Elder Scrolls Online maintenance or server issues

The Elder Scrolls Online servers will go down for maintenance at scheduled periods and of course, problems will take place that weren’t planned on occasion. Server stability wouldn’t have been helped by Elder Scrolls Online releasing on PS4 and Xbox One following a PC launch, but the developers did increase server capacity in preparation.

If you loved Skyrim, then you will almost certainly enjoy playing either as Dragonknight, Nightblade, Sorcerer, or Templar in Elder Scrolls Online. This open world experience might be a problem for those hating the subscription model and even those that don’t like playing online, instead opting for the Skyrim offline experience.

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Elder Scrolls Online servers down, or problems on Wednesday April 1, 2020? When the game first launched on PS4 and Xbox One, we saw a few “internal problems” messages strange issues in regard to the explorer’s pack taking ages to install even if not released. If you have any problems with the console versions, or PC, then leave these issues below.

  • PENNY IS dreadful

    …error #318, whenever in the middle (and close to completing) a boss battle. doesn’t matter where. sometimes it freezes and states “you failed as you have left the chapel” and then kicked off the server for #318 (too many messages) when ZERO messages had been sent AND THERE WAS NO CHAPEL in the mission / fight…just ice spiders and their mom. :-

  • that new guy

    I can’t even get past the region select screen. I get error 308 everytime. My Internet is good because I run online games on it all the time. I don’t understand why eso isn’t working

  • William Sellars

    honestly the most useless game I have played or should I say ATTEMPED to play, wish i had never bought the game, whenever I want to play there is either a 2 or 3 hour update then whenthe update is finally done the fkn servers are down. no need for daily rewards as the game only works every second day. absolute joke, what am I paying for??

  • misterdizz

    Can’t get logged in in for last hour or so. Was working fine until 1:15PM EST USA. Now, it is not working.

  • Dusky

    Internet at home is steady but my ping randomly jumps to 999+ ping then kicks me to title screen, was happening once in a while but throughout the last week it’s gotten more and more frequent to the point it’s happening almost every 10 minutes and lasting anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes

  • Mike Smith

    this game is horrible, the servers are constantly down, people getting kicked out of dungeons, what a joke, save your time n go somewhere else. What a sham!

  • Evgeniy Potapenkp

    Getting troubles to login and getting booted after 3 mins if sign in is successful.
    Tired of all this persistent crap for $60+$15 subscription for unplayable game. Will cancel my subscription until fixed.

  • OurDistressedNation

    Continually getting booted off the NA server these past few days. Have run speed test, repaired the install 3x, updated drivers and windows. All to no avail. Sometimes it will load all the way into the game, only to stall and boot me back to the login over and over minutes later.

    Running on Win10 Home x64
    Windows Defender and Malwarebytes
    14gb RAM
    Core i3 3240
    GTX 650
    WiFi @ 150mbps/20mbps 30ms ping
    Can access all other games, websites, email, windows update servers, etc without issue, it’s just ESO that’s being cranky.

  • Can’t log in. Goes to load screen, music plays, ouroboros spins, then music drops out and it just sits there, ouroboros still spinning until it drops to main screen with a 308 error message. Worked fine last night with minor lag issues, now this today. Other online games play fine so it’s just a problem connecting to zos servers. Been this way for 24hrs now….

  • Achille Huet

    I lost the connection to the EU megaserver today. Worked fine yesterday, and NA server still works…

  • TheCSpang

    Just lost connection to ESO on PS4, but I still have internet connection in my home. I don’t see a maintenance schedule posted for today? Anyone else having the same issue? (2:30 AM on 06/12/2019)

  • Joshua Allen Furby

    I can’t stay logged in, after I log in about 3 to 5 minutes I get booted. I checked my internet but not that. I play other games on Xbox live so not that. But eso, get booted

  • IamApie69

    Won’t connect to server on xbox. It was fine a couple minutes ago.

  • Braden Means

    I can’t log into the server at, I choose my character than it makes me sit at the loading screen for 5-10 mins. Don’t let me go past that screen at all.

  • Angela Johnson

    7/17/2018 PC can’t log into ESO through Steam. Message says can’t connect to server. This has been happening for the past 3 days.

    • Cinxia

      Same…..my game worked way better without an update patch that now needs its very own update patch.

    • disqus_qxadz5LZSP gg

  • Jose Cabrera Jr.

    Can’t log in on Xbox idk what’s going on

  • Rebecca Schell

    After doing the update for the ps4, I have been having a lot of problems with connecting to the server and in game chat. I have reset my router and ps4 6 times and still won’t let me log into the game. It keeps telling me there’s a network connectivity problem and to reset my router or restart my system. Even after doing that it still won’t allow me on. What can I do to be able to play. This has been going on for 2 weeks now.

  • My issues started on sunday and have not been able to log on as it says it timed out.
    I have x box one x with xfinity wifi i been trying as of now on sat dec 9th for last 5 hours and still get the message of timed out. I reset wifi equipment and xbox 4 times and does nothing

  • Yury

    Hello, I had such an error when entering “internal problems”, the PC owner

  • mithril1971

    On xbox1 haven’t been able to log in since patch download two days ago. Submitted ticket and was told to delete all saved content. Hundreds of hours of gameplay etc? So still hoping I’m not alone and someone there is listening? Tired of “login failed”… Yes. Still having problems Nov 9th.

    • Kyle

      Same

  • Sia Satanicus

    Each time I try to login I get “An unexpected internal error has occurred” popping up. I have done a clean install and am still experiencing this. This is on 10-31-17 @ 14:29 PST

  • Hey

    Can’t login . Just takes forever to try to load then boots me due to inactivity. Ugh. Been having issues since yesterday.

  • Abel

    Is eso down? After I select character it says, “requesting character load” but goes to main menu and says it can’t connect to server and to check for valid internet connection. It’s my first time playing and its not fucking working, really bumming me out. Anyone having the same problem?

  • Marco Machete Ciampalini

    same 4 me yesterday and the evening before, logging in then after selecting character a long wait then ERROR and back to login screen.. yesterday evening so laggy and disconnect, tryed to change connection (got 2 ISP) and almost same waves of lag from 80 to 999+ damn!!
    c’mon ZOS !!

  • Jason Schwarzmann

    I think we should get a class action lawsuit going against them for failing to meet the service agreement of providing connectivity… 2 hours of trying to play and all I was able to do was deposit 7 items in my bank. You cannot ask people to pay for a game and NOT HAVE IT WORK.

    I want my dam money back. I loved morrowind on the pc years ago, now I want to smash my console. This game is a waste of money at this point imop…

    Anyone know a lawyers would handle cases like this? I am more than happy to start recording the lack of gameplay and generate hours of video footage.

  • Kurt Quentin Mcdonald

    Game hasnt worked since horns of reach update error 303 and time out issues every 5 mins

  • Stephanie Campbell Osier

    Unable to connect to game server. Been trying for over an hour. Is this everywhere?

    • Kurt Quentin Mcdonald

      same ,lags out every 2 mins can’t find a fix NA server

  • astantos

    Starting this evening, can’t even connect to the servers (connection times out). When I do connect, I can’t do anything and just disconnect because of all the lag.

    I fucking gave up, decided to download a different game while I wait for someone to work out wtf is going on

  • RichardG

    has anyone experienced issues after updating the august 28 release?

    • Annie

      Getting kicked off. And Ps4 network issues. Sucks big time

  • Michael Burchett

    it use to be once a month, then once a week. i mean if your gonna say maintence once a week, then 3 days later say its maintence and a update. how about save us our time, and money for those that pay for the plus, and do the update at the same time you already have it down. you know me and several others do have a job to work and bills to pay. so it sucks the few days we get to play were spent waiting for maintence. i just don’t get what your teams doing to have this much maintence needed. most big games like this do a 10 minute reboot for the servers/trash/cache all the above to keep it clean every 24hrs, and once a month, unless something horrible goes wrong. keeping a check on any debugs. faulty formuals for your vocations damage healing, balance tweaks. should remain once a month since they take so long.

    • Will

      I agree

    • Sven

      Amen

  • Archisman Chatterjee

    Got booted for being inactive(was getting food) and now I cant log into NA servers
    EU woks fine but all my stuff is in NA
    was in stonefalls last when I got booted

  • Ayame yashida

    Since the maintenance it’s been so laggy

  • gale mckaig

    Thanks for sharing. I was wondering about the internet speed thing. Their servers are down every other day now. Horrible lag, textures don’t load, etc. I wish I could understand why a company with that much money can’t perform well.

  • gale mckaig

    The servers are continuously going down, every other day. Overloaded or faulty who can know. The world map shows EVERYONE having an issue, all over the world, and the response from ESO is “issues resolved at this time”. Wow. They can’t even acknowledge that they have a problem. That is a priority in the ‘normal’ world, recognizing that you have a problem.

  • Johny Proctor

    Played 535 hours then after an update …… ” connection to server timed out ” !!!!!!! ………… tried all and still no joy but it works on my brothers computer in the next room ?????? ………… Help

    • Alliyah Brown

      Same here, been playing for almost a year now constantly get time out errors, it’s a nightmare to switch between characters yet my daughter an log in no problem.

  • FixedBlade123

    As I’ve seen others mention, my main issues are 1) Lag time. 2) Being kicked offline all too often. 3) Inability to finish certain quests due to glitches (Cold Wind’s Skull, for example). Lag time is especially bad in places like Vivec City, Abah’s Landing, Mournhold, and a couple of the other larger cities/gathering places. I have the fastest internet service that Xfinity offers in the Denver, CO area so that’s not an issue. I love the game but hate the issues I just mentioned.

  • Nik Hartsfield

    Apparently this downtime happens about once a month, and it takes several hours. I’m annoyed af, but more than that, I can’t help but wonder what could possibly take that long that also needs to be done that often.

    • Michael Burchett

      more like every 3 days. i know this is 2 already this week

  • Trevor Burden

    Played WOW for 10 years and although they have weekly maintenance they at least give a start and finish time. Wit ESO it’s a game of chance

  • Jordan Parrish

    Way too much lag I have high speed internet and it still laggs

  • Nicki Duzy

    It’s been two weeks and every time I start to play, the server kicks me off within 5 minutes. My internet connection of fine. So how do I fix the problem

  • John C Espinosa

    June 21 I keep getting kicked off to log in screen then it wont log in.Zenimax gave their words of wisdom which of course didn’t work so I gues we cant play by the way i’m in U.S. (Texas).

  • Emrе Aydın

    Can’t play for 2 months.
    >Login
    >Join game
    >No one moving
    >Can’t interract with npcs
    >Can’t use anything
    >Logout to character select.

  • DidaD

    Same for me – but continuing – I’m in Canada and its April 28th

  • Same here… terrible lag ):

  • Ryan Mekler

    i just cant connect in general. lets me login, and then i get the endless loading screen

  • Mombasa69

    I wonder if these long maintenance times and constant bugs are down to the fact ESO uses that ancient and archaic bugged up Hero engine?

  • Isac Hovind

    It was working yesterday, but I guess i just have to wait.

  • FallenHeros

    ESO is fun but it has some terrible launches, if not the worst in all my years of playing. When Morrowind comes out expect the following:
    1. Unable to connect.
    2. Continuous Disconnects.
    3. Unable to connect.
    4. Continuous Disconnects.
    5. Unable to connect.
    6. Continuous Disconnects.

    Expect this to last 3-4 months before the game is playable. I remember the first launch and Cyrodil was an EPIC Failure.

  • JakeMiester

    It says NA servers are timed out help

  • HardcoreGamer991

    experiencing horrible lag on both na, and euro servers today., makes game unplayable. its not me, nor my internet provider. all my other online games run fine. its on the zenimax end. so glad i didnt buy the subscription. too many problems when i am trying to play. WORD OF ADVICE: DO NOT BUY SUBSCRIPTION, YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED BY THE AMOUNT OF SERVER PROBLEMS.

  • nYxJulianxYz

    Same with me and my gf, server timed out error.

  • Anthony Yerkie

    Login failed connection to server timed out how do i fix this pissing me off

  • Asya melachrinakas

    What time will it be back up tho

  • NgTurbo

    Game is currently down for maintenance again. Looks like all regions too with no ETA, business as usual?

  • Jeffrey Parker

    disconnects me from server on most load screens in the game. xbox one

  • Graham Baldwin

    Down in Australia 26/03/17

  • tim robbins

    servers down in uk

  • Glenn Smith

    My ability to log in has been spottier than my Khajit all weekend =(

  • Alaan

    not been able to login in once on NA server 3/4/2017-3/5/2017

  • Ostap Ivanitsky

    remember Everquest issues????

  • Agretalien

    Cayla, have you mapped your weapon swapping? AS for the NPC…cold be anything, but these are not server issues.

  • Dawn

    I’ve never experienced so many server time outs and crashes in all my life.

  • Cayla Wilson

    My skills and weapons will not switch and NPC I need to talk to will not show up.

  • Randy

    Server keeps logging me out. 7-Jan-2017

  • Jason

    This game ran perfectly fine for me ever since i got it a few months ago.. Now with the new update yesterday, pre-server going down for maintenance, it was still running fine… Now you take the server down yesterday, and the shit has hit the fan… I get intermittent lag while trying to play, and it hits me most times when i am in the middle of playing decoy at the wolf camp in Cambray, grinding the dolmen and camp nearby.. I run about 15 feet ahead of the chasing werewolves, so others can take them down 1 by 1, and normally, it works to perfection.. Now today they hit me and I am nowhere near them, how the FK does this happen? I thought it was my end, maybe my antivirus was causing it, or windows update… NOPE!!! Its a Bethesda problem, and it needs fixing..

    • Jason

      and dont get me started on getting kicked off and having to log back on, only to have that error message, forcing me to back out of the game, only to not be able to do that either.. forcing me to force close the game by logging out of my laptop.. its infuriating, and I am getting tired of the excuses I keep reading all over the internet…

  • chris

    Keep getting “connection to server timed out, please try again later” no matter what guides i follow on either the official help site or from various sites.

  • Alan Ng

    Editor note: PS4 servers are down right now in Europe and the US for maintenance. Once again no ETA from the developers on when game will be back up.

  • Karen Ochu

    ESO has been down for 16 hours now, no current updates and no eta on when it will be back. Wow. Unbelievable. It pretty ridiculous for it to be down this long but at least keep people informed!

  • Alan Ng

    Editor note: The servers are down on the weekend, November 12 which we find quite amazing. Who would take the game down when everyone can only play on the weekends in most cases?

  • Jake

    The elder scrolls are down, I tried logging in and it can’t even retrieve the announcements and then says “connection to server timed out” I realize servers need maintenance but they should give us a warning and a estimated time they will be finished. Their website is even down so you cannot check on squat.

    • Chadsberry

      1 pm Pacific, Login failure sill occuring, Bethesda website is also down. With no explanation as to why or when it will be fixed. Regardless of any contract signed if players have purchased DLC or in game content they OWN this content. Bethesda should have sent an explanation to the players about the server maintenance and not HOPED it would be fixed before the bulk of player traffic logs in to find out. Legal issue? Also if they are going to “mirror” Everquest at least they could do is not make it so obvious.

      • Jesse Andreasen

        @Chadsberry – While it is frustrating the servers keep going down the good sign is they are down for actual fixes and issues aren’t being ignored. Update 12 and One Tamriel are rather large updates so bugs within the updates on the server side and client side should be expected. Again, at least they’re taking action. As far as “owning” the game technically you own the “right” to play the game and DLC. Same is true for any digital media and even dvds and cds. The only reasonable legal action would be to demand a refund of one of the month’s costs for the premium membership. That would only be a reasonable complaint if the servers were offline for a third or more of the month.

  • Alan Ng

    Servers are down again, but this time it’s for Update 12 and One Tamriel. We can’t connect back yet, can anyone get in right now?

  • Alan Ng

    Maintenance August 31? Who else, suddenly can’t play right now?

    • B

      I’ve owned the game for a little over a week and in this time it’s had ‘maintenance’ several times. Each time lasting a few hours I’m just glad I don’t pay for premium to be OFF-LINE!

  • TJesterTV

    So it said to leave some issue I had on console? Sometimes group chat, and area chat won’t work. Like they can hear me, but I can’t hear them. Or I can see it showing my name when I talk. Also when I invite somebody to a group it will instantly say they left when they join. Then they will still be in the group with me on their side. Those are the only bug that bothers me enough to complain? Also nobody listen to John from 3 weeks ago. He seems like the kind of guy to insult a game after playing for 5-10 minutes. So give it a try and decide for yourself, I personally love this game.

    • TJesterTV

      I seem to have made a large mistake in what I said, since my English is terrible it seems? I meant to say in the second part that I couldn’t see my name in the bottom right when I talked making me think it wasn’t working. But my friends told me that they could hear me perfectly well.

  • Cole

    anyone know how long its going to be down

  • Alan Ng

    Serious question, does Elder Scrolls Online hold the record for most amount of server maintenance?

  • John

    When it comes to online, Bethesda, is really bad, they don’t know what are doing, nothing works. What have I payed my money for? Don’t buy this crap.

    • Radeon

      I’m pretty sure TESO is developped by Zenimax, not Bethesda 🙂

      • PlanoGuy1979

        President Todd Howard and His Company Bethesda Game Studios Owns ZeniMax Online because it’s Part of Bethesda just small Studio in side the Company

  • Hazar Dawson

    How long does the maintenance usually take for ESO? Im new to this game so yeah. Playing on PS4.

    • Taichisays

      My elder scrolls online game wont let me log on any of my characters tryed a bunch of times and says 303 timed out or check Internet conection anyone have this problem today on June 28 2016 at 9 to 10 o’clock pm eastern

  • hive

    down for me as well, no ETA??

  • SueT

    Cant connect to Elder Scrolls Online May 24th, playing on Xbox One.

  • Rob

    maintenance seems to be taking place for eso on xbox one.

  • david

    TESO down on Xbox One as well, anyone know when servers are back up??

  • roger

    game just went down in the uk on ps4.. so annoying.

  • Lee beecroft

    Tried to start playing it for the first time today it’s installed up to 70% but once I launch it it tries to update and it’s been stuck on 28% for about 30 minutes is there anyway to sort it

  • Russell

    Last two days I keep getting kicked from the game servers. PS4 platform, no expansions. Tested my connection and it’s good. Usually after about 2 minutes of play I get booted. Not sure if this is because of the Orsinium patch, but it is royally ticking me off.

  • Daracus

    Unable to connect for the last 3 days to the NA server for PS4. Fixing it wouñd be appreciated >.<

  • Scorpondia

    I can’t log on at the moment. Is North American server under maintenance?

    • catena

      i cannot login for the last 3 days, with the error 200,201 and 108 all the time appearing!!! Dont lnow how to fix it

  • steve

    Can’t access eso today. Is it down for xb1 in North America?

  • steve

    I really cannot stand the eso North American server fucking up constantly! I’m 6 months into this game and could be twice as far if not for spending half my game time trying to sign back in over and over after server failures. The game itself is awesome but the server problems totally counterbalance everything. If I knew all this was going to happen, I would’ve never started the game.

  • sam

    No idea of an ETA for the maintenance on ps4 someone from ZOS?
    A reply would be great , thanks

  • Dan

    The ESO servers are offline for PS4 NA and EU due to Jan 20 maintenance.

    • Dave

      How long does it normally take?

  • jsage7

    12-20-15 xbox one. Another login problem. Can’t help but think there is an over saturation due to the latest marketing efforts?? If so, why not prepare before launching?

  • Editor

    Elder Scrolls Online service alert on their status page, it details servers offline for both North America and Europe for just the PlayStation 4 console only. As always, they never give a time when the megaservers will be back up.

  • Dan

    ESO PS4 EU and NA megaservers are down for maintenance on Nov 11.

  • Bloodfuedd469

    Now if you bought a brand new car you would expect to be able to drive it when you want to or need to. Now with that being said if you buy a brand new stove you would want that mother fuck3r to cook likes no one’s business so why the hell wouldn’t a ps4 owner expect the same thing from their ps4. ……If your stove didn’t cook or your car didn’t drive you raise hell right? Even with a ps1 as unreliable as they are still got a better leg to stand on with all these damn server issues if it’s not eso it’s cod if not cod or eso it’s psn

  • Dan

    Just noticed issues with ESO but no maintenance on status page, guess it will update soon or this glitch will pass.

  • Ben

    Twitter account just offered a status update detailing the ESO servers are currently unavailable for planned maintenance.

  • This is really beginning to piss me off. in the last 2-3 months the ESO mega server has kicked me off several (6-7 times each month). The amount of money that people spend including myself jut to Play the game, buy currency, buy DLC’s, buy costumes. The people running the server don’t even have enough sense to say hey on such and such day were going to have the servers down they can put the message in the game start up Announcements box, that’s where I got this address from. So let me re-cap this 1) I bought the system and the game of ESO, $450.00. 2) I had to buy a membership, $50.00. 3) Currency, Costumes, Pets, Mounts, and DLC’s, at least another $200.00. So were talking $700.00 at least. What this program is telling me is that I should get ahold of as many news paper companies / distributers and have my article posted in every single one and watch the world of Elder Scrolls Online along with Xbox and Microsoft just crash / take a serious dip. I’m going to leave my e-mail address in hopes that someone useful from ie Microsoft/Xbox/Elder Scrolls will have the Mother @#$%! balls to get back with me I’m super pissed right now my ESO has been offline for 16 hours that the same message has been popping up. So I’m giving the three listed above 24 hours to contact me back before I start contacting news paper companies and posting this on facebook along with word of mouth. Don’t tell me it’s my internet connection because I’m e-mailing you from the same line.

    • Dylan

      well first of all you didnt need to spend $200 on DLC, Costumes, Mounts etc. And 2nd of all why cant you take a break from the game….. -_-

      • Zap Rowsdower

        Some people just like to whine, whine, whine. I paid money! Everything has to be perfect all the time, or I’ll tell!!! Quit being a little bitchly person and come to the realization that things (especially electronic things) do not all work perfectly all the time.

    • Jenn

      People like you are hilarious. As a consumer, you truly believe that if you put something online or in a newspaper or even calling a news station is really going to impact something like ESO? Get real. Be patient, and grow up. Acting like a child isn’t getting you anywhere. I deal with people like you every day that threaten companies with their bullshit and whining. Bees don’t go to vinegar. They go to honey.

      • serious

        Actually bees make honey….they’re not drawn to it. That would be flowers (sugar).

    • Reagan

      How are you paying $50 membership when there is no membership fee on xbox? Dev team knows you’re lying, so why would they want to help you? Quit being a baby.

    • Dylan

      Hahaha dude you are such a tosser. It sounds like someone dropped their tampon.

  • Ruby Marie k

    It went down on my it said the server is down due to maintence probems! And it shut my game off and i JUST SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON IT and now it wont let me play because its saying that its being fixed!

  • Ryan

    There’s planned maintenance for each platform all week, Xbox One in US and UK for patch maintenance on October 13 at 11am BST and 6AM EDT. PS4 gets the same treatment in US and UK on October 14, at 11am BST again and the same for EDT at 6AM. This patch server work is in preparation for bug fixes and Nov 2015 DLC.

    • henly

      Playing right now or rather getting my arse on a plate fro lvl 2 dolmen as a v10 Templar due to lag. as a paying member this is totally unacceptable with a 110 mbps connection.

  • Dan

    The current maintenance is for North America, the Europe servers will go offline at 3pm BST today on PC/Mac.

  • LewisRules

    They said this is “patch maintenance”, so expect the Elder Scrolls Online 2.1.9 PC update today.

  • Ricky

    I guess this means ESO patch 2.1.9 is coming to PC today, anyone confirm this update is on Oct 12?

  • Mike

    Elder Scrolls Online is down right now on PC.

  • Dan

    ESO TU megaserver has just gone down for patch maintenance on PC and Mac today, Oct 12.

  • Ryan

    PS4 server has been constantly kicking me off today and when I am able to be in game, it is very unresponsive. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue. My internet connection is obviously fine considering I’m on here. Real shame though. Had no problems last night.

  • Dan

    PS4 servers down for ESO in UK and North America due to planned maintenance. Just went down a few moments ago, no ETA for returning.

    • allen

      They need to post an estimated time

  • Emily

    Elder Scrolls Online went down for PC and Mac this morning, Oct 6, now it’s the Xbox One but this time there’s maintenance in both the UK and USA

  • Dan

    If you are using ESO on PC or Mac and in USA, then you will notice some server maintenance right now that started at 8AM EST.

  • Nicky

    Oct. 3rd 2015
    Xbox One ESO Server not connecting is the server still down?

    • Nicky

      NA servers by the way is what I’m talking about

  • Puma

    2150 / 9:50pm EST (in Delaware) and both NA and EU servers are unavailable. A check on xBox Live’s support site and ESO’s official site find that Live is running without issue and the problem lies with ESO’s servers and everyone seems to know it except them. Nothing posted to their help forum about the issue. Hopefully it’ll be corrected sometime soon. Any updates are appreciated.

  • Oct 1; 8PM EST; NA & Europe servers are down… I thought maintenance was over?

    • kevin

      Xbox One Northern America Server Still Down

      • ZombifiedDrazil

        This is bs!

      • Jaymes

        Still down or does my xbox one just suck?

        • Mike

          Mine is down as well…

          • Jaymes

            Anyone having any luck?

          • SK

            nope been trying and still nothing this SucK

    • Lori
    • james downs

      Still down or am I onlyone

      • Jaymes

        Not the only one. Still down here. Xbox live works no for other games, just not rap. Checked rap official server status and am assured it is up and running, but it is down and napping for me.

        • Jaymes

          Supposed to say Xbox like works for other games just not ESO. And that I had checked the ESO official server status. My phone is not hip to the lingo…

  • Dan

    Looks like Elder Scrolls Online is taking another maintenance break. Status Update: Xbox One in North America and Europe is down for scheduled maintenance, as always not clear when the megaservers will come back up but you can count on the servers being offline for a few hours.

  • Branden

    Tamriel unlimited server is down 16 September.

  • Dan

    As we saw yesterday with Xbox One, today the PS4 Elder Scrolls Online servers have been taken down for maintenance in both the UK and USA. This was also confirmed on the status update page, expect servers to return around the same time as yesterday’s outage.

    • James

      What time was it do you know that the Xbox One servers came back online yesterday?

      • Dan

        15:05 PM UK time the servers come back up, about 10:05AM EST.

        • James

          Thanks very much, really appreciate the update!

  • Mandy

    ESO status page just updated within the hour to explain the Xbox One North American server is down on Sept 15, from about 11AM BST. This is for maintenance once again and includes Europe as well. Still amazed at a game having so much downtime, never seen anything like it before.

  • Danny

    Noticed early the official Twitter reported they’d be rebooting the PC/Mac EU megaserver. Apparently this was going to take place at 4:50PM UK time, or 11:50AM EDT, and was to address performance problems. The official status page now reports both PC and Mac servers are down across Europe for maintenance.

  • Robert

    ESO maintenance just announced for PS4 in both the UK (Europe) and USA on Sept 10. It started at 11AM BST, but impacting Xbox One at this time.

  • Dan

    Status Update: Xbox One NA and Europe servers are down for scheduled Sept 8 maintenance. As always, no time for when they might come back up.

    • Kevin

      Why don’t they tell us what is coming in the new updates the day of the release so we have something to read while the server is down?

  • Nathan

    There was loads of lag and then ESO crashed, now we cant sign in at all. Anyone else have the same problem today, we’re in NY?

    • Arratta

      Same

  • Ben

    The megaservers are currently online again, no status updates even though PS4 ESO is down on Aug 30.

  • xen

    First time i wana play eso but it says internal issues 🙁 hope they fix it 🙂

    • Steuern

      They will! Is been down for a few hours now, doesn’t usually take longer than that. You brand new to eso??

      • Anthony

        How longs it Been down for

        • Steuern

          Not sure, but they’ve been working on it for almost 2 and a half hours so not much longer than that.

  • Chucklehead

    what really pisses me off, is that they will never ever admit they are having problems, instead they make you run around doing all these checks and rechecks meanwhile they are sitting there laughing their asses off, knowing its their fault…Oh you got a error 200-201? well go to your directory and rename the file programdata located in your launcher folder and restart and try again…BULLSHIT…don’t make it the customers problem and make them think something is wrong on their end..when clearly it is you guys!!. This is what you get when they remove monthly payments, they need to downgrade on the server costs…can you even imagine how long it would have taken you to download this game if it wasn’t on steam? it took me 6hrs just for the PATCH!! just admit your having problems and most ppl will be understanding. It infuriates people MORE when you lie…

    • Ph

      Not how development works at all. The problem is discovered, and then they have to try to figure out what’s wrong. No one knows what the problem is, you don’t intentionally write bugs into your software, or make a controller or chip go bad. So the dev’s will fix the issue, or they will put in reporters that will help isolate the issue and give them more data. Often, it’s impossible to debug some issues unless the system is under load, and simulators can only simulate so much. The devs are stressed, not laughing at you. And whatever manager/PR person comes up with these messages has nothing to do with what the devs told them. Stop being so angry.

  • Kalgorn

    I’ve really enjoyed playing this game for the last 2 weeks of so and I didn’t have any problems with login or crashes until yesterday. It kept crashing all day. It took me so many tries to finish the quest where you have to save the Argonian eggs under the Hist from the void because I would get kicked from the game before i could complete the quest. I thought it might be my connection but now i cant login at all. I hope this is a problem they can resolve.

    • Steuern

      It will be fixed, they’re just slow. 🙁

    • Ryan

      It’s not ZoS’s fault that one of the major isp’s had massive faults in their systems and dumped a good portion of internet service off the map….go check around, the information is there if you would look. Given the amount of ‘lag’ you experience despite having the best internet connection on your block could very well be attributed to this as well – not excusing that every short sighted patch can’t have stability issues – but you’re playing an MMo which is never flawless (if you think that, man what world do you live in????).

      Just another Launchpad for all the whiners and haters ready to jump a truck about how shabby something is, because someone else said so. Get an INFORMED opinion you mindless sheep…..

      • Jake

        So…will it be up any time soon? Or should I just go to bed

        • Steuern

          You could go to bed. Or just play bloodborne with me.

      • Steuern

        Ummm….I actually think they do a pretty good job…

        • Jake

          Does that mean I can wait a little bit longer before I can play or…

          • Steuern

            Bloodborne ^

          • Reggieredfoot

            Yeah..it’s been 3 hrs id say no it’s usually back up by now

      • idolize

        Havent had problems at all till today besides minor bar swap lag btw Damn all you whiners just got rekted, he is completely right 100% gg

      • Will

        Your opinion sounds “informed” enough for me, and Im not a sheep. Mindless at times maybe….

        • Steuern

          Are you a pheep? A sherson? You can’t be sheeple by yourself!

  • Shadow

    The servers are a joke all round tbh. This is why i get really angry when Sony and Microsoft keeps pushing for completely cloud based gaming. One it is a clever way to get around DRM anger and 2 it solves the issue of pre owned games. The greatest problem is they can’t hold up a server to save their lives nor can they adequately protect them from Ddos etc.

    Every time some backyard hacker wants to take on 2 of the greatest tech companies in the world we are completely at their mercy. How will we play games if it is completely online? Every single major god damn release causes major issues to the whole network as well as the game servers. Time and time again it happens and not once do they ever learn from it and correct it. Then there is the issue of bottlenecking. My PC downloads at twice or more the rate of my PS4 downloads.

    I test my connection and get 14 mbps Type 1 download speed. Then look at in game download and upload rates and it is 1 tenth of my actual speed to lower the strain of concurrent downloads/uploads. This affects my connectivity greatly. Moving on we have ESO. They sell themselves as running a “mega” server that can handle massive loads yet it crashes or gets insanely irritable under the slightest strain. It isn’t maintenance today the server is literally just not able to handle requests.

    Even more baffling is ESO has largely become hated on consoles because it is boring and buggy as hell. Even the streamers hate it. It has been out for a fair while now and the server population is more than reasonable. How is a “mega” server crashing under normal strain? This is a joke tbh. How they thought for a second a ptp model was going to work at the original launch is beyond me.

    If the PC launch was a buggy mess and this is much improved i can see why PC chucked a hissy fit over it.

    • Steuern

      While I agree with you that cloud based gaming is a joke and an insult to console gamers, your ps4 does not always bottleneck your net. While it is running programs it will, but if you only want to download you should put it in rest mode where it focuses solely on downloading and powering your ports, according to y oh r power save settings. Rest mode downloads are faster. And yeah the pc launch was ridiculous haha, I was so pissed. I had preordered months in advance and got my game when my “early access” days were already gone.

  • Shawn

    This game crashes more than any game I’ve ever played. Is it Either maintenance or the servers just can’t handle it? They make enough money off of the game with people who do buy premium or just crowns in general why couldn’t they just upgrade the servers to support the customer population they have? For the past 4 days me and 10 friends have been kicked from the game every 20 minutes it’s a bit annoying. When you pay this much for a game you expect it to work.

    • krew

      You never played DC universe when it first came out lol

    • Shutter26

      still down?

      • Shutter26

        anyone want 2 run a nightfall hit me up GT Shutter26

  • Anthony

    Come home from work at 10:30 to play and this happens …. Shit any estimates when it’s gonna be up

  • TJ

    Blah, NA servers are still down, dang it.

    • ea

      Every time I really want to play the Damn servers are down! Gets old!

      • Steuern

        Pfft, ea shuts down or ruins everything good anyway. 🙁

  • Cherie Legg

    England down its 6am, i thought this was supposed to happen on a Wednesday? Another reason my husband doesnt understand why ive stuck with it, is because i keep getting kicked from the game. The other day it was happening every 15 mins or so. My husband has now given up!

    • James talbot

      Hey was I running with you in a group PvP? Lol that sounds awefully familiar but it also happened a lot to me. Someone told me after you register and vertify your account it happens less often

    • Connor

      I’m in Australia, and I play EU servers, and it’s still down, I wonder how much longer it’ll be down for? Hopefully it’ll be up and running by tonight

  • Da expandable

    So I took the elder scroll from you fakn dominion while everyone e got dced hahahaha…. no not really but I was close was in some sort of safe zone when the disconnection happened don’t know what but my group all vanished and all my guilds where offline odd to see with more that 500 people between the 3 guilds… was kinda funny being the only one around for a good 15 mins though #fuckthedominion FTD

    Chillrend NA

  • bk

    Eu server down at 1031 way on Aug 27. No login and timing out for no reason. Shalador will have to wait for eso strokejob.

    • TheUnseenHand

      NA servers are down as well…login server timeout

    • Tree J

      Same with NA at 10:40 cst

      • Gunnar

        So the Elder Scrolls Online NA server is actually down? Was wondering why i couldn’t log in.

    • Xtian

      NA still down 23:48 EST.
      Guess I’ll go play Bloodborne…

      • Jacob

        Glad to know im not the only one with this problem. 11:05 PM Central and still can’t log in. One minute im zapping a kwema (if i spelled it right) worker to death, next thing ik im still in the zapping animation and the mob is standing still, but idle motion. I’ll probably go back to Destiny while i wait… or maybe go on bloodborne as well… need to ACTUALLY beat it lol.

        • Hayden

          It still says it. 9:26 Arizona time.

  • Ricky

    Official status update reveals both Europe and NA (USA) PS4 ESOTU servers offline for maintenance on Aug 26. Megaservers are unavailable right now and as usual, no time for when they will return.

  • Dan

    It’s confirmed that theXbox One North American and European megaserver is unavailable due to maintenance. This is why some ESO players in the UK and US are reporting server problems today. They have been down since 11AM BST, UK time. No ETA for coming up.

    • kayy_chapman

      Eu is back now

  • Joe

    Xbox One servers are down on Aug 25 in the UK, also I have friend in NY USA and it’s down there too.

  • Dan

    PC and Mac platforms in North American are now down for maintenance, this happened at around 5am PST, or 8am EST.

    • Jake

      I can confirm PC ESO servers are offline, now I see it’s another maintenance schedule with no return time.

  • Dan

    The PlayStation 4 North American megaserver is now officially offline, their status page just mentioned it’s unavailable for maintenance. Anyone think these outages come too often? Seem like they are everyday.

    • Cody

      The only chat channel that’s working for me right now is area and that only started working a few hours ago. Don’t know what they did with that maintenance but they caused some issues.

  • Billy

    I’m accessing the NA PS4 server, but cant get on and no warnings about downtime? Ideas anyone.

  • Katrina

    TESOnline need to tell us how long the servers will be down today on ps4, no updates on the status page just yet.

    • Amanda

      My main issue w the maintenance is the fact that they don’t tell you how long they expect to be out for… that is a little frustrating w my schedule lol. But other than that I would rather the maintenance be done to keep up w the little glitches and such. But can you plz just say how long they are expected?!. 😉

  • Ricky

    The ESO Xbox One USA servers went down at 6AM EST, this maintenance also impacts Xbox One in Europe at the same time (11AM in the UK ).

  • Tysiair

    This has been going on for 2 days it takes 2 days for maintenance thats bs

  • Aaron

    This maintenance issues are ridiculous. I’ve been able to play twice in the past week without being booted after 15 min. I will cancel my subscription and find another game if this isn’t fixed soon.

  • Mark

    The Elder Scrolls Online server status page shows no maintenance for Aug 10, yet I cannot access play on PS4. Maybe they will update shortly, as I have noticed a delay in the past.

    • Thornwood

      The European server on xbox one isnt working for me as i have an error which states ‘could not retrieve announcememts’. Really annoyed

  • shane

    Still not loading..

    • matt

      Yea this is straight bs!

    • Shaun

      What works for me is I log off for 5 minutes. Log into the European Servers under a random character that I’ve created. Log off immediately. Wait 5 minutes. Then attempt to log into the North American Server. It works.

  • KRZ

    Due to all these issues, I personally requested and recieved a PSN refund from Sony. Due to the fact that the product is defective. A AAA title should not have these problems in 2015 and if I knew it had all these issues which I encountred, I probably would have NEVER bought the game. So i’m very happy to have obtained justice with a refund. If I purchase a product NOW , I EXPECT to use it NOW and NOT after a month, 6 months or 1 year later without these game breaking issues, Sony did try to contest me, so I told them to Officially write back to me stating that Sony considers ESO Perfectly Functional even if it works 20-30% of the time due to ESO Server related issues. At this point they refunded me. I obviously took pictures of the various errors and sent them to Sony and contacted the ESO (LOL) Support Team which would copy and paste generic ideas of how one MIGHT be able to resolve the problem, very funny people…It took me 1 Month but it is possible, Fight For your Rights as Consumers.

    • Ozzy

      2 days straight north american server won’t load but European server will, its been 2 months and its still having same issues, eso developers should be ashamed. Since you have our money already, its clear you could care less, its funny how Japanese games rarely have this problem, probably because they make sure it works b4 releasing it. It’s clear Bethesda doesn’t care about its gamers, just our money. Can’t believe that your proud of this game, the potential is their, but its wasted. Funny how Xenoverse and Gta 5 had same issues, but were fixed 1 to 2 weeks later… That alone is a testament of how pathetic the team involved with Eso truly is…

    • Jared

      Obviously you have never played an mmo if this posses you off dont buy an mmo if you cant stand the difficulties that it takes to keep an mmo going this is a common problem for EVERY mmo ever your just a whiny child

  • Rob

    What time will eso be up in uk? I see it’s now down for maintenance on PS4.

    • Dazzer

      ESO downtime until 5pm BST.

  • Courtney

    In Australia, my internet is fine but NA and EU servers say login failed unable to connect to psn, wtf seriously I can’t even make it past the login

    • Dazzer

      If your on a PS4 it’s because there down for maintenance, if your on a x-box, well your on a x-box but servers are up for x-box.

    • Dazzer

      Just re-read your post and I noticed your mention of PSN well join the club none of us can get online until the mantinence is done.

  • Jess

    Two days in a row with Xbox One ESO servers going down, never known a game to have so many planned outages.

  • Dan

    The Xbox One North American and European megaserver is currently unavailable for maintenance.

  • Rob

    Elder Scrolls Online maintenance started about 2 minutes ago, not sure when the servers will come back as they never tell us.

  • Joe

    It’s says problem with servers try again later ps4 north america

  • Editor

    Elder Scrolls Online is working good at last no problems so far today. Happy days.

  • 7-9-15

    N. American superserver is down for maintenance 7-9-15 @ 1430hours PST.
    They should’ve expected these issues….

    -Andrew

  • Jay

    I literally just got this game, to get kicked off.. So I had to buy the game, Ps plus, and I got eso plus.. Just to sit here and want to continue one of my favorite stories.. This is messed up.

    • dangthing

      Eso is a prequel, it takes place like thousands of years before Skyrim does.

    • xyle666

      maintenance doesn’t last long. you are not paying monthly for this game so suck it up, you cant just run a computer without resetting it, clearing the cache, etc for months at a time and expect it to keep operating at a stellar level, so they have to do these maintenance times. don’t act like every other 10 year old who cries to their parents when they cant play their game right away. you paid 60 bucks for the game knowing its online and knowing problems can arise.

    • Jay

      Lol

  • Danny

    I see the PC patch notes version 2.0.13 went live a couple of days ago, when is the next PS4 update? I think it will be patch 1.05 next.

    • Jamie

      I am looking for details on the next Xbox One update, our patch notes should be 1.0.0.5 next. Last patch was in June, so hoping to see an update for July 2015 soon.

  • Ron

    PS4 North American megaserver is down for maintenance today, July 8, from 11AM in the UK and at 6AM EST, so the likes of NYC. This will of course only interrupt gaming for those in the US, so focus on 6AM EST or 3AM PST.

  • Dan

    Loads of PC issues today, I’m guessing there’s maintenance for PC?

  • Nath

    Trying to download the ESO update today but it’s taking forever, really slow and 15GB in total.

  • Dan

    CANT see any Eso maintenance, but the servers are down right now early on 4th of July.

  • Justin

    I really enjoy this game which makes it harder to to be patient during the maintenance. Though, the main thing that we all need to keep in mind is the fact that this game just came out a few weeks ago for console, so yes its not going to be perfect. The graphics, the gameplay and just all the open world content is insanely good, and yes I have really bad internet with limited lag issues, but thats not their fault either, thats my internet. So if you cant pull through the amount of maintaince to get these megaservers running then put the game down for like a month or two, in the mean time, pick of one of the five Elder Scrolls games before this. You will be surprised how the lore intertwines between games.

  • Chris

    I bought the game yesterday . . . . After finally waiting a loooong 15 hrs to download the bloody thing i was finally able to start my Elder Scrolld experience thos morning only to be told after 5 mins of playing the server is down for maintenance . . . . . NOT a good starting impression im afraid!!

    • Tanner

      If its scheduled maintenance then it was just bad timing. Youre and idiot if maintenance gave you a first bad impression.

    • Dazzer

      If you hadn’t logged out you’d still be online.

  • Ben

    Servers go offline almost every day now, cant play ESO on PS4 right now as servers down.

  • Nath

    I see more ESO maintenance has started in the UK today for PS4, Xbox One, yet again.

    • Dazzer

      No just Playstation, X-Box was done yesterday

  • Nathan

    Servers going offline a lot today I see.

  • Dan

    They just changed the maintenance schedule from June 25th to Monday, June 29th. This will take PS4 and Xbox One login systems down from 10:30AM to 3:30PM EDT. If you sign in before this time, then you can keep playing during the downtime.

  • Hakan

    Lol good luck guys new update 15gb again right now

  • When are the European megaserver going to be up and running as I only got the game yesterday and it had no problems when I was playing it yesterday

    • ZINRYUJIN

      Between 6pm and 10pm UK time.

  • Mine does not time me out

  • I wonder if the makers are going to show us the scheduled dates or not.

  • James

    My Explorer pack doesn’t seem to work, I installed it after the tutorial level in Cold harbor and now nothing has shown up no pet, I haven’t tried the any race any clan thing which comes with the explorer pack, I doubt it will work.

    • Dwarvakiin

      You have to activate dlc to use it. To do this you must:

      1) Start ESO and enter a server.

      2) Open the options menu and selects ‘social’ then select ‘mail’. You should have a message awaiting you in yellow text (yellow text indicates an automated message).

      3) You must confirm the message or “take attachments” to do this, highlight the message and press the confirm button (X or A).

      4) Enjoy your content.

  • Dan

    Xbox One ESO servers down in Europe and USA, no idea how long the maintenance will be. Status page only confirmed the downtime.

    • Sofia Rodriguez

      How long will these be down???

  • HigherPrimate

    is it just one mega server for North America or is it split up between xbox and ps4

    • Ryan

      Do you know when the servers will be back up??

  • Nathan

    Hate all this maintenance, but at least the ESO servers have been taken offline when most of the US sleep. Better than in prime time, although I play at night, so this wasn’t good for me.

  • Ben

    Just seen the Xbox One North American megaserver is down again, they have taken it offline for maintenance.

  • The Parrent

    Quit your whining you self entitled tools! be glad you can afford the game and shut up!

  • Bill

    …This page was absolutely no help, I already knew that the servers go down every once in a while, I just wanted to know the average amount of time severs go down for. I downloaded this game today, and I’m already dissapointed

    • Dwarvakiin

      As far as anyone knows these downtimes have not been planned, they have in a way been forced due to the overwhelming amount of people playing the game. Similar to GTA Online back when it was finally released, the only difference being that Zenimax are actually solving the problem relatively fast compared to Rockstar.

      Considering this is an MMO, you have to remember that it is a more difficult beast to work with, if servers are down the games is unplayable; it has no single player component. Blizzard were having worse problems when WoW originally released and they simply ignored most of the problems until they began work on their first expansion.

  • Carl

    Amazing a day off work and cannot get to play the game. Crowns as an apology would be good to all having to put up with this.

    • Bill

      what region/console are you on?

  • Mikey

    Yet again, more problems with elder scrolls online today. I saw the store offline earlier, but now I can’t sign in on PS4.

    • Trent

      Yea I bought this game 6 days ago and have been able to login once then got kicked right back out. I have been trying to login ever sense with no luck. This game is a joke

  • summer

    Just bought game yesterday. Spent 12 hours downloading update. Tried to finally play today just to have difficulty logging in and now maintnance. An i going to be able to play this game?!!

  • Simon

    What a joke! It’s been down all day in the UK! It’s a Sunday leave essential work to a weekday when thousands of players are at work…seriously not happy!

  • James

    Cant sign in to the PS4 the European megaserver is down for ESO.

    • Sk1Nn8oN3z

      same here

  • ROB

    DUMB. SERVERS ARE STILL DOWN! FIX THIS IT ALREADY..

  • Nickolai

    It’s an mmo. All mmo’s have problems when they first start out. Calm your tits

  • corey

    Took 30 min to maintenance European servers yet over an hour for American servers and nothing. Every other day is maintenance don’t they test this stuff before releasing the game? Come on paid 60 to sit here and wait to play? What a waste

  • Ron

    ESO PS4 is down, I cant play June 12 in NYC.

  • ben

    maintenance just started for Elder Scrolls Online on PS4 in North America.

  • STicks

    Servers are down in US, this has been confirmed ont he Elder Scrolls Online status. Crazy how much the servers are going down.

  • Jesse

    Why did they not give a heads up on the maintenance for today? Is it going to last all through tomorrow too?

    • kyle

      I certainly hope not and hope we get a response

  • ryan

    I pre ordered the esotu version and, along with everyone else, I am having trouble with the log in occasionally. I am also not finding the extra content I was promised.

    • John

      Go to mail to recieve Items. They are only there for 30 days

  • Steve

    I bought the digital version on ps4 and the game fails to start up, it gives me an internal error.

  • Megan

    I just ESO with xbox one and keep getting a login failed error that mentions “connection to server timed out”. Are the servers down, or are people playing on xbox?

  • Ricky

    I am having problems installing the explorer’s pack, although this hasn’t released yet to Xbox One. What’s going on?

  • Dan

    The Elder Scrolls Online server keeps timing out for me, even though I have fast BT Fiber broadband in the UK. I should be able to download quick, guess the servers are very busy considering this is the global launch day for consoles.

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