What can we expect by Year 1? What SHOULD we expect by Year 2?

MornaBaine

Another thread made me realize that we are fast approaching ESo's first anniversary, believe it or not. And I, like a lot of people, am pretty frustrated with the way things are going. So here's what I expect, and what I, in fact, expect of this game by its SECOND anniversary.

1. Finish creating the game they apparently "didn't have time" to make before launch. We're talking fully implemented Justice System, Champion System and Spellcrafting.
2. Improve vampires and werewolves dramatically.
3. Implement a robust player housing system.
4. Give us a GOOD alternative to Cadwell's Silver and Gold.
5. VASTLY improved character customization options post character creation. More hairstyles, more tats, scars and makeup. Name changes. Dyeable shields and weapons. Cultural CLOTHING (of various classes), whether it be crafted or via costumes/disguises but READILY AVAILABLE from vendors if the latter.
6. FUN things like LOTS of pets that are READILY AVAILABLE to everyone, MORE emotes, race and class specific emotes, vampire and werewolf emotes, more dance and musical instrument emotes and more songs that can be played on the various instruments.
7. Figuring out a trading system that doesn't SUCK like the current one does.
8. Implementing more chat channels for specific things like trading and guild advertising so that quits cluttering up zone chat.
9. Dueling. Arenas.
10. Cross faction area and content.
11. Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild.
12. An END to lag in Cyrodiil and a better PvP experience overall with more tactical objectives with more of a resemblance to actual medieval warfare. Combat from horseback. Less "balance" and more specialization.
13. Ways to level that don't involve combat. Non-combat professions that are just fun to do. Bard, shopkeeper, bar tender, etc.

What's YOUR list of expectations?

ers101284b14_ESO

Great Idea. We should make as many demands as possible. And maybe a few petitions too. ZOS has really responded well to demands and petitions.

Robocles

A new game. I can't trust these people any more.

MornaBaine

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Great Idea. We should make as many demands as possible. And maybe a few petitions too. ZOS has really responded well to demands and petitions.

I get what you're saying. And I doubt very much they'll miss my paltry sub now that they've gotten 5 Imperial Editions out of me. LOL But this isn't really a, "Hey ZOS do this or I'm out!" thread. I'm just interested in a discussion with other players abut what they feel it's reasonable to expect.

ers101284b14_ESO

MornaBaine wrote: »

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Great Idea. We should make as many demands as possible. And maybe a few petitions too. ZOS has really responded well to demands and petitions.

I get what you're saying. And I doubt very much they'll miss my paltry sub now that they've gotten 5 Imperial Editions out of me. LOL But this isn't really a, "Hey ZOS do this or I'm out!" thread. I'm just interested in a discussion with other players abut what they feel it's reasonable to expect.

That's fine but change Demands to something else so they don't close it.

MornaBaine

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

Great Idea. We should make as many demands as possible. And maybe a few petitions too. ZOS has really responded well to demands and petitions.

I get what you're saying. And I doubt very much they'll miss my paltry sub now that they've gotten 5 Imperial Editions out of me. LOL But this isn't really a, "Hey ZOS do this or I'm out!" thread. I'm just interested in a discussion with other players abut what they feel it's reasonable to expect.

That's fine but change Demands to something else so they don't close it.

Fair enough. Done. And thanks for the friendly reminder.

Slurg

I'll play. You know what would be really great? A brand new quest line after you defeat Molag Bal to get a dog and a house. The new quest line should award a million XP per quest.

Zorrashi

I would just like to pop in and say that I really really want these things that Morna already listed:

1. Dark Brotherhood + Thieves' Guild
2. Some sort of method to change my character's appearance.
3. A more-than-decent housing system
4.Changes and/or overhaul of vampire and werewolves. (Preferably to where they are powerful, albeit, not publicly accepted and with their own array of exploitable weaknesses)

The other things listed by Morna are good too, but those are the 'Big 4' for me.

Black_Wolf88

promises made and not kept.
new content that benefit those that have played the game the least and have least content completed before the new content.

there has also been so much good and bad in all the previous updates that is likely to happen in all future updates as well. better to take the updates one by one.

Elsonso

I am hoping that one of the Road Ahead columns from @ZOS_MattFiror‌ goes a little further ahead than the next driveway.

They have been delivering things that they have talked about in the past faster than they are adding new things they say they want to do.

ers101284b14_ESO

One thing I would like to see is something they had in FFXIV 1.0 that was always fun. You would go out to a campsite and there would be a battlewarden. You sign up for the battle and depending on how many people signed up it would scale. Anyway about once an hour the battlewarden would lead you and the rest of the party out into the wilderness to fight enemies. you then get XP and gold and what not depending on how many people signed up. Man I miss those.

Bloodfang

Before end of 2015 we will see:

- Champion System (all phases)
- Justice System (all phases)
- Dark Brotherhood Guild
- Thieves Guild
- Spellcrafting
- Solo Zone -> Wrothgar
- New Trials
- New Dungeons
- New mini-trials aka arenas
- And many new other features
- Also the most important-> Console release

radiostar

make and upgrade jewelry also

Psychobunni

3, 4, 5, 7, 10

I'd like to see skill nerfs only instanced to cyrodiil instead of both sides of the game, I'm tired of being on the losing end for an aspect of the game I have no interest in

Now if I got my hearts desire....a true archer *class*....dreams in one hand and {snip} in the other and all

Edit: I know its what some people love about ESO, but I also prefer guaranteed gear progression over random drops

Oughash

Fix PvP lag
Then
Fix PvP lag
Then
Fix PvP lag
Then
Add more stuff to cyrodil.

MornaBaine

Share your wish lists folks. Let's let ZOS know what we expect of a game in this day and age. If THIS ONE isn't going to be innovative what one will?

Silverforte

More emotes? We have so many and you want MORE? I've never played a themepark MMO that had this much attention paid to the little important things like emotes.

The lag is a problem, having 90-160ms consistently needs to be addressed. Combat framerate drops need to be addressed. They need to fix the weird animations. The character creator is a bit bland and most of the sliders are almost totally useless. We do need player housing. We need the justice system. After those things are fixed I really can't imagine complaining about anything in this game other than the fact everything is overly phased. I hate phasing... I play this game with a friend and half the time, we can't see each other. We have to be incredibly attentive to what quests we do. One mistake and we'll be phased out.

MornaBaine

Silverforte wrote: »

More emotes? We have so many and you want MORE? I've never played a themepark MMO that had this much attention paid to the little important things like emotes.

The lag is a problem, having 90-160ms consistently needs to be addressed. Combat framerate drops need to be addressed. They need to fix the weird animations. The character creator is a bit bland and most of the sliders are almost totally useless. We do need player housing. We need the justice system. After those things are fixed I really can't imagine complaining about anything in this game other than the fact everything is overly phased. I hate phasing... I play this game with a friend and half the time, we can't see each other. We have to be incredibly attentive to what quests we do. One mistake and we'll be phased out.

While I agree that all the issues you address are important...yeah I STILL want more emotes ALSO.

dietlime

Are you sure your computer is good enough and stable enough for this game's PvP? I haven't experienced severe or recurring latency or network-related "lag" or de-synchs in a couple months. Occasionally, sure, but there's no way to say where the routing went wrong with a disconnect in any game this large every 8-10 hours of gameplay.

I mean, maybe you came from other MMO's that weren't running the most modern DX11 particle effects as their mandatory visuals, but I'm not seeing it since I upgraded.

MornaBaine

dietlime wrote: »

Are you sure your computer is good enough and stable enough for this game's PvP? I haven't experienced severe or recurring latency or network-related "lag" or de-synchs in a couple months. Occasionally, sure, but there's no way to say where the routing went wrong with a disconnect in any game this large every 8-10 hours of gameplay.

I mean, maybe you came from other MMO's that weren't running the most modern DX11 particle effects as their mandatory visuals, but I'm not seeing it since I upgraded.

My rig is a pretty decent gaming beast. Sure I'd love to do some upgrades and if ZOS comes back and says, officially, "Lag will be cured if you run X System or above," then I'd be satisfied by that. And I'd probably make the recommended upgrades. But TONS of people with upper end rigs and good connections are experiencing the same problem and ZOS admits they still don't know WHY. So that's a pretty serious concern for me and is a large part of why I do not participate in PvP very often.

WraithAzraiel

I demand we get in-game netch hats. Otherwise I'm going to train a fleet of sabo-toads to sit in all the Dev's driveways and croak until the weeeeee hours of the morning until my demand is met.

Psychological warfare is clearly the only way to get things done, people. Get on my level.

WraithAzraiel

Also - naval PvP. Ship v Ship. Make this happen or it's 10 Plagues of Egypt time.