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Re: Where do you think all the Steam users have gone? (Wrong answers only).
I also think, they went to other games.
I see it differently. There are definitely studios in the gaming industry that are taking a different approach. And gamers celebrate that and support them. I recommend to take a look at Swen Vincke's (Larian) speech at the 2024 Game Awards.
Steam players, like players in general, have left gaming entirely, since gaming industry and culture are going insane.
I see it differently. There are definitely studios in the gaming industry that are taking a different approach. And gamers celebrate that and support them. I recommend to take a look at Swen Vincke's (Larian) speech at the 2024 Game Awards.
Tazzy
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Re: No base game update in 48?
Maybe a bit out of topic, but wanted to vent a bit regarding the stream....
While I´ve no insight who´s in charge of the showcase streams ZOS do, I´m baffled how you can spend 1,5 hour talking about literally nothing. There is maybe 15-20 min of actual content and showcase (running around in other half of Solstice doing nothing is barely worthy of being called a "showcase"). Compare to whenever the GGG developers (those who are developing Path of Exile 2) do their showcase where they spend the first 15-20 min just bombarding you with all new things that will come with the next update, AND THEN spend the rest of the stream talking about whatever and maybe a short Q&A. ZOS for sure could learn a thing or two from them when it comes to create interest and hype for upcoming patches.
For me the loss of interest with the game as of lately is how each new update adds little to nothing "new" in a sense. Same re-skinned trials with same layout/formula (3 bosses, 3 HM´s and a out of reach trifecta), dungeon DLC´s with little variety, very few to no interesting sets, Vengeance that ZOS seems to be very eager to push/force down the community´s throat despite mixed feelings on whether it´s good for the game or not (can´t wait to be right on Vengeance replacing regular PvP down the road, even though I hope I´m wrong). ZOS putting all new content on maintenance mode after it´s been implemented (looking at you battlegrounds). Like I can go on......
While I´ve no insight who´s in charge of the showcase streams ZOS do, I´m baffled how you can spend 1,5 hour talking about literally nothing. There is maybe 15-20 min of actual content and showcase (running around in other half of Solstice doing nothing is barely worthy of being called a "showcase"). Compare to whenever the GGG developers (those who are developing Path of Exile 2) do their showcase where they spend the first 15-20 min just bombarding you with all new things that will come with the next update, AND THEN spend the rest of the stream talking about whatever and maybe a short Q&A. ZOS for sure could learn a thing or two from them when it comes to create interest and hype for upcoming patches.
For me the loss of interest with the game as of lately is how each new update adds little to nothing "new" in a sense. Same re-skinned trials with same layout/formula (3 bosses, 3 HM´s and a out of reach trifecta), dungeon DLC´s with little variety, very few to no interesting sets, Vengeance that ZOS seems to be very eager to push/force down the community´s throat despite mixed feelings on whether it´s good for the game or not (can´t wait to be right on Vengeance replacing regular PvP down the road, even though I hope I´m wrong). ZOS putting all new content on maintenance mode after it´s been implemented (looking at you battlegrounds). Like I can go on......
Re: Being unable to pay directly for Crown Store items is making me lost interest in the game
CalamityCat wrote: »There have been many times I've wanted to get something but it's not available for seals and prohibitively expensive if I need to buy the crowns. I've seen a few mounts recently that look nice, but they are so overpriced I wouldn't even consider getting one. It's one thing to pay a lot for a physical item you can actually own, but these items aren't really ours when they're only accessible inside an online game.
I want to give ZOS support when they get it right and make something that looks great, but seeing things like mounts at 2,500 gems and costumes at 400 gems is infuriating. It's predatory pricing. As is hiding the price behind made-up game currencies. But players will still encourage and reward it by buying these items. So the prices are going to stay high and probably increase to whatever it takes before those players have the sense to say "no".
It also really says a lot that the 2,500 crowns price is honestly a discount compared to most of the mounts that come in at 4,000. I want to support ZOD too, but lately they've made it where not only can you not do much with crowns, everything that seems cool comes in under the gems lockdown. So I can really ONLY buy crowns in order to buy crown crates and have to roll the dice on getting items I can then "sell back" to ZOS with the bain hope of earning enough gems.
At what point will the combination of an overall drop in writing quality and increase in monetization make ZOS realize the only thing standing in their way to making this a 30-year game is their own business practices?
Re: Overland Content Feedback Thread
Honestly First Descendant does overland toggle really well, in terms of you just turn it off and on from the map. It IS instanced, so doubles the amount of locations, but there's no penalty or cost for going up and down difficulties, you just swap and travel to their version of a way shrine. Their gameplay loop is different, so they do have added rewards for doing things on hard mode, but that's because it's a looter shooter not an mmorpg. I don't think there should be any added rewards in ESO at all. The mode is being added because people want to fight harder content. It is it's own reward.
The big thing I AM seeing in this thread though is that less capable players are essentially wanting to punish more capable players. I am sure that's not the intention, but telling people they should have to pay real money to change game difficulties is wild. Trying to outcast players who are better than you (let's face it, killing it faster means they know their class/playstyle better) to different zones like Cyrodiil is such an odd take. This game is meant to be about fun. It is not "abusing the system" to want to do surveys quickly but also wanting a challenging fight when you're in the mood to play it.
Either way there are two options - they add a vet overland toggle or they don't. If they don't, it stays the same as now with mobs being stacked and slaughtered and everyone quite upset. If they do add it, there will be times this doesn't happen. It's a net gain so long as they actual servers can handle it.
Agreed. Telling players who are want more difficulty options to play Cyrodiil is extremely odd. As many of us have stated, we are advocating for choice!
Re: Where do you think all the Steam users have gone? (Wrong answers only).
Playing other games as this one has gotten boring
Ttree
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Re: Where do you think all the Steam users have gone? (Wrong answers only).
Rohamad_Ali wrote: »I don't get it because I'm on pc direct port, is there a launcher issue with steam players?
No, this section is for non-serious answers. It's just that the Steam logins is one of the more reliable metrics for measuring player populations but people tend to interpret it in unusual ways.
Re: Crown Crate Items - Need Solution for Unwanted or Undesirable
This crown crate season has been themed around nightmares and thats what it literally was for me...I got every single item I didnt want and not a single one I wanted (I got 4 times in a row the hunger polymorph....... 
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I wouldnt be surprised if the game looks at your past crown gem purchases in terms of item category or which items you preview and just gives those items lower drop probabilities...its not like other mmo companies havent done such shenanigans in the past (nexon for example)
).I wouldnt be surprised if the game looks at your past crown gem purchases in terms of item category or which items you preview and just gives those items lower drop probabilities...its not like other mmo companies havent done such shenanigans in the past (nexon for example)
Re: Crown Store NPCs - Allow Vendor Customization
The crown store NPCs are expensive for a reason.
There is nothing they can do that you can't do elsewhere for free. You're paying for the convenience of having them with you or in your home.
I doubt they will ever allow us to purchase item vendors. Its preferred that if we need those things you've mentioned here and don't want to farm them or find them ourselves then we are steered to guild traders or game npcs. Keeps gold moving.
If we had an alchemy supplier selling alchemy supplies to just us in our homes, or a chef/food seller selling us different provisions then it takes business away from guild traders/game npcs.
While it would be neat to have merchants like that - especially since some of my large properties are actually built as villages/towns, the Bank and merchant ones are all we really need.
One thing that's always been asked for is a special banker that would allow us to access our guild stores and if that ever came about it would likely be quite expensive.
An alternate idea would be to have a furnishing item, a "planter" or "pot" that maybe once every 24 hours or something actually spawns a harvestable flower. Allow so many per home (based on the size of the home) just like collector slots... Rooms at the inn would have just 1. Bigger homes more. That would be very nice and likely wouldn't spawn so many flowers as to alter the trade sales but would just be very cool and a reason to log in to go to the houses every day and harvest the blooms.
It's also been mentioned to have a fishing spot in homes with water. Or perhaps an alchemy water spot that refreshes once a day. All those kinds of things would enhance housing imo and give more of reason to have homes, decorate them and go to them on a regular basis.
There is nothing they can do that you can't do elsewhere for free. You're paying for the convenience of having them with you or in your home.
I doubt they will ever allow us to purchase item vendors. Its preferred that if we need those things you've mentioned here and don't want to farm them or find them ourselves then we are steered to guild traders or game npcs. Keeps gold moving.
If we had an alchemy supplier selling alchemy supplies to just us in our homes, or a chef/food seller selling us different provisions then it takes business away from guild traders/game npcs.
While it would be neat to have merchants like that - especially since some of my large properties are actually built as villages/towns, the Bank and merchant ones are all we really need.
One thing that's always been asked for is a special banker that would allow us to access our guild stores and if that ever came about it would likely be quite expensive.
An alternate idea would be to have a furnishing item, a "planter" or "pot" that maybe once every 24 hours or something actually spawns a harvestable flower. Allow so many per home (based on the size of the home) just like collector slots... Rooms at the inn would have just 1. Bigger homes more. That would be very nice and likely wouldn't spawn so many flowers as to alter the trade sales but would just be very cool and a reason to log in to go to the houses every day and harvest the blooms.
It's also been mentioned to have a fishing spot in homes with water. Or perhaps an alchemy water spot that refreshes once a day. All those kinds of things would enhance housing imo and give more of reason to have homes, decorate them and go to them on a regular basis.
Re: Vengeance 4 perk and loadout system livestream announcement
So I've been thinking more and more about this, and tbh I'm already in a bit of a pessimistic mood after the ESOLive, but...
The upcoming changes to Vengeance with the loadouts and perks (which are not present in any other mode) are making it clear that this is a jump from "we're testing to see how to improve Cyrodiil" to "this is going to be a brand new PvP mode." I still think they'll keep Grey Host open alongside "Cyrodiil 2.0 aka Vengeance" when it releases; it'll definitely replace the U50 Campaign and possibly Ravenwatch and/or Blackreach as well.
The thing I've been scared of myself though is... is this a tacit admission that they're giving up on balance? PvP balance, specifically, but really we're not seeing any major balance done on the PvE side either. I can totally see the new response to "please fix heal stacking" or "Rush of Agony sucks" or "ballgroups are immortal" or the like would just be "hey, you can just go play Vengeance and then you don't have to deal with it!"
Like... they did say in the ESOLive that there weren't many combat changes planned for U48, which... is a choice. So then... what has the combat team been working on for the latter half of the year, if not balancing? It looks like they've been putting 100% of their energy into making Vengeance a new mode.
Meanwhile, the balance in the game is in shambles, with pretty well one or two setups max for players depending on what style of play you're going for. Sure, if you play mostly solo, then you can take whatever meme build you want because it doesn't affect anybody. But if you play high-level PvE or PvP, then the number of acceptable builds dropped drastically. And we're supposed to now live with the combat being like this until U49 drops in March?
(Note: I know "but but but you can totally clear any content with any build!!1!!11!" But you can't clear that content without a group who is willing to allow you to run whatever build, and that's a lot harder to come by, especially after the mid-tier community all but left after U35.)
The upcoming changes to Vengeance with the loadouts and perks (which are not present in any other mode) are making it clear that this is a jump from "we're testing to see how to improve Cyrodiil" to "this is going to be a brand new PvP mode." I still think they'll keep Grey Host open alongside "Cyrodiil 2.0 aka Vengeance" when it releases; it'll definitely replace the U50 Campaign and possibly Ravenwatch and/or Blackreach as well.
The thing I've been scared of myself though is... is this a tacit admission that they're giving up on balance? PvP balance, specifically, but really we're not seeing any major balance done on the PvE side either. I can totally see the new response to "please fix heal stacking" or "Rush of Agony sucks" or "ballgroups are immortal" or the like would just be "hey, you can just go play Vengeance and then you don't have to deal with it!"
Like... they did say in the ESOLive that there weren't many combat changes planned for U48, which... is a choice. So then... what has the combat team been working on for the latter half of the year, if not balancing? It looks like they've been putting 100% of their energy into making Vengeance a new mode.
Meanwhile, the balance in the game is in shambles, with pretty well one or two setups max for players depending on what style of play you're going for. Sure, if you play mostly solo, then you can take whatever meme build you want because it doesn't affect anybody. But if you play high-level PvE or PvP, then the number of acceptable builds dropped drastically. And we're supposed to now live with the combat being like this until U49 drops in March?
(Note: I know "but but but you can totally clear any content with any build!!1!!11!" But you can't clear that content without a group who is willing to allow you to run whatever build, and that's a lot harder to come by, especially after the mid-tier community all but left after U35.)
Re: a, so to say "leave me alone" mode for peole, have to go to cyro or the IC woulb be nice
I don’t PvP very much at all. When I go into a PvP zone it’s usually to accomplish something else, like collecting skyshards. But I like the zones the way they are with the risk that being in a PvP zone entails. It just makes it more exciting for me. Those times I do get caught and don’t escape and get killed, it’s just not a big deal, a minor inconvenience, not permadeath. If it was I’d never risk going there to begin with.
