I'm ALMOST fully satisfied.

Overall I enjoy the game and I think most of the issues are currently (or have) being adressed. I like the direction the game is taking with the DLC and the game being more flexible than before (battleleveling, Dungeons Scaling, Cross faction play etc). I'm confident for the future of ESO.

BUT, I'm not involved into PVP.

This reflects my feelings pretty accurately. I would just add that I DO want to be involved in PVP, but I'm hesitant because, despite the negativity, the PVPers are correct in pointing out significant problems with the PVP experience.

I love polls

Balance issues between classes/races and stamina/magic builds is still pretty bad. Hate that Altmer are end all be all for 99% of Magic Builds and that stamina is constantly getting the shaft (no stamina regen while blocking, etc.)

I enjoy PvP but the general latency, bugs, etc really make it difficult to fully enjoy. That and Vicious Death/Prox spamming is really getting old.

I do enjoy the PvE content and the DLCs have been pretty fun IMO. The lack of much end game content though is disheartening but I'll manage with vMoL. I do wish all sets scaled to VR16 (or the equivalent when VR is gone) so that build diversity would be much greater than it is. Right now, it feels like, to be end game viable, you are forced into the same handful of sets. I don't mind wearing SPC on my Magic NB or my healers if the group needs it but it shouldn't feel like a requirement.

The Thieves Guild did add a new purpose to old zones by means of the Tip Board which brings me some level of optimism for the future that ZOS is slowly getting better, in some areas at least. I'd enjoy heists more if they actually gave something worth the effort but it's still fairly interesting

Overall, I still enjoy the game but not as much as I use too. I'm somewhat optimistic for the future but the situation right now is fairly bleak.

paganach wrote: »

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PS: Vous parlez très bien anglais, @Shirown_ESO! (I hope that's right...)

Yes and thanks ! ^^ But, I often think for find my words. So orally it looks like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMbwWqceNw&nohtml5

Lets see, I play all content I can and at the moment with IC and Cyrodiil being completely unplayable at times due to broken re-spawn rates and constant disconnects this means just dungeon runs unfortunately. Aaaaand the random dungeon finder doesn't work unless I search on my own. Then there are issues with soul gems not working and also disconnects heavily effecting players ability to continue....
A few guildies are constantly complaining about the inability to progress the fighters guild quest line, I thought I would mention it as, if you are someone who enjoys that content then it is completely game breaking.
I have had guildies literally quit the game for a few days after being robbed on Vet Maelstrom runs due to a bugged camera view and again, disconnects.

I should prob change my vote because the more I think about it I can't think of any part of the game that isn't suffering from game breaking bugs. And these are multiplying. Every patch there are more new and serious issues being introduced than those that are being successfully fixed. We even have bugs that we are told WILL be fixed in particular patches and then they just aren't with a host of new ones implemented.
The patience of people wil eventually run out and mine is steadily decreasing TBH.

JadeNaria wrote: »

Either their pride is through the roof or they don't care. As a business I would be very concerned due to threads like these and the results they yield.

Indeed, the results are not good for ZOS, but I think they're aware of the discontent, just the lack of clearness.

Example of a good challenged :

Square Enix, for FF XIV, has all redone because of the V.1's failure. This game was doomed to be buried.
They didn't hesitate to stop everything to remake the game and they were right. Now, it's a solid MMO with a subscription, cosmetics shop and full servers.
Players who love the V1 have servers dedicated to this version.

Please note this is not a solution. Every MMO and their studio are different. Just one example of the possibilities depending on the abilities and wishes.

I have never had any major issues, and the small bugs problems I have had haven't been severe enough for me to get thoroughly annoyed or angry - and I've been playing since closed beta!

I feel sorry for all the people experiencing so many issues, and can't help but wonder why people are experiencing so many different things. Perhaps some people just look differently on the level of severity....

I had hoped that there would be indications more innovative expansion of game mechanics and content to fill in the decent basic shell that launched on PC. Have only seen flickers so far. I mean, making more of the same with the same design tools? Sure? Trying (with very limited success so far) to reverse the worsening performance/lag issues? Kind of. I was pleased with the new music added for TG, so that's also a plus.

To get a quick sense of what I mean, which again is just my thought/feeling, you can skim through this comment.

For a better sense of what I mean, grab your rock climbing gear and brave the insurmountable wall of text below.





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So, here is the game I would like to log into today (or a year or two from now since it isn't possible today), the game I would push for if I had the ear of the devs or had just bought out ZOS

I log in and try to decide if I want to do PvE and PvP. I think about it while I visit my house and look at the items in it that tell the story of my adventures (literally so, if I click on them and get their description). My character goes to the home shrine and prays to a god to renew a bonus, and I consider going to the major shrine/temple of the divine to get a repeatable quest (or to a secret Daedric altar on my other character). Hmm, maybe I should log onto that other character because she is a vampire and I kind of want to do some indoor/underground dungeons.

So Argonian Vampire it is, then, as I decide I want to run that huge area that they went back and added under Murkmire -- that sunken city under the lake you can swim around in and explore that has that cool underwater group boss and that massive public dungeon with a mix of underwater and air pocket areas. I love the underwater combat, with a unique defensive and a unique offensive skill line only, whose animations and effects are altered by your class. Very pretty and effective, and the racial swim speed bonus and ability to breath underwater really helps for my Saxhleel. But thinking of that makes me want to go to the expanded area of the Imperial City sewers and try that one boss fight with all of the adds that is both underwater and in deep darkness. It's really cool and creepy to see enemies swim in and out of the range of the underwater lantern, or to only be able see them clearly in flashes when a spell fires after that one boss move goes off that extinguishes light sources.

I decide to try the sunken city for now since I don't want to go to a PvP area quite yet, then go with some friends to the updated version of Craglorn to help them get some completions while I get some nice gear drops. One of them asks me about the requirements for starting the expanded questlines from the old base game Alliance zones. Someone from our group drops out after a bit to go mentor a real life friend who is new to the game and help them learn how to be better at group dungeons. It's been nearly two hours of straight game play, and though I have the time off for hobbies, I take a break for a while to walk the dogs, eat, and spend some time with people outside of the internet.

Later in the day, I log back in and kick myself for forgetting to feed my mounts, since I haven't been in the habit for a long time. But with the new "mount type"-specific expansion of stats, I need to start remembering. I also need to do my new skooma crafting writ on my Templar. On the way to do it I am attacked by a pack of skeevers and get a disease. It will likely run its course with small effect, but I decide to cast Purifying Ritual. I could have also used a cheap potion or paid in town for a 40 gold cure, but why bother? There wouldn't be any serious effects for a good while. Hmm, maybe I should have let it go on the off chance I got a serious case the of disease and a chance to get a long-term boon from Peryite? Oh well, too late now.

OK, writ done, and now character development time for one of my other alts who is rapidly approaching co-main status. He has unlocked the option to choose a class morph ,or I could have him stick the with the vanilla version of his class. And also I have more achievement points for that character that I can spend on his background. He has some unspent skill points, too. Should I add some to the expanded racial bonus system or to that new skill line with the illusion-based spells such as Frenzy? Decisions, decisions...

I hop back on my Templar and I'm still really enjoying the overhaul of the class, especially the Restoring Light skill line with the sigils and runes everywhere and the ability to truly reward allies and punish enemies who get too close to me, especially in AvA. When you see a sigil appear on my character or a rune appear around me on the ground you know it's time to put up or get put down. After talking with some guildies about the additions to the fishing system (see second spoiler after clicking), it's time to head into Cyrodiil.

While PvE has had many mechanics added that have greatly enhanced many types of play and allowed for the refitting of old zones and extra design options for new zones, many of these mechanics also boosted the AvA experience, which itself got many new mechanics as part of a dedicated overhaul of Cyrodiil/Imperial City (details of what follows are collected together in that link). This of course was after performance issues such as crippling lag had been adequately improved, and many of the changes actually helped with performance. I'm happy to log into one of the many thriving AvA campaigns and see that this aspect of the game is living up to the potential I saw from late beta and the PC launch.

I log into my home campaign for the extended Tier rewards and to get my home campaign bonuses and notice that my allies are, as usual, all over the map, as the outer ring keeps (or corner keeps) are important to the battle for the Imperial City. The gate keeps are under guard as groups attack them either to steal scrolls or because of the AP bonus they get since we've held them so long. And of course the inner ring keeps are under constant threat because of Emperor runs but also because you need at least two to capture a district in IC. Only three districts can be controlled by the Alliances at any one time, and the two additional IC only Elder Scrolls respawn in the two unclaimed districts after an Alliance has grabbed one of them and taken them to a shrine for a campaign wide bonus (whereupon the scroll vanishes and respawns in a random location again). Since IC and Cyro affect each other in many ways now, and since even which district you capture has a unique bonus to offer, it's really hard to bunch up for too long in one place because you lose too much too quickly. And with domination penalties adding up for controlling large portions of the map over and extended period, tactical choices of when and where to deploy troops matter more than ever.

I join a small group that is hitting supply caravans (and thus weakening the enemy keep it was headed to) and do some spy mission in IC, which can help to give bonuses and penalties that makes it easier to capture enemy districts, before heading with a six person group into the three team PvP trial at Cloud Ruler Temple. We decide to try an ambush strategy at one of the path crossing points for all three teams, and it pays off. The fight at the final boss with the floating moving rocks where you have to jump them like a platform game to avoid special attacks and engage with the other teams when they show up is intense as always. There's much more to do, but it's time to log off for good for the day. But it will all still be waiting the next time.
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I'm sure some people wouldn't like that version of ESO, so I only speak for myself, but that's the kind of really innovative and exciting game I see ESO being able to become, elaborating on the great content already added in its first two years.

I am really satisfied with the way ESOTU has developed, however my only pet peev is the fact that they aren't communicating more about what they are doing for text chat on consoles. This feature is the one I want the most, because I can't use my microphone all the time, in fact almost never, so having text chat would allow me to chat and be social without the issue of disturbing most of my household when I play the game.

Nit completely dissatisfied but I went from an excited Imperial Edition buyer to someone who logged in less and less. Last time I felt like playing was weeks ago.

JadeNaria wrote: »

Either their pride is through the roof or they don't care. As a business I would be very concerned due to threads like these and the results they yield.

I doubt they're complacent, but they will see the complaints on the forums as representing a tiny minority view (especially when looking beyond the PvPers' performance issues which they are well aware of and constantly working on with a big fix in the pipeline as discussed in the last ESO Live) while the overwhelming majority are busy playing the game. There are threads like this on any game forum.

I mostly like the changes and the new content.

I hate the bugs and their lack of priority to fixing problems.