Forums barely work, Game wont log in... anyone else?

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

Every site I go to works fine EXCEPT for the eso forums. I can load multiple twitch streams while watching multiple youtube videos all at once without delay HOWEVER eso forums wont work without a fight of multi loads and long wait times.

The game wont log on, errors out the ***. Errors 200, 108 etc...

Literally seems like EVERYTHING else works fine but the eso forums and the game servers..

Anyone else having this issue? aka forums barely working and log on issues while every other game and site works fine?

imgur.com/a/My43c

imgur.com/b9PFB03

Id love to edit this to be in more detail and to show more images but this has taken way to much time already... and to press edit and wait for my text to appear and not just the ****ing background behind the forums is not worth it...

Aurie · August 2017

Yes. Long load times for ESO forum pages. This is something fairly recent, but seems to be getting worse.

Any ideas why, and what you can do about it @ZO$ ?

MinarasLaure · August 2017

Yep, same here, as i said in another post, im not sure if the problem is "global", as i have friends from other countries playing (and login in normally)

Biro123 · August 2017

Seems fine for me (UK)

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

yea I think its just australia as it seems.
I noticed my dedicated friends who play from aus have not been on for week + and normally they are on every night.

Seems like my merica friends are fine but us aussies being picked off slowly and not able to log in... guess I got a week extra on them but now I am part of the dead cant log in club..

THIS WONT EVEN POST IT KEEPS SAYING ERROR PERFORMING YOUR REQUEST. PLEASE TRY AGAIN.

Their forums wont even work...

engramz · August 2017

Same problem here.
PCNA from Australia.

DRXHarbinger · August 2017

Forums are busted on Samsung Internet browser for some reason, just gives a black page. I hate Chrome on mobile.

Game works fine though.

MinarasLaure · August 2017

PC NA from Brisbane.
So yeah, its always us lol

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I guess I didnt want to log on anyways...

also I know ZOS hates when you post anything bad about them but this is taking it to a whole new level... /sarcasm

imgur.com/f1BFw0j

Shardan4968 · August 2017

I have login in issues just today (PC EU) and lags which kicks me out.

Zavs · August 2017

PC NA from Brisbane
same problemo, i cant even log into the game.

Fix your **** zos pls!

Defilted · August 2017

I am not having any forum issues. United states (Ohio)

bottleofsyrup · August 2017

PC NA my whole group just got dropped from the server and my whole friends list. Not even sure how I'm still online but am experiencing ping spikes. Also seeing people in guild chat with the same issues.

Tandor · August 2017

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Forums are busted on Samsung Internet browser for some reason, just gives a black page. I hate Chrome on mobile.

Game works fine though.

Same here with the Samsung default browser. The forums only work with Chrome but I use the default browser for everything else (including this forum until the recent forum makeover since when it's been slower than usual on my desktop).

No problems playing on the PC EU server from the UK, now or at any time since the PC launch.

Shad0wfire99 · August 2017

At least the forums are working as well as the game.

Skinzz · August 2017

Yup I got kicked from the game when I was browsing guild stores. I can log in but it disconnects during the load screen.

LoveToDie · August 2017

I got booted and when I try to go back in it tells me my connection has timed out even though I've restarted the launcher multiple times...

svartorn · August 2017

I haven't played in several days but I'm trying to do daily crafting writs and it's nearly unplayable. 999+ lag in Craglorn, takes 45 seconds to pull a writ off the board. Can't mount. Can't bar swap.

I'm literally at my wit's end and about to quit this game.

Kahina · August 2017

Confirming forum issues as well as NA login issues.

All my other American sites are as fast as normal. Which is to say, much faster than ESO.

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

10/10 servers

Panomania · August 2017

So let me see if I have this right.....everyone else can get in fine, but you cant play on EU or US server from Australia....and its somehow ZOS who needs to "fix their ****"?

This is the point that we hear, "Yeah, but I can play game X or watch streaming service Y just fine!"

Thats like saying, "Stupid mechanic.....he cant pinpoint the reason why my car gets crappy mileage! He should be able to... my radio works just fine."

Just because your ISP lets you touch one target without issue doesnt mean you will hit EVERY target that way. Tons of possible reasons. One GREAT example is the people who are seeing service slowdowns because of their location in the US; they may not be anywhere NEAR Texas, but the way they connect to ZOS means the issues there will effect them.

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · August 2017

Thanks for the reports everyone. We're investigating the issues.

svartorn · August 2017

Incoming new stuff to crown store instead of game repair.

maxjapank · August 2017

Not just Australia, but I got kicked as well. And I'm in Japan. Must be this side of the world.

altemriel · August 2017

Hortator Indoril Nerevar wrote: »

Every site I go to works fine EXCEPT for the eso forums. I can load multiple twitch streams while watching multiple youtube videos all at once without delay HOWEVER eso forums wont work without a fight of multi loads and long wait times.

The game wont log on, errors out the ***. Errors 200, 108 etc...

Literally seems like EVERYTHING else works fine but the eso forums and the game servers..

Anyone else having this issue? aka forums barely working and log on issues while every other game and site works fine?

imgur.com/a/My43c

imgur.com/b9PFB03

Id love to edit this to be in more detail and to show more images but this has taken way to much time already... and to press edit and wait for my text to appear and not just the ****ing background behind the forums is not worth it...

yes, I also noticed, that since the forums got the new layout few weeks ago, it loads significantly slower than before

Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

Panomania wrote: »

So let me see if I have this right.....everyone else can get in fine, but you cant play on EU or US server from Australia....and its somehow ZOS who needs to "fix their ****"?

This is the point that we hear, "Yeah, but I can play game X or watch streaming service Y just fine!"

Thats like saying, "Stupid mechanic.....he cant pinpoint the reason why my car gets crappy mileage! He should be able to... my radio works just fine."

Just because your ISP lets you touch one target without issue doesnt mean you will hit EVERY target that way. Tons of possible reasons. One GREAT example is the people who are seeing service slowdowns because of their location in the US; they may not be anywhere NEAR Texas, but the way they connect to ZOS means the issues there will effect them.

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

I couldnt hear you with your head so far up ZOS ...

Its a problem on their end which happens to be effecting a range of people in a certain area of the world.. So instead of kissing up to ZOS realise that some people just want to be able to log on.. if thats not too much to ask for..

Every day someone posts a thankyou message to zos... get over yourself and stop trying to get them to hire you as a spokesperson..

EDIT: Removed the mean comments. Its just really hard to not call someone stupid when they say things like that..

Tandor · August 2017

Panomania wrote: »

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

Agreed.

Plus, when players do complain about problems running the game you're lucky if they bother to mention the platform and server they're on, they certainly don't bother to mention their 8 year old laptop with integrated graphics and wireless internet connection or the 164 addons they consider essential to playing the game

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Hortator Indoril Nerevar · August 2017

Tandor wrote: »

Panomania wrote: »

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

Agreed.

Plus, when players do complain about problems running the game you're lucky if they bother to mention the platform and server they're on, they certainly don't bother to mention their 8 year old laptop with integrated graphics and wireless internet connection or the 164 addons they consider essential to playing the game !

Yes every person (a lot of people) all have a bad computer and all have a million add-ons. Every single one WITHOUT a doubt have 100G of *** downloading as well and dropped ice cream in the fans... Obviously..

OR MAYBE, some people... amazingly enough.. just want to be able to log into the game. Gasp.

svartorn · August 2017

Personally, I'm in Texas and I have gigabit internet and a great machine.

Every game runs fine but this one.

Yarlenzey · August 2017

Panomania wrote: »

So let me see if I have this right.....everyone else can get in fine, but you cant play on EU or US server from Australia....and its somehow ZOS who needs to "fix their ****"?

This is the point that we hear, "Yeah, but I can play game X or watch streaming service Y just fine!"

Thats like saying, "Stupid mechanic.....he cant pinpoint the reason why my car gets crappy mileage! He should be able to... my radio works just fine."

Just because your ISP lets you touch one target without issue doesnt mean you will hit EVERY target that way. Tons of possible reasons. One GREAT example is the people who are seeing service slowdowns because of their location in the US; they may not be anywhere NEAR Texas, but the way they connect to ZOS means the issues there will effect them.

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

I am currently reinstalling. Looking at the download graph is just frightening; it appears to be some network event here in Australia. However, that conclusion wouldn't have been obvious, without running the reinstall process.

It may not be necessary for ZOS to take responsibility for this, however, they would have the ability to identify any comms issues between their equipment and their Australian customers. Some attempt at identifying the problem would go a long way to providing the minimum level of service expected by their customers.

Alternately, they could just ignore the issue and the small customer base here in Australia.

Your comment about people not thanking ZOS for good service, have actually done that by continuing to buy this product.
Also, I have seen comments thanking ZOS for improving game play. Strange as this may sound, I have been one of those people.

What continually frustrates people is that problems that appear to be resolved THEN EITHER RE-APPEAR OR SOME NEW PROBLEM IS INTRODUCED.

Tandor · August 2017

Hortator Indoril Nerevar wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Panomania wrote: »

Yeah, there are people who have issues connecting or staying stable with ESO, and they are vocal. The thing you DONT see is people creating forum posts stating, "Hey, thanks, ZoS! This makes 3 years playing this game and I've had almost no connection or stability issues whatsoever!" And I can tell you right now with perfect confidence that the people with no such issues profoundly outnumber those with.

Agreed.

Plus, when players do complain about problems running the game you're lucky if they bother to mention the platform and server they're on, they certainly don't bother to mention their 8 year old laptop with integrated graphics and wireless internet connection or the 164 addons they consider essential to playing the game !

Yes every person (a lot of people) all have a bad computer and all have a million add-ons. Every single one WITHOUT a doubt have 100G of *** downloading as well and dropped ice cream in the fans... Obviously..

OR MAYBE, some people... amazingly enough.. just want to be able to log into the game. Gasp.

I'm not one of those who believes that every performance issue is down to the player, any more than you're hopefully not one of those who believes that everyone who says they've never had a single performance issue is lying. There are all manner of reasons why people have performance issues, some server-side, some player-side. That much is clear from the recent thread detailing PC fixes that have improved performance for a lot of players as well as the various threads ZOS have posted about fixes at their end. Some problems are neither player-side nor server-side, of course, but relate to networking issues between the two. That certainly seems to be the cause of a lot of the issues the Australian players have as well as NA server users generally, and players need to raise those with their ISP as well as with ZOS. Generally, however, the more information players provide about their situation the likelier it is that both ZOS and other players can help them.