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Re: Error 201 anyone?
Microsoft fired everyone recently except Gina and Kevin. They're in the server room working on a fix but it could take a bit.
Edit: Jessica is logged into the server now fixing as well
Edit: Jessica is logged into the server now fixing as well
Re: Error 201 anyone?
Hey all, we've checked in with the team working on this and they are making good progress. We do apologize for the wait and interruption to your playtime. We will provide another update within the next hour.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
heranelleb16_ESO wrote: »Hello,
I’d like to report that I am still unable to connect to the service, even today, August 4th, 2025, following the recent maintenance. A lot of my guild members have the same issue.
This is not an isolated incident — connection issues have occurred repeatedly on the following dates:
June 28, 2025
July 10, 2025 (entire night following maintenance)
July 15, 2025
July 17, 2025
July 19, 2025
July 24, 2025
August 4, 2025 (post-maintenance, currently)
These repeated outages are becoming increasingly frequent and disruptive.
For users residing in Europe, it’s important to note that we are protected under Articles L224-25-1 and following of the French Consumer Code, as well as the European Directive 2019/770 on digital content and services. These laws require that digital services be accessible and conform to the contract under normal conditions. If these obligations are not met, consumers are entitled to request:
A price reduction
A partial refund
Or an equivalent form of compensation
Given the growing number of server outages and the inability to access the service despite paying for ESO Plus, I strongly encourage affected users to submit a formal request for compensation.
Best regards,
Heranelle
Great tip, everyone should do this.
Re: ZOS, What's Your Viewpoint on Subclassing in PvP? Addressing the Unbalanced Meta and Low Midyear May
YandereGirlfriend wrote: »Subclassing is literally the only thing that I can remember that actually brought lapsed PvP players back to the game to check out the changes.
Where are these lapsed PvPers though? They weren't involved in Midyear Mayhem. They weren't around before the event either cause the population was also horribly low.
In my experience it's been the opposite. Subclassing solidified decisions to never come back or caused existing players to quit. I have quite a few friends who used to play ESO and not a single one of them had any interest in returning to the game. Some of them quit soon after the launch of One Tamriel because the game became too cheesy... I can't imagine what they would think now.
Stamicka
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
Just on PTS, it works!! Anyways, I love Zos's sense of humor. The new elephant mount raises its trunk to breath while submerged in water!!! Love it!!
Re: Error 201 anyone?
randconfig wrote: »
ESO's server issues are better than all the MMOs I've played in my life, and I've played at least 10 or more. Still it doesn't change the fact that the down time sucks, I really wanted to play ):
Are you for real? Would be rly interested about input of what MMORPGs you played since I played many myself and have never encountered even at all the slightest or worse or even same server issues than ESO had and still has in any other MMORPGs I played.
Don't get me wrong but your statement sounds so much pro zos that it makes it taste like you are advertising for this game with possible worst server performance in MMORPG history or you may rly work for this company. No front but that's one of the biggest problems ESO has, the denial of accepting the truth of esos performance state and kinda lying to the community about literal facts which are plaguing ESO since almost beginning till now which is the performance .......
Bubosh
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
AardvarkMcG wrote: »So how do ZoS become aware of the issue? I assume noone is scanning the forums looking for issues like this. I tried raising a support ticket but got bogged down in the awful FAQ circle on the support side
Live service games have a live-ops department that's responsible for keeping the game online 24/7.
They have monitoring systems and stand-by engineers to resolve issues like the one we're experiencing right now.
Given that this game has NA and EU servers I'm 100% sure there's a department on both sides of the continent able to resolve issues like these.
So no worries; they most likely already knew something was wrong the moment people got booted from the game.
Thing is knowing the issue is there and acting on it, communicating with the community, compensation given out for outage and such, the knowing ZOS does, everything else they fall flat on their face and fail every time unfortunately. Which if you ask says a lot about stuff but that just my view.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
I'm interested in what MMO to switch to. Any new one out there that I've missed? I have tired of this lack of communication when there is an issue. And there often are issues. Only thing always working is the store and the moderators removing complaints.
Re: Concerned about the potential use of AI on loading screen artwork
does it matter if it was? AI is getting better and better with each passing day. Soon much game development/assets/etc will be controlled by AI. I've been using AI daily since 2018 and if things are so minor and unnoticeable then it really doesn't matter when they can put the work in elsewhere where it matters.
Yes, it does, because people justifiably want to enjoy real art made by actual human beings, instead of copy-pasted AI slop.
can't find the "justification" when AI is just as good or even better when managed/used properly than much human art. Just have to know which ones to use and put in the work to use them properly.
I'm one of the few remaining people who believe art is about human expression and can only be created by sentient beings, not non-living, non-thinking robots that merely copy actual humans' work. You do you.
I hope Zos fixes this, or at least gives us an explanation as to how and why this happened, and I hope we are mistaken and this is not AI. @ZOS_Kevin I'm sorry for pinging a second time, but I am genuinely disappointed by this, and I request an explanation.
Leia98
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
To add my voice to the chorus:
This game is completely and utterly broken. I really regret purchsing the last expansion, or pass, or whatever they want to call it.
This game is completely and utterly broken. I really regret purchsing the last expansion, or pass, or whatever they want to call it.
