Also, re the mounts thing.

I would LOOOVE more horse mounts, varied coat colors (There are SO many different coat colors in real life), with basic tack (so many of the mounts have tack that covers them nearly entirely, or other aspects that make them less appealing to me). I would also love it if these were put in game for in game gold.

Give each region its own mount that can be bought for gold, maybe even two or three! (since they would really just need to be recolors of each other, instead of new meshes/skeletons). Show off what each region prizes in mounts. Skryim mounts could be more hardy pony like breeds, Vvardenfall could have nix oxes, Alik'r could have camels or lighter more endurance oriented mounts.

Maybe High Isle and the bretons favor more heavy set breeds like drafts. What would Altmer mounts look like. Bosmer?

Also, get creative with tack! (though I would like the mounts bought for gold to have more simple tack to show off the actual colors of the steed and markings)

Basically, give us more lore friendly looks at what each region and each people prize in a mount and how they would decorate the tack.

shadoza wrote: »

"ESO_player123 wrote:

Leads are one of the ways to entice long term players to revisit old content. Where do you propose to put them instead?

Yes, we want to keep old content fresh.
After leaving a dungeon, I found a lead sparkling on the ground. There were many of these sparkling leads in High Isles. Perhaps more of that.

Just...on the...ground? Look, maybe in rare circumstances, but that sounds so incredibly boring to me. I know there are some people who have no interest in challenge but this is a game, and for a lot of people, most people I believe, a game requires motivation. Leads are a form of motivation. Leaving them on the ground is completely removing one of their primary purposes for existing.

haynes.jgrkpreub18_ESO wrote: »

You must not been around at launch. This game barely felt like an Elder Scrolls game at all.

I was around at launch and before, as I also played in the Beta.

I never expected ESO to play like the single player Elder Scrolls games because ESO is a multiplayer game. I expect it to play like ESO though, and it is moving away from that direction in too many ways.

Eldartar wrote: »

I was worried the day I learned Microsoft had taken over.
Then came the news that Matt "The Creator/Driving force" behind the games sudden departure.
and the latest thing, Microsoft laying of so many loyal, creative and hard working people.

I am worried about the games future, I have been playing this game since BETA and this is the most worrying time for me.

My confidence in Microsoft has been shaken to its core, so much so I have cancelled my subscription.

I see dwindling numbers playing this beautiful game (my eyes don't lie), I have seen content decline over the past 2, 3, even 4 years. This years 'Content Pass' has to be the weakest yet..

I am really worried about the future of the game I have spent so many hundreds of hours playing, I have seen guilds rise and then vanish. Made many many friends from across the world. Have lost some friends I have made here to Illness and I miss them still. When I started in Beta, I was I was 53 years old, I am now 65.

I just have this nagging feeling that this is the beginning of the end.

If it is the beginning of the end, it will be a slow process, and much can happen between now and then. I think we have to let the dust settle and see what happens for next year and 2027. Most of the content for next year has probably already been completed, so it's going to be in 2027 that the impact of these cuts is most likely felt the most. In any case, I'd say we have lots of time left yet with the game.

My biggest concern actually is spending thousands on the game and a sub and then getting permabanned for no apparent reason, it seems to be happening more and more. So I take the approach now that I don't spend any more than I can afford to throw down the toilet when any of us at any time can suddenly feel the ban hammer, be it a temporary ban or permanent. There are far too many examples of this happening for us to feel comfortable that it's a very rare occurrence, and as no doubt some support staff have lost their jobs or been reallocated, the people who will run appeals, ie their safety team, must be stretched to the limit.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

I think that's what Tales of Tribute is supposed to be. A lot of the NPCs you can challenge are found in inns, and I think the idea was for players to gather there as well so they could play against each other, and obviously would have the opportunity to chat at the same time.

It doesn’t work that way, though. Players just queue up wherever they are.

Also, your character disappears from the inn when playing an npc, so I’m guessing because you would get kicked for inactivity during the match if it did not.

This was always a big issue I had with ToT. It exists entirely outside of the game world, so even ignoring other issues some have with it (like not being fun, being too complex, too slow to play, etc.), it sadly fails to scratch that itch of an activity people can see and watch and join and that brings life to taverns.

SkaiFaith wrote: »

For years we've had huge changes every 3 months - no, thanks.
The playerbase was tired and made it clear. Devs reacted accordingly and the past 2 years have been easier on us.
Personally I don't want to come back to dramatic changes every 3 months, I very much prefer as it is now.

The problem is that hardly anyone asked for the huge changes that they used to make every 3 months. I don't think people would mind good changes. It's unfortunate that they only stopped making these rapid changes once the game was in a pretty rough state. Now that serious change is desperately needed, we don't get it.

If they decided to stop making dramatic and rapid changes around early 2017, I don't think there would be many complaints. After Homestead, all they really needed to do was tone down heavy armor and procs a bit more than they already did that patch. Instead, they went way off the rails out of nowhere.