Are you aware that there are many different time zones, right? Not every human on this planet lives in Australia. I'm from central Europe and I'm happy about maintenance times (10 am my time).
Yeah, getting really sick of the maintenance: I mean I speak as a newbie to both ESO and MMOs so I'm not really up to date with what to expect, but what I expect is to play stuff when I want to play it, not to find it's offline for most of a day every week, usually with little warning and no updates until it's done hours later. And that there's never anything to show for it.As I mentioned elsewhere, coming from the world of data-centres where availability was paramount, I'm a bit surprised.
Guess I'm surprised: partly surprised because I dunno why gamers put up with that sort of downtime; and surprised because my life as a sysadmin involved being yelled at quite a lot if things weren't going awesomely. I've even received phone calls on my private number calling me unrepeatable things. Which I'm obviously isn't saying it excusable conduct but I think I have a better understanding of users becoming irate than I do of sysadmins saying "it'll be down whenever I want and for as long as I want, and I owe you no explanation". If I'd taken that sort of attitude I'd have sacked myself for gross unprofessionalism.Ydrisselle wrote: »Every MMO has server maintenance, it's longer for some and shorter for others. ESO's maintenance tends to be longer than usual this days; however I remember WoW patches which killed the servers for 24 hours, and then an additional 6-8 hours twice within a week.
Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »So, in Australia, maintenance is from late afternoon until midnight every Tuesday now. That makes the game unplayable every tuesday because we have jobs.
This is really bumming me out, especially as this tuesday happens to be my birthday. Go back to fortnightly maintenance, this weekly BS is taking away an irritating chunk of my game time.
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Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »
Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »So, in Australia, maintenance is from late afternoon until midnight every Tuesday now. That makes the game unplayable every tuesday because we have jobs.
This is really bumming me out, especially as this tuesday happens to be my birthday. Go back to fortnightly maintenance, this weekly BS is taking away an irritating chunk of my game time.
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I dunno whether in spite of or because of my experience as a sysadmin I'm very surprised about how many people are totally okay with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE