Rate ESO!

Vanthras79

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

The game is becoming more and more like a proper Elder Scrolls game. We just need: (1) player storage in our houses, (2) spells from the schools of magic, (3) a better library system (one book per crammed shelf is really game-breaking), and (4) more areas to travel to on the map. This game can only become more and more of what would constitute an Elder Scrolls game proper and then some. They should keep up the good work and consider the possibilities for the future of game-immersion.

AnviOfVai

The game is unplayable. It needs to be fixed asap.

Ehh it CAN be unplayable, and it needs serious fixing. I left ESO for a while but there is such a PULL on this game that I always want to come back..SWTOR has been a good distraction, and I have started to download Saints row the third to play again! Its still my favorite PVP game, but PVP has gone down so fast, that it needs a serious overhaul to be able to reach the levels of other games that are soon to be releasing. I am pretty sure that once Red dead 2 is released I will be gone haha

OldGamerESO

Fantastic! Keep it up!

Amazing game. Its doesn't matter how much I play there seems to be an endless amount of content I haven't done yet. I still have 50 percent Thieves Guild to do, haven't started Dark Brotherhood (looking forward to that), tons of achievements left, open world content, quest lines, PvP goals, etc. Not to mention alts to level and gear and master. And money to make, motifs to collect, etc. I probably have 2 more years of gaming even if they don't add anything.

RebornV3x

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

There's a lot that needs to be improved upon in this game

ComboBreaker88

The game is unplayable. It needs to be fixed asap.

RebornV3x wrote: »

There's a lot that needs to be improved upon in this game

I agree do you have a list of improvements you would like to see?

ThePaleItalian

It's pretty good. Could use some small tweaks.

It is a great game for me. Not white knighting or fanboying either.

It needs to separate PvE and PvP a lot more.
Token system or something for Monster shoulders.
See above, same with Arena.

@ComboBreaker88

Just curious, at what point is CP considered "Veteran"?

I played on Beta on PC before jumping over to PS4. Watched the entire life of the game. Just asking.

FLuFFyxMuFFiN

Fantastic! Keep it up!

Define unplayable. I can run the game perfectly fine with little to no issues.

BigBragg

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Customer support is really, really bad, if they even decide to answer.

Bug fixes could be more aggressively handled.

Better communication with the community in general.

The recent marketing direction leaves me wanting to be other games for the prices and spending less time and money in ESO. I have ESO+ on a six month cycle, and buy additional Crowns for items I like. There have been items I was looking forward to, and lost interest after they got pushed out due to a difference in perceived value.

I suppose those are mostly a review of Zenimax Online as opposed to Elder Scrolls Online. Those are also just opinions of mine and everyone, especially on the internet, has their own.

ComboBreaker88

The game is unplayable. It needs to be fixed asap.

BigBragg wrote: »

Customer support is really, really bad, if they even decide to answer.

Bug fixes could be more aggressively handled.

Better communication with the community in general.

The recent marketing direction leaves me wanting to be other games for the prices and spending less time and money in ESO. I have ESO+ on a six month cycle, and buy additional Crowns for items I like. There have been items I was looking forward to, and lost interest after they got pushed out due to a difference in perceived value.

I suppose those are mostly a review of Zenimax Online as opposed to Elder Scrolls Online. Those are also just opinions of mine and everyone, especially on the internet, has their own.

Yeah there does seem to be plenty of money gtabbing going on.

playsforfun

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

I think the concept is good but it's not been executed correctly

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

I've been playing since beta and I have to be honest, if it were not an Elder Scrolls game, I would not play ESO.

It's not dreadful, but I'd only mark it 6/10:

• It's archaic in performance terms, despite being fairly old hat now graphically.
• The PvP is horrid.
• The PvE combat is not bad, but is quite unengaging.
• There's a serious dearth of content
• One Tamriel was in many ways a good idea, but what little meaningful progression there was, has gone with the battle-levelling making all zones the same
• The dungeons are the most mechanically dumb and unchallenging of any MMO I have ever played
• Very little end game content, even after 3 years
• Constant balancing means respeccing chars over and over
• Crafting is meangingless (and I speak as a Master Crafter)
• Housing is half-assed and pointless (and I speak as the owner of an empty and boring manor)
• Customer support is the worst of any subscription game I've played
• Lots of gouging of customers going on but not a lot of real content being delivered in return, it's all cash shop tat

That said, it does tend to capture the Elder Scrolls feel pretty well, so I play it for that reason. But as soon as a real single player TES game comes out, I'll be off. As soon as Witcher 3 came out, I dropped ESO for 6 months, it just can't compete with a properly developed game. For example, in MMO terms, FF14 walks all over ESO, but of course, it's not an Elder Scrolls game, so I get my fix here for now.

flguy147ub17_ESO

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

I have a love/hate with it. So many incredible things with the game but so many horrible things. So why am i playing it then? Well its because the MMO market is horrible right now. If this was 2008 i would not be playing this game at all but its just there isnt really any other AAA MMOs out there to play right now. And most things on the horizon are kickstarter stuff.

Ch4mpTW

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

The game in and of itself is fun at its core. Plus, ZOS seems to be adding things to the game which makes things more and more entertaining and interesting as time goes on (e.g. Alliances mingling in PvE, housing, VMA, VMoL, master writs, etch).

However, there are numerous things that need to be done to clean the game up. There needs to be a separation of balancing between PvE and PvP. Either that, or remove PvP all together (in my opinion). A lot of the game has taken blows, and things have been nerfed in an attempt to balance things around players fighting other players. Rather than players competing numerous of content at hand. ZOS also needs to get a stronger focus on dealing with bugs and other performance-related issues, as often times than not, things carry on for months. This should not be, if better testing and examining is done. As well as when players are often thoroughly explaining what the problem is, and where it is. Leaving it to ZOS to only go on and make said adjustments. Last but certainly not least, there needs to be something done about RNG. This is because, the large amount of layers of RNG this game has is dragging it down. There's no reason why a token system in certain areas of the game can't be implemented, if it'll make a vast majority of the player base happy (as shown with the numerous polls people have made regarding them).

Lord_Eomer

It's pretty good. Could use some small tweaks.

I am not dissapointed much with next patch,

In PVP, they did this to kill heavy armor unkillable builds,

Now more players will tend to use med/light and tanks will only use heavy armor..

Due to these changes PVE is much affected but in current state evryone is doing great. Soloing group contents because of broken sustain.

I can see new changes are not worst but for the better.

Some changes to skills are poorly done but CP changes are good

Lysette

I cannot really vote on this - the game is good, the company running it is bad - so this is my opinion about it.

Balamoor

Fantastic! Keep it up!

So the vast majority has a positive opinion on the game.

No surprise.

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Balamoor wrote: »

So the vast majority has a positive opinion on the game.

No surprise.

Well, one will not be registered on the forum if one does not have an above average level of interest in the game, which tends to indicate a certain level of positivity for all of us here. It's a bit like going to a Mercedes dealer and asking the customers therein if they like Mercedes cars. Although for ESO, I feel it's more of a Vauxhall dealer.

It's not a bad game, I play it most weeks, but it needs some serious attention to bring it up to the quality level of the single player TES games. Would be really nice to see ZOS do this, but I think the fact the entire MMO market is mostly garbage (FF14 excepted) means there's little commercial incentive for ZOS to exploit the tremendous potential ESO actually has.

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Lysette wrote: »

I cannot really vote on this - the game is good, the company running it is bad - so this is my opinion about it.

That's pretty much what I've always said. A fairly decent game run by imbeciles.

Anlaemar

Fantastic! Keep it up!

kwisatz wrote: »

Actually, where I stand is somewhere between "Pretty good" and "Fantastic".
Definitely, it could use some tweaks and improvements, especially for Cyrodiil.

So my response more accurate would be:
Fantastic! Keep it up! But it needs serious improvements, some tweaks as well, and a few things need to be fixed ASAP.

Happy player... not blind player.

I'm more along these lines. I love this game. I tried quitting, but can't. It's the only MMO that is sticking to me out of the ones that are out. Despite how much I love it, I know it still needs work.

Would love to have that token system or a recrafting system to change traits and styles. That's one of the big hitters for a lot of people mindlessly grinding.

Browiseth

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

game is broken but it's fun to play

it's shocking that zos has allowed it to get this bad

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Browiseth wrote: »

game is broken but it's fun to play

it's shocking that zos has allowed it to get this bad

I honestly think they don't know what they are doing strategically and have a very weak development team. The game seems to have no vision driving it forward in a coherent direction.

I mean, let's face it, as intellectual properties go, it does not get much better than The Elder Scrolls. But this game is really only a 6/10 type of game, there's nothing outstanding about it at all, and yet, there really could be with some vision at the top and a capable development team to make that vision a reality.

If this were not an Elder Scrolls game, no one would give it the time of day, that's the crux of it.

Huyen

It's pretty good. Could use some small tweaks.

It could use some tweaks, but thats the case with any game people play these days. Personal preference eh?

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

It needs strong senior management to look at the game and say, "right, let's break down the components that make up this game and see what's good about each and keep that, then bin the crap bits. What have we got then?"

"Ok, combat, that's ok, we like the resource model but instead of nerfing every ability into a blancmanche that's just the same ability across different chars, let's leave the strengths in there and counter in other ways. Let's allow NBs to be stealthy glass cannons that are able to one-shot you if you're not an aware player, instead of catering to every PvP cry baby.

OK, PvP, are we keeping it in game, yes or no? If yes, let's just *** fix it and start by giving ourselves the flexiblity to do that by tearing it away from PvE, then we have the mandate and the ability to properly fix PvP instead of just pissing about around the edges.

Right PvE, what do people like about that? They like dungeons, well let's give them some challenging mechanics then, instead of this tired predictable garbage that a 3 year old could learn to faceroll.

Crafting, are we keeping this in game? Yes? Ok, let's give people proper crafting that matters, jewellery, trait change, style change for a commensurate learning cost. Instead of crafting being a 6 month grind with *** all at the end, let's reward people for choosing it as their trade. Let's give them something others do not have, rather than crafting be the empty and pointless minigame that we've currently given players".

Etc, etc. But I don't think ZOS will do it, the management of the game is incredibly weak and without foresight or perspicacity.

Browiseth

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

praglaud wrote: »

Browiseth wrote: »

game is broken but it's fun to play

it's shocking that zos has allowed it to get this bad

I mean, let's face it, as intellectual properties go, it does not get much better than The Elder Scrolls.

@praglaud nnnnnnoooo it gets much, much, much better than the elder scrolls, or even bethesda games in general

don't get me wrong i'm a fan, but the quality of this franchise is no where near as high as its fanbase or media outlets like to pretend; especially if we compare them to proper western roleplaying games like Dragon Age, The Witcher or even Fallout: New Vegas (not a bethesda game)

Archemedes

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Compared to the other options out there it is ok but that's like having to choose between sour milk or bitter wine. Not encouraging either with the push for expansion while there are simple bugs like running on mounts, npcs falling through floors, and lag spikes. Also not a fan of what seems to be the everything new gets thrown into crown crates model. Even just giving my character a basic hair cut costs 1000 crowns or approximately $10. I can get a real hair cut for that price.
6 out of 10 with a lot of room for improvement.

kyle.wilson

I'm seriously considering leavin ESO.

I love the game, but I feel that the management of the game doesn't care about the customers.
Major bugs aren't being fixed in a timely manner, the streak bug should've been fixed weeks ago.
And, a pvp server that is a joke for the amount of lag it has during prime time.

The presence of ZOs employees on the sight seem minimal. They need to contribute more to posts, a read only approach only make the company seem disinterested in maintaining a thriving community.

raglau

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

Browiseth wrote: »

praglaud wrote: »

Browiseth wrote: »

game is broken but it's fun to play

it's shocking that zos has allowed it to get this bad

I mean, let's face it, as intellectual properties go, it does not get much better than The Elder Scrolls.

@praglaud nnnnnnoooo it gets much, much, much better than the elder scrolls, or even bethesda games in general

don't get me wrong i'm a fan, but the quality of this franchise is no where near as high as its fanbase or media outlets like to pretend; especially if we compare them to proper western roleplaying games like Dragon Age, The Witcher or even Fallout: New Vegas (not a
bethesda game)

@Browiseth I feel I was not clear in my post.

In quality terms, I agree entirely; there is no comparison between Witcher and TES, as an example. But in captive audience terms, TES IP has some significant pulling power. I feel it's peculiar that ZOS is incapable of capitalising on this. If you go to any Elder Scrolls site that is not an ESO site, the majority of TES fans will say they did try ESO but find it horrid and are simply re-playing Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind while waiting for TES 6.

So whilst the majority of people playing this game are only here due to a strong TES history, myself for example, it seems ZOS turned off most of the TES fan base with ESO. Somehow the bozos at ZOS only caught a sliver of their target market, whereas it should have been like shooting fish in a barrel.

[Deleted User]

I'm seriously considering leavin ESO.

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psychotic13

Fantastic! Keep it up!

Still here for a reason

Shader_Shibes

It's ok but needs some serious improvements.

An 8 now, soon to be a 1.