As a developer you wouldn’t really have much freedom to actually change big things in the game. More or less do the job that you are given. Higher ups would have more of a say. Not much specifically for developers. Whatever boss man says goes. Now if I was in charge of the whole project. That’s a different story. At that point I’d strictly fix bugs that plague the game. Obviously. That would be the focus anyways. That alone doesn’t keep the game afloat though. That is why you see the crown store as a big thing.

Ignore the forum completely. Oh wait, they already are.

PVP in CYRODIL FIX LAG . FIX BUGS. try to devide castles for separate instances , and each intance on separate server . it can help. use not 32 bit technology but 64 bits and multi treads, more then 1 core in procesor eg )))) ofc i know u did some of it. but it is not enough. lag fixing in PVP instances are more important then new dungeon. cuase, eg Harrowstorm we cant fing ppl to play dungeon with us (only random ) cause more and more my old time freinds are of Eso and they apear ocasionaly only. now i start do the same and more often we meet to pvp in GW and WoW. so Cyrodill is great but with actual state of lag is unable to be plaeyd. . if u not fix u will see what happened after Covid ends and u will see if old plaers still Pay our Eso Plus. now most of us stoped to ply for Plus. we start do WoW and other. so? what is most important. new dungeons?. what for ... new content is not much differece for Old Vetereans. New game play system?. heh should i realy learn it again if Lag is awful? ehhhhmmmm rather not. so? " guys what game we play tonight?" it is most common qestion on mys tweeter. eheh. sometimes somebody say "lets try eso maybe they fix it" but it not . so we visit eso only occasionaly now, and even if we (20ppl) are welaty enought (mid age person) to buy eso plus and wow etc in the same time we dont like to pay for what we almost not use. if more ppl think same u will have to rather find new job then learn to fix anyting.

Continue to focus on performance and bugs while developing new content.

If I was a developer in charge of performance I'd obviously be doing that, but if I was the combat team in charge of the vampire stuff I'd do the following:

Make the new vampire skill line feel vampiric instead of a magicka werewolf with bloodfiend abilities.

Make the Scion form a toggle that changes your light and heavy attacks, also tell the art team to add wings to this form and scale it down greatly. ((Way too big and its skin color + armor already separates it from the standard vampire lord.))

Change Blood Frenzy into either a ground targetable ground AOE bat swarm, or a bat themed gap closer that deals damage. Kind of like how the Clouding Swarm ultimate is on live.

Make Eviscerate a stamina ability with 2 morphs. One keeps it a stamina melee ability while the other makes it a ranged blood magic spell. Kind of like how Imbue weapon was done but allow players to choose what kind of vampire they are. One to rip and tear people apart or one that stays back and uses blood magic.

Make the stage 4 vampire health recovery -90% instead of -100%. Achieves the intended purpose while not making it mandatory to stop what you're doing to heal after going down a cliff.

Remove the non-vampire cost increases from stage 1 and make it cap out at 10% with stage 4, OR remove it completely and have fire scale up to around 30-40%. ((Have to have players test this weakness to make it powerful enough to dissuade every person from going stage 4, but also still making it an option))

Remove the vampire cost decrease from stage 1. Like.... seriously. Why does stage 1 have an ability cost decrease tied to it when you can't use the vampire abilities without being one first?

Change the disastrously bloody Mara to no longer give health regeneration but maybe magicka regeneration? If the -90% health regen debuff goes through though I might just leave it as is.

Edit:
Also forgot to add that the vampiric drain spell needs more damage and some kind of CC attached to it. Maybe a snare would work well here to stop people from just running up to you and bashing you in the face. Also turn down the brightness and make it more blood like. Right now on the PTS it looks like a "Sunbeam".

Performance should be top priority but I sure would also really like it if they fixed nb to

I think people like to pretend ZOS isnt a company 400 strong.

They HAVE a server team, a PVP team, a PVE team, world building team. This isnt some damn indie company where they have 5 developers and actively have to choose if they're going to focus on cyrodiil lag this month or adding another race to the game.

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I think people like to pretend ZOS isnt a company 400 strong.

They HAVE a server team, a PVP team, a PVE team, world building team. This isnt some damn indie company where they have 5 developers and actively have to choose if they're going to focus on cyrodiil lag this month or adding another race to the game.

“Company”. The real difference between an indie team and a corporation is the actual management. Yes you’ll have more people. However it doesn’t give you more freedom on what you can and can’t work on. With an indie team. You can actually do whatever you want. Fix whatever you want when you want it. However with a real game studio there is a chain of command. Most developers that work for a studio get told what they work on. Yes there may be teams that work on different parts of the game but they have a budget. They have their own resources that they must deliver on. Which means they cannot get every single kink out of the system. They have a schedule. That is why there is performance issues to date and has been for some years. They try and work on issues when they can. Its honestly more intense than most people even realize. Fun but intense.

The developer does not make those kinds of choices.

I feel like it is not the devs decision for such a thing. But in more general speaking, the performance issues that ive experienced plague Cyrodiil and some Trials. While I do believe such performance should be addressed and not simply ignored, it makes no financial sense to stop production completely to address this. MMOs rely on a consistent stream of content to thrive, if they were to halt content updates for, for the sake of arguement, a year, then I believe many people would have left the game in that year due to content drought, more so than the people who would leave due to poor performance in those gamemodes. The bigger portion of the active playerbase does not regularly partake in those game modes, and while that is no excuse to simply wave off poor Cyrodiil and Trial performance, content should not stop completely to address it.

Nerf everything just to watch the forums burn.

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So you can't stop everything until things are fixed because the entirety of the staff is not tasked for that, so you need to continue releasing new product and adding things because that is what the majority of your staff is going to be skilled and tasked to do.

That said, you do need to dedicate more resources to addressing the current performance issues, especially in PVP, so that should be a priority, but you still need folks tasked on whatever the next steps are for production.