'The Patch'

Mashille

ZOS. You were the chosen one! It was said you would build upon and improve ESO, not destroy it. Bring balance to the game, not leave it in darkness... You were my life ESO... I loved you.

And we all know that Anakin / Darth Vader turned good in the end which leads me on to this:

Yes, we all know how ESO is rather broken and depressing at the moment with bugs, balance issues, lag and silly game design. However, we know that ZOS is working to try and resolve the issues people have as well as polish problems with the game and improving aspects of it.

So my question is when do you think 'The Patch' is going happen? When I say 'The Patch' I mean the patch or patches to fix the lag, to balance the game to bring ESO out of the darkness.

DRXHarbinger

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

Never. Will stay as it is forever and ever. The darkside is too powerful.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO

2018+

Its an ongoing thing trying to balance server load and bandwidth. So I dont see them ever making it 100% lag free.

ADarklore

Don't know and don't care because any of the issues that other players currently experience with the game aren't effecting me or my gameplay in any major way that warrants worrying about.

Marktoneth3

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

The never ending darkseid from justice league.

Junkogen

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

You don't know the profit of the Crown Store! It is pointless to resist.

urkonse

Late 2016

im sure they fix lags and bugs , but always when you add / fix something , ther is chance that new bugs appear

Rune_Relic

Nice post.... alas ...I wont be around when its finally fixed.

waterfairy

I cringe every time I hear about "balance" as that has the potential to mess up my characters because people want theirs to be on par with the people that kill them. Unless something is blatantly broken then they should just leave things alone.

Tandor

"Yes, we all know how ESO is rather broken and depressing at the moment with bugs, balance issues, lag and silly game design."

While I know that some people claim those things, I don't personally have any experience of them having played the game since PC launch. I hate it when people generalise and assume they are entitled to speak for everyone.

Mickey_Ox

The lag is here to stay, live with it or move on. The bugs will be fixed but replaced with new ones every time a new dlc drops and the game will never be balanced, it will improve and get better but never be "balanced"

Faulgor

Dark Brotherhood Update

I call it the Messiah Patch that finally removes VR.

Danikat

As far as I can see some portion of the playerbase (usually the ones who post on the forum) always thinks their favourite MMO is simultaneously the best game out there and broken beyond all hope of repair unless the developers implement every single one of their ideas.

They always think the moment when they will finally happen is just around the corner, surely even the stupid incompetent devs who managed to spew out the best game ever made can see that this persons brilliant ideas are exactly what needs to happen to save the game from itself and it's only a matter of time before they do it.

And yet somehow every patch just makes the game progressively worse (whilst still being better than anything else), but surely the next one will fix it all...

In other words: never. Because no matter what ZOS do, or don't do, someone will be unhappy with it.

Ffastyl

Late 2016

The Q3 Update has no zone associated with it, so Wrobel & co. do not need to spend time creating item sets like they will for Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood.

Mashille

Early 2017

@Tandor

'don't personally have any experience of them '

Ummm. Did you not play when many NPC's and players appeared without clothes with textures not loading. Have you not played PvP? (The lag in large fights is unplayable) Bugged skills too.

All this after 2 months of PTS testing. Releasing 'Incremental Patches' in this state is unacceptable.

LiquidSchwartz

Late 2017

When they went f2p the game ended

Tandor

keybaud wrote: »

@Tandor

'don't personally have any experience of them '

Ummm. Did you not play when many NPC's and players appeared without clothes with textures not loading. Have you not played PvP? (The lag in large fights is unplayable) Bugged skills too.

All this after 2 months of PTS testing. Releasing 'Incremental Patches' in this state is unacceptable.

No I haven't experienced those issues, and I don't PvP. The game has run pretty flawlessly since PC launch for me, although I did get a broken quest a couple of weeks in which was fixed by abandoning and retaking it.

IcyDeadPeople

Vigarr wrote: »

I cringe every time I hear about "balance" as that has the potential to mess up my characters because people want theirs to be on par with the people that kill them. Unless something is blatantly broken then they should just leave things alone.

Balance is still not there yet, but consider how much it has improved since launch, when vampire magicka DKs could solo dozens of people and medium armor builds were often kicked out of endgame PVE groups. I played magicka DK, but also stamina NB, and various other classes. I was thrilled when balance improved because it gives you more options to try all kinds of different builds.

Over the past 12 months, there have been some huge improvements for stamina builds, and this is a result of feedback from players on the forums and in-game. Don't you recall the days when stamina NB was one of the weakest builds in the game, stam DK was an endangered species and stam sorc was so rare it was like spotting a unicorn?

People wanted to have the option of viable stamina builds (some even quit ESO because of this), made their voice heard and it took a long time, but eventually, the balance improved as a result.

It might seem like a simple matter to adjust this skill and that one to improve the balance, but it appears to take lots of time and trial and error to fine tune all these interconnected class abilities and passives.

We've seen in the past few big updates the balance swings a bit one way, then following feedback from the many thousands of players on the live server, it shifts back the other way a bit. Eventually it will improve further, but it is something that is always going to be adjusted as new abilities and sets are added.

Vaoh

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

I judge based on improvement. Truly, I hate to say this kind of thing, but ZOS has made console Cyrodiil performance worse with almost every patch (current patch has also degraded performance in both PvP and PvP as well) and unbelievably worse from launch on PC until now.

When a 2-year long history points to this game getting worse, with no present improvement to go upon, why believe that Devs infatuated with $$$ and obviously giving no real f***s for Cyrodiil and IC (half the game) will fix anything?

At least show some baby steps in the right direction before I change my mind. Dark Brotherhood and Q3 will be ZOS's biggest opportunity to fix things ever. Btw, Viscious Death and Shieldbreaker are perfect examples of how to ruin PvP. No more sets along the b***s*** route plz

waterfairy

@IcyDeadPeople
Fair points, I'm just against the idea of altering skills that don't really need to be.

Speaking of magicka DK, I'm thinking about rolling one soon...what race did you use? I'm leaning towards Dunmer or Altmer.

Mashille

Early 2017

@Tandor

Very strange if you haven't encountered any of the massive amount of issues ESO has had. You don't PvP, lots of people DO PvP and lots of ESO's community used to be based on it, however as the lag and balance became worse people began to leave, ZOS now mainly focuses on catering to PvE players and 'carebears' (I do not mean this as an insult) as well as making $$$

The thing is you need to realize that many PvPers who love and care about the game and are passionate about it have basically been shunned and abandoned for over 1 year now. People being unable to what they love most in the game and what could be so absolutely fantastic.

Hanokihs

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

It'll get worse and worse, becoming a player-barren wasteland just in time for TES VI to release.

This is probably by design, anyway.

Cadbury

I believe they'll eventually install "The Patch"

Unfortunately, it will be the wrong patch....

Tandor

keybaud wrote: »

@Tandor

Very strange if you haven't encountered any of the massive amount of issues ESO has had. You don't PvP, lots of people DO PvP and lots of ESO's community used to be based on it, however as the lag and balance became worse people began to leave, ZOS now mainly focuses on catering to PvE players and 'carebears' (I do not mean this as an insult) as well as making $$$

The thing is you need to realize that many PvPers who love and care about the game and are passionate about it have basically been shunned and abandoned for over 1 year now. People being unable to what they love most in the game and what could be so absolutely fantastic.

I've no idea why you've addressed those remarks to me. I've indicated quite clearly that I understand that some people report these issues, and have simply stated that I haven't experienced them. In response to a query I have confirmed I don't PvP. I am aware, of course, that 99% of the complaints against the game relate to PvP, and I say that without any intended sense of judgement.

Talking of any intended sense of judgement, might I suggest that if you don't mean to use the term "carebear" as an insult, you don't use it all, especially in a gratuitous way? You could easily have excluded "and 'carebears' (I do not mean this as an insult)" without affecting the point you were making in the slightest.

PvPers haven't been shunned and abandoned for over 1 year now. They have had a host of skill and other balancing changes, they have had a PvP-centred DLC, and they have had various attempts to fix the very real performance issues affecting Cyrodiil. That fact is not disproved by the additional fact that those things either haven't been fully effective or liked by the players.

Like I said, while I don't have any problems with the game I am well aware that some do. All I object to is when people elect to speak for everyone when complaining about problems that not everyone experiences, and when they have no basis on which to speak for everyone in the first place.

beamy93

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

This game will be dead on pc this year. Consoles will only keep it alive because it's the only MMO they have. The game is becoming more welcoming for new/returning players which is all good for short term quarterly sales, but very allinating for most if you're trying to create a stable long-term MMO.

beamy93

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

Hanokihs wrote: »

It'll get worse and worse, becoming a player-barren wasteland just in time for TES VI to release.

This is probably by design, anyway.

This game was supposed to last until the fallout MMO was a possibility. Won't even last that long.

Veske_Valrune

Dark Brotherhood Update

Because I try to be an optimist.

sneakymitchell

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

The darkness will consume us all when it finally comes!!!!






Oh no Its here run!!!!



So I will be playing this game for a great couple months than this game. If I see some great changes to the game.

Eleusian

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

I'm at a loss about what this company is doing anymore. Console has been live almost a year and just barely got damage #s visible and who knows the ETA relistically on text chat. But hey here's a new mount in the cash shop.

NobleNerd

ESO will never return from the Dark Side

Tandor wrote: »

"Yes, we all know how ESO is rather broken and depressing at the moment with bugs, balance issues, lag and silly game design."

While I know that some people claim those things, I don't personally have any experience of them having played the game since PC launch. I hate it when people generalise and assume they are entitled to speak for everyone.

Might want to take off those rose colored glasses......

Ever since PC launch the game across the board has suffered from lag, performance and many other issues. It is not just a small few that have experienced these issues.

Tandor

NobleNerd wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

"Yes, we all know how ESO is rather broken and depressing at the moment with bugs, balance issues, lag and silly game design."

While I know that some people claim those things, I don't personally have any experience of them having played the game since PC launch. I hate it when people generalise and assume they are entitled to speak for everyone.

Might want to take off those rose colored glasses......

Ever since PC launch the game across the board has suffered from lag, performance and many other issues. It is not just a small few that have experienced these issues.

Maybe, maybe not. Certainly it's not just a small few of forum users, but that of course doesn't tell us a lot about players' experiences as a whole. In any event, it's not a case of wearing rose coloured glasses, it's a case of reporting my own personal experience. I fully recognise that others have problems with the game, mostly but not exclusively in relation to PvP, but do you not accept that some at least do not?