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Maintenance vs. Witches Festival
Aca2017
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Got up just now to make use of the final 10 hours of the Witches Festival, only to discover that the Witches Festival, publicly advertised as ending at 10am on November 2, 2020. in fact ended, for all practical purposes, at 4am on November 2, 2020... due to maintenance. Could they simply have announced correct start/end dates/times for the festival? I would have assumed so, but this is not the first time this has happened, and I suspect it will not be the last... so at this point, I have the distinct impression that might be asking too much. Clearly the burden is on me to check the maintenance thread here on the forums several times daily, as a precondition to doing anything in-game.
Annoying.
From now on, I am going to pretend that the dates given for events like the Witches Festival are advisory only (in fact, not worth the cheap virtual paper they are printed on). I am going to assume that the calendar for the event is in fact not published for my benefit, so that I can organize my play time to take maximum advantage of the event, that any day (especially the final partial day) can and likely will be lost without warning due to "maintenance" or other such denial of service, and I will make sure I am done with everything I might want out of these events on the order of 24 to 48 hours early, since the published calendar is advisory only. The consequence of this is that I will be spending less time in game, but so be it.
Annoying.
From now on, I am going to pretend that the dates given for events like the Witches Festival are advisory only (in fact, not worth the cheap virtual paper they are printed on). I am going to assume that the calendar for the event is in fact not published for my benefit, so that I can organize my play time to take maximum advantage of the event, that any day (especially the final partial day) can and likely will be lost without warning due to "maintenance" or other such denial of service, and I will make sure I am done with everything I might want out of these events on the order of 24 to 48 hours early, since the published calendar is advisory only. The consequence of this is that I will be spending less time in game, but so be it.
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zaria✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭All the places says it run too the 3rd, who is a bit non standard, the official site and the countdown in the game itself.
However I assumed it ended today until I logged out in the morning.Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.1 -
bmnoble✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭The Witches Festival begins next Thursday, October 22 at 10:00AM EDT, and will run until Tuesday, November 3 at 10:00AM EST
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/58951
You still have another day.
The maintenance is for the most part them releasing Markarth.5 -
Razzledazzle_dar✭✭✭It's been announced for quite sometime now that patch maintenance for Markarth dlc would be this morning. I don't know how far in advance they had announced the exact maintenance times, but it's usually in the ballpark of this time of day AND a new dlc requires a full patch maintenance so it stands to reason that it was going to happen.
I suppose it might be a bit frustrating, but I think basically what they did is they put the time they estimated the servers to be back up after patch maintenance as the official end of the Festival, because it is the first time you can log in where the festival will not be running.AD PC/NA0 -
SeaGtGruff✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭In the past, they occasionally delayed the regular Monday maintenance (which back then was every week) until the following Tuesday if there was an event scheduled to end on that Monday.
This time it looks like they simply reversed that-- scheduled the event's starting and ending so it still lasts for 13 "ticket days" (i.e., 11 full days plus 2 partial days) but ends the day after Monday maintenance so the maintenance doesn't interfere with players' ability to grab their tickets for the last "day" of the event.I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!0 -
Bucky_13✭✭✭✭✭
✭Since the event is scheduled to end on Tuesday according to the official thread on the event, which has already been linked here. I assume that this is part of why the put out the patch on Monday, as we can still collect stuff tomorrow unless they utterly screw up the patch.
I have no idea where people got that it ended on Monday as I've seen no actual signs from ZOS that this was the case.
EDIT: a lot of previous events have ended on Tuesdays in the past, often with a patch on that day as well. I've collected tickets in that 2 hour window which is usually available to EU players a couple of times.Edited by Bucky_13 on November 2, 2020 10:10AM0 -
Nairinhe✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭SeaGtGruff wrote: »In the past, they occasionally delayed the regular Monday maintenance (which back then was every week) until the following Tuesday if there was an event scheduled to end on that Monday.
This time it looks like they simply reversed that-- scheduled the event's starting and ending so it still lasts for 13 "ticket days" (i.e., 11 full days plus 2 partial days) but ends the day after Monday maintenance so the maintenance doesn't interfere with players' ability to grab their tickets for the last "day" of the event.
That's if they don't break everything and we are unable to log in for two days after patch. But that's more of a chapter thing
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Firstmep✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Got up just now to make use of the final 10 hours of the Witches Festival, only to discover that the Witches Festival, publicly advertised as ending at 10am on November 2, 2020. in fact ended, for all practical purposes, at 4am on November 2, 2020... due to maintenance. Could they simply have announced correct start/end dates/times for the festival? I would have assumed so, but this is not the first time this has happened, and I suspect it will not be the last... so at this point, I have the distinct impression that might be asking too much. Clearly the burden is on me to check the maintenance thread here on the forums several times daily, as a precondition to doing anything in-game.
Annoying.
From now on, I am going to pretend that the dates given for events like the Witches Festival are advisory only (in fact, not worth the cheap virtual paper they are printed on). I am going to assume that the calendar for the event is in fact not published for my benefit, so that I can organize my play time to take maximum advantage of the event, that any day (especially the final partial day) can and likely will be lost without warning due to "maintenance" or other such denial of service, and I will make sure I am done with everything I might want out of these events on the order of 24 to 48 hours early, since the published calendar is advisory only. The consequence of this is that I will be spending less time in game, but so be it.
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Event ends tomorrow, not today, you can even see theres more than 1 day duration on the event if you log(obviously not now, but before).
Its literally the first thing you see when you log in to claim your daily log in reward.
[Edited to remove Baiting]Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on November 2, 2020 2:50PM3 -
Aca2017✭✭✭[snip]
Ahh yes, I am a day off! I am mollified. However, I will probably get in the habit of checking the maintenance forum "proactively", more often (daily, even). Hopefully I can give myself some lead time and avoid harboring expectations regarding access that can't be satisfied.
Now, if only this patch process would finish, quit failing and have to be restarted, etc...
Thanks.
Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on November 2, 2020 2:50PM0 -
heaven13✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Since the event is scheduled to end on Tuesday according to the official thread on the event, which has already been linked here. I assume that this is part of why the put out the patch on Monday, as we can still collect stuff tomorrow unless they utterly screw up the patch.
I have no idea where people got that it ended on Monday as I've seen no actual signs from ZOS that this was the case.
EDIT: a lot of previous events have ended on Tuesdays in the past, often with a patch on that day as well. I've collected tickets in that 2 hour window which is usually available to EU players a couple of times.
I think originally the news post said the event ended on "Monday, November 3" so there was some confusion whether it ended on Monday or on the 3rd. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7002686PC/NAMountain God | Leave No Bone Unbroken | Apex Predator | Pure Lunacy | Depths Defier | No Rest for the Wicked | In Defiance of DeathMeet my characters :
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DarcyMardin✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Yeah, it was an error that originally said it ended Mon, Nov 3rd — so the confusion is understandable. But it actually ends tomorrow.1 -
Donny_Vito✭✭✭✭✭
✭Deja Vu
Their maintenance plan seems pretty consistent, so I wouldn't plan on it changing. The events are nice, but the maintenance is important. Plan around it.Edited by Donny_Vito on November 2, 2020 12:46PM0 -
RDMyers65b14_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭As the events are just recycled over and over and over ad nauseum, the announcement date was likely not changed from the prior year except for the year itself. Don't worry, there will be another event in a few days. We spend more time in events than we do out of events. I can say that after 6 years of events, it's tedious.
This patch, however, gives us back something many of us haven't had in six years... inventory space.2 -
tmbrinks✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »As the events are just recycled over and over and over ad nauseum, the announcement date was likely not changed from the prior year except for the year itself. Don't worry, there will be another event in a few days. We spend more time in events than we do out of events. I can say that after 6 years of events, it's tedious.
This patch, however, gives us back something many of us haven't had in six years... inventory space.
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