if you compare to 2020, all games had the same stats with covid times

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

We chose Reddit because the layout and upvoting make it easier for the team to find and address relevant questions in an AMA format. Reddit also does a better job of keeping conversation threads together. We have tried to find a ways to replicate that here on the forum, but it isn't built for that.

Supposed to be wrong answers only dude. Come on you can do better

One of the developers has already been banned from the ESO forums and can't post here.

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No, if current trends hold and the average daily logins stay below 9000, it will be the lowest numbers in 7.5 years (Feb 2018)!


In my ESO guild discord there are four people who are also on a Guild Wars discord. Outside of reset, there are times when there are more of us from the ESO guild playing the other game.

The thing is, as long as ZOS keeps the servers up a running, the game won't be dead. GW2 went through a period of nearly four years where they had no major content released, and the game was effectively in maintenance mode. But then the devs there picked up again, started releasing some high-quality expansions and the game came roaring back to life.

So, I think the slump will continue for some time. Budgets will be slashed, teams shrunk and the devs will have to get creative. But if they have the right people in the right place, ESO can come back too.

it is a minor inconvenience when our tanks wait in 20 minute q times



lets face the facts though, the real world is all upside down at the moment too, add that to the fact looks like UK is taking in US royalty today i guess everyone got other things on the mind like with such huge security if aliens landed too

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?

As to subclassing, I'm happy for the people who like it. From a purely commercial standpoint, it was a terrible decision. It will make retaining players over time more difficult than ever. Classes, when a game does them properly, feel very different to play. This is what truly gives players the freedom to play how they want. If they don't like the feel of combat, they can try a quite different approach by just trying a different class instead of a different game. By homogenizing everything, ESO has really shot itself in the foot for years to come.

There’s a player slump for sure - but having worked in the gaming industry for the last two years, that’s pretty universal.

However, ZoS really needs to find its magic again. So far, this year’s Season Pass is NOT it. If this was my first year, I wouldn’t stick around.