Another maintenace!!!!

Bigevilpeter · August 2016

Seriously are they going to have a maintenance every 2 days or what? this is like the 5th maintenance since the SoTH patch. I was against those subscribers who said ZOS has to make up for the lost time, but now it actually makes sense.
Every maintenance is at least 6 hours.

Get your *** together ZOS!!

EDIT: I'm and engineer and the evaluation of my quality of work is how often I need to do maintenance, the better the work the less maintenance is needed. Having to do this much maintenance in an mmo means the quality of the work is crap!!

ThatAlaskanDude · August 2016

I'm pretty sure they do these maintenances to improve their game. Isn't that what you want or do you prefer ZOS abandoning ESO?

Trublz · August 2016

Ssdd
**edit**
Don't want there to be any confusion.. I'm referring to the complaining not the maintenance.

Bigevilpeter · August 2016

ThatAlaskanDude wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do these maintenances to improve their game. Isn't that what you want or do you prefer ZOS abandoning ESO?

I prefer they do their job correctly the first time, I don't see that much maintenance in any other mmos.

s_jscorpiorwb17_ESO · August 2016

You are probably the same sort of guy that moans when the game has bugs & problems, go for a walk or soemthing 6 hour maintenance aint the end of the world.

ConeOfSilence · August 2016

Every Monday they have maintenance.

frethopper · August 2016

Necessary evil. I was really looking forward to playing today but never mind.

ThatAlaskanDude · August 2016

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

I prefer they do their job correctly the first time, I don't see that much maintenance in any other mmos.

That's like asking an author to write his book with no errors whatsoever. Nobody's perfect. The fact that ZOS is still taking the time to fix their mistakes in ESO shows they still want to bring the best player experience.

MasterSpatula · August 2016

Man, I'm going out of town tomorrow, and I really wanted to get just a bit more done in game before I left. Wouldn't be so bad, of course, if they hadn't changed maintenance from the perfect time to one that actually [snip] ]me.

[Edited for bypassing the filter]

Sophieous · August 2016

ThatAlaskanDude wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do these maintenances to improve their game. Isn't that what you want or do you prefer ZOS abandoning ESO?

You mean like last week's maintenance which took 4 hours to fix something that should have been fixed in 30 mins (mostly text), or the prime time maintenance last Tuesday during prime time?

Or this bold statement

Combat & Gameplay
General

Continued to make improvements toward the issue where you were unable to invite other players to your group.
Note: You may run into an issue if you initiate a group, it appears like nothing happened. As a temporary workaround, you can relog or change zones, and the group UI will then appear.

I'm not gonna moan about the maint, it's a scheduled one anyway and I've got better things to do, but not accepting the obvious is, to put it politely, bad.

Other games care for their customers and do not abandon their game as well, they just do it in a better and more suitable way for all of their playerbase.

AnviOfVai · August 2016

Maintenance is a good thing! Hopefully it will fix the issue PSN is having with adding players to the group now. People can't see when you have added another player ect, you have to log out and back in.

Immortal_Dark410 · August 2016

ThatAlaskanDude wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do these maintenances to improve their game. Isn't that what you want or do you prefer ZOS abandoning ESO?

lol I Agree rather have maintenance and them actually fixing the game then no maintenance and them not caring

Mojmir · August 2016

it's not the maintenance that bothers me,it's the notes I read after and I see what isn't in there.

Qbiken · August 2016

Btw, anyone knows how long this maintance will be? (Approcimately)

Sheezabeast · August 2016

Uh...They just recently released new DLC. You're scraping the bottom of the complaining barrel if you think this is uncalled for *rotfl*

Tia413 · August 2016

Qbiken wrote: »

Btw, anyone knows how long this maintance will be? (Approcimately)

6 hours if nothing goes wrong....10-12 hours if they run into problems

Qbiken · August 2016

Tia413 wrote: »

Qbiken wrote: »

Btw, anyone knows how long this maintance will be? (Approcimately)

6 hours if nothing goes wrong....10-12 hours if they run into problems

Well, I guess it´s time for me to begin Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC then XD

Sigma957 · August 2016

It's normal Monday maintenance, time to play on the pts

Asata · August 2016

Personally I'd prefer a maintenance once a month rather than every single Monday. There's just way too much downtime for late night/early morning players. On most maintenance days the game is down for a good 6-8 hours.

Mojmir · August 2016

Tia413 wrote: »

Qbiken wrote: »

Btw, anyone knows how long this maintance will be? (Approcimately)

6 hours if nothing goes wrong....10-12 hours if they run into problems

so this time tomorrow? Got it

Aquanova · August 2016

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Uh...They just recently released new DLC. You're scraping the bottom of the complaining barrel if you think this is uncalled for *rotfl*

That is a creepy cat dude.

Blackleopardex · August 2016

First of all I don't mind maintenance but...

This is the weekly maintenance, i think? They used to have it at night both for US and EU, but for some time now they been having it at the same time in the US and EU and that means we get it all morning and day here in Europe, almost every Monday!? *** this needs to be changed back to how it used to be! Taking away a day of game-play can't be profitable... Today I tried to login and I just: "Ahhh it's Monday ofc!!..."

[Edit: Image removed for profanity]

And it should not be like that.

wenchmore420b14_ESO · August 2016

For Akatosh's sake people. They have to do maintenance. Just like you have to defrag your computer to keep it running smooth. They have to clear caches, LUA, etc. If they only did maintenance once month, the game would be laggy and glitchy as hell. I have seen it, the times they went 3--4 weeks without maintenance. And all large MMO's have to do it. WoW was once a week and be down 8-20 hours!
Be thankful they don't have to do it twice a week anymore like they did at launch. Also, maintenance is not the same thing as "fixes", even though this is the time they use to insert fixes, but not always. So stop thinking that every maintenance is going to fix everything!
Be happy they do them regularly. If you need your ESO fix, go play PTS for 3-6 hours..

Hammy01 · August 2016

ThatAlaskanDude wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they do these maintenances to improve their game. Isn't that what you want or do you prefer ZOS abandoning ESO?

The problem is they sometimes break more stuff than they fix

... thus creating more maintenance but yeah if they can actually fix everything without breaking anything new then I am all for maintenance.

Asata · August 2016

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

For Akatosh's sake people. They have to do maintenance. Just like you have to defrag your computer to keep it running smooth. They have to clear caches, LUA, etc. If they only did maintenance once month, the game would be laggy and glitchy as hell. I have seen it, the times they went 3--4 weeks without maintenance. And all large MMO's have to do it. WoW was once a week and be down 8-20 hours!
Be thankful they don't have to do it twice a week anymore like they did at launch. Also, maintenance is not the same thing as "fixes", even though this is the time they use to insert fixes, but not always. So stop thinking that every maintenance is going to fix everything!
Be happy they do them regularly. If you need your ESO fix, go play PTS for 3-6 hours..

No they don't, man. There are many MMO's out there that don't do weekly maintenance. They might have a maintenance once every few months.

Immortal_Dark410 · August 2016

Asata wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

For Akatosh's sake people. They have to do maintenance. Just like you have to defrag your computer to keep it running smooth. They have to clear caches, LUA, etc. If they only did maintenance once month, the game would be laggy and glitchy as hell. I have seen it, the times they went 3--4 weeks without maintenance. And all large MMO's have to do it. WoW was once a week and be down 8-20 hours!
Be thankful they don't have to do it twice a week anymore like they did at launch. Also, maintenance is not the same thing as "fixes", even though this is the time they use to insert fixes, but not always. So stop thinking that every maintenance is going to fix everything!
Be happy they do them regularly. If you need your ESO fix, go play PTS for 3-6 hours..

No they don't, man. There are many MMO's out there that don't do weekly maintenance. They might have a maintenance once every few months.

k well by now you should be aware ESO isnt those MMO's and personally we dont have the full disclosure of information on why they do weekly maintenance, maybe they dont have the tech to handle maintenance every few months. so now there doin it every week at this time. so everyone is waiting just like you.If its such a huge pain you can always stop playing and go play something else no one is stopping you

ADarklore · August 2016

Asata wrote: »

wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »

For Akatosh's sake people. They have to do maintenance. Just like you have to defrag your computer to keep it running smooth. They have to clear caches, LUA, etc. If they only did maintenance once month, the game would be laggy and glitchy as hell. I have seen it, the times they went 3--4 weeks without maintenance. And all large MMO's have to do it. WoW was once a week and be down 8-20 hours!
Be thankful they don't have to do it twice a week anymore like they did at launch. Also, maintenance is not the same thing as "fixes", even though this is the time they use to insert fixes, but not always. So stop thinking that every maintenance is going to fix everything!
Be happy they do them regularly. If you need your ESO fix, go play PTS for 3-6 hours..

No they don't, man. There are many MMO's out there that don't do weekly maintenance. They might have a maintenance once every few months.

I don't know what MMOs you are referring to, but DCUO does maintenance EVERY morning for about 30-45 minutes. Plus, ESO doesn't have patch maintenance EVERY week, but typically after a major game update, they have to put fixes in and this is a PATCH maintenance for PC. I agree there have been a lot more frequent issues lately, and perhaps this is because they keep feeding bits and bits of One Tamriel behind the scenes and I think it's causing some unexpected issues.

@Blackleopardex Actually, they used to do PC-NA maintenance at 7AM EST, not 'at night' as you said, but now they moved it back so they are actually doing PC-NA maintenance starting around 3AM EST... so for most of us in the U.S. this works out a lot better than previous times.

Asata · August 2016

Immortal_Dark410 wrote: »

If its such a huge pain you can always stop playing and go play something else no one is stopping you

I really don't want to reply with something so inflammatory that my post will get removed by mods; so, I'll just say this: The kind of people that ever tell anyone what you just told me are the worst kinds of people. The absolute worst.

tat2mano · August 2016

Maintenance is needed,but there is to much maintenance,could also be doing it once every 2 weeks,
and i am still in the opinion that other games do more maintenance in a shorter period of time,
meaning that when other games do maintenance i see a much bigger difference in results of the maintenance and the servers arent down for that long as on eso.

Last week was a 'short" one for EU at least,about 3-4 hours if remember correctly,so lets hope its not gonna be a big one now also.

But i am not gonna complain about it as much as i did before since i got one day of eso+ extra via a support ticket last week

Going to play a bit with my Fiddlesticks,season almost ending in League and i need to get back into the game to reach Gold again,am at Silver 1 now,
1,1 Million mastery points Fiddlesticks

Ourorboros · August 2016

It's well and good that zos has scheduled maintenance. I'm sure it's needed to keep the game playable. What's disappointing is how little actually gets fixed on routine maintenance. Also disappointing is what gets fixed and what doesn't. Graphic and sound glitches seem a lower priority than, say, broken group finder or login issues. Yet it seems maintenance mostly addresses petty issues, not the bugs most complained about in forum. Yet another disappointment is how frequently routine maintenance turns into 10-12 hour delays because things went south. That does not inspire confidence in zos' technical team. And then there are the additional down times due to unexpected failures, of which there have been a higher than usual number with the latest DLC. I'd really like to know what kind of testing and QA is done before new content is released, and if anything is being done to improve on this.

I realize, and expect, various bugs and glitches with the game. It's millions of code lines, so problems are inevitable. What really pushes my button is how little zos seems to care about interruptions that go beyond 'routine maintenance'. "Thanks for your patience" is not a satisfying corporate response. I wouldn't say no to a prorate, but I think at least we should get more information about what the issues are, and what is being done to correct them.

Sheezabeast · August 2016

Asata wrote: »

Immortal_Dark410 wrote: »

If its such a huge pain you can always stop playing and go play something else no one is stopping you

I really don't want to reply with something so inflammatory that my post will get removed by mods; so, I'll just say this: The kind of people that ever tell anyone what you just told me are the worst kinds of people. The absolute worst.

gee i really can't stand when people use the phrase "kinds of people" and lump people into pedantic social categories! Generalizing is toxic.