Zos, you have an awesome product...

Calboy

But why are you making terrible decisions that take the fun out of the game. The only reason I play is to have fun but reading the patch notes I'm seriously considering cancelling my sub and not even purchasing DB. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Poisons are terrible in their current state and I absolutely believe you will make changes to this horrible design in the future after the entire player base warned you.

Also stam sorc... let's see. In their current state if I were to create a competitive pvp build the only skills I would have from my sorcerer lines would be atronach (for a boring passive buff), hurricane/ boundless morph of choice and possibly streak for the one or two times I can use it before my magicka is depleted. By the way no one is going to use surge now so good change there huh.

Tldr; stop ruining your game because before you know it no one will be playing.

Turelus

Have you tested any of this on the PTS or are you just going off patch notes and forums posts?

The best way to have ZOS understand there is an issue is to play the PTS and actually get some numbers/videos of the issues and show them where you think changes are required.

Most of the threads on the forums right now about the death of x are people giving knee jerk reactions (again) and none of them will even care in a months time after they adapted and moved on.

How many threads were there for Breath of Life changes pre-thieves guild? Now no one cares because the game didn't implode and die like everyone said it would.

Birdovic

@Turelus

You're asking for a Thread like this i think:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/266097/my-pts-sorcerer-experience-in-maelstrom-arena-surge-completely-inadequate#latest

The concerns are absolutely justified.

Turelus

That's fine and that's a great thread.

However what OP is doing doesn't help, it's more forums spam with no actual information.

As I still have it on my clipboard, here is a link to a thread with a post from a developer from CCP Game (makers of EVE Online) on how to post in ways which help them and get your argument across better.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/98564/how-to-make-a-developer-listen-to-you

Birdovic

Well I agree that Flaming Is not The best way to reach The devs.

Constructive Feedback and suggestions to improve The Game for everyone Is what Should Happen.

But The sad thing Is, The devs are not communicating with The playerbase enough, which Is also The reason for flame Posts etc.

People become frustrated and disappointed and thats how they Express themselves.

Its not like this Is the case for The past 2-3 months, its been like that since I can think back, and im here a Long Time now.


Lets use an Thread as example:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/266149/item-sets-available-from-rewards-for-the-worthy-bags-ap-vendors

This Thread Is Great News for PvP'ers, because its Been Something asked for a Long Time.

But Why do I use it as Exemple?
Its because of Communication.

You know, there have been Threads with 10+ pages of Players begging to know WHEN or IF at all those Sets will be useful in The Future. People begged for this simple Little Information many months, or better: Since we had v15-16 introduced.

A simple "We are working on Scaling These Sets up to V16 and include them in one of the next coming DLC's. We are hearing you, and will Provide More Info in The coming weeks."

Is enough to make People happy, informed, Hyped and satisfied enough to stop spamming or flaming. 2 sentences can calm the masses, But Even that Is barely noticeable in The forum.

Elsonso

andypappb16_ESO wrote: »

Well I agree that Flaming Is not The best way to reach The devs.

Constructive Feedback and suggestions to improve The Game for everyone Is what Should Happen.

But The sad thing Is, The devs are not communicating with The playerbase enough, which Is also The reason for flame Posts etc.

People become frustrated and disappointed and thats how they Express themselves.

Its not like this Is the case for The past 2-3 months, its been like that since I can think back, and im here a Long Time now.


Lets use an Thread as example:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/266149/item-sets-available-from-rewards-for-the-worthy-bags-ap-vendors

This Thread Is Great News for PvP'ers, because its Been Something asked for a Long Time.

But Why do I use it as Exemple?
Its because of Communication.

You know, there have been Threads with 10+ pages of Players begging to know WHEN or IF at all those Sets will be useful in The Future. People begged for this simple Little Information many months, or better: Since we had v15-16 introduced.

A simple "We are working on Scaling These Sets up to V16 and include them in one of the next coming DLC's. We are hearing you, and will Provide More Info in The coming weeks."

Is enough to make People happy, informed, Hyped and satisfied enough to stop spamming or flaming. 2 sentences can calm the masses, But Even that Is barely noticeable in The forum.

The problemwith that last paragraph is that it will not be good enough. People will quickly tire of hearing it and demand more, and dates, that they cannot provide.

I think that something that will go a lot further is "why we are doing this", and where the combat team is concerned, "and these are the numbers." They do a little of the first, and need to do like 10x more, but they will never do the latter.