Do you think ZOS has a Christmas surprise in the wings for us?

LonePirate

I was wondering if people think ZOS might have a surprise Christmas gift for players/subscribers in the next week or so. Perhaps a new costume or something else that can be mailed to everyone?

Gidorick

Nope! There is no Christmas in Tamriel and ZOS will only ever celebrate Temrielic holidays in ESO, if ever even those.

ers101284b14_ESO

Gidorick wrote: »

Nope! There is no Christmas in Tamriel and ZOS will only ever celebrate Temrielic holidays in ESO, if ever even those.

+1

Natjur

So you guys did not get a piece of coal in the mail like the rest of us?

Reverb

There is no Christ in TES lore, therefore no Christian holidays. Also with a broad, global subscriber base, it would would be ill advised to potentially upset those that don't believe in or celebrate Christmas. Maybe they'll give us something for the Tamrielic New Life celebration instead.

SantieClaws

They don't need to give us anything. We can celebrate any festival we want any time we want. I shall be celebrating the Khajiit festival of Fishmas with fishy sticks, spiced wine and fishing and I invite you all to join me.

A costume or two now and again would not go amiss though or maybe random gift boxes like we used to get in LOTRO with a wide range of cosmetic things available. That way you don't go into town one day to find everyone wearing the same dress.

Moonshadow66

Secretly I'm still hoping they'll implement jewelry crafting for Christmas

Razzak

Yes, I believe they do. A surprise patch just before holidays. Wonder what will it break, though.

AlexDougherty

Natjur wrote: »

So you guys did not get a piece of coal in the mail like the rest of us?

Nope, we have gas heating in our house

MornaBaine

It would be nice but thus far ZOS has not shown itself willing to be very generous and requests for various fluff (even easy stuff) and customer pleasing things like being able to return to the character creation screen to change existing characters continues to fall on deaf ears. Maybe they'll surprise me...but I'm not willing to hold my breath for it.

Divinius

I swear if I ever see even one Santa hat in ESO, I'm unsubbing right then and there.

Elsonso

No. Quite the opposite, I think that the ZOS offices will be empty. The development and QA staff will be on vacation, hiding from management. The Community staff will be at home refilling their anti-anxiety medications from having to deal with us all year.

The server operations and customer support staff will be left holding the bag, so be nice to them.

Darlgon

Umm.. No.. I would rather they do these before they integrate any seasonal festivals or items:

Reality
1. Fix lag in Cyrodiil
2. Fix bugs in quests.
3. Fix the problems with disconnects and crashes.
4. Work on the Justice System
5. Work on Imperial City
6. Work on provisioning revamp
7. Work on spell crafting
8. Work on Dark Brotherhood
9. Work on Thieves Guild

Dreams
1 Create global Auction Hall
2. Make it so I dont feel like I have to have addons to play.

Edited for a good reminder from the poster ahead of me.
Enjoy their holiday and time with family, as its been a busy year. (They were doing full-time Beta this time last year.)

Jroc

No

Palidon

Ya most likely more bugs.

bosmern_ESO

I wish there was an Lore event but there wont :l

Merrak

Gidorick wrote: »

Nope! There is no Christmas in Tamriel and ZOS will only ever celebrate Temrielic holidays in ESO, if ever even those.

Good thing I organized a guild sponsored server event for the New Life Festival.

Holiday Lore Details
Reddit Event Posting

I will also repost the event here today.

blabafat

Natjur wrote: »

So you guys did not get a piece of coal in the mail like the rest of us?

HA YEAH!

Slurg

I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get a maintenance patch before Christmas to fix known bugs confirmed in various threads that have been plaguing us for more than a month.

But I'm not sitting on Santa's lap then holding my breath til I get one.

SantieClaws

These wings you talk about .. are they turkey wings by any chance?

tinythinker

And then a community manager leaves this for us in response to the OP...

Elsonso

Slurg wrote: »

I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get a maintenance patch before Christmas to fix known bugs confirmed in various threads that have been plaguing us for more than a month.

But I'm not sitting on Santa's lap then holding my breath til I get one.

I think that this week is the last opportunity this year for a regular patch or any non-critical change on Live or PTS servers.

I am hoping that the staff at ZOS is taking the end of the year as an opportunity to take some time off.

Tabbycat

The best in game Christmas surprise would be for ZOS to add in Tamrielic holidays for next year.

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/calendar-tamriel

TehMagnus

Servers will be down?

AlexDougherty

magnusnet wrote: »

Servers will be down?

That happened to Swtor, lets hope it doesn't happen to this Game.

@ZOS_GinaBruno do you know if there is going to be adequate customer support over Christmas and New Years?. Just asking because of bad experiences with other MMOs

Francescolg

Maybe they will buff horses to make them faster!

LunaRae

lol Unfortunately I doubt it.

k9mouse

My dream there never will be an AH, ZOS will always follow lore, no stupid mounts and no char / race / gender / class changes. (Just roll the alt if one wants to change those)

Pmarsico9

Reverb wrote: »

There is no Christ in TES lore, therefore no Christian holidays. Also with a broad, global subscriber base, it would would be ill advised to potentially upset those that don't believe in or celebrate Christmas. Maybe they'll give us something for the Tamrielic New Life celebration instead.

Tiber Septim, aka Talos, in TES lore. You could say Allesia.

But really it's Talos.

However, in ESO Talos doesn't exist.

Best gift:

Red, White, and Green dyes unlocked, imo.

Mataata

Molag Bal's summoning day is very near Christmas. They might do something for that.

Sindala

I seriously doubt it. To be honest I think they have all gone home for the holidays already.
Only token replies on forums and no Dev speak.
I think Gina maybe the last one out the door on Friday only because of the Live cast.
That daft tradition everyone in the States seems to have of going back to spend time with the parents at Christmas...
....They should employ some English workers then we may get more actual work done.
We get 1 day off (Christmas day) then its back to work 6 days a week 12 hours a day.