20 hours of maintenance?

Calastir · February 5

Why do some people always feel obligated to invade topics such as these only to judge others on what's healthy according to their own standards and tell them what to do? Feels like trolling to me.

I suggest they follow their own advice and do something else. Elsewhere.

jahaposada · February 5

TheDragonMeister wrote: »

Most of ESO's daily login rewards are cosmetic items

I think you mean consumables...like potions, drinks, food, repair kits, xp scrolls, instant crafting research, etc.

This month 23/28 rewards are consumables...2 are currency, and 3 are furnishings.

SalamanNZ · February 5

When's our free pizza lunch?

LadyGP · February 5

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We are working on some upgrades and those are taking longer than anticipated. […]

Ooo upgrades. Combat bug fix?

Nothing that exciting. Just backend database updates.

Tommy_The_Gun · February 5

Aliniel wrote: »

This just shows how poorly this game is designed. No other MMO has such large maintenances.

Yeah, this is what PTS server is for... you know... the server that they can test things on while the main one is up...

MedicInTheWild · February 5

It could be worse, you could have requested this day off in December to have a day to play and catch up on stuff and this long maintenance happened making you wonder what nord you pissed off by accident.

jai2smooveub17_ESO · February 5

Is it just me or does the NA server say "8PM EST FEB 6TH"???

28more hrs...

Typo? lol

TheDragonMeister · February 5

jahaposada wrote: »

I think you mean consumables...like potions, drinks, food, repair kits, xp scrolls, instant crafting research, etc.

This month 23/28 rewards are consumables...2 are currency, and 3 are furnishings.

Still not a big deal. Potions/poisons you can craft better ones. Food & drinks you can craft better ones. Repair kits you can get from do writs. xp scrolls... there is a craftable consumable for that and I have little need since all my characters are champ levels. Instant research I don't need because my crafter toon already has most trait researched.

Point is not rewards to depend on.

Kikazaru · February 5

jai2smooveub17_ESO wrote: »

Is it just me or does the NA server say "8PM EST FEB 6TH"???

28more hrs...

Typo? lol

It’s not a typo, they said it’s extended by 8 more hours.

magnusthorek · February 5

Remathilis wrote: »

I rather get some Crown Tripots instead u.u'

silentxthreat · February 5

to be fair a daily reward shouldnt be a thing anyway

TheDragonMeister · February 5

jai2smooveub17_ESO wrote: »

Is it just me or does the NA server say "8PM EST FEB 6TH"???

28more hrs...

Typo? lol

FEB 6th for UTC time not EST time.

TechMaybeHic · February 5

So like...what are the upgrades? Add some teraflops to the megahurts machine? A few more tubby-bits? New dual core hamsters?

RedTalon · February 5

TechMaybeHic wrote: »

So like...what are the upgrades? Add some teraflops to the megahurts machine? A few more tubby-bits? New dual core hamsters?

Triple core mini giant space hamsters with any luck

jahaposada · February 5

TheDragonMeister wrote: »

Point is not rewards to depend on.

Yes, I was strengthening your statement significantly. Consumables are much worse than cosmetic items in my opinion. I have no use for any of it.

Nomadic_Atmoran · February 5

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Holycannoli wrote: »

What would cause it to be this damned long?

We are working on some upgrades and those are taking longer than anticipated. So we need the extra time to make sure everything updates properly and we have proper time to test before we open the servers again. We know this is frustrating, but thank you for your patience while we work on this.

So Im not going to ask yall to reimburse me for you know the money spent..... Im not looking for that. But ahhh. Could yall just do me a solid and drop 65k gold into one of my characters. Cause I was 2 days of crafting writs away from 8 million.... I gotta stay on schedule here. Kind of hard to run 13 characters through writs when you're not able to log in.

DenverRalphy · February 5

TheDragonMeister wrote: »

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jahaposada wrote: »

I think you mean consumables...like potions, drinks, food, repair kits, xp scrolls, instant crafting research, etc.

This month 23/28 rewards are consumables...2 are currency, and 3 are furnishings.

Still not a big deal. Potions/poisons you can craft better ones. Food & drinks you can craft better ones. Repair kits you can get from do writs. xp scrolls... there is a craftable consumable for that and I have little need since all my characters are champ levels. Instant research I don't need because my crafter toon already has most trait researched.

Point is not rewards to depend on.

This month the last reward is 3 Riding Capacity skill books. I'm sure there's more than a few players who'll be bummed they're gonna miss it.

StihlReign · February 5

[EXTENDED] NA megaservers for maintenance – February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

...soo tomorrow 8PM EST

That's a lot of testing.

nihonseanb14_ESO · February 5

I've played, and continue to play, several MMOs and have not seen one with such a bad maintenance record. From botched test server releases (remember when they banned everyone who logged in for 10 days?) to poorly managed unscheduled maintenance (remember that time they took the servers down for 20+ hours?).

Just what are you guys doing over there Zeni? Your customers already QA your content, do you need us to help out with deployments too?

Just let us know, we're here to help.

DenverRalphy · February 5

StihlReign wrote: »

[EXTENDED] NA megaservers for maintenance – February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

...soo tomorrow 8PM EST

That's a lot of testing.

No. Feb 5th 8:00pm EST which is equal to Feb 6th 1:00 UTC. You read it incorrectly.

February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST which is (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

StihlReign · February 5

DenverRalphy wrote: »

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StihlReign wrote: »

[EXTENDED] NA megaservers for maintenance – February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

...soo tomorrow 8PM EST

That's a lot of testing.

No. Feb 5th 8:00pm EST which is equal to Feb 6th 1:00 UTC. You read it incorrectly.

February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST which is (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

lol I didn't read it. I copied it.

jai2smooveub17_ESO · February 5

Kikazaru wrote: »

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jai2smooveub17_ESO wrote: »

Is it just me or does the NA server say "8PM EST FEB 6TH"???

28more hrs...

Typo? lol

It’s not a typo, they said it’s extended by 8 more hours.

Yeah but it's only FEB 5th in NA lol

jai2smooveub17_ESO · February 5

DenverRalphy wrote: »

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StihlReign wrote: »

[EXTENDED] NA megaservers for maintenance – February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

...soo tomorrow 8PM EST

That's a lot of testing.

No. Feb 5th 8:00pm EST which is equal to Feb 6th 1:00 UTC. You read it incorrectly.
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February 5, 12:00AM EST (5:00 UTC) - 8:00PM EST which is (February 6, 1:00 UTC)

Ooohhh gotcha lol Easily misread I think so that's why I was confused xD

Achasse · February 5

20 Hour maintenance, guess your server hamsters didn't go for the eyes. hmm go for the eyes boo, yup i know which game i'm playing today.

Squeex · February 5

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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Holycannoli wrote: »

What would cause it to be this damned long?

We are working on some upgrades and those are taking longer than anticipated. So we need the extra time to make sure everything updates properly and we have proper time to test before we open the servers again. We know this is frustrating, but thank you for your patience while we work on this.

This couldn't have been done on a test environment prior to just pushing it to production?

XIIICaesar · February 5

JiubLeRepenti wrote: »

I always wonder what causes so long maintenance on ESO when you don't see the same on other (bigger) MMOs like WoW or FFXIV.

20 hours of maintenance...

Guild Wars 2 doesn't have ANY maintenance downtime. Wierd.

Iriidius · February 5

Adremal wrote: »

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ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We are working on some upgrades and those are taking longer than anticipated. So we need the extra time to make sure everything updates properly and we have proper time to test before we open the servers again. We know this is frustrating, but thank you for your patience while we work on this.

Any plan to make the daily reward claimable? I'm not even gonna mention the seals of endeavors, but other similar games offer some kind of compensation or allow daily rewards to be claimed regardless when access is limited (to 2 hours in the dead of night for EU players in this case).

I think they will not make daily rewards claimable or endeavours because they also did not make daily reward and endeavours claimable last time there was a 22 hour maintenance less than 2 month ago on 12.12.2024 4pm middle european time zone in frankfurt germany where EU server stands until 2 pm the next day despite majority of players missing it.
They said they needed time to think about conpensation and 3 weeks later they gave 500 seals as first January daily reward to everyone no matter if they failed to login due to maintenance, successfully logged in before maintenance or did not intend to play eso that day anyway. Probably half the players who got the conpensation were not even active players(weekly or monthly) during that maintenance and a lot of players who failed to login during maintenance probably stopped playing eso in this 3 weeks.

Hypertionb14_ESO · February 5

i have 6 characters i actively play, some of which date back to the launch of the game. even ignoring the 9 year hiatus i took, i am no where near maxed on the horses beyond speed on the original 4. every single little login bonus consumable is 3 days off of a single character that would take half a year to max out otherwise.

I want the carry capacity reward for the final day of the month. No substitutes, No excuses.. I have no control over if a login reward is made unavailable due to prolonged maintenance or outages, that is purely on the developer for using a system like Login rewards.

RedTalon · February 5

Squeex wrote: »

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ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Holycannoli wrote: »

What would cause it to be this damned long?

We are working on some upgrades and those are taking longer than anticipated. So we need the extra time to make sure everything updates properly and we have proper time to test before we open the servers again. We know this is frustrating, but thank you for your patience while we work on this.

This couldn't have been done on a test environment prior to just pushing it to production?

They are talking hardware not software backend often is code for replacing and upgrading hardware not something you do in a test setting sadly

Warhawke_80 · February 5

It's interesting to see that some of the same people who frequently claim the game is dying also express ummmm "strong concern" whenever it goes into maintenance....