It started out as a great game for me, and it's got better all the time - great work guys, hope you have some quality time with your families and come back fully refreshed to make it even better still! Happy Christmas and a healthy and peaceful New Year!

I played during Beta and the free weekend, I love what I see. I will be purchasing tomorrow, can't wait. Oh... don't worry, I won't file a law suit for addiction. I am looking forward to it. Happy Holidays everyone!

Darkonflare15 wrote: »

@zaldan Yay thxs for stating the negatives. Like we do not have enough of that already or that we are clueless about it. Hooray to our great comunity for reminding us everyday that nothing is perfect.

@Darkonflare15 ZO$ are aware of the positives by the number of people who pay/play the game but without constant reminders of what they're doing wrong there's going to be no improvement and it may still be too little way too late.

Merry Xmas!

Moar lag plz not enough lag in PVP.

You've done a lot for the game, no doubt about it and it's really made the subscription worth it again with the two recent expansions to the universe. But I now haven't played the game regularly for about a month, because I honestly just got bored of the pledges/daily quests and their chorelike nature, for no real purposeful reward and when it comes to endgame there is too little to do.
There are currently 3 trials. Most people can sleepwalk through AA and HRC, yet struggle with SO, they were still fun to do once in a while mind you, but then you took away the weekly reward incentive (perhaps the only incentive to still do them) and changed the leaderboards in a major way (the leaderboard for AA/HRC/SO can only fit 8 groups and a third of the 9th group as it is now) and there has been no real explanation why, which is weird and frustrating.

PvP is also lacking (which is a big issue when PvP is one of the most prefered Endgame features in MMOs), don't get me wrong the Imperial City was a great addition, but it is already abandoned for the most part. The PvP in ESO as it stands has been reduced to a laggy zergfest, even more so than before. Now the only real way to beat an organised zerg is to bring a bigger group (I know this is going to be changed, but it is a big problem that has been almost advocated with some of the recent changes like AoE caps, ability to purge DoT effects from siege, etc.). The strategy has effectively left the war.
Also I can't help but feel like ESO could use some sort of instanced PvP, it would ensure balance (instead of 20v4, which are very common odds in Cyrodiil), it would encourage skilful play and strategy (if the instanced pvp was 12v12 for example). A lot of other MMOs do instanced PvP well, but lack an interesting combat system. ESO has incredible combat, but in Cyrodiil that is obscured by lag and constant unbalanced fights, which results in the majority of players having no idea how to fight 1v1. There could be a lot of TES lore based gamemodes, like instead of Capture the flag, it could be an Elder Scroll. Or you could have teambased domination type gamemodes, where the objective would be to hold on to a Daedric Prince's artifact to get points. Or it could be something else entirely. It is not like the ESO team isn't creative.
Further, instanced PvP could lead to Arenas like 4v4 or 2v2, which could lead to ranked matchmaking, tournaments and other interesting stuff that would really add to the longevity of the game. Just look at how intensely people rivaled across NA and EU due to Dragonstar Arena when it was relevant. That sort of stuff is what keeps a game alive.

As it stands right now the playerbase of ESO is like an ocean, it ebbs and flowes between DLC releases, but is still steadily losing loyal players.
I have played ESO since January of 2014 when I joined the closed beta and of all the awesome friends I have made along the years, only ~30% of them still play the game. A lot of people have moved on because the game lacked solid endgame (meaning PvP and PvE), even if a lot of other features were really good by MMO standards.

ESO was voted "MMO of the year" by MMOrpg.com, but look at the competition for this year, there barely was any. Next year there will be a lot more capable competition and ESO will have to work hard to still be relevant by then.

I would like to end this wall of text by saying that I absolutely adore the game, I've played it way too much, but we who love the game and play it A LOT are also the ones most exposed to the flaws and lack of features.
Probably not the place to write something like this, but it makes me kind of sad that I'm still thinking, "Wow, this game has so much potential." Because that's exactly what I thought 2 years ago. I'm just wondering if that potential will ever be fulfilled.

I hope that in the 2016 look-back (if there is one) we can say that we got rid of AOE caps. Please be able to say that.

Anyway, merry xmas!

Looking forward to THIS YEAR