"You've Got Mail" - Notification Sound Bug

JoDiMageio

My first time playing today since the patch, and I keep randomly getting the "you've got mail" notification sound, without a reason.

It's happened now while collecting alchemy surveys, fishing, running between crafting stations, simply travelling between two quest markers... Enough for me to not be able to give a distinct reason for it seeming to occur.

Anyone else being prompted by this?? I keep thinking I've made a sale in the guild trader, but nope. Nothing...

kojou

Hit "N" to see your notifications tab.

SeaGtGruff

I've gotten it at least once or twice-- no new mail or notifications. It just happened while doing crafting writs on one of my characters.

EDIT -- And it just happened again on the same character, while interacting with my banking assistant-- no new mail or notifications. I can't tell if there was a change in the number of friends online, but there were no messages in the chat window about any friends logging in or logging out.

One thing that comes to mind is whether it might be from a guild's MOTD being edited? That is, maybe they changed that so you don't get notification after notification about the MOTD changing whenever a guild is editing their MOTD, but the sound is still occurring?

WildLight

Yeah, had that happened this evening. Three or four times sound notification for no reason during some dungeon runs. Only started happening for me today though, not right after the patch. I swear, ZOS's updates are something else.

JoDiMageio

Nope. No notifications. No changes to MoTD. No one leaving or being removed from guilds, and I have no friends. Just random "bloings" while doing normal things

JoDiMageio

Someone is probably more knowledgeable than me as to which forum person to tag, but clearly something is up and they might need to be notified.

RemanCyrodiil_I

I believe it's a bug with the Leaderboard Announcements social setting. It's making the notification sound even when you have it disabled whenever a member of one of your guilds completes a trial/arena.

JoDiMageio

RemanCyrodiil_I wrote: »

I believe it's a bug with the Leaderboard Announcements social setting. It's making the notification sound even when you have it disabled whenever a member of one of your guilds completes a trial/arena.

Oh Gods help me...
I haven't had that on in years, but that makes absolute sense based on my observations. It's later now, and it's been quiet.

SeaGtGruff

That could be! I was just going to say that I get it if I try to do something and the game won't let me, such as mount-- but in those cases, I get a message in the upper right corner. And I do have the leaderboard notifications turned off, so that could very well be it.

Cloudtrader

I've had it happening to me, too. I noticed it during a nice, peaceful decorating session in one of my houses last night. Ugh. I hope this bug gets fixed.

oterWitz

I've been experiencing this too, though I also installed some new (up to date) addons after the update dropped so I wasn't sure if one of them, or another, was on the fritz. When it just made the sound a few mins ago, I tested by quickly enabling the "Show Leaderboard Notifications" and saw that one of my guildmates had, in fact, just done a vet trial. I'll also test a bit with all addons off, just to be sure one of them isn't the culprit now that we've identified the source of the noise.

Should be quite easy, as I'm trialing PvE guilds at the moment so I've been getting a pretty steady stream of alerts
Edit: Yep, all addons off and ten minutes later still got an alert.

Rezdayn

Also having this happen to me quite a lot. No notifications, daily etc. Random sound lol.

Arunei

Yep, also been having this issue. It's not too awfully intrusive but it is relatively annoying. I have trial notifications turned off for a reason.

GenjiraX

I think this is an old bug that’s returned. It was a thing a couple of years ago IIRC.

Wolf_Eye

Oh dear. Who wants to bet this is going to get extra annoying now that Maelstrom arena will soon get double drops? If you're in populated guilds, are we going to have to hear it constantly now?

AlienSlof

I wondered what that was! It's been happening since the update and I thought it was one of my add-ons being a bit flakey but not putting the message on screen. I also have those completion notifications switched off. (Whoever thought that was a good idea should be sacked!)

At least I know it's not me now!

Artemiisia

getting this also randomly without any reason now after the update, its just annoying hearing this sound pop up for no reason, I have even notifications turned off, so it cant be that, and have checked mail each time and most of the time there is none

oterWitz

Wolf_Eye wrote: »

Oh dear. Who wants to bet this is going to get extra annoying now that Maelstrom arena will soon get double drops? If you're in populated guilds, are we going to have to hear it constantly now?

Oh dang. Not just Maelstrom, Crag trials and DSA too. May have to mute game for the next few days.

tohopka_eso

I get it once in a while now. But not in a guild and have no friends.

Serenez

JoDiMageio wrote: »

My first time playing today since the patch, and I keep randomly getting the "you've got mail" notification sound, without a reason.

It's happened now while collecting alchemy surveys, fishing, running between crafting stations, simply travelling between two quest markers... Enough for me to not be able to give a distinct reason for it seeming to occur.

Anyone else being prompted by this?? I keep thinking I've made a sale in the guild trader, but nope. Nothing...

You wouldn't happen to be on Xbox? This I believe is posted in the bug forums. I also play on Xbox and this is a very annoying occurrence. It happens to me whenever I change zones/come out of an outlaw refuge/or a delve etc. Ding/Ding/Ding. No actual mail or notifications, but the sound effect is persisting.

Gythral

Seems to be getting worse (or is it just getting 'old' very fast)!
PC- Eternally Unreliable

Red_Feather

I thought that I was going a little crazy last night. So it really is a weird thing going on with the sounds. 😯

Sheezabeast

That happened to me earlier today too. I thought maybe something happened in a guild, but I wasn't removed from any guild, didn't change any rank or anything, didn't have any notifications, or new mails. And I have trial notifications turned off in the social menu.

JoDiMageio

Glad to see it's not just me then.
I'll post it in the bugs forum, and again, if anyone knows which forum manager to tag, let me know, please

Edit: There's already a post started, so I linked this topic to it. Hopefully they will fix it soon, because with the event coming up, things are going to get noisy.

Edit 2: Why is it that we cannot ever get a patch that goes smoothly? I know nothing of programming, it's a serious question. How can something that was not a problem all of a sudden become one? Or return? Is it a conflict in the coding? Because I assume it cannot just magically write itself in. Also, these patches are tested on PTS, right? How do these errors not get caught there?

Sheezabeast

JoDiMageio wrote: »

Glad to see it's not just me then.
I'll post it in the bugs forum, and again, if anyone knows which forum manager to tag, let me know, please

Edit: There's already a post started, so I linked this topic to it. Hopefully they will fix it soon, because with the event coming up, things are going to get noisy.

Edit 2: Why is it that we cannot ever get a patch that goes smoothly? I know nothing of programming, it's a serious question. How can something that was not a problem all of a sudden become one? Or return? Is it a conflict in the coding? Because I assume it cannot just magically write itself in. Also, these patches are tested on PTS, right? How do these errors not get caught there?

I gotta be honest, this is a very tolerable audio bug. For a while a few years back, every time I entered a delve, the audio clip of Kailstig the Axe chanting "Undaunted! Undaunted!" would repeat, and it was such a fun bug, and I miss that bug so much!! This one is a boring audio bug compared to that one

JoDiMageio

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

Glad to see it's not just me then.
I'll post it in the bugs forum, and again, if anyone knows which forum manager to tag, let me know, please

Edit: There's already a post started, so I linked this topic to it. Hopefully they will fix it soon, because with the event coming up, things are going to get noisy.

Edit 2: Why is it that we cannot ever get a patch that goes smoothly? I know nothing of programming, it's a serious question. How can something that was not a problem all of a sudden become one? Or return? Is it a conflict in the coding? Because I assume it cannot just magically write itself in. Also, these patches are tested on PTS, right? How do these errors not get caught there?

I gotta be honest, this is a very tolerable audio bug. For a while a few years back, every time I entered a delve, the audio clip of Kailstig the Axe chanting "Undaunted! Undaunted!" would repeat, and it was such a fun bug, and I miss that bug so much!! This one is a boring audio bug compared to that one

You are more patient than me, then. Every time it pops up, I'm checking my mails or thinking someone is trying to duel me (I have auto-decline on, but hey, brains are weird). It's really annoying to me. There's a reason I have notifications turned off...

Gandalf_72

Same here, PC EU.

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deyjasagus wrote: »

Dolgubon has created a new addon as a temporary fix until they find a way to resolve this. The addon name is Notification Sound Bug Blocker.

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SilverBride

I got this once. I don't remember what I was doing but I was in town.

Cirantille

Yes

thechiefisback

@ZOS_GinaBruno Is that a known issue?

Keldor

Same here, PC EU