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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.
Re: If ESO wants to be a 30-year game, when does it drop old tech support?
Apollosipod wrote: »ZOS has stated they want ESO to be a 30-year game, but we are currently watching the game flail (literally and figuratively in the case of the most recent contact animation issues). If the reason for this is that old PCs and consoles are holding back the game's development, how long does it maintain support for lower end tech? How many players are at risk of being lost long-term because development is currently working to maintain older tech?
I want this game to succeed and continue to grow, but this last season has really shown the cracks...
Some context.
WoW minimum system specs are 10+ year old tech.
It also runs a vanilla version - WoW Classic - that was released in 2019; it;s minimum system specs are 15+ year old tech.
Final Fantasy XIV - 10+ year old tech
Guild Wars 2 - 15+ year old tech
Even the now maintenance mode New World was 8+ year old tech
So... are those games also in the state where the devs are saying "we're actively removing things from the current build because we need to support old hardware"?
Or are they just built better than ESO in the first place?
Having any number of games that support hardware even older doesn't change the fact that ESO, as it is built, is struggling to fit on old hardware, and the solution the devs have landed on was to cannibalize itself to make space for the future. That's not conjecture, that's a fact.
Re: If ESO wants to be a 30-year game, when does it drop old tech support?
alternatelder wrote: »I remember when players said old consoles are the reason we won't get another class, then they released Necromancer. Then players said it again, then they released Arcanist.
And the players, still on a broken record, also said we still can't have nice things because old gen is holding us back, and we have gotten companions, ToT, antiquities, scribing, subclassing, a new arena, amongst other new things we supposedly couldn't have because old consoles.
And the players continue saying it, we can't have anything new because old gen...
Well, to be fair it wasn't just the players saying it. It was ZOS
Re: What happens when PCNA is the only server left in the Battle?
SilverBride wrote: »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.
PCNA's progress wasn't decreased any more than any of the other servers. And if that graph that was floating around at the beginning of the event is anything to go by, the Console servers were corrected down more than PC servers.
