Amount of downtime needed?

Maintenance for the week of March 24:
• PC/Mac: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – March 24, 4:00AM EDT (8:00 UTC) - 10:00AM EDT (14:00 UTC)
• Xbox: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – March 26, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
• Playstation®: NA and EU megaservers for patch maintenance – March 26, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
slampen
slampen
Does it really has to be so long downtime for each maintance/patching?

What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery ?
  • Bangstin
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    slampen wrote: »
    Does it really has to be so long downtime for each maintance/patching?

    Yes.
  • becauseno1
    even that there is way do maintenance during gameplay/server online it would notbe cheap to swap whole system for it + even that it works in theory on mmo it would not work ;)
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  • jayssenrwb17_ESO
    No, this amount of downtime is not needed. There is an MMO that patches to live servers and another that can patch in 20 minutes. The problem with this game is that Zenimax are struggling to control their mega server. The tech is a little bit beyond them at the moment.
  • Sunrock
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    No, this amount of downtime is not needed. There is an MMO that patches to live servers and another that can patch in 20 minutes. The problem with this game is that Zenimax are struggling to control their mega server. The tech is a little bit beyond them at the moment.

    You can't compare a mega server that can handle millions of players at the same time to an old school MMO server that could only handle like 5k online at the same time max.
  • becauseno1
    No, this amount of downtime is not needed. There is an MMO that patches to live servers and another that can patch in 20 minutes. The problem with this game is that Zenimax are struggling to control their mega server. The tech is a little bit beyond them at the moment.

    just to remind u this is maintenance not patch ;)more inffo here ;)

    it is just easier add patch during maintenance

    Edited by becauseno1 on May 9, 2014 4:51AM
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  • Bangstin
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    No, this amount of downtime is not needed. There is an MMO that patches to live servers and another that can patch in 20 minutes. The problem with this game is that Zenimax are struggling to control their mega server. The tech is a little bit beyond them at the moment.

    So in other words the amount of downtime is needed since they are stuggling with 'control of their mega server'?



  • Auric_ESO
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  • stefaan.de.wasch1b16_ESO
    slampen wrote: »

    Tha thas nothing to do with upgrading or maintaining servers man :p

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