Would you like a gm run event?

LuC1ll3atTh3Wh33L · October 24

i miss gm run events. 10 years and i've not seen a gm run event in this game.

KromedeTheCorrupt · October 24

no

I’ve never seen a GM in game in 10 years. I’m not even sure if they play the game. We got a loading screen that says don’t be fooled by imposters real GM has the ESO logo by their name. Or something along those lines but yet I’ve been for 10 years and never seen 1 in game.

TaSheen · October 24

no

It would depend on the type of event. If it's something "combat-ish" then no. If a GM had been a "stand in" for what'shisname from the W Weald event, then maybe. In the long run, I'm REALLY tired of events (to the point I'm not doing anything until New Life, if then) so just in general, no.

LunaFlora · October 24

what would that be?

RomanRex · October 24

they don’t have gm’s in game. i’ve never seen one in my thousands of hours of play.

i wouldn’t want them to lead events even if they were.

Aggrovious · October 24

yes

I want to see a gm run an event completing Scalecaller Peak on hardmode.

Ingenon · October 24

yes

I have played on PS/NA for several years and have never seen a GM.

I think would be a good thing to have a GM show up during an event, like Witches Festival. It would be good just to know they exist on PS/NA.

MJallday · October 24

yes

RomanRex wrote: »

they don’t have gm’s in game. i’ve never seen one in my thousands of hours of play.

i wouldn’t want them to lead events even if they were.

PLayed since beta, pretty much daily since release on xbox eu - never seen one and noone ive spoken to has either

they dont play, or they do until their own logins.

Estin · October 24

yes

The last time I've seen a GM was 10 years ago when I was reporting bot accounts that were sliding across the ground through walls to complete quests for gold selling. I haven't seen them since. I would love for them to run an all day live stream event where they do basic stuff like normal dungeons/trials and BGs with the community so they can see how awful the game's performance has actually become. Maybe then something would actually get done since they won't be able to ignore the constant freezing, rubber banding, and disconnections on an official stream.

KromedeTheCorrupt · October 24

no

MJallday wrote: »

RomanRex wrote: »

they don’t have gm’s in game. i’ve never seen one in my thousands of hours of play.

i wouldn’t want them to lead events even if they were.

PLayed since beta, pretty much daily since release on xbox eu - never seen one and noone ive spoken to has either

they dont play, or they do until their own logins.

To be fair most game developers don’t even play their own games or games in general. People who love games typically don’t make them. People who want a good paying job make games and quite frankly probably don’t care to look at a computer screen when they get home after staring at one for 8+ hours. On top of that people who make that money have far more better hobbies than sitting at home.

Castagere · October 24

yes

I can understand why GMs don't log in to play with the MMO player base today. I remember back in Anarchy Online around 2001, GMs would have events and show up to game anniversaries all the time. But when a GM shows up in games now they get harassed by players who think it's funny to do. I have seen this happen and the GM warned the player not to keep doing it or get banned. It was funny seeing that character go pop from the game.

Nharimlur_Finor · October 24

no

Is this a PvP event?

Danikat · October 24

no

I've never seen a GM run event in ESO, I don't know if they've ever done one. But in games I've played that did have them it goes one of two ways:

1) It happens as and when it's convenient for developers, so only on NA servers and in the middle of the night for Europe and Africa, meaning I've got zero chance of ever seeing it.

2) It's pre-planned and scheduled and then the event is 2/3 checking a website or social media for updates because there isn't a way to put the timing into the game and 1/3 hoping you catch the occasional glimpse of the NPCs/GM controlled characters and what's going on through the huge crowd of people all trying to be in the middle or spamming the most annoying animations they can think of (much like trying to do daily quests during the events we do get).

Either way it's a once-and-done thing so it can't be anything detailed or meaningful or have any special rewards, and anyone who isn't able to play on the GMs schedule doesn't get to join in at all.

That means for the majority of people the experience in a game with and without GM-run events is exactly the same - they never see them. For the people who do get to join in it's a more confusing and rushed version of what we already get. I understand the novelty can be amusing, but having done in a couple of times I much prefer being able to take my time playing stuff the developers were able to take time to make.

Rkindaleft · October 24

no

I've played since console release and only ever seen a GM in the game once, and that was when 2 trader guilds were at war with each other and coordinated sending 100+ people to overload the other guild's trader by repeatedly reloading the interface, and after that started hurling abuse at each other.

They pretty much don't exist in the game unless there's serious problems.

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