Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
Just for my understanding: What actually takes so long?
Xaxoon
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Hi,
I'm interested in which part of the maintenance takes so much time. Are there parts of the program code to be changed in the last minute, bacause it was not well testet? Or something had to be changed on the hardware? Maybe because some harddrive failures or something like this? I really would like to know, what is going on there for so many hours, every week?
Just tell us, maybe we feel better, if we know whats going on, and we could understand. Or is that a big secret?
Edited by Xaxoon on August 22, 2016 6:15PM I'm interested in which part of the maintenance takes so much time. Are there parts of the program code to be changed in the last minute, bacause it was not well testet? Or something had to be changed on the hardware? Maybe because some harddrive failures or something like this? I really would like to know, what is going on there for so many hours, every week?
Just tell us, maybe we feel better, if we know whats going on, and we could understand. Or is that a big secret?
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Amsel_McKay✭✭✭✭✭Hi,
I'm interested in what part of the maintenance takes so much time. Are there parts of the program code to be changed in the last minute, bacause it was not well testet? Or something had to be changed on the hardware? Maybe because some harddrive failures or something like this? I really would like to know, what is going on there for so many hours, every week?
Just tell us, maybe we feel better, if we know whats going on, and we could understand. Or is that a big secret?
ESO and testing? This is how they test a patch, put it on the PC server and see if it works...6 -
Lyrebon✭✭✭ZoS never really explain, but for a 96Mb patch it really shouldn't take >9 hours every week. Personally I think their staff isn't as competent as other gaming companies and it takes so long because they run into issues.6 -
wayfarerx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭With a project this size the list of things that could go wrong is so long that it would be impossible to summarize all of it in any concise fashion.ZoS never really explain, but for a 96Mb patch it really shouldn't take >9 hours every week. Personally I think their staff isn't as competent as other gaming companies and it takes so long because they run into issues.
The size of the client patch has exactly zero bearing on what they are doing to the servers.@wayfarerx - PC / North America / Aldmeri Dominion6 -
Agobi✭✭✭✭✭
✭Here is some actual footage of what happened in the server room earlier...brace yourselves
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LuxEtVeritas✭✭Just got an update: We're still working on the outstanding issue that has resulted in an extended maintenance window for the EU and NA PC/Mac servers. At this time, the maintenance window has been extended to 4PM EDT. If that gets pushed out further, we'll let you know.
Edited by ZOS_JessicaFolsom on August 22, 2016 6:01PM
thats a quote ^^
Edited by LuxEtVeritas on August 22, 2016 6:20PM1 -
Amsel_McKay✭✭✭✭✭No, i am serious. I really would like to know.
No really they don't know... they put in the patch and the server will spit something out like: Syntax failed on line 3028 and they have to go in and figure that out... Like I said the PC server is their first server to get the patches in a real environment because PTS is not even close to the real server.2 -
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✭Last I heard, it was due to them finding the bug that was causing all the disconnects *shrugs*
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Lyrebon✭✭✭With a project this size the list of things that could go wrong is so long that it would be impossible to summarize all of it in any concise fashion.ZoS never really explain, but for a 96Mb patch it really shouldn't take >9 hours every week. Personally I think their staff isn't as competent as other gaming companies and it takes so long because they run into issues.
The size of the client patch has exactly zero bearing on what they are doing to the servers.
And yet no other gaming company have these issues...
Warcraft, arguably a bigger worldspace and larger sever, takes no more than 15mins to 4 hours per maintenance. The extreme end of which is due to errors in the new code or extremely large patches. So what ZoS do for 9-12 hours every Monday is beyond me.
"Small update" that takes 5-6 hours to implement - "Oh we've run into an error." *fives hours later* "Still fixing it, brah."4 -
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✭✭it's the hamsters.... no, really it is.
they let them out to romp around the field but can they get them back in?0 -
Xaxoon✭✭✭With a project this size the list of things that could go wrong is so long that it would be impossible to summarize all of it in any concise fashion.ZoS never really explain, but for a 96Mb patch it really shouldn't take >9 hours every week. Personally I think their staff isn't as competent as other gaming companies and it takes so long because they run into issues.
The size of the client patch has exactly zero bearing on what they are doing to the servers.
And yet no other gaming company have these issues...
Warcraft, arguably a bigger worldspace and larger sever, takes no more than 15mins to 4 hours per maintenance. The extreme end of which is due to errors in the new code or extremely large patches. So what ZoS do for 9-12 hours every Monday is beyond me.
"Small update" that takes 5-6 hours to implement - "Oh we've run into an error." *fives hours later* "Still fixing it, brah."
I sometimes think, that they simply doing something wrong. But these are professionals (i guess), so it must be due to poor equipment ...Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen!0 -
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CombatPrayer✭✭✭✭So I'm realizing .... for NA players Mondays are pretty much a no go for ESO unless you play in the evening? Yes?6 -
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✭people are not getting 10+ awesome for posting maintenance memes
@ZOS_GinaBruno this means the maintenance lasted way too long0 -
nordsavage✭✭✭✭✭Cut them some slack. Coding for Dummies is at least an inch thick book and it doesn't have pictures.I didn't choose tank life, tank life chose me.11 -
Lyrebon✭✭✭I sometimes think, that they simply doing something wrong. But these are professionals (i guess), so it must be due to poor equipment ...
Or incompetence. Just because you're employed in a certain industry, doesn't make you an expert within it. Case in point: Guy I worked with was supposed to be an electrical engineer... I saw the problem literally thirty seconds into looking at the circuit (that he'd spent the last three hours contemplating), questioned why he hadn't placed a diode in this position and he gave me a blank look and asked what a diode was. I just stared at him waiting for the punchline but, sadly, it never came. Guy was dead serious.5 -
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✭nordsavage wrote: »Cut them some slack. Coding for Dummies is at least an inch thick book and it doesn't have pictures.
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✭psst I think it's up
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GeneralPardon✭✭✭Stop referring to the clientside patch size.
If this update has more impact on the serverside than clientside the serverside patch is much bigger.
Clientside patch size has nothing to do with the serversCP10+nMA nDSA nSO nAA nHRC nMoL nHoF nAS2 -
Kaspar✭✭✭From the patch notes:
Miscellaneous
General:
•Fixed an issue that was causing the game to crash for some players, ultimately causing unexpected server downtime.
OMG! It's our fault!
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