Looking forward to the January reveal!

I like that they plan to tell us about the next several seasons instead of just one next thing.

I do so enjoy playing ESO, and I hope to see and hear about some things that will interest me longer term.

awesome!

i am looking forward to the 2026 Reveal livestream on January 7. happy to see that it will be right after New Life Festival.
Excited to hear about the first Seasons and other upcoming things.

So the end of year letter was...we got something so cool for you guys. Just wait and see. We can't talk about it now but you just wait and see. Lol.

Credit where credit is due. Your communication is improved. The leadership team feels excited in a way the last team didn't. It feels more real. The first letter wasn't self congratulatory back patting. None of it was and I can respect that. I will say I'm excited for what you have for us on the 7th. This is a make or break time and the tone of those letters convey that. It gives me hope.

Edited for tone.

So the Chapters got replaced by a Season Pass, the Season Pass then was renamed to Content Pass, just to be replaced by seasons again?

Recently, all the bugs feel off-putting. It's hard to be confident about next year seeing this development.

Really appreciate the transparency we've been getting lately, communication is definitely better now and I hope to see more of that.

Looking forward to what we've got ahead for next year.

Pretty sure they stopped having GMs since around 2016. At least that's the furthest back I could find evidence of any.

Mine happened over a period of the last couple of years, I think. It wasn't just one thing. It was a culmination of frustrations that finally added up to me being more frustrated with the game than enjoying it.

I have limited play time each day and sometimes none at all, so I need to get the most "bang for my buck" for this hobby.

Brief list:
1. Quest writing went downhill. Questing was my favorite thing to do. Loved the stories, main and side quests. Some got me emotional, some made me laugh, some were disturbing, etc. Somewhere around High Isle, maybe even starting in Blackwood, my interest in the quests started waning. I was no longer engaged in most stories. I didn't even finish High Isle. Bought Necrom on sale but never even started it. Didn't bother buying Gold Road and have no plans to even on sale at this point.
2. Bad RNG for aspects of the game I enjoyed, creating a need for grinding (housing recipes, mats), artifact hunting. Limited play time means grinding with bad RNG means I was rarely getting anything I was after.
3. Crown store prices, good stuff in crown crates (used to buy them, learned my lesson and stopped).
4. FOMO tactics.
5. Rewards never felt rewarding. I never got excited about finishing a quest because I knew it would just be a handful of change and a piece of gear I would either vendor or turn into mats if I felt like breaking them down, but I even got to the point of not bothering to do that because there was no point in crafting after a while. Vendor prices are terrible, too.
6. Loud, bright, blinding mounts. I just don't enjoy seeing them or hearing them, and it takes away from the environment/atmosphere of the game that I enjoyed at one point when there was a bit more realism (as much realism as a fake pixel world can have, anyway). Would have just hung out in my house to avoid them, but couldn't afford the crown store house prices, furniture prices, and couldn't make the furniture I wanted because I couldn't get the recipe or certain mats were too hard to come by. Sigh.

I switched to single-player games, and I'm enjoying myself and relaxing as I game because I feel like I'm actually progressing and getting rewarded for the things I do even when I don't have a lot of time to play. There is no store shoved in my face with expensive items. Housing is fun because I'm not having to spend tons of real money, and there is not an endless grind hoping to get something related to housing. There is no unreasonable housing item limit. Nothing is locked behind content I don't enjoy. There is no FOMO going on. RNG may be present, but I haven't felt "hopeless" like I do in ESO because I can get what I need/want in a reasonable amount of time.

It might just be that MMOs are no longer my thing, which I guess I'm okay with as I was never a group player kind of person, but I have always enjoyed the constant background with other people and enjoyed fighting world bosses with other people (and then going on our way to do our own thing), and there are some aspects of MMOs you just can't get in single-player games.

I don't really know what would bring me back, if anything. Even if they turn some of my frustrations around and change or introduce things I would enjoy, sometimes it's just too late.

Syldras wrote: »

There's an official thread about that now:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/686591/known-translation-issue-with-new-life-festival-quests
No fix until January, while the event ends on the 6th.
All languages seem to be affected.

What a joke, this game is reaching an insane level of mediocrity...

Orbital78 wrote: »

They exist, you could have one right next to you and not know it because they don't always have a character model. With the staffing cuts, I'm guessing there are less of them around now though. There must be some around to investigate reports though, probably heavily understaffed vs the report spams.

There's really no need for this kind of thing anymore. You can log in to a terminal, execute commands from a menu, and read various logs without ever touching the game. And it's faster, easier, and less prone to issues both internal and public. The only reason in-game avatars were ever a thing is because way back in the day guys like Richard Garriott loved playing their own game so much that they wanted to actually be a part of it.