Frayton wrote: »

Rev Rielle wrote: »

The official information delivered in this forum post by development, also was - and still is - there on all our launchers, visible to everyone each time they start playing the game.

Not everyone uses the launcher. An in game announcement or notice about major changes would be nice.

And consoles don't have a launcher option at all.
Right now, the only thing under Announcements is the Deathmatch Weekend.
For Endeavors, all we see on console is "There are currently no Daily|Weekly Endeavors available. Please check back again later."
Same for Daily rewards: "Daily rewards are currently unavailable. Please check again later."

Nothing about the new systems, Tomes, Trade Bars, the fill-in Golden Pursuit, or that no, in fact, daily rewards and endeavors AREN'T coming back in their current forms.

People who know from the forums or Reddit have been telling other people what's up in guild and zone chat, but there is still a LOT of confusion on PS-NA.

@ZOS_Kevin, please pass on to the devs that we need a better way, IN GAME, to learn about these things. As others have said, Announcements are *right there.* I would argue this change is much more important than the deathmatch weekend.

The forums and Reddit are not a suitable substitute.

Why is it that game developers must do their best to ruin some good elements of a game. Liked the Daily rewards and the ability to get some items that weren't always available in game. Oh well there are other games out there.

Elvenheart wrote: »

Congratulations on collecting all of those seals! I was moving along the same path of holding onto seals in the beginning, but then I finally started spending them and have bought several fun things I otherwise would not have gotten over the years so I love the program!

I do have to ask, how could you not have been tempted by this?? 😊

That ridiculously wonderful mount is what I have been diligently saving my Seals for. LOL I need alllll the Senche-Raht mounts! And so far only missing that one, that I can think of.

I have enough Seals now. Just waiting for those crates to return…

I like these new changes. It's as many have said, a lot of people are not able to log in every day. Work, snowstorm, a death in the family ect, this way people are still able to receive their rewards if they aren't able to get on.
While some may not agree with me, I feel that the season pass is reasonably priced (the base level is free). No one is obligated to purchase the higher tier if they do not wish. That's on the player.
Some of the changes they are making are not easy and take a lot of time. The fact that they are trying to generate revenue is a good thing, it means the game will still be around moving forward. Also many of the changes people are asking for do cost money and it would be unrealistic to have such large scale changes without having more resources financially. This is true of any business.
@Zos The new communication is a very nice thing and I again commend the people who bravely put themselves before the public to further advance and improve this game. It is evident that you guys care as much about it as we do and that needs to be recognized. I will also add that you have convinced a lot of people who may have otherwise left the game to stay. Even if it seems like you don't hear from them, it's a very real thing. I look forward to the future of the game and will be there with my guildies to support you in your efforts

Not announced in-game
To the forums I must look
to learn about this.

@MoonPile Solstice RNG-sus just hates us all

Vitrified Soul Crystal leads have dropped for me from the Solstice Siege Camp bosses, camp loot chests, and worm cultists. But since the Writing Wall Event ended, I refuse to do another camp. Normally, overland chests try to give me Stone-Nest Pendulum and Giant Crocodile Skull leads. So it was a pleasant surprise to get leads for something else from normal, overland chests.

I used to think parsing was useless/toxic/etc. What changed my mind was trying to teach someone to parse who wasn't very good at the game, because they couldn't learn systems very well.

As in, "gaming the trial dummy" is a system that has to be learned. People have mentioned in passing things like using parsing food, or Highland Sentinel. Learning to get the highest numbers on the dummy with prebuffing, tricks, and strats is part of the point. Can I learn this system? Can I research it? Can I learn that I need different food, different morphs, different sets, and to take off my healing/buff skills? Am I willing to put in the time?

If yes, good parse, maybe a pretty good trial teammate and someone a raid lead can be confident is willing to learn and improve. If not, then I'm probably not a good choice for hard content.

THEN I can get to building the muscle memory, perfecting rotation, knowing to cast my beam right after I cast Incap Strike, etc.

Maybe this falls into the "all this should be obvious" category. It wasn't to me.

This game is a paid premium experience, yet every single thing is monetized. [snip] The crafting bag should be a feature for every single player, yet it is imprisoned inside ESo plus. Everyone knows ESO plus is worthless without crafting bag. Just for inventory access you need to pay a sub fee is absurd.

These type of monetization is extremely predatory and a complete invasion of player freedom.

New players will immediately go away after getting to know this, stop this and provide Crafting Bag to all people who owns this game.

If you want your game to grow provide crafting bag to all, else stay with you ageing audience and stunt your growth.
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