Focus On Social

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As we recall from this year's Year Ahead statement, one of the key goals for ESO was a "Focus On Social"! So what are some of the features that came with this?

• Better Grouping Tool
• Random Dungeon Rewards
• Text Chat On Consoles
• One Tamriel, All Of It

Pretty impressive, I'd say! How do you all feel they did meeting the goal?

CapnPhoton

One tamriel was a huge boost for the game. The zones are alive, even in the late night hours.

FloppyTouch

If this is just based on social then they did an amazing job and got it right it's another story if you want to talk about the other points in the game they are failing in but they did make a huge improvement in the social department

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FloppyTouch wrote: »

If this is just based on social then they did an amazing job and got it right it's another story if you want to talk about the other points in the game they are failing in but they did make a huge improvement in the social department

Yeah I feel like addressing every single aspect of the game simultaneously would have been too much for a poll, so I settled with the one thing I remember them saying they wanted to focus on for the year. I'd love to do a treatment on other aspects like ability balance, content schedule, monetization strategy, etc., but I think other folks could more easily fill in the gap.

ThePaleItalian

Yea I voted this because the poll didn't seem biased at all....

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ThePaleItalian wrote: »

Yea I voted this because the poll didn't seem biased at all....

Poll is anonymous so I wouldn't normally be able to see how you voted, but since there's only one troll vote it's pretty easy to deduce. :-p

As far as the poll being biased, I'm not really sure what you're talking about. They have made progress in increasing the social functions of the game in observable, objective ways. There is literally no way you could vote below "Average Job" and actually have anything to contribute to the conversation.

Abeille

1T was a big boost on the social features, but the mail system is still awful. You would think we would at least have a reply button by now.

Oh btw I voted for "mostly good job" because 1T is still a huge improvement on the social aspect of the game, even if I'm bitter that they didn't change the quests for them to make sense.

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Abeille wrote: »

1T was a big boost on the social features, but the mail system is still awful. You would think we would at least have a reply button by now.

Oh btw I voted for "mostly good job" because 1T is still a huge improvement on the social aspect of the game, even if I'm bitter that they didn't change the quests for them to make sense.

Dang that's a good point. ZOS needs more ambitious couriers! They should grab one from the Fallout series, those folk are rambunctious as heck.

GabiAlex

Mostly good job, we still lack custom chat rooms. I know that we can be part of five guilds simultaneous but that is not enough. In TSW we had custom chat rooms like #noobmares dedicated for the players new to the end-game that were usually excluded from them because on general chat people were looking only for geared and experienced ones (and you can get both of them guess from where?).
So we can have here also custom chat rooms for experimented players that seek help with the trials or need help with some PvP lessons. Yeah, some of you may say that you can create another guild yourself for that purpose and blah blah, but forget that creating a guild for it will come with a lot of disadvantages, while having a custom chat room do not require maintenance also active GM and officers to recruit and promote it.