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Re: If ESO wants to be a 30-year game, when does it drop old tech support?
lostineternity wrote: »frogthroat wrote: »It all comes to profit and production cost. As long as PS4 and Xbox One users keep buying ESO+, cosmetics and new expansions, and the cost of keeping the game playable on those devices is lower, the support will not be dropped.
Here is a totally professional graph created with the most cutting edge statistical tool visualising the point when the old HW support will be dropped:
It's not that easy. Majority of player base is not from ps4/xbox one so ZOS shouldn't make user experience worse for everyone because of small fraction of population. But this is logical conclusion and I'm not sure (especially since u35) they are capable of making logical decisions.
How can you say the majority of players are not from one platform or another?
How come Xbox is winning the race if they have less players?
We don't even know how many active players we have or how many are playing at a particular time.
The only people that know the figures are Bethesda/ZOS/microsoft.
Tyralbin
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Re: What Even are the rewards for the Writhing Wall Event?
There are 12 furnishing plans that drop from the craft coffers.
They are gated by profession, and each profession has one blue plan and one purple plan. While they can drop from either the blue or gold coffers, the blue coffer drop rate is very low and, for all practical intents and purposes, might as well be zero.
Blacksmithing:
Blue: Diagram: Breton Spyglass
Purple: Diagram: Cage Wall, Gated
Clothing:
Blue: Pattern: Flag, Tattered Red
Purple: Pattern: Stirk Fellowship Banner, Hanging
Woodworking:
Blue: Blueprint: Stirk Fellowship Wall, Defensive
Purple: Blueprint: Stirk Fellowship Tower, Defensive
Alchemy:
Blue: Formula: Meridian Lens
Purple: Formula: Meridian Lens Apparatus
Enchanting:
Blue: Praxis: Grave Marker, Soldier's
Purple: Praxis: Bonfire, Alliance Camp
Provisioning:
Blue: Design: Puddle, Wax
Purple: Design: Carnaval Fan
Because these things practically only drop from gold boxes (the drop rate from blue is too low to be worth serious consideration), but you can only get one gold craft box per day, it is worth re-rolling the crafting quest so that the first one you do in the day is from a profession where you are still missing stuff. (And yes, this is another point in the "this event's reward mechanics are poorly designed" column.)
Thanks! This is very helpful. I actually didn't even realize I needed to game the system like that.
Re: Update 48: The Discount Animation Update
We went through with the animation reduction efforts in order to save memory for future development efforts within the game. We have heavy constraints with older platforms that require us to save as much memory as we can to ensure that future features will run on every supported platform.
We updated over 900 animation files in order to support this effort, including animations that are used outside of player combat. We have gotten many fantastic reports of animation issues from players on PTS, but tracking down reproductions of these issues and the appropriate fixes on our internal realms takes time.
Similarly, bugs that turned out not to be a direct result of this effort also affected combat animations and needed investigation - for example, certain abilities not doing damage and an issue with controller UI causing performance issues on PC were both issues that impacted the visual look of animations in combat but were not caused by this effort.
As you continue to come across issues, please let us know. Videos of the issues are extremely helpful in tracking down potential bugs and the team will continue to do all we can to ensure that any confirmed issues are addressed in an upcoming package.
Thank you so much for clearing that out, I wish we had this explanation on PTS, players are always more receptive to this kind of change when you add reason behind them.
As for bugs not being directly caused by the change, there are some polymorphs in the game that still use the old animations, and at least for the visual part, (character jittering and bending in unnatural ways) I can confirm they don't happen with those polymorphs, so the visual bugs are definitely directly associated with the new animations themselves.
I'm all in for this change if it means getting new stuff to the game, but if the old platforms are holding you guys back like that it's probably time to let them go, put things on a balance and think about how many players you'd keep and gain if those constraints were not there.
Alternatively, you guys could consider you don't really need to apply the exact same changes for every platform, if the animation change was made to remedy an issue majoritarily present in the old gen consoles, then apply those changes only there.
Morvan
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Re: ESO Event Design, Rewarding Players or Burning Them Out?
None of the above. For me, there is no grind. I do what I need to do to get 3 gold boxes/day and that's it.
(I think the RNG in this game is brutal and burns people out.)
(I think the RNG in this game is brutal and burns people out.)
AzuraFan
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Caultrops Skin feeling different from advertised
I've finally unlocked the Caultrops skin from the 25 fragments in the Writhing Wall Event.
I was hopeing to fit well into my Necromancer DOT build with throwing some skulls around, because the icon showed three thrown skulls.
https://ibb.co/C5zpmQqb
But when testing it is the same metal spikes as before with just some blueish fog around.
https://ibb.co/1JpzxJTJ
Can we get some proper "skeleton caultrops" as advertised through the icon?
I was hopeing to fit well into my Necromancer DOT build with throwing some skulls around, because the icon showed three thrown skulls.
https://ibb.co/C5zpmQqb
But when testing it is the same metal spikes as before with just some blueish fog around.
https://ibb.co/1JpzxJTJ
Can we get some proper "skeleton caultrops" as advertised through the icon?
Re: How would you feel about a floating island zone?
No more islands. We have a half blank map to be completed as it is.
Can we talk about warden charm (again)
Sick of this skill, it’s so obnoxious and broken. It’s buggy, it causes you to phase through the map and keep walls, it’s difficult to break free from and it’s practically everywhere, you're guaranteed to be charmed on immunity cool-down.
Arcanist mastery was nerfed to the ground for “over performing” and yet we have this which is so over powered it’s being used by 99.9% of DDs. You look at the guild rosters and it’s all Wardens. I wonder why
Arcanist mastery was nerfed to the ground for “over performing” and yet we have this which is so over powered it’s being used by 99.9% of DDs. You look at the guild rosters and it’s all Wardens. I wonder why
Poss
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Re: If ESO wants to be a 30-year game, when does it drop old tech support?
You can't say older gen is limiting it without understanding how much of the revenue that install base is. If half the players are on older hardware then you wouldn't get new development if they cut support. The game would die because it lost half its revenue.
Older hardware will continue to be supported so long as they make up enough revenue that the game can't lose them. They'll cut support when the majority of their playerbase is no longer on those systems.
Games aren't free to make. It's not only about tech.
Older hardware will continue to be supported so long as they make up enough revenue that the game can't lose them. They'll cut support when the majority of their playerbase is no longer on those systems.
Games aren't free to make. It's not only about tech.
Re: Maintenance... again...
Four_Fingers wrote: »Some maintenance to servers is regularly required just like changing oil in a car which you would have to change every few days if you drove 100K miles a week like servers have to do.
The more they are used the more frequent the maintenance is what I am trying to say.
Imagine if you had to change the oil in your car every 7 days, and from time to time, you even had to change it 3 times in the same week. What would you do to that car?
I bet you wouldn’t even sell it to your enemy. Yet here we are, paying ZOS to do that to us.
Last'One
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Re: What happens when PCNA is the only server left in the Battle?
DenverRalphy wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »DenverRalphy wrote: »Honest question..
Would PCNA players be willing to forgo the associated achieveme.
nt if they were allowed to skip the grind?
Absolutely not. It already feels punitive enough as it is, with progress being tweaked more than once.
Oh, so it's okay for you to get the achievevment as long as somebody else does all the work?
Be careul when tossing around words like "fair".
PCNA is working for it. At least those that haven't given up because our progress was decreased and it's now even more grindy than it already was.
