Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• [COMPLETE] ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – April 8, 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC) - 6:00PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
• [COMPLETE] ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – April 8, 9:00AM EDT (13:00 UTC) - 6:00PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
The only business I know....
sazodeha
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MMOs and the companies that make money off us....
Are the only business I know where downtime/lack of availability and rampant bugs are acceptable.
In business they have this thing called "redundancy". Servers that work when the others go down. Imagine, the cell phone service you pay monthly for being unavailable for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software, but you keep on paying...
Imagine the banking world were all monetary transactions came to a screeching halt for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software.
this does not happen because these companies build in redundancy. Oh, but MMO companies cannot do that, its too expensive and they don't have the revenue to support such a thing...Really?
Forbes..."Sales have reportedly topped 800,000 on PS4 and 600,000 on xBox One. The big problem with this is how long its taken. Elder Scrolls is a staple game, one that has done nothing but make Bethesda money, so it shouldn’t be such a sleeper title".
gamerant.com..."According to SuperData, an analysis firm that releases an annual report on the state of the MMO market, The Elder Scrolls has been very successful for ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda. As of this writing, their subscriber numbers chart somewhere around 772,374, which is very good for an MMO that was thought to be D.O.A. But it appears the game is doing just fine, and has even expanded its reach to Steam within the last week."
Bottom line, ZeniMax you have made and continue to make tons of money from this title. How about investing in hardware that serves instead of makes acceptable things like downtime, loading screens, obvious bugs and the like. I think the customer base should stop accepting this as just part of the industry and start demanding the quality they are paying for!
Are the only business I know where downtime/lack of availability and rampant bugs are acceptable.
In business they have this thing called "redundancy". Servers that work when the others go down. Imagine, the cell phone service you pay monthly for being unavailable for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software, but you keep on paying...
Imagine the banking world were all monetary transactions came to a screeching halt for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software.
this does not happen because these companies build in redundancy. Oh, but MMO companies cannot do that, its too expensive and they don't have the revenue to support such a thing...Really?
Forbes..."Sales have reportedly topped 800,000 on PS4 and 600,000 on xBox One. The big problem with this is how long its taken. Elder Scrolls is a staple game, one that has done nothing but make Bethesda money, so it shouldn’t be such a sleeper title".
gamerant.com..."According to SuperData, an analysis firm that releases an annual report on the state of the MMO market, The Elder Scrolls has been very successful for ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda. As of this writing, their subscriber numbers chart somewhere around 772,374, which is very good for an MMO that was thought to be D.O.A. But it appears the game is doing just fine, and has even expanded its reach to Steam within the last week."
Bottom line, ZeniMax you have made and continue to make tons of money from this title. How about investing in hardware that serves instead of makes acceptable things like downtime, loading screens, obvious bugs and the like. I think the customer base should stop accepting this as just part of the industry and start demanding the quality they are paying for!
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Slurg✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭They are investing in hardware with the money they've made. That's what this week's maintenance is about: http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/227015/na-and-eu-megaserver-maintenance#latest
If these problems do not improve after today (it seems they are overdue for new hardware based on recent performance) I will suspect they're not committed to keeping this game running long term.
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sazodeha✭✭I cant imagine why MMO developers do not dedicate all of their resources to FIRST fixing the major problems BEFORE concentrating on new content. Everything about the release of this idea of "Elder Scrolls" online, nothing like the classic game btw, error #1, has been a bungle. Not releasing the thieves guild and the brotherhood??? A Staple of the original? Bah! Lazy amateurs!!!
Edited by sazodeha on October 28, 2015 4:53PM0 -
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✭MMOs and the companies that make money off us....
Are the only business I know where downtime/lack of availability and rampant bugs are acceptable.
In business they have this thing called "redundancy". Servers that work when the others go down. Imagine, the cell phone service you pay monthly for being unavailable for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software, but you keep on paying...
Imagine the banking world were all monetary transactions came to a screeching halt for x hours every Monday, sometimes Tues and Wed because they screwed up an update to their software.
this does not happen because these companies build in redundancy. Oh, but MMO companies cannot do that, its too expensive and they don't have the revenue to support such a thing...Really?
Forbes..."Sales have reportedly topped 800,000 on PS4 and 600,000 on xBox One. The big problem with this is how long its taken. Elder Scrolls is a staple game, one that has done nothing but make Bethesda money, so it shouldn’t be such a sleeper title".
gamerant.com..."According to SuperData, an analysis firm that releases an annual report on the state of the MMO market, The Elder Scrolls has been very successful for ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda. As of this writing, their subscriber numbers chart somewhere around 772,374, which is very good for an MMO that was thought to be D.O.A. But it appears the game is doing just fine, and has even expanded its reach to Steam within the last week."
Bottom line, ZeniMax you have made and continue to make tons of money from this title. How about investing in hardware that serves instead of makes acceptable things like downtime, loading screens, obvious bugs and the like. I think the customer base should stop accepting this as just part of the industry and start demanding the quality they are paying for!
i think those are old numberrs...i wonderr what is the current subscriber count...0 -
Zyle✭✭✭✭✭As much as I agree with the need for better performance, it isn't fair to pull an article that speculates company wealth on the # of subscribers. There are so many more variables at play.
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✭I hope people aren't actually hoping these "hardware" upgrades are going to fix performance.1 -
sazodeha✭✭Well either way you look at it, its still a cash cow and over the years they have made double-digit millions, possibly triple. Maybe it shouldn't all go into the CEOs pocket and into infrastructure a long time ago! Maybe, just maybe, if their main concern/goal was to make a good game, rather than a game that makes money, the game would make money because it's a good game!0
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sazodeha✭✭I've been around since the release of the very first MMO, and am over it! These companies make the same mistakes over and over again. Just once I would like to see them break the mold, be inventive and remake the model.0
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✭Thing is those numbers are not coming from the mouth of Zenimax, they could be spot on or they could be way off, take third party information with a grain of salt.
as far as the maintenance goes stuff happens things break.. /shrug
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MuddledMuppet✭✭✭✭Banks failing can lead to national/global depression, mass unemployment, even armed conflict.
We're gonna lose an evening of gaming time.
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BlackEar✭✭✭✭✭I do not agree with the points. It seem like they are pulled out of thin air and very speculative.
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✭WhiskeyRiver.AZub17_ESO wrote: »Wow.You have one business like mind! I could never have thought up this post.
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