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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
randconfig wrote: »Erickson9610 wrote: »A client-side toggle to hide cosmetics you don't want to see would be ideal for preventing this.
I guess I would be fine with that, but where do you draw the line? Do you get to pick and choose what cosmetics to see, does that include outfits, what about polymorphs, or in-game earnable skins and costumes. Just seems like it could get really convoluted and take a lot of resources from the dev team..
I'm fine with it too but it will never happen because every cosmetic you see in the game is an advertisement for the crown store.
You'd think so, but whenever I was asked "that looks so cool, what is it/where did you get it" I usually have to say I have no idea (and the game doesn't actually tell you in most cases where a collectible is actually from), or that it's no longer available. Both aren't great to sell something. Usually just leaves everyone frustrated or disappointed.
Faulgor
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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
Gegensmith wrote: »[snip]
Do you enjoy being as insulting as possible within the confines of civility?
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ArchMikem
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Re: 600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
The most endgame content of ESO where combat is concerned is actually far into the Infinite Archive
Those 3 DPS skill lines Subclassing builds are not going to make it very far in there.
Those 3 DPS skill lines Subclassing builds are not going to make it very far in there.
Re: 600+ days played character is now obsolete thanks to Subclassing
War, war never changes. And subclassing owns. Adapt, overcome.
Re: Concerned about the potential use of AI on loading screen artwork
does it matter if it was? AI is getting better and better with each passing day. Soon much game development/assets/etc will be controlled by AI. I've been using AI daily since 2018 and if things are so minor and unnoticeable then it really doesn't matter when they can put the work in elsewhere where it matters.
Yes, it does, because people justifiably want to enjoy real art made by actual human beings, instead of copy-pasted AI slop.
can't find the "justification" when AI is just as good or even better when managed/used properly than much human art. Just have to know which ones to use and put in the work to use them properly.
It isn't though. Ai art has never been better than human art. Of course not all human art is good but so long as there is an attempt, it's already better than Ai, which is just glorified plagiarism unless you trained your Ai exclusively on your own works (which is self-plagiarism).
You act as if cutting costs in the art department will somehow make the game better, but these things don't relate to each other. ESO doesn't need upscaled versions of old loading screens, so if you are making the argument that money is being wasted on human art, you can also reframe this as wasting resources and work hours on having Ai recreate images that were perfectly fine the way they were. Your argument has no legs to stand on.
Please Zos, can you buff the less used skill lines?
Zos, please. I want to make a viable build (and fight against other players) that use other skill lines than assasination, animal companions and storm calling. Its very frustrating that the overwhelming majority of players is begging you for some buff to the less used skill lines and you are keeping the same 5 op skill lines for everyone for this week update too. In pve is not better, everyone is a variation of arcanist, please do something. We love this game, we want it to be fun and diverse.
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
I love the cosmetics. I love that I can dress my characters in badass or fun or sexy ways. I love I can make an outfit that is really lore friendly for when doing quests. And then be random and chill when trader running and crafting. I think there is so much fun stuff in the game. I only think sometimes people's mounts are a bit loud. But that only bothers me when I am in questing mode and listening to dialog when all of Coldharbour descends on me because a person doing the same quest has much more money than I could ever dream off - to use on crowncrates. Let the people wanting flashy mounts have flashy mounts. I prefer that ESO keeps things that cost crowns more or less cosmetics and nothing of real importance. Imagine you had to pay to win. I find what ESO offers for free, and available to all is really generous.
And if you want a fully "strict lore immersive" game, go play Skyrim or oblivion with no mods where you can play solo and do what you want there.
In a multiplayer game there is many different styles and wants and expressions. So that should be expected that flashy things will attract an audience, for the community is there for it.
And slay Molag bal, sway them hips in mournhold as I go look up bits of furniture to build an espresso machine in my house.
And if you want a fully "strict lore immersive" game, go play Skyrim or oblivion with no mods where you can play solo and do what you want there.
In a multiplayer game there is many different styles and wants and expressions. So that should be expected that flashy things will attract an audience, for the community is there for it.
And slay Molag bal, sway them hips in mournhold as I go look up bits of furniture to build an espresso machine in my house.
Toxien
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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
Gegensmith wrote: »[snip]
Do you enjoy being as insulting as possible within the confines of civility?
I think that kind of response was incited by the categorization of things that some of you don't personally like.
People might find their choices being defined as "cancer" to be insulting, yes?
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Grizzbeorn
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Re: Future of Battlegrounds
There are still battlegrounds in ESO? (sarcasm)
I've played about 5 two team BG's. Thanks, but no thanks. The two team format killed battlegrounds for me. I like the 4x4x4 format but two teams is just crazy unbalanced with no buffer to mitigate high skilled players/teams from the lower level players/teams.
I've played about 5 two team BG's. Thanks, but no thanks. The two team format killed battlegrounds for me. I like the 4x4x4 format but two teams is just crazy unbalanced with no buffer to mitigate high skilled players/teams from the lower level players/teams.
Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
No. It has absolutely obliterated my ability to play in the content I used to enjoy.Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?
I had various builds depending of what was needed in my prog groups, typical arcanist dd for the most part, but with a quantum of diversity, bowplar, zenkosh dk, mkeccro, ...If so, prior to the launch of Update 46, what was your character build?
I did not touch their builds. I could complete the co tent before U46. I do not want to subclass. I liked the identity of my characters.What did you change to your character build when Update 46 launched that allowed you to play or complete content that you had trouble with before?
Trial trifectas. We got SBS, PB and GS before U46. After the update released I was pushed out of the group for not wanting to subclass.What game content was it?
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I still can't wrap my head around how U46 could have been released in that state. There has pretty much always been a rampant issue of powercreep along the years, which apparently was being addressed and appeared to be such a problematic issue that it lead to the infamous U35 Lost Depths update.
Now let's put into perspective U46, a 30% to 50% damage boost, if surrendering to subclassing, happened overnight, which apparently was an acceptable power bump.
Then there is the issue of diversity. The harder the content the less diversity. I'll admit this is to be expected to some extent, it is a hard task to balance everything and that some things will be better than others. Build diversity already took a blow when hybridisation was released. The distinction between magicka and stamina based builds was roughly determined by your spammable. Then arcanists were released, they became a must have unless you were extremely good in the other few required roles as DD. But now...? There is at most a handful (if not just a single one) of optimal DD build variations for endgame raiding. What is the point exactly now of having different toons with different base classes knowing that if they don't happen to have one of the few correct base classes they will forever be unfit for the gameplay I built and enjoyed them for ? Should that level of damage be maintained, a quick, easy and dirty fix would be to apply a flat 30-50% (adjusted to the best subclassed build per class) damage boost active only when pureclassing so that endgame players who do not wish to subclass could still enjoy the game the way they want to and be relevant.
Then I have to question why all the feedback the playerbase provided has been blatantly ignored. During the PTS cycle a lot of feedback was provided and yet we now know how U46 went live.
I will now quote a an excerpt from Steam's "ESO’s Developers Share Subclassing System Secrets" post :
...the equivalent is a change token. There is no subracing, subfactioning etc. The subclassing equivalent to subracing would be taking the arms of a dark elf for the corresponding passive, the head of an orc, etc.In ESO, players can change their appearance, names, races, and even faction, but this has not been true with class
I used to enjoy raiding in eso, now I've basically stopped playing. I still do some daily endeavours and get the occasional event tickets, but I'm getting bored fast and I don't know for how long it will prevent me from moving on from eso entirely.
Personally I think U46 was singlehandedly the worst update that ever happened to eso. There are a few easy ways to mitigate the shortfalls of this update, but if nothing is done I'm afraid I'll simply move on from eso.
Sean3005
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