Morrawind wrote: »

Doing 'maintenance' during EU day time will not make customers happy anyway. Its not bad to make customers pay for your service but then at least try to take them serious.

Should have been done around 1am not 5. That way it does not have as much impact on the wide eu time zone. Especially as it is a holiday. Either way staff are working out of normal hours. Late evening instead of early morning but besides this has nothing to do with staffing convenience and everything to do with customer service.

epoling wrote: »

It seems to be fixing problems that people are complaining about. The fact that they are doing this when they are says that the devs have been working all weekend to address these issues. Show a little appreciation for that. You may have one day of your holiday messed up- they had the whole weekend messed up.

Yes we should all bow down in appreciation for those amazing devs.
They are actually working for their paying subscribers ?, this must be a new level of industry standard never seen before...

another classic decison form Zen, lets take the server down over the easter holidays. Well done guys, yes i know there are issues that need fixing but i'm sure we'd all prefer you to do them while we are at work tomorrow and not while we are all off today.

anyway, i'm getting used to seeing the sever down notice and to be honest i'm not surprised anymore by it. Looks like i'll have to talk tot he wife or do some form of exercise this morning then...thanks!!!

Every time I go to play this freaking game the servers are down... This is really starting to bug me.

Kyle_Roberts wrote: »

Everyone cries and moans like *** about bugs... they take the servers down at a reasonable time to fix them, not "prime time" like I keep seeing people say (Since when has 5AM monday morning been a prime time?) and people still moan and cry like ***, those moaning need to get a grip its a game not a way of life...

my time is 9:0 am easter monday holyday so it's not prime time for you but it is for me to play

We are all paying for a BETA, this game is wonderful, but has way to many issues and bugs that should have been resolved. I hope they don't have these types of issues on the consoles, because players there won't be forgiving.

This game is pissing me off . Like it , want to play it . But this is ridiculous 4 downt times in 1 week en now the new week we start with down time . They schould give us or missing days back . And the ingame support is almost a laugh they only send the same standard letter we now of the problem looking in to it .

Kyle_Roberts wrote: »

they take the servers down at a reasonable time to fix them, not "prime time" like I keep seeing people say (Since when has 5AM monday morning been a prime time?)

Well, this particular Monday is a public holiday practically in every European country.

Not to comment on the subject of down time itself, just to correct the assumption that this is just another Monday morning.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

At this time, we are doing the scheduled maintenance one day early, and tomorrow's maintenance is taking the place of the regular maintenance on Tuesday.

@ZOS_GinaBruno‌

I appreciate that you might well of been working long hours, but you really should be aware that for a large part of the world, given the time of your post, your reference to tomorrow means Tuesday. I would hope as a forum mod, you would realise this and how terms like tomorrow and yesterday are going to vary internationally.

@‌Guizan

Very insightful map, hope the ZO pays attention.

If you wanted to get less people complaining about the very frequent maintainance , you really need to start posting estimated times for the server to be back up and running or at least a minimum time it might be down for. That way a large portion of people will go and find sometime else to do rather than looking through the forums trying to work out how long they have to wait for the game.

ola.wilhelmssonb16_ESO wrote: »

The fact that they are patching and doing maintenance today, probably means that the tech staff over at Zenimax has worked rather long hours, all through easter to fix things)

Most of America doesn't 'do' Easter, in most parts AIUI Friday and today are nothing special work-wise, certainly my friends in the US worked normally both days.

I also feel like we are paying for a beta game... I like the game tho, but 3-4 down times a week is a bit much. A shame they went live to early.

It's been down 3 time in the last 4 days, really not good.

This game really does feel like a pay to play beta.

KerinKor wrote: »

SirJesto wrote: »

they announce that they are doing maintenance a day early and list quite a number of fixes in the patch notes, including the said loading screen bug,

Actually, no, the loading screen bug is NOT in the patch notes!

I agree it's annoying but playing late yesterday was painful so as long as they DO fix it then it's okay I guess.

Actually it is in the patch notes.

Correction du problème des écrans de chargements figés lors du changement de zone ou de région.

This is from the 1.05 French notes, which I read first as it was posted first.
Google translate it if you like.
It just wasn't copied over into the English patch notes.

Oh hey Hi Australia,
*** you!
ZOS

Since the schedule maintenance was tomorrow and reading the patch notes, it feels this could have waited til tomorrow since it is Easter weekend here in Europe, so most players are free to play the game. Had it been a fix to counter the bots/exploits, I would have galdly waited but this is poor planning from their side.

yeah lots of quests are bugged so can't complete them which inder game play but it could have waited a day for this update.
Also give players a more head up and easier way to see when planned or unplanned downtime will be.
more easy accessable info.