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

LadyGP · October 20

Seravi wrote: »

Never mind. It will just get "snipped". Good luck guys and gals.

I feel you. Hopefully we will have some kinda update tomorrow.

Stridig · October 21

This thread is finally starting to die down a bit. It's amazing what can happen if you just largely ignore a playerbase by throwing a bone once every couple of weeks. Even the last of the known streamers have fizzled out. I logged in for a few last night and noticed half the daily log in rewards were locked. Sad days....

meekmiko · October 21

What's interesting are the people who still come in here trying to say a majority of players aren't having any sort of problem, when even here on the forums according to that poll that got closed down 54% of players here responded that they were having problems. So literally more than half of us who voted in that poll ARE having problems. 🤷‍♀️

Like, if you aren't having problems then cool that's AWESOME and hopefully you continue to play without problems, but this has really turned into a pretty substantial problem for more than half of us here. There needs to be some sort of official announcement acknowledging that there's indeed a problem and what is possibly being done to combat it. Why are the higher ups still ignoring this??

Also, to that guy who came in here asking why people who aren't playing are still checking on this thread and replying in hopes of a fix after all this time: Some of us have spent years playing this game. Some of us have spent hundreds of dollars, if not way more, on a game that no longer works. Be it ESO+, DLC, Expansions, or just outright Crown Purchases including expensive Houses and Crown Crates. We still WANT to play, but we CAN'T when the game is running in such a poor state.

Rkindaleft · October 21

meekmiko wrote: »

What's interesting are the people who still come in here trying to say a majority of players aren't having any sort of problem, when even here on the forums according to that poll that got closed down 54% of players here responded that they were having problems. So literally more than half of us who voted in that poll ARE having problems. 🤷‍♀️

Like, if you aren't having problems then cool that's AWESOME and hopefully you continue to play without problems, but this has really turned into a pretty substantial problem for more than half of us here. There needs to be some sort of official announcement acknowledging that there's indeed a problem and what is possibly being done to combat it. Why are the higher ups still ignoring this??

Also, to that guy who came in here asking why people who aren't playing are still checking on this thread and replying in hopes of a fix after all this time: Some of us have spent years playing this game. Some of us have spent hundreds of dollars, if not way more, on a game that no longer works. Be it ESO+, DLC, Expansions, or just outright Crown Purchases including expensive Houses and Crown Crates. We still WANT to play, but we CAN'T when the game is running in such a poor state.

Because most of them who say they're not affected only do overland questing/housing/play the game solo so when there's 5 second rubber banding or a random DC every so often, it doesn't significantly affect their gameplay because they can just log in again and continue whatever they were doing. I bet a few of them (on console, where current ping is not obvious) running around in the world are lagging and don't realise it because they're not in combat.

When you have 5 second rubber banding against another player in Cyrodiil you probably just die, when you have 5 second rubber banding when mechanics are happening during a trifecta you probably just die, the run is ruined and it's also ruined for 11 other players. That's when gameplay IS significantly affected.

NotNi.ya · October 21

Stridig wrote: »

This thread is finally starting to die down a bit. It's amazing what can happen if you just largely ignore a playerbase by throwing a bone once every couple of weeks. Even the last of the known streamers have fizzled out. I logged in for a few last night and noticed half the daily log in rewards were locked. Sad days....

I've honestly stopped playing outside of the 1 pve core im in that's still going. I'll maybe pvp (try to) for 10 mins until something dumb happens, but outside of that I don't even look at the icon on my desk top, it's on my 2nd monitor out the way. I figured if the players aren't worth an actual response then eso isn't worth my time.

twev · October 21

Logged in around 5PM EDT (PCNA) Sunday the 20th for the first time in a while to get back into some stacks of surveys in SW craglorn to pick up rocks and flowers.
Usually played that area at 90 FPS and 90 PR in the past.

I was stuck at 9 to 15 FPS and PR was in the 300's, so I logged out, rebooted, and logged back into almost the same numbers.
Through several logins - I got the PR down to the mid 150's a few times, but FPS was stuck at the 9 to 15 range.

Speedtest.net was giving me results in the 800 to 900 Mbps range with 25 to 40 PR the few times I polled local and Texas connections.

(Le sigh).
I ended up vacuuming the house, and watching some youtube videos instead.

Just, sad.

dk_dunkirk · October 21

meekmiko wrote: »

What's interesting are the people who still come in here trying to say a majority of players aren't having any sort of problem, when even here on the forums according to that poll that got closed down 54% of players here responded that they were having problems. So literally more than half of us who voted in that poll ARE having problems. 🤷‍♀️

Like, if you aren't having problems then cool that's AWESOME and hopefully you continue to play without problems, but this has really turned into a pretty substantial problem for more than half of us here. There needs to be some sort of official announcement acknowledging that there's indeed a problem and what is possibly being done to combat it. Why are the higher ups still ignoring this??

Also, to that guy who came in here asking why people who aren't playing are still checking on this thread and replying in hopes of a fix after all this time: Some of us have spent years playing this game. Some of us have spent hundreds of dollars, if not way more, on a game that no longer works. Be it ESO+, DLC, Expansions, or just outright Crown Purchases including expensive Houses and Crown Crates. We still WANT to play, but we CAN'T when the game is running in such a poor state.

<looks around nervously; whistles tunelessly>

I'm not sure at what point ZOS would consider someone a "whale," but I've got to at least be close, and I play with several guildies who would probably qualify as well. I haven't spent a dime in the Crown store for months, and won't start again until they fix this problem.

AngryPenguin · October 21

meekmiko wrote: »

What's interesting are the people who still come in here trying to say a majority of players aren't having any sort of problem, when even here on the forums according to that poll that got closed down 54% of players here responded that they were having problems. So literally more than half of us who voted in that poll ARE having problems. 🤷‍♀️

Like, if you aren't having problems then cool that's AWESOME and hopefully you continue to play without problems, but this has really turned into a pretty substantial problem for more than half of us here. There needs to be some sort of official announcement acknowledging that there's indeed a problem and what is possibly being done to combat it. Why are the higher ups still ignoring this??

Also, to that guy who came in here asking why people who aren't playing are still checking on this thread and replying in hopes of a fix after all this time: Some of us have spent years playing this game. Some of us have spent hundreds of dollars, if not way more, on a game that no longer works. Be it ESO+, DLC, Expansions, or just outright Crown Purchases including expensive Houses and Crown Crates. We still WANT to play, but we CAN'T when the game is running in such a poor state.

I wish I'd only spent hundreds of dollars on ESO. I've spent over $4,000 and it doesn't matter. The game runs the same for everyone. That's why I quit paying for anything ESO after U35 dropped and ZOS ignored all our feedback about it. That's when I realized ZOS is going to go whatever they gonna do and we're just along for the ride.

LadyGP · October 21

NotNi.ya wrote: »

Stridig wrote: »

This thread is finally starting to die down a bit. It's amazing what can happen if you just largely ignore a playerbase by throwing a bone once every couple of weeks. Even the last of the known streamers have fizzled out. I logged in for a few last night and noticed half the daily log in rewards were locked. Sad days....

I've honestly stopped playing outside of the 1 pve core im in that's still going. I'll maybe pvp (try to) for 10 mins until something dumb happens, but outside of that I don't even look at the icon on my desk top, it's on my 2nd monitor out the way. I figured if the players aren't worth an actual response then eso isn't worth my time.

Most people I know are doing this now. Log in, run their core, log off.

Servadei · October 21

The disconnects are getting worse for me. I'll literally only be running trying to get somewhere on PC NA and get disconnected now.

LadyGP · October 21

Servadei wrote: »

The disconnects are getting worse for me. I'll literally only be running trying to get somewhere on PC NA and get disconnected now.

My favorite is when you load in... move about 5 steps... and then boom back to desktop.

GoAvs34 · October 21

Unfortunately I'm also in the group of people where my performance issues have degraded recently as well. To keep myself from getting to frustrated or wasting time I've stopped doing anything in game except parsing on PTS (unsubbed and uninstalled live

). If I get any time warp stuff during the first parse or setting gear up I log off and move on to something else. I've had trouble even doing inventory management or applying glyphs and had to log off.

So that's a huge bummer but I'll keep sending bug reports related to new gear/skills/etc and posting cmx around as performance allows.

Scarefish · October 22

The booted from server bug is just a feature at this point. There is no way to prevent it from happening. It's just an rng thing that will ruin whatever you were doing. Just close the game and play a different one

LadyGP · October 22

How is that update from leadership coming @ZOS_Kevin?

6 months. 2,100 replies and 91,000 views.

LadyGP · October 22

Stridig wrote: »

This thread is finally starting to die down a bit. It's amazing what can happen if you just largely ignore a playerbase by throwing a bone once every couple of weeks. Even the last of the known streamers have fizzled out. I logged in for a few last night and noticed half the daily log in rewards were locked. Sad days....

This is why we can't just fade into the wind and have to keep pressing and demand a fix.

Coo_PnT · October 22

No one involved in ZoS plays ESO.
Do you do daily quests and play daily in random dungeons and Cyrodiil? Are you guys confident enough to promote this game to your family and friends?
Please fix this problem as soon as possible.

I just want to play PvP in Cyrodiil.

MedicInTheWild · October 22

LadyGP wrote: »

How is that update from leadership coming @ZOS_Kevin?

6 months. 2,100 replies and 91,000 views.

I don’t understand why they have not dropped or reduce other effort to fix this issue. Everything they put into this game since this has or will be problematic. I can’t run a trial, PvP or just run through a town without lag or dcing. New content sucks when you get to experience in the same lag currently in the game. I got on last night just to dc 5 minutes in. I feel like the managements priorities are not in line when the community has has this much interaction.

LalMirchi · October 22

Sorry to say but the game crashed and zapped my UserSettings.txt once again.

Scarefish · October 22

LalMirchi wrote: »

Sorry to say but the game crashed and zapped my UserSettings.txt once again.

That's another thing too. In the past half-year the game has done this to me three times as well. I can't recall other games doing this sort of thing. Maybe Fortnite, but that's only in the rare case where core files get corrupted. If the game needs to be repaired on a monthly basis then that tells me their updates are pretty poorly conceived and poorly tested.

Destai · October 22

LadyGP wrote: »

How is that update from leadership coming @ZOS_Kevin?

6 months. 2,100 replies and 91,000 views.

At this point, I'd just settle for a list of what they've tested so far and how big of an issue they think it is.

Auberon1983 · October 23

Finally have a chance to get back in the game this week. DC'd doing mount training on an alt toon. PlayStation/NA

When it comes to money spent, I'm going to finally out myself here:

I'm a Whale

Not for me, but guildmates. I buy 21k crowns monthly and sell them to multiple guildmates. I use the gold to buy mats (especially gold mats), as I craft for free for guildmates, and I actually enjoy it and going the "extra mile". I use the gold to host trivia nights in a Guild I'm in, or to give to new guildmates just starting out. I also like to hang out on Starter Islands and give Welcome Baskets (50k gold, 200 lockpicks, 200 soul gems) to clearly brand new players. It is exceedingly rare for me to buy myself anything from the crown store (I'm not at all into housing).

But...I can't in good conscience keep doing that. I haven't for over two months. If things aren't fixed, or we just keep getting the run around, I'll stop completely. I just cannot keep giving this company money at this point.

Jaraal · October 23

Riding through poplocked Cyrodiil and screen freezes, game crashes. "An unexpected error occurred." Wait 2 minutes, click login, select same character, click play. Oh, good.... Cyrodiil loading screen. I must have waited long enough to clear the error, but not long enough to have to restart the queue. Still loading... then "Lost lobby connection." Click "OK," click log in. Wait 15 seconds, and then "Booted from server."

Same story, different day. Getting super tired of having to jump through non-performance hoops just to play.

moderatelyfatman · October 23

LadyGP wrote: »

How is that update from leadership coming @ZOS_Kevin?

6 months. 2,100 replies and 91,000 views.

TBH, I'd rather ZOS say nothing until they've found the problem and are working on a fix.

@Auberon1983 You're better than the game currently deserves.

Arrow312 · October 23

Jaraal wrote: »

Riding through poplocked Cyrodiil and screen freezes, game crashes. "An unexpected error occurred." Wait 2 minutes, click login, select same character, click play. Oh, good.... Cyrodiil loading screen. I must have waited long enough to clear the error, but not long enough to have to restart the queue. Still loading... then "Lost lobby connection." Click "OK," click log in. Wait 15 seconds, and then "Booted from server."

Same story, different day. Getting super tired of having to jump through non-performance hoops just to play.

Same by me when i played. That's was the final shot which let me quit. 999 Ping into nowhere weird but it was Eso could be. Then Cyro freeze, crash, relog wait, connection lost, repeat sometimes i tried it 10 Min. First of all I checked my side but there was nothing strange, i uninstalled my few Add-ons but still the same result. Now the thread exist around 6-7 Months and still nothing just a few phrases....

Scarefish · October 23

Waited for a boss to respawn. Got kicked. Logged back in and the boss was up. Got kicked again. Logged back in, dead, and the boss was dead again

moderatelyfatman · October 23

Scarefish wrote: »

Waited for a boss to respawn. Got kicked. Logged back in and the boss was up. Got kicked again. Logged back in, dead, and the boss was dead again

The worst is when there is an event and you wait for the boss to spawn.... boss spawns and you get kicked.... and then you log back in and the boss is dead at your feet and you can't loot the body.

Jaraal · October 23

moderatelyfatman wrote: »

Scarefish wrote: »

Waited for a boss to respawn. Got kicked. Logged back in and the boss was up. Got kicked again. Logged back in, dead, and the boss was dead again

The worst is when there is an event and you wait for the boss to spawn.... boss spawns and you get kicked.... and then you log back in and the boss is dead at your feet and you can't loot the body.

It's a lot worse in Cyrodiil, when you've been defending a keep for an hour and get kicked through no fault of your own, then when you finally make it back in the battle is over, everybody else got 40-50k Alliance Points, and all you got was knowing your expensive coldfire siege or lancer you worked hard to get is now gone forever because ZOS won't pack it up safely for you when you crash.

KaironBlackbard · October 23

Jaraal wrote: »

moderatelyfatman wrote: »

Scarefish wrote: »

Waited for a boss to respawn. Got kicked. Logged back in and the boss was up. Got kicked again. Logged back in, dead, and the boss was dead again

The worst is when there is an event and you wait for the boss to spawn.... boss spawns and you get kicked.... and then you log back in and the boss is dead at your feet and you can't loot the body.

It's a lot worse in Cyrodiil, when you've been defending a keep for an hour and get kicked through no fault of your own, then when you finally make it back in the battle is over, everybody else got 40-50k Alliance Points, and all you got was knowing your expensive coldfire siege or lancer you worked hard to get is now gone forever because ZOS won't pack it up safely for you when you crash.

Man, that hurts.

LadyGP · October 23

moderatelyfatman wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

How is that update from leadership coming @ZOS_Kevin?

6 months. 2,100 replies and 91,000 views.

TBH, I'd rather ZOS say nothing until they've found the problem and are working on a fix.

@Auberon1983 You're better than the game currently deserves.

Nope. Best coms teams are those who don't have the answers but explain their process on how they are trying to get them. What they have done thus far, what testing, logging, backlog tasking, etc, has been done thus far to get to this point.

They might know the "Why" it is happening but they sure as heck have a list of what they have done thus far.. what paths they have gone down.

This is info that needs to be communicated. If they never say anything until it's fixed it would be coming up on 7 months of radio silence here.

@ZOS_Kevin

Estin · October 23

Stridig wrote: »

This thread is finally starting to die down a bit. It's amazing what can happen if you just largely ignore a playerbase by throwing a bone once every couple of weeks. Even the last of the known streamers have fizzled out. I logged in for a few last night and noticed half the daily log in rewards were locked. Sad days....

It's dying down because ZOS already gave their official answer. The whole "Many things outside our control" one. They're not going to fix it. If they were actually serious about fixing this issue, it would've been fixed by now and they wouldn't keep the issue so close to their chest. I cancelled my sub when that answer was given. I'll resubscribe once the issue is fixed, but like I said, that's not going to happen.