I see lots of posts about angry players dealing with downtime. The responses to them are 'look at the schedule', 'it's needed', and the useless 'If you don't like it go play something else'. I've posed this question before, but why can't ESO patch in place. I know it it's possible. There is a game with a multi-million user player base that has little downtime because they patch in place. They add content, fix quests, reset things that need resetting all while users are playing the game. The worst that happens is you have to re-log to get the updated game version. Why isn't patching in place for ESO a possibility? Apologists, please don't respond with this is a different game. We're talking server technologies. Not game mechanics. I think accepting that there will just be downtime with all MMOs lets game makers off the hook from considering alternate ways to handle maintenance. There are better ways to do this so why aren't you?