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Re: Grim Focus Permaglow
Now werewolf gets the same treatment, lucky me with a Werewolf Nightblade.
Seems ZOS took the wrong lesson from the hype around GW2 and instead of the many things that are done better over there, they implement the things that are worse: bland linear story with no personal agenda and over the top gaudy graphic effects.
Seems ZOS took the wrong lesson from the hype around GW2 and instead of the many things that are done better over there, they implement the things that are worse: bland linear story with no personal agenda and over the top gaudy graphic effects.
Toanis
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Re: U50 PTS: Feedback for new Weekly Tome Challenges
The "Challenges" portion of Tamriel Tomes is an abject failure. It smacks of a game designer that has no clue how players actually interact and engage with the game. These are lowest common denominator chore lists meant to waste players' time. There is nothing interesting or compelling here and the value proposition of time versus reward is virtually non-existent.
The entire Tome Points system needs to be completely revamped to reward players for "playing the game." Whether that is through XP earned, activities completed, or some other metric that actually reflects how people actually engage with the game, players should be rewarded for playing the game the way they want to play, not with a grindy chore list that takes them away from the things they'd rather be doing.
What difference does it make to Zos if a player is running quests or dungeons versus being compelled to track down and open 30 Safeboxes? Forcing a player to do something they don't want to do by dangling a reward over their head is a good way to lose player engagement. A player should earn Tome Points simply by playing the game the way that they choose to, and engaging with the content that they find interesting and fun.
This is not the way forward, and personally, while I will continue to play the game, I will not be spending a single cent on it until this progression system is reimagined and corrected to be something that is not an uninspired and lazy chore list.
The entire Tome Points system needs to be completely revamped to reward players for "playing the game." Whether that is through XP earned, activities completed, or some other metric that actually reflects how people actually engage with the game, players should be rewarded for playing the game the way they want to play, not with a grindy chore list that takes them away from the things they'd rather be doing.
What difference does it make to Zos if a player is running quests or dungeons versus being compelled to track down and open 30 Safeboxes? Forcing a player to do something they don't want to do by dangling a reward over their head is a good way to lose player engagement. A player should earn Tome Points simply by playing the game the way that they choose to, and engaging with the content that they find interesting and fun.
This is not the way forward, and personally, while I will continue to play the game, I will not be spending a single cent on it until this progression system is reimagined and corrected to be something that is not an uninspired and lazy chore list.
Re: Cannot buy the premium+bonus tome?
UPDATE for Steam users:
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Success!
However, I had to circumvent actually using Steam, heh. Rather, I launched the game directly from eso64.exe rather than opening it like normal through Steam. It will bring up the login splash screen but you must supply your own login credentials manually.
The path on Windows is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client
From there, the Tome UI Upgrade button worked responsively and did the deed.
This is what I would consider to be a WORKAROUND, however. And the process should 100% be cleaned-up so that you can buy it from Steam directly like Crowns and the old Chapters, etc..
Re: AI Written Posts
It would add more work for the moderators, and people would scream if posts they wrote themselves were removed in error.
Having said that, when I come across a post that's clearly AI, I just skip it (if it's the OP, I skip the thread).
Having said that, when I come across a post that's clearly AI, I just skip it (if it's the OP, I skip the thread).
AzuraFan
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Re: PC Community Concerns About Cross Play
This post perfectly describes why console gamers can't respect PC players. I don't even know how this post is still up when it's blatant harassment.
Re: Welcome to the Elder Lazer Beams Online
The beam meta is only the tip of the iceberg. For those who truly loved ESO becouse of the gameplay and the progression mentality this game is no longer what is used to be and hardly it will get back at that level. The devs wanted a game more acessible to everyone many years ago (about 5 years ago iirc) and literally destroyed progressively the APM ability required for achieve many endgame content introducing 1 bar builds with oakensoul, buffing HA builds, nerfing LA and mechanics, giving broken sets and finally introducing Arcanist since ppl whining for years becouse couldnt achieve content.
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it is a fact that you can't expose thoughts in the forum that are against ZOS buisness plans and that point out facts about a big majority of players in this game that are acting the part that ZOS wants, my comments will get edited all the time becouse you cant expose what is going on in this game and the infantilism of the majority.
I’ll continue to play whichever way suits me and so will the rest of us.
Taarente
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Re: Returning Player - New Content Structure
There isn't any new content yet. We're going to get a temporary "event zone", like a festival with its own map, soon. Some time after that we're going to get a quest chain, which I think will be permanent. But no new zones or dungeons or big story arcs have been announced, just little bits and pieces occasionally.
Danikat
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Re: A poll about crossplay
DenverRalphy wrote: »DenverRalphy wrote: »Votes Yes with concerns. Bottom line, the game needs players to remain alive.frogthroat wrote: »Yes, this will most likely be in the beginning. Markets will find equilibrium eventually and people will mix.SilverBride wrote: »
- The economies are too different.
A really good point. My guess is they will increase the amount of merchants throughout Tamriel.SilverBride wrote: »
- There will not be enough merchants for all the trade guilds.
The two items are tied together. Some trading guilds will most likely shut down for various reasons. One being there is more competition with more trading guilds. Players will migrate to the more active trade guilds, leading to upheaval. A new normal will emerge, which some players will not like as change scares a lot of people.
You make it sound like all those "more active trade guilds" have a surplus of empty member slots open to accommodate the hordes of players who's guilds fold up.
Or that it's simply okay and natural for all those players who've invested years building up their guilds and camaraderie to just dissolve for assimilation into the master race guilds.
If there is that much invested and camaraderie in a guild, that guild should be fine. Also, notice I didn't say whether it's PC or console guilds. When crossplay happens, there will be guilds on all platforms that will have some strain on players migrating between guilds folding for lack of funds, etc. This is a natural occurrence. Those guilds with strong bonds normally remain in place.
The obscene disparity between PC and Console economies will all but guarantee consoles would be the big loser here. Those guilds will most definitely not be fine. The game's guild structure is built in such a manner that no strength of bond can survive the fallout.
This is my main concern. What I personally think should happen is that we all stay in our separate worlds when it comes to things like vendors. When you walk up to the guy in Alinor, on PSNA, you're looking at a psna trader. Keep the economy separate. I don't think anyone is asking for that to merge, I hope. That is a ridiculous thing that would unduly harm console.
End of the day, unfortunately we're all left with more questions then answers. I would guess Zos probably doesn't have the answers yet either. Prediction. Cross play is used as a carrot and scapegoat by the devs over the next couple years. We're so close. Just a little more time. Then we stop hearing about it.
Re: A poll about crossplay
frogthroat wrote: »Yes, this will most likely be in the beginning. Markets will find equilibrium eventually and people will mix.SilverBride wrote: »
- The economies are too different.
Bigger difference than with people playing on EU servers, with dozens of nationalities and cultures? And these people shouldn't mix?SilverBride wrote: »
- The societal norms are too different.
Of course there will be an adjustment period, but don't underestimate people. We get along on the EU server just fine, although we have a myriad of cultures mixing. Mixing PC and consoles is not going to be that big of a deal.Yup. That is a task for the dev team, not us.SilverBride wrote: »
- Duplicate User IDs and names will have to be dealt with.
Yup. That is a task for the dev team, not us.SilverBride wrote: »
- Duplicate guild names will have to be dealt with.
A really good point. My guess is they will increase the amount of merchants throughout Tamriel.SilverBride wrote: »[*] There will not be enough merchants for all the trade guilds.
That last one is a puzzler to me.
Bids for traders are already crazy on PC (vs the 'weekly returns') to the point that many of us haven't traded 'for profit' for a long, long time; we trade to be able to finance the trader with the proceedings.
I have no reason to believe that console trading guilds are not at the very least as competitive as PC ones, if not more due to the fact that they had to conduct their business for most of their 'lives' without any addons (which requires serious dedication).
Unless some sorcery takes place with crossplay when it comes to trading guilds 'shark infested waters' is not going to come even close to the carnage that is going to be unleashed.
Console trading guilds are not equipped to compete with PC trading guilds. You have too much of a head start on average war chest money for bids.
I clearly remember the kerfuffle here on the forums a few years ago when someone took over Rawl’kha with joke guilds. The regular traders there posted screenshots of their losing bids, averaging around 50 million+ per trader.
Mournhold is considered our biggest, most expensive capital on PS NA. Those PC bids are roughly 25-30 million more than our average winning bids there. I imagine XBox is in a similar situation as our price checkers more closely match than comparing PC vs console TTC listing prices.
Console trading guilds will be annihilated in time if something to counter-balance isn’t done. And my guild, personally, is donation-based and doesn’t try to compete for the big capitals, and we will likely die in the domino effect of capital guilds losing their primary bids and “over-bidding” on lower backup positions.
My guild has camaraderie, yes. But our primary focus is trading. Take that away and, well, only so many people want or need a plethora of “social” guilds, which is the wasteland console guilds will become with crossplay if it’s just a merging of all platforms together.
Personally, I’m planning to retire from the trading guild game altogether if that’s how it’s all gonna go down. What hope would I have of competing and winning a trader vs 50 million+ gold PC guild bids? I can barely keep up the current fundraising I have to be competitive on console.
It’s pitting an NFL team against a high school varsity team.
Re: A poll about crossplay
frogthroat wrote: »I doubt they are merging any accounts. If you buy ESO on PS, you'd still have to play on PS, you wouldn't be able to play on just any platform.tomofhyrule wrote: »The only solution that would be acceptable for both parties would be for ZOS to remove the requirement that every character name on the server be unique.
So another solution for this would be to have a platform flag in your profile. Unique names per server per platform. This flag is probably going to be implemented anyway, maybe visible to the players, maybe not. But at least under the hood, there will be something like this. They could take advantage of this flag.
For guilds that would be a more difficult thing since guilds are not user account dependent and will become multiplatform on the very second crossplay goes live.
we should actually be able to play on any platform with Crossplay as ZOS has confirmed Cross Progression.
Oh, that is going to pose some issues for the dev team. But there are ways to do this. There are a million ways to implement unique identifiers, visible or invisible to the user.
