PC Maintenance during European Day time ALWAYS
Onyx_Werewolf_Gnome
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Split the times you fix our PC servers & move ours (EUROPEAN)to a few hours earlier. It wouldn't kill you. We pay the same price for ESO Plus but get constant DAY TIME downtime unlike American customers. Or try taking the American servers off line every day during the day time after an update, then every week for 'regular maintenance' see how well they take it.
They get the early hours of the morning we get post breakfast
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Edited by ZOS_ConnorG on June 5, 2021 10:09AM They get the early hours of the morning we get post breakfast
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ShawnLaRock✭✭✭✭✭
✭Err... this one seems new to me, as it is quote-unquote prime morning hours in NA.
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Amottica✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭While I think some games I played did have maintenance at times more favorable with the local server time, it has not always been the case. My guess is they do not want to work at night. Granted it is more convenient for them to work both servers at the same time.1 -
Onyx_Werewolf_Gnome✭✭✭✭While I think some games I played did have maintenance at times more favorable with the local server time, it has not always been the case. My guess is they do not want to work at night. Granted it is more convenient for them to work both servers at the same time.
They are working at night - on the American servers but not for Europeans.
Americans wake up to we've done some server fixing. Europeans wake up to we are fixing your servers during European day time so as not to inconvenience the minority of our player base in N America.10 -
DreamyLu✭✭✭✭✭
✭Well, I'm European and can play during "my" day only, that does match exactly with maintenance times!
For me, maintenance means one day without the game. Annoying but well, I don't care. There is a life outside ESO!
I mean, no matter the time of the maintenance, it will always bother someone...
I'm out of my mind, feel free to leave a message... PC/NA4 -
MajThorax✭✭✭✭✭Thank the divines, zos does maintenance frequently and I can study a bit for my exams.3 -
GenjiraX✭✭✭✭✭As long as they get rid of the embarrassing boy-oyng when collecting Daily Rewards, I'll be happy no matter what time of day they take the servers down.2
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ApoAlaia✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Maintenance downtime, planned or unplanned, should be a thing of the past.
Something to reminisce over like that day when Lord British was felled.
If any downtime occurs should only be due to a catastrophic failure.
However for as long as a sizeable portion of the customer base is of the 'this is how it should be because this is how it always has been' mindset, an unsurprisingly common one in our species, it won't change.6 -
davidtk✭✭✭✭✭Well, I'm European and can play during "my" day only, that does match exactly with maintenance times!
For me, maintenance means one day without the game. Annoying but well, I don't care. There is a life outside ESO!
I mean, no matter the time of the maintenance, it will always bother someone...
Yes, i totaly agree. Thanks to my work and these maintenence i discovered life outside ESO... mm better graphics, no lags, etc
so thanks to ZOS for Bugwood... Edited by davidtk on June 5, 2021 6:22AMReally sorry for my english0 -
Dekibra✭✭while I can understand that the time is rather inconvenient for Europeans (hello from Germany ) it is still better compared to the schedules of other games (SWTOR always takes the servers down in the European afternoon - which for me at least is way more inconvenient than morning or noon)
and thankfully they do maintenance at all like this (again, other games seem to care less to fix bugs)PC-EU1 -
Gythral✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭It's not the time that gets me (mostly), it's the number of times for issues that should have been seen and resolved before going 'live' that really gets to me!“Be as a tower, that, firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy3 -
Xorxe✭✭✭Hey Microsoft, I tought that you are some big company or something. I thought you have a lot of servers. Maybe you should look at these clowns and teach them what 99.99 availability means. It's your most successful game after all :-)3 -
ResidentContrarian✭✭✭✭✭Hey Microsoft, I tought that you are some big company or something. I thought you have a lot of servers. Maybe you should look at these clowns and teach them what 99.99 availability means. It's your most successful game after all :-)
Come now, there is no need for that. No one can predict the future or hardware failure.
After the COVID pandemic, the quality of hardware and software has dropped significantly for many things as well.
Why get angry at them for factors that may be out of their control?
Downtime sucks, yes. But if you lost everything to a hardware or software bug, I am sure you would prefer the downtime every time.
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Basically...
The release of something as huge as a new chapter, is going to require smoothing out some creases. I've been holding off playing it in any decent slots of time since its release because like many others, I'm very aware that there will need to be bug fixes, which is to be expected. No release is perfect off the bat.
Go outside. Play another game. Do something inappropriate with a grapefruit and a cheese grater. LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE.
it will all be okay in the end.In my defence, I've been left unsupervised.0 -
Onyx_Werewolf_Gnome✭✭✭✭To all the people condescendingly telling any Euro type who complains about having daytime maintenance while the N Americans are treated better & have it done in the early hours of the morning to get a life outside the game.
Firstly I'm a qualified nurse what Americans call an RN. I have a life, & in the past year & half a lot more death than usual too so I don't need your condescension.
Secondly If your argument if it can be called that is correct it is shameful the Zos are not giving the N Americans daytime maintenance so they can experience real life too.
All players are equal but some players are more equal than others9 -
Wow✭✭✭✭✭Their maintenance always hit Oceanic prime timeI'm a Godot & GameMaker enthusiast from Java, Indonesia (the most populated island on earth).
Coffee is my fuel, Durian is my fruit. ☕+🍈
Currently building: Sentou Gakuen: Revival (An MMO Visual Novel)
Founder: Jepang.org (Indonesian Japanese Learning Portal)2 -
MasterWarrior✭✭✭The maintenance is 3 hours, not the whole day. It might even be up a little earlier. Yes, annoying if you're in the EU but it's better to fix the bugs in this game so when you do play you don't lose companion gear after spending few hundred thousand gold at the guild store.1
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ForeverJenn✭✭✭People acting like NA players don't play in the middle of the night and aren't affected sometimes too....smh.0
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Wow✭✭✭✭✭MasterWarrior wrote: »The maintenance is 3 hours, not the whole day. It might even be up a little earlier. Yes, annoying if you're in the EU but it's better to fix the bugs in this game so when you do play you don't lose companion gear after spending few hundred thousand gold at the guild store.
That 3 hours hit right at the Oceanic prime time for playing gamesI'm a Godot & GameMaker enthusiast from Java, Indonesia (the most populated island on earth).
Coffee is my fuel, Durian is my fruit. ☕+🍈
Currently building: Sentou Gakuen: Revival (An MMO Visual Novel)
Founder: Jepang.org (Indonesian Japanese Learning Portal)0 -
Alphawolf01A✭✭✭✭✭Herr_Flocke wrote: »
Yeah, but it has no replayability, the story is dull with a lot of grinding and the NPCs suck. LOL2 -
xuvvy✭✭What's worse is that these announcements are made less than 24h before a maintenance, often less than 12h before and between 2AM and 4AM when most of the European playerbase is asleep. And then the actual maintenance is when most of the European playerbase actually wants to play the game.
ZOS, this is a terrible development practice.2 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭What's worse is that these announcements are made less than 24h before a maintenance, often less than 12h before and between 2AM and 4AM when most of the European playerbase is asleep. And then the actual maintenance is when most of the European playerbase actually wants to play the game.
ZOS, this is a terrible development practice.
Because they are not planned. The planned maintenance is announced. In fact it is scheduled the same time when the weekly maintenance is needed. If there are four maintenance events during a particular week three of them are hot to fix something they feel can't wait until the scheduled maintenance.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."1 -
Xebov✭✭✭✭✭
✭US companies generally care less about european customers. For them its important how they are seen in their home region. Thats important for the financial market, but also because custome rrights in the US can bvary heavily. So for the US they create the illusion of a Service that has a good uptime and is rarely unavailable. This however creates the problems for europeans.5 -
kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭US companies generally care less about european customers. For them its important how they are seen in their home region. Thats important for the financial market, but also because custome rrights in the US can bvary heavily. So for the US they create the illusion of a Service that has a good uptime and is rarely unavailable. This however creates the problems for europeans.
It is a global economy. Every market is important to companies that want to continue to grow. No matter when they do the maintenance there will be players that have their play interrupted. There is no way to avoid it.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."2 -
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✭HedgehogFeet wrote: »US companies generally care less about european customers. For them its important how they are seen in their home region. Thats important for the financial market, but also because custome rrights in the US can bvary heavily. So for the US they create the illusion of a Service that has a good uptime and is rarely unavailable. This however creates the problems for europeans.
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Or maybe, because it's a US company, they have to be able to do their regular daily business within regular US business hours and things like server maintenance have to be scheduled during times that don't impact that, save for urgent situations. You all act like this billion-dollar corporation has nothing else it has to do but keep the ESO servers running [snip]
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Onyx_Werewolf_Gnome✭✭✭✭HedgehogFeet wrote: »US companies generally care less about european customers. For them its important how they are seen in their home region. Thats important for the financial market, but also because custome rrights in the US can bvary heavily. So for the US they create the illusion of a Service that has a good uptime and is rarely unavailable. This however creates the problems for europeans.
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Or maybe, because it's a US company, they have to be able to do their regular daily business within regular US business hours and things like server maintenance have to be scheduled during times that don't impact that, save for urgent situations. You all act like this billion-dollar corporation has nothing else it has to do but keep the ESO servers running [snip]
They schedule it for the early hour of the morning US time. Starting a few hours earlier for hours would in no way impact regular daily business.
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