It is kinda nice to see the whole ESO community on all social media platforms from the forums, Reddit, the replies to official tweets etc all finally united on something instead of endless fighting. And that is that almost nobody seems to like the 'special event'.

I love dying in one frame as a tank in trials because the server catches up to me and i've got 50k in damage incoming during the lag freeze

I was on the fence about the 2025 pass, but then pre-ordered it after all.

To be honest, I regret doing so.

Right now, the *only* thing that's still keeping me coming to ESO is the housing.

BUT...

...I also play WoW. And we're getting housing with the next part of the expansion. And from what I've seen, it's going to surpass ESO's housing by a wide, wide margin!

ZOS hasn't really invested in the housing part of the game, even though I would wager that it's one of the biggest money makers.
Yes, we got the vault. Finally.
And that's pretty much it.
We've written pages and pages of suggestions on the (defunct) Housing forum and have been ignored.
WoW will let me tint and texture the walls (and I *hate* the moldy and fusty walls in Elsweyr houses... >.<), I will be able to size and colour pretty much anything. I can expand and vary my house as I like.
Yes, we don't know what the furnishing limit will be yet. I'm sure it won't be perfect.
But seeing as how ZOS hasn't invested *anything* in further development of housing in ESO, despite all the customer feedback, I'm thinking it might nevertheless be better than what ESO currently offers.

So... no. I won't be pre-ordering this time around.
And I'll be looking *very* critically at what we're getting for 2026, before I spend any money on it.

This 'once in a lifetime event' certainly didn't help things.
You know what's a *fantastic* OIALE?
Legion Remix in WoW. I've bought mounts, I've bought transmogs, I've gotten so many great rewards from the chests... it's perfect. That's what a OIALE should look like... >.>

A lot of players are participating but that doesn't mean they are enjoying it. I participated at first, too. I did the new story quests on all 7 of my characters which took about 20 minutes for each, then started the daily quests. But it didn't take long for the tedium to set in and I'm done.

I'm sure a lot of players still participating are just wanting to get it done and get to Eastern Solstice, because I have virtually seen nothing but negative feedback the longer this goes on.

I'm sure there may be some that are enjoying the event but I don't see them posting about it.

shadoza wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Having an economy and selling items to make gold is vital for me to be able to afford to buy houses and the crafting materials that are needed for furnishings, which is something I enjoy.

I do NOT farm resource nodes EVER. Nothing I am doing hurts anyone.

I also enjoy questing and the story and complete every quest in every zone on all my characters, so none of those things have run me off, or even affected me negatively.

As far as dungeons, I am not sure how a dungeon would be empty when entered unless it's a public dungeon or delve that is being referred to. Players have a right to do what they need to do in order to get leads for items they need. That isn't a player made situation.

It was a delve.

I mentioned this: "Just doing the quests there were players that ran pass me and 1-hit what I was fighting. Why? Right here in these threads, I am told that players are farming, they have a right to farm, the game encourages farming . . . What about my 'right' to play the game I paid for? That seems to amount to nothing compared to those who want to farm."

So none of my issues ran you off, good for you. I am talking about my experience.

Sorry but someone needs to be frank with you. People that are high level are welcome in every part of the game. No one is stealing from you or prevent you from playing by being high level in a delve or overland area. There is no hate and hoard behavior. It's just players playing an mmorpg. This is intended. No one cares that you don't like it. Players farming to sell things is integral to the game as a whole. If you don't like it don't participate but don't come here and accuse us of doing something wrong.
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I think all the ESO devs need to watch this interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n0aB_PBSkA

Gabriel_H:

I agree — and just to clarify, the words “theft” or “stolen” weren’t used in my original post. They came up in later replies to others.

Just like developing an addon, porting an addon also requires time and effort. Some addons have not been ported to console because their original authors believe that the timing is not yet right for a console release, as Sharlikran previously stated in the ESOUI forum. Addons need more time for adaptation or must wait for lib dependencies to ensure certain features work properly.

However, due to the open-source nature of ESOUI, there are a considerable number of addons on the console platform that were not uploaded—or even authorized—by their original authors. Among them are some that had unadapted features simply removed in order to make the addon available on console earlier, and worse, some that have added paywalls or malware (see https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?p=53060#post53060). This is a serious harm to the community.

What I want to emphasize is that the PC addon community has rarely suffered from such malicious behavior largely because ESOUI has responsible moderators maintaining it. Just like the developers who have long created addons for free, these moderators have performed high-quality, voluntary review work for years to keep the addon community functioning properly.

I believe that the prevalence of malicious behavior in console addons can largely be attributed to the closed-source nature of the console platform and the lack of an effective review system. Anyone can download an addon from ESOUI and upload it to ESO Mods under their own name—even embedding malicious code—while other players find it extremely difficult to inspect the code themselves.

I believe, if the console addon community is to remain healthy in the long run, the administrators of ESO Mods should do more than remove malicious addons after the fact.

i watched zos' little explanatory video 2-3 weeks ago, and i swear they said phase 2 would include some new area, like underground tunneling under the wall and fighting some kind of world boss. i must have heard wrong. phase 2 seems identical to phase 1, barring some extremely minor differences in the daily quests. and if that's all phase 2 is, it's incredibly boring. phase 1 was boring enough. sheesh. i know i don't have to 'do' it if i don't want to, but i did pay for the season pass, and the event so far is very lackluster. i mean, i had hopes that phase 2 would mix things up a bit. nope, same platter as 1

Elderpatriot wrote: »

Separate players and be done with it would simply solve everything...

Then it would be just as bad as it was before One Tamriel. Back then players could only play with characters in their alliance, which wouldn't be a factor now but separating by difficulty would be just as restricting.