What happened to ESO live?

silky_soft

Was wondering if anyone know what happened to ESO live? Did I miss something where it's no longer on twitch? I could ask in zone chat, but you know how that usually turns out.

Tandor

I think they've simply been too busy to run it, although I wouldn't be surprised if the toxic nature of the Twitch chat was also a factor - I guess they don't have the luxury I have of being able to close that particular window down the moment I start watching.

Niaver

I asked @ZOS_JessicaFolsom about it just yesterday durin Xbox stream.

It is going back sometime in future, but they want to improve the show somehow, but still don't know how. Something like this..

Pallmor

Maybe they just don't have anything to say right now.

leepalmer95

They realised people don't really care to watch 2 hours of visual and audio things while questions on things that matter are ignored.

Wollust

Well.. they ignored most stuff and then picked some random irrelevant questions usually. Wasn't there even one about toilets in tamriel or some sort of bs? Like wtf

Therefore, I won't miss ESO Live at all

NewBlacksmurf

The quality was really poor.
There are people who have better shows so it's got to be something people don't want to miss or why have it.

Just record short 10 min vids and put them on the site instead.
Prob best just to participate on the forums tho.

Mojmir

It's always been eso dead. Avoiding the hard important questions while it ran as a sideshow.

Grymmoire

Just like we Tamrielians, it too lost its soul!

bottleofsyrup

From what I understand, they're pretty deep in Update 13's development right now, and likely want to wait until they have something to show to do another ESO Live.

Acrolas

Nobody wants to sit through a 1+ hour video unless it's highly entertaining or you're being tested on it. And from experience, a lot of industry support staff isn't comfortable speaking extemporaneously on filmed segments, much less live ones. And that's okay.

ESO needs a developer blog. That lets staff members say what they want, in their own voice and at their own pace. And we don't have to sift through minutes of filler talk to find information.

raidentenshu_ESO

I could never truly understand why people find it so fascinating to watch other people play videos games live. I would rather use that time and energy playing it myself rather then to watch others play.

1mirg

Acrolas wrote: »

Nobody wants to sit through a 1+ hour video unless it's highly entertaining or you're being tested on it. And from experience, a lot of industry support staff isn't comfortable speaking extemporaneously on filmed segments, much less live ones. And that's okay.

Yeah and most of the complaints which I have read about Eso Live was about the length and how "cringe" it felt to watch. Then later down the line the viewer count just dropped like a stone (if I recall right) and then later down the line they just stopped it all together.

Vaoh

I just want them to tell us about player housing already.

Like cmon plz....

More details!!!!

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Tandor wrote: »

although I wouldn't be surprised if the toxic nature of the Twitch chat was also a factor

Yeah, people asking them to address longstanding issues that have been neglected for literally years. People asking about PvP (which was ignored at the time) people asking for bug fixes, balance changes, and calling for an end to cheaters in the game. Sounds like a lot of passion but not that toxic.

Rohamad_Ali

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

although I wouldn't be surprised if the toxic nature of the Twitch chat was also a factor

Yeah, people asking them to address longstanding issues that have been neglected for literally years. People asking about PvP (which was ignored at the time) people asking for bug fixes, balance changes, and calling for an end to cheaters in the game. Sounds like a lot of passion but not that toxic.

They are probably avoiding negative publicity on their own show . Basic PR . They do not realize that addressing problems and concerns in the game industry is different then other business and is positive publicity . This is why Indy games get such loyal fan bases dispite bugs and problems . Some of those developers talk about everything openly and the players appreciate the honesty and support them longer . The game industry is so much different from retail business . Their PR people I imagine have basic college understanding or old industry values outdated .

AzuraKin

i would say as more and more people left the game, especially the hard core ones, fewer people cared to watch. gotta remember most of the game population now adays are not hard core gamers. hard core gamers tend to get into games when they first come out. also i know a lot of guilds that have left this over the last 2 years, over cp, over lack of bug fixing, destruction of balance between mage and stam, removal of soft/hard cap system. just to name some off hand.

Dubhliam

Yes, nobody wants to watch a two hour video.
They should discontinue the "live" version of their show and make shorter, edited videos of informative character.
Up to 30 minutes.

NoFlash

They are "hard" at work fixing broken pvp meta. Pve seems fine as is. JK I lied. They are working on more cash grab schemes.

Cinbri

There will be eso live when they will have something to say. Obviously, nothing for now.

KingMagaw

Last ESO LIVE shows have just been a porthole to view how incompetent the staff are, not surprised they stopped them. Was worthless anyway as they polish over important subjects like cheating and exploiting and end up gossiping about some hairstyles or some dirt.

nordsavage

They don't wanna face up and actually have to answer the hard questions or explain why they are lacking.

Lava_Croft

ESO Live was a waste of time better spent on trying to fix the broken game.

kevlarto_ESO

I enjoy the show, the guests learned a little about how things work, bring back the Lore master best shows ever. I found it funny at times always got a little info out of the show, not every show is going to address every issues and if the dev's don't know what the issues are the player base has a problem with by now then there truly is no hope LOL

I think as ZOS keeps cutting back staff and everyone seems to wear many hats, they just don't have the time or resources to keep it going every two weeks, or just not enough new things to talk about, I figure we will have one when the next update gets closer, hopefully unless they have ditched it all together which would be sad.

I never expected them to tackle the hardcore issues of the game, like cheating or exploiting, I wish they would have, but ZOS leaves me with the impression they are an over done politically correct company, and ruffling feathers is not on their agenda, it is more of a sales presentation than anything else these days, all gaming companies do it they put spins on everything trying to make you feel like the game is all lollipops and rainbows.

runagate

They probably decided that since their PR people won't let them tell us anything anyways instead of getting us excited about content they'd just cancel the whole farce of answering questions almost no one wants the answers to.

NewBlacksmurf

Acrolas wrote: »

Nobody wants to sit through a 1+ hour video unless it's highly entertaining or you're being tested on it. And from experience, a lot of industry support staff isn't comfortable speaking extemporaneously on filmed segments, much less live ones. And that's okay.

ESO needs a developer blog. That lets staff members say what they want, in their own voice and at their own pace. And we don't have to sift through minutes of filler talk to find information.

This is spot on