The queuing is UNACCEPTABLE

Beekeeper1

Know several folks who had 30+ min queues ESO long time players who have given up and one is doing Vrising, a couple went over to D4, I did BG3 while waiting those others arent even trying to get back in. Alos apparently besides the Bethesda free ESO Plus event, and their scheduled event, EPIC games is hosting free ESO also and from various posts the new folks on EPIC have NO QUEUE times.

method__01

[snip] must wait for 1 hour ,30 min , 4 secs to play a game i subbed ?

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[edited for bashing/profanity bypass]

kwisatz

Seriously?

Skafloc

Fed up with the wait times - worst ever tonight

H1ker

I just cancelled my ESO Plus subscription. I have been a subscriber for many years. I decided to send a message with my wallet. That is they only type of message that companies like this understand. Wait times over an hour and terrible server latency are unacceptible. It does not matter that the content and game are great if you can't play it.

jad11mumbler

I don't mind the queueing, at least not on days off.

But when those queues have issues?

Kicked from the queue due to error 103, queue bugging out and remaining at "2 mins left" for 20+ mins?
All leading in a restart of the queue, starting over for another 20 mins.

Quickly turning into 2 hours.


If the queueing wasn't bad enough...

Gotta agree with the OP here, I paid for the base game, pay for my yearly sub, buy the expansions.
We shouldn't have to wait in a queue behind free to play newcomers.

As with typical ZoS fashion though, New users must come first.

Idelise

Beekeeper1 wrote: »

Know several folks who had 30+ min queues ESO long time players who have given up and one is doing Vrising, a couple went over to D4, I did BG3 while waiting those others arent even trying to get back in. Alos apparently besides the Bethesda free ESO Plus event, and their scheduled event, EPIC games is hosting free ESO also and from various posts the new folks on EPIC have NO QUEUE times.

Wait, what?
So new EPIC players who paid nothing for the game, sub or anything have no queues?

Chufu

agelonestar wrote: »

I don't know whether it's a bug, a server-side issue, whether it's the free-to-play event, the in-game event, or the ESO+ free trial..... Longstanding customers who bought the game, bought the chapters, and spend yet more money subscribing, SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN A QUEUE TO PLAY THIS GAME!!!

It's utterly infuriating.

I frequently move around between accounts and between NA and EU. As I write, the queue times have gone from a minute to over 6 minutes, and I have got to the end of the queue and crashed twice (so I have to exit to desktop, and start all over again).

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_JessicaFolsom what's going on, and what can be done to ensure that paying customers get access to the game they bought?

yup totally agree, I find this also super annoying. Other MMOs don't have such a mess, so why does ESO? Over 1 hour waiting time... even Diablo4 got that fixed after the beta, so please... And even if you made it through, if you wouldn't be at your desk in exactly that time, then you get logged out again and there the queue is again. World of Warcraft has quite a long time you can be on the login-screen after a successful login before it kicks you out.

Really surprised who at Bethesda/ZOS found it a brilliant idea to have 4 events ongoing at the same time...

clacker

1 Hour 30 Minutes queue on PCEU !

jad11mumbler

As usual, new customers must come fir

Beekeeper1 wrote: »

Know several folks who had 30+ min queues ESO long time players who have given up and one is doing Vrising, a couple went over to D4, I did BG3 while waiting those others arent even trying to get back in. Alos apparently besides the Bethesda free ESO Plus event, and their scheduled event, EPIC games is hosting free ESO also and from various posts the new folks on EPIC have NO QUEUE times.

EPIC users are logging into the same EU/NA megaservers we are, so I doubt they have no queue.
PCNA hasn't been as bad until today, so maybe that's why many of them are claiming to have no queue.

I doubt ZoS would be able to differentiate Epic users from anyone else.

Technica

I nearly spit out my tea. What in Oblivion is this!?

I don't mind the <5m (even at a push <10m) queues I've been seeing recently, that's not too long... But AN HOUR!?

I really hope this is sorted before stupid o'clock tonight, since I am a working adult that needs to sleep to be ready to go to work tomorrow morning... I don't wanna miss out on my tickets today either. I've been too busy to play the last few events and missed out on some stuff... I was hoping I could catch up...

AD42

A whole hour.

Gordias

And this will be the result:

https://youtu.be/Aept6tOqAEY?t=243

Martin_Umbranox

Agree with all the comments. Infuriating that queues are over 90min now and then crash as they near the end. I may as well downgrade 2 of my 3 Plus accounts. If this continues the event may as well be over and they'll need to issue coupons for event tickets so we can turn in at the next event.

Starlight_Knight

Can anyone point me in the direction of any comunication from ZoS about this issue? I thought they were trying to comunicate better - have they said anything on any social media or anywhere ?
its 1 : 45 queue time now on PC EU.

I mean quing is ok, but at nearly 2 hours, thats a bug.

Crimsonorion

Not even one of those "We see the issue and are working on it" stall tactic posts? Crazy

But with people getting angry about it I'm sure someone from ZOS will reply to this soon..telling us they cleaned up a bunch of posts and that we should be civil to each other while not actually addressing the issue lol

Technica

I checked Twitter (or "X" now? whatever) for the typical "we're investigating issues of..." but nothing.

Then I came to the forums to see the ENTIRE first page of general forums full of queue time threads

harvey07

i figured this was a good time to stop playing for a while. nothing that creates this much hassle is ever worth it for me. i just cancelled my monthly even though it renewed two days ago which i can just do a charge back for that since i am not getting what i paid for.

queues are ok - within reason.....but it is the issues with getting back in after you were kicked out...to be put in a queue yet again...only to get an error message when the queue finishes it countdown. never ending loop for the past few days.

it double sucks since i just got this amazing gaming system last month specifically for eso.

Chufu

Technica wrote: »

I nearly spit out my tea. What in Oblivion is this!?

I don't mind the <5m (even at a push <10m) queues I've been seeing recently, that's not too long... But AN HOUR!?

I really hope this is sorted before stupid o'clock tonight, since I am a working adult that needs to sleep to be ready to go to work tomorrow morning... I don't wanna miss out on my tickets today either. I've been too busy to play the last few events and missed out on some stuff... I was hoping I could catch up...

Exactly that, coming home from work and then THAT. Totally frustrating. I was also looking to catch up on some tickets for the Zenithar event. hope ZOS can extend it -.-

Lumenn

It's getting harder and harder to convince myself that this game isn't on some form of autopilot. The lack of communication doesn't help.

agelonestar

Came to see if this hot mess had been fixed as I have 20-30 mins while dinner is cooking.....

• PC/EU = a few minutes off 2 HOURS wait time.
• PC/NA = a 30 minutes wait time.

I have wet myself laughing and gone to find a new game to buy.

@ZOS_Kevin and team..... awesome job

linlilia

Had 4 queues today on PC NA, 15min, 20min, and a 35min. Getting annoying ZOS....

Wildberryjack

NA shows 38 minutes, EU 1 hour 11 minutes. I left queue. I'm not wasting my time like this. looks like I'll be playing something else until this free crap is over. Paying subs should get priority log-in.

ZashuNina

I sure hope I don't disconnect....

-upset Bosmer noises-

erw.nautab16_ESO

so,queing more than 1 hour
before the last new chapter never had this problem.

Dojohoda

Methinks the cart is in front of the donkey.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

And of course this happens today. This is the last day I have available to to play for a couple of weeks as I am having to move to another state and won't be able to play for awhile.
Last night I kept getting disconnected every time I changed characters and now this.
Glad I at least got trader bids done last night.

@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno
Any response would be appreciated.
Thank you!

Ode2Order

Technical problems can happen, but the thing I take issue with is the lack of communication, especially after claiming they were trying to communicate better.

Nachala

after 2 and half hours I cancelled the queue, no daily log in reward no event tickets and no mount upgrades, extremely disappointed in the lack of communication. I don't care its Sunday if you run a 24 hour service you have 24 hour staff!

zamoramerida

This is crazy almost 30 min waiting queue