Turelus wrote: »

"find something else to do for x hours"

*flicks peanuts at Turelus* :P

Kolzki wrote: »

My guess is that they don't split maintence of US and EU because they also have three different platforms to support in PC, Xbox and PS4. Simpler to roll out updates for one platform at a time.

Would make sense, I guess...

Turelus wrote: »

Otherwise no one has details for you as ZOS doesn't really talk about it. Most people just invent their own conspiracy "grr ZOS" theory and rant post so, dunno.

Yeah well I just wanted to understand it better as I was sure there is a good explanation (the consolidation of maintaince when done at the same time seems very plausible). The thought that ZOS would deliberately (as in a conspiracy) try to annoy it's players is of course ludicrous.

First of all look up how time zones work. With that being said ZOS is located in Baltimore, east coast of the United States. It doesn't matter where their servers are. The work they are doing, they are doing at the headquarters in Baltimore. Because this is for the entire base game, for the event which effects the entire game not just your EU server.

Like many others have already said this is an American company. And it does not matter when they do their maintenance or their updates someone somewhere on this planet is going to be affected by it.

This is nothing new. How is this still a topic every single week?

Zer0oo wrote: »

It is a business decision which probably saves money and effort for them and it seems for them worth the risk that EU players feel like "secondary" costumers. Get use to it or play another game! (Alot of new games will release soon which are worth a shot to try out)

Interesting... I'm assuming u are American?

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to the game and havent really seen the servers down for maintenance - or perhaps I just havent noticed.
How does this usually take ? I've been looking at the "Maintenance section" of the forums and nothing is stated neither about what the plan is nor about how long they expect it top be offline.

My question is why do some MMO's get away with never having maintenance and work flawless yet some like this one require maintenance on a weekly basis or stuff goes to hell?

Huyen wrote: »

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Lmao

Every company guards their product - right down to the algorithms they use to create the illusion of RNG. Server downtimes aren't exactly rocket science. It's an American company and they put the server downs when there is the least amount of traffic in the game. Not to say No Traffic in the game, just the least amount. It's not new. It's not Evil ZOS. It's what every MMO does - ask any Aussie/Kiwi and see how often they get their prime time cut in to due to server maintenance on any MMO.

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Corik wrote: »

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to the game and havent really seen the servers down for maintenance - or perhaps I just havent noticed.
How does this usually take ? I've been looking at the "Maintenance section" of the forums and nothing is stated neither about what the plan is nor about how long they expect it top be offline.

Usually 4-6 hours

R1ckyDaMan wrote: »

GW2 is never down for maintenance.

Awesome! So all those who hate downtimes and want a game that doesn't have one.. there's your ticket.

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Sorry if this topic has been discussed to death before... But I'm curious why this update time from 10 UTC has been chosen? In europe UTC 10 is either 11 or later. I think there must still be quite a good deal of players at this time. Early morning, like from 5 in the morning, would have been much much less interruptive wouldn't you think? I mean how many plays ESO at 5 in the morning?

If I have to guess then I would say it's cheaper to get technicians to run maintanence during work hours than early hours?

Aren't the EU servers located in NA? Also it makes sense that they would update a platform at a time. Not break up servers into location. Also does it matter when they do maintenance? I get home from work and an hour later it's maintenance time. It's always something for someone, somewhere. So I don't care when they do it.

And to the person who talks about how their shouldn't be any maintenance at all, always someone, just no. Rather a working game than a broken one, and ESO is already broke in some areas anyways so don't need it worse.

Yamenstein wrote: »

Jayman1000 wrote: »

MinarasLaure wrote: »

Mate if you think they don't care about Eu, you should move to Australia.
Every single maintenance is in prime time for us (6pm normally, 8pm today).

I guess I shouldn't complain, feel sorry for ya here. I assume you play on US servers? Does the distance affect your latency much?

Yes, yes it does. Which is why all Australians don't give a #@$& when some American streamer complains about the latency being 100.

100, wow. I wish mine was 100.
I'm 300-400

LordGavus wrote: »

Yamenstein wrote: »

Jayman1000 wrote: »

MinarasLaure wrote: »

Mate if you think they don't care about Eu, you should move to Australia.
Every single maintenance is in prime time for us (6pm normally, 8pm today).

I guess I shouldn't complain, feel sorry for ya here. I assume you play on US servers? Does the distance affect your latency much?

Yes, yes it does. Which is why all Australians don't give a #@$& when some American streamer complains about the latency being 100.

100, wow. I wish mine was 100.
I'm 300-400

Tell me about it. People complaining about the latency spikes recently. Pfft. I used to get 270ish. But now 95% of the time I play ESO it's 320ish with spikes to 999+