How you rate ESO Tamriel Unlimited today ?

Aquanova

Love the game.

Hate the lag.

mr1sho

IGN gives it a score 3 out 5 too much QQ

Ep1kMalware

2 stars. I'd I'm feeling generous. 2 YEARS later they're still working on hase gamw patches that should have been finalized before launch. The game progresivelu runs worse, The dev team takes the appearance of ignoring the issues rather than at least saying 'hey, we get it, were working on it, here's why we can't get it done in the next couple months (valid reason, not something like we spilt coffee on our server), Here's a free costume.

We don't get that, it takes about 100 rage threads for zos to even say "we'll look into it".

Let's be fully honest, and unbiased about the situation.

-No long term engagement for endgame players, their goal is to have a target audience thay only plays an elderscrolls MMO for a few weeks at a time.

-Complete ignorance of cheating/exploiting that happens within the game, and no communication from zenimax regarding their stance.

-They have a pts, ask for people to volunteer their time testing bugs, and ignore everything they ikput.

-They push too small dlc too fast. Way too many avoidable bugs make it through. The dlc content progressively gets smaller.Most of the biggest glitches thay absolutely ruin an update honestlt should be fixed prior to release. Other games do it.

-Zenimax has absolutely no set direction where their game is headed. Both in alienation of their playerbase, weather or not it's pve or pvp based, how they're going to balance classes/roles, how they want the base game to function. These are all important design plans that should have been set in stone before PC release. Some people actually bought a ps4 or pc just to play eso, excited about the long term plan of the game. So manu gamers were ready for this type of gameplay.

I would like to speculate that the reasom zenimax is pushing smaller dlcs 'based for casuals' is because it's the best publicity they can throw themselves. Instead of a monthly membership, they decided to go buy2play. This will only woek if they can sustain a loyal and supported playerbase. Through some bad decision making, they've lost alot of that, and therefore they need to go from a sustained income from a loyal playerbase to a cashgrab stancr where they now spend their dev hours segmenting their dlc and selling them more frequently to cover the income of what *would* be from eso+ subscriptions.

Why else would they give away champion points and endgame equipment. I really want to see this vvardenfel dlc and new dungeons, but the fact remains is that the basegame is less and less play/enjoyable with each update. They're just throwing sparklies out there to catch 'new fish'. I think this whole 'we're aiming at casuals who dont care/intend to stay' is just sugar coating 'we screwed up, so we've moved onto intentionally baiting customers with shinies even if it ruins our long term subscriptions because it looks like a viable plan b'


Maybe the game will switch companies, or maybe they'll make some staffing changes. I am not coorporate zenimax, I don't know who to blame. But somebody made some lame choices and eso isn't a serious mmo anymore.

Darlgon

EsoRecon wrote: »

i rate ESO a solid 2 it sucks probably the lamest game i have ever played. the graphics are so trash it looks like minecraft. and the weapons are trash they are so weak and look like noodles. dont even get me started on the armor it looks like something in a dungeon defenders game. this game has no story and is useless to the player.



everything above is nonsense ^

Should someone tell this guy that.. he is pointing at his own post too? So apparently what he wrote above the arrows is also nonsense?

Balamoor

4.5 I think the game has come a long way, the DLC's are solid though I would rather see more content even if it isn't as frequent. Lag can still be a issue.

I have to hand it to ZoS they try to communicate, despite some really toxic well orchestrated hate they keep plugging away trying to make the game better. It's come a long way in two years and I don't think they get enough credit for that.

a1i3nz

3/5 without lag. I give the world designers a lot of credit, but not the main development team. They have a lot of issues they can't seem to ever solve. Couple that with corporate greed and you have my 3 stars.

Shazgob

Ep1kMalware wrote: »

2 stars. I'd I'm feeling generous. 2 YEARS later they're still working on hase gamw patches that should have been finalized before launch. The game progresivelu runs worse, The dev team takes the appearance of ignoring the issues rather than at least saying 'hey, we get it, were working on it, here's why we can't get it done in the next couple months (valid reason, not something like we spilt coffee on our server), Here's a free costume.

We don't get that, it takes about 100 rage threads for zos to even say "we'll look into it".

Let's be fully honest, and unbiased about the situation.

-No long term engagement for endgame players, their goal is to have a target audience thay only plays an elderscrolls MMO for a few weeks at a time.

-Complete ignorance of cheating/exploiting that happens within the game, and no communication from zenimax regarding their stance.

-They have a pts, ask for people to volunteer their time testing bugs, and ignore everything they ikput.

-They push too small dlc too fast. Way too many avoidable bugs make it through. The dlc content progressively gets smaller.Most of the biggest glitches thay absolutely ruin an update honestlt should be fixed prior to release. Other games do it.

-Zenimax has absolutely no set direction where their game is headed. Both in alienation of their playerbase, weather or not it's pve or pvp based, how they're going to balance classes/roles, how they want the base game to function. These are all important design plans that should have been set in stone before PC release. Some people actually bought a ps4 or pc just to play eso, excited about the long term plan of the game. So manu gamers were ready for this type of gameplay.

I would like to speculate that the reasom zenimax is pushing smaller dlcs 'based for casuals' is because it's the best publicity they can throw themselves. Instead of a monthly membership, they decided to go buy2play. This will only woek if they can sustain a loyal and supported playerbase. Through some bad decision making, they've lost alot of that, and therefore they need to go from a sustained income from a loyal playerbase to a cashgrab stancr where they now spend their dev hours segmenting their dlc and selling them more frequently to cover the income of what *would* be from eso+ subscriptions.

Why else would they give away champion points and endgame equipment. I really want to see this vvardenfel dlc and new dungeons, but the fact remains is that the basegame is less and less play/enjoyable with each update. They're just throwing sparklies out there to catch 'new fish'. I think this whole 'we're aiming at casuals who dont care/intend to stay' is just sugar coating 'we screwed up, so we've moved onto intentionally baiting customers with shinies even if it ruins our long term subscriptions because it looks like a viable plan b'


Maybe the game will switch companies, or maybe they'll make some staffing changes. I am not coorporate zenimax, I don't know who to blame. But somebody made some lame choices and eso isn't a serious mmo anymore.

I have to agree with these points. Zenimax stopped caring long long ago, if they ever did. All of these points are valid and I've always felt if they wanted it to be geared toward casuals they should have stuck to that from the beginning, instead of releasing trials and teasing an actual end game future, only to basically let them stew in all the bugs they've had since their launches.

I don't see a new trial ANYTIME soon, and they aren't fixing the ones that are already out, it's a sad sad Tamriel.

darthsithis

Honestly, 5/5 for me. And I'm the kinda guy who only buys like one or two games a year MAX. I'm so picky, but I love that there is an mmo with a fantastic crafting system, really fun combat (l-cancel addict right here), elder scrolls lore is my favorite fantasy genre, the sewers, customizing armor nearly infinitely with colors and styles, and friendly to all types casual-to-hardcore stuff like questing vs. vmsa and wgt/icp. Also, clannfears are the coolest thing under the...nirn sun? Lol

Derra

Only rating pvp as it´s the only thing everyone in my guild including myself was ever interested in regards to this game (and it was the main advertisement/selling point prior to pc launc):

0/5

It´s literally the only game (mmo) i´ve ever played since 2001 that in regards to performance/gameplay/balance/itemisation got progressively worse over time instead of improving.
While other games got stale with time or people simply moved on to other promising (hyped) mmos this game is the first one that i actually stopped playing because of development choices/changes leading to the game becoming less enjoyable than it previously was.

It´s the worst game development i´ve ever experienced as a customer in 15 years of wasting huge amounts of time playing anything in the mmo genre.

Lava_Croft

1 out of 5 for the effort.

This game has become absolute trash, purely because of the people managing it.

Elloa

I give a 4/5

I love many aspect of this game, but there is a key aspect that really irritate me. This is the DPS inflation. It ruin the fun in PVE as healer / tank in group due to too much DPS. It makes Dungeons too easy. It make the community too focused on having as much DPS as possible to kill things even faster. It make the meta gaming concentrated on DPS, and healers and tanks are expected to contribute to DPS aswell.

I don't know if the soft cap should be re-introduced, or if the dev's need to find a way to boost Dungeons bosses and add extra mechanics to ensure that high DPS can not skip most of the tactics of an encounter.

Izaki

Taking technical issues out of consideration, I'm giving it a 4.75. Amazing design, story lines, group/solo content, etc. PvP could use some improvements (duelling, arenas etc.) but thats the only small problem I have with the actual game. Can't really rate a game on technical issues, there always will be stuff that needs fixing/adjusting/balancing. ZOS could really communicate a bit more with the community though...

Grao

3 out of 5 stars because I can't separate the game from the company that develops it. ESO has great potential, but Zenimax is disaster turned company. The profound lack of communication between them and players is model that has failed with other MMOs before leading to their downfall, besides that, there is the lack of clarity regarding exploits and cheat engines, the no number of bugs released with every expansion, the profound balance issues regarding some of the classes...

The game is great, it has amazing visuals, beautiful music, even the quests are relatively fun... It could be better in the hands of a more capable company though... It could be a lot better.

Ep1kMalware

Elloa wrote: »

I give a 4/5

I love many aspect of this game, but there is a key aspect that really irritate me. This is the DPS inflation. It ruin the fun in PVE as healer / tank in group due to too much DPS. It makes Dungeons too easy. It make the community too focused on having as much DPS as possible to kill things even faster. It make the meta gaming concentrated on DPS, and healers and tanks are expected to contribute to DPS aswell.

I don't know if the soft cap should be re-introduced, or if the dev's need to find a way to boost Dungeons bosses and add extra mechanics to ensure that high DPS can not skip most of the tactics of an encounter.

Thats what happens when content gets nerfed. we need high dps builds for cetain content to be REMOTELY poseible. dps nerfs can't happen. So we'd need buffed content instead. But we know where zos is on that stance.

Turelus

If you're a fan of Elder Scrolls and want some new content to play based in the setting it's a great game.

If you're looking for an MMO game with competitive and gripping end game or content which requires teamwork look elsewhere.

kongkim

4.5 i think. Really don't have any big problems. some pvp lag but nothing the ruins the game for me.
look very much forward to housing and love the new TG and DB

Xylphan

It's not an easy question to answer.

Potential - 10/10

This game had a lot of potential. It was one of the things that attracted me to this game in the first place. There are a number of things this game does differently that, at least for me, kept me playing.

Game and Story - 8/10

The game itself is engaging, and the graphics are well done. There's a decent story there as well. The concept of DB was a nice change (when things worked).

Execution/Management - 2/10

It's become painfully clear that something has changed in execution, and it isn't good. DB should simply have not been released in the state it was in. Releasing content with major defects reeks of deadline driven development and managers more concerned with hitting dates than making a good game. This is further reinforced by the even worse problems with the consoles.

Long standing issues aren't being addressed. Patches don't seem to fix anything but superficial bugs, and sometimes even introduce new problems. The community is being ignored (how many issues were reported in PTS but they still released anyway?).

And then there are the cheats/exploits/etc. The statements about the future direction of the game that seem to be at odds with community. Balance issues. So on and so forth.

So I think the game is great. It's probably one of the best MMOs I've played. But the execution and management of the game is what made me drop my subscription. It's kind of a weird feeling actually. I really like the game, but I just don't have the urge to play it with things as they are (and where they're going).

Silverado

4.5/5! I love eso to death and can never get enough. However to get me to add the other .5 to my rating, zos would have to communicate with us more on the forums and such.

sekou_trayvond

It is a fantastically fun game with 4 people (especially when all are friends). But, absent that, the single player experience has become boring and rote.

The mere thought of farming makes me log off and play anything else, atm.

So, unless all my friends are up for a night of Undaunted runs....meh.

FortheloveofKrist

Potential: 4.8/5
Execution: 2.5/5

Mastilicious

The game as it self (lore, content, graphics etc.) I'd rate 5/5.

Because of the bugs in the core, and *** custommer support / no fixing bugs. I rate 2/5.

Great game, but bugs in core gameplay will make you smash your computer.

Cheers.

Roechacca

25000 Stars, one for each bug. I'm seriously addicted anyways. I can't give a honest review I'm too emotionally invested.

Slylok

4 of 5. It scratches my exploration and TES itch and gives me social interaction when I want it.

I have to laugh at all these " ZOS is greedy / lazy / doesnt care.. " Completely ignoring the fact that they have improved ESO immensely over the last year. Everything takes time especially for an MMO and no MMO will ever be perfect.

Tabbycat

Almost perfect. One Tamriel will make it perfect.

hollywood

I have been playing MMO's for about 15 years and is this is easily my favorite MMO... and it's the one I least played. I started on early access , stopped for about 6 months , came back , played for about 2 months , stopped again. Came back for IC , played 1 month and quit another time , and now I've been playing for the last 2 months. I think I'm one of the players Firor mentioned on that article about One Tamriel lol.

The game is amazing , beautiful graphics , amazing lore , great gameplay.. but it's grindy. It gets stale quick. The bugs and specially the lag on Cyrodill really hurt the game. So , yeah , I'll keep playing it on and off for as long as the game is around, just don't expect me to play it for a year straight. 3,5 out of 5 stars.

C0wrex

I r8 it 8/8 cuz gr8 m8!

Neirymn

4/5, I'm one of the "lag" haters.

Zardayne

I'd say 3..and that's being generous

Loralai_907

Solid 5/7

Justice31st

Ep1kMalware wrote: »

2 stars. I'd I'm feeling generous. 2 YEARS later they're still working on hase gamw patches that should have been finalized before launch. The game progresivelu runs worse, The dev team takes the appearance of ignoring the issues rather than at least saying 'hey, we get it, were working on it, here's why we can't get it done in the next couple months (valid reason, not something like we spilt coffee on our server), Here's a free costume.

We don't get that, it takes about 100 rage threads for zos to even say "we'll look into it".

Let's be fully honest, and unbiased about the situation.

-No long term engagement for endgame players, their goal is to have a target audience thay only plays an elderscrolls MMO for a few weeks at a time.

-Complete ignorance of cheating/exploiting that happens within the game, and no communication from zenimax regarding their stance.

-They have a pts, ask for people to volunteer their time testing bugs, and ignore everything they ikput.

-They push too small dlc too fast. Way too many avoidable bugs make it through. The dlc content progressively gets smaller.Most of the biggest glitches thay absolutely ruin an update honestlt should be fixed prior to release. Other games do it.

-Zenimax has absolutely no set direction where their game is headed. Both in alienation of their playerbase, weather or not it's pve or pvp based, how they're going to balance classes/roles, how they want the base game to function. These are all important design plans that should have been set in stone before PC release. Some people actually bought a ps4 or pc just to play eso, excited about the long term plan of the game. So manu gamers were ready for this type of gameplay.

I would like to speculate that the reasom zenimax is pushing smaller dlcs 'based for casuals' is because it's the best publicity they can throw themselves. Instead of a monthly membership, they decided to go buy2play. This will only woek if they can sustain a loyal and supported playerbase. Through some bad decision making, they've lost alot of that, and therefore they need to go from a sustained income from a loyal playerbase to a cashgrab stancr where they now spend their dev hours segmenting their dlc and selling them more frequently to cover the income of what *would* be from eso+ subscriptions.

Why else would they give away champion points and endgame equipment. I really want to see this vvardenfel dlc and new dungeons, but the fact remains is that the basegame is less and less play/enjoyable with each update. They're just throwing sparklies out there to catch 'new fish'. I think this whole 'we're aiming at casuals who dont care/intend to stay' is just sugar coating 'we screwed up, so we've moved onto intentionally baiting customers with shinies even if it ruins our long term subscriptions because it looks like a viable plan b'


Maybe the game will switch companies, or maybe they'll make some staffing changes. I am not coorporate zenimax, I don't know who to blame. But somebody made some lame choices and eso isn't a serious mmo anymore.

^Finally a honest opinion. +1