ZOS, instead of going to bed, fix the damn dungeon for EU players!
Quickfix: reset the dungeon every hour on the clock, players inside moved to the beginning of the dungeon.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Furyous wrote: »

I ran a poll on the event design with 204 votes. The results were clear:
- 32% said “I hate it, this grind makes me want to uninstall.”
- 48% said “I hate it, but I will keep playing the rest of the game.”
- 16% said “It is just a grind, some folks do not mind the hamster wheel.”
- Only 2% combined said they genuinely enjoyed it.

That means nearly 80% of respondents expressed active dislike, with only a statistical sliver reporting genuine enjoyment.

It's a bias poll. People tend to come to the forums to make a complaint. It skews any poll.

It's the same in zone/guild chats, though.
I have a hard time imagining a person who genuinely enjoys doing crafting dailies (that do not even drop good rewards, unlike normal crafting dailies) and dolmens for 40 days in a row. Even Alikr grinders usually have something on the second screen.

PC EU the west portal is bugged. The Infernium doesn't move at all, some NPCs tell us to protect it, others say "Why are you here, go fight the giant Harvester". But the gate is still there, the Infernium isn't breaking it and we can't reach the boss. And there are no enemies in the whole instance, so the whole protecting thing also doesn't apply.

Any chance it will get fixed on the weekend, when people actually have free time to play the FOMO event?

this is the situation this morning on PC- EU.
the inferniun thing is stuck and won't move. everyone raging and complaining in zone chat.
honestly this is really upsetting, i won't even explore the new solstice as it completely ruined my mood.

No crossplay

BardokRedSnow wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

No. Not at all.

There should never be anything that you can't do. If this is supposed to be a game that lasts for a decades, what's the benefit of locking anyone out of anything because of when they started? What's the benefit of saying to the I've-been-subscribed-since-day-one-and-my-mother-just-died-so-I-had-to-take-a-week-to-go-to-the-funeral person that they don't deserve to participate because they're not devoted to the game like the person who just picked up a free code from a streamer yesterday and then never signs in again after they get the thing?

FOMO is utter [snip]. Down with FOMO.

There was nothing wrong with the old Chapter model. There was nothing wrong with the old Chapter celebration events. There was everything wrong with this one - I actually can't think of a single part of the entire Wall event that didn't have some kind of an issue, and most were rather major issues.

Change for the sake of change is not an improvement. Don't fix what ain't broke.

And on the "more engaging" thing - something can be engaging without being some big spectacle. People were really engaged for the Wrothgar story and the Daedric War story. Why? The writing was good. The game was fun. People were enjoying themselves. And here? Grindgrindgrindgrind for a bunch of literal trash rewards (but a 0.00001% chance of a 1M gold house; may the odds be ever in your favor, suckers!) and then zerg through a trial with 100 of your closest friends that's already 3/4 finished when you enter without even understanding what's happening.

Yes, make it engaging. But don't use FOMO and flashbangs as a substitute for story, because that's just surface-level. That's not "engaging," that's just frustrating.

Quick note, when I say engaging, I mean that it actually feels like multiple people were needed to accomplish something. I felt involved.

I am commenting on the spectacle factor specifically, I agree writing is important, and wrothgar is probably still the best example of it in eso, plus having actual consequence from your decisions. But that’s you being engaged with the story not necessarily the engagement factor of doing something with others. I hope that the rest of the dlc is much more interesting than the first part of Solstice.

I feel there’s room for spectacle and writing here, and the spectacle for me while cool was second to having to work with the other players to proceed and progress through the public dungeon. That’s also what I mean by being engaging. The act of doing was actually fun.

But again, "oh there's a lot of people" isn't necessarily a good thing as much as "this flows narratively."

Consider any trial: you group together with friends/guildies/randos and you know each person has a job to do. You all og in to work together to perform the task. You start at the beginning where you get the basic idea of a story, you have a general direction to go in, and then you solve the mechanics and defeat enemies. You communicate with those around you and strategize. You then get to the final boss and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Now consider the Fortress as it is: you go to the portal in a zerg and Keshu tells you that you need to finish the wings. You start running to the left portal but then a notification pops on your screen that the west portal is done. You saw none of it. You didn't do a thing for it, but now a whole zerg of people blows past you while you wonder where they came from. Nobody says a word. You turn around to go to the east wing and go through the portal, but you picked the big portal instead of the small portal so there are no enemies around and you're running through an empty field until you finally make it to the boss just as it dies, again missing the entire fight. At least you can follow the zerg to the final boss, right? And then you keel over because there was no indication that the water was bad. By the time you resurrect yourself, the zerg has blown on and you're just following behind.

Which one makes you feel like part of a team? Which one makes you feel like you were needed?
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No. Not at all.

There should never be anything that you can't do. If this is supposed to be a game that lasts for a decades, what's the benefit of locking anyone out of anything because of when they started? What's the benefit of saying to the I've-been-subscribed-since-day-one-and-my-mother-just-died-so-I-had-to-take-a-week-to-go-to-the-funeral person that they don't deserve to participate because they're not devoted to the game like the person who just picked up a free code from a streamer yesterday and then never signs in again after they get the thing?

FOMO is utter [snip]. Down with FOMO.

There was nothing wrong with the old Chapter model. There was nothing wrong with the old Chapter celebration events. There was everything wrong with this one - I actually can't think of a single part of the entire Wall event that didn't have some kind of an issue, and most were rather major issues.

Change for the sake of change is not an improvement. Don't fix what ain't broke.

And on the "more engaging" thing - something can be engaging without being some big spectacle. People were really engaged for the Wrothgar story and the Daedric War story. Why? The writing was good. The game was fun. People were enjoying themselves. And here? Grindgrindgrindgrind for a bunch of literal trash rewards (but a 0.00001% chance of a 1M gold house; may the odds be ever in your favor, suckers!) and then zerg through a trial with 100 of your closest friends that's already 3/4 finished when you enter without even understanding what's happening.

Yes, make it engaging. But don't use FOMO and flashbangs as a substitute for story, because that's just surface-level. That's not "engaging," that's just frustrating.
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Its not only EU. I'm on PC NA in the instance that is stuck at 7% People have been repairing and firing but the amount of wall health remaining is not changing.
I hope ZoS is going to extend this so all the people who tried but were prevented by it being bugged can get through

The amount of bugs in this dlc is absolute unacceptable! Really doesn’t matter what I try to compete I encounter bugs. After a boring dlc overall I just can say I am at a very frustrated point. You can and you should do better.

Okay, now there's the next bug: I am supposed to talk to Skordo at the camp and he's disappeared.