20 hours of maintenance?

Sythen88411

Give everyone enough endeavors for a raident apex mount

TaSheen

Sythen88411 wrote: »

Give everyone enough endeavors for a raident apex mount

I've already got enough on all my accounts both PC megaservers for two or three.... and there isn't even one I really want.

SkaraMinoc

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alternatelder wrote: »

Some of you need to get outside of playing just one game. Are you afraid you might not actually miss ESO and enjoy something else for a while?

And once I'm done with that, I'm going to do a clean reinstall of Oblivion since my old one's not happy on this new machine.

There a rumor that Bethesda is re-releasing Oblivion with modern upgrades sometime in June. So I'm waiting for that. Not sure if you want to wait especially since it's not officially announced but I figured I'd mention it.

https://www.thegamer.com/elder-scrolls-oblivion-remake-release-date-june-2025-rumour/

This is safe to post here since the news was blasted everywhere and it's not exactly a secret anymore.

sarahthes

Taucheranzug wrote: »

In the EU, we just received the following message from our community manager:

“The work is largely completed, and the servers are now in the hands of QA.”

Whatever that means...

That means that it can start going thru the startup checks to make sure everything is working properly before they open it up again.

Diundriel

24h mainentance incoming just 3.5h to go; next time a week of maintenance for us addicts

TaSheen

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

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TaSheen wrote: »

alternatelder wrote: »

Some of you need to get outside of playing just one game. Are you afraid you might not actually miss ESO and enjoy something else for a while?

And once I'm done with that, I'm going to do a clean reinstall of Oblivion since my old one's not happy on this new machine.

There a rumor that Bethesda is re-releasing Oblivion with modern upgrades sometime in June. So I'm waiting for that. Not sure if you want to wait especially since it's not officially announced but I figured I'd mention it.

https://www.thegamer.com/elder-scrolls-oblivion-remake-release-date-june-2025-rumour/

This is safe to post here since the news was blasted everywhere and it's not exactly a secret anymore.

Oh.... Yeah. I'll probably just wait then, thanks Skara!

SadnessInSolace

It's almost midnight here, so I hope they wrap it up soon. I've almost got 4000 endeavors

SpiritofESO

"Maintenance is being extended by 8hrs to account for the extra time needed to checks and getting through the rest of maintenance."

GASP! Nooooooooo!

It's like 3:30 p.m. Pacific time and I decided to log on because I just knew that maintenance ended at noon!

NOOOOOOOOO!
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merevie

Well if you're bored -most of the streamers are running old stale pale in the dark ages stuff or reruns of their own curated clips BUT Once Human is free to play (not P2w) and not bad to watch either. (6 weekly cycle of different challenges -unlocks kept).

DrogB

Juomuuri

Almost 2 am and I'm still up because of insomnia. I might actually be able to log in for a bit if nothing else comes up! xD

Grizzly_UK

So we lose out on yet another Daily Login Reward due to issues outside of player control (extended maintenance, server crashes, etc, etc) and players are asking if ZOS will do anything about that? Simple answer: No

ZOS never do anything about Daily Login Rewards that are missed due to extended maintenance, server crashes or any other reasons that are their responsibility. We recently had a huge server outage and lots of players were asking about the missed Daily Login Rewards which resulted in a response from ZOS about how they were focused on getting the servers back online first and maybe, once that was done, they might look into the possibility of doing something about the missed Daily Login Rewards. However, once the servers were back online ZOS simply said nothing more about the Daily Login Rewards we'd all missed out on and players never bothered asking about the missed Daily Login Rewards.

So this time we miss out on a free Riding Manual, well that's a useless *reward* for me because I've already got 40+ of each Riding Manual sitting in my Bank Vault unusable because all 20 of my characters have maximum Riding Skills! *shrug*

Asking about missed Daily Login Rewards due to extended maintenance, server crashes or something else that is beyond player control is simply a complete waste of time! ZOS will very rarely issue any sort of compensation for any reason that prevents players from actually logging in and playing the game! We'd have to be unable to play for multiple, consecutive days before ZOS would even consider actually giving out some sort of compensation!

Yes, from the player perspective it's not a good thing. But unless a few million players close their wallets and demand ZOS actually does something about missed Daily Login Rewards due to issues outside of player control then ZOS simply won't change!

TX12001rwb17_ESO

Between the long maintenance and the constant disconnects a lot of us are suffering through, I believe compensation is long overdue, I have been getting disconnected from the server multiple times every hour, every day for the last 2 months which was around the start of December and it would take me ages before I can log in again, I do not use addons and have been disconnected when all alone in an empty player home, the other day I got a disconnect when still in the character select screen, I am a paying ESO+ member with a yearly sub that is being wasted since I can barely play for more than 10 minutes at a time, once this is solved we need something to make up for this.

This does not happen with any other online game, there was a time where people got account locked and got 16,000 seals as compensation, at the very least that is what they need to give us and the longer it takes the more compensation would be needed.

sunnburst

The only way this is 20 hours is using stupid AI 12:01 Feb 5 to12:01 Feb 6 is 24 hours so unless the game is coming back up 8pm Feb 5 someone cannot do math!

jdamuso

ANGER!!! RAGE!!! SCREAM!!! YELL!!!

MONKEY WANT TO PLAY!!! [snip]

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MysticalMoon346

It's crazy to me how entitled people can get because they miss a day of playing a game that we wouldn't even have if it wasn't for the people running it behind the scenes every single day. Anytime we ever have an encounter that messes with playtime etc they ALWAYS make up for it. Please tell me a single other game you can get on a forum and directly talk to a lead developer and actually get a response? Also, why would you be mad at someone doing their job. This is literally what they do as a job. They're working. I'm sure when they have to take the servers down for an even longer extended period of time it suck for then too! I'm sure alot of them are pulling overtime hours away from their families to get this game up and running. Also, it was brought to our attention a while back that they were having problems with DDOS attacks. When they take the servers down for this long it's in part for our protection. Do you want your information leaked bc of a single hacker? Or would you rather them take the servers down to do maintenance? So many act like this is an everyday occursnce. In the 3 plus years I've now been playing it's only ever been down THIS long maybe 3 times tops. Every other time is regular maintenance. I appreciate every single thing this development team does. They truly go above and beyond for us. They deserve praise not constant hate. What makes yall think that being hateful and rude will actually make them WANT to give back to us if something goes south. They're suffering too. It's not right. They're worried about making aure the entire game is working properly and everyone else is super mad they won't get their daily login that you know they're going to make up for in this case bc they always do. They can't help when this happens. But it's sad they can't get the support and praise they deserve. Thank you to the team from myself and many others. Yall go above and beyond for us and many of us are so grateful for it and you!

To add: many of yall talk about being disconnected constantly... most of us don't have that issue and if you do... I would suggest looking at other issues... maybe your setup? Idk... maybe try hardwiring? I've never ever had disconnect issues of that sort. The most I've had is rarely when I'm kicked I get a 307 error or whatever the number is trying to get back in but that hardly ever ever happens. Truly... most of us don't experience CONSTANT disconnect issues....

Rittings

Well... I stayed awake in hope... I'll play a quick game of Civ 7 then head to bed... nowt else expected at this point except maybe another delay.

Ellaphonic

Wiseau wrote: »

Not so surprising with Zos anymore, and yet, somehow this still baffles me that you have to extend the maintenance by a whole day? We got taken down at 9PM PST last night, and now you're projecting to not be done until 8PM PST TOMORROW? This kind of takes away from the praises we all gave you for the event. You're screwing over everyone out of doing their dailies. How are we going to be compensated? Oh, right. By some 50% XP scrolls and Crown Refreshing Drinks.

Gotta say, it's getting harder and harder to justify playing this game. 1 step forward, 2 steps back...

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

The brackets are for UTC..... remove those and it says Feb 5, 12am EST to 8pm EST ~.~

DrogB

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Between the long maintenance and the constant disconnects a lot of us are suffering through, I believe compensation is long overdue, I have been getting disconnected from the server multiple times every hour, every day for the last 2 months which was around the start of December and it would take me ages before I can log in again, I do not use addons and have been disconnected when all alone in an empty player home, the other day I got a disconnect when still in the character select screen, I am a paying ESO+ member with a yearly sub that is being wasted since I can barely play for more than 10 minutes at a time, once this is solved we need something to make up for this.

This does not happen with any other online game, there was a time where people got account locked and got 16,000 seals as compensation, at the very least that is what they need to give us and the longer it takes the more compensation would be needed.

It must also be said that since December ESO has suffered many DDos attacks which have seen us players being disconnected from the game or having lag problems

SilverBride

MysticalMoon346 wrote: »

It's crazy to me how entitled people can get because they miss a day of playing a game that we wouldn't even have if it wasn't for the people running it behind the scenes every single day. Anytime we ever have an encounter that messes with playtime etc they ALWAYS make up for it. Please tell me a single other game you can get on a forum and directly talk to a lead developer and actually get a response? Also, why would you be mad at someone doing their job. This is literally what they do as a job. They're working. I'm sure when they have to take the servers down for an even longer extended period of time it suck for then too! I'm sure alot of them are pulling overtime hours away from their families to get this game up and running. Also, it was brought to our attention a while back that they were having problems with DDOS attacks. When they take the servers down for this long it's in part for our protection. Do you want your information leaked bc of a single hacker? Or would you rather them take the servers down to do maintenance? So many act like this is an everyday occursnce. In the 3 plus years I've now been playing it's only ever been down THIS long maybe 3 times tops. Every other time is regular maintenance. I appreciate every single thing this development team does. They truly go above and beyond for us. They deserve praise not constant hate. What makes yall think that being hateful and rude will actually make them WANT to give back to us if something goes south. They're suffering too. It's not right. They're worried about making aure the entire game is working properly and everyone else is super mad they won't get their daily login that you know they're going to make up for in this case bc they always do. They can't help when this happens. But it's sad they can't get the support and praise they deserve. Thank you to the team from myself and many others. Yall go above and beyond for us and many of us are so grateful for it and you!

Very well said.

strebor2095

sunnburst wrote: »

The only way this is 20 hours is using stupid AI 12:01 Feb 5 to12:01 Feb 6 is 24 hours so unless the game is coming back up 8pm Feb 5 someone cannot do math!

Are you sure you read the times right? 12:00 am to 8:00 pm is 20 hours total

jai2smooveub17_ESO

merevie wrote: »

Well if you're bored -most of the streamers are running old stale pale in the dark ages stuff or reruns of their own curated clips BUT Once Human is free to play (not P2w) and not bad to watch either. (6 weekly cycle of different challenges -unlocks kept).

Been playing since the ea

merevie wrote: »

Well if you're bored -most of the streamers are running old stale pale in the dark ages stuff or reruns of their own curated clips BUT Once Human is free to play (not P2w) and not bad to watch either. (6 weekly cycle of different challenges -unlocks kept).

Been playing since early Beta 2 back when there was only around 1000 people playing xD

It's still a great F2P MMO Survival Shooter. I was playing just earlier while waiting for the server maintenance.

DrogB

anyway it's February 6, 1:00 UTC (February 5, 8:00PM EST), why are the servers still down?

sarahthes

DrogB wrote: »

anyway it's February 6, 1:00 UTC (February 5, 8:00PM EST), why are the servers still down?

It's actually 7pm EST.

Punches_Below_Belt

Still another hour until 8pm est

Happy_Turtle

Note for those of you who are confused about time zones and the length of this outage:

EST IS NOT THE SAME AS UTC.

zenonuk

A few small points...

- for the daily login rewards (I see people complaining about this) you only loose out on the last rewards of the month, typically tel var, AP, gold, not the next reward - the "best" rewards (imo) always come in the first 14 or 21 days, so no big loss there, (i.e most people will still likely get those furnishings)

- versus other games, it's well acknowledged by everyone (ZOS included as they've stated in these forums) that the game is running on a 10-year old architecture, and they're trying to fix stuff, but they're (rightly so) taking time (and care) to make big software/sub-system changes to fix a lot of the issues ... this has been stated many times... until that's done, we shouldn't expect massive changes in the need for downtime (expected or not)

Personally, for me, when I look at how much gameplay I get for the money spent (including chapters, eso+, etc.) it still works out as the CHEAPEST game per hour per dollar than most other AAA titles I play. (Second is Skyrim, but that's because it's now driven by community mods, and third are Indie games which are generally cheaper in the first place.)

Yes, unexpected/extended maintenance is annoying, but it's not the end of the world.

And if it means that we get another 2 or 3 weeks uninterrupted play before another unexpected/extended maintenance, that can only be a good thing.

Tonight I took the opportunity to have a mid-week movie night... very pleasurable.

outlander95

alternatelder wrote: »

Some of you need to get outside of playing just one game. Are you afraid you might not actually miss ESO and enjoy something else for a while?

Listen man, I just follow the dopamine I've indeed been playing other games and doing other things.

Juju_beans

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alternatelder wrote: »

Some of you need to get outside of playing just one game. Are you afraid you might not actually miss ESO and enjoy something else for a while?

Heck no. I'm massaging my Skyrim install in prep for a boatload of mods a friend is sending me this week (the ones I don't have the data to download myself....)

And once I'm done with that, I'm going to do a clean reinstall of Oblivion since my old one's not happy on this new machine.

And once those two games are back to normal (whatever that is....) I'll be playing all three - ESO in the morning, and the other two later in the day, which one depending on how I feel on any given day.

See...even you are now doing "extended maintenance" on your games

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Time to try out some more Steam demos tonight I guess. 🙃