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Re: ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!
I really enjoyed this stream. They delivered a lot of information in a very clear manner, and I really like the format for this style of stream, which I believe they called "dev chat." Kira did a great job!
Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely considering more streams like this in the future
Re: Sage‘s Vault: let‘s speculate what it could be
That sounds more like content than a system. They definitely said it was a system.
So to clarify a bit: it’s a new type of content that uses a specific system for how it works and that part is new. I know that’s still a little vague, heh. We’ll be talking about it in more depth soon, but I wanted to give a little direction without giving too much away so people can still theorycraft.
Re: ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!
Thanks Kevin, I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't get an answer, must've gotten lost in the fray, no worries.
Also, can you please chase down on an answer on the French translation issues? I saw that asked (and removed) by quite a few folks during the stream, seems like a hot topic.
We did provide an answer to the French Translation question last week. We will also have a note on it in the Patch Notes. This is what we posted last week and will be in the patch notes today.
"Voiceover support for Updates 47, 48 and 49 and some voice lines for Pass Content 2025 are not available in French. For the best experience, we recommend enabling subtitles in the game. We look forward to bringing back French voice over as soon as possible and appreciate your understanding."
Re: ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!
Cool. I'm excited to ask why horse training wasn't made purchasable in one setting.
The rest looks really amazing though!
That stream is the place to ask! If you don't get an answer there, ping me and I can ask around internally.
Re: ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!
I want to know when the PTS server will be back up.
Not sure why I should go to twitch, which I don't like, to watch someone talk about the experience when I could experience it first hand.
PTS is under maintenance right now and will not be up before the livestream is over.
ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM ET (16:00 UTC)—Player Experience Special!
This is the official discussion thread for, "ESO LIVE: January 12 @ 11 AM EST (16:00 UTC) —Player Experience Special!"
"Join us live on Twitch.tv/Bethesda as we dive deeper into the first wave of player-experience improvements coming in 2026!"
Re: Sage‘s Vault: let‘s speculate what it could be
HI all!
I love all the speculation here, and we'll be revealing more about the Vault soon. One thing I can confirm is it's an entirely new type of Content that the Content team has never really done before and we're really excited to talk about it.
I love all the speculation here, and we'll be revealing more about the Vault soon. One thing I can confirm is it's an entirely new type of Content that the Content team has never really done before and we're really excited to talk about it.
Re: ESO PTS Update
I’m glad to hear that our pain points are being addressed with such precise communication! My biggest pain point though is still how time consuming it is to set up a character on the PTS (such as having to dig through boxes to get crystals and upgrade mats, dig through boxes to unlock sets, dig through boxes to get a house, dig through the crown store for a merchant and a transmute station, sell all the basic gear to the merchant, reconstruct all the gear, while spamming the transmute crystal…). I’m very much hoping this gets addressed at some point this year.
Yes, template pain points - especially the time needed for set-up, like you mention - are also something we're aware of and investigating options to improve them.
Re: ESO PTS Update
only thing i still want to know, since updates will launch at the same time now,
will PlayStation and Xbox ever get to test on a dedicated testing server too?
That's a great question and one I asked as well when we first heard we were moving toward simultaneous releases on all platforms. While it's something we'd love to extend to our console players someday, it's a bit more complicated than just flipping a switch to allow console players access to the PTS server. As the PTS is built now for PC, it's a separate client download even though it uses the same patcher as the PC EU and NA servers. This would mean splitting our build pipeline further, and asking our console players to download an additional client, which isn't ideal or realistic. There may be additional technical hurdles as well. It's possible this is something we could revisit when crossplay comes online in the future.
SummersetCitizen wrote: »It’s easy to emphasize communication now, after output and player engagement have clearly declined. This kind of engagement would have mattered far more during ESO’s peak, not as an afterthought as the game shifts into a live-service maintenance phase.
We’ve seen similar communication promises before, and they often failed to translate into meaningful change. The Season of the Worm Cult launched with issues that were widely reported in advance, yet still shipped largely unchanged. That history makes it difficult to view this as a genuine commitment to player feedback rather than an attempt to manage ongoing dissatisfaction.
Improved communication is welcome, but without demonstrable follow-through, it risks feeling reactive rather than sincere.
This is valid, @SummersetCitizen and we recognize it's on us to make good on what we're saying and work toward improving. We'll give this a shot with the upcoming PTS cycle - starting with these small steps - and evolve as needed and based on everyone's feedback.
And @gabbo1928 yes, we're aligned. As part of our conversations about how we can improve the overall PTS experience for our players, the topic of bug reporting did come up. Great suggestions, thank you!
Re: ESO PTS Update
Galagladi Dragonblood wrote: »Will be there still the seperation of NA being first and EU later?
That is currently still the plan, yes. On our end, we really need to be able to test both databases during a PTS cycle just to confirm there are no issues with either. We understand the separate copies are not ideal and are open to looking at other options that still meet our needs, but we do need to be able to test both NA and EU and are not able to do both copies simultaneously.