Maintenance for the week of April 6:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – April 6
What is today's (3 Jan) maintenance for?
Beilin_Balreis_Colcan
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I hate to raise another one of those maintenance threads, but does anyone know what today's (3 Jan) maintenance is for? It's scheduled to take 8 hours, so must be fairly significant? There's no mention of it in the Maintenance or Patch Notes sub-forums.
Edited by Beilin_Balreis_Colcan on January 3, 2024 9:38AM PC(Steam) / EU / play from Melbourne, Australia / avg ping 390
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Jaraal✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It doesn't say "patch maintenance," so one would assume it's what they like to refer to as "backend" work.
My money says it will be longer than 8 hours. They have been significantly underestimating the actual length of downtime lately.6 -
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✭✭✭✭✭It doesn't say "patch maintenance," so one would assume it's what they like to refer to as "backend" work.
My money says it will be longer than 8 hours. They have been significantly underestimating the actual length of downtime lately.
AND... they extended the New Life event... which they rarely do. So perhaps they already expect the maintenance to go longer, so they wanted to pre-emptively respond to those who would be complaining about the extended maintenance shortening their event time.CP: 2105 ** ESO+ ** ~~ ***** Strictly a solo PvE quester *****
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M0ntie✭✭✭✭✭Hopefully they are again reinstating the ability to leave a group instance while in combat.3
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I'm not one of those complaining about the maintenance length, I just think it would be nice to know what it's for. I am, after all, a paying customer of the product that is currently under maintenance.It doesn't say "patch maintenance," so one would assume it's what they like to refer to as "backend" work.
My money says it will be longer than 8 hours. They have been significantly underestimating the actual length of downtime lately.
AND... they extended the New Life event... which they rarely do. So perhaps they already expect the maintenance to go longer, so they wanted to pre-emptively respond to those who would be complaining about the extended maintenance shortening their event time.PC(Steam) / EU / play from Melbourne, Australia / avg ping 3906 -
marumarumaru✭✭I've never known a game or indeed any paid-for online service to require so much maintenance, so often and for so long. Imagine if Google or Netflix was taken offline for half a day every two weeks.17
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✭✭✭Better to have maintenances to keep the game stable than no maintenances at all.PC-EU @maitsukas
Posting the Infinite Archive and Imperial City Weekly Vendor updates.
Also trying out new Main Quests, Companions, ToT decks, Events and Styles on PTS.13 -
jahaposada✭✭✭It doesn't say "patch maintenance," so one would assume it's what they like to refer to as "backend" work.
My money says it will be longer than 8 hours. They have been significantly underestimating the actual length of downtime lately.
AND... they extended the New Life event... which they rarely do. So perhaps they already expect the maintenance to go longer, so they wanted to pre-emptively respond to those who would be complaining about the extended maintenance shortening their event time.
Well....they "extended" New Life so that it would be as long as past New Life events. They can say it's because of maintenance concerns but it smells like another lack of communication as the event would have normally started a week earlier and ended yesterday.9 -
Freilauftomate✭✭✭✭I have no idea what's going on, but i hope they are going to add more server hardware, more cables for a better internet connection and a cold fusion reactor for unlimited power, so we can all have the server resources we need. And maybe next time they can call pest control to get rid of all the nasty bugs.4
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Amottica✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Maintenance does not require a patch. It is generally for equipment maintenance or code changes that do not change anything in our gameplay, hence no need for patch notes.
They tend to not tell us what is going on with maintenance and it would likely be very boring to read.
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✭✭✭✭ZOS informed us about this maintenance in advance in this thread here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/649008/new-life-festival-2023-extension/p1
Kevin partially said: "Hi Everyone! We wanted to give you a heads up that due to a scheduled maintenance for all megaservers on Wednesday, January 3rd, we are extending the New Life Festival..."
Edited by Dragonnord on January 3, 2024 12:56PM1 -
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✭✭Hamster maintenance. Got to make sure they are all healthy, no teeth issues, good weight and energy levels, tip-top fur condition, then you have to clean, check and oil the wheels that actually power the Cyrodiil servers... very time consuming.
... but yes, it is probably infrastructure maintenance. Security patches for operating systems and software components, that kind of stuff.5 -
VoidCommander✭✭✭✭✭marumarumaru wrote: »I've never known a game or indeed any paid-for online service to require so much maintenance, so often and for so long. Imagine if Google or Netflix was taken offline for half a day every two weeks.
Bro if only you played Destiny 2 in 2023. That game is REDICULOUS with the obscene amount of 20 hour maintenance periods and unscheduled outages on top of that. It gave me a profound appreciation for the relative brevity of ESO's maintenance periods. I also believe ESO tries to make an effort to do the shutdowns during low player count times as well.3 -
Rufusstan✭✭✭marumarumaru wrote: »I've never known a game or indeed any paid-for online service to require so much maintenance, so often and for so long. Imagine if Google or Netflix was taken offline for half a day every two weeks.
Back in the day, Eve was as bad if not worse. A decade ago it used to go down for an hour every day. Not sure if it is the same now; I've not plated in years.
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purple-magicb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭It's a big maintenance whatever it is. I'm eastern time, so from 4 am to 12 pm is 8 hrs. That's a long time to just be scan/defrag/clean out the server or whatever they do.
I take it in stride though. As far as I'm concerned, we're lucky the game is still in operation. It is coming up on 20 years old. To me that's a really long time.I don't comment here often but when I do, I get [snip]1 -
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✭✭✭purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »It's a big maintenance whatever it is. I'm eastern time, so from 4 am to 12 pm is 8 hrs. That's a long time to just be scan/defrag/clean out the server or whatever they do.
I take it in stride though. As far as I'm concerned, we're lucky the game is still in operation. It is coming up on 20 years old. To me that's a really long time.
10 years"Class identity isn’t just about power or efficiency. It’s about symbolic clarity, mechanical cohesion, and a shared visual and tactical language between players." - sans-culottes5 -
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✭✭Maybe they are fixing whatever is causing ping spikes and effects not to render in Infinite Archive...
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✭✭✭✭✭Pixiepumpkin wrote: »purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »It's a big maintenance whatever it is. I'm eastern time, so from 4 am to 12 pm is 8 hrs. That's a long time to just be scan/defrag/clean out the server or whatever they do.
I take it in stride though. As far as I'm concerned, we're lucky the game is still in operation. It is coming up on 20 years old. To me that's a really long time.
10 years
The architecture, engine, and assets are much older than the 10 years the game has been live.Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche3 -
JerBearESO✭✭✭✭Prolly just changing the name of Infinite Archive again....
Very Long Archive, here we come!7 -
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✭✭✭✭only have 1 intern doing the maintenance.
everybody else still recovering from Holidays
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✭✭✭✭JerBearESO wrote: »Prolly just changing the name of Infinite Archive again....
Very Long Archive, here we come!
I have it on good authority that they are implementing the final boss of the infinite archive.1 -
purple-magicb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Pixiepumpkin wrote: »purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »It's a big maintenance whatever it is. I'm eastern time, so from 4 am to 12 pm is 8 hrs. That's a long time to just be scan/defrag/clean out the server or whatever they do.
I take it in stride though. As far as I'm concerned, we're lucky the game is still in operation. It is coming up on 20 years old. To me that's a really long time.
10 years
sorry yes, lol. not 20. Thanks for that. Typo. 10 years. xD
Insightful granted for catching thatEdited by purple-magicb16_ESO on January 3, 2024 3:02PMI don't comment here often but when I do, I get [snip]0 -
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✭✭✭Cyro has been pretty much unplayable for many people I play with, for the last week or so. Hopefully this maintenance fixes that.PC NA @gariondavey, BG, IC & Cyrodiil Focused Since October 2017 Stamplar (main), Magplar, Magsorc, Stamsorc, StamDK, MagDK, Stamblade, Magblade, Magden, Stamden3 -
ZOS_KevinCommunity ManagerHi All, today's maintenance is to reboot the game servers after we come back from break. We do this kind of update annually after the studio comes back from the holiday break.Edited by ZOS_Kevin on January 3, 2024 3:16PMCommunity Manager for ZeniMax Online Studio and Elder Scrolls OnlineDev Tracker | Service Alerts | ESO Twitter34 -
miloflipper✭✭✭If it's not disclosing too many secrets, why does it take so long? Is it because you are doing an image backup of the servers before applying latest security patches and reboot? I know these backups can take several hours.All rights reserved.0
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Grendalism✭✭✭Hi All, today's maintenance is to reboot the game servers after we come back from break. We do this kind of update annually after the studio comes back from the holiday break.
So effect ‘Turn the servers off and back on again’
#ITCrowd
Though all joking aside, it’s needed to free up the memory and remove built up temporary files…Building stuff on EU-PS4 since 20153 -
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✭✭Grendalism wrote: »Hi All, today's maintenance is to reboot the game servers after we come back from break. We do this kind of update annually after the studio comes back from the holiday break.
So effect ‘Turn the servers off and back on again’
#ITCrowd
Though all joking aside, it’s needed to free up the memory and remove built up temporary files…
However the reboot must be extremely complicated if it takes this long.0 -
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✭✭Grendalism wrote: »Hi All, today's maintenance is to reboot the game servers after we come back from break. We do this kind of update annually after the studio comes back from the holiday break.
So effect ‘Turn the servers off and back on again’
#ITCrowd
Though all joking aside, it’s needed to free up the memory and remove built up temporary files…
Don't the servers effectively get rebooted every time there is a patch or hardware maintenance that requires the game to be shut down for hours?The problem with society these days is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.0
