A Datacenter Power Failure Means If You Wanted To Play The Elder Scrolls Online Today You Should Pick A Different Game

If you were planning to get in some time with The Elder Scrolls Online today and are on the EU or NA Megaservers, you probably should just pick a different MMORPG to play. It's unlikely you'll be in game anytime soon.

About an hour ago, as of this writing, the dev team started investigating reports of outages and connection issues. Turns out there was a datacenter power failure that took down EU and NA Megaservers and the ESO account pages. While the team was initially looking to restore services as soon as possible, updates from the team point to at least a 12 hour outage.

While we continue to investigate, we want to let you know this outage affecting @TESOnline is going to take a significant amount of time to recover from. The current estimation is at least 12 hours. We will continue to provide updates as we have information to share.

— Bethesda Support (@BethesdaSupport) December 12, 2024

Obviously downtime always feels bad for players, but many players are wondering how this outage, which again could be longer than the 12 hours forecasted like it was last time, will impact multiple things like subscribers who will now be losing about a day of their sub (at minimum), daily login bonuses or endeavors, and the ESO Plus trial that was supposed to start today.

A previous outage this year ended up causing about a week's worth of issues for the team and resulted in player compensation and, unfortunately, rollbacks. We'll have to wait to see how bad this outage will end up being.

This should make for an interesting ESO Live stream tomorrow...if it still happens. You can follow the outage updates on the official forums.