How is support supposed to work?

Yormula

Now, as a disclaimer, I do understand that support tickets, mine included, may be a way to vent off steam in desperation and hence not exactly properly addressed.

I also understand when certain corporate rules preclude support representatives from addressing certain topics.

I also understand the first reply always being prefabricated, no matter how infuriating it may be. Although why it takes 2+ days for a bot to reply is beyond me.

I also understand when support personnel say one thing and do smth else - people are prone to mistakes, as long as the dialog is going on and everything gets corrected it's all fine.



However, recently ESO support tried smth new: ticket status gets changed to "read answer provided" without any reply, e-mail reply, and/or notification. Repeatedly. Screenshot below. And then the ticket successfully times out as not responded to by the client, and the only way to notice that is to log in into support website (which, by itself, I've only managed to do on a clean Chrome, no other browser seems to stomach it).

Now how exactly is that intended to work?..

Taleof2Cities

It's on you to follow up after the first canned Support response, @Yormula.

You can't just sit idle and hope you'll get a response.

Be polite but persistent ... and be sure to list the ticket number in your thread here.

Yormula

That's kinda exactly why I'm here, the ticket itself admittedly is a no-concern by now.

And yes, ticket number 191024-001381.

Yormula

Yep, they did it for a third time in a row on the same ticket.

ZOS_Bill

@Yormula

I've sent you an update pertaining to your ticket #191024-001381.

Yormula

The ticket has indeed been answered, but only after 4 iterations when status got changed without a reply.

Sedare

@ZOS_BillE I'm also not seeing responses on several tickets beyond the canned auto-response either. I've mentioned this in the ticket when updating it, but nothing seems to be coming from me providing this information.

I'd like to see the responses from ZOS please. I also do not get additional emails about the tickets.

ZOS_Bill

@Sedare

Would you be able to provide us with your ticket number?