Realm status removal from launcher

boundsy88

I'm sure a lot of people are wondering why the realm status indicator has been removed from the launcher and was wondering if zos could give us a reason for why this came to be?
Right now there is currently maintenance and all of us have absolutely no idea when the game comes back online other than constantly starting and restarting our launcher or watching the ESO twitter page in hopes for the maintenance to be over.

In the patch notes it was stated that,
'There will no longer be a red/green light indicating the realm status on the patcher.
This is something we’re exploring as an addition in a future update.'

Why would this be removed then be considered to be brought back in a later update?


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Alucardo

I just keep an eye on this page - https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail2/a_id/4320
Also the announcements on the login screen tell you it's currently unavailable while they perform maintenance.

EDIT: I know it's not as convenient as the realm status, but hopefully it's enough to get people by. I hope we see the status indicator back someday too

boundsy88

Alucardo wrote: »

I just keep an eye on this page - https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail2/a_id/4320
Also the announcements on the login screen tell you it's currently unavailable while they perform maintenance.

Id rather not have to have my PC's performance hindered by keeping the game application open just to find this out

AzraelKrieg

I think they are planning a replacement for it @boundsy88 . One that would better reflect the status such as "Servers Available", "Servers Experiencing Intermittent Issues", "Servers Unavailable".

Alucardo

boundsy88 wrote: »

Alucardo wrote: »

I just keep an eye on this page - https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail2/a_id/4320
Also the announcements on the login screen tell you it's currently unavailable while they perform maintenance.

Id rather not have to have my PC's performance hindered by keeping the game application open just to find this out

No, I know. I just edited my comment to include I hope to see the indicator back as well. My comment wasn't to say "It's ok as it is now". Just wanted to provide some information for people who have trouble knowing when it's up or not.

Nyata

I can only speculate but I am guessing it is because server selection is not being done on the game selection launcher any more, but in the next step since they consolidated the clients for the different servers. so basically, what they would need to do is to show server status for both servers on the launcher, needing a seperate 'icon slot' somewhere for either status indicator.

boundsy88

Alucardo wrote: »

boundsy88 wrote: »

Alucardo wrote: »

I just keep an eye on this page - https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail2/a_id/4320
Also the announcements on the login screen tell you it's currently unavailable while they perform maintenance.

Id rather not have to have my PC's performance hindered by keeping the game application open just to find this out

No, I know. I just edited my comment to include I hope to see the indicator back as well. My comment wasn't to say "It's ok as it is now". Just wanted to provide some information for people who have trouble knowing when it's up or not.

I get what u mean. only reason i'm so questionable over the decision for its removal is cause im in Australia and server down time always falls in our prime time, so its always a long wait to find out if we can play the game again during that night or not

Kilnerdyne

Egonieser

I have a feeling that the removal of these features from the Launcher was to fix the memory leak issues the launcher has had since the very start (It was even in the official FAQ). But instead of fixing them, they removed them... Oh well.
Personally i'm not too bothered as i check forums for maintenance times, but i can see it being annoying for some people.

Kilnerdyne

Egonieser wrote: »

I have a feeling that the removal of these features from the Launcher was to fix the memory leak issues the launcher has had since the very start (It was even in the official FAQ). But instead of fixing them, they removed them... Oh well.

That would be very sad indeed if this was the case, incoming data which changes 1 sentence and the colour of a light causes a catastrophic memory leak. Not impossible unfortunately

Egonieser

Kilnerdyne wrote: »

Egonieser wrote: »

I have a feeling that the removal of these features from the Launcher was to fix the memory leak issues the launcher has had since the very start (It was even in the official FAQ). But instead of fixing them, they removed them... Oh well.

That would be very sad indeed if this was the case, incoming data which changes 1 sentence and the colour of a light causes a catastrophic memory leak. Not impossible unfortunately

This is ZoS we're talking about...

sean.plackerb14_ESO

http://eso.xc.ms/r/1

I'm looking forward to the status indicator coming back as well, but this simple clean site works well. It gets the real status from the same source as the launcher used to so its constantly up to date.

Enodoc

boundsy88 wrote: »

Why would this be removed then be considered to be brought back in a later update?

This is most likely due to the fact that there is no longer a separate client for each of the servers. Previously, the launcher could show the status of both servers because it directly launched a client that only connected to that server. Now that the launcher is detached from server selection, a new way of showing server status has to be developed for the launcher, so that it can show the status of both servers together.