ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

SpiritofESO wrote: »

I think my only question about the new Season Zero is whether or not we will see new zones added to the current map. The current world map is large but it's always nice to have a new Zone to explore.

You will see more zones added to the map overtime. With all of the changes and trying out the event zone, it was not realistic to have a zone added this year. But more will be added overtime.

Personally I think no new zone (and I mean I a 'real' zone full with tons of new assets/music/stories and not reused stuff) IN ADDITION with no new dungeons for at least a whole year is a terrible combination. If it was either of them I would be okay with it.

That said, I am on ESO hiatus this year until that new content that I enjoy get added to the game again. My backlog and replay list is finally shrinking.

Well, Dreams-in-Scenes could be read as a caricature, that's certainly a feasible way to interpret this Argonian's character design.

Though honestly it does feel a bit too exaggerated perhaps? The way she's so self-satisfied and thinking of herself as oh so smart, talented and progressive, that she never even questions whether some of her ideas might not be correct and whether the public would even find her visions interesting, feels a bit crass.

She also grossly ignores (or isn't capable of realizing) how respectless her behaviour is - the way she only accepts one specific idea about "how things should be" and forces it upon everyone else. Thinking more about it, what does Dreams-in-Scenes not disrepect?

She disrepects the work and the original playwright of that traditional Heart's Day play Polydor and Eloisa by basically just using the play's name (and its characters and maybe the vague setting), but then making the whole thing about per personal ideas and messages. She even disregards the main message and meaning of that play that the original author had intended, by giving that tragic love story a happy ending.

She also disrespects the audience by infantilizing them, labelling them (or at least "the commoners") as too dumb not only to understand a more complicated play that touches upon more than just "Hero does heroic stuff, happy end", but also as incapable of knowing for themselves what they enjoy and want to see. And if the audience criticizes her work, she even goes so far as insulting them.

Personally, I'm also reminded a bit of what we've seen in human history, in past eras, where the "commoners" were deliberately kept dumb. Keeping away more complicated things from them also means taking away their opportunity to grow and learn, after all. Of course often masqueraded as some kind of care (which is paternalistic by itself, but criticism of that wasn't a concept yet some hundred years ago).

Add to that how Dreams-in-Scenes is completely uninterested in learning and improving (that's what constructive criticism is about after all - any respectable artist would welcome it), or even just hearing different ideas and opinions...

But I do wonder: Why? Why present such an obnoxious character to us, as part of a love-related celebration of all things? Now, I know the saying "everything has a purpose, even if it's just to serve as a negative example" - but I still don't really see why an example for completely talentless and self-centered theatre director is presented to us? What purpose does it serve? Just flavor for the world of Nirn? Or some message like "We know the criticism about and the flaws of today's common movie and game writing and we're on your side"? Rather than an unlikeable npc who impersonates all that's wrong with "modern writing" as a silly caricature, I'd rather see a counterconcept to that type of writing being reflected throughout the game.

It's interesting to see other players' reactions to the end of endeavors. I've never felt FOMO over any of it, so if I didn't feel like logging in or doing endeavors, I'd just skip it on that day or week. It was nice to know it was there to be done if I felt like it, though.

I hope the new system is equally satisfying. A post on another thread has me worrying there might be some micromanaging involved with tome points though, with claiming points versus accumulating them for unlocking pages or something. It's all very confusing at this stage.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

Ahhh. That's why. PvP ...
@Vulkunne Sorry, but if you make general statement and only mean a specific sub section of this game, that is of minor importance, you are unintentionally misleading.
If you had started with: "Actually, I think NB is in a pretty good place as it exists today, in PVP.", we could've spared ourselves a misunderstanding. 😊

But this is a crucial point, nonetheless. What about the impact on PvP, when Nightblades are more balanced and Assassination is more of an option and less of a necessity? Will gankblades survive? Will invisibility be an option or a meme? And most importantly (to me), what about ranged playstyles?

I don't really care for improvements in animation, as long as the math sticks.

All of these are good points, and it is my hope this will be a slow and progressive process so there is less overhead to get patched later.

It was SO COOL gliding in my magic carpet in GW2

But I doubt it would be useful in ESO considering the ever-increasing number of invisible walls blocking paths.

It made things a bit faster yesterday.

Didn't need to log in to my alt account on PCNA. (The free Epic account.)
Didn't need to log in to my alt account on PCEU. (The free Epic account.)
Didn't need to log in to PCNA on my main account.
Could just log in to PCEU on my main account, open a box of Rewards of the Worthy, then log in to the character I wanted to play.

Reduced my need for logins by 3/4.

However, when daily login rewards are coming from the battle pass, it might be that after its implementation I need to play more on my alt accounts. Not daily, but actually play a bit.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I admit that Endeavors nudged me into doing things I don’t normally plan to do and it was sort of a good thing, going to places I hadn’t been to in a while and doing activities that I hadn’t done in a long while. I’m finishing lunch right now, normally I would then log back in to do Endeavors but now I don’t need to do so. It’s nice to not feel like I have to do them, but is that good for the long term health of the game? More players not logging in every day means they can get used to playing other games and doing other things. It could lower the daily population and make group activities like dungeons, trials, and Cyrodiil harder to complete or even get engaged in. We are sort of struggling in those areas on console now anyway.

PC here, but I agree with your comments.

I'll still be logging in daily to play ESO-- I do try to collect the daily hireling mails on my alts, I do daily crafting writs on my main PCNA and PCEU characters, and I enjoy playing three matches against the expert NPCs for the ToT dailies. There are also the daily delve and boss zone quests, although I usually don't do any of those unless I'm trying to collect specific motif pages or just feel like doing a boss fight that I happen to enjoy. And I try to check my available Antiquity leads every day or two for any that are due to expire within the week. Plus, my two newest alts are still researching crafting traits.

But like you, I also made use of the daily endeavors as a way of nudging myself into doing certain activities that I enjoy but that I wasn't generally doing all that often anymore. I'm thinking of setting up a spinning wheel "random picker" with all of the activities I enjoy doing in the game, so I can spin it whenever I'm playing and need help deciding what to do next.

Aside from that, I'll probably be spending a lot more time in Cyrodiil and the Imperial City (mainly the Sewers), and taking the time to get back into questing through the zones I haven't completed yet on my various characters, or working on rounding out their skill trees. So I'm definitely not at a loss for ways to fill up my time in the game.

We shall see how it all plays out in the next year I suppose. I just think those of us on console (don’t know about PC) have been hit hard by the trader listing changes and that has shut down many large trading guilds, Cyrodiil is plagued by the Warden Charm Rush of Agony meta and population is low on GH for DC, and trials are struggling to find players because many don’t want the arcanist/nightblade/whatever required build for dps. One more reason not to log in could be bad for us.

but is a "chore" and feeling forced to log on a good thing? If thats the only reason for logging on, I feel like you are due for a break no?

I am excited to do things when I log on, non chore things. And this ball and chain being removed, means more time for things I actually want to do