Dungeon Finder Broke already

Sevn · November 2017

MoTeets wrote: »

Geez they are looking into it. Relax.

You hush up, much more entertaining watching these folks flip out and throw fits!

Ragged_Claw · November 2017

Thought I'd log on and do a quick dungeon, as I've got things to do later, tried entering a dungeon in pre-made group but it just puts us in a queue, don't even get as far as a ready check. Tried re-logging and re-zoning etc but that just seems to reset the timer on the queue. Is there something else I need to be doing, arcane rituals, human sacrifice? Also having the problem with leaving the group too. I'm not an expert at this malarky, I usually let other people lead the group and sort the dungeons out xD (PC EU).

Ciovala · November 2017

Constant ‘someone declined the invite’ now. All four of us are in TS so it’s definitely not us...

Turelus · November 2017

Second full group relog hasn't worked. So was just a fluke for us I think.

Greifenherz · November 2017

Group finder still broken. I can't believe I spent 4 hours trying to get this to work. And I called in sick because I didn't want to miss the first day of the event, too...

Princess_Ciri · November 2017

relogging/changing zone definitely does not fix it. Stuck in an endless loop of 'someone declined the invite'

it was bad enough before the event, this is just the epitome of lame. First day of an event and it's not even a surprise that it's broken, just disappointing as always!!!!!

ad4mss · November 2017

@ZOS_GinaBruno are you considering to extend event time for EU as this issue already taken few hours?

BlanketFort · November 2017

PS4 EU

-"someone declined" loop

Haven't experienced not being able to leave the queue and group, yet.. and I'm crossing my fingers. My sympathies to everyone else who can't partake in the event.

zaria · November 2017

Derlfak wrote: »

Well, when I first logged on I was able to join and leave the group finder, but still had no group and my guildmates were reporting issues with grouping too.

When I relogged to a new character and joined the group finder, however, I wasn't able to leave.

Hope this helps ZOS

This first run was perfect except not being able to leave group. Other guy left and I was kicked.
After that it has been complete chaos.
Logging out does not remove you from dungeon queue, guess half who is queued is not active.
I grouped with friend as I know this kick you from dungeon finder, 3 minutes later we queued, he left and I queued for dungeon, i finaly got out of queue and was grouped with friend again

I assume its so many offline character in queue this put additional strain.

feyii · November 2017

I just got the impression that the group finder just can't deal with the mass of queuing people. Everything regarding groups seems to happen with a delay. It was very noticable right now when we tried to pass the group lead around, to check if this made a difference. First nothing happened. Then, after some minutes the lead was passed from one group member to another without any of us doing anything. And only when the group lead was changed were we able to leave the queue.

vovus69 · November 2017

Well, guys, at least you've got some response from zos community managers. It doesn't mean that devs are working on it, but it is much more than NB skill bugs when you don't see even such reaction and they never acknowledged even half the bugs...
So relax, have fun, forget about the event. You know zos - "we are always listening to you"... They never said anything more than that

I will try later on again - may be in evening PST when we will have less people this system will work better. This is most probably usual scalability issue, as all major systemic problems in ESO. So there will be no easy fix. Just wait when people will use it less and you might get lucky. This means that you can completely skip dungeons for this weekend - they declared free weekend, so it will be extra influx of the people who will all go to dungeons and will be pissed. Do your usual routine. Cyro is better than usual now - less people, less lags. CWC is almost empty - which is nice. Wrothgar is better now when all harvesters left, so I can do vMA finally - it was really pain in the ass last week when it was this stupid event...
As you can see - all of those things showing at scalability as the main issue with ESO nowadays. But nobody in zos will acknowledge that because fix is really expensive redevelopment of the game engine...

-vovus

Shawn_PT · November 2017

As it's been mentioned before, ZOS probably did this 'event' as a stress test to try and understand exactly what's going on with the GF.

However, I think it's lowsy practice to approach it like 'everyone participate and earn free gifts!!' and then getting nothing but angry players instead of saying 'everyone we need your cooperation for a stress test, do this and we will reward any player that helps us with gifts.'

It would be far less infuriating in my opinion. If they are using players to test their code then let us know. Don't pretend it's just feebies for the sake of being nice when it clearly is not working as intended.

WeerW3ir · November 2017

Can we get a bonus day?

Anne_Firehawk · November 2017

Back to Morrowind launch, same issue, same game. Fix your game please, hey atleast the Clownstore is working.

ak_pvp · November 2017

Got in within 2 min. Most likely a fluke.

vovus69 · November 2017

Do you remember when any major update worked as intended ? I don't remember any such thing. First day or two are always a fix for the mess they did not test earlier. But this time they will not be lucky because they positioned the whole event on the subsystem which is not scalable and cannot handle such load. There is no fix for that - just reduce the number of people playing. And on top of this they announced the free weekend! This is something which I saw only among top managers who never have any real information from the ground. They are living in their imaginary world of how this thing is working. if it is true, they are really close to all main corps where top management is a bunch of delusional loonies usually.

-vovus

ZOS_GinaBruno · November 2017

Update: Engineers are still working on this. More info to come as we hear.

bitels · November 2017

Idea for next year event:
Use the feed pile in Sanctum Ophidia and survive the ensuing battle to recive Mystery Box containing random loot.

The_Protagonist · November 2017

Don't worry, we are playing Group Finder Simulation and Whack a Mole Dungeon Finder, took us about 1 hour and 40 minutes to finally get in. The mystery boxes are there just to add insult over injury with some really hilarious items. Good going ZOS.

Jade1986 · November 2017

This is a clear sign that more money needs to be invested in upgrading software and hardware.

Shawn_PT · November 2017

Groups are popping again. Something changed for the better.

The_Protagonist · November 2017

Better extend the event at least by a day for all the waiting I had to do.

seedubsrun · November 2017

Jade1986 wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey everyone, as you may have just seen in-game, we'd like for you to relog to help resolve the issue. We did a thing that should help.

That is like the equivelant of telling someone who calls tech support to turn their system on and off.

....It doesnt work....

As someone who works in tech support, turning off then back on again fixes things all of the time. Only people that either a) don't try it b) don't have any idea what a reboot actually does or c) some combination of a and b take issue with it.

Jaybe_Mawfaka · November 2017

5 hours of pressing ready button - done

cyberjanet · November 2017

Alas I don't have unlimited time. We have a group trying to get in. All we get is ready checks, but nothing actually happens.

HidesFromSun · November 2017

Hmm, might not be related, but for a moment in game I couldn't access any quickslot items, and then was booted back to the login page. Anyone else have this as well?

Jamdarius · November 2017

Temporary fix that worked for me and my group:
Make group of 4 players all of you close your clients (not just relog) and stay in group don't quit it join random dung and it worked for us. Trying on 2nd toons gonna post results

Cinbri · November 2017

The_Protagonist wrote: »

Better extend the event at least by a day for all the waiting I had to do.

It sounds most reasonable.

cyberjanet · November 2017

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

What server is everyone on that's experiencing one of these issues?

EU. Have a full group. Have been getting ready checks, but they seem to have stopped.

Jade1986 · November 2017

seedubsrun wrote: »

Jade1986 wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey everyone, as you may have just seen in-game, we'd like for you to relog to help resolve the issue. We did a thing that should help.

That is like the equivelant of telling someone who calls tech support to turn their system on and off.

....It doesnt work....

As someone who works in tech support, turning off then back on again fixes things all of the time. Only people that either a) don't try it b) don't have any idea what a reboot actually does or c) some combination of a and b take issue with it.

Or D . Already tried that .