Ei8htba11 wrote: »

Cooperharley wrote: »

...What's the point of investing in a game that's heading downhill knowing it may be wasted? Would you invest in a stock that's been progressively going down and down in value knowing the people in charge are steering the ship in that direction? No you wouldn't. You'd invest elsewhere.

That's the slippery slope we seem to be facing. Less engagement means less profit, resulting in less investment by the company.

If that's how this all plays out - then fine, it's on them. They've had a decade of feedback and funding from players. During that time, we've had countless unwanted changes, PR fiascos, streamers pushed away, class rep programs ended, and countless bugs and performance issues. All packaged with lacking communication, until this year.

They want to fund the fixes now - cool, go ask Microsoft for funding. I don't fault anyone for saying, "I'm not spending a dime until things are better". Personally speaking, I've played the game for almost a decade, and I'm not confident that our revenue is being used wisely or towards projects I would enjoy. Increasingly thin releases and increased monetization don't exactly invite me to keep spending. If they're worried about engagement - which they should be - then decouple marketing just a little and focus on the lacking rewards. I don't see that happening.

2026 is their year to fund their own improvements and show us they can truly listen. If 2026 somehow proves to be better than the last few years, I'll return and be the big spender I once was. If it's another year where the season pass is just quests in existing zones, and the main content throughout the year is events, then I'll play the bare minimum, if at all. If it's a year where they don't pace changes based on PTS feedback, then that slippery slope's going to accelerate.

Yudo wrote: »

Top Bugs/Issues
Bug 1: Stuck in combat.
Bug 2: Light attacks getting suck and not firing, more specifically Overload getting stuck on sorcerers when nearby players use toggle abilities.

Top Pain Points
Pain Point 1: Poor performance, especially during peak time in pvp. Lag, rubber banding, skills not firing, disconnects, cannot get through doors, re-enter long queues etc.
Pain Point 2: Major struggle with identity and fitting archetypes due to hybridisation. Build meta is as narrow as it can get. Why must i go medium armor with melee weapons for best performance on a mage, as an example? At the same time many race/class passives no longer make sense or are unique.
Pain Point 3: Tank/heal meta in pvp. The concept of stacking heals and building very tanky but yet be able to punish hard is getting out of hand. No matter if if it is solo, small scale or in ball groups.
Pain Point 4: Sorcerer lightning form ghostly animation. It should not cover outfit and character should not become transparent.
Pain Point 5: cannot hide guild tabards. It should not cover outfit.

My top list has changed since 8 months ago:

Top Bugs/Issues
Bug 1: Imbue weapon and morphs have animation delays since animation changes. Weave animation out of sync.
Bug 2: Light attacks getting suck and not firing, more specifically Overload getting stuck on sorcerers when nearby players use toggle abilities.
Bug 3: Stuck in combat.

Top Pain Points
Pain Point 1: Pure class gap VS subclassing, and power gab between certain skill lines resulting in an extreme narrow meta.
Pain Point 2: Major struggle with identity and fitting archetypes due to hybridisation. Why must i go medium armor with melee weapons for best performance on a mage, as an example? At the same time many race/class passives no longer make sense or are unique.
Pain Point 3: Poor performance, especially during peak time in pvp. Lag, rubber banding, skills not firing, disconnects, cannot get through doors, re-enter long queues etc.
Pain Point 4: Tank/heal meta in pvp. The concept of stacking heals and building very tanky but yet be able to punish hard is getting out of hand. No matter if if it is solo, small scale or in ball groups.

CoronHR wrote: »

not a problem ... a solution. one of those bankers is rude!

Yeah, the one being blocked is the one I never use, for that reason.

The mammoth is doing everyone a favor!

Ragnarok0130 wrote: »

whitecrow wrote: »

I haven't cancelled, but that doesn't mean I'm really happy with the game.

ZOS only pays attention to money so if you're not happy with the game the best thing that you can do is cancel your sub since that gets their attention when it happens en masse.

No subscription makes my gameplay unpleasant and annoying. I signal my unhappiness by not purchasing any new content and waiting for it to be included in the subscription.

"Artisian0001 wrote:

What are these random out of touch arguments from people on the forums? Do you guys actually even PvP? Your metric for super serious PvPs includes IC players, vengeance players, and BG players? What? IC has almost no population and is generally used for farming telvar for currency. Vengeance is for those that strictly do not want competition and higher skilled gameplay, but only a numbers fight. BGs are also lacking in population because there is no real leaderboard based on win percentage, solely on time played. The best PvP players are without a shadow of a doubt, those who play in current GH and try to fight equal or greater numbers than those they currently have in their group. The "super serious" ones are the ones that make comps and builds for every single person in their group to be optimized so they can fight as many people as they can. Not randoms running around in IC to fight mobs. Good players will pop in every now and then to try and find a fight, but they are few and far between.

So if you want to test your pvp build, where do you go? Into the time sink of horse-riding Cyrodiil? Of course not. Serious PvPers test their builds in smaller scale settings so they can iterate quickly. BGs are no CP and have a slightly different meta than CP enabled places, but otherwise yes, the better players are found dueling there. Otherwise, let me know why there are so many rank 50 Grand Overlords that crumple to a forum-going PvE carebear in Venegance.

Maybe back in 2018 when the population was higher and there was actual competition and strategy in Cyrodiil, I'd believe that CP Cyro required skill of the chess kind. Zone chat was full of spies and people calling out plays and doing psychological mind games and whatnot. But nowadays, the population caps are low and it's mostly ball groups fighting zergs and waiting for some other ball group to contest them, and they're dueling for 10 minutes with no one dying. I suppose these GvG need to be pre-arranged in Discord nowadays with exclusive signups like vet trials. So fun.

There is no reason for players to know the numbers, and we shouldn't know them.

Also, appearance is everything. If a campaign is pop locked, that doesn't mean players are actively fighting in PvP. They could be fishing, doing dolmens, doing delves, doing town quests, or checking the golden vendor for all we know. Which makes numbers useless.

Bars are better for a general knowing for amounts of players per alliance, as these do not prevent players from entering PvP for any irrational numerical 'reason' players minds can come up with.

PS: Screaming(repeatedly posting) either vengeance or grey host is dead does not make it so, despite some players on the forums trying to state this as fact. If they really are dead, ZOS will probably handle this in their own way anyways.

It's a random encounter that was introduced with Greymoor.