I feel kinda bad for Lambert. Obviously he loves his job but it must kill him to be at the mercy of the suits that really run this show and forcefeed ever more cash grabs while utterly ignoring most player requests and concerns.

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Looking forward for the new story.

This year was great, but I think all the things that went wrong are overshadowing it. You know, event fails, server fails, wave of sledge-hammer nerfs and stuff...

btw.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/502670/how-would-you-rate-year-2019-in-eso/p1
An average of 2.5 /10... Yikes

I guess it will be hard for the next year to be worse, right ?

Always stay positive Even though "trying not to lose hope" seems more fitting by now.

I'm actually looking forward to the new year and the return to Skyrim, but some of the more pressing issues need to be fixed as quickly as possible. Like the overall state of ESO on the PS4 and the whole bluescreening situation. I can see many PS4 players leaving the game because of this if it doesn't get better fast - guild chat is full of comments that indicate this and the number of threads dealing with the problem in this forum is very telling as well. I know I would, if I was affected more, but fortunately I'm not nearly as bad off as many of my guild mates.

On a side note, though, that tat is amazing! Reminds me a lot of my own sleeve, although that's more nordic/viking themed, instead of Elder Scrolls related. Watching this really gave me the urge to get a gaming tat myself

Elsweyr was... Not a good chapter. It felt mashed together almost forcefully (with dragons being that "zombie bear" which showrunners of GoT were including in their wishlist for 3 years until HBO finally gave money to do it), and backstory of it all sounded much more interesting than the chapter itself was. It felt cut in half, and Dragonhold was actually the better half of it. Characters of the North were meh and I often forgot about them even existing while Tharn and Cadwell were around. It didn't felt like something for anniversary, while Morrowind and Summerset felt grand.

I truly hope that Skyrim will be different but the choice of the location itself bears the fear of self-repeating for the sake of nostalgia. Hope it won't be the case.

Wow, that is one super special tattoo! Gorgeous! Kudos to Rich for getting his first ink so beautifully rendered!

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

I guess it will be hard for the next year to be worse, right ?

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Dragons were slayed indeed... By a flood of bugs, non working systems and terrible balance decisions.

valeriiya wrote: »

*Edit: your game had more than "challenges" this year. Dumpster fire server status is a more accurate wording.

I don't think thats completely fair. The game is not without its difficulties and challenges but we can see it moving in the right direction. I'm no white knight, but at the end of the year its important to balance against all the criticism and acknowledge what has been achieved and not to mention all of the effort from the team

Nice ink! Love the symbolism.

Where exactly is all of this positive feedback devs keep referring to for the Year of the Dragon? Just sayin'. Population has plummeted over the past year, only spiking temporarily here and there for special events. Racial changes were an incompetently bungled, imbalanced disaster. The skill standardization over the past year (a great idea, btw) has been oversimplified ("+60% AOE cost trollolol"), inconsistently implemented (leaving several grossly imbalanced outliers - Orbs and Ritual come to mind), and either created or failed to fix numerous bugs (such as skills, or at least their tooltips, that don't scale properly with Ancient Knowledge). In Dragonhold, players got absolutely hosed with no Dragonguard guild skill line and no new arena/trial weapons. Necromancer is cool and all, but you should never release a Chapter (much less an entire yearlong story!) that fails to expand capabilities for existing characters.

And still no CP rework, either? C'mon.

Half of these problems should be trivially easy for a single competent worker to fix in an afternoon, which begs the question of just where your combat dev team's priorities lie. You really need to hire a new combat dev, or promote someone with the creativity gene to steer combat development. Rich has done great on the other stuff (story, zones, etc) but you really need a dedicated Assistant Creative Director for Combat to focus exclusively on the creative power at the player's fingertips.

Q4 2019: Update 24

Memory management overhaul and behind-the-scenes combat ability improvements phase 1
This is now live on all servers (PC/Mac, Xbox One, and PlayStation®4.)
Incremental patches with additional stability fixes and improvements also went out on all platforms. Stability is greatly improved on all platforms.

I suppose stability is better in regard to less crashes.....dont know if that can be quantified. However the memory management cant be that great with the horrendous memory leak present in pvp. Is that a thing in pve also?

If this is the type of fix we can see in the future, I am not looking forward to future 'fixes'............ will the game ever move out of beta?

Darn mispost