Most games don't care about immersion since 2020.

I was playing call of duty the other day and this mil sim is full of cell shaded Beavis and Butt-Head, Seth Rogen and the puppet girl from Squid Game red light/green light.

The irony is that the power to stop this nonsense was in the hands of the players. Yet, most people keep buying. So don't expect changes anytime. It will get worse.

"Oh no! There are other people in my MMO! Ghastly!"

Hi all,

Wanted to follow up here. The goal is always to provided a balance of more grounded yet cool items and more fun/ fantastical items as well.

We have taken note and shared feedback when some items may push that balance a bit far, like our 4-sword horse friend. (I find this mount fun, but totally understand it can be super jarring.)

However, the item selections are meant to give you the player tools to be creative and have fun. Sometimes player choice will lead to a dancing Molag Bal, as jarring as that can be. But between the Crown Store items, in-game items and in-game event items, there are plenty of choices to make a more grounded experience for yourself and for others if they so choose. Some may go down the route of Sheogorath for a more maddening experience, but they should have the option to do so as well.

All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration. Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?

Thanks for any feedback give here. And please be mindful when submitting feedback that you remember community guidelines.

licenturion wrote: »

If you have all skyshards you don't need to reroll a character.

Just use your free armory station and make builds. It saves subclasses too now. You can switch between you competitive build and your fun build with the click of 1 button and back.

Since you have all the skyshards, you won't have any troubles unlocking stuff.

That's a lot of work. It's easier just to make a hyperbolic thread on the forum claiming that some feature has completely destroyed your game/character/immersion/soul.

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Microsoft fired everyone recently except Gina and Kevin. They're in the server room working on a fix but it could take a bit.

Edit: Sarah is logged into the server now fixing as well

Hallelujah, they finally fed the hamster.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hey all, we've checked in with the team working on this and they are making good progress. We do apologize for the wait and interruption to your playtime. We will provide another update within the next hour.

Apologies aren't enough. After all these months of being unable to play, we paying players deserve appropriate compensation. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , how come in other free games players get compensation for much less, but here you never give us anything, just constant and recurring bugs that never get fixed?

Even before subclassing released, I was very vocal about how it would be bad for the game and how it would reduce populations. So far my opinion hasn’t changed, in fact it’s even worse than I expected.

Subclassing led to homogenization as expected, it increased the power gap, made it harder to learn and get into PvP, and it’s nearly impossible to balance in the long term. It’s just a recipe for disaster in nearly every way. I think that subclassing lowered TTK in some cases, but a lot of people seem to slot Restoring Light and camp their rune. The TTK is as long as ever when you run into that sort of thing.

It seems like the TTK isn’t actually all that different between more experienced or properly built players, but it’s extremely low when it’s a properly built player against someone who isn’t. That’s like the worst case scenario and I don’t understand how anyone who values fairness, challenge, and competition (basically a real PvPer) can stand by a system like subclassing.

In a way subclassing is also selecting for players who like having a power advantage over others, but that will only kill the game faster. In the end, the inexperienced or more casual players will avoid fighting at all costs or they’ll simply never return to PvP. Honestly, part of the reason that Midyear Mayhem seemed so dead even in Grey Host could’ve been exactly for this reason. Players would rather sit afk or intentionally only siege empty keeps than engage in real PvP. At this point I can’t even fault them.

Not even theorycrafting with this system is very fun. You’ll just end up with a build centered around shalks, some flavor of Nightblade, or a defile DoT build.

ZOS should consider disabling subclassing in all PvP environments. It’s clearly not going well.

I don't want to be that guy, the occasional maintenance fine. But last month was full of all day maintenance and long periods of time you cant log in. Like some of us pay for the membership but getting playtime cut down. Especially if you have a job at certain times like i do. Not even some gold for comp... kinda sucks tbh