Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6

--> SERVER HARDWARE UPGRADES CONFIRMED! <--

  • JamilaRaj
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    Awesome. But...how is that going to fix buggy software?
  • Karamis_Vimardon
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    Armenua wrote: »
    Epona222 wrote: »
    Glad they are doing some upgrades, but boy did I pick the wrong week to take off and spend some quality time with my games :(

    Which is another reason, besides good business and PR practice, that they should inform the player base that we can expect a10 hr maintenance on Tuesday.... And if they are going to change hardware tomorrow... How long will everything be down for that? Is so curious to me that MMO companies always treat their customers with such disdain while pushing for more money to be spent on their pixel items and DLC. Informing us is basically a display of good manners and professional conduct.

    Up to 6 hours expected, there's your good manners and professional conduct.

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  • Teiji
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    I remember Sage saying in a video about how they can't just add more hardware and the lag will be magically fixed.

    Looks like that isn't the case anymore.
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  • Shad0wfire99
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    They must be made of a higher grade of wood, now.


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  • Shad0wfire99
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    10 hr maintenance with no warning beforehand? It always means "we *** up."


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  • Shad0wfire99
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    10 hr maintenance with no warning beforehand? It always means "we *** up."

    *That word is similar to "[snip]" because I'm not a child.

    [Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Cursing & Profanity]
    Edited by ZOS_Brett on October 28, 2015 4:37AM


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  • Genomic
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    Armenua wrote: »
    Epona222 wrote: »
    Glad they are doing some upgrades, but boy did I pick the wrong week to take off and spend some quality time with my games :(

    Which is another reason, besides good business and PR practice, that they should inform the player base that we can expect a10 hr maintenance on Tuesday.... And if they are going to change hardware tomorrow... How long will everything be down for that? Is so curious to me that MMO companies always treat their customers with such disdain while pushing for more money to be spent on their pixel items and DLC. Informing us is basically a display of good manners and professional conduct.

    Up to 6 hours expected, there's your good manners and professional conduct.

    forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/227015/na-and-eu-megaserver-maintenance#latest

    Upwards of six hours, not up to. Different beast entirely.
  • UltimaJoe777
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    Teiji wrote: »
    I remember Sage saying in a video about how they can't just add more hardware and the lag will be magically fixed.

    Looks like that isn't the case anymore.

    In case anyone is confused the maintenance scheduled tomorrow is not to improve anything. It is an enhancement to ensure that maintaining one server does not crash the others anymore like it did today, thus delaying the actual maintenance.
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  • Molag_Crow
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    Great! :open_mouth:
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  • phtony06b14_ESO
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    I'm not patting anyone on the back until I see results. ZOS has failed way too often with regard to lag fixes and disconnects for me to lead a parade just b/c they said they will be upgrading hardware.
  • UltimaJoe777
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    I'm not patting anyone on the back until I see results. ZOS has failed way too often with regard to lag fixes and disconnects for me to lead a parade just b/c they said they will be upgrading hardware.

    And yet I haven't seen any more blue screen crashes on PS4 in a good while... Yep, such failure.
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  • F7sus4
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    Just a heads-up (for those of you who missed it)
    THEY ARE UPGRADING THEIR HARDWARE TOMORROW!!!!
    In short, we are upgrading our hardware and fixing bugs that could potentially cause unplanned outages, and want to do this before Orsinium is published next week to ensure a smooth launch.
    Yeah, like changing two fried motherboards and one keyboard. :lol:
  • M_TeK_9
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    That means they probably just fired the dimwit who broke it yesterday and replaced him with a new guy aka hardware.
  • altemriel
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    awesome!!


    hopefully they would upgrade it so, that the server will not lag anymore when in large scale fight!!!

    maybe they could upgrade them so, that the could finally drop the non-sense AoE cap and introduce spellcrafting!!!

    increasing the server capacity this way would solve a lot of PVP problems!!!
  • UltimaJoe777
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    That means they probably just fired the dimwit who broke it yesterday and replaced him with a new guy aka hardware.

    Such a crude way to address the poor hamster! Have you no sympathy for those overworked rodents? Tsk, tsk.
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  • M_TeK_9
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    I'm not patting anyone on the back until I see results. ZOS has failed way too often with regard to lag fixes and disconnects for me to lead a parade just b/c they said they will be upgrading hardware.

    And yet I haven't seen any more blue screen crashes on PS4 in a good while... Yep, such failure.

    I had four yesterday
  • Preyfar
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    Teiji wrote: »
    I remember Sage saying in a video about how they can't just add more hardware and the lag will be magically fixed.

    Looks like that isn't the case anymore.
    Because that may have been true at the time. There may have been issues in the software that were the root cause. Yes, upgrading the hardware is an option, but it wouldn't fix the issue solely until software bottlenecks were resolved first. Once the bottlenecks were cleared out, other issues may have shown that, yep, while X was a major performance bottleneck, now that that's fixed, it turns out Y is equally as bad.

    Edited by Preyfar on October 28, 2015 8:44AM
  • altemriel
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    Preyfar wrote: »
    Teiji wrote: »
    I remember Sage saying in a video about how they can't just add more hardware and the lag will be magically fixed.

    Looks like that isn't the case anymore.
    Because that may have been true at the time. There may have been issues in the software that were the root cause. Yes, upgrading the hardware is an option, but it wouldn't fix the issue solely until software bottlenecks were resolved first. Once the bottlenecks were cleared out, other issues may have shown that, yep, while X was a major performance bottleneck, now that that's fixed, it turns out Y is equally as bad.


    well both sides of this issue have to be solved (software and hardware). maybe some software bugs would be solved with server capacity increase, as they are due to calculations lags.

  • Frenkthevile
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    syzmic wrote: »
    Well i hope it fixes the loading screen issues.

    +1
  • anitajoneb17_ESO
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    Armenua wrote: »
    Which is another reason, besides good business and PR practice, that they should inform the player base that we can expect a10 hr maintenance on Tuesday.... And if they are going to change hardware tomorrow... How long will everything be down for that? Is so curious to me that MMO companies always treat their customers with such disdain while pushing for more money to be spent on their pixel items and DLC. Informing us is basically a display of good manners and professional conduct.

    During this process, all European megaservers unexpectedly became unresponsive.

    What part of "unexpectedly" is it that you don't understand ?

    The maintenance was announced. Was longer than expected due to unexpected. Wanna hold "unexpected" against them ?
    Edited by anitajoneb17_ESO on October 28, 2015 8:55AM
  • Tors
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    You are all making a massive assumption that this is a real benefit to you.

    They have not said what they mean by hardware upgrade.

    Its probably just the fans on the blade chasis that keep dying and need replacing.

    At least the servers wont overheat.


    If this was increased processor type stuff or resouces being given to actual game play that you will notice then they would have made a massive song and dance about it.

    Instead this comes out as an addon to a crash and a forced "hard ware upgrade"


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  • zornyan
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    I'm not patting anyone on the back until I see results. ZOS has failed way too often with regard to lag fixes and disconnects for me to lead a parade just b/c they said they will be upgrading hardware.

    And yet I haven't seen any more blue screen crashes on PS4 in a good while... Yep, such failure.

    Agreed, hasn't happened in months, unfortunately people forget all the stuff that actually gets fixed, and just focus on the negstives.

    Like someone said in another thread, there wasn't lag when the gsme launched, and ZOS introduced it somehow due to monitoring software because there were hundreds of people hacking the game and cheating in cyrodil.

    So now zos gets flamed for lag, but if these people hadn't been running rampant with cheats they wouldn't have had to try and prevent it.
  • Skinzz
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    Maybe loading screens of loading screens then loading screen again will stop.
    Anybody got a group? LFG, anybody? Hello?
  • altemriel
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    zornyan wrote: »
    I'm not patting anyone on the back until I see results. ZOS has failed way too often with regard to lag fixes and disconnects for me to lead a parade just b/c they said they will be upgrading hardware.

    And yet I haven't seen any more blue screen crashes on PS4 in a good while... Yep, such failure.

    Agreed, hasn't happened in months, unfortunately people forget all the stuff that actually gets fixed, and just focus on the negstives.

    Like someone said in another thread, there wasn't lag when the gsme launched, and ZOS introduced it somehow due to monitoring software because there were hundreds of people hacking the game and cheating in cyrodil.

    So now zos gets flamed for lag, but if these people hadn't been running rampant with cheats they wouldn't have had to try and prevent it.

    f***ckin *** cheaters, they have ruined the game!!! seriously for cheating could ZOS give at least 1 month ban!!
  • BuggeX
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    Well i fine with that, planned to take a pause of the game this week, so i can start Orsinium with 110% Energy :)
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  • FuzzyDuck79
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    Server upgrade - better looking pictures on loading screens.
  • Sotha_Sil
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    They are just upgrading the hardware for Orsinium. I don't think this will fix the lag but we can hope.
    We also pulled back the fog, which is commonly found in the distance of larger zones, so you're now able to see more of the area. This was in large part due to newly added technology that allowed us to show more trees, mountains, and environment structures than ever before.
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    Edited by Sotha_Sil on October 28, 2015 10:22AM
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  • Armitas
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    In short, we are upgrading our hardware and fixing bugs that could potentially cause unplanned outages, and want to do this before Orsinium is published next week to ensure a smooth launch.

    It's possible the upgrades are related to unplanned outages. I hope they are performance upgrades but they may be nothing more than redundant power supplies, or something of the like. Crossing my fingers it's performance related.
    Edited by Armitas on October 28, 2015 10:29AM
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  • FlyLeaf30
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    Just a heads-up (for those of you who missed it)
    THEY ARE UPGRADING THEIR HARDWARE TOMORROW!!!!

    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/227015/na-and-eu-megaserver-maintenance

    That's right. This isn't just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill maintenance.
    Let's hope this fixes the lag.

    No pressure or anything...

    I cannot get this link to work, anyone else had this issue?

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