The Elder Scrolls Online status: server issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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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	13 days ago
Arrondissement de Poitiers	Online Play	13 days ago
Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez	Sign in	30 days ago
Villeneuve-d'Ascq	Sign in	30 days ago
Amsterdam	Sign in	30 days ago
Châteauroux	Sign in	30 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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  Splat (@Splat_86) reported 8 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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  Kevin Okada🇧🇼🇸🇩🇵🇸 (@ICEKINGZ23) reported 8 minutes ago

  @luke749478 @CauaRFrancisco1 But now they can have Elder Scrolls exclusively, what's the problem😌

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  Big Tasty (@Smegbort) reported 8 minutes ago

  @SynthPotato the issues with Starfield and Creation Engine was that *everything* was treated the same way interior spaces are treated in Fallout and Elder Scrolls. I have way less of an issue with loading screens when theres a full open map to walk around in between.

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  KhajiitCook (@Lgbt_Cherry) reported 9 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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  KhajiitCook (@Lgbt_Cherry) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Mark97009631616 @TESOnline Code needs to be consistent and work well a small error in it can cause alot of bugs from other lines of the code and they have to qa check everything and they got way less quality assurance team. So that's two bottlenecks.

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  Harrison (@Harriso84651147) reported 12 minutes ago

  @werty2346 @vicious696 They spent a good couple years making starfield, upgrading the engine, then once that finished went onto elder scrolls while still making starfield DLC and content updates. Doing all this while maintaining a multiplayer live service, developing a newer version of their engine

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  Dova Dork (@DorkDova) reported 15 minutes ago

  @PatManJones62 @JezCorden Mate it means nothing to me anyways I own both but the issue is sales. If they want to actually make money maybe they should release on all platforms I'm adamant they should of brought spiderman to Xbox as well I'm saying elder scrolls deserves better treatment

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  Raintop | Debut Summer 2026 (@RaintopCroptop) reported 16 minutes ago

  Aside from my hype for fallout 3 and new Vegas remastered, this is just kinda lip service. We’ve known about 3 and new Vegas getting remastered for years and they still have nothing to show for elder scrolls 6

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  3V0 (@3V0_VTubing) reported 18 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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  Yellow High Voltage Rat (@5h42k7007h50up) reported 18 minutes ago

  @BethesdaStudios Look, I love the Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Have since I first booted up my Xbox to play Morrowind in 2002. But you guys needed a kick in the ***. I hate that all those employees got fired, but taking 20 years to release a game, and then another decade of no DLC or content for said game, and relying only on modders to fill in what you left out, is the most laziest and snobbiest **** you could have ever run for a company. And not telling people about games or projects coming up, being so tight lipped and superior, and holier than thou art. On a gaming engine that is already 40 years old and barely works at launch, and takes a year to fix the game. Bethesda needed a kick in the ***. And it was long overdue.

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  Lula Molusco do Guerra nas Estrelas (@SW_Squid) reported 21 minutes ago

  @SynthPotato I don’t think it’s such a big deal. It was very obvious in Starfield because the player is constantly fast traveling. This should not be an issue in Elder Scrolls and Fallout where the game takes place in mostly one exterior map.

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  MidwestNomad (@dedmeetdm) reported 22 minutes ago

  @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.

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  Android Digest (@DigestAndroid) reported 22 minutes ago

  @JezCorden I really am. It does make me sad how hard you are on Xbox sometimes. I get some people don't like job cuts, but she's fixing a problem that she didn't create. They bought a million studios during covid to boost game pass and obviously it didn't work. They are draining 60 cents out of every 100 keeping dead studios alive. And like Asha said there are like 13 levels of management at times. I get that they also cut other people but some of those roles could have been redundancies that weren't necessary. Remember some of these games took 10 years to make a game that would barely make any money. Some of these studios are not doing the work they need to do. I don't like exclusives but it's definitely the way to get people to buy Xbox in the future. Getting all of their popular titles actually released. Personally I don't think they released elder scrolls 6 because they were trying to milk the MMO for as long as they can. So they didn't prioritize development. Phil Spencer let the studios do whatever they wanted and he was praised because people were worried that Microsoft would get too involved. But studios were allowed to do very little to nothing for 8 years and get away with it. All to release some indie game no one would buy even on PlayStation. People are making all these videos about Xbox dying and they have been for weeks but it's silly. It was dying. She saw the issues. She's addressing them. The toughest issue yet is the console pricing but everyone is dealing with that. She's not getting close to enough credit. People get in their feelings about Job losses and I can understand why but Sony ditched almost the same amount of employees too. They barely got any flack. I get Windows Central and other places should be neutral but we also need people to stand against all the PS5 fanboys who are just hating on Xbox to justify their purchases. We need people to bring balance. To say yes. Xbox was in a crap situation but IT IS better. We have game pass. We have a better subscription service than sony. We have Xbox play Anywhere which is massive for people with gaming handhelds or PCS. I saved so much money being able to play games on both handheld and console. And we have a bright future with great exclusive games and high-end titles that most of us want to play rather than boring titles none of us would buy. I think she's doing great. Even if it has been rough times

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  Narik (@MusicNarik) reported 23 minutes ago

  @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!

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  Caius Hawthorne (@TJ_B_6) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TESOnline I downloaded a patch on 13 July, game won’t let me sign in. Deleted game from my PS5, reinstalled, still won’t let me log in. What do I need to do? I saw some comments about deleting saved data but too scared I’ll lose all progress and ££££ I’ve spent.

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  muskett (@_Muskett_) reported 27 minutes ago

  @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.

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  St. Michael (@StMichael93) reported 27 minutes ago

  After years of delivering nothing on Fallout and Elder Scrolls (Dear Todd, ESO and Fallout 76 are live service games, for an entirely different fanbase) Microsoft finally pulled the rug on Bethesda and gave their IP to Obsidian again to remake Fallout New Vegas

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  Kosumo (@Real_kosumo_) reported 33 minutes ago

  @nuhre_ I REALY want an Elder Scrolls 6. But from Bethesda as it was 10+ years ago, not Bethesda of today. I honestly want them to crash and burn before they make a 6th and ruin it like I know they will. They were my favorite, and they have lost favor.

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  𝐁𝐒𝐏𝟑 (@RealBSP3) reported 35 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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  Deadman Vazquez (@Arghdeaded) reported 38 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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  Jarek13 (@Jarek0013) reported 39 minutes ago

  Prompt to create the main poster: Absolutely. I'd actually simplify it into a dedicated template focused solely on the wanted poster so it's easier to reuse. --- SKYRIM WANTED POSTER GENERATOR v1.0 Primary Character @Image1 = Character to appear on the wanted poster --- Optional User Inputs CHARACTER NAME: [Leave blank to infer] BOUNTY: [random] or [60,000,000] BOUNTY SYMBOL: [random] or [Septim Symbol] or [Septims] or [None] POSTER TITLE: [random] or [WANTED] or [FUGITIVE] or [MOST WANTED] or [ENEMY OF THE EMPIRE] CAPTURE STATUS: [random] or [DEAD OR ALIVE] or [ALIVE] or [DEAD] POSTER AUTHORITY: [random] or [The Empire] or [The Jarl of Whiterun] or [The Penitus Oculatus] or [The Vigilants of Stendarr] or [The Companions] or [Custom] CRIMES: [random] or [list your own] POSTER STYLE: [random] or [Imperial] or [Stormcloak] or [Ancient Nordic] or [Town Notice] or [Dark Brotherhood] or [Thieves Guild] or [Dawnguard] PORTRAIT POSE: [random] or [Front] or [Three Quarter] or [Looking Over Shoulder] or [Holding Weapon] or [Casting Magic] or [Smirking] or [Stoic] PAPER CONDITION: [random] or [Fresh] or [Weathered] or [Ancient] or [Burned Edges] or [Water Damaged] ASPECT RATIO: [random] or [2:3] or [3:4] or [4:5] --- CHARACTER RULES Use @Image1 as the absolute identity reference. Preserve: facial features hairstyle eye color body proportions ears, horns, tails, wings, or other species traits recognizable silhouette outfit identity unless intentionally redesigned personality and expression The finished poster should unmistakably depict the supplied character. --- WANTED POSTER Create a realistic Skyrim-style bounty poster that looks as though it has been hanging on an inn or city bulletin board for weeks. Include: aged parchment torn corners nail holes curled edges faded ink water stains soot marks weathering uneven medieval typography Everything should resemble an authentic Elder Scrolls document. --- PORTRAIT Illustrate the character as a hand-inked medieval sketch. Avoid modern rendering styles. The portrait should resemble an Imperial artist's depiction rather than a perfect painting. --- BOUNTY If BOUNTY is set to random, generate a fitting reward based on the notoriety of the listed crimes. Examples: 500 2,000 15,000 100,000 1,000,000 60,000,000 If BOUNTY SYMBOL is Septim Symbol, display the Septim emblem on both sides of the amount rather than using a modern currency symbol. --- CRIMES If CRIMES is random, invent an entertaining mix of Skyrim-appropriate offenses. Examples include: Poaching Stealing Sweet Rolls Assault Horse Theft Illegal Spellcasting Smuggling Moon Sugar Necromancy Pickpocketing Disturbing the Peace Murder Public Drunkenness Tax Evasion Harboring Daedra Chicken Theft Counterfeit Septims Looting Nordic Tombs Assaulting Guards Theft The Massacre of Dawnstar Arson Breaking into Dwemer Ruins Summoning Daedra Without Authorization Trespassing in Blackreach Punching Nazeem When randomized, vary the tone between serious, humorous, and absurd while keeping everything believable within Skyrim's world. --- AUTHORITY Display a footer reading: BY ORDER OF followed by the selected authority. If set to random, choose an organization that would realistically issue the bounty. --- ART STYLE Highly detailed Elder Scrolls realism. Authentic parchment. Natural ink illustration. Weathered medieval printmaking. No modern paper. No modern typography. No contemporary design elements. The final image should be convincing enough that a player could mistake it for an actual wanted poster found hanging inside a Skyrim inn, guard barracks, or city gate.

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  MOBBDE21 (@MOBBDE21) reported 40 minutes ago

  @IdleSloth84_ He mentioned that before about the live service games. But yeah, Elder Scrolls 6 will likely go exclusive, Fallout 5 will likely be multiplatform.

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  Robert Gough (@SilentWraith87) reported 41 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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  Bird (@birdbrain42069) reported 42 minutes ago

  @LevelsUnlucky @ZorroRideThrice Real fans care about consistency and quality in comic, without quality they are not entertaining to read, and without consistency, you don't know what you read this week actually is going to be a thing next week. The major comic companies have lacked both of these things for more than 10 years, but especially the last 10 years. If Nintendo came out and said Mario's goal in the game, this has never been to save peach, It was to protect the environment of the mushroom Kingdom from the damage. Bowser is inflicting to it, everyone would laugh that off as stupid and fake. An actual example in the elder scrolls there is a set number of daedric princes, and this number was set so hard in the lore that it's tied to the fundamental structure of the universe, in elder scrolls online they decided to add another one, So you either have to accept this one this one daedric Prince added to the lore, not even from the main team and disregard the decades of lore that came before it, or you disregard the existence of that daedric prince. The big comic companies have been breaking their own universe for decades, and then building upon its broken corpse just breaking it more, that anyone who actually cares about comic books, actually cares about having consistency in their world of their characters. Has to ignore 90% of what they've put out over the last again 10ish years.

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  BabaGod (@BabaGodBanger) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Mangalawyer Problem is not having diversity Elder scrolls also have diversity, but like Starfield, it's not forced but lore accurate and with good writing that we don't even need to complain about it Plus,Starfield team just wanted to put their own ideals instead of listening to todd and others, there is a reasn why there are stuff in starfield which make zero sense to be there like that mug and all

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  Sam Hawkes (@Hawkes1986) reported 43 minutes ago

  @CultureCrave Released Skyrim in 2011, took unit 2018 to even announce elder scrolls 6..... And we're now in 2026. Honestly, I couldn't give a **** about es6 at this point. Your focus now is live service, passion for elder scrolls lost and more money live service won. Stick it up your arse.

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  Robert Gough (@SilentWraith87) reported 46 minutes ago

  @HazzadorGamin That trailer was the telling everybody that after Starfield it's going to be Elder Scrolls. The problem is again, that implied it was already in actual development and therefore would have been out maybe a year or two after Starfield, that isn't the case.

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  Alexandre (@Alexandre99665) reported 48 minutes ago

  @LaresIsaac14 @eXtas1stv I had forgotten about Call of Duty. It's such a massive release that Game Pass doesn't make up for the lost sales. If they really do end day-one releases, The Elder Scrolls VI will probably be the second franchise to arrive on the service a year later.

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  Falloutfan3000 (@Macy1517) reported 56 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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  Speedy (@Adienspeedy) reported 60 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?