Elder Scrolls Online goes offline ‘to prevent further rollbacks’

The Elder Scrolls Online is apparently suffering a round of emergency maintenance following the return of servers after regular patch maintenance this morning. The game has been hampered by a series of connection issues across both North America and Europe on all platforms all morning and into the early afternoon EDT (which is prime time in the EU), according to the game’s Twitter account.

“This maintenance is necessary in order to prevent further rollbacks and loss of character progress,” ZeniMax wrote on the official forums. “We’ll update this post as each server is back online.”

It sounds kind of ominous, but we assume they just mean that folks logging in are being stymied and losing progress. More when we have it.