Why such a long Maintenance?

Grendalism · April 28

PS server maintenance on 29th April…why the whole day (almost?).
04:00-22:00 UTC…5am to 11pm UK….6am to midnight Central Europe!

Starts before I wake up, and ends after I’ve gone to bed…WHY SO LONG?….and what are you doing to address that the majority of players will lose a days endevours/daily login gift/days activity?

..it’d be too late for a routine Trial to occur…

…the length of scheduled time alone suggests major activity, which (based on previous experience) may very well overrun…

fizl101 · April 28

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/677003/maintenance-on-ps-megaservers-april-29-12-00am-edt-4-00-utc#latest

MidniteOwl1913 · April 29

Yes it sucks. I too lose a day. I imagine most people not on the east coast of the US will lose a significant amount of play time. It would be nice if they rotated the loss of play by starting in the prime time for the east coast every once in a while.

Destai · April 29

It would be really nice if they gave a lot more context into why these take so long. Would go a lot further than “thanks for your patience”.

ADarklore · April 29

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Yes it sucks. I too lose a day. I imagine most people not on the east coast of the US will lose a significant amount of play time. It would be nice if they rotated the loss of play by starting in the prime time for the east coast every once in a while.

Well, considering the staff is on the east coast, they probably don't want to have to work over night- as they'd probably have to pay overtime for that.

Destai wrote: »

It would be really nice if they gave a lot more context into why these take so long. Would go a lot further than “thanks for your patience”.

They explained that "... we are bringing down PS NA and PS EU megaservers for backend database upgrades." The fact that they are doing 'backend database upgrades' involves is a lot more than the typical maintenance routine.

Rittings · April 29

I remember them saying that they did a big update a while back that would reduce the need for long maintenances and reduce the number required…. Anyone else? Just another bumfluff promise that has transpired to be another lie?

Like others… I’ll miss my daily reward, endeavours and the fact I pre make crafting writs and will have wasted mats. It’s ridiculous. At the very least time these things with the rest of the world players once in a while… heck we even pay more for ESO plus 3 month subs too because math is too hard to figure it out.

ElderOfTamriel · April 29

Honestly, whats a day without beeing able to play ESO? Im sure yall can survive a day without playing a video game and the rewards honestly arent really a big loss since the "pricy" or "wanted" rewards are mostly around the middle of the month. Youll probably loose 5k gold and 150 seals of endeavor. Nothing to be really worried about

I work in an IT coorporation and sometimes when bigger changes are made you just gotta take your time and make sure everything will work fine afterwards rather than doing it in a rush and [snip] up the whole system. Also its better to announce a long schedule and open the servers earlier than the other way around.

[edited for profanity bypass]

Maitsukas · April 29

Probably because the explanation ends up something like this:

https://youtu.be/aW2LvQUcwqc?feature=shared

DenverRalphy · April 29

IIRC, the last time they did "backend database upgrades" maintenance, it was scheduled for 12 hours. Then when it was subsequently extended for an additional 6ish hours, the playerbase had an apoplectic fit. So perhaps this time around they've decided to err on the side of caution.

Twohothardware · April 29

DenverRalphy wrote: »

IIRC, the last time they did "backend database upgrades" maintenance, it was scheduled for 12 hours. Then when it was subsequently extended for an additional 6ish hours, the playerbase had an apoplectic fit. So perhaps this time around they've decided to err on the side of caution.

When was the last time they did backend database upgrades on PlayStation? Anyone remember?

DenverRalphy · April 29

Twohothardware wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

IIRC, the last time they did "backend database upgrades" maintenance, it was scheduled for 12 hours. Then when it was subsequently extended for an additional 6ish hours, the playerbase had an apoplectic fit. So perhaps this time around they've decided to err on the side of caution.

When was the last time they backend database upgrades on PlayStation? Anyone remember?

Like 3 months or so ago.

katanagirl1 · April 29

I appreciate this thread coming up, I saw the maintenance a couple of days ago, but did not look to see how long it was supposed to be.

I guess I will get a lot of other things done on my to do list today that I had not planned. It just sucks because I had a free day..

DenverRalphy · April 29

Apparently the EU hamsters are eating their vitamins.

Granden_Woodleafson · April 29

It'd be nice to have a mini-game to play during outages of more than 12 hours. I sorta do that though, I play more of a MAX-game during these outages: Skyrim.

Rittings · April 29

ElderOfTamriel wrote: »

Honestly, whats a day without beeing able to play ESO? Im sure yall can survive a day without playing a video game and the rewards honestly arent really a big loss since the "pricy" or "wanted" rewards are mostly around the middle of the month. Youll probably loose 5k gold and 150 seals of endeavor. Nothing to be really worried about

I work in an IT coorporation and sometimes when bigger changes are made you just gotta take your time and make sure everything will work fine afterwards rather than doing it in a rush and [snip] up the whole system. Also its better to announce a long schedule and open the servers earlier than the other way around.

I do 20 full toons crafting writs. That’s 100k plus all the mats.

Not to mention it’s a fully paid up day of play lost… and along with all the extended maintenances in 12 months we easily lose a few weeks of paid sub time…

Try not flaming other players and lessening their validity on these forums. It’s not nice. Anyhoo… hope you have a blessed day.

[edited to remove quote]

DenverRalphy · April 29

Granden_Woodleafson wrote: »

It'd be nice to have a mini-game to play during outages of more than 12 hours. I sorta do that though, I play more of a MAX-game during these outages: Skyrim.

Yeah, I just cracked open my Skyrim SE after buying it on sale for a few bucks a couple of months back. Figger'd I gotta get my pennies worth out of it sometime.

katanagirl1 · April 29

It looks like they’re done already? I’m eating lunch now so I can’t check, but that would be awesome!

Twohothardware · April 29

Maintenance is over for PlayStation NA. I'm logged in now.

ElderOfTamriel · April 30

Rittings wrote: »

ElderOfTamriel wrote: »

Honestly, whats a day without beeing able to play ESO? Im sure yall can survive a day without playing a video game and the rewards honestly arent really a big loss since the "pricy" or "wanted" rewards are mostly around the middle of the month. Youll probably loose 5k gold and 150 seals of endeavor. Nothing to be really worried about

I work in an IT coorporation and sometimes when bigger changes are made you just gotta take your time and make sure everything will work fine afterwards rather than doing it in a rush and [snip] up the whole system. Also its better to announce a long schedule and open the servers earlier than the other way around.

I do 20 full toons crafting writs. That’s 100k plus all the mats.

Not to mention it’s a fully paid up day of play lost… and along with all the extended maintenances in 12 months we easily lose a few weeks of paid sub time…

Try not flaming other players and lessening their validity on these forums. It’s not nice. Anyhoo… hope you have a blessed day.

[edited to remove quote]

Well thats my opinion and experience to this topic and i think im valid to share my thoughts. When you do crafting dailys on 20 toons and make 100k a day i think those 100k wont really bother you right?

Also, like in every other game, the whole system and servers do need good care in order to work properly and players getting the full experience with as little bugs and exploits as possible. i dont know what you do for a living but if youre not familiar with IT and servers you have no clue how much time and ressources are needed to run such a big and complex IT infrastructure.

Complaining about a few days a year youre not able to play bcs people are working for you so you can enjoy youre next ESO hours safely and with as good performance as possible isnt really right i think. Also, there are so many different external influences where the developers arent even responsible for. Like security lacks from Microsoft that are found and needs to get patched as soon as possible to minimize the chance for intruders to corrupt youre system etc. etc. Happens more than you think.

And i really dont see where i tried to flame and lessening the validity of other players here in the forums. I just stated facts. I wish you a good day aswell =D

Granden_Woodleafson · August 4

ElderOfTamriel wrote: »

Rittings wrote: »

ElderOfTamriel wrote: »

Honestly, whats a day without beeing able to play ESO? Im sure yall can survive a day without playing a video game and the rewards honestly arent really a big loss since the "pricy" or "wanted" rewards are mostly around the middle of the month. Youll probably loose 5k gold and 150 seals of endeavor. Nothing to be really worried about

I work in an IT coorporation and sometimes when bigger changes are made you just gotta take your time and make sure everything will work fine afterwards rather than doing it in a rush and [snip] up the whole system. Also its better to announce a long schedule and open the servers earlier than the other way around.

I do 20 full toons crafting writs. That’s 100k plus all the mats.

Not to mention it’s a fully paid up day of play lost… and along with all the extended maintenances in 12 months we easily lose a few weeks of paid sub time…

Try not flaming other players and lessening their validity on these forums. It’s not nice. Anyhoo… hope you have a blessed day.

[edited to remove quote]

Well thats my opinion and experience to this topic and i think im valid to share my thoughts. When you do crafting dailys on 20 toons and make 100k a day i think those 100k wont really bother you right?

Also, like in every other game, the whole system and servers do need good care in order to work properly and players getting the full experience with as little bugs and exploits as possible. i dont know what you do for a living but if youre not familiar with IT and servers you have no clue how much time and ressources are needed to run such a big and complex IT infrastructure.

Complaining about a few days a year youre not able to play bcs people are working for you so you can enjoy youre next ESO hours safely and with as good performance as possible isnt really right i think. Also, there are so many different external influences where the developers arent even responsible for. Like security lacks from Microsoft that are found and needs to get patched as soon as possible to minimize the chance for intruders to corrupt youre system etc. etc. Happens more than you think.

And i really dont see where i tried to flame and lessening the validity of other players here in the forums. I just stated facts. I wish you a good day aswell =D

Why is this my problem?

Mathius_Mordred · August 4

The maintenance is scheduled to end at 1600 UTC, where did you get 2200 UTC?

LouisaB75 · August 4

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

The maintenance is scheduled to end at 1600 UTC, where did you get 2200 UTC?

Necro'd thread.

Evo95 · August 4

@ZOS_Kevin I suggest adding an autoclose after 3 months of inactivity

RobZha · August 4

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

The maintenance is scheduled to end at 1600 UTC, where did you get 2200 UTC?

It's an older thread, they're talking about the stupidly long maint we had a while back.

Mathius_Mordred · August 4

LouisaB75 wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

The maintenance is scheduled to end at 1600 UTC, where did you get 2200 UTC?

Necro'd thread.

Aha I didn't notice the original post date, thanks.

Grizzbeorn · August 4

Evo95 wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin I suggest adding an autoclose after 3 months of inactivity

Maintenance-day complaint threads should be closed on the day of that maintenance, once maintenance is complete, so people can't dig them up months later.

dale_forrestb16_ESO · August 4

if they are doing meaningful and impactful backend upgrades, then it is worth it IMO.

that said, sure, i'd love to see them start earlier and be done earlier but then they cut into other people's times who play when i am asleep.

it's not ever going to be possible to please everyone.

LadyGP · August 4

Why does every single maintenance have topics like these followed by the same exact comments? Literally every single one is like this.

What is the point?

loveeso · August 4

LadyGP wrote: »

Why does every single maintenance have topics like these followed by the same exact comments? Literally every single one is like this.

What is the point?

Just to show them that we are watching them

LouisaB75 · August 4

LadyGP wrote: »

Why does every single maintenance have topics like these followed by the same exact comments? Literally every single one is like this.

What is the point?

Well this one is April's thread that someone resurrected earlier.

LadyGP · August 4

LouisaB75 wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

Why does every single maintenance have topics like these followed by the same exact comments? Literally every single one is like this.

What is the point?

Well this one is April's thread that someone resurrected earlier.

Didn't even bother looking - because I'm so used to them showing up every maintenance lol.