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I played WoW for 5 years, on and off, socially to start with a single friend, then joined guilds. It definitely is one of the best parts of the experience IMO - I'm like you, I hate socialising in real life, but in an MMO I'll gladly help people out or chat for hours. :D The built-in voice stuff in WoW is shit, though; everyone either uses Skype or dedicated MMO apps like Teamspeak or Mumble.
Vintage Paw said:
Also, Buddy Bradley - did we become contacts? If not, I'm catabuca.
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Did you do all the updates yesterday? What does it look like when it crashes? Is it in that loop thing, trying to open and close over and over? If so, let it run - for as long as needed - and it will eventually 'stick' (took about 20 minutes for me yesterday). From there, repair the files - it doesn't take too long.
 
Didn't update yesterday after you posted; it's not in a loop, it just closes without doing anything. I'm on a Mac laptop at the moment - I'll try reinstalling the client from the ESO site and see if that fixes it.

Edit: Well, that didn't work. Maybe they changed the firewall at work. Guess I'll wait until I get home... :(
 
Probably for the best. Perhaps they don't like the idea of you spending all your time playing games when you should be working, naughty!
 
I've been complaining about poor internet speed all winter - looks like the line/exchange problem finally got fixed because my router has spent the last hour or so intermittently re-synching (right when I decided to launch the ESO client for updates, causing a bit of panic for me!), and I'm now back up to over 5 Mbps!

It's quite exciting to see the small updates to the client whizz past in a flash. Now just fingers crossed that it stays stable at that speed over the weekend.
 
In other news, earlier today my internet speed was back down so I did a soft disconnect and manually reset the router - now I'm on 8.3 Mbps. The noise margin is lower than it ought to be though, so I reckon it's going to be a bit unstable and settle at between 6-7 Mbps. At least if it is unstable and goes tits up at any point I have BT FON to fall back on - just plug in a wireless adapter and use someone else's internet. ;)

Tbh I'm just fidgeting around and bored waiting for the servers to go online tomorrow.
 
I haven't finished all the work I wanted to get done - most, but not all. I've had a dicky tummy for a couple of days, topped off with a horrific headache for most of yesterday.

Damn time of the year. It's sinus-related, but I don't really know what causes it. Had a spate of them last year, every other month, where all I wanted to do was crack open my skull and wash the inside of my face and head out. I've taken an allergy tablet and a decongestant to hopefully stave it off today, but I expect it will come back in some form or another. Going to try to do a bit of my work before the servers open. I'm not bothered if I'm not playing the moment the clock strikes huzzah o'clock :D
 
You have my sympathy - I've had sinus problems for years, sometimes you daren't even try to tip your head the wrong way cos of that feeling of pain flooding into your face.
My worst issue these days is that I have developed an allergy to the Ash tree outside my window - it must be the only tree within 200 yards of here and it's a real pisser being allergic to it. That comes a bit later in the year though.
 
GAH!!

Got home to find the internet is working now, but when I try to update the ESO client I get an "Error 1001 - Access Denied" message. :mad: :( Tried reinstalling the launcher but it didn't make any difference, and I can't find any help anywhere online.

Edit: Feel free to upvote my post on reddit. ;)
 
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Hmm - the game launches okay (as version 1.0.0.813000) if I find the actual game client, so maybe it's just the Launcher that is screwy. When does the beta weekend start? Edit: Never mind, I can use Google :oops: 4pm our time, should be.
 
Beta starts at noon EDT, which is 4pm GMT. But judging by the last 3 betas, the servers tend to open a bit early.
 
The new game version is 0.941004 so you have the old version still.

Can you get to the point with the launcher where you can click repair? (Have upvoted you, btw - and added you as a friend!)
 
Buddy Bradley - I have a feeling that you are on Mac? This is a long shot as I don't know where you are located, but if you are on PC and can get to East London with an external drive, you can copy the files off my PC.
Send me a PM for my address if that would be in any way helpful!
 
So they've reverted back to you needing to rename your folder if you're switching between EU and NA servers. I let the launcher change it to EU for me automatically. Changing it back in the launcher to NA makes it want to install the full game again (as you went through troubleshooting last time, Epona). So I can only assume that changing the region, then changing the folder name, then reopening the launcher will let us switch between them this time. I hope so, anyway.
 
Vintage Paw said:
So they've reverted back to you needing to rename your folder if you're switching between EU and NA servers. I let the launcher change it to EU for me automatically. Changing it back in the launcher to NA makes it want to install the full game again (as you went through troubleshooting last time, Epona). So I can only assume that changing the region, then changing the folder name, then reopening the launcher will let us switch between them this time. I hope so, anyway.
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Either that, or having 2 installs (I left the EU folder as it was as a sort of backup).

I hope that gets sorted before release - it's one thing to have 2 half games installed in different folders - because, you know, it's a beta; but the entire amount is going to be massive. It doesn't matter to me too much as I put it on one of my mechanical drives and I have nearly a terabyte free, but if I wanted to put 2 installs on my SSD I'd be right up shit creek!
 
Vintage Paw said:
The new game version is 0.941004 so you have the old version still.

Can you get to the point with the launcher where you can click repair? (Have upvoted you, btw - and added you as a friend!)
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Thanks. Balls - I guess I need the launcher to get fixed then. It doesn't get far enough to repair, unfortunately.

Epona said:
Buddy Bradley - I have a feeling that you are on Mac? This is a long shot as I don't know where you are located, but if you are on PC and can get to East London with an external drive, you can copy the files off my PC.
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Thanks for the offer, but yes - I'm on a Mac and pretty far from East London. :D I submitted a ticket to the ESO site as well, hopefully someone out there will have a solution.
 
Hmm, just had a response back from ESO (super-fast!) basically saying "fuck off until the beta session is actually open". I'll give it another go after 4 and see if it was something that simple.
 
Oh dear. Surely they must realise most people want to get the client and launcher updated before the beta begins because of the length of time it takes to download such a monstrosity from scratch should something go wrong?
 
Vintage Paw said:
Oh dear. Surely they must realise most people want to get the client and launcher updated before the beta begins because of the length of time it takes to download such a monstrosity from scratch should something go wrong?
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I think they just saw the 'access denied' part and fired off a cut-n-paste "wait until it starts" response without reading the bug report properly. I sent it back to them to re-assess.
 
What folders did you already have, Buddy?

A lot of people are saying that if they have both a normal (The Elder Scrolls Online) folder and an EU folder (The Elder Scrolls Online EU) before this update then they get errors.

They suggest renaming (to something ESO won't recognise, like 'The Elder Scrolls Online Euro Backup) or removing the EU folder completely, and letting the launcher just recognise the US version at first.

From there, it may or may not ask you if you want to migrate your installation to an EU installation. I clicked yes to this. It changes your server location for you, and then automatically renames your US folder to The Elder Scrolls Online EU. It obviously can't do that if you already have that folder present (I suspect it's a fuck up because it doesn't expect anyone to have that folder yet because there hasn't officially been an EU test until now).

I'm not sure if that will fix your issue, but it's worth a shot.
 
Buggering fuck- you're right Vintage Paw - not that I doubted you, just wanted to check it myself iykwim - I just moved my EU folder somewhere else and started up the client and switched to EU and it wanted to download the whole bloody lot again. I am moving the folder back (takes 20 minutes a go mind you, just moving it between my mechanical drives) but I can tell you for nothing they are going to get a slightly cross /feedback from me about commandeering hard drives with double installs - absolutely no need for it, it's the exact same fucking game files ffs!!!

Slightly cross about it. Not even for me really, I have plenty of space and I'm fairly tech-savvy, but it's far from being user-friendly the way it is. It's the exact same set of files! Duplicated!

Edit: Just seen your latest post VP and that isn't happening for me - when I get rid of my EU folder it doesn't give me any option when I click on EU server other than to download the whole bloody lot again.
 
Vintage Paw said:
It changes your server location for you, and then automatically renames your US folder to The Elder Scrolls Online EU. It obviously can't do that if you already have that folder present (I suspect it's a fuck up because it doesn't expect anyone to have that folder yet because there hasn't officially been an EU test until now).

I'm not sure if that will fix your issue, but it's worth a shot.
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Yes, mine did that - I had removed the old EU folder already. I'll try renaming it back and trying it again, but I think I'm just going to have to wait until it gets sorted out. :(
 
It's an absolute nightmare. They tell us we can switch between the servers at will, but make in impossibly difficult to do so. Many in the US have far worse internet speeds and packages than us. We're lucky over here that we tend to have decent speeds and there are not many 'pay per GB' plans left these days, it's mostly unlimited downloads. But I've seen people talking about how they only get a 5GB/month allowance, speeds capped at 1MB, and so on. It's really not feasible to expect people to download 2 lots of the game. And it's certainly not for this weekend, when they are asking people to test out the EU server as well as things like the NA server's improved PvP stability and so on. Do they think we can all just download 2 versions in an hour or so?
 
Aye, I mean I don't always have great download speeds, but at least it is unlimited - I can download however much I want, however slowly they let me.
I know certainly in Canada most people are on a capped amount for internet, and pay per Gb after that. Just looked at my usage and I average about 250Gb downloads a month - that would cost me an arm and a leg in a lot of places.
 
Beta may or may not have already opened up for some, if you want to try your chances, Epona.

I'll try in a little while, just grabbing some dinner and might finish a bit more work, we'll see.
 
I have news about the EU server.

The EU server is currently in the US.

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And it will be during launch as well. Once launch is over, they will migrate it to the European datacentre. So... yeah. That's a whole bunch of... yeah.
 
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