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

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	1 month ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Online Play	1 month 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

Full Outage Map

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The Elder Scrolls Online Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Warthunder (@Warthunder1984) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Nick101Gaming Because Xbox can not sustain a game that size in scope why can’t you understand that Xbox has less then 30 million gamers all on gamepass a rental service that does not support buying and supporting the studios that make them the elder scrolls will come to ps5 no Xbox needed!!

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  Argos.🇹🇫🇨🇵 (@Spiidey21) reported 5 minutes ago

  @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline Hey @BethesdaSupport , since the last uptade my Skyrim game crashes on Xbox Serie X when I open the map four times. Please fix it 🙏🙏🙏

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  The Vector Brief (@vectorbrief) reported 6 minutes ago

  MAGIC: THE GATHERING IS BECOMING A CORPORATE FRANCHISE SOUP Wizards of the Coast is leaning hard into the "Universes Beyond" strategy, turning Magic into the Smash Bros of cardboard collectibles. While the purists scream into the void about lore integrity, the market speaks a different language: crossovers print money. Bringing Narnia’s Narnian Pevensies or the dense, magic-heavy Cosmere into the game isn't just fan service—it's a calculated raid on adjacent fandom wallets. The real shift here isn't the IP itself, but the dilution of the game's original identity. When you can cast a spell using a character from The Elder Scrolls while your opponent plays a Fallout Commander deck, the "Magic" feel starts to evaporate. It’s no longer a standalone fantasy universe; it’s a digital-ready IP billboard. Is this the death of thematic consistency, or just the inevitable evolution of an aging card game? Source: IGN $HAS

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  GrimSyphr (@GrimSyphr) reported 8 minutes ago

  @bethesda now hire 50 straight white chud devs and @Asmongold to test and fix Elder Scrolls 6 and we can all be friends again.

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  KhajiitCook (@Lgbt_Cherry) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Foxhound_N10 @TESOnline They need to have a good version that's pick up and play for new players. My problem is when they force players to do it instead of the other campaigns

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  Personalpussyfooting (@HammerMica9447) reported 11 minutes ago

  @EvilSupportMain Literally all mine know I want elder scrolls 6 so bad I'll fix the world and climate change as much as I individually can just to stay alive for es6

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  Stupid Fat Chud Goblin 🇵🇷🍉🇺🇦🇹🇼🇯🇴🇱🇧🇻🇪 (@RazzledSeal) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AlexWisnerArt I hope it has mod support in the future A lot of the elder scrolls like games have such horrid mod support And it’s such an important game of the games identity that you can always play it and do something new That isn’t a live service

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  Alvin Russell 𓆋 (@FearsomeLLC) reported 15 minutes ago

  The Elder Scrolls VI is going to be... big!? Wow! Whoa! I could not care less. Bethesda's obsession with scale over focus has been a problem since Oblivion, and it's only gotten substantially worse over time. "The game world is the size of a real country!" I don't care.

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  Jayslayerjay66 (@jayslayerjay66) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ByteStix They have other people in your world lol. That's the problem lol! Played elder scrolls online and dropped it because all the other people running around on my screen got annoying. Think you'd have to wait for enemies to respawn after someone else killed them in your game too.

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  zetsubilly (@z_zetsubou) reported 24 minutes ago

  @pageturn_ @ChazakielDoremi I heard the problem with starfield was that there were longer time between content in relation to elder scrolls or fallout where you walk five feet and you run into smth

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  3V0 (@3V0_VTubing) reported 24 minutes ago

  @MorrowindGOTY I worked for a small time at Bethesda and zenimax. No one cared for the elder scrolls blades. People were playing ESO and Fallout 76 because there weren't new single player games. They have been trying to keep the service route alive as long as they can.

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  GTJames (@GTJames4ATL) reported 26 minutes ago

  @XBOXTIMDOG Just take COD and Elder Scrolls of Playstation. Problem solved

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  Gordo Compu (@TrueGordoCompu) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation I've been playing Skyrim with mods for years and it's amazing. Bethesda should have hired modders for The Elder Scrolls VI, probably going to be a piece of crap like Starfield that modders will have to fix.

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  Chel (@Genuine_Snap) reported 30 minutes ago

  @JBishie They need to fix that storefront before they expect pc players to use it. Even still, when games were exclusive to EGS, PC players would just skip them, saying “no steam no buy”. They may grab the latest Elder Scrolls, but most PC players will skip Xbox games if this is true.

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  Stephen Sutherland (@sjsuth) reported 30 minutes ago

  @pcgamer There is one problem and it’s that outside of the cities and some set piece locations, exploration was in cardboard procedurally-generated environments. There was zero reason to explore any of it, whereas all you want to do in Elder Scrolls and Fallout is explore.

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  Atlas Signal (@atlassignaldesk) reported 32 minutes ago

  Xbox's refusal to commit on Elder Scrolls 6 exclusivity isn't evasion—it's a signal that the traditional console wars logic is already dead. The "family of devices" framing is the tell. Microsoft isn't building a next-gen console anymore. It's building a platform stack: high-end hardware for 4K gaming, mid-tier boxes for Game Pass streaming, mobile integration, cloud fallback. That architectural shift means exclusivity clauses become liabilities, not assets. Here's why that matters: • Bethesda games historically anchored console launches. Elder Scrolls 4 (Oblivion) moved 360 units in 2006. That halo effect—exclusive marquee title—justified the hardware bet. But if your bet is on subscription and service, not hardware sales, exclusivity shrinks the addressable market. • Game Pass economics flip the incentive. A $70 single-player RPG sells copies. The same game on Game Pass day-one needs massive install-base growth to offset upfront cost. That only happens if you're pulling players from competing ecosystems, not gatekeeping from them. • PlayStation's installed base is too large to ignore. If Elder Scrolls 6 ships in 2027-2028, PS5 Pro owners will have 200M players deep. Microsoft's internal math almost certainly says: exclusive launch loses $500M+ in subscription revenue vs. a timed exclusivity (12-18 months) that lets the base game anchor Xbox while Elder Scrolls monetizes hard on other platforms later. The hesitation to announce non-exclusivity isn't indecision. It's the space between what corporate strategy demands (multiplatform) and what marketing still wants to promise (Xbox supremacy). That gap closes when the first major AAA title ships on both. Forward: Watch whether Starfield 2 (if announced) or Avowed get the same "we'll see" treatment. If yes, the console exclusive is formally deprecated. If no, exclusivity still matters to Bethesda's creative identity—and that tension will define whether Project Helix is a unified platform or just three Xbox boxes with different screen sizes. #Xbox #ProjectHelix #ElderScrolls6

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  Ümit ATASEVEN 🇹🇷 (@gececi53) reported 32 minutes ago

  @bethesda Dear ZeniMax Online Studios / The Elder Scrolls® Online Support Team, I am requesting that my account be temporarily disabled to protect against potential theft. However, despite providing all necessary documentation (invoices/purchase receipts, answers to questions, and my personal information) definitively proving my ownership of the account, the lack of concrete action for days has become unacceptable. Your disregard for security protocols, the prolonged delay despite providing all necessary proof of ownership, and the lack of a satisfactory response are causing significant difficulties. As a player and customer, the continued unfair blocking of my account completely contradicts your understanding of customer satisfaction and service quality. My account is now secure and my hosting is fully verified, therefore there is no longer a valid excuse for this delay. My request is clear: I demand the DEHAL of the block on my account and the uninterrupted restoration of access. Otherwise, if my complaint continues, I will be forced to pursue this matter through customer rights courts and higher authorities. I would also like to state that I expect an urgent disruption to my file due to recent support issues and the events that transpired on the same day. I request to participate in the necessary competition.

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  Wesley ✨ (@wesleytypes) reported 33 minutes ago

  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.

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  DeLa-Fuente (@itsFante) reported 33 minutes ago

  @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline I keep getting “login failed. Unexpected internal error has occured”

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  Skyridge (@Skyridge94) reported 33 minutes ago

  @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 😭

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  The It Factor 💫 MMA Betting (@TheItFactorMMA) reported 34 minutes ago

  @kidthewiiz @NikTek Is there no way to middle ground it for something like Elder Scrolls 6 to fix their city population issues that people complained about in Skyrim? Have your run of the mi interactable NPC count and backfill with these shallow NPCs?

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  Alonso A (@WaifusTrash) reported 37 minutes ago

  @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.

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  Taye (@Tayetalks_) reported 40 minutes ago

  @GamzlyTKD @JezCorden Agree with most of that but not the side chick platform, there's a world where they play their cards right they acquire more users even via consoles. The problem is they haven't being playing their cards right. Elder Scrolls isn't enough - They need Fallout etc etc

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  Falloutfan3000 (@Macy1517) reported 42 minutes ago

  @Opethftw @pcgamer Got you talking about it 9 years later. The dev team of 76 is a studio that works specifically on live service games. It’s not people in bgs that could be working on the next elder scrolls or fallout.

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  Joker (@DSR_Joker) reported 45 minutes ago

  A lot of people are focusing on the "poor shaming" aspect But it's more of an industry issue. $80-100 for GTA, Elder Scrolls, massive games like that, sure maybe. $80-$100 for a 4-8 hour story game or worse a 20 hour bloated with busy work to justify the dollar to hour games. No

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  AutummLeaf (@Sadesa212) reported 47 minutes ago

  @TESOnline for a second i thought you meant the servers were down come on man, i need my fix! the ladies will be busy tonite, need my Tomes

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  Luminous Beings are We… (@Lordofsparta) reported 50 minutes ago

  @TESOnline This one runs a skooma distribution service

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  Karea Shaver (@ShaverKare94651) reported 51 minutes ago

  @BethesdaSupport @TESOnline I really hope you take a peek at my activity feed and take care of the bad actors. Enough is enough people are literally broken putting their heart and soul into something that's rigged by bad actors.

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  Speedy (@Adienspeedy) reported 56 minutes ago

  @PurpleMNinja @Criminalsimpson Yeah, no problem. It was fun even if I don't do RPs often. An Elder Scrolls Steamed Hams RP? How does that work?

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  Gameplayerin (@Gameplayerin) reported 58 minutes ago

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