Is there an explanation for the increase in loading screen times?

Messy1 · September 2015

Can someone at ZOS or anyone on the forum explain why loading screen times are so long after the IC DLC and base-game patch?
Is it because there are more players now and there is more traffic on the servers?
Is it an unintended result of the DLC and patch?
Are there new security measures keeping bots and cheaters out?

Lots of people have been complaining about the increased loading screen times in game and on the forum. Surely, ZOS is concerned about this issue. Any answers out there?

Messy1 · October 2015

reften wrote: »

Happy Monday. I'd like an update here too. Tried to meet up with some guildies who were in craglorn, and I was in IC. That's four load screens away. Just brutal.

Yes, getting from the IC and back to craglorn is SOOOOO time consuming and a lot of players need to switch zones to do crafting writs, get mats in IC, craft items in different zones and then go to other zones to buy stuff from guild traders etc . . . . Loading screens are choking commerce and player productivity leading to . . . . FRUSTRATION!

Winterpsy · September 2015

[Ps4] Confirmed. 7 out of 10 loading screens receive the "This may take longer than usual" message.

Its significantly increased,not only in IC, but everywhere.

I'd like to ask the developers too, to take an investigation if it can be reduced.

Thank you!

firstdecan · September 2015

It's to discourage people from using game features like wayshrines and changing zones.

LondonLad · September 2015

my self and friends last night were only talking about this. They are insanely long at the moment on the ps4.

Lord_Wrath · September 2015

Id much sooner expect a reskinned cat mount than an intelligent response from Zos on this issue. Yet, I do hope something comes about. Im sick and tired of neglected bugs and issues patch after patch.

Aimelin · September 2015

Immersion.

Troneon · September 2015

Z$S communication on any issue is complete BS and crap as usual.

They say nothing for months or the bare minimum, just look at how long the LFG Tool has been broken.

Messy1 · September 2015

The game would be 10x more enjoyable to everyone if the loading screen issue was addressed and fixed. ZOS, don't you know this simple fact? Also, isn't the game going to lose subs and decline in interest if basic service needs are not addressed? ZOS try to have a little more transparency!

medieval_TOG · September 2015

Because ZoS realise that everyone sits for too long, so they make you stand up and shout at your screen from time to time.

Consider it a community service.

13igTyme · September 2015

Lord_Wrath wrote: »

Id much sooner expect a reskinned cat mount than an intelligent response from Zos on this issue. Yet, I do hope something comes about. Im sick and tired of neglected bugs and issues patch after patch.

People keep paying for stuff. Why would they fix anything?

BalticBlues · September 2015

IMPORTANT:
The loading screen duration seems to be dependent on the characters.

With update 7, the loading screens take MUCH, MUCH longer with vet characters.
If you create a new character, the loading screens have the same length as with update 6.

It looks like there is something going on with vet characters in the background now.
This is either a bug or they run extended preload-calculations in the background now for vets.

Techlisp · September 2015

Winterpsy wrote: »

[Ps4] Confirmed. 7 out of 10 loading screens receive the "This may take longer than usual" message.

This.

Never used to get them in PvE, only sometimes in PvP when the server is busy. I haven't even gone into PvP since patch, goodness knows what that is like? Turning me off buying IC.

Kuroinu · September 2015

BalticBlues wrote: »

IMPORTANT:
The loading screen duration seems to be dependent on the characters.

With update 7, the loading screens take MUCH, MUCH longer with vet characters.
If you create a new character, the loading screens have the same length as with update 6.

It looks like there is something going on with vet characters in the background now.
This is either a bug or they run extended preload-calculations in the background now for vets.

@BalticBlues - You know when I played Skyrim on lolPS3, the more I accomplished various things in the game the longer my load times gradually became. Sounds like a very similar issue to me, did you submit this finding to ZOS already? Via bug report or any other means.

Belidos · September 2015

Yes it's confirmed what the issue is ...

They broke it

That's all we need to know

Seriously though, I have a feeling it's something to do with either broken textures or new textures that aren't optimized properly and the game's struggling to load them. I don't know that for sure though, it's just a theory I have.

BalticBlues · September 2015

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

did you submit this finding to ZOS already?

Did you try ZOS support recently? After laying off their people, no matter what issue I report, I now always receive the same text block, telling me to read the knowledge base and visit the forums, CASE SOLVED.

Kuroinu · September 2015

BalticBlues wrote: »

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

did you submit this finding to ZOS already?

Did you try ZOS support recently? After laying off their people, no matter what issue I report, I now always receive the same text block, telling me to read the knowledge base and visit the forums, CASE SOLVED. They probably only have a ROBO support left.

A response in this case doesn't really matter, but I understand and perhaps using "submit feedback" over a bug report is the better option for this.

BalticBlues · September 2015

I doubt the support people are even reading bug descriptions.
When I write an email, they ask to write an ingame report, case solved.
When I write an ingame report, they ask to visit the KB and forum, case solved.

The only way to reach somebody seems to be by posting in this forum.

FireCowCommando · September 2015

I could go and spend lots of time looking at different traders, or i could just not look at load screens for an hour.

IC economy is going to be very... odd due to these massive load screens, i avoid every one i can like the plague.

Endless-Shogun · September 2015

Zenimax runs their business practice the exact opposite of how Bethesda does.
It will cause rifts down the road.
Best to just get used to it and wait for the worst to come.

Divinius · September 2015

It's a "known issue" and they are "investigating"... That's all they have ever said about it.

In other words: get used to it, because it's probably going to be this way forever now. They said the same things when an update caused significantly more lag in Cyrodill, and that lag has been there ever since. These are the types of problems that ZOS is either unwilling, or unable, to fix.

FelixTheCatt · September 2015

Like the guild trader issues they've said its being "looked into". What I would love to know is wth is "future incremental patch" supposed to mean and ..ohhhh I dunno....maybe some kind of timeline?

corrosivechains · September 2015

been an issue for me too lately. I'm a PC player, had the odd infinite loading screen here and there, even after the IC patch things weren't too bad. But since the maintenance and patch this week, my load times have gotten unbearable to the point where I'm not even trying to log in anymore. And don't have any vet ranked characters so dunno if that's the reason.

cjthibs · September 2015

What exactly would knowing the cause accomplish?

It's likely some down-in-the-weeds technical thing that 98% of us wouldn't understand.

Elijah_Crow · September 2015

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NEEDKZDRri4

Winterpsy · September 2015

Ideas for loading screens:

- Advertisements - Swift cash for the company. Cannot be any more annoying anyhow. I'd sell the loading screen times to whomever pays cash for it to have their advertisements put there. [trollface]

neueregel · September 2015

Not only this, but 1/2 the time when I do change zones, or change players... the game crashes. The emblem spins in the bottom right and then stops spinning after 5 minutes or so... the only thing i can do is force the game closed with Task Manager. This happens 6+ times a day for me... real fun.

Darlgon · September 2015

Its a back end problem. They have people working on it, according to the last update on my ticket on PC.

myrrrorb14_ESO · September 2015

These loading screens are are rough on my crafter. I lose so much time transferring mats and loading into zones.

Maybe I'll take a break for a bit. Someone said it doesnt affect non vet so maybe I can try out a NBfor a bit.

Messy1 · September 2015

myrrrorb14_ESO wrote: »

These loading screens are are rough on my crafter. I lose so much time transferring mats and loading into zones.

Maybe I'll take a break for a bit. Someone said it doesnt affect non vet so maybe I can try out a NBfor a bit.

I know, it is terrible that I have to switch between characters to do daily crafting writs to get glass motifs and sit through what adds up to hours of loading screens each week. Seriously l, if the loading screens are between 1-2 mins and I switch between at least 5 characters for crafting in a 1 hr time prior that's at least 10 mins (best case scenario) then factor in switching to different areas for set crafting, switching zones for resource gathering, then getting back and forth to the IC, even going from IC sewers back up into the districts, easily 1 hr per day of playing (not that I play 24/7, but still, I like to maximize the time 8 have before work or before bed to do a few crafting things and these loading screens are really messing that up).

starlizard70ub17_ESO · September 2015

This is just a theory, but could the longer loading screen times be preping us for the time when there are crown store ads on the loading screens.

AbraXuSeXile · September 2015

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Is there an explanation for the increase in loading screen times?

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