account already logged in

nameless420 · February 2020

anyone else get this message? I get it multiple times trying to log. and when I get in I wasn't hacked.

DelosTheta · February 2020

Chances are you got crashed, or had to bail out of an infinite wait on the intermission screen. (You know, the picture of where your are going with a clever caption like Evermore: You're the Hero This City Deserves.) The network thinks you are still logged in, and it has to do something, I don't know, clear a buffer, to make it all make sense again.

theyancey · February 2020

Happens from time to time. I got it last week. Hadn't been on since the previous day. It cleared up after about 20 minutes of trying.

Katahdin · February 2020

You crashed but the server still thinks you're logged in. It stops when the server gets the memo that you're no longer logged in

Ackwalan · February 2020

Whenever you crash, you need to wait 30 seconds before trying to log back in. ZOS has some kind of internal timer that needs to run its course.

Alinhbo_Tyaka · February 2020

It is a miss leading message. Sometimes it means you were DC'd for some reason and the server hasn't detected you being dropped yet. It means something else when, like happens to me, it is your initial login. What causes it in this second case I can't tell you but what I do is quit the client, restart the client and try again which always works (though YMMV).

Banana · February 2020

I have been getting it recently. Usually the first login. I just keep trying until it lets me in.

Granicus · February 2020

I’ve been kicked out of the game a few times for “spamming in chat” which I rarely ever use. Happened earlier today when I was attempting to enter a Delve and had not used chat at all. I think some of these ‘errors’ are erroneous (no pun intended) and get randomly assigned when the game hiccups and doesn’t know what to say. It’s still an unnecessary inconvenience. ZoS needs to fix their error codes. Or better yet fix the underlying problems causing the erroneous error codes. Simply poor coding (from an ex-coder).

TheShadowScout · February 2020

Didn#t we have the exact same discussion a short while ago:

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Dragonnord wrote: »

Have you tried closing everything related to TESO, even the game client?

That always works for me when I get the "Account already logged in" message.

^This!^

I occasionalyl get the bug as well, then I close it all, restart, and so far could log in without issues every time.

I think its something that happens when a tiny bit of lag (or game crash) messes up the logout process when the game last went down (be it quitting or crashing)... leaving half the game think you are logged in while the other half thinks you are logged out or something like that... But either way, so far restarting everything always fixed it...

FierceSam · February 2020

Granicus wrote: »

I’ve been kicked out of the game a few times for “spamming in chat” which I rarely ever use. Happened earlier today when I was attempting to enter a Delve and had not used chat at all. I think some of these ‘errors’ are erroneous (no pun intended) and get randomly assigned when the game hiccups and doesn’t know what to say. It’s still an unnecessary inconvenience. ZoS needs to fix their error codes. Or better yet fix the underlying problems causing the erroneous error codes. Simply poor coding (from an ex-coder).

Spamming in chat can be due to behind the scenes status messages being sent by add ons using the chat system. You don’t see them, but the server detects it as you sending chat.

The Account already logged in does appear relatively new and is probably down to ZOS increasing the cooldown for login verification possibly to increase stability of the login server. It’s basically a “go make a beverage” error message.

zaria · February 2020

nameless420 wrote: »

anyone else get this message? I get it multiple times trying to log. and when I get in I wasn't hacked.

Happens to me from time to time.
First time I get incorrect password, probably because its incorrect.
Then I can get user is already logged in on next attempt, followed by successful login.

And yes if game crashes or is closed hard you will remind logged in for some time so you would not get logged off in net hitches. Not sure how long this is but its not much more than an minute.

ZOS_Bill · February 2020

This thread is being closed since there are already multiple threads open about this issue. You may need to just restart and wait for 15-20 minutes before logging in again. If the error message continues after doing so please let us know.