nathanmaxtrob14_ESO wrote: »

While I'm disappointed that the servers are down at 10 PM on Saturday night, it seems that they were taken down for very serious reasons.

The reason are the same ones since release and beta. The problems have had tickets, complaints on phone, threads made. However, now that the problem is out of hand...they act. Unfortunately they decided to finally act on saturday night.

I'd just like an ETA.

I've been reading the "this game should have been in beta for ____ amount of time longer" statements for every MMO release I've taken part of in the past 10 years. Quite literally. It's always the same routine.. open beta (or a very liberal closed beta in this case) and people talk about how the game isn't ready for release. Game releases, there are still bugs, emergency maintenances to fix issues, unscheduled downtime, server lag, some things rather hindering of progress, some things not. People always claim the MMO they're currently playing at launch is the worst launch they've ever been a part of.

Truth of it is, no matter how long a game or piece of computer software is tested, it's still going to end up with bugs when it finally does release. Some things just don't surface until you have massive, massive amounts of people using the stuff. Some problems (like the large majority of what people refer to as quest bugs) are only really problems when things are congested. In the case of ESO that means some of the quests get "stuck" in certain instances of that quest. That's why relogging works so well.. the quest itself works, it's something with how it handles a ton of people doing it at once that's causing it to be wonky. Find yourself a less populated instance, and for the most part you can continue on.

There are some major bugs going on, that truly do need emergency maintenance to fix. It sucks for me, I want to play.. but at the same time I realize that maybe it would be good to fix the issue where people are randomly losing the stuff in their bank.. preferably before it hits me. I'll never be mad at any company that brings something down in order to fix problems within it. I might be irritated, sure.. or more annoyed I guess.. but that's also the nature of technology and software. Perhaps that's why I don't feel entitled to anything when something like this occurs. I accept it as part of the industry because I know it's not realistic to expect a launch with no down time (and I'm not even referring to just MMOs here).

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We'll be opening the server in just a few minutes.

Pftt. I'm mad!

I've heard that before, and it turned in to a few more hours.

Still kinda wish we'd been given an ETA.