Russian authorities block ESO access for Russian players

OverDream

I'm pretty sure most people outside Russia don't know about the current situation. All this started with the unwillingness of Pavel Durov (owner of Telegram - one of the most widespread and popular messangers in Russia) to transfer decypher keys to Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (for the purpose of Russia's MIA being able to read people's Telegram chat to detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks). Russian authorities got mad and declared war to Telegram by blocking all IP addresses that are used by this messenger. The thing is that the messanger is constantly shifting IP adresses and "travels" from one IP to another resulting in the online services of the most popular titans like Google, Amazon and others being blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Now we literally just can't log in to Steam - its servers are unavailable; to PlayStation servers that are unavailable too. Now listen: in addition to ESO oficial website, we also can't log in now to YouTube, Amazon, Ikea, IMDB.com, and others! I can write this post on the forum, because surprisingly it is operatable now and works with lags, but works...

ESO can'be accessed too - when I'm trying to run launcher, its says "Unable to reach patch manifest." What to do??

How is it possile to play now? If not running launcher and try to log in to the game by clicking on eso64.exe, the game runs before the password screen where when entering valid ID and password, nothing happens, the game throws an "Error 200" message...

Russian players just want to log in to the game, is it possible or how then we can manage the situation with unavailable game now?

SteveCampsOut

Contact your over reacting government and complain.

OverDream

SteveCampsOut wrote: »

Contact your over reacting government and complain.

all Russian Internet is going nuts now. As for contacting government, I know that a lot of petitions have been sent to the relevent authorities, but blocking continues unabated.

TequilaFire

Can you try a VPN in Russia?

OverDream

almost all VPNs are blocked now too! I have tried ZenMate, PrivateVPN, ExpressVPN and others, they cant be installed as browser extensions for Chrome or Opera. All this has started today. Yesterday, only Youtube was unable. Now - almost all major sites.

And VPNs can work only for sites, not for the game access. Now even Geforce Experience and Steam are unavailable!

Ihatenightblades

Man.. sorry bro. Instances like this remind me how great it is to live in america. Or any western civilization. Russia is pretty western when it comes to freedom of belief but dictatorship can lead to things like this as one man can make any decision he wants.

Hope it works out for you

Loves_guars

Have you tried using Windscribe? Is free and I have used it succesfully in the past when ESO was crazy.

Anyway... sounds like if its affecting so much stuff it will be "fixed" soon. Hang on there buddy

FrancisCrawford

Unfortunately, you need to be a little patient. But over the past few years, tyrants on the level of Putin, Xi, Erdogan and so on have usually allowed population-pleasing internet services to work after short/medium-length interruptions.

Abysswarrior45

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

MLGProPlayer

OverDream wrote: »

almost all VPNs are blocked now too! I have tried ZenMate, PrivateVPN, ExpressVPN and others, they cant be installed as browser extensions for Chrome or Opera. All this has started today. Yesterday, only Youtube was unable. Now - almost all major sites.

And VPNs can work only for sites, not for the game access. Now even Geforce Experience and Steam are unavailable!

Install an actual VPN, not just a browser extension. Windscribe is a good one. Nord VPN is another popular one. Do some research to figure out what the best one is for gaming. There are hundreds of options.

Check out this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/8ap6hy/rvpn_recommendations_megathread_6/

MLGProPlayer

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

XomRhoK

I am from Russia too, and have no problems with ESO, Steam, Youtube. The only problem I faced is GW2 login servers.
Around 00:00 Moscow time i had problems with login to ESO server, but it last only about 5 minutes, so maybe you faced same issue and just panic
If you have problems with Steam or Youtube maybe it's your internet providers fault, anyway you can try Windscribe VPN it have 10GB free.
And at 25 april Roskomnadzor said that they will stop blocking big IP clusters.

ShadowMonarch

Yea, don't know if you guys have norton in Russia but it has a offshoot program called norton wifi privacy that for 15$ a month has a built in VPN system and you can set the VPN from almost anywhere in the world with a single click. It works a lot better then any other VPN I have tried to date.

KingYogi415

You can set up your router to be the vpn.

Aznox

Funny to see Censored Russians getting mocked by soon-without-net-neutrality Americans

Inb4 threads "My internet provider is charging me for Online Gaming optimization, if i don't pay $10/month i get 200 more ping !"

Just joking eh !

Europe !!

Kainarel

Having the same issue today, but last night it was fine. And from what I gathered so far, not everyone in Russia is having problems getting in eso. Which is weird. They can't block the servers from a part of users and not all of them, can they.

Ackwalan

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

Net neutrality is not what you think it is. It doesn't make the net open and neutral. It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

geonsocal

i work in shipping, russia definitely isn't the most welcoming of places to ship to...

building "walls" around your country can have all kinds of different affects...

Including the most important - disruption of gaming services

MLGProPlayer

Ackwalan wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

Net neutrality is not what you think it is. It doesn't make the net open and neutral. It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

Getting rid of it allows internet providers to control your access to the internet. That, by its definition, means the internet is no longer free and open. Politicians and corporations could (and will) abuse the *** out of that.

SirAndy

Ackwalan wrote: »

It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

Ashtaris

Aznox wrote: »

Funny to see Censored Russians getting mocked by soon-without-net-neutrality Americans

Inb4 threads "My internet provider is charging me for Online Gaming optimization, if i don't pay $10/month i get 200 more ping !"

Just joking eh !

Europe !!

This is what happens when you get a chump Chairman of the FCC who previously held positions with Verizon. It’s all about how they can bleed you for more $$$.

Ackwalan

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

Net neutrality is not what you think it is. It doesn't make the net open and neutral. It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

It allows internet providers to control your access to the internet. That, by its definition, means the internet is no longer free and open. Politicians and corporations could (and will) abuse the *** out of that.

News flash, the net is NOT free. Lets say you decide to mow lawns for a little extra cash. Would you charge the same amount for someone with a yard 10 square yds of lawn and someone with 1000 square yds? What if there were regulations saying you had to charge the same? Would you get into the lawn care business?

KRBMMO

Are VPNs Illegal

SirAndy wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

Well that's what they say on the "fair and balanced" news station.

Seriously though - the "Wild West" days of the internet are over. The only reason everyone isn't in jail for some form of digital piracy is because then they'd have to feed you.

OverDream

i hopefully think all this is a temporary instance... yeah the only way now is to install full-fledged VNPs on a Pay-to-Play basis, since free VPNs as everyone knows have too low speed, so in-game ping would be a disaster... it is no joke by the way, i mean all these blockings. yeah, and it is surprisingly unknown to me that all dat ***t affects users in Russia separately by limiting access to varous services bit by bit, so at the same time all have different connection issues. that's strange. it all has started by far in today's morning, so i have no idea when the things will be normalized. there, it's the link to russian pikabu/reddit-like online resource where even without russian language fluency, one can understand and see what services were affected by blockings to date: meduza.io/slides/v-rossii-vtoruyu-nedelyu-so-sboyami-rabotayut-desyatki-samyh-raznyh-servisov-a-esche-umnye-doma-i-televizory

Zagnut123Zagnut123

Ackwalan wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

Net neutrality is not what you think it is. It doesn't make the net open and neutral. It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

It allows internet providers to control your access to the internet. That, by its definition, means the internet is no longer free and open. Politicians and corporations could (and will) abuse the *** out of that.

News flash, the net is NOT free. Lets say you decide to mow lawns for a little extra cash. Would you charge the same amount for someone with a yard 10 square yds of lawn and someone with 1000 square yds? What if there were regulations saying you had to charge the same? Would you get into the lawn care business?

You pay more for more bandwidth so your analogy is a bit off. The arguement for net neutrality was to make internet a schedule 1 utility like electricity, water, and sewage something about 70 percent of the voting populace wanted but I guess democracy doesn't matter here in the US eh.

JamilaRaj

Do not worry, Amazon and Google will soon realize they are businesses after all, and that Pavel Durov, who pays them much less than others, breached some terms of use and get rid of him.

wayfarerx

Ackwalan wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Abysswarrior45 wrote: »

Haha! I'm proud to be a American!

You mean the country that just got rid of net neutrality? *** like this can just as easily happen in the US. This is why we need a free and open internet.

Net neutrality is not what you think it is. It doesn't make the net open and neutral. It regulates the net so only certain (approved) companies can sell access to the net.

This is patently false. While we can debate what constitutes an "open and neutral" internet, federal net neutrality regulations in the US have nothing to do with regulating what companies can sell access to the internet.

zaria

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Unfortunately, you need to be a little patient. But over the past few years, tyrants on the level of Putin, Xi, Erdogan and so on have usually allowed population-pleasing internet services to work after short/medium-length interruptions.

Pretty much this, and yes Iranian opposition has used F2P MMO and even WOW trial account for secure communication.
On the other hand clamping down to hard hit businesses very hard, youtube is the default channel for video.
Pushing majority of internet use into darknett does not make the work easier.

AhPook_Is_Here

OverDream wrote: »

I'm pretty sure most people outside Russia don't know about the current situation. All this started with the unwillingness of Pavel Durov (owner of Telegram - one of the most widespread and popular messangers in Russia) to transfer decypher keys to Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (for the purpose of Russia's MIA being able to read people's Telegram chat to detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks). Russian authorities got mad and declared war to Telegram by blocking all IP addresses that are used by this messenger. The thing is that the messanger is constantly shifting IP adresses and "travels" from one IP to another resulting in the online services of the most popular titans like Google, Amazon and others being blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Now we literally just can't log in to Steam - its servers are unavailable; to PlayStation servers that are unavailable too. Now listen: in addition to ESO oficial website, we also can't log in now to YouTube, Amazon, Ikea, IMDB.com, and others! I can write this post on the forum, because surprisingly it is operatable now and works with lags, but works...

ESO can'be accessed too - when I'm trying to run launcher, its says "Unable to reach patch manifest." What to do??

How is it possile to play now? If not running launcher and try to log in to the game by clicking on eso64.exe, the game runs before the password screen where when entering valid ID and password, nothing happens, the game throws an "Error 200" message...

Russian players just want to log in to the game, is it possible or how then we can manage the situation with unavailable game now?

Have you tried a VPN?

logarifmik

A comrade from Russia here. I don't have any problems with the connection to TESO or any other services so far. Guess it depends on the ISP.

Zagnut123Zagnut123

@OverDream there has to be a way to bypass what's blocking you right now they certainly can't be blocking all vpns maybe you could use a dns service like unotelly, I used that when I lived outside the US to watch Hulu and Netflix. I wish the best