Pseudofire wrote: »

This amount of maintenance is how much FREE TO PLAY games usually have.



If they held an EVENT where the players hunted down the BOTTERS and there were thousands of GM's online to ban them... then THAT Would be fun.

and how many "false" ban & unhappy gamers that would cause
I'l report u as bot since i dont like ya ^^

harvester100b16_ESO wrote: »

I know its sometimes fun to disagree and push posts into an all out flame war but this isn't about arguing or revolting against Zenimax its about changing the way they deal with us the consumer .and Zenimax have said they listen to the players and id still like to believe that's the case .

no one expects an mmo ever to be perfect damn even wow is buggy as hell after 10+ years if your waiting for all bugs to be fixed then maybe mmo's aren't for you. its being informed that matters to me and apparently many others.
Kudos to Zenimax for fixing so many things since launch and saying the game was released too early ..well that's something I feel every mmo ever released will be accused of

where did they say the game was released too early???

Pseudofire wrote: »

This amount of maintenance is how much FREE TO PLAY games usually have.

And just the same, players complain in the forums.

However, looking at the quality of all the previous Elder Scrolls, even with the minor bugs, I am a little disheartened with the current state of affairs.

Eventually my complaint will be read, scoffed by a fanboy, or considered by another who is irked just the same.

IN THE END... People will choose how much they can handle... is enough enough? When you are paying for a service, and you can't use it, even if you agree that you are not required compensation, it is just the RIGHT thing to give it.

When the month is up... if ZENIMAX is greedy, and they don't give some sort of compensation, I feel a lot of people will wipe their hands of the MMO.

If they held an EVENT where the players hunted down the BOTTERS and there were thousands of GM's online to ban them... then THAT Would be fun.

How many copies of the game did you sell?
How many GM's do you have ?
You should have a GM channel.
Learn from Knightonline, Diablo 2, Runes of Magic. They had great ways of dealing with hackers cheaters and botters.

ALL IT TOOK WAS PUTTING A PERSON THERE TO WATCH OR LISTEN.
100 GM accounts can't be that hard to get going.
Then 5-10 SUPER GM's to watch the GM's

GOOD luck.

3 frakkin days in a row...

Ulsterman wrote: »

Elgarr wrote: »

Yet again, the Fanboys are out trying to defend a lazy company with there downtime.

It'll be hard to understand, I know, but: there's a difference between "accepting the necessary" and "defending".

How many days i a row is necessary again?

They could have down times at 2AM

Even then there would have been people complaining. Surprise: 2am in the UK doesn't mean it's 2 am all over the world...

Around the world?
Lol Europe is not the world and not that much diff from one to another, so 2AM would be better for all in Europe (we aren't USA so don't care about what they do when they have there own server)

They could give more notice.

They notice as soon as they know. Wednesday was an emergency, and it's in the nature of emergencies to happen at short notice without prior notification.

Yeh, emergency, still tons of bots, still tons of dupes, tons of bugs so great they fixing these /NOT
I reported the never ending (soon as collected pops again) node pop a couple of days ago that was being harvested by level 3 toons, in a lvl 40 area and a wuest they use that makes them impossible to be killed by mobs, haven't even had an email from them confirming they had the report.
And it's still going on, I made a video of this also, willing to bet its still there today.

They could stick to what they posted on server page and have Tuesday+Friday the days for maintenance.

They would if there weren't any unexpected problems - but there were. The patch installation failed (Tuesday) and a developing hardware failure required an emergency maintenance (Wednesday).

Unexpected 4 days in a row,
It's become expected now which is so bad....

But as none of this is being done, don't moan when wildstar hits and more play that, as you can't play this as it down.
Like that picture someone posted said, play another game, problem is people will and end up playing it more and more and this less and less..

Don't need to say anymore, defending the indefensible when clearly most here are pissed with this, just remember one thing.
When less people play,(that free month is almost up) it means less subs, meaning less content for you, if people don't moan companies think they doing ok.

15 years of mmo's and this has just got worse as time has gone on, lack of communication is what kills games, players don't mind if devs speak to us!!

I have no objection to downtimes as long as they are constructive. However the last 3 days do not seem to have done anything. Yesterday when I could finally log back in I was met by 2 gold spammers giving it their best in global and a nice gold spam in game mail. This mail was followed by another three in the first 2hrs of gameplay (all reported). I still say in any MMO if a company is truly serious about stopping gold spam all they need is a good team of GMs. A GM can be sent in game mail and insta ban the gold spam, a GM can sit in Daggerfall for 2hrs and instaban the gold spammers in zone chat, a GM can take a tour round all the dungeons and insta ban the obvious bots.
Yes this is a temporary solution but it is effective until ZOS get their own in game sniffer bots working properly. Contrary to poular belief it does not take an army of GMs remember they are being paid to police the game it is their job, they do not need to lvl like u and me.
One last thing I have hated in all MMOs is the communication between the game and the players, maintenance both scheduled and unscheduled is a lot easier to stomach with some polite and frequent contact from customer support on forums, FB etc. Just let the players know what is happening it is called good public relations and will go a long way to keeping a happy and dedicated customer base.

Another day, another flood of whiners who would rather play a broken game...

6point6b16_ESO wrote: »

Another day, another flood of whiners who would rather play a broken game...

It's not that broken, there are still quests without bugs. But they are patching this already.

what maintainence tomorrow ?

Myschaella wrote: »

I have no objection to downtimes as long as they are constructive. However the last 3 days do not seem to have done anything.

This, +1
I was stuck in few quests and have nearly the same Problems on my second char, this time the workarounds (logging, trying in off hours, etc.) are somewhat easier but that is all that is accomplished. Trade off: bots got worse, now in low level they camp everything and run circles in select dungeons.

The low priority bugs like things not spawning, not clickable, skill delay, weapon swap not working correct, etc.etc. are all still alive and well.

For the amount of maintenance we face this is pitiful.

Keep up the Good Work

So after maintenance on the 29th, 30th and 1st, is there going to be another EU megaserver maintenance tomorrow morning on friday the 2nd, as that is one of the regularly scheduled maintenance days of the week?

May I suggest sticking to your scheduled maintenances and maybe, just maybe do a quick google search about public holidays in Europe before you bring down the server on a day when people might actually like to play instead of waiting for another unscheduled maintenance to finish that takes longer than expected (TM).

You can only play this game in breaks between maintenances.

ZOS_MichaelServotte wrote: »

Our team is working on the 1.0.6 deployment for the European megaserver. Unfortunately, some steps in the process are taking longer than expected. We are working to bring back the server online and available and will share updates with you whenever possible.

Thank you for your patience.

did you at least read this thread or simply use ctrl+c and ctrl+v to post this thrread zenimax?

Thank you for your patience.

seriously? patience? didnt u mean "for not punching us the balls?"

come on people! ZeniMax and Bethesda and whoever else is behind this.
you certainly should rethink your strategy!
be so kind and move your maintenances towards time when most ppl are asleep (starting 3 am CET would be a good idea).
having day off and not being able to log in is frustrating.
may be i should quit gaming for good and get myself a life!

and i am certainly reconsidering about cancelling my payment plan