I've been doing one of each daily on my main for the golden boxes (and now a golden plunder skull with event tickets), and the crafting dailies on a couple lower level characters since the XP has been good especially with the Witches Festival. I started off sweatily doing all of them across three or four characters every day, but between the incredibly slow progress, discouraging behind-the-scenes "adjustments", and general lack of variety in both tasks and rewards, this event has honestly already overstayed its welcome and PC NA is not even in Phase 2 yet.

AvalonRanger wrote: »

Kelenan7368 wrote: »

Make body markings actually show in full glory on vampires! I understand they are Vamps but why do the tattoo's look faded? They should be in their full brilliant effect even on Vampire's.

100% agree!

If they do that, I would prefer it to be an option rather than a change. I actually chose body markings for my vamp because they hide the veins in an subtle way.

This made the grind for the writhing wall much more worth it getting Double EXP and being able to drink EXP potions to boost exp even more during this tedious event. Much appreciated!

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

Phase 2 is just 3 more weeks of phase 1. Before phase 3 which is probably just Phase 1 + a public dungeon where enemies will die before you can even see them on your screen.

SilverBride wrote: »

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.

For stage two I talked to the Knife orc, then to an argonian then examined an site in Greenshade and reported back to the argonian it it's ended the quest chain? Yes that works as an random side quest you run into, not for an major event.

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... >.>

2025 is the first year in a long while that I haven't spent any money on ESO and I don't see that changing in 2026. It's not only everything OP has mentioned in their post, but what started to sour the game for me was how in 2024, with regards to PVE content, subscribing basically only provided a single dungeon DLC. Then, ZOS initially locked the first 2025 dungeon DLC behind ESO+, citing the pitiful excuse of a "transition year". Not only that, but we only found out how long the wait would be, when a community manager clarified it... in a forum post... on the release day.

This and many other bad decisions have put me off the game and spending any more money on it. Never say never, of course, but based on 2024 and 2025, I don't have faith in a turnaround at this point.

Radiate77 wrote: »

Yeah I’m actually sick right now.

New World had a triumphant comeback and had over 50,000 concurrent players on Steam alone, and even that wasn’t enough to save the studio from Amazon.

Makes me wonder how much time is left with ESO considering Microsoft is just as bad if not worse than Amazon.

50,000 for one month - when new content dropped. Then they went away again.

ESO has consistent numbers meaning predictable revenue, NW did not.

I waited until it went on sale this year to purchase because I wasn't excited by the content pass. If next year is even a fraction as grindy as this year has been I may not purchase at all.