Zenimax=Genius......NOT

ChokalitTHUNDA · May 2014

What kind of genius company take an RPGMMO off line for maintenance at 8am Saturday morning or 10pm Australian time, which is prime gaming time, regardless whether it is supposed to be a 'short maintenance'!

Turelus · May 2014

One who have issues they need to fix because every other thread not complaining about it being offline is one complaining for fixes ASAP.

jbfroik · May 2014

Please don't flame them. 8am is before most people are awake on a saturday and if its 10pm where you live you probly belong on the EU mega server. Just saying. Australia is not in the North American continent, at least that's what my world map says.

WhisperLFE · May 2014

I'd agree, it's a pretty crappy day to take things offline (as in, it's probably the worst possible choice of days). Hopefully it's at least as "short" as they're saying.

zeuseason · May 2014

I'm sure it's for a good reason. Give them some slack.

Lodestar · May 2014

jbfroik wrote: »

Please don't flame them. 8am is before most people are awake on a saturday and if its 10pm where you live you probly belong on the EU mega server. Just saying. Australia is not in the North American continent, at least that's what my world map says.

Unless he has not gotten far into the game, not as if he can just start over on EU servers anyway. Besides, if NA servers are closer than EU, I can understand.

k9mouse · May 2014

zeuseason wrote: »

I'm sure it's for a good reason. Give them some slack.

So much this. Do we want a broken server or let ZOS try to fix stuff? ZOS has good reasons for taking down the server.

AZRainman · May 2014

My guess: They're going to nerf xp in Craglorn.

zeuseason wrote: »

I'm sure it's for a good reason. Give them some slack.

Nerfing Craglorn xp good enough?

Jeremy · May 2014

I would prefer this game be down for maintenance than up and running with serious bugs and issues that need immediate attention.

Asasin · May 2014

jbfroik wrote: »

Please don't flame them. 8am is before most people are awake on a saturday and if its 10pm where you live you probly belong on the EU mega server. Just saying. Australia is not in the North American continent, at least that's what my world map says.

Because Australia is located on Europe, right? Genius logic.

Redsun · May 2014

yeah after the bugs have been around for weeks.suddenly zenimax think the fixes are SOOO impt that they have to bring down on Sat.

Lol seriously. I have no clue what drug zenimax is taking. Everything they done is like purposely trying to kill eso. Well congrats. You are doing an amazing job.

yenkin2001b14_ESO · May 2014

Saturday Morning is my big day to play, and taking it off line blows. Unless this was truly an emergency it could wait to a weekday. Maintenance 3x a week is silly I pay for full day play, I don't mind a few hours of Maintenance but if it is > 8 hours per week we should have a day added to our subs.

zeuseason · May 2014

I think what is happening is Wildstar is completely flopping right now as I type and ESO is getting a larger than normal influx of players so ZOS has to do some backend work real quick to make sure everyone can enjoy ESO.

k9mouse · May 2014

@yenkin2001b14_ESO
The last Maintenance was less then hour long.

yenkin2001b14_ESO · May 2014

an hour I can live with, I might spend some time wife my wife

Blackwidow · May 2014

I'M SUPER UPSET THIS HAPPENED BEFORE I EVEN HAD MY COFFEE!!!!

*sip*

Well, now it does not seem so bad.

Turial · May 2014

yenkin2001b14_ESO wrote: »

an hour I can live with, I might spend some time wife my wife

I like that.... 'Might' XD

jimfopao2 · May 2014

My understanding is that the Australian fibre optic cables to the USA are far superior to the ones going to Europe in terms of speed and reliability. I saw a good map of them once so if anyone really cares I am sure they could google it.

I also understood that the Europe servers were currently still in North America and would be moved sometime. I could be wrong.

Lodestar · May 2014

Wait fixing bugs requires patching right? Was there even a patch? I have not had an update on either servers.

And yes, I am noting a lot of insular comments. What I suspect this is really about is, the Oceanic users feeling they getting put out again. I do acknowledge it must be annoying.

And in any case, weekend server maintenance of any kind is going to raise eyebrows.

ChokalitTHUNDA · May 2014

they have had almost a week to fix the bugs since the last patch and decide to do it on a weekend not the smartest move, also in Australia we get better ping on north america server

Rylana · May 2014

Jokes on you, I played all night and used this as an excuse to finally put it up and go to bed.

Ciao.

bethsheba · May 2014

Jeremy wrote: »

I would prefer this game be down for maintenance than up and running with serious bugs and issues that need immediate attention.

I would prefer to be able to play a game I am paying for.

a3surd · May 2014

ROFL ZOS is closing other threads to point to this one. Seriously, WTF are you guys thinking?!?!? Where is the communication? Why maintenance on Sat morning AND Monday morning?

Zakua · May 2014

LOL...goodtimes! Other thread of sat morning maintenance QQ got whacked...

"]I prefer things to be fixed at night instead of when I wake up at 8:00 every morning and want to play before work. That would be awesome. Why can't they do it at like 3:00 AM or something? Don't they know who I am? (JK)[/quote]

HAha, yes I'm sure they had you in mind and really hated the idea of shutting you down.

I think the 3am thing on a weekend would make a lot more folks angry. I know a lot of players who play from 9pm (well sometime in the evening) until 3/4 am on weekends. Many times I have woke (4am) and game to catch the last groups of the "all night" crowd...they tend to sizzle out around 4/5 am....ah the good ol'days...

Epona222 · May 2014

jbfroik wrote: »

Please don't flame them. 8am is before most people are awake on a saturday and if its 10pm where you live you probly belong on the EU mega server. Just saying. Australia is not in the North American continent, at least that's what my world map says.

Where are Australasian players supposed to play, in your esteemed view? Especially given that both the NA and the EU servers are in the same place at the moment, they haven't even had a chance to see which server gives better ping. Even EU players don't currently have a server located in Europe. Just giving some consideration to others before putting your hands on your keyboard would be a really nice idea

Dave2001 · May 2014

Terrible time for server maintenance. This kind of thing should be done when the least amount of players are on...which I'm pretty sure IS NOT a Saturday morning.

ChokalitTHUNDA · May 2014

I also would pefer to be able to play a game i paid $120 to preorder and then $15 a month, DURING PRIME TIME!

Thunderchief · May 2014

Everytime they bring down the servers during Australian peak hours they should give Australian players 1 day free. They have our billing information. They know who we are.

Asasin · May 2014

Well the people who stay up until 3 or 4 probably would benefit from the game going down at that time. I think 5 or 6 AM would be the ideal time to do maintenance in the US (which would... I guess be extremely unfair to our Aussie brethren, but you're getting screwed either way).

zeuseason · May 2014

The rage in this thread leads me to believe only one thing: Everyone LOVES ESO so much that they cannot live a single moment without it.

Covyn · May 2014

I just always get worried that they are going to apply a "fix" during these maintenance times and never inform anyone of what they did exactly.....but .....who doesn't like stumbling upon a new class mechanic when they log in Saturday morning??!!