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Re: This is how games die
karthrag_inak wrote: »Khajiit is loving how things are - subclassing is the best thing to be added to this game since beta - ESO has never been more Elder Scrolls than it is now.
And that chart does not take into account the fact that the game is routinely in the top ten played games via Epic launcher, which only started in 2022.
That's because Epic is leagues behind Steam, Origin, GOG, and even Uplay. It's not really a flex.
No matter what anyone says, the game is still good. Good for new players. The developer needs to focus on attracting fresh people. It would be more interesting for me to play if I saw new faces for whom this world is just opening up its secrets.
You mean the new players that play for a couple of weeks and then put the game down because it's not Skyrim? If ZoS would focus on player retention instead of suckering new players into the cash shop this wouldn't be an issue.
Re: Feedback on Huntsman's Warmask Mythic
HackTheMinotaur wrote: »We already have a heavy attack mythic in Rakkhat's Voidmantle. If you're going to continue experimenting with Heavy Attack sets and mythics, do something that actually improves the playstyle. Give us splash damage on weapons other than Lightning Staff and 2h.
I don't think this Mythic is a HA mythic, it just uses HA's as a trigger.
Re: PTS Participation & Experience Survey
We need some sort of feedback loop.
What is the intended use of the set?
I honestly think that about a lot of sets, there are far too many that are dead on arrival, or that once had a purpose but then fell behind.
obviously not every set can be 'meta' for PVE DPS, but there shouldnt be such a wide divide, and the solution is not just to nerf those high performing
Re: Tone-deaf AUA on Reddit
Also wanted to follow up here. Thank you for the feedback on the AUA. We are taking this feedback to the team to see how we can improve these in the future. The goal with these is to provide a pipeline for communication. Especially with recent changes to leadership, we felt it was important to have an AUA that covered a wide mount of topics. But we are taking in the feedback to improve these in the future along with some of the commentary about the game to share with our team for continued improvements.
And you guys can say "things are in the works" all you want, but that's not being believed by a lot of folks. It's just frustrating to see that at this point. It seems like you guys prefer to deal with that frustration, rather than managing sentiment if/when plans change. Even though the community's largely united in saying, "tell us your plans earlier, we're ok if plans change"; it seems like you're unwilling to do that.
Also, there were a number of hardball questions that really needed to be answered but weren't. I asked quite a few myself - like what did you guys learn from U35. Of course, no answer. If you guys are gonna post in blogs about how you learn from your mistakes, then you need to be prepared to openly discuss them. You will gain credibility if you do.
I want to highlight this because it merits repeating.
@ZOS_Kevin, I would like to reiterate the point that when the team says "we're working on improving communication", what the players are actually desperate for, is open dialogue with the player base and the dev team regarding updates and balance changes. We don't expect you to reveal everything or spoil future content, but one of the reasons players are so upset with the comments made in the AUA is because every time there's a problem with an update, concerns are met with silence, feedback is met with crickets and questions go unanswered. Then when you get comments like you did in the AUA, that show a fundamental misunderstanding of the combat landscape, it says to us, that it's almost like you didn't even bother to read any of it. It shows a blatant disregard for the wants and needs of the community.
This problem doesn't even just involve questions about combat, either. It took so many updates to even find a solution to something as small as the Grim Focus permaglow despite it being almost consistently on the front page of the forums for 3 years...
Rkindaleft
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Re: Make all staffs channel
There are benefits to not having a channeled heavy attack. When I was a healer, I much preferred ice over lightning or restro for roaring opportunist.
Soarora
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Re: Please stop giving us undyeable feathers on outfit styles
Agree, same for metal smaller elements that hold armor together; either that or if not possible due to limited dye chanel use neutral colors that fit in any color palet, such as whitish/blackish for feathers or muted steel color for metal....
Sovenguard and blackfin legion are two good examples how NOT to do it
Sovenguard and blackfin legion are two good examples how NOT to do it
Re: So... So... A Molag Bal branded bed.
I mean… it’s not called “Molag Bal Bed,” it’s “Worm Cult Bed.” There is no Molag Bal branding on it—that’s a Necromancer’s skull for a necromancer’s cult.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there an Elder Scrolls game in which the necromancer leader of the Worm Cult was specifically trying to usurp Molag Bal? So… it’s more like the Worm Cult is a Mannimarco thing than a Bal thing in the first place.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there an Elder Scrolls game in which the necromancer leader of the Worm Cult was specifically trying to usurp Molag Bal? So… it’s more like the Worm Cult is a Mannimarco thing than a Bal thing in the first place.
Re: Tone-deaf AUA on Reddit
Also wanted to follow up here. Thank you for the feedback on the AUA. We are taking this feedback to the team to see how we can improve these in the future. The goal with these is to provide a pipeline for communication. Especially with recent changes to leadership, we felt it was important to have an AUA that covered a wide mount of topics. But we are taking in the feedback to improve these in the future along with some of the commentary about the game to share with our team for continued improvements.
Kevin at this point all I can say is "that dog don't hunt". We've been repeatedly reassured that "improved communication" was the rule of the day since well before U35, but especially with U35 and U46 but the devs always fall back into lack of communication, blowing off community questions, and giving us scripted video Q&As that don't answer the questions that the community wants answered and then silence once again. This is not sustainable and nobody believes the improved communication line anymore. We love this game, we love the community, and we love you Kevin but the others are actively driving the community away from the game. This needs to be fixed, if not for a game sustainment angle, for a fiduciary responsibility to the Microsoft shareholders angle.
Ragnarok0130
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Re: Tone-deaf AUA on Reddit
AngryPenguin wrote: »Why are any discussions related to ESO taking place anywhere other than the dedicated forum for such discussions?
Good grief! Were they trying to hide this discussion from us or something by putting it on reddit and not even telling people there was a discussion going on there? I'm on the list to get announcements and advertising and got no heads up about this.
Wanted to clear this point up. We posted on the forum that we would be doing an AMA on Reddit, days before the AMA happened. Just to give a heads up that it was happening. So we did not attempt to hide the discussion. We wanted as many people to participate as possible.
The reason we chose to do the AMA on Reddit is because the formatting for threaded discussions is far easier to follow than in our forum threads. We have looked into how we could make the experience better on the forum, but Vanilla Forums (our provider) doesn't support threaded conversations.
Re: Tone-deaf AUA on Reddit
Nemesis7884 wrote: »Spreadsheet balancing and standartization of everything might have made sense before subclassing....but now it makes 0 sense...they should rather form the skill lines around specific themes, strengths and weaknesses to make them more interesting....in a paper stone scissor style fashion
Subclassing itself is a misnomer. Real subclassing would have been a templar being able to further spec into a sub role such as a priest or paladin not stealing skill lines from another class - that is multi-classing. Also the devs told us that power creep wasn't concerning when we raised it as an issue during the U46 PTS cycle so why are they all of a sudden concerned about power creep with consumables? The dev's priorities are so misplaced that I cannot adequately describe them without my post being 75% [snip]s.
Ragnarok0130
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