, partly because I play on both PC servers from the UK and the servers tend to be down for the morning when I rarely play. Although retired, most of my activities outside the home are in the morning so I rarely find myself unable to play when I want to.

Also, however, while ESO is my main gaming home, it is not the centre of my life and nor is it the be-all-and-end-all of my gaming. I always have other stuff to do either on the computer or away from it, and don't often play ESO for more than 2 or 3 hours per day.

Away from ESO I'm currently running through Skyrim again, and having played it for several hundred hours since launch with various characters I have only just got round to completing the main story for the first time! I'm now replaying it without touching the main story at all, currently level 20 and no dragon has appeared yet outside the tutorial in Helgen and no-one knows that I'm dragonborn, least of all me! Then again, in ESO I have had probably 90 or so characters across 3 accounts over the 10 years and have just finished the main questline for only the second time. There's just so much else to do!

ArchMikem · April 26

Pacific Standard is a 3am start time. Never impacts me unless it's horribly delayed/extended.