The Elder Scrolls Online status: server issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of The Elder Scrolls Online reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by The Elder Scrolls Online users through our website.

• Sign in (60%)
• Online Play (15%)
• Game Crash (15%)
• Glitches (10%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent The Elder Scrolls Online outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Gaillac	Game Crash	9 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Online Play	10 days ago
Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez	Sign in	26 days ago
Villeneuve-d'Ascq	Sign in	26 days ago
Amsterdam	Sign in	26 days ago
Châteauroux	Sign in	26 days ago

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The Elder Scrolls Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Jared Shapiro (@GetFitWithJared) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Aurelian_27 @danno_omen Well if they start holding back Day 1 games they're going to have a big subscriber drop off. CoD makes sense, it's the biggest selling game every year and is stupid expensive to produce. Removing it and lowering the price $7 was a decent trade off, but if you start removing Halo, Gears, Elder Scrolls or Fallout you're going to have backlash. Think of it this way, for every 10 subscribers that keep Game Pass Ultimate over Premium for a month, they get the same revenue as 1 sale. It's easier to sell a $23 sub than a $70 game but then if those users stay on the service, Microsoft gets that money every month no matter what other game they put out.

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  Ivan^3 +18 (@DarthK4iser) reported 8 minutes ago

  I mean going by elder scrolls you only have a set backstory in 1 because our friendship is required for the story while everything else is more open ended outside of being a prisoner. I mean there 2 imperial agent but those guys can range in service and actions

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  I'm Bored With You (@tbake42) reported 11 minutes ago

  Im holding out hope for fallout, elder scrolls, and even a potential future starfield. If not, then I have no problem booting up old saves on either.

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  Jiggylookback (@jiggylookback) reported 12 minutes ago

  @BethesdaStudios Do people play Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online? I read the numbers…I don’t know anyone who personally does. I tried 76 with a buddy and we enjoyed it for a minute but it was a massive glitch fest and that was like two years ago.

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  Bonafide XP (@BonafideXP) reported 12 minutes ago

  The Bethesda Address today screams to me, a level of desperation to maintain a calm temperature to the fans. Gamers should never have been asked to wait 10-15 years for a mainline Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, while you milk wallets for a live service game in Fallout 76, a title that no one cares about. Phil should’ve done something about this years ago, but it took a woman from Wisconsin who doesn’t play games to get in that *** and shake things up. Bethesda is on a hidden timer, and I’m still not sure they’re going to deliver. @XBOX

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  kdjvanega (@kdjvanega) reported 14 minutes ago

  @kiwitalkz "At this point, Elder Scrolls 6 might as well be the next Half-Life 3, a myth." It already was... that's part of the problem. 15 years since the last mainline Elder Scrolls game release, 8 years since the announcement teaser... So many rereleases of the same games...

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  Silaf (@Asmoden3) reported 14 minutes ago

  @drggon52 @TESOnline I'm concerned about how much lag this can potentially generate.

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  FinalBoss.io (@FinalBoss_io) reported 14 minutes ago

  “The roadmap is unaffected” lands a little differently when 3,200 people just disappeared from the larger machine around it. Maybe Elder Scrolls 6 really is still on track. Maybe Oblivion Remastered still makes its Switch 2 window. But players have heard this line enough times to know what it usually means: the plan on paper survived. Whether the capacity survived is a different question. That’s the trust problem with studio reassurance after layoffs. Not that every statement is a lie. That a roadmap is only as real as the team, time, and priorities still standing behind it. A game doesn’t get delayed because the PR wording was off. It gets delayed because fewer people are left to do the work. “Roadmap intact” is nice. Show us the shipped game.

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  Splat (@Splat_86) reported 15 minutes ago

  @denkatabro @AION2Official I really don't understand how people can say that live service is a dead end, it's still very much alive. I love single player games, played some like the Witcher games, Fallout series, Elder Scrolls, Deus Ex, Arx Fatalis etc but saying that live service is dead is very asinine

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  mr mothma ⚢ | #TeamGodgela (@navinquisition) reported 15 minutes ago

  @MA_Tazerz @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline Same. Are we gonna have to reinstall all our mods and fix all our mod settings we've had forever?

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  Deadman Vazquez (@Arghdeaded) reported 16 minutes ago

  @DAKKADAKKA1 Not even modders are going to be able to fix the next Elder Scrolls, they'll be lucky if it even boots up 💀

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  Robert Gough (@SilentWraith87) reported 21 minutes ago

  @HazzadorGamin The problem is that trailer didn't give the impression that "Hey we're in the early stages of planning the next Elder Scrolls game." That trailer implied "It's in active development." when it clearly wasn't. It was basically "yeah we're going to work on TES 6 eventually."

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  Fatherguy Everyman (@thecathguy) reported 24 minutes ago

  Not working on fallout, and didn’t even start working on elder scrolls until this very year. Are they seriously just focusing the entire company on maintaining ESO? Updating starfield?

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  Patrik Severin (@PatrikSeve) reported 30 minutes ago

  @WrightRight4 @JMako67 @VALC_6 Heck there is even code in Source from the original Quake Engine. It is more a developer thing to improve things. One aspect I hope they fix is faces in the new Elder Scrolls, properly animated with better eyes and such. All that is possible if they want to.

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  PrimusNephilim (@NephilimPrimus) reported 30 minutes ago

  @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline already broken :/

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  Hearthywatcher (@hearthywatcher) reported 31 minutes ago

  @KeezTheFlex @SentMush @Caffeinefunk 100% agree with this they have way more corporate bs that is their problem. Loading is more minor yet understandable qol. They dont even have the og lore guy for elder scrolls. Like wtf. The main lore guy for everything up to skyrim is gone. ES6 might be doo too from that alone.

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  monke (@air_bagged) reported 32 minutes ago

  @GenePark The thing with exclusives is that I have a 300 games backlog on PC and I can live without Elder Scrolls or God Of War. Especially after Starfield. Most PC players think the same and nobody buying 2 consoles at 1000$+ each next gen without physical media. The crash is here.

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  KhajiitCook (@Lgbt_Cherry) reported 35 minutes ago

  @superprivatesgm @TESOnline @bethesda Trans carachters were in the exact summerset expansion you speak of and inclusive dialogue was in the game before that... Tanlorins problem is they are just horribly written.

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  Pusel (@PuselSpielt) reported 35 minutes ago

  @SynthPotato With Fallout and Elder Scrolls it’s only for interiors and maybe big cities. The main problem with Starfield is that you have so many loading screens switching planets. Boarding the ship, leaving planet, traveling to new planet, entering planet, leaving ship. Every time a ls

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  Tycoon (@Tycoon28082854) reported 36 minutes ago

  @TESOnline can’t login after the new update today on ps5 pro. It says I need the new update, but I downloaded before. Do u have that, too?

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  Kain_N_ (@KainN05032201) reported 36 minutes ago

  @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline i deleted and reinstalled it, same issue. Im on PS5 and just spent 6 hours reinstalling the game for it to not fix the bug like you said.

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  Haywire (@jhaywire001) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Adolf_G0ttlich @Colteastwood Over exaggerated the issues is a thing. I think Fable developer lost some people due to shake up, same with ESO and Bethseda in general. Get 100+ places talking about death of Xbox, Fable, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc.. with no valid reasoning or proof.

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  Lightstreamfader (@Lightstream01) reported 44 minutes ago

  Actual cursed prohect, Elder Scrolls V.I has to follow: Bethesda's most disapointing game (Starfield) Broken game (Fallout 76) AND lauded game (Skyrim) and the game they most need to recapture, is the one modern Bethesda is least related to...

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  darkprometheus112 (@darkprometheus1) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Recna8 @EndymionYT No it isnt. Hes talking about fallout and who they havent done **** with it. Fallout is a Bethesda title. Xbox is pissed off at Bethesda foe not making a new fallout game so the rumor is the told Bethesda to unfuck themselves and develop elder scrolls 6 which was announced 10 years ago and is supposed to be the next big thing adter starfield Xbox ripped this next fallout game to obsidian cause they own both. Todd Howard though likes his live service games like elder scrolls online and fallout 76.

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  𝐁𝐒𝐏𝟑 (@RealBSP3) reported 58 minutes ago

  ID is correct. Too much time and money is being spent screwing around, as teams have to be peeled off in the process, which paradoxically adds even more money because it adds more time. They can't even make the game, let alone manage an open world for so many users 24/7. Can it be done? Absolutely, but you've got another problem, and it's massive. Pun intended. Here's the real story that you didn't know: World of Warcraft didn't hit so hard because it was amazing. That was just a cherry on top; and amazing isn't as critical as it's game-play loop was, anyway. It could have been total junk, and it still would have sold well. WoW hit hard because you had a gigantic new crop of PC users that had finally figured out how to use them, and they had kids who had just grown into gaming. Computer time limits weren't a thing for them, either. They'd never really had to manage it, before, so it's just WoW all day when there's nothing obvious to do. Before that point there wasn't an equivalent. The games existed, but not the era and the likely install base in relation to deployed hardware, and nobody had really cracked the dopamine factor. Multiplayer RPGs had been around a very long time, but they weren't so tailored for jumping right in, and they didn't carry a successful IP, which may have been old, at that point, but powered up the people who'd already been using computers. Everquest wasn't as accessible, didn't have the associated IP, had a far less polished game-play loop, and was tapering off, already. It's still around today, but you probably didn't know that. Everyone knows about World of Warcraft, but it's torch is dimming a little more every year. If it becomes unsustainable, it will be incredibly difficult to replace, these days. You've got the financial problems I mentioned initially, yes; but they're not the only issue. Any new property has to be released into a matured market. There is no novelty, anymore, and everyone already understands the dopamine hit of that game-play loop. It was perfect for the time, and those who were hooked still are, but even they're losing interest. There isn't some massive crop of new users with a PC that's finally made it to the desk in the living room after being in the office for years, with a house full of kids who learned to type two years ago. The financial models have shifted, as well. It's tough to back something that needs constant maintenance that doesn't just try to sell you $1.50 toys every day. That's expected on the balance sheet, now; but it can't be the primary model for the gamers. WoW released into a perfect storm of opportunity. That doesn't exist, anymore. To create it's equivalent, you'll need a medium-sized studio with full creative control, as well as a history of hooking people, financially backed by a large publisher who doesn't have it's hands in the gears. Who's going to back that studio, today? Everything, from that big-money perspective, has to be Avatar right out of the gate, or it's not a success. I've been on about that in my analysis of ID, Bethesda, and Microsoft, a few posts back. The only companies who know how to produce the kind of crack Blizzard served up into an unsuspecting market are mobile studios. So, there's a potential acquisition or partnership on the table; or at least advanced research nobody bothers to do, anymore. You see, you're going to have a million people show up at once, it's going to break, it won't be finished, anyway, they'll complain, and you'll have to float the whole system's budget as things are expanded and hopefully the game still justifies itself as the money quickly begins to count down, instead of up. Elder Scrolls Online tried. People play it, but it didn't work. Fallout 76 tried. People play it, but it didn't work. Final Fantasy whatever tried. People play it, but it didn't work. There are other large attempts that people play, but they just didn't work. This time, you need a new IP. Having a couple of titles with the same name and world under your belt isn't going to help. That's been proven, and so has total free-roam game-play without a rewarding loop. Now you've got to hide it, so more seasoned gamers don't feel like they're being lead around by the nose. There's no naive, new market with all the right hardware at the exact same time, and infinite interest that's just begun to peak, that's ready to pounce on anything that lets them live in a different way. ... and you don't have the corporate structure to make it happen, even if there was. The year before WoW released, the parent company was trying to sell Blizzard. That's where they were, and nobody had their hands in the gears, at the time. Now they're worth 68 billion, and they can't pivot. Who's going to throw that knock-out punch? As for Morrowind, don't get me started: It was a theme park, next to Daggerfall. It was tiny, and stripped down. Every succeeding title was even more tiny and stripped down. The company focused on impressing players with graphics and tighter experiences; each time deleting more and more of the creativity and immersion provided. To create something like Morrowind (certainly something like Daggerfall) requires extreme risk, again. The player-base doesn't have the patience, and the corporate structure, again, doesn't exist. That's another mid-sized studio release. Bethesda, whatever their individual value is, can't even succeed Skyrim with another tinier, more simplified title. They're running on a treadmill. The industry is not healthy. It's bloated, and there will be many more layoffs. There will also be a few big publishers and studios that are going to remain in financial trouble, and may very well pop. You know what kind of studio we need more of? ID They were the right size, they have the creative chops, they're efficient, the tech is already on the table, they have access to the servers, but they're still not valued enough to get full backing, today.

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  CIA (@cia_rumored) reported 58 minutes ago

  @AndreBelluzzo @kabrutusdeid The size of the game is not a relevant issue to me. The game is what many Elder Scrolls fans have asked for: a 1:1 update with glitches included. I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's tasteful. And in a world where $ 70–$80+ games exist, they listed it at $50. It's not Game of the Year, but it's a totally fine game for people who've wanted to replay Oblivion without it looking like a potato. Bethesda is a horribly managed company, but this was not a miss.

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  Draco Potter (@DragonLord985) reported 1 hour ago

  @TESOnline Fix the damn bug of only allowing one at the manor for the Codex Caper

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  Shadow K.M. (@shadowgirl1976) reported 1 hour ago

  @TESOnline Please fix it so people can actually get in the dam gate.

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  TransRoofKorean (@TransRoofKorean) reported 1 hour ago

  @KarolWalczak9 @pureMetatron What do you keep doing as time goes on? I gotta get back to that. I have this weird issue I run into with every Elder Scrolls since Morrowind that I spend too much time minmaxing, do random stuff eschewing the main quest, get bored then come back years later and repeat it's sad

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  Hyperboy (@Hyperboy0011) reported 1 hour ago

  @charlieINTEL This means they're trying to fix the usual gap between games. We might see a elder scrolls made by someone other than bethesda after ES6.