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Re: Thank you
The poll does not claim to represent every single player. What it does show is that among those motivated enough to engage, frustration is overwhelming compared to enjoyment. That is valuable feedback in itself, because engaged players are the ones who sustain guilds, organize events, and keep communities active.
Hence the bias. The desire to complain far out-weighs the desire to compliment.
You know how everyone is lamenting the downfall of New World? How there was a spate of posts here recently praising it and and how ZOS should learn from what NW did? Go to the NW forums, before the announcement they were moving to maintenance mode, and you'll see a litany of the same complaints you see here, in the same sort of numbers.
Listen for a second ok. Just listen.
Probably vast majority of us posting on these forums are fans of the game. We play regularly and have done so for a while. It doesn't mean new folks aren't welcome, in fact it would be nice if more people who played ESO would come here and comment.
When an opinion is provided, most of the time it's because we care about the game. Ok. If we didn't care, then we wouldn't come here. Alright. In fact, I would say it's hard enough to get people to care these days about the things that they should be doing, much less a video game, but here we are. Not out of hate. Out of concern and our love for ESO. That's why many have put in time on the forums. None other reason other than that, unless it's a streamer or whatever and I can't speak to that.
The OP, when opening this thread, they decided to bundle and label everyone with criticism, by extension anyone who disagreed with them as haters. Ok, that's not nice either. In fact, that's a great way to ensure no one follows you. Your first message to the community is one completely lacking any form of empathy or compassion for those like me who don't agree with them, but then they put it on us for getting mad about their selfish, self-centered and apathetic behavior.
People aren't dumb. People will be people, but many of us have put in so much time and money on this game, plus people we've met/known, for years and so we just don't want to see it get flushed down the drain ok. Pardon us for caring. We're so sorry we care enough to spend our time and energy posting online, not to mention all the time and money invested in this game. Our opinions matter and as long as some keep pretending, we don't exist, then there's always going to be this giant gap between the people playing/paying for this game and the selfish apathetic crowd who think it's their right to lock us out.
And that's exactly what they're doing and so here we are. Pardon us all for caring and having a heart for ESO and not agreeing with people like this OP person trying to lock us out. Most would agree we can't help what happened to New World either. Amazon just did it because they can. But I have seen several well-known streamers still running vids about the game and producing new content for it. The fans didn't give up on New World, Amazon did. Just like their workers. Why the fans guilty?
I fear you have missed by the point by a wide margin.
Re: Thank you
OP somehow managed to earn the First Anniversary and the Second Anniversary badge on the same day (yesterday)? How does that happen? Genuine question, do you need to visit the forum while logged in for it to trigger?
Was wondering the same last night. This is the single most suspicious account I've ever seen, though some digging around did show me info that makes me think it might be a player. Of course, zos staff can be players so who knows. Either way I feel it's better to treat it like it might be genuine.
The OP is not a fake account, they are an actual player. I've been in a guild with them. That said, I don't agree with the tone or content of their original post which, fortunately, has been preserved via the comments rather than being lost due to a later edit.
minor toughness
firstly i think its past time it just be called toughness cause there is no such thing as major toughness and making a buff that grants 15% to 20% bonus health is too strong especially when minor toughness is a thing already granting 10% max health with secondly, i think this should be added to the rotation of scribing abilites so we can get one more source even if its only allowed to last at most 10 seconds making it harder to maintain than the green balance passive.
fenn1539
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Re: Writhing fortress broken?
Rishikesa108 wrote: »I'm playing another game too, and there I always receive excellent compensation, very satisfying for all the players, who never complain (who knows why...) for every small or large bug that happens. Here on ESO I have never received anything at all, always just frustrations. I don't know why I still gravitate in this orbit honestly
That’s the thing. I can only speak for myself but, for me, the bugs themselves are less of an issue than the (lack of) urgency and (lack of) care they are treated with, as well as what’s (not) done to ease player grievances. If there was more compensation given for these major issues, I would be a lot more forgiving.
Mistakes can be made, ZOS has (mostly) humans working for them. It’s normal. But the lack of resolve, the very slow response even when users in-game, on the forum, on reddit are overwhelmingly negative about the event, drop rates, bugs… That is what the real issue is. And has been since I started playing this game more than five years ago. I won a giveaway for the content pass or I would not be playing it. I’m certainly not getting any new content they’re releasing next year, based on this year’s performance. And while I said I can only speak for myself, I have the impression that I’m not the only one who is thinking this.
dcrush
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Re: What's the best tip you've picked up from the forums?
There have been a lot of tips I have read about here, but the one I use multiple times every day is the one about using R2 and L2 to quickly scroll to the next category in the UI menus.
It saves a lot of wear and tear on my fingers and hands.
It saves a lot of wear and tear on my fingers and hands.
Re: Thank you
People have different ways of looking at things and for my part I can accept that. But others uhh judging me and deciding things and not even knowing me, with my voice not even factored into their selfish judgment, uh no. No, I'm not ok with that. And I think the people who have played this game, for years for a day, whatever, deserve a little better than that. I don't know if anyone else agrees, others will mock, go ahead. But understand, people's patience has its limits. Kindness is a luxury; it is not a right.
Even the fans and community are not going to be treated justly then surely this will show. The burden of proof is not on me but for what it's worth, I respect differences of opinion, but I do not necessarily share them. Sometimes it would be nice to argue with someone who is willing to listen and themselves not afraid to be wrong or also not afraid to not be seen as smarter than other people.
Humility is a pillar of leadership and for someone to come here and post, being so mockingly dismissive of people then that's not gonna work. Maybe better in fact, for the game to just end than end up being in the hands of the crowd with the high school mentality.
Vulkunne
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Re: Writhing Wall Event – Consolidated Messaging Thread
SilverBride wrote: »I was one of those that did other things because I couldn't mentally keep doing it any longer. I am not a quitter for wanting this shortened so we could experience the rest of the content we paid for.
You couldn't spend 30 seconds/day doing one quest (the crafting one) for a golden box?
Anyway, I agree for sure that the event has lagged on for way too long. I also think it was a bad idea to gate content we paid for behind completion of an event. But I was okay with waiting (and literally spending 10 minutes a day to get three golden boxes) until phase 2 finished as intended.
The gold box quests did not take long; however, it does get to the point where it stops being fun.
I play video games for fun to not compete with strangers.
I think it also makes a difference for those who are not getting anything out of the repeating of the quests because they did not want the season pass.
shadoza
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Re: Thank you
OP somehow managed to earn the First Anniversary and the Second Anniversary badge on the same day (yesterday)? How does that happen? Genuine question, do you need to visit the forum while logged in for it to trigger?
loosej
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East Solstice Skyshards?
I've found a few skyshards so far, but none of them are active.
Will they become active after the event is over?
Will they become active after the event is over?
Re: Fraud or Legitimate
But here the things get fishy so please bear with me, the 2nd answer I recieved from support I am gonna exactly link here:
"Thank you for providing this information. We are needing to request the your alternative email addresses you have access to. Please also provide the ESO account User ID you are logged into."
If this is genuinely an exact copy and paste of what you recieved (and not translated between languages or anything) then that is almost certainly a fake phishing email, because that is terrible English. It should say "Thank you for providing this information. We will (also) need your alternative email address and the ID of the ESO account you logged into." I'd also expect them to put it in a bullet pointed list or something.
I know it sounds like a really minor thing but bad grammar and sentence structure is a common problem with scams for two reasons: firstly they're often run by people not using their first language, so they make mistakes, and secondly because it can actually help them filter out people who will spot irregularities so they don't waste their time trying to draw in people who aren't going to fall for it.
But it also seems very unlikely they'd ask for an alternate email address. I could see them asking you to confirm the account name and the email address for it if it's different from the one you used to contact them, but not asking for an additional, unrelated address.
Also, you said you started the conversation with Customer Support. How did you contact them? Did they respond the same way? If you used the Support link on the website can you find these messages there under 'My Support'? They should show up even if they were emailed to you. If you emailed them did the reply come from the same address you emailed? Did it go to the same email address you used?
I think it's very unlikely someone working for ZOS is trying to scam you, because at best they could lose their job and at worst they could end up in prison (I'm not sure if it would be considered an attempt to steal from a customer or from the company but either way it wouldn't go well for them). It's much more likely to be someone unrelated to ZOS trying a standard phishing scam and the fact that it landed at the same time you're having trouble with your account means they got lucky. Like how the people who text me about the car accident I've never been in will occasionally text someone who thinks they've finally got the response they've been waiting for from the insurance company and will promply hand over all their details.
Danikat
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