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The Elder Scrolls Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Available for Xbox, Playstation and Windows.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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August 20: Problems at The Elder Scrolls Online

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Most Reported Problems

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

  • 71% Sign in (71%)
  • 14% Online Play (14%)
  • 7% Glitches (7%)
  • 7% Game Crash (7%)

Live Outage Map

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

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Gaillac Game Crash 29 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers Online Play 29 days ago
Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Sign in 2 months ago
Villeneuve-d'Ascq Sign in 2 months ago
Amsterdam Sign in 2 months ago
Châteauroux Sign in 2 months ago
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The Elder Scrolls Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • Skyridge94
    Skyridge (@Skyridge94) reported

    @TESOnline it’s ridiculous that when I’m in a dungeon, people keep pulling me to the final boss when I’m trying to do something for the quest and when pulled past the prompt or boss needed for the quest that it bugs it for me. Fix your game 😭

  • wesleytypes
    Wesley ✨ (@wesleytypes) reported

    I love Creation Engine. Propriety engines play a significant role in forming a game's identity and I would never wish that away. Bethesda is who they are in large part because of this engine. That said, to spend countless years and millions of dollars on a new game and NOT strive to break new ground or do something you haven't before feels like a waste. The Creation Engine hasn't shown a meaningful capacity to grow and change with modern gaming expectation and that's a problem. I still want Bethesda games to feel like Bethesda games, but if Creation Engine 3 doesn't massively impress and prove that it can deliver a truly modern gaming experience, it will be imperative that Bethesda make changes that I don't think they're willing to make. At this point, promising the future of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout on Creation Engine feels like a giant gamble.

  • Marcos30V
    🇩🇴MarcosGaming🇻🇪 (@Marcos30V) reported

    @DeekeTweak we go back to the usual absurd debate, Xbox cannot make its games exclusive, but Play Station can, the last Elder Scrolls came out in 2011, we are not talking about making FIFA or Call of Duty exclusive, if Sony made Spiderman exclusive I don't see a problem with Elder Scrolls 6.

  • Gameplayerin
    Gameplayerin (@Gameplayerin) reported

    @TESOnline When du you fix the bug that no one is allowed to go through the gate in first quest of the New Thievesguild???

  • Lordofsparta
    Luminous Beings are We… (@Lordofsparta) reported

    @TESOnline Near unplayable. 3 hour wait to get into PvP zone to participate in the event. Soon as you try to fight someone you realize they’re using the armory glitch and are immortal. Full heavy armor with all buffs and this guy can cheat kill you in one second. ESO thinks this is fair. No

  • jiggylookback
    Jiggylookback (@jiggylookback) reported

    @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.

  • NotreDamin
    NotreDamin (@NotreDamin) reported

    @JaeGamez This system would be cool in a gladiator game, super hero game, or the next Elder Scrolls. Anyone could challenge the patent or alter the bones enough to make it work. The problem with this was it was a HUGE undertaking, especially the voice acting. AI could make that easier.

  • DaddyWarpig
    Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) reported

    Elder Scrolls VI will suffer because it’s made by today’s Bethesda. Retaining employees who were already producing mid games wouldn’t fix that.

  • aakashgupta
    Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported

    Skyrim sold 30 million copies. Then Bethesda announced its sequel. Skyrim sold 30 million more. Most studios rush sequels because the old game stops selling. Bethesda had the opposite problem, and it explains the longest wait in modern gaming. Skyrim launched in 2011. Twelve years later it was the seventh best-selling game in history, ported to roughly ten platforms, some of them twice. There's a version that runs on Amazon Alexa. Every year without The Elder Scrolls VI was a year the 2011 game faced zero internal competition. A sequel kills the back catalog. As long as VI stayed a teaser, Skyrim remained the newest mainline entry in one of gaming's biggest franchises, and it kept compounding into a 60 million unit annuity. Todd Howard even asked fans to "pretend we didn't announce it." That sounds like embarrassment. It's also exactly what you'd say if your 15-year-old game was outselling most studios' new releases. Now Xbox's CEO is teasing a censored subtitle after a live playthrough. The moment they finally say the name out loud is the moment the Skyrim annuity starts its countdown. Eight asterisks is what it looks like when a company decides the annuity has finally run its course.

  • KasaneTeto612
    Literally Kasane Teto In Dolphin Form (@KasaneTeto612) reported

    @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline Fo76 is down plz fix

  • _neondaybreak_
    Neon Daybreak (@_neondaybreak_) reported

    @TESOnline Idc what sheogorath did to her, I can fix her

  • _Muskett_
    muskett (@_Muskett_) reported

    @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline Ps5 was logged in playing, went to get some food and can't login now. Forum says end time is 20.00 UTC.

  • WaifusTrash
    Alonso A (@WaifusTrash) reported

    @SynthPotato It was a massive problem for Starfield because everything needed a loading screen. This is not much of a problem in Elder Scrolls or Fallout. There is a lot more to explore and see between the loading screens. This is something that was severely lacking in Starfield.

  • andrewwilkinson
    Andrew (@andrewwilkinson) reported

    Been dabbling in some @unity CLI with opus 5 How are people on the timeline oneshotting elder scrolls and I’m struggling with a junk 2d platformer Giga skill issue

  • idiot_of_pavlov
    what is a name, *crash* a miserable pile of Pavlov (@idiot_of_pavlov) reported

    @Orioracion @TDBlue_ Holy crap just checked his page after all this and he follows 12 people one is the guy who does the multi-hour-long elder scrolls documentaries and the other issue on head I've been yelling at a special needs pseudo intellectual this entire time

  • Rawr71081600
    Beep (@Rawr71081600) reported

    @SeniorScrolls @Der_Kernel_ So what actually happened is Elder Scrolls Online. They wanted to rival WoW. The problem with this is that the nature of an MMO is that it is live service, they were planning on it being THE elder scrolls and thus did not develop another one. And now here we are with eso dead af.

  • The_Soupinator
    Soup (@The_Soupinator) reported

    @WinC_Gaming Yeah that's the big problem. Exclusives mean nothing unless they have must-have games (released regularly) to back that plan up. Halo hasn't been that for a LONG time and they're going to need more than just Elder Scrolls 6 which is still years off.

  • Killanitis
    xbotjimmy (@Killanitis) reported

    Outside of Live service games like elder scrolls online fallout 76 and blizzards live service games everything else should be exclusive

  • dedmeetdm
    MidwestNomad (@dedmeetdm) reported

    @BethesdaStudios Well that's a bunch of word salad PR BS. It'll be almost 20 years since a proper Elder Scrolls, and nearly as much before the next Fallout. Microsoft should shut you down and give these franchises to a company that actually cares. You all left Fallout 4 broken for over a year.

  • jhaywire001
    Haywire (@jhaywire001) reported

    @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.

  • wesleytypes
    Wesley ✨ (@wesleytypes) reported

    I love Creation Engine. Proprietary engines play a significant role in forming a game's identity and I would never wish that away. Bethesda is who they are in large part because of this engine. That said, to spend countless years and millions of dollars on a new game and NOT strive to break new ground or do something you haven't before feels like a waste. The Creation Engine hasn't shown a meaningful capacity to grow and change with modern gaming expectation and that's a problem. I still want Bethesda games to feel like Bethesda games, but if Creation Engine 3 doesn't massively impress and prove that it can deliver a truly modern gaming experience, it will be imperative that Bethesda make changes that I don't think they're willing to make. At this point, promising the future of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout on Creation Engine feels like a giant gamble.

  • DarthK4iser
    Ivan^3 +18 (@DarthK4iser) reported

    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

  • gaersstapa
    Gærsstapa (@gaersstapa) reported

    @lastchalice Frankly I think its going to tank their studio. Whether it sells or not is irrelevant; the time it took, the costs, the issues, etc. Its GG. Further Hammerfell is a bad place to set it now with the ongoing real world discourse, if they wanted Hammerfell it should have released in 2021-2023. Now it will come off as developer tokenism and DEI. And to be real, looking at the developers out protesting, yea, it does look like that. Which means we are getting The Elder Scrolls: Starfield Edition. And I definitely don't think the team has the ability to make it as modular as Skyrim, which is the real reason the game is still a dominant force in its player base, from SteamDB; Skyrim SE: 39,382 players as of typing. Oblivion Remaster: 2,464 players as of typing. Starfield: 6,446 players as of typing.

  • GrimfelOfficial
    𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔣𝔢𝔩 (@GrimfelOfficial) reported

    @abandonedmuse I think it just runs at a lower rate as I didn't max out usage Build an explorable 3D RPG world in Three.js based on the attached image. It has to feel like Elder Scrolls daggerfall in feel, FPS RPG, with collision detection, no clipping or defects on geometry, AAA visuals with HDR lighting and shadow shaders, target 60fps, split all the work into sub agents like terrain, props/geometry, materials/textures, lighting, physics, controls/camera, performance. Assign one sub-agent per stream. Each sub-agent owns its stream end to end and reports what it built plus what is still weak. Integrate, then run a review pass: walk the world, list every visible defect, fix them. Repeat till you get it perfect

  • MusicNarik
    Narik (@MusicNarik) reported

    @lastchalice You use *Oblivion Remastered* as an argument that *The Elder Scrolls VI* needs to be released on PlayStation. But people overlook an important detail: *Oblivion* is part of a strategy defined years ago under the leadership of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond as part of "Project Latitude" when the priority was expanding Xbox games to other platforms. Strategies change. Leadership changes. The market changes. If Asha Sharma truly intends to rebuild the value of the Xbox brand, *The Elder Scrolls VI* is precisely the kind of game that should remain exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem. We are talking about an IP capable of selling consoles, strengthening Game Pass, giving consumers a clear reason to choose Xbox, and even weakening the competition's catalog in the next generation. Exclusivity has never been a problem for Sony, Nintendo, or any company looking to strengthen its ecosystem. On the contrary, it creates an identity for the platform. Xbox's biggest mistake was abandoning that differentiator; now, they are going to pursue it more aggressively. And that is absolutely right: if you want to play games from Bethesda, ABK, and Xbox Game Studios, buy an Xbox, subscribe to Game Pass, or buy the game on Steam—PlayStation and Switch won't have access to these games anymore!

  • Asmoden3
    Silaf (@Asmoden3) reported

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

  • Grimboww
    🦑⛧Grimbow⛧🐙 (@Grimboww) reported

    rain on car window elder scrolls book reading ASMR with miscellaneous triggers interspersed would fix me send tweet

  • heemeyerthe2nd
    MarvinHeemeyerthe2nd (@heemeyerthe2nd) reported

    @GHBSmith The problem with Starfield was it was so interior heavy that you had to go through 5 loading screens to get to where you wanted. An Elder Scrolls game wouldn’t necessarily have this issue.

  • FinalBoss_io
    FinalBoss.io (@FinalBoss_io) reported

    “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.

  • Wailingfoil6742
    Hiddenwings / wailingfoil476🇺🇸🇻🇦 (@Wailingfoil6742) reported

    I am still killing those dark elves if anyone is wondering and not the cool Elder Scrolls ones they are based the evil sadists ones plus I am still killing those rats although Watermelon showed up and caused more problems by being Watermelon