6 Hours, really?

ThePlacidHatter · September 2021

What has to be going wrong at a company for them to schedule a 6 hour maintenance window on the last day of an event.
Madness.

grkkll · September 2021

not for the first time, they should just install what is required to switch off the event (at 14:00 bst?) and save the rest for next Monday

redlink1979 · September 2021

ThePlacidHatter wrote: »

What has to be going wrong at a company for them to schedule a 6 hour maintenance window on the last day of an event. (...)

Yesterday's maintenance needs a maintenance. At least, on EU.

ghost_bg_ESO · September 2021

new technology been implemented now and future patches:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage

Asardes · September 2021

Maintenanception

colossalvoids · September 2021

It's almost (?) always a thing, plus new cold storage works as planned so nothing to be surprised about.

Ballermfrau · September 2021

ghost_bg_ESO wrote: »

new technology been implemented now and future patches:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage

Do you know what growing larger means? Better performance during prime time is obviously what I want to hear hehe.

Kaelthorn_Nightbloom · September 2021

Watching power supply videos on Gamers Nexus, passing the time.

Server up yet?

ghost_bg_ESO · September 2021

Ballermfrau wrote: »

ghost_bg_ESO wrote: »

new technology been implemented now and future patches:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage

Do you know what growing larger means? Better performance during prime time is obviously what I want to hear hehe.

don't know, don't care. it is what it is...
i prefer not to hope for performance improvements, if by any chance happens it will be bonus surprise.

WuffyCerulei · September 2021

I'd rather have a game where they do scheduled maintenance and keep everyone updated instead of a game where the devs couldn't give a single frick about their game and let it fall apart cuz patches only come once in a blue moon. Maintenance comes with MMOs. Best to just accept it instead of whine about it.

James-Wayne · September 2021

Yep another day where I miss the dailies due to timezone

Berdusk · September 2021

Reposting for visibility:

I don't mind losing 6 hours to the event time. That's fine.

I don't mind it being on the last night of the event. I mean, okay, not ideal, but whatever...

What I do mind is the event being described as running until 10 AM EDT and running maintenance on the last night of the event from 4 AM to 10 AM EDT.

Just announce that the event will be running until 4 AM EDT so I can schedule my time around that. Now I'm out the last event ticket because of unannounced maintenance, where if I'd known the event was ending in its entirety at that time, I would have stopped leveling my alt sooner and just done that last IC quest for the ticket.

I don't mind the last-minute maintenance, but if it has to be done then it should not run through the event's final hours - or the event should be extended for a short time to give players a chance to wrap up whatever they were working on before the unscheduled maintenance occurred.

I won't hold my breath for either, but it seems like the decent thing to do.

nightstrike · September 2021

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

I'd rather have a game where they do scheduled maintenance and keep everyone updated instead of a game where the devs couldn't give a single frick about their game and let it fall apart cuz patches only come once in a blue moon. Maintenance comes with MMOs. Best to just accept it instead of whine about it.

There's nothing wrong with having maintenance. There's something wrong with the time slot they chose compared to the time of the event.

NeKryXe · September 2021

nightstrike wrote: »

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

I'd rather have a game where they do scheduled maintenance and keep everyone updated instead of a game where the devs couldn't give a single frick about their game and let it fall apart cuz patches only come once in a blue moon. Maintenance comes with MMOs. Best to just accept it instead of whine about it.

There's nothing wrong with having maintenance. There's something wrong with the time slot they chose compared to the time of the event.

I was able to pick both event tickets yesterday and prepared everything to pick the last two tickets fast because I knew that I wouldn't have much time today to play.

There was NO ALERT on the maintenance for today. So, I came a few minutes ago just to pick fast the last two tickets and return to work, and found out that they decided to do a stupid maintenance during the last hours of the event.

They could have schedule it for tomorrow or something. This is really wrong and stupid!

If they can't keep the their word on the time scheduled for the events, at least they should kill the stupid ticket system.

Doc45 · September 2021

It's the regularly scheduled bi-weekly maintenance isn't it (delayed a day due to Labor Day holiday in the US)? Shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone. I do wonder why ZOS wouldn't just make the event length a day shorter to avoid the complaints, but am sure someone could come up with a complaint for it lasting 11 days instead of 12. Maybe threads about being forced to do both crag/wrothgaar and IC to obtain more than one ticket per day to reach the 12 that can be held at a time. They could make the event 13 days in length, but there'd surely be someone complaining they didn't realize the max that could be held was 12, so they lost out on the 13th they were owed.

Regardless, complainers gotta complain just as hoarders gotta hoard (am in the latter category).

Asardes · September 2021

I was anticipating this situation so I kept 2 quests ready for turn in today on EU and NA as well, at least I managed to get my final tickets just before the servers went down for maintenance.

Red_Feather · September 2021

ghost_bg_ESO wrote: »

new technology been implemented now and future patches:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage

Oh that looks promising. I am glad the game is getting updated in these ways. Hope it helps.

NeKryXe · September 2021

Doc45 wrote: »

(delayed a day due to Labor Day holiday in the US)? Shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone.

WTH!?? I wonder how many people in the world would guess this stupidity. In that case they should have done the event shorter to not privilege some players over others.

FrancisCrawford · September 2021

ThePlacidHatter wrote: »

What has to be going wrong at a company for them to schedule a 6 hour maintenance window on the last day of an event.
Madness.

The "last day of the event" part is what's pretty silly. They should just postpone maintenance until the event has ended. Alternatively, the event could have been scheduled to end Wednesday.

Doc45 · September 2021

It's an assumption that it was delayed a day due to Labor Day. Bi-weekly maintenance is bi-weekly maintenance. The previous EU maintenance was unplanned due to a hardware issue. Today's was not. Sure, they could have mentioned it would be a day later than usual (as is often the case with holidays) or shortened the event to prevent these types of threads. They knew maintenance was coming, and notification wasn't last minute. Scheduled maintenance occurs every two weeks.

Not sure how some players were privileged over others, but can't please everyone all of the time or schedule maintenance that occurs every two weeks at a time that's suitable for everyone. I'm online now. This is my normal playing time. Maintenance affects me every two weeks. I just see it as necessary and not something to complain about. I do other things during the time, like read the forums and comment.

James-Wayne · September 2021

Red_Feather wrote: »

ghost_bg_ESO wrote: »

new technology been implemented now and future patches:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/585513/upcoming-work-for-sharding-cold-storage

Oh that looks promising. I am glad the game is getting updated in these ways. Hope it helps.

Dont get too excited they have been saying this for years and years

ZOS_Volpe · September 2021

Hey there,

Due to there already being a thread discussing the maintenance time frame, we are going to close this down so that you may continue the discussion here.

Thank you for your understanding.