Let Me Transfer From PS5 to PC

Steel_Heart777

The main Cyrodiil campaign (the only one with any players) on PS5 is absolutely unplayable. I have voiced this in endless different ways through every possible report form, through my own threads and through the threads of others over the years. Anytime I try to play in the campaign I can't even activate a single buff, let alone attempt any kind of combo or combat at all. My character simply twitches in place and all skills fail, those that don't are extremely delayed. Mounting is 3-5 second delay, even siege weapons will fail to fire 50% of the time or more depending on amount of lag, and oil pots I put up become unable to be used and therefore I have to wait for them to de-spawn to try to put one up again. Break free will fail to work and my character will break free in place 2-3+ times, sometimes never breaking free at all even then. Players are sliding around in a slideshow of apparent time travel, and randomly I'm being transported back in time 5-10 seconds from where I just was, and game sometimes completely crashes. In the past couple weeks in the single hour (if that) which I can endure before switching to another game which actually works, I have been hitting my Ultimate abilities at least 5 times only to have them literally be unable to fire at all. This is not an issue on my end: I have an optimized console setup with all LAN wired connections, fastest Fibe internet available, performance mode and all Wi-Fis in house disabled. All other games work perfectly and run flawlessly on my console, this is the only one with this issue.

I'm earnestly requesting the option to transfer from console to PC, as I understand there are in deed issues with lag but from my years of experience and reading the inputs of other players, PC is at least remotely playable unlike console. This is probably the only thing that can remedy this catastrophe for me. I sincerely love this game and want to be able to play it, but it's unplayable in it's current state on my console.

phaneub17_ESO

Just start over on PC, the sooner you do the sooner you catch up and worry less about how long it will be. Do non-CP campaign for a while until the numbers get to something you feel manageable to move to CP campaign. At least you have two different options available.

Thecompton73

I started over on PC just a bit over a year ago and now I have over 1100 CP. The only things I really miss from my PS account are all the crown store purchases such as mounts, housing decorations and the house itself.

Steel_Heart777

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Just start over on PC, the sooner you do the sooner you catch up and worry less about how long it will be. Do non-CP campaign for a while until the numbers get to something you feel manageable to move to CP campaign. At least you have two different options available.

I should have done this years ago. Now however I'm not willing to start over - 9 years of money, time and achievements sunk into this. With the game unplayable on console, the very least ZoS could do is offer the option to transfer.

Syrusthevirus187

Who cares about achievements. Just start over. Cp is gained so fast now. And then you can play a game that works some of the time instead of never.

KS_Amt38

I started to play on PC as well, CP is not an issue. My GF started playing like a month ago and is already on CP420.

drakhan2002_ESO

It would probably be much quicker to just make a new account on PC, rather than waiting for a transfer option. There are likely technical, contractual, and financial issues that prevent ZOS/Sony from allowing this type of transfer.

People have asked for this for years...years...and if it ever happens it might still be a long wait.

Steel_Heart777

Syrusthevirus187 wrote: »

Who cares about achievements. Just start over. Cp is gained so fast now. And then you can play a game that works some of the time instead of never.

I get your point, but I do care about the achievements when at stake is a master crafter with every single full motif, style page and crown store style page, every single quest in the game completed, max antiquities skill line and all mythics collected, most purple and gold antiquities in the game, many expensive mounts and houses, 10 characters with maxed skill lines including 2 (almost 3) AR 50 Grand Overlords, etc etc.

Having full-time responsibilities IRL and having other games I play as well I simply can't accept losing 9 years of time, money and effort because of the company's failure and subsequent inability to even offer a minimal compromise of allowing a transfer.

merpins

If they allowed a player to transfer their crown store purchases from one console to another once, that would be nice.

LittlePinkDot

Steel_Heart777 wrote: »

The main Cyrodiil campaign (the only one with any players) on PS5 is absolutely unplayable. I have voiced this in endless different ways through every possible report form, through my own threads and through the threads of others over the years. Anytime I try to play in the campaign I can't even activate a single buff, let alone attempt any kind of combo or combat at all. My character simply twitches in place and all skills fail, those that don't are extremely delayed. Mounting is 3-5 second delay, even siege weapons will fail to fire 50% of the time or more depending on amount of lag, and oil pots I put up become unable to be used and therefore I have to wait for them to de-spawn to try to put one up again. Break free will fail to work and my character will break free in place 2-3+ times, sometimes never breaking free at all even then. Players are sliding around in a slideshow of apparent time travel, and randomly I'm being transported back in time 5-10 seconds from where I just was, and game sometimes completely crashes. In the past couple weeks in the single hour (if that) which I can endure before switching to another game which actually works, I have been hitting my Ultimate abilities at least 5 times only to have them literally be unable to fire at all. This is not an issue on my end: I have an optimized console setup with all LAN wired connections, fastest Fibe internet available, performance mode and all Wi-Fis in house disabled. All other games work perfectly and run flawlessly on my console, this is the only one with this issue.

I'm earnestly requesting the option to transfer from console to PC, as I understand there are in deed issues with lag but from my years of experience and reading the inputs of other players, PC is at least remotely playable unlike console. This is probably the only thing that can remedy this catastrophe for me. I sincerely love this game and want to be able to play it, but it's unplayable in it's current state on my console.

I'm on PS5 and I don't have the problems you're having.

BenTSG

It's a shame that the PvP is in such a state all around, I'm not sure it'll be that much better on PC, but I don't play GH anyways.

While I doubt there will be any sort of account transfering anytime soon, it's completely understandable that you'd not want to just drop all the time and start over, and if ZOS isn't going to properly support the PvP scene then they absolutely don't deserve any extra money for it, especially when it's not your fault the performance is unplayable that you feel forced that moving is your only option.

My only suggestion is that if you're *completely* desperate to get onto PC, to find and buy a key from a key site. That way you get to play the game again, and that's money out of ZOS' hands.

The_Oakster

Steel_Heart777 wrote: »

...because of the company's failure and subsequent inability to even offer a minimal compromise of allowing a transfer...

I moved over from PS having played over 3000hrs to PC about 4 months ago and I'm CP620 so its easy but I get what you mean about the money spent.

What I would say is that as seen by other games, allowing transfers from PS to PC is not as easy as we all think it is. There are all sorts of licencing issues blah blah blah so even if there was a transfer option, it may not include everything you want.

On another note, I get you're invested but with you saying that you can't accept losing all that money, I worry what you'll be like if the company closed, or they stopped supporting consoles, or any other real world things that do and have happened to other games. As hard as it pains me to say sometimes, it's only a game and it could be gone tomorrow.

Steel_Heart777

The_Oakster wrote: »

Steel_Heart777 wrote: »

...because of the company's failure and subsequent inability to even offer a minimal compromise of allowing a transfer...

I moved over from PS having played over 3000hrs to PC about 4 months ago and I'm CP620 so its easy but I get what you mean about the money spent.

What I would say is that as seen by other games, allowing transfers from PS to PC is not as easy as we all think it is. There are all sorts of licencing issues blah blah blah so even if there was a transfer option, it may not include everything you want.

On another note, I get you're invested but with you saying that you can't accept losing all that money, I worry what you'll be like if the company closed, or they stopped supporting consoles, or any other real world things that do and have happened to other games. As hard as it pains me to say sometimes, it's only a game and it could be gone tomorrow.

I've got 16,000 hours on PS4 and 2000 on PS5 so yeah it ticks me off just a little to be forced to throw that away. To the other point: yes it's money, and time and effort, but mostly it's the principle. Obviously the company closing down or stopping console support would be a totally different situation and I'd be mad just like tons of other people, but that's not the case. The frustration is justified when one platform is playable and meanwhile I can't even use skills on mine. Anyway, I'm holding out hope for the new megaservers that were just discussed on the news page in May. If that fails I'll probably just start grinding on PC I guess.

tokeinskyblu

Not sure if been said but hardware upgrades happening soon. Once that is done playstation and pc servers should be working the same