Maintenance for the week of January 5:
· [COMPLETE] NA megaservers for maintenance – January 7, 4:00AM EST (9:00 UTC) - 10:00AM EST (15:00 UTC)
· [COMPLETE] EU megaservers for maintenance – January 7, 4:00AM EST (9:00 UTC) - 10:00AM EST (15:00 UTC)

We're currently researching issues some players are having with ...

  • Shokner
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    Update: I tried to relog to another character. BIG MISTAKE. New endless char loadscreen (10+ minutes and counting)

    Muahahahah ... I'm so stupid! I thought ZOS would have a new clumsy login but once on the server, you could stay there ...
    Feel like a 3 year old now, stupid me !

    :trollface:

    I'll beat that i made a new character he's now standing in the buff feels rather uncomfortably watching the log in screen wish I'd made a girl one now!
  • visionality
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    Hey, I noticed that ZOS put up some message with pretty much the same text as mine ... AFTER ONE HOUR!!!

    This company never stops to amaze me!

    o:)
  • tim99
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    is it a steam-thing again?
  • LanteanPegasus
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    I finally found the time to start playing ESO.
    Started up the PC, started ESO, logged in with my 2nd character to take some things out of the bank before playing with my main. And there it was, the endless "Requesting character load."
    Went to the forums, found the inevitable "meltdown after maintenance" banner, and was resigned to not getting in, so I kept reading threads.
    Then my character got in. The 2nd character. Who could take things from the bank, fine. But she has never even been to Summerset.

    So I had to change characters, am stuck in "Requesting character load" again, and have my doubts if I will manage to hit the elusive jackpot of being able to play a second time this evening. Tickets, boxes, stuff, all still uncollected today.

    I really wish ZOS would just keep away from maintenance while running any event under 2 weeks!
    Edited by LanteanPegasus on July 27, 2020 7:41PM
  • visionality
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    I think its more of a EU-thing, as usual. Dont see similar reports on PC/US ...
  • lostsaul
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    Why All-Time Wen Maintenance EU mega servers I must wait Idk Wat time, already 12H 40 min. Since now show cant login in Game Logging In 15 min
  • Valmerwolf
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    My PC with Windows 10 says 100% saturation on GPU card (2GB).
    So no login...
  • SirYmp
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    I took the time to perform the diagnostic and send a ticket.

    But I'm closer and closer to make my mind and assume that this is an ongoing / recurring capacity issue.

    Being an ESO plus member, this upsets me.
  • Master_Fluff
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    This is beyond ridiculus. It's pathetic how this happens everytime there's a maintenance on PC-EU.
    Halcyon Black
  • Metalfyre
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    HansK wrote: »
    Seen that every time after an extended maintenance, just all players eager to log in. Nothing to fix so don't panic it'll be ok in another 20-30 mins.

    How come that WoW (who can have it's share of troubles too I admit) not have this problem? They have a simple queue where you can see what number you are and an approx ETA to get logged in. It's not like ZOS is a poor company, why can't they implement some decent hardware and features much like WoW is using and be done with all the crap?

  • fierackas
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    Do the clowns ever apologise - I can't recall ever seeing it?
  • redgreensunset
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    HansK wrote: »
    ... endless character load screen. Can you please make it work?!

    PC/EU, the server you ignore. Thankyou very much.

    Seen that every time after an extended maintenance, just all players eager to log in. Nothing to fix so don't panic it'll be ok in another 20-30 mins.

    @HansK 20-30 minutes? Why then am I still not able to log on after nearly 120 minutes? It should be fine now or so you claim.
  • molecule
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    Good that they're investigating, but this happens every time, obviously they still have no idea what is causing it.

    They are not investigating anything, they never do.

    Its a cut and paste, well worn out banner, that means absolutly NOTHING.

    What will happen is people will get fed up with waiting and go and do somethjing else, the queue will drop naturally and then in an hour or two ZOS will say - There you go, we fixed it.

  • visionality
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    Bad maintenance day, I suppose. Btw: When did ZOS relocate the PC/EU-server? If I trace the IP, I end up in London ...
  • JPS
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    I don't think I've ever seen a company fail more than this one...
  • jecks33
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    Every *** time.......
    PC-EU
  • Ryath_Waylander
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    Tryxus wrote: »
    ... endless character load screen. Can you please make it work?!

    PC/EU, the server you ignore. Thankyou very much.

    PC NA
    Plebeians
    Third Class
    Peasant
    Slave
    PC EU

    That's the order...

    You forgot the Troglodytes between Slave and PC EU
  • Shokner
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    Hey, I noticed that ZOS put up some message with pretty much the same text as mine ... AFTER ONE HOUR!!!

    This company never stops to amaze me!

    o:)
    This company never stops to amaze me!
    Why? incompetence only has one level.
  • Ryath_Waylander
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    molecule wrote: »
    Good that they're investigating, but this happens every time, obviously they still have no idea what is causing it.

    They are not investigating anything, they never do.

    Its a cut and paste, well worn out banner, that means absolutly NOTHING.

    What will happen is people will get fed up with waiting and go and do somethjing else, the queue will drop naturally and then in an hour or two ZOS will say - There you go, we fixed it.

    This! This every single time. They don't fix anything, some of us have to go to work the next day and just give up to go to bed.
  • mike_de
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    I am stuck, too. Endless character request loading screen.
  • HansK
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    HansK wrote: »
    ... endless character load screen. Can you please make it work?!

    PC/EU, the server you ignore. Thankyou very much.

    Seen that every time after an extended maintenance, just all players eager to log in. Nothing to fix so don't panic it'll be ok in another 20-30 mins.

    @HansK 20-30 minutes? Why then am I still not able to log on after nearly 120 minutes? It should be fine now or so you claim.

    Yeah, well. Hate to admit it but I was wrong. Apparently there's more to it this time than just the servers being swamped. Hope they resolve it fast.
  • Grandchamp1989
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    EU server is the biggest potatoe, it’s such a fail. How they can justify this potatoe is beyond me...
  • Rowjoh
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    instead of steadily improving year on year, it just gets progressively worse.

    utterly bewildering

  • TheRealPotoroo
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    PC NA, PC EU

    "Instead of taking the best of the dolmens (predictable rotation), the best of the geysers (scalability based on number of players), and the best of the dragons (map location and health indicators) and adding them together to make a fun and dynamic world event scenario, they gave us....... harrowstorms." https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/6850523/#Comment_6850523
  • method__01
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    12 hours server down, again
    Great work Zos
    I better flush my money in the toilet than re sub in this crap u call EU server
    PC EU/NA /// PS4 EU/NA

    Vasanha
    This one hears nothing. Sees nothing. This one only sweeps.
    desperately need a survey assistant
  • zaria
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    Metalfyre wrote: »
    HansK wrote: »
    Seen that every time after an extended maintenance, just all players eager to log in. Nothing to fix so don't panic it'll be ok in another 20-30 mins.

    How come that WoW (who can have it's share of troubles too I admit) not have this problem? They have a simple queue where you can see what number you are and an approx ETA to get logged in. It's not like ZOS is a poor company, why can't they implement some decent hardware and features much like WoW is using and be done with all the crap?
    WOW uses an far simpler system with say 100 individual servers all over, they run independently only require an central login server but all characters was on various servers.
    This is order of magnitudes easier to handle but it has some downsides, you can be on an popular server and get login queues on updates, you can be on an dead server so auction house feel like you have an trader out in the wild in ESO.
    Worse you can be on am very unbalanced PvP server. This is worse than Cyrodil in the wrong color as the endgame overland zones in WOW tend to be small, think an ESO story DLC who is an PvP zone and you are outnumbered 100:1 :)

    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
  • Vahrokh
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    Some = 100% and I am one of them :s
  • visionality
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    Hm ... maybe we should simply all relog to PC/US and make that server break down? I'm pretty sure THAT would be a
    motivation for ZOS to start working on the problem ...
  • DrOuttaSight
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    PC/EU login problems endless "Requesting character load." then after 10mins I got bounced back to the login section.

    Why is it that after a long downtime of the PC/EU server there are login problems, again, again.

    In the words of a famous fast mouse arriba, arriba … andale, andale ....

    ZoS your customers want to login, and play the game


    [edited for minor basing]
    Edited by ZOS_Volpe on July 28, 2020 4:29PM
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    PC EU Clockwork Server
  • kate.georgeb16_ESO
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    Now the banner saying some players are having login issues seems to have disappeared. And still, when I try to log in, I get "requesting character load" until it times out and sends me back to the login screen. So, looks like no daily reward, and no event tickets. Again. Plus I have a guild to run and trader slots to fill. And I wouldn't actually mind being able to play. It seems that every time there is a problem I am one of those "some players" that get the problem.
    I really wish something would be done about it.
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