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Re: does anyone actually buy skill lines from the crown store?
I buy Undaunted, because I want my orb and it takes SO long to get to level 10, and it takes so long to level.and morph it.
Re: Mayhem has started and…
Rishikesa108 wrote: »Booted just now, me and my husband, together at the same time
That's romantic by ESO standards.
Re: Mayhem has started and…
Played for about fifteen minutes. Ballgroups and general lag were so bad I just left. I'll be back for the next vengeance.
Sluggy
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Re: Mayhem has started and…
I’ve already been booted from the server three times in the last thirty mins. Ping is all over the place. I had zero issues until the event started.
Wow, that's shocking. No one could have anticipated this.
Desiato
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Re: Last Words to Julian LeFay
From Bethesda on X
It’s with great sadness we learn of the passing of Julian LeFay. He was the driving force in the creation of The Elder Scrolls and the foundations of Bethesda as a game studio. Simply put, without Julian, we would not be here today. If you had the opportunity to work with Julian, you were blessed to know a one-of-a-kind force of nature, who pushed everyone to create something special. His work and spirit will live on both in our memories and in our games.
It’s with great sadness we learn of the passing of Julian LeFay. He was the driving force in the creation of The Elder Scrolls and the foundations of Bethesda as a game studio. Simply put, without Julian, we would not be here today. If you had the opportunity to work with Julian, you were blessed to know a one-of-a-kind force of nature, who pushed everyone to create something special. His work and spirit will live on both in our memories and in our games.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
Human beings sacrificed on the altar of shareholder value. How can you not feel for them?
Usually big companies are not willing to take big risks, though they certainly have the capital to do so compared to smaller companies. That is what is surprising here. The new IP sounds like it was relatively low risk. AI is a huge risk and a huge amount of money to invest in, though it is the trendy thing to do nowadays. Humans are creative though, and can come up with remarkably novel ideas, but AI is not very creative, it just iterates on what it has been fed. Remember neural networks and how it was going to be the solution for everything? You don’t hear much about that anymore. What if AI cannot deliver?
It hits home when they talk about losing experience and knowledge in their workplace in the video. I have been there, when programs were shut down and people were laid off. In my case the money ran out and there was no other option. This is even more sad. It just doesn’t make sense.
Usually big companies are not willing to take big risks, though they certainly have the capital to do so compared to smaller companies. That is what is surprising here. The new IP sounds like it was relatively low risk. AI is a huge risk and a huge amount of money to invest in, though it is the trendy thing to do nowadays. Humans are creative though, and can come up with remarkably novel ideas, but AI is not very creative, it just iterates on what it has been fed. Remember neural networks and how it was going to be the solution for everything? You don’t hear much about that anymore. What if AI cannot deliver?
It hits home when they talk about losing experience and knowledge in their workplace in the video. I have been there, when programs were shut down and people were laid off. In my case the money ran out and there was no other option. This is even more sad. It just doesn’t make sense.
katanagirl1
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Re: Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
colossalvoids wrote: »karthrag_inak wrote: »Name one please - name a single generic fantasy mmo that focuses on skills and not classes. That has, after all, always been the Elder Scrolls approach- focus on skills not classes, and if there were others (and surely there must be many for them to rate as 'generic ') khajiit would l9ve to check them out.
I'm a TES player, not an MMO one. Tes had classes from the very start, true that those are more of a guiding line rather than set in stone profession but I'd argue that most players definitely roleplayed one archetype each play through which is more akin to have a class, your warrior nords, khajiit magical assassins, dunmeri mages etc.
Now we have meridia devoted templar-assassins who worship HM at the same time most of the time I see another player. It has nothing to do with having separate skills - it's abilities designed for a specific archetype.
Khajiit must disagree regarding classes in Elder Scrolls games - it is known, in fact, that while Skyrim simplified much of the gameplay that was considered superfluous in earlier games, such as removing skills, they completely did away with classes because, obviously, the Elder Scrolls are not about classes, but rather about skill development, and "Freedom-of-choice". If one's choice is to play multiple Daedric Princes off against each other, taking the power they offer and using it for one's own ends, well, that's kind of the point, yes?
Khajiit is also a TES player more than an MMO player. Attached is an image of khajiit holding the disks to Arena he purchased when the game was first released, and subsequently played through completely, along with every other TES game since (even Battlespire, but not Redguard because not khajiit), and the one constant across all those games (perhaps this is because khajiit is Gen X and naturally contrary) is that this one has -never- enjoyed anyone telling him what to do or to be, and has -always- known better than some "game designer" how he wished to play through a game. Games that inflict their designers' visions upon the player do not get much attention from khajiit.
So khajiit will reiterate. Adding the ability to mix-and-match nearly every skill and skill combination on every character is the closest this game has come to the spirit of the Elder Scrolls games than it has ever done before. This one could not be happier.
Re: Class change tokens
The devs have said for a while that Class was the one immutable part of a character and that looking into Class change tokens was not on the table. They even referenced that in the reveal for Subclassing as a way for players to customize their characters in lieu of a Class change.
Who knows, they may expand Subclassing and remove some of the restrictions to allow taking more lines from the same Class or dropping all three, but that's just speculation at present. As of now, Subclassing is their answer to a Class change.
Who knows, they may expand Subclassing and remove some of the restrictions to allow taking more lines from the same Class or dropping all three, but that's just speculation at present. As of now, Subclassing is their answer to a Class change.
Re: Class change tokens
I could be wrong but I thought they brought subclassing, in part, as a work around because class change tokens are not possible.
Re: More on the Microsoft lay offs, it's grim.
They made the decision not to develop a conventional chapter last year. The staff who would normally work on new assets for chapters were probably either assigned to other Bethesda projects or Blackbird.Imperial_Archmage wrote: »I feel for the folks impacted by these layoffs, I really do, but at the same time I can’t help but ask myself what is that they were doing before they were fired? The so called “Season of the Worm” has been nothing but rehashed old content that adds nothing new to the game.
Many of the affected employees actually came from another Zenimax studio that was shut down last year, Arkane.I will never cease to be baffled (and, to some extent, disheartened) by people defending this horrid workplace and corporate culture.
Regardless of whether the layoffs made economic sense - while I doubt it, there is the theoretical possibility that they did - the style of firing people, how this is done, is just terrible.
And I really hope more people in that industry start unionising.
I'm not president of the world, and Microsoft doesn't make the rules they operate in either. Right or wrong, this is how our society functions. I would say it's largely good as until recently, the world had seen unprecedented global prosperity. But nothing is perfect and some would say the wheels are coming off this wagon for complex reasons that are beyond the scope of the eso forums.
If Microsoft didn't function in a fiscally responsible way, they would actually be in violation of their fiduciary duty to their shareholders. You might imagine them to all be residents of an ivory tower, but many are also individuals a who are either part of mutual funds or shareholders themselves who count on dividends to fund their retirement.
The bottom line is they are making decisions that they think are best for their stakeholders. Every responsible company operates like this. I doubt anyone making these decisions likes them.
It should be noted that ZOS employees are part of a union and though they can no longer access work systems, the last we heard the affected employees are still being paid with benefits.
Regardless, this is how our society functions and you can't blame a company for operating within its rules. If they didn't, they themselves would eventually be the target of an acquisition by another corporation that does.
"this is how our society functions" Yeah, and we don't have to take it we can fight back and speak against it, because it's wrong and people have suffered because of it. Bending over and saying "this is just how it is" is how things get worse. And no, I don't think you understand the global economy if you think we've seen "unprecedented prosperity". Microsoft is in the wrong. The shareholders are in the wrong.
TheMajority
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