If this was the last event ever I might agree, but there will be more.
And I can't remember the last time I played IA, gets boring, where once again all you need is the right build.

Not the first time the "big community effort" events have had limited time rewards to not make a return.

I get the point being made, but asking for more stuff like IA that is so boring is also not the answer

They want snapshot numbers. If game population plummets immediately after, that doesn't matter as long as they peaked high enough with the FoMO model to give them something to show the higherups that don't know about video games and won't look any deeper. FoMO has worked for them so far, why not lean into it even harder?

This is just my guess, but I think the one-time limited part of this event has been in planning for a very long time, longer than all the layoffs and shifts in focus occurred. Although I understand and somewhat agree with the OP, I’m fine with something limited like this just as long as it’s rare.

I had taken a break from WoW when they did their Scarab Gate one-time event thing, heard about it after the fact, and have remembered missing that ever since, creating a negative memory associated with that game. And now DCUO has switched to CONSTANT limited-time events for every event in an awful format that really makes you have to sign in and do multiple activities almost every day of the event or pay their version of crowns for every day you miss that irritates me to no end and makes me play that game less.

IA was just an example to underline the principle not the specific content.. and saying it got boring after months and months of use vs a 2 week only event kinda underlines this as well...

Just always keep in mind how much dev time such an event takes vs how long you get content out of it.

If i can have such a one time event a year that disappears after a week and i need to be lucky to be around to enjoy that one time vs a persistent zone (or system) that is twice as large and i can engage x months later with various characters i much rather have the later...

Stamicka wrote: »

Yea ZOS put themselves in a really difficult position. For years and years they've been doing everything they can to get more new players and to keep the solo casuals happy. They keep the majority of the game extremely easy, water down the combat, focus mostly on zone releases, and put a lot of emphasis on events.

This, I think, is a major factor that a lot of people want to ignore.

Sure, we all know about the standard “but but but SteamCharts aren’t everything!” argument regarding the population, but we can definitely see the trend there of a spike after a release and then a slow decline until the next thing releases. ESO very much is seasonal and not constant. Heck, even many of ESO’s StreamTeam is either no longer creating content (at least for ESO - a lot of them are playing GW2 right now) or the content they do create is mostly along the lines of “ESO is cooked!!!1!!11!”

That does mean that if ESO wants to survive, it needs more. More zones. More quests. More events. More things that’ll just end up burning out the population until they get fed up and leave.
And we already see that for all of the forum arguments of “just give us a patch with only bugfixes and quality-of-life stuff instead of new things!” that just doesn’t really work. They’ve done that twice already, and the fact that nobody remembers the Q3 patch for the two previous years was just that shows how important those patches are.

And as you said, the removal of individual achievements and the complete homogenization of character builds due to things like hybridization and Subclassing are making things a lot less interesting for vet players. Like for example, I have finished every 4-man achievement in the game, so what should I do with my dungeon group until we get more? And a lot of vets are saying similar things. So once we get what we need, now what? Are we expected to just leave the game until the next patch? Seriously, even the daily login rewards have been giant nothing burgers the past two months.

ZOS is between a rock and a hard place right now. The balance is a disaster and is actively pushing vets away, and instead of addressing it, the Combat Team is hard-focusing their “PvP for PvErs” mode and the devs are hoping that this FOMO event will get enough casual players to grind dailies and carry the game until New Life.

I really hope ZOS tries to get vets back, but a lot of the comments that many of the devs have made really make it feel like ESO is less of “an MMO that allows you to play solo content” and more of “a solo experience that you can share with friends if you choose, assuming you don’t mind people shining lasers in your face in your medieval-ish fantasy world.”

And the worst part: it’s not like there has to be a conflict. There are things they could add that multiple groups of players could enjoy, like Classes: RPers can make a new character, casuals get to play with mixing and matching new skills, vets get more to theorycraft with, PvPers get new enemy tactics to fight against, and the like.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

The balance is a disaster and is actively pushing vets away, and instead of addressing it, the Combat Team is hard-focusing their “PvP for PvErs” mode and the devs are hoping that this FOMO event will get enough casual players to grind dailies and carry the game until New Life.

I feel this so much.

Also there are just so many little things going wrong with the game right now. Sweepers and Reapers practically non-existent. Known bugged companion and achievements quests not being fixed. Animals half in rocks, walking under water. Like after the maintenance the overworld shifted by the animal paths did not shift with it. So many things.

tldr - fighting a wall is meh

I missed the last Jubilee event so I didn't get the cake, I literally have all the cakes but the last one. Almost made me want to quit.