Why are you locking an event behind forced grouping?

Zorvan

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Jade1986

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Its an mmo for gods sake. Dont expect to get everything by being antisocial! Yeesh.

TequilaFire

Wrong, it is an MMO, won't kill you to group up once.

Taylor_MB

Well looks like you can get 4 solo'ers together and finish the dungeon 4x quicker.

Zorvan

Jade1986 wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Its an mmo for gods sake. Dont expect to get everything by being antisocial! Yeesh.

Guess what? MMO doesn't mean forced grouping, it just means other people are in the same world as you. Also, again, most players in ESO solo.

JamieAubrey

Ooh this is news to me, also some normal delves can be solo'd, I'm looking at you FG 1

Zorvan

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Ooh this is news to me, also some normal delves can be solo'd, I'm looking at you FG 1

Yeah, if it required just running a dungeon that'd be fine.Tying it to dungeon finder however means group or no soup.

phileunderx2

Easy way to do this is roll a new character. Get them to level 10 .make a healer or tank. Que for random. This way you will get all easy dungeons . Even better if you have cp to give your baby character.

TequilaFire

And guess what, just like other RNG crates you will have to do it more than once to get something other than the normal junk.
So suck it up or just pass on it.

Gandrhulf_Harbard

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

95% of my total play time in ESO has been soloed.

But even I use Group Finder once a day for the Daily Dungeon Bonus.

It is not hard, taxing, socially awkward to join a Queue run a dungeon and log out. If I can do it, anyone can.

All The Best

Shardan4968

It's not problem for me that I must group and do dungeons with people. It's problem that I'm forced to do propably White-Gold Tower and Ruins of Mazzatun everyday.

OutLaw_Nynx

Ps, OP, this isn’t Skyrim. Don’t get bitter because you have to play with other people.

paulsimonps

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Its a MULTIPLAYER GAME.

Huyen

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Not sure if you noticed, but its an MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online). So its normal to put things behind group-events. If you dont like it, go play Skyrim instead.

Bhaal5

Or here and idea
Use your guilds, fill the spots and then use group finder. Then you can be social with your guildies/mates

Jade1986

Zorvan wrote: »

Jade1986 wrote: »

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Its an mmo for gods sake. Dont expect to get everything by being antisocial! Yeesh.

Guess what? MMO doesn't mean forced grouping, it just means other people are in the same world as you. Also, again, most players in ESO solo.

Well then, good on ZoS for appealing to more than one crowd. And I am pretty sure the majority do more than one thing.

kaiage

massively singleplayer online game.

VaranisArano

ZOS uses the events to get people to play different aspects of the game.

Witchmother's Festival makes people kill dungeon bosses in delves, dolmens, dungeons and trials.
New Life Festival makes people go to a ton of zones and learn how to fish.
Jester's Festival makes people steal. Oh the complaints from the paladin characters about stealing on the Princess the pig quest!
Midyear Mayhem was 2 solid weeks of glorious forced PVP!. (I mean you could get your AP by repairing walls and questing, but who did that?

The last crown crate reward event made people log on and kill an enemy.

This reward event is focusing on getting people into the group dungeons, right after ZOS just changed the group finder level requirements to better reflect dungeon difficulty. That sounds right in line with some of the other things that ZOS has tried to use events to get players to do during events.

paulsimonps

VaranisArano wrote: »

ZOS uses the events to get people to play different aspects of the game.

Witchmother's Festival makes people kill dungeon bosses in delves, dolmens, dungeons and trials.
New Life Festival makes people go to a ton of zones and learn how to fish.
Jester's Festival makes people steal. Oh the complaints from the paladin characters about stealing on the Princess the pig quest!
Midyear Mayhem was 2 solid weeks of glorious forced PVP!. (I mean you could get your AP by repairing walls and questing, but who did that?

The last crown crate reward event made people log on and kill an enemy.

This reward event is focusing on getting people into the group dungeons, right after ZOS just changed the group finder level requirements to better reflect dungeon difficulty. That sounds right in line with some of the other things that ZOS has tried to use events to get players to do during events.

This is a very well explained post, well done sir, have an awesome.

LordGavus

VaranisArano wrote: »

ZOS uses the events to get people to play different aspects of the game.

Witchmother's Festival makes people kill dungeon bosses in delves, dolmens, dungeons and trials.
New Life Festival makes people go to a ton of zones and learn how to fish.
Jester's Festival makes people steal. Oh the complaints from the paladin characters about stealing on the Princess the pig quest!
Midyear Mayhem was 2 solid weeks of glorious forced PVP!. (I mean you could get your AP by repairing walls and questing, but who did that?

The last crown crate reward event made people log on and kill an enemy.

This reward event is focusing on getting people into the group dungeons, right after ZOS just changed the group finder level requirements to better reflect dungeon difficulty. That sounds right in line with some of the other things that ZOS has tried to use events to get players to do during events.

Nailed it.
There's really nothing more to add.

Tandor

Zorvan wrote: »

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/10millionstories

Event is live from Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. EST until Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. EST. Complete a random dungeon via the Dungeon Finder – Normal or Veteran mode – to earn a Mysterious Reward Box. This curious cache could contain loads of awesome in-game rewards: consumables, pets, costumes, and even a massive collection of super rare mounts and houses. You can obtain a Mysterious Reward Box once per day per character.

You know the majority of your players solo, right?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

True, but then most players don't PvP either. The fact remains that some players focus on grouping, some players focus on PvP and it is right that those players get their turn at a DLC targeted at their playstyle and also get an event targeted at their playstyle.

I have zero interest in either group or PvP activities but I welcome the fact that ZOS doesn't leave those activities out of their development of the game.

If it also serves as an encouragement to players to try different a different aspect of the game then that has to be a good thing too.

zaria

Shardan4968 wrote: »

It's not problem for me that I must group and do dungeons with people. It's problem that I'm forced to do propably White-Gold Tower and Ruins of Mazzatun everyday.

That problem has been solved, low level players will not be queued for dlc dungeons anymore.
As another effect I hardly ever get dlc dungeons as random normal.

agingerinohio

A majority of the players are not solo, seeing as how this is an MMO. I think it's great they're doing things like this. Changes stuff up. Why must people complain?

coop500

I'm so looking forward to this event, been beefing up toons I haven't touched in months just to prepare.

EvilCroc

You do not need to communicate with the group. Look at this like public dungeon with random players wandering around and killing same mobs as you. It works for normal dungeons.

They are not "other players", they are just advanced AI.

altemriel

LOL, people just do not get enought, every time someone "must" complain....

LadyNalcarya

There are plenty of solo events already, and its nice to have a dungeon-focused event once in a while. You get the same reward for normal difficulty so no one is actually excluded.
And let's not forget that its very unlikely to get something valuable anyway. I think that those boxes will have a 99% chance to drop an equivalent of laurel branch or worms from Halloween event... Or something like that.

Tandor wrote: »

If it also serves as an encouragement to players to try different a different aspect of the game then that has to be a good thing too.

This! Its more important that some people seem to think.
When I bought this game, I thought I'd just play solo. But when I tried group content, I actually liked it, even though I was really biased ( I thought I wouldnt even touch those group dungeons with a 10 foot pole).
Of course, everyones experience is different, but I'm pretty sure I'm not unique.

Zorvan

“We don’t even use the term MMO with The Elder Scrolls Online anymore, because really it’s not,” game director Matt Firor says. “MMO was a term coined in 1997 with Ultima Online, EverQuest, and Dark Age of Camelot – we are not that game.”

https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited/the-elder-scrolls-online-MMORPG

Reverb

Cite your sources for "the majority of your players solo".

Then go stand in line behind the "why are you locking an event behind PvP?", "why do you force questing for events?", "not fair that event achievements require dlc", "my local laws don't allow me to participate in the contest, shame on Zeni for being compliant with laws and denying me free stuff" complainers.

Jawasa

You have had your over world events no it's time for a dungeon event. Btw dont pretend every1 play the way you do. Please present some data that proves your point of.

Woeler

You're not on the skyrim forums.