ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?

Orbital78 · January 13

The hamsters are hungry, yea the servers seem to have crashed or something.

silentxthreat · January 13

yes it did for me

ArchangelIsraphel · January 13

Yep! Seems to be having issues. Started having severe lag in BG's, everyone in the group froze and was talking about it in chat. Then DC'ed and now stuck in an hour queue.

The one night I get some time to do battlegrounds, and the server dies on me

I normally do not complain in this particular way, but I was really looking forwards to it, and was having quite a good time before the crash.

Meowzette · January 13

Yes PCNA crashed for me too, ~8:29pm PST. EU seems to be okay, could log in quickly.

BOZiNpro · January 13

Yup crashed 11:29PM EST in PCNA GH Cyrodiil, greeted with a 2+hour queue to log in. EDIT: Back in 11:40PM. Allegedly everyone crashed. EDIT2: 11:46PM EST - kicked again.

Cendrillion21 · January 13

sarahthes wrote: »

Did the server just die for anyone else?

Sadly, yes. Got placed in a queue and then booted.

Lady_Lindel · January 13

PC NA. Same here. Crashed twice. Been getting lag a lot for days, now crashing.

Just_Attivi · January 13

i seem to be eternally queue'd. friend in comms logged in fine, mine wont lol.

Lady_Lindel · January 13

Not doing BG's or PVP, just small quests in Glenumbra.

silentxthreat · January 13

crashed again bg's

Just_Attivi · January 13

got back in! crashed 40 seconds later. @ZOS

lpoki · January 13

Administrator:We are working on it XD

Just_Attivi · January 13

"we have heard your complaints, and to assure you we are taking this seriously, we have introduced a new non combat pet that resembled Missing No. from Pokemon red and blue. we felt it was appropriate"

Just_Attivi · January 13

got back in, crashed again outside of cyrodiil. so PVE land too (PVE discords suggest its not just me as well).

SaintJohnHM · January 13

almost everyone in our trials got kicked tonight.

@ZOS_Kevin Why does ZOS think this is ok to not at least address the issue of ongoing terrible service?

xTAKISx · January 13

Here we go again...

Rkindaleft · January 13

I'm really trying to be careful with my words here (and in general when it comes to talking about issues the game has, I'd wager for a lot of us, if we expressed our feelings in the words we'd actually want to use we'd just be banned from the forums lol) and I'm not blaming anyone, but honestly it's really disappointing that this game has made over $2 billion and yet the servers can't seem to go a month without something breaking.

I don't want to talk about last month because it genuinely was something outside of their control, but the amount of times a similar thing has happened as what happened tonight with everyone getting kicked is really quite shocking. This thread has been going for almost 9 months and it doesn't feel like we're any closer to identifying any issues from when it started even though more and more of these issues seem to be piling up and up. Ever since the outage last month, performance seems to be way more inconsistent with DCs and rubber banding in a lot of my raids. I posted 3 different clips on detailing different raid nights in this thread already since then and as far as I know these clips haven't really been seen or acknowledged.

People are paying serious $$$$ for this and the service is not adequate. I for one have bought every chapter and was a subscriber for basically 7 years straight. We're talking close to $2000 AUD alone outside of the occasional Crown purchase on the side.

Just_Attivi · January 13

Rkindaleft wrote: »

I'm really trying to be careful with my words here (and in general when it comes to talking about issues the game has, I'd wager for a lot of us, if we expressed our feelings in the words we'd actually want to use we'd just be banned from the forums lol) and I'm not blaming anyone, but honestly it's really disappointing that this game has made over $2 billion and yet the servers can't seem to go a month without something breaking.

I don't want to talk about last month because it genuinely was something outside of their control, but the amount of times the same thing has happened as it did tonight with everyone getting kicked is genuinely quite shocking. This thread has been going for almost 9 months and it doesn't feel like we're any closer to identifying any issues from when it started even though more and more of these issues seem to be piling up and up. Ever since the outage last month performance seems to be way more inconsistent with DCs and rubber banding in a lot of my raids. I posted 3 different clips on detailing different raid nights in this thread already since then and as far as I know these clips haven't really been seen or acknowledged.

People are paying serious $$$$ for this and the service is not adequate. I for one have bought every chapter and was a subscriber for basically 7 years straight. We're talking close to $2000 AUD alone outside of the occasional Crown purchase on the side.

I was going to say something, But i will instead not use the words I wanted to, and just agree that my disappointment with this company is tremendous. even a banner update saying 'we know theres issues' would be an acceptable level of communications. The state of performance is a joke, and they are laughing all the way to the bank with it.

Aurielle · January 13

Rkindaleft wrote: »

People are paying serious $$$$ for this

Not since October 2024 over here.

I am also someone who spent thousands on the game over the years…

Slowly giving up hope that these performance issues are ever going to be resolved. I really want to test out the upcoming Cyrodiil changes, but I’m not going to bother wasting my time reinstalling the game when so many people are still having so many issues and when there’s still so much radio silence on ZOS’s end.

SaintJohnHM · January 13

A guild I'm in has two trial trifecta progs scheduled for tonight, should we bother trying to run them, @ZOS_Kevin , or is today another day of DCs and no word from ZOS about when it will be fixed?

Please give us a hint so we know how to plan for our time.

ZOS_Kevin · January 13

SaintJohnHM wrote: »

almost everyone in our trials got kicked tonight.

@ZOS_Kevin Why does ZOS think this is ok to not at least address the issue of ongoing terrible service?

Just wanted to follow up here. We posted an update on the Dev Tracker early this morning. Copied below. This update happened around 2am ET today.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Just following up here. We've noticed a spike in malicious activity targeting our servers. So we made some adjustments to counter this. You may experience decreased game performance while these adjustments are in place.

We’ll continue to monitor and adjust as needed. Thanks for your patience.

SeveN085 · January 13

Man... If I was working in ZOS I'd legit feel embarrassed by this .... can you imagine going to WoW or FF14 forums and seeing a 104 pages threads about server issues? I surely do not. I wonder what kind of impression this leaves on a potential new players when they want to check the forums for some info and they see this thread. Not like it bothers me much, since I don't play this anymore, but still check the forums occasionally for the state of the game and seeing that this problem and thread are still present is really funny(or really unfunny if I was to still play this game).

SaintJohnHM · January 13

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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SaintJohnHM wrote: »

almost everyone in our trials got kicked tonight.

@ZOS_Kevin Why does ZOS think this is ok to not at least address the issue of ongoing terrible service?

Just wanted to follow up here. We posted an update on the Dev Tracker early this morning. Copied below. This update happened around 2am ET today.
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ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Just following up here. We've noticed a spike in malicious activity targeting our servers. So we made some adjustments to counter this. You may experience decreased game performance while these adjustments are in place.

We’ll continue to monitor and adjust as needed. Thanks for your patience.

What does "decreased game performance" mean when we've already been getting DC'd for months? It's not a single player game, if we can't connect there's not much more you can decrease performance.

BXR_Lonestar · January 13

Just last night in Cyrodil (XBOX NA - BR), there were massive lagspikes that froze players in their spot (both enemies and our teammates) and then players had problems getting back in. Not really sure what was going on, but we had to stop early because the servers were unplayable - and on a night where the population wasn't really that busy.

sarahthes · January 13

SaintJohnHM wrote: »

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ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

SaintJohnHM wrote: »

almost everyone in our trials got kicked tonight.

@ZOS_Kevin Why does ZOS think this is ok to not at least address the issue of ongoing terrible service?

Just wanted to follow up here. We posted an update on the Dev Tracker early this morning. Copied below. This update happened around 2am ET today.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Just following up here. We've noticed a spike in malicious activity targeting our servers. So we made some adjustments to counter this. You may experience decreased game performance while these adjustments are in place.

We’ll continue to monitor and adjust as needed. Thanks for your patience.

What does "decreased game performance" mean when we've already been getting DC'd for months? It's not a single player game, if we can't connect there's not much more you can decrease performance.

It hits more people at once.

Seravi · January 13

Major lag West Weald 10:26 CST in the crafting area. Lots of 999+ and a smallish rollback.

Renato90085 · January 13

so lag for me...

Arunei · January 13

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

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SaintJohnHM wrote: »

almost everyone in our trials got kicked tonight.

@ZOS_Kevin Why does ZOS think this is ok to not at least address the issue of ongoing terrible service?

Just wanted to follow up here. We posted an update on the Dev Tracker early this morning. Copied below. This update happened around 2am ET today.
show previous quotes

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Just following up here. We've noticed a spike in malicious activity targeting our servers. So we made some adjustments to counter this. You may experience decreased game performance while these adjustments are in place.

We’ll continue to monitor and adjust as needed. Thanks for your patience.

@ZOS_Kevin
It hit ALL the servers? In the thread I was posting in I saw people on console having the same issues with getting booted, getting the login queue, and so on.

Do you guys have any way of tracking these attacks? The fact that they keep happening in such a short amount of time is...weird. Maybe it's the same group?

fizzylu · January 13

Hm.... I've been jumping between 4+ MMOs for the last six months or so and 'tis a bit strange that this one apparently has some kind of target on it's back. Indeed crazy that performance is still an issue even when it doesn't, nay?

YandereGirlfriend · January 13

I was at Fare last night when the server(s) died at around 8:30PST.

It was a big fight between DC and AD and suddenly 75% of everyone on both sides just stopped moving and eventually phased-out. I'd been kicked about five minutes before but got back on and was spared. 2/3 of my group was banished to the shadow realm and began laughing about 2-hour login queues, etc. Then zone chat started talking about PvE crashing at the same time.

I played for about ten more minutes before in a depopulated campaign before I was kicked again and logged-off for the night.