New content is new content.

I like the concept of year-long story lines, and I enjoy much of the stories being told. I don't entirely agree with some of the creative decisions in how they implement the year-long stories, so I wouldn't necessarily say "this is fine," either. I'd like to see them further refine their approach to these stories.

I think the year long stories would go over well if they ended with the chapter rather than the zone DLC. At this point it feels like we are buying an extended prologue for the DLC.


I would rather them go back to the multi year stories though, they feel more epic and meaningful like you are actually fighting a war against some powerful outside force.

The chapters don't even really have to be super connected. With the Triad, Morrowind and Clockwork City were almost stand alone from each other, With hints of things to come, then the story got tied up with Summerset nice and neat. Only the last chapter in the story has to be directly tied to the other stories, the others can do their own thing with a common theme.

Yeah, i also think the story should not be time gated. It should all be available in the new zone from start.

New DLCs should be released instead (which also would allow ZOS DLC monetization via the crown shop or extended subs from ESO+), where we get new regions with new quests and new stories. Instead just adding a few new questlines over one full year.

And yes, that IS time gating.

In the form in which it exists now, it is far from ideal. Another global threat (that actually is going on only in 2 locations), another similar locations.
The story is feels not good when it splits between dungeons and zones. If you don't complete dungeon: don't be upset, here's a brief retelling for you in the next zone DLC. If you have complete dungeons: cool, you're awesome, take a dynamic fights and some piece of story or even lore, but it won't give you any plot advantages and there will be a repeat of all what you already know and your char can't tell about. The standardization of story quests in a zones is also cause to a plot, making its narration slow or fast: for example, "Elsweyr" story is oversaturated with events and characters and obviously 8 quests is not enough, while "Markarth" story is smeared with a thin layer on these 6 quests that the dialogues is repeating the same over and over again, you participate in meaningless events, and then — boom! — epilogue blast. The Chapters seems less appropriate to buy for this price, because you know that you will not see anything grandiose in this part of story, everything is moved to Q4 DLC. As a result, we have boring huge DLC of the year — the Chapter — and small DLC in which as many events occur as in 3/4 of the entire year and the grand finale takes place during only 2 quests. Do I need to mention that despite already 4 long-year stories we are still stuck in 2E 582?
One plot during a year is cool when a story is appropriate for such long and fractional narration. It doesn't give the desired effect when it is too long or too short, also one-year pattern is restricts the writers to make more deep and tied plot by 2 locations, a bunch of defined characters and a theme set by a single global threat.

Genuinely surprised there's even 30 percent of people liking it the way it is. I've met zero in-game myself throughout the years, but it's interesting.

They could keep the year long story but at least one of dlc dungeons could be untied to the plot something totally different to explore thematically.

I want a proper expansion like other MMOs have

ikr....the greymoor story is childish, heavy handed, and too on the nose....

i would argue Worthgar is the pinnacle of ZoS content, great story, great zone design, i especially love Orsinium design, its just so majestic and natural

the problem is, even if they're stopping the year story, not sure if it will improve ZoS design, it seems they will keep the "KISS" design

my only problem with the "Year long story" is, how imbalance it is interm of content they offer

we pay $40 more or less, for greymoor, yet the content that they offer is much less than other game/MMO that also offer the same price tag for their expension pack, not only content but also feature

BUT, if that $40 include the Q4 story/zone DLC i might have not problem with it, but the problem its not, its feels like they kick the player in the butt

100% agree, the storyline are sooooo boring it's a shame to charge people that much for such bad writing, MLP was better lol

Rasande_Robin wrote: »

I don't mind the year long story. Though I'd rather see the trial in the 4Q DLC.
With the main protagonist as the last boss.

It's just that the villain has been such an anti-climatic boss fight in these year long stories.

They woulld have to include the 4Q DLC with the Chapter purchase. Then the story really would be time gated.

Edit.. the year long story should start with the 3Q DLC and end with the Chapter, anyway. That would make people angry, though. They would have to pay for the conclusion of a story they started.