Server Login Queue Turned on for PC-EU - April 10

Amilla_Silverline

Awww man. Looked like I picked a bad time to go out and buy sausages.

Reaver-Stormhamre

Why cant EU have the same hardware as NA?

Blinkin8r

I don't even play on EU, or PC and this is ridiculous. I've got money on some people accepting the queue into the game and then getting kicked with a little notification "Someone in your group declined..."

bzz86

Somewhere around 8 minutes it let me in. :-)

valeriiya

Is this one of the things that @ZOS_RobGarrett said wasn't a game breaking issue? What a sh*tshow.

Slowing Down Content Releases and the Great Fix Patch
I spoke with Rob about the fast release of updates and if ZOS had considered doing a “Great Fix Patch” for one of their updates. He said it’s a question they get a lot and whilst it’s not off the table they as a company do need to produce for everyone and a majority of the bugs and issues faced are not ones everyone encounters or are drastically halting gameplay, as such they need to continue creating content for people who want new content to play and and don’t play at the higher level to notice if a skill or mechanic works a little wonky.

Bloodraven187

I have seen this in other server based systems, both MMO and business applications like databases) where a sudden influx of a massive number of users can slow down and crash those servers, or create bottlenecks that prevent practical use of the server's applications. It sucks but that's technology. Like trying to use the same boat to ferry people that was designed for 100 passengers and 20 crew when you have 1000 passengers and 200 crew. You have to get a bigger boat, or in this case higher capacity servers. In all likelihood they just have to allocate the hardware, get the appropriate background programs for server functionality and networking, then load on the ESO server applications themselves. Just be patient and know that since they are aware fo it they are working on it as fast as they can. And in general ZOS has been good about compensation players for problems that are not their fault like the anniversary reward. Just let them handle the hardware and software and then see what they do to make it up to the player base.
I know patience is not a common virtue to gamers as a whole (being one myself) but try to be patient.

CiNNeR

Really, during an event and loads of players can't get in? For a game they pay for!!!!

Even worse when you crash out of the game and cannot get back in.

SteveCampsOut

Great! So glad I no long pay to play this shitshow!

LanteanPegasus

After a wait of 15 to 20 minutes (didn't stay in front of the PC, so I can't be more exact): "An error occurred" and I was obviously thrown from the queue.
Upside: Now I'm not shown a "maybe 30 seconds" but a "13 minutes" waiting time.
Downside: 20min + 13min = more than half an hour to wait every time to play the game. With no indication of the problem being solved anytime soon. (At least probably not during the ongoing, quite time consuming, event.)

"Please note that while your queue position is accurate, your estimated on-screen wait time may not reflect your actual wait time" - I am not shown my position in the queue, the time can only be an estimation, so it's just hope and pray.

Chaquinho89

Sells millions of crown packs every month, FORCES us to BUY "expansions" in order to access the same standard dlc type content, hundreds of people subscribed to the ESO+ program. Yet, no real good enough servers to handle a lot of people at the same time.

afonik

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

vesselwiththepestle wrote: »

The queue is bugged, please fix!

It was 30 seconds for several minutes.

I got kicked out of the queue several times and had to re-enter.

As mentioned in the message above, the estimated on-screen wait time may not reflect the actual wait time (the position listed is correct, though).

As we all are also mentioning: there is no information on what position we are, it's a hanging queue, that's all.

CiNNeR

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Anhedonie wrote: »

Uh...thanks, Blizzard(?).

On a serious note, I hope server upgrades won't take too long to implement. Can we expect them to happen by the time Elsweyr arrives?

That's the goal (or sooner).

Sooner i hope, else it will cost players who pay to land in queue

Anethum

it doesn't work. Queue starts. Than i get Error 108 and everyng stops.
I have only background without any sighn that i'm in queue or not.
I tested in - it was 20 minuts than a closed, again logged in, again 10 minuts of queue. anad again and again Error 108.

Lovelocke

Honestly something has to be done - queues are horrible but if it means people in the game can join dungeons then it's a horrible but necessary temporary solution.

My only concern is in case ZOS implement this and conveniently "forget" about the issue, with a vague post in a years time saying "we're not aware of any dungeon finder issues" like they've done before.

The community needs to keep up the reports to ZOS and don't let it slide.

Heavensblue

Sorry ZOS.

I pay a lot of money for ESO PLUS and not for waiting to come into the game to the best playing time!

You want money from us - so do more for the server performance iff you know that a lot of more players come at the EU-Server.

You celebrate 5 YEAR ESO!

(That´s a bad performance from you!)

the_other_Alice

you gotta be effing kidding me?! That is your solution? Adding yet another broken queue...for entering the game?

Alaztor91

I wonder if the login queue works as smoothly as the dungeon finder/bg queue.

Kilnerdyne

The new players reason is almost certainly not true & is instead an excuse for terrible performance problems once again during Events. There is nothing in the last week that would have brought alot of players to the game.

Don't forget the maintenance of 28th January where EU Server almost certainly got migrated to worse hardware.
Also don't forget that when problems occur on EU Server nobody at ZOS notices until there are multiple forum threads.

They don't test their game.
They don't play their game.
Once the Cats & Dragons patch is over it'll be gg thanks for playing.

Squeaky_Clean

This is a really, really bad move. Performance deteriorating on PC EU since the end of January. But instead of upgrading their hardware or adding capacity, ZOS' answer is, we have to limit access? This is an MMO, as in Massive Multiplayer Online, ffs ... smh.

Paying customer with ESO+, coming back from work, and then I have to wait in queue??!??!?

The Uninvited

Don't worry, soon you won't need to implement this login queue any longer, because most of us will leave!!!

Neoealth

electromagnets wrote: »

This is absurd. Massive influx my ass. I have never encountered this in my 5 years of playing this game, and the population now is certainly not the highest it's ever been. Please stop feeding us ***.

By the way, great way to celebrate your 5 year anniversary. Cheers.

Yeah, terrible anniversary in my opinion.

essi2

Worst party ever

ViRUSsamtastic

PLZ ZOS, this is not the solution for this problem. I'm paying every month only to NOT PLAY because of unexpected maintenance and now this stupid player queue. i get you want to take some stress of the server but this is not the way to go.

Anethum

This is not solution.
Solution is to change server hoster (or how calls the company which provide hardware for it).
I can't remember any time when EU server worked better or at least same good as than NA.
Crushes, more lags with lower "ping" numbers, much often problems with login, esp for steam users, etc.

vesselwiththepestle

Anethum wrote: »

it doesn't work. Queue starts. Than i get Error 108 and everyng stops.
I have only background without any sighn that i'm in queue or not.
I tested in - it was 20 minuts than a closed, again logged in, again 10 minuts of queue. anad again and again Error 108.

Yep, I got the same again and again. Then I got on character screen and another three crashes after chosing a character. Finally it worked, though. More reports of similar problems from guild members incoming.

Brandanus

Aerithone wrote: »

Just fire those German guys responsible for EU server and get better data center to maintain the servers.
Its easy.

I just checked my calendar and it is actually 2019. Autoscaling and seamless provisioning of resources is a technique widely used. Well, the limits are usually commercial limits. Many new players but no additional resources?

Jaraal

essi2 wrote: »

Great, so the broken EU server has been replaced with a broken static queue -_-

And if you're going to Cyrodiil, you get a second queue.


Talkin bout a girl who looks quite like you
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle....

Feric51

Hopefully this will be the nudge ZOS needs to put a GM or two into the game to evict all the bots taking up cap space.

daemonios

This is beyond disgusting. We have been complaining about (increased) performance issues in PC-EU since January. ZOS never acknowledged anything. Yet they developed and implemented a login queue system (which doesn't appear magically overnight) rather than increase server capacity. Remind me, why did I beta test this game, purchase early access, and subscribe for years?

To add insult to injury, the queue system is glitchy as hell. As others have reported, I also got error 108 (twice) upon which I had to alt-f4 out of the game and launch it again because I was left on a splash screen with no UI element or indication of any activity.

But yes, give us all the dragons. Maybe there will be someone in PC-EU still around to see them come June 4.

MikaHR

Been saying it since January. Glad that they decided to start making plans to fix it... mid April!

But it is better experience for those of us that are ingame!