People will complain, but people will complain either way. 'Fix the bugs! Fix the bugs! OMG how dare you take the game down!' I should find it more comical than I do.
I think from what I've read, they're doing a patch soon. It may not fix everything, but it's another step. I just hope they don't end up with ulcers and nervous ticks from reading these forums in the meantime.

The problem is that the game is up right now, but since last night's long load times eventually lead to some players losing most of their skillpoints and they still don't have them back, I'm hesitant to even log in tonight.

My buddy is already telling me that the super-long load times are back again tonight, and where there's smoke...

Seeing that I can't even get access due to broken Email Verification, works for me.

Taking the servers offline for that long only works if they actually have a fix or if it would help them find one. As it is, I don't think that's the case.

It would also just *** a lot of people off and stir up a lot of internet rage about there being no access whatsoever as opposed to partial, buggy access.

Take the game down if you are actually going to do something.

If the servers are over-taxed by the amount of players: Take down the servers and install additional hardware.

If there are software bugs such as infinite loops that are taxing the servers, fix them and patch the game.

All common sense, if you have no fix, shutting down the servers, is useless.

Jadeviper1974 wrote: »

There is no point in bringing the game down unless they have a fix.

I would actually disagree with this. People's banks are getting wiped and reset to the default 60 slots. Last night, people's character inventories were getting wiped and some/all of their spent skill points were disappearing. So far, not one single person that has experienced any of this character/account loss has reported that any or all of their problems have been fixed, but rather we just keep getting "we're looking into it" platitudes.

Last night, before a pretty massive wave of bank resets and character destroying skill resets, a lot of players were reporting obscene load times. Guess what people are starting to report tonight? I'm afraid to even log into the game right now, even though I've been out all day and was really looking forward to playing tonight, because I'm downright paranoid that my character(s) could be ruined just by merely attempting to play.

They need to fix these problems. As long as there's a chance for a player's character to lose all of their skill points and/or inventory and/or bank, the server needs to be off and endless apologies need to be issued until the problem is fixed and the server is turned back on.

What he said

Honestly , do people think the devs are actually mages or something?

Do you think they have a button ready to be pressed , that would solved all the errors and give a clean game 48 hrs later?

That is not how it works people , stop talking like taking the servers down would magically solve everything. It might help them solve a few bugs , but then they will need the playerbase to play test again , and maybe more will appear.

Just spent the last 30 minutes being stuck in loading screens. I'm going to bed. My character is stuck in loading screen land.

Daethzb14_ESO wrote: »

Take the game down if you are actually going to do something.

If the servers are over-taxed by the amount of players: Take down the servers and install additional hardware.

If there are software bugs such as infinite loops that are taxing the servers, fix them and patch the game.

All common sense, if you have no fix, shutting down the servers, is useless.

Yea the thing is, I don't believe it's the amount of players itself that is causing this problem. There's something buggy withe guilds cause when they turned off guild functionality last night, the long load times and chat lag all disappeared.

Then they restored guild functionality and not 5 minutes later the load times and lag returned.