ComboBreaker88 you made a good point about this is one reason why I left my Guild's. And the fact that there's no title to everybody in the guild when housing comes.

Aside from all the glanstickling going on in here, it seems it's primarily focusing on making changes to guilds to benefit trade guilds. While some might be in trade guilds as their only guild, most are in them purely to sell items and have their focus on PvP or PvE (or both) guilds which are normally smaller and foster that sense of camaraderie and social interaction that larger trade guilds don't exclusively cater to.

While I agree that some suggestions such as more visible data (join date, past donations) would be helpful as well as more tabbard customisation, a lot of the other suggestions either already exist in game, are handled through guild websites like other MMOs, or are just downright impractical.

As for the illusion of promise, there's nothing stated by ZOS on delivering changes in 2016. All the information mentions is they'll be working on things including a "Looking for guild" system in 2016. Since they've no obligation to inform us on what they've done the only thing we can say with certainty is they may or may not have made some changes to the Guild system internally that we don't have access or knowledge of yet.

There's nothing mentioned anywhere saying they'll be releasing an improved or altered guild system at any time between now and oblivion.

ZOS Fails to deliver promises. Well if you did not know that by now I don't know what to tell ya.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

When we publish our annual Road Ahead articles, we do have full intentions of bringing you everything we talk about. Player housing was also on the list for 2016, but we pushed it to early 2017 to ensure it was ready and the quality high. Of all the features and improvements listed in the January 2016 Road Ahead, here are just a few that did come out in 2016:

• Improvements to the Looking for Group system
• One Tamriel including full level scaling and removal of restrictions based on level and alliance
• Text chat on consoles
• Character nameplates and the ability for console players to display PSN ID/XBL Gamertag
• Scrolling Combat Text
• The Style Parlor and including name change, race change, and appearance change

Sometimes things change in the production schedule or resources that result in us shifting features out. The Guild Finder and additional guild management improvements are a couple of those things, but they are not forgotten. We still plan to return to them and get them into the game, they are just not on our current short-term roadmap.

And in case you missed it, Matt Firor is working on one for 2017, so stay tuned!

And I thank you for all the work you have done this year!

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

When we publish our annual Road Ahead articles, we do have full intentions of bringing you everything we talk about. Player housing was also on the list for 2016, but we pushed it to early 2017 to ensure it was ready and the quality high. Of all the features and improvements listed in the January 2016 Road Ahead, here are just a few that did come out in 2016:

• Improvements to the Looking for Group system
• One Tamriel including full level scaling and removal of restrictions based on level and alliance
• Text chat on consoles
• Character nameplates and the ability for console players to display PSN ID/XBL Gamertag
• Scrolling Combat Text
• The Style Parlor and including name change, race change, and appearance change

Sometimes things change in the production schedule or resources that result in us shifting features out. The Guild Finder and additional guild management improvements are a couple of those things, but they are not forgotten. We still plan to return to them and get them into the game, they are just not on our current short-term roadmap.

And in case you missed it, Matt Firor is working on one for 2017, so stay tuned!

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Time to be real.

1. The looking for group system is absolute trash - players getting kicked for no reason then punishing them for 15 minutes haha what is this one? Come on. (leaving yes 15 minutes - because if that's not what dungeon you wanted too bad kinda thing) Still very very broken so failure with that one.
2. Ok you made it all open world which was like a big stfu to the people who progressed through the game through cadwells like come on... yes yes, we don't really care but still this was a mistake.
3. Text chat... I don't know where to begin, having to use /g to use group alllll the time is a painful and annoying process why couldn't of this been left there 100% of the time or active when actually joining a group...?
4. Name plates... oh my god we have enough drama's of blue screens on consoles why do we want to add more crap to fill out screens (not required or needed)
5. Scrolling text, ok this one was (nice) no dps calculator ? No Buff tracking? in 2016-2017? Naice one.
6. Style parlor - come one, come all to take your money away from you, 30 bucks a race chance are you kidding?

None of these performed at all, not even close to what the community wanted or more importantly what they needed...

Buff timers?
DPS calculator

These two are so important to improve over all game play and let's be real it's just a user interface... it's hardly an add-on. So let's not spin the whole console doesn't like/allow blah blah.

Getting the housing system of high quality... LOL ok this one was the best sentence I've seen in a long time!
The furniture is over priced, no serious (entry player to ESO) will be able to enjoy housing.
The furniture in the crown store so expensive I rather buy REAL objects for the amount you're talking about.
No storage
No (true editor) moving objects around doesn't count
Player Cap... wow.

This is going to be a RL money grab from the crown store 100% you guys can say no it won't all you want but so far the PTS has shown one thing it's far from being of "such high quality" as you've mentioned.

Sorry all sounds very rude but the truth hurts.

@Lukums1

Thieves Guild
Dark Brotherhood
Hew's Bane
Gold Coast
Veteran versions of all dungeons
17 new monster helms
Dozens of new item sets
Normal, Veteran and Hard mode for all trials
Trials that scale
Two brand new dungeons with Normal and vet versions
Three anniversary events - Game's Release, Imperial City, Orsinium
Two holiday events
15+ new motifs
Imperial City district capture
Cyrodiil town capture mechanic
Weapon ultimates
Removal of veteran ranks
Craft bags
Costume dying
64 bit client
4K on PS4
HDR on XB1 and PS4
And more . . .

Whoa whoa whoa,

We weren't addressing all bloody content that came out last year, we were addressing those 6 points.

My point being is the things that were really highlighted, we could of done without there are massive massive issues and things that could be made better instead we "they" focused on trivial things, things that really didn't assist us in a general rule.

Like grouping tool was generally bad and had issues...chat functionality...

How about implementing a "mute", "ban" list so you can't speak to certain people instead of getting intimidated by players.

All I was saying was... the highlight for 2016 was done right and there were things that were pretty good content wise hands down, I won't say there wasn't but man... I hope we really start seeing some really (cool) things added... that's not going to be "almost" driving by crown store (just saying)

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

[*] The Style Parlor and including name change, race change, and appearance change

ZOS did a lot of good in 2016, I totally admit that. I just wish the Style Parlor and had a bit more... uh, polish to it. It looks good, but the fact I have to log out to use it, there's no in-game barbers (allowing me to see what I actually look like in-game) feels kind of... awkward, I guess? I look at it like the Crown Crates. Love them or hate them, the Crate system is freakin' immaculate. You guys did a truly amazing job integrating the crates into the game. But the Parlor System feels tacked on.

It looks gorgeous as can be, definitely, but it feels... I dunno, disconnected? I'd also love to be able to design looks that I can enable/disable at the touche of a button. There's so many character design choices that I'd love to be able to toggle through and assign looks we can easily swap to, or have lighting options that better reflect in-game scenarios.

That said, I'm totally happy to have it (yay) so don't get me wrong. ZOS is on the right path.

Now we just need that content. We've had a major drought since Wrothgar. I love Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild, but for the most part they just introduced grinds. Great story missions, but few and far between (the Gold Coast is majestic, but kind of empty). Shadows of the Hist didn't offer much (I avoid Mazzatun, Xal-Nur's voice annoys me THAT much) and it's hard to find people willing to run the dungeons due to the difficulty. I feel like we've had a content drought of things we can really sink our teeth into for some time.

Mojmir wrote: »

Dominoid wrote: »

@Lukums1

Thieves Guild
Dark Brotherhood were pretty much finished and supposed to be the base game
Hew's Bane lol so tiny
Gold Coast yes tiny
Veteran versions of all dungeons "increased mob hps"
17 new monster helms "increased chance of prosperous/training"
Dozens of new item sets "grind your soul away for the weps"
Normal, Veteran and Hard mode for all trials "but you can only get purple in vet so this was a nerf"
Trials that scale "players scale,not the trial"
Two brand new dungeons with Normal and vet versions "good luck pugs"
Three anniversary events - games release, Imperial City, Orsinium "sales for a laggy,disconnect experience oh and enjoy never finding the wep you want in vma!!!"
Two holiday events "xp buffs that end gamers don't need!! Motifs well never use!!"
15+ new motifs "see above"
Imperial City district capture "lol"
Cyrodiil town capture mechanic "lol x2"
Weapon ultimates "pvp loves your destro ult...really"
Removal of veteran ranks "replaced with another garbage system"
Craft bags "only reason a lot of people sub"
Costume dying "this should have been from the start,how hard was this to truly implement?"
64 bit client "uhm your still behind"
4K on PS4 "not really"
HDR on XB1 and PS4 "sure"
And more . . ."I'm sure we broke something else"

Just. Please. Stop grumbling for one second. If you can't admit that the game has been improved much during the last year, then be quiet cause you are not objective at all. There were a lot of changes, including the ones described by @Dominoid, and objectively they are considered, by any reasonable person, as a great improvement. But you're simply a whining kid. If you don't like it that much, why are you still playing and/or posting here?

Lukums1 wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

When we publish our annual Road Ahead articles, we do have full intentions of bringing you everything we talk about. Player housing was also on the list for 2016, but we pushed it to early 2017 to ensure it was ready and the quality high. Of all the features and improvements listed in the January 2016 Road Ahead, here are just a few that did come out in 2016:

• Improvements to the Looking for Group system
• One Tamriel including full level scaling and removal of restrictions based on level and alliance
• Text chat on consoles
• Character nameplates and the ability for console players to display PSN ID/XBL Gamertag
• Scrolling Combat Text
• The Style Parlor and including name change, race change, and appearance change

Sometimes things change in the production schedule or resources that result in us shifting features out. The Guild Finder and additional guild management improvements are a couple of those things, but they are not forgotten. We still plan to return to them and get them into the game, they are just not on our current short-term roadmap.

And in case you missed it, Matt Firor is working on one for 2017, so stay tuned!

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Time to be real.

1. The looking for group system is absolute trash - players getting kicked for no reason then punishing them for 15 minutes haha what is this one? Come on. (leaving yes 15 minutes - because if that's not what dungeon you wanted too bad kinda thing) Still very very broken so failure with that one.
2. Ok you made it all open world which was like a big stfu to the people who progressed through the game through cadwells like come on... yes yes, we don't really care but still this was a mistake.
3. Text chat... I don't know where to begin, having to use /g to use group alllll the time is a painful and annoying process why couldn't of this been left there 100% of the time or active when actually joining a group...?
4. Name plates... oh my god we have enough drama's of blue screens on consoles why do we want to add more crap to fill out screens (not required or needed)
5. Scrolling text, ok this one was (nice) no dps calculator ? No Buff tracking? in 2016-2017? Naice one.
6. Style parlor - come one, come all to take your money away from you, 30 bucks a race chance are you kidding?

None of these performed at all, not even close to what the community wanted or more importantly what they needed...

Buff timers?
DPS calculator

These two are so important to improve over all game play and let's be real it's just a user interface... it's hardly an add-on. So let's not spin the whole console doesn't like/allow blah blah.

Getting the housing system of high quality... LOL ok this one was the best sentence I've seen in a long time!
The furniture is over priced, no serious (entry player to ESO) will be able to enjoy housing.
The furniture in the crown store so expensive I rather buy REAL objects for the amount you're talking about.
No storage
No (true editor) moving objects around doesn't count
Player Cap... wow.

This is going to be a RL money grab from the crown store 100% you guys can say no it won't all you want but so far the PTS has shown one thing it's far from being of "such high quality" as you've mentioned.

Sorry all sounds very rude but the truth hurts.

1) True.
2) What? One Tamriel saved the game, most people enjoy it, make a poll and you will see why it is going to stay.
3) People asked for that.
4) People asked for that.
5) Join the Master Race
6) No comment.

"The furniture is over priced, no serious (entry player to ESO) will be able to enjoy housing."
-> Agree that furniture is overpriced af.
New players should be happy with the Apartment. That's the point. It's not fair if everyone has access to the manors.
"The furniture in the crown store so expensive I rather buy REAL objects for the amount you're talking about."
-> Houses and furniture in crown store should be expensive, I'm all for it, to make sure people have to pay gold for houses. It's not fair if people can just drop 10 bucks for a manor, while 3 million gold is hard to earn.
"No storage"
-> Agree. We need storage.
"No (true editor) moving objects around doesn't count"
-> You want a flying pig as well?
"Player Cap... wow."
-> You want to squeeze an army inside a house? If you can code it, I am sure every major game developer will pay big money to have you lol, it's an impossible feat.

Kodrac wrote: »

Some of you guys just like to nitpick. Can't please all the people all the time.

And some people you will never please. See exhibit A,B and C above.

Balamoor wrote: »

Some special snowflakes love to cry and whine....yet they never seem to actually leave.

People should be allowed to post grievances. It's the people who insist on including insults in their responses that make the forum a toxic place to be. Being demeaning to someone whom you don't agree with doesn't validate your argument and in fact renders your whole standpoint weak.