Really bad server performance since May 27 Xbox NA

malistorr · May 28

I was fighting the chimera world boss in High Isle on Xbox NA yesterday. I had been doing this fight several times over a few days to get all the zone set weapons. There were periods yesterday where I wouldn't see the screen update much for at least a few seconds. I might see my character move around slightly or see my lightning staff shoot it's beam. But the enemies were gone and I had no idea if, when things returned to normal, my toon would be dead or alive. This happened multiple times yesterday and other players complained about the same thing. Later on in the vet DSR trial our tank's lag was so bad that our DDs were getting 1-shot by bosses that should have been taunted. Basically the game was barely playable for the afternoon. I'm on Series X with half-gig wired fiber internet and I'm plugged into the network. The issue was not on my side. I don't know how performance of the game's servers are controlled but ESO gets a "Needs huge improvement" with game performance during high/peak volume times. Please do better.

Gasdream · May 29

Same. Group content is unplayable again. Dungeons, Trials, Pvp...it's all plagued with 5 second lag spikes, some bad enough to cause disconnect. Games been broke on PS5 since U41. Well, like 6 weeks after launch it was "fixed". Now it's just back to how it previously was at U41 launch, and arguably worse. I remember when there was similar performance issues sometimes around when Greymoor/Markarth released, took like 6+ months to fix it then. Lost a lot of progression and end game players due to the issues and how long it took for a resolution. Same thing is happening now, lots of discouragement among players.There's still instancing issues from then that were never addressed, just left the playerbase to find workarounds for the bugs. Kind of like not being able to travel from your house when you're currently in a group or you get stuck in a load screen. That's been addressed months ago but no communication on an upcoming fix.

CrazyKitty · May 29

The performance isn't any better now that the holiday weekend is over. ESO is suffering extreme performance issues at this time, with very little to no acknowledgement from the devs about it.

katanagirl1 · May 29

I was getting stuck opening rewards boxes for writs today. Game hangs for up to 10 seconds.

Incidentally, I went to Khenarthi’s Roost later to do one of the endeavors. The starter zones are always crawling with bots farming the mat nodes, but today they are queued up for just about every node. I wonder if that is the cause of our lag. I had it in other zones but it was far worse there.

Doctor_Demento · May 29

I did a Visual Tracert on the connection in the US to the NA servers. It did something very weird. Instead of going to the NA servers it went to 93.191.172.817 in the Netherlands. The last connection in the USA was Akamai Technologies and the one in the Netherlands was also Akamai Technologies.

I have to agree with the above posters. The lag has been insane for some time. I have been here over 10 years and I've seen it get bad before, but not this bad and not this long. Zenimax really needs to get this fixed ASAP.

malistorr · May 30

Last night on a random Wednesday night in the Pacific US, while there are not a lot of players on because the East Coast has mostly gone to bed, performance was awful again. Everything was fine for me until May 27. So I don't know if they made some change on their servers or something else (internet related on their side) happened. I saw another post on here where someone said a tracert led them to Europe instead of the US. I wonder if the US megaserver is down or they moved it to Europe (which would make no sense). We need answers from a ZOS official channel as people can barely play the game right now. Everything I do in the game is slow and things like dungeons, world boss fights, and trials and unplayable.