Me thinks they'd need a bit more than six hours to do "all" that. Appreciate the effort to toe the line, but I cannot ting of any other XBox game that requires this amount of downtime to supposedly deliver what it originally advertised to do. I might be minded of re-minding Microsoft of their contract terms.

I am fed up of paying £90 a year, plus whatever the latest "Chapter" (i.e. re-hire the same vo actors and replay the same story) costs in that time period to a company that COMPLETELY ignores their players' concerns and is ONLY interested in monetizing as much of its playing contents as possible.

Fallout 3 was great. Fallout 4 started the downward trend. ESO took it to a new extent. Fallout 76 destroyed the whole franchise. Great job, guys.

I don't think they made an excuse last time except that there were non-descript 'issues'. I have no reason to doubt that's the truth, as much as I would love the details, its understandable that they don't release them. They would most likely be really boring. I imagine it's a lot of logs from unit tests and not much else.

The servers aren't down because ZOS hates you or the players, they are down because the current infrastructure demands it.
Now, there probably is huge room for improvement in this regard (impossible to tell without details), and why there doesn't appear to be a push to exploit that is another can of worms.
From experience I can tell you this: If ZOS doesn't have anything good to say, they prefer to stay quiet.

This has been the case since before console launch, I can't imagine Microsoft didn't know about it when they approved it.

Also server maintenance doesn't really have anything to do with buggy game content. Although everything is being held together by duct tape, they at least used different rolls for the two.

Also, also, ESO is older than fallout 4... get your history right.

TL;DR Takes long time because server no good.

Players: Take the servers offline and fix them!

ZOS: Okay. /takes the servers offline to fix them

Players: wait no not like that

pyd wrote: »

DLCs have been released that did not pass BASIC mustard

This was a new one for me 🧐

The phrase is “pass muster.”

There are absolutely no condiments Meant to be associated with this phrase. 😝

Hey Mr. DLC, pass me the mustard please.
Thank you very much.

FierceSam wrote: »

On one hand ... why the f have they removed the status banner from the forum topic page?

That seems to be a forum bug. Oddly enough, it came back for me for about 2 hours, then went away. Meantime, it is always there for me if I look in Categories.

Please don't complain about glitches, lag, or performance in general if you are also going to complain about maintenance. The only way that the servers can be fixed and all of those glitches and performance issues can be addressed, is by doing maintenance and updates. I understand that it can be really annoying when you want to play and can't, especially when you are paying for the game, but it is an MMO, and it is on a mega server. These things take time, and as long as things are heading in the right direction we should support the maintenance.
Just think about how long it takes to transfer a one gb file on your computer, a couple seconds right? now multiply that by 100 or a 1000, because I imagine these updates/patches/bug fixes/maintenance files are absolutely massive. Then they need to run some tests on the server to make sure the update worked and didn't break everything. These things take time. When they are actively trying to improve the game, we as a player base, really should cut them some slack.

(want to complain about things that still don't work or are completely unbalanced? Go right ahead, I'll be there complaining too, but when it comes to ZOS trying to fix these things we complain about, well it might be time to say "thank you for finally listening to us" and try to be patient)

Why is there is common misconception that maintenance has anything to do with fixing glitches and bugs?

Routine maintenance is not uncommon in MMOs.

@Elsonso Call me a cynic but technically updating the firmware on a router is "backend infrastructure work".

It can't exactly be denied that the infrastructure was already questionable when the game came out and it was barely attempted to upgraded it to more modern standards until rather recently. As such it does appear to get worse in comparison to everything else.

Well, supposedly being an optimist is good for you. Let's hope.

Love you all, you're a great community. Please stay safe.