The queuing is UNACCEPTABLE

DragonRacer

DonHardstyle wrote: »

I do not believe that eso being free on epic gave us so much more players. It deffo brought new players into the game for sure, But enough to make 30 minute queue's? Doubt it. Even now, 1300 Cest on sunday there is a 10 min queue. I think its more a hardware issue. Or a combination.

That is still my theory. I don't recall seeing PC folks mention a login queue until AFTER the game crashed on ALL servers across ALL platforms (including console) Friday afternoon. Just prior to The Big Crash, I was cycling through my various accounts to restock my trader listings for Zeal... and I was getting 1-2 minutes login queues I have literally NEVER seen before... on PlayStation.

Whole weekend, I have occasionally been getting 1-2 minute login queues on PS5 NA. That's clearly not the hour and half and other stupidity that PC is getting, but console has not experienced a login queue before, to my knowledge. And it all started happening just prior to The Big Crash and consistently since then.

Something happened to the servers. For everyone. But PC is clearly worse hit and/or the combo of the new peeps from the Epic promo (which, obviously, did not affect console) adding to the logjam.

Northwold

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Diatonic wrote: »

I am happy to see a queue today….means more people in the game.

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It's not "a few minutes". Right now it appears to be in excess of half an hour. Personally, I had 45 minutes free to play. So I'm just not going to bother. People have lives and this is completely ridiculous. The last time it was like this was around the time of Summerset.

The megaserver concept has been a millstone around the game's neck since the beginning. Maybe it's time to break the servers up into smaller chunks rather than trying to serve a whole region at once per server.

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Ragnork

Kiyakotari wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin
Are we going to get an event extension for Zenithar's Zeal? This is making it practically impossible to access the game reliably to get tickets. It's especially frustrating for those of us that have and actively play on multiple accounts/servers. Doing events on multiple accounts can already be a bit dicey, but with login queues that are hours long and randomly time out, and constant server downtimes, it's getting to the point that people are missing tickets through no fault of their own.

Without rectifying the route cause then extending the event will only extend frustration.

curtis337

Sub cancelled more people should do the same as it's the only way they will listen.

CapitanPiluso

Are there any achievements playing this new login-queue minigame? It's fantastic, I'm setting record times.

Thee_Cheshire_Cat

Diatonic wrote: »

I am happy to see a queue today….means more people in the game.

[snip]

You're joking right?

If it was a FEW minutes, it wouldn't be so bad. But for many, it's not. It's 10-30+ minutes. Certainly not a few. As i sit in a que of 12 min i thought i'd come see if there was a thread about it. Low and behold...

i can understand peoples frustration. i share it. However, there are usually ques of some kind at various points in time in many MMOs, and many MMOs you are still paying to play it regardless. You're not going to escape it unfortunately.

However, the game i came from, they had MANY many servers. So, if you couldn't get into one, you could at least still go play the game on another.

This SINGLE server thing that ESO has... adds to the frustration for me, in many ways, on many levels.

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Kiyakotari

Aaaand after about 45 minutes of waiting in queue on my first of four PC-EU accounts, error 103. Ridiculous.

bighamancheese

CapitanPiluso wrote: »

Are there any achievements playing this new login-queue minigame? It's fantastic, I'm setting record times.

I LOVE YOU!!!!!

huntgod_ESO

Did you guys sell some servers or what?

17 minute Q this morning...maybe give login priority to subscribers because this is bull....

I am wondering if there is going to be a Q when I go to swap characters because I have 20 and that is makes it unplayable tp go through them for my daily writs. Much less actually playing a little with the 4-5 that I do other stuff with.

My yearly resub is up end of the month, might have to rethink that if this is the new normal.

DipItInCider

Someone make a tread "Queue priority for +plus members!!!

Chi75

What ZOS delivers here is an outrage

AngryLorekeeper

Xandreia_ wrote: »

jcaceresw wrote: »

I am a paying customer and should be able to log in fast not waiting around 30 minutes per account.

We are all paying customers 😂

We were all paying customers..........

Gelmir

DipItInCider wrote: »

Someone make a tread "Queue priority for +plus members!!!

It shouldn't be that. New players should be jammed into new shards ("megaserver" cliche is just glorious shards anyhow) keeping them from old accounts. Like many MMOs do for years now.

DonRavello

My queue is stuck at 35 minutes 23 seconds .... for 10 minutes now.

I don't dare leaving the queue - could be > 40 minutes then.

phairdon

The last 2 minutes of my 53 minute queue time lasted 9 minutes then I got error 103. PC/EU. At least the NA queue worked. Had to control alt delete to close the game down......

Saldus_Vedrano

8 minutes of my queue took half an hour. 12 more left...

Silaf

Not only the continuous disservice but we should take in account everyone else received a free week of eso+ while we eso+ subscribers had to pay for it.

If you give something for free give it to everyone and if you cause a disservice refound the people paying for time.


I have to watit 20min or 1,30 h because zenimax decided to give the game for free.
As a client paying for time i ask for compensation.

EozZoe1989

i say yes i agree.. like Scottish lady on YouTube its discussing lol

more servers world wide ,,, maybe what they need.. lol but i know how much it costs so i can understand that they need more money lol then they have to give out more things like free map or so or boxes and other stuff earnable is fine in game mounts are what we need earnable to more that changing pets be cool feed them and they grow lol
if they did a poor version for crates like low drop rate ones with okay mounts and old stuff id think about buying it got 10 boxes for like 20krs or 30.. iam poor so thats why

Ezhh

I wanted to log in and do a couple things before I head out for the rest of the day.... 37min 45second queue, that has so far taken over 3mins to drop to 37min 25seconds, says no.

This is massively disruptive for any kind of planned group.

(And in the time I've written this my queue has GONE UP to 40min 16sec).

EDIT: I am at 1 hour 13 mins now............. I give up

DipItInCider

Gelmir wrote: »

DipItInCider wrote: »

Someone make a tread "Queue priority for +plus members!!!

It shouldn't be that. New players should be jammed into new shards ("megaserver" cliche is just glorious shards anyhow) keeping them from old accounts. Like many MMOs do for years now.

Money talks $$$

ZharaX

Queued in at time 30 mins and some seconds, here over 10 mins later waiting, the timer has moved to 28:46... Seriously?!

Get it fixed ZOS...

nick59349b14_ESO

This is total [snip]! I’ve been playing for over 9 years and have never seen this. How can paying customers get back burnered to free ones? This was a really bad management decision. [snip]

[edited for bashing/profanity bypass]

Jaimeh

Half our raid group is stuck behind a 30 minute queue time that seems stuck, and when they try to cancel it, it just increases... GG ZOS.

DipItInCider

I been stuck on 7 mins. for like 10 mins.

Lugaldu

I mean, it's not like ZOS doesn't know that there would be problems every time combining events and Free ESO plus... But they still do it over and over again...

ZharaX

The servers must be down or what the heck is going on here, those seconds count as several minutes!

ookami007

This is ridiculous. Queues are intolerable on NA / EU. Who has 30-55 minutes to sit and wait to use the thing we're paying for? It's even longer for EU - over an hour.

Braggar

Another nail for the coffin.

DipItInCider

I thought they upgraded the servers recently. Looks to me like they downgraded them.

Spacedog

Canceled my sub.