Maintenance for the week of March 16:
• PC/Mac: No maintenance – March 16
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – March 18, 6:00AM EDT (10:00 UTC) - 4:00PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
You are downloading the PTS update 3 patch, you can cancel it if you want and just play live ESO
only after I tried "logging in" did this become apparent. I don't know how my launcher keeps getting set to the PTS because I have it hidden and have never tried using it.