erebus_79_ESO wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

Recipes or furnishing plans? Got a furnishing plan in my 3rd. No recipes.

furnishing plan yeah. Really?! Just 3! I'm crying

Yeah - yesterday was my first day of fishing. I had 5 or 6 packs and pulled a Praxis: Tide-Born Sculpture, Coral along with a Seahorse, Display in the third pack.

I also got a Praxis: Tide-Born Sculpture, Lizard from antiquity bonus loot. First time I've ever found a furnishing plan from antiquities.

So far, those are the only two Solstice plans that I've found.

Frayton wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

No, you just want free mats without putting in the time to do it yourself. You want the mats, do the work.

No thanks, I play for fun not work. Surveys are a quest reward for quests that we've already done. The fact that they're locked behind more tasks after we've already completed tasks to get them is tedious and unfun. It's like earning lootbags by completing quests, but you can't just open your lootbag - you have to travel all over the gameworld to unlock the lootbags that were a supposed reward for something you've already done. It's just grind on top of grind and ESO has way too much of that in basically everything, from simple horse training all the way to its combat systems.

They are more like Antiquities. You find a plan then you have to go dig up the object. The idea of both is to get players into different zones. When you do your daily writ you are rewarded with some gold and a few pieces of cheap armor. You also occasionally receive a 2ndary task. That 2nd task is locating and harvesting a survey. Doing that rewards you with materials. Two separate tasks with two separate rewards.
The good thing about ESO is you get to decide if you want to make it a grind or not. You don't have to let surveys pile up and you don't have to do them.

Thanks for bringing this up! We shared this thread with the housing folks. This is something they are thinking about, because of course we want you to have all of the books. But admittedly, this is still in the idea/see what is possible phase of things. So we will see what ideation and testing brings back, to see if something is possible and the impact on performance overall.

But it is on the team's radar and they have this thread for a reference point.

Edit: Also wanted to add that this will take awhile. Didn't want to set expectations that you will see anything around this in the immediate future.

Tazzy wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

This is how people are let go from corporations and most serious businesses. It is necessary to avoid sabotage from distraught/angry employees acting on impulse. When one is at work when the decision is made for them to be let go, they are escorted out of the building. Of course not everyone would act with malice, but because it's a realistic possibility for fired employees to act like this, it is a necessary security precaution.

Might be the case in the US, where I live (Germany), you only can be fired without notice, due to serious misconduct by employees.
Termination must be in writing and within a certain period, specified in the employment contract.
In addition, the number of years with the company and the age of the employee are also taken into account.

Even in that case, I would bet standard corporate policy would still be the same with immediate lockout. Employees taking terminations badly isn't an uncommon thing. It's not just sabotage to be concerned about but also data and IP theft. Sometimes it's just mail abuse by creating drama or CCing spam to the entire company.

In the last corporation I worked for, even if someone gave two weeks notice, they were locked out of the systems and the building immediately and paid to stay home for two weeks.

LadyGP wrote: »

nathamarath wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

Blackbird was an internal ZOS pet project that only started to make progress recently, after ESO was set on its new path. This has been leaked previously and we can deduce the decision to end chapters had to happen last year because the content pass lacks new art assets. It is probably why the anniversary tour was cut short.

They would have made the decision to end chapters independent of outside considerations.

It was cut short because MS has no sense of flair for the history, tradition and being of the companies incorporated. For the same reason seasons was introduced. It is MS' distribution habit including naming to unify it with their own flavour.

I'd argue seasons were introduced because they knew they were phasing down on content (and their resources and personel were shifting to other projects), they knew they were slowly transitioning to a more maintenance mode approach, and they knew they had a ton of technical debt built up over the years (how many posts are there where people say stop adding new things and fix the bugs/balance, etc etc).

Moving to seasons gives them a second to take a breath and do just that. I don't think seasons really had anything to do with Microsoft. Why would it? They make lamost all their money from ESO+ and then the big content drops that they sell for (too much money IMO).

ESO+, crowns, and crown crates are how ESO is so dang profitable. Everything else is just penies on the bottomline.

Again with this "ESO is profitable" business, and not just profitable, but "dang" profitable. To my knowledge, all that's ever been said about the company financials is Rich's "$2B" statement, but that was revenue, not profit. We actually have no idea how profitable the game is. It could be losing money, for all we know, and recent cut backs in the scope of content may be a reflection of that. Am I nuts? I've googled this several times. The only comments about how "successful" this game is stem from that single statement, and a back-calculation that it has averaged $15M/mo in revenue since the start. I don't know about you, but $15M/mo doesn't sound like a lot of income for a company the size of ZOS to me. Does anyone have an actual source about actual profits?

And where do you get your notion that they "make almost all of" their money from ESO+? Where have they ever said that, either? MMO population says ESO has about 65K daily players. If half of them have Plus, that's 33K subscribers for, say, $13/mo, which is roughly $450,000/mo. That's 3 or 4 FTE's. That's covering almost nothing. I would argue that Crown store sales are the bulk of revenue. It certainly feels that way to me, in the way it's promoted.

Expanding the estimation about full-time employee costs, if there were 600 people at the studio pre-layoffs, averaging, oh, I don't know, $150K burden -- which is probably way too low -- that's $90M/12 =$7.5M per month in salaries alone. There's the building, and legal, and travel, and everything else to consider as well. So now you see my problem with considering that a back-calculated $15M/mo to be significant in terms of profitability.

Don't bother. I've done the BG daily quest 1200+ times and no drop. I've played 8k+ battlegrounds and opened 30k+ Rewards for the Worthy. I've only seen maybe 3 or 4 Lost Thesis on guild traders / TTC in the past 5 years. It's unbelievably rare to the point you can get 300-500 million gold for it easy. I've seen it listed for 700 million gold before and it disappeared 😮

Versalium wrote: »

I've played IC for the first time today because of Whitestrake's mayhem. I can call my experience in one word — anxiety.

I'm a solo player, I'm on a base game, I'm here for the story, quests, loot, exploration, etc.

The moment I got killed by another player was very frustrating. Just...why? Why would anyone want to kill me for no reason? I don't get it. I don't want to kill other players, I just want to mind my own business. I want to explore ruined Imperial City, I want to experience this great city under Molag Bal's occupation.

The second part of frustration that quckly transformed into stress and anxiety was losing a bunch of tel var stones. Maybe I missed something but no one told me I will lose them. I had around 7k on me that I've earned on battlegrounds and I've lost around 3k in a single death. Now I'm always anxious about losing tel vars and putting them into the bank before going outside. Who thought this would be fun? It's not.

I'm glad there is a no-CP mode, it's a bit less stressful, but I want solo/PvE mode. I just want to enjoy my game without this PvP stress and nonsense.

It's the chance of losing Tel-var stones that makes the zone unique and fun. I used to like grabbing 10,000 stones then drop down in the sewers as far away from home base as I could and try to get home with them.
If you want to explore Imperial City you will have better luck when there isn't an event sending players there. Unfortunately for those of us that like the fights in Imperial City outside the events it can be fairly empty.
Outside of the event there is also a better chance when you do see the enemy while questing they might leave you alone. During this event players that normally can't or wouldn't get many kills like to take advantage of all the inexperienced players by camping areas they know are quest related. It bites that they do that as it does give PvP a sour taste for those new to the experience.
Imperial City needs to stay PvP only because it is a zone unique to the game. I would like to see some changes made that brings the population back up outside of events. It can be a really fun place to PvP even if you are solo and not experienced or very good at PvP. You catch on after several deaths. Go in with no stones, don't take the deaths as any big deal and you start having fun.

I am counting 512 books (missing 2, so 514 total), so yeah, definitely need something for that. It would be cool to have a furnishing vault-type thing or something like the Grandmaster Crafting Stations, but for readable books. Could look like a podium with a large book on it (think OG atlases or encyclopedias, and allow you to place all your book furnishings in it and just activate it to read them from your home.


Juat realized I never posted this. XD

@ZOS_Kevin poking you again here in case this idea might be helpful!

The buff to Hardened Ward was to make Sorcs more viable as PVE tanks because having a pet was not desirable.

An unfortunate consequence was that it made the ability completely OP in PVP.

With the introduction of subclassing, it was no longer necessary in PVE, so the change was reversed for the benefit of PVP balance.

I would suggest adapting to subclassing because it's a reality in Cyrodiil and it has resulted in a lot of incredibly strong builds.