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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
My horsie looks like this.
Re: No Solstice Skyshards in Store?
I guess the option will be added as soon as eastern Solstice will be available. So that it‘s gonna be a whole Solstice skyshard package.
Aylish
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Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
spartaxoxo wrote: »Some leaders acknowledge the human cost of such layoffs. Microsoft announced this month plans to cut another 9,000 workers, bringing its job cuts to 15,000 in the past two months. In a memo to staff on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the layoffs had weighed on him as the company reorients its business to AI.
“This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value,” Nadella wrote. “Progress isn’t linear. It’s dynamic, sometimes dissonant, and always demanding.”
From an article about AI-focused staff reductions in tech from the Wall Street Journal. Thought it was relevant to this discussion.
From the blog post the Wall Street Journal cites and links to.What does achieving our mission look like and feel like for us as a company? When Microsoft is succeeding, the world around us must succeed too. This is why each of us chose to be here, and as a company it’s how we earn our social permission to operate. When Bill founded Microsoft, he envisioned not just a software company, but a software factory, unconstrained by any single product or category. That idea has guided us for decades. But today, it’s no longer enough.
We must reimagine our mission for a new era. What does empowerment look like in the era of AI? It’s not just about building tools for specific roles or tasks. It’s about building tools that empower everyone to create their own tools. That’s the shift we are driving—from a software factory to an intelligence engine empowering every person and organization to build whatever they need to achieve.
Article is called "CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder" if you want to read the full context and blog post from Microsoft.
Keep in mind that while Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the past few months, they've requested another 14,000 H1-B visas from the government. They made $186 BILLION DOLLARS PROFIT last year, and yet they're still farming out their work to what are effectively indentured servants under the plan. I work at the ~30th largest H1-B visa holder, with hundreds of H1-B's doing jobs that could be done by local people with associate degrees and high school diplomas. No hate for the immigrants bettering their circumstances on the program, but it's being abused illegally by our largest corporations, hurts local communities, and damages the long term prospects of our country when we don't invest in our own citizens at this level.
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: Error 201 anyone?
randconfig wrote: »AardvarkMcG 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 ):
Really? I've probably had just as bad issues with WoW, but in Guild Wars 2 i barely had server issues AND they do maintenance without taking the servers offline!
La_Croft
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Re: Error 201 anyone?
Maintenances have been getting progressively longer, downtimes seem to be more frequent as well for whatever reason.
Love this game but it's level of service, stability and uptime has definitely deteriorated noticeably over the last few years. Gotta think it's related to staffing issues and\or personnel.
Love this game but it's level of service, stability and uptime has definitely deteriorated noticeably over the last few years. Gotta think it's related to staffing issues and\or personnel.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
Truly masterful work, ZOS. After an entire day of "maintenance," the game now does less than before. We used to at least be able to attempt a login. Now we just get stuck staring at a loading spinner like it’s a feature.
I assume the maintenance goal was to lower server load by preventing players from logging in entirely. If so, flawless execution. Keep up the good work.
I assume the maintenance goal was to lower server load by preventing players from logging in entirely. If so, flawless execution. Keep up the good work.
Ozzfest
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Re: Concerned about the potential use of AI on loading screen artwork
The artists who make, you know, actual art, will now have the job of analyzing ai generated, um, images, to remove things that look like, well, Ai generated images. They'll get paid the same, or probably less. Or they will protest.
This is like Willy Wonka where the dad loses his job only to get a new job fixing the machine that took his job.
It's nothing more than another example of the sad dystopian, Biff Tannen, alternate timeline we are living in.
This is like Willy Wonka where the dad loses his job only to get a new job fixing the machine that took his job.
It's nothing more than another example of the sad dystopian, Biff Tannen, alternate timeline we are living in.
Please fix the Warden's Charm.
dear ZOS,
what the title says. i don't know whos idea was it to add the Charm as a Warden class scribing affix, but it wasn't the best idea ever.
first of all, every small scale tryhard group is running multiple Wardens, of course with their Charm constantly on the ground, so fighting them is like walking on a minefield and you're "charmed" every 8 seconds, no avoiding it, without them having to do pretty much anything, as the Charm can be slotted into a healing skill, so all they have to do is healing themselves and you get an unavoidable "charm". yeah, i know you can dodgeroll out of it, but if you're fighting 3-4 enemies and they all use it there is nowhere to dodgeroll. it's all over the place. other stuns you have to aim at your opponent. Charm you can use whilst running away facing the opposite direction simply by healing yourself.
second, since i started counting (about 4 days ago) i have been "charmed" 6 times into a wall. my character got "charmed", started following my opponent and before i could break free i was inside a wall without the ability to get out of it or do anything about it. so i had to /stuck out of there. but (there's always a but) you can't /stuck in combat (at least that was the message i got when i tried it) i was literally stuck for several minutes, until the fighting around me stopped (every AoE ability anyone used seemed to get me in combat again and again).
not fun at all. could anyone, please, look into this? if you don't do anything about the Charm itself make the walls being impossible to get into whilst being charmed. many thanks.
what the title says. i don't know whos idea was it to add the Charm as a Warden class scribing affix, but it wasn't the best idea ever.
first of all, every small scale tryhard group is running multiple Wardens, of course with their Charm constantly on the ground, so fighting them is like walking on a minefield and you're "charmed" every 8 seconds, no avoiding it, without them having to do pretty much anything, as the Charm can be slotted into a healing skill, so all they have to do is healing themselves and you get an unavoidable "charm". yeah, i know you can dodgeroll out of it, but if you're fighting 3-4 enemies and they all use it there is nowhere to dodgeroll. it's all over the place. other stuns you have to aim at your opponent. Charm you can use whilst running away facing the opposite direction simply by healing yourself.
second, since i started counting (about 4 days ago) i have been "charmed" 6 times into a wall. my character got "charmed", started following my opponent and before i could break free i was inside a wall without the ability to get out of it or do anything about it. so i had to /stuck out of there. but (there's always a but) you can't /stuck in combat (at least that was the message i got when i tried it) i was literally stuck for several minutes, until the fighting around me stopped (every AoE ability anyone used seemed to get me in combat again and again).
not fun at all. could anyone, please, look into this? if you don't do anything about the Charm itself make the walls being impossible to get into whilst being charmed. many thanks.
mzprx
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Re: Truly wretched set of Daily Endeavors for August 4
Plants and archive I do almost daily so no problem there. Probably do a quick sacrament for the third.