does anyone else think this game is rubbish since the patch?

magpiemik

I've completely lost interest why?

Nerfed for no reason
esc key/ weapon unable to charge/ no fast travel
friends don't want to play anymore.
terrible support
you've got a week before everyone looks at unsubscription and your not two months old.

I'm gutted I wanted this more than anything.

Azinurn

Basicaly this game is broken atm.
5 hours of questing in a 4 man party during that time people had to relog since quest giver dont show up , you get stuck on the ground after being bashed or cc:d by a npc , random crashes exetera

i mean the quests and stuff in craglorn and the rest of the areas are fun if you would be able to do them whitout all the , crashes , relogs , kill client and restart stuff.

Tavore1138

The basics of a good game are still there but I do have moments, especially after this patch, when I wonder if they are deliberately trying to kill it with bad patches and just focus on the console market...

My suspicion is that the problems are possibly organisational rather than technical.

For example - it was clear from fairly soon after 1.1.2 was released to the US servers that it had done serious damage to their area and had accidentally wiped an entire PvP campaign. Either the lines of communication were so dreadful that no-one important was aware of this after a full working day OR the important people simply did not understand (or care) that they could have pulled a broken patch for the EU and at least saved half the players from new exciting pain.

So my guess is that you have an underfunded dev team without the resources for doing decent QA, constant pressure from a hierarchy that was expecting MMO meets TES to be an easy money spinner, push for new group content to appease a vocal minority of MMO locusts... all things considered a failure like this was predictable to all but ZOS themselves.

The question is - what now?

If it were me I'd be looking to do some massive and serious damage control.

- Be honest about the problems that existed before and have now been added.
- Be clear about what can be fixed soon and what will take time.
- Be damn sure that any future fixes pushed out are tested (posts from PTS testers suggest they only tested pre-built toons in Craglorn).
- Seriously consider getting in quickly and giving a free month to all current subscribers (yes there is some self interest there but equally it would show players the love that they are not feeling right now).
- Do not be driven too much by the vocal MMO elite, they have always moved from game to game and always will. Consider your target audience and pander to them as well, they will be the ones who are still playing in 5 years if you can ride out this current mess.

Frankly I don't see this happening 'cos it's not just Zenimax, Bethesda have always been lousy at PR & customer communication & TES games have often relied on players to fix the worst problems which is not an option here.

I find myself wanting this game to succeed as I truly enjoy the bits that work BUT the company and it's management seem to be unable to see there is a deep and genuine set of problems let alone fix them.

Tavore1138

Oooo... look they are sinking this one, another example of the head in the sand mentality that is choking the life out of this game.

Ulvich

Well, honestly? I won't say "rubbish". At least not yet. I just feel that the devs are trying too hard to impress, and in the meantime keep breaking things. On that note, they do try to go back and fix what they broke. I also feel they just need to slow down a bit and do things with a bit more passion and care. If they don't I can't see myself sticking around for too much longer.

Beesting

I think the next update they should just make it clear that they will put it out for one weekend and then roll back the servers.
Like a taster version of a big patch.
I only started believing there was not going to be a roll back this sunday afternoon. With all the archievements lost, exploitng going on and people being banned for pretending to be bots or play acting out exploiting, it is a big surprise this is not rolled back.

After all, this game is supposed to last for years, so how bad would it be to have a weekend of lost progress once in a while.
How else are they going to test it?

Only time will tell, but i haven't given up hope. At the moment the biggest problem is that zenimax doesn't tell us what is allowed and not.
So even on this forum it has shifted from players vs bots to players vs players.

Very sad indeed...