Why is ZOS so biased towards PC players ?

menedhyn

lordrichter wrote:

As it turns out, "console company" is the standard answer to everything asked

lordrichter wrote:

Personally, I view the benefit of being able to sit in the family room and play ESO on the TV to be offset by having to deal with Microsoft and Sony in everything else about the game.

Well said, and so is everything else in between.

It's been an uneasy relationship for me too, so much so that i'm moving to PC soon. And for what it's worth, @D3x, I think you're entitled to be a little bit salty

D3x

menedhyn wrote: »

lordrichter wrote:

As it turns out, "console company" is the standard answer to everything asked

lordrichter wrote:

Personally, I view the benefit of being able to sit in the family room and play ESO on the TV to be offset by having to deal with Microsoft and Sony in everything else about the game.

Well said, and so is everything else in between.

It's been an uneasy relationship for me too, so much so that i'm moving to PC soon. And for what it's worth, @D3x, I think you're entitled to be a little bit salty

same i'd move aswell but recently bought xbox and dont wanna waste more buying a high end PC, but yeah its fair enough I guess

old_mufasa

Berenhir wrote: »

Well ZOS is actually biased towards consoles, not PC. If this game would not be required to run on consoles, the whole engine would be much faster, the graphics nicer, the handling better etc...

Sadly there are many people out there who want to play on their TV and dont know how to get a controler to work with their PC or connect TV and PC. So we probably will have to deal with games that need to be crippled for consoles in the future as well

/cough what a load of BS!!

The game came out on PC.. guess what the graphics were made for and only for PC.. it wasn't until the PC crowed failed at supporting the game that Zenimax had to resort to non subscription business model and open it up to the console market...

D3x

old_mufasa wrote: »

Berenhir wrote: »

Well ZOS is actually biased towards consoles, not PC. If this game would not be required to run on consoles, the whole engine would be much faster, the graphics nicer, the handling better etc...

Sadly there are many people out there who want to play on their TV and dont know how to get a controler to work with their PC or connect TV and PC. So we probably will have to deal with games that need to be crippled for consoles in the future as well

/cough what a load of BS!!

The game came out on PC.. guess what the graphics were made for and only for PC.. it wasn't until the PC crowed failed at supporting the game that Zenimax had to resort to non subscription business model and open it up to the console market...

True!

Elsonso

D3x wrote: »

old_mufasa wrote: »

Berenhir wrote: »

Well ZOS is actually biased towards consoles, not PC. If this game would not be required to run on consoles, the whole engine would be much faster, the graphics nicer, the handling better etc...

Sadly there are many people out there who want to play on their TV and dont know how to get a controler to work with their PC or connect TV and PC. So we probably will have to deal with games that need to be crippled for consoles in the future as well

/cough what a load of BS!!

The game came out on PC.. guess what the graphics were made for and only for PC.. it wasn't until the PC crowed failed at supporting the game that Zenimax had to resort to non subscription business model and open it up to the console market...

True!

Not true.

Sigtric

D3x wrote: »

old_mufasa wrote: »

Berenhir wrote: »

Well ZOS is actually biased towards consoles, not PC. If this game would not be required to run on consoles, the whole engine would be much faster, the graphics nicer, the handling better etc...

Sadly there are many people out there who want to play on their TV and dont know how to get a controler to work with their PC or connect TV and PC. So we probably will have to deal with games that need to be crippled for consoles in the future as well

/cough what a load of BS!!

The game came out on PC.. guess what the graphics were made for and only for PC.. it wasn't until the PC crowed failed at supporting the game that Zenimax had to resort to non subscription business model and open it up to the console market...

True!

False!

The game was originally supposed to come out for PC and console at roughly the same time, and they realized what they had for console did not meet their expectations shortly before launch, and delayed the console version by about a year to make it better.

We’re very excited to announce that ESO is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in addition to the PC and Mac. You’ll be able to play the game on any of these platforms in Spring 2014—we can’t wait to see you in-game!

http://tamrielfoundry.com/2013/06/e3-announcement-consoles/

idk

@D3x

You need to realize, understand that you chose to play on a platform that's controlled by a third party. As such there are limitations and your complaints are due to those limitations. Nothing more, nothing less.

PC is controlled by the user and user alone. As such Zos is free to do what they deem necessary or desired.

Cously

Because of console players we have the monstruous quickslot system and few skill slots. Say the game is biased towards PC makes me laugh.

old_mufasa

Sigtric wrote: »

D3x wrote: »

old_mufasa wrote: »

Berenhir wrote: »

Well ZOS is actually biased towards consoles, not PC. If this game would not be required to run on consoles, the whole engine would be much faster, the graphics nicer, the handling better etc...

Sadly there are many people out there who want to play on their TV and dont know how to get a controler to work with their PC or connect TV and PC. So we probably will have to deal with games that need to be crippled for consoles in the future as well

/cough what a load of BS!!

The game came out on PC.. guess what the graphics were made for and only for PC.. it wasn't until the PC crowed failed at supporting the game that Zenimax had to resort to non subscription business model and open it up to the console market...

True!

False!

The game was originally supposed to come out for PC and console at roughly the same time, and they realized what they had for console did not meet their expectations shortly before launch, and delayed the console version by about a year to make it better.

We’re very excited to announce that ESO is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in addition to the PC and Mac. You’ll be able to play the game on any of these platforms in Spring 2014—we can’t wait to see you in-game!

http://tamrielfoundry.com/2013/06/e3-announcement-consoles/

False.. it was delayed a year because of how bad it was doing on the PC.. and so they delayed to just role it into a non sub based game... The game was a mess at release.. so don't blame the consoles.. the game started to fail right out the door on the PC.. that was the major cause of the delays as the open beta for the PC showed massive bugs.. and the lack of financial support from the PC players forced them to redesign there whole business model further delaying it. I remember how bad the game was running on the PC during the beta.. the amount of bugs was insane, to broken quests, combat mechanics, horrible lag.. the pvp was unbearable.. fact is the game wasn't even ready for the PC market.. that has nothing to do with consoles.

As far as other issue the OP was complaining about.. the PTS is a stupid thing to complain about.. as its pretty common knowledge that do to the certification system consoles have that having a PTS on a console would be pointless as it would take to long to patch the PTS for minor or major tweaks before release to the main game...

But he has a valid point on the subscription costs.. why is it the xbox one is the ONLY one that you cant do 3 and 6 months subs while you can on the PC/PS4... other Xbox one games allow 6 month subs...

AS far as bias in regards for the console.. that's a load of crap.. how long did consoles have to wait for a simple chat.. that's beyond basic.. hell DC universe just came to the xbox and has a better LFG and chat system.. let alone some very bad optimization on all systems..

There is no reason they cant use a high end texture pack for pc.. they as a developer are deciding not to... and remember this game started to be developed in 2007 by the time it was out it was use old graphic engines anyhow...

Now maybe with the Scorpio and Neo coming out next year they maybe willing to add a high end texture pack for the game as the gap between those new consoles and gaming pc was be much shorter.

jaye63

I wanna know why you cant play ESO on Nintendo! (Joke but would be nice to know why not)