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ZOS is updating Crown Store WAY FASTER than updating the game itself.
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Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
uh. league and Fornite are not MMO's and the only content updates they have are maps and occasional new hero.
WoW and FF14 are not even remotely free - they are paid expansions, subscription required. so no, those updates are NOT free. and they are most certainly NOT as quick as you say you are, i mean.. WoW balances combat what.. once a year, maybe at most? they have also been known to go without content updates for 6 months or more, AND they have also been known to release a patch that adds ability to take screenshots in game in a new way and post them on twitter and called it full fledged game update, so...
but anyways, what other people said. balancing takes a lot more time and completely different tool set from designing an outfit or a pet/mount recolor and making it available for sale.
so, ESO doesn't have sub? With paid DLCs every 3 months, and a new expansion every year, compare to FF14 and WOW getting only 1 expansion every 2 years?0 -
Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.
Considering Summerset, good story lines, good zone and a new trial. Yes, the content development team is doing great.
Well, Summerset is like a 8/10, so no argue there. But man, the crown store and crown crate are fast to update.0 -
EölMPK✭✭✭I see your point, and I respect that, but I can't say I'm 100 on itApples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
As expected, nothing new here.
You can't compare this things dude. Its the same as saying:
"Ohhhh, your car shop takes sooooo long to fix cars, but your stamps shop is always up to date to sell new stamps! This is an absurd!"
Come on, not even hard to see or understand that....
PS: Never saw a bad upgrade in ESO, its just your opinion.Edited by EölMPK on June 18, 2018 2:52PMEöl[MPK]
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Considering Summerset, good story lines, good zone and a new trial. Yes, the content development team is doing great.
Well, Summerset is like a 8/10, so no argue there. But man, the crown store and crown crate are fast to update.
Sorry to hear you are so miserable in this game.
As is clear by the replies in this thread your tainted view is not shared by most. Not even close.
4 content updates a year as we got this past year is a pretty solid pace for any MMORPG. So if you are really that miserable in this game, vs just having a bad day, I suggest finding something else to do. ESO may not be the game for you.1 -
Lord_Eomer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Some valid points. Others, not so much.You just joined in April 2017, barely an year and started complaining crown store.
Crown store is not getting much updates, monthly update or crown crate per quarter is not lot of updates0 -
red_emu✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
Now I gotta go get me some OJ.PC - EU:
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EölMPK✭✭✭I see your point, and I respect that, but I can't say I'm 100 on itLord_Dexter wrote: »You just joined in April 2017, barely an year and started complaining crown store.
Crown store is not getting much updates, monthly update or crown crate per quarter is not lot of updates
I was wondering the same thing lol
Dude must be used to a game without shops.Eöl[MPK]
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Eölbr - Dunmer magicka necro
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These songs of hobbits, dwarves and men, and elves
Come close your eyes, you can see them too..."0 -
redshirt_49✭✭✭✭Quick, someone get these people a crash course in game development and marketing economics, stat!
Seriously, the crown store stuff is planned months and even years in advance by a completely seperate team of developers and artists. It's implementation is also a hundred times simpler than sifting through hundreds of thousands of line of code to iron out bugs, only to create new ones and then iron those out too.
In a game as massive as this, adding things is easy but fixing stuff is generally not.
So often I come here and see people demanding immediate fixes on very complex problems, demonstrating a remarkable ignorance on just how hard these problems can be to even pin down, never mind fix.4 -
Samadhi✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
Some plants are more easy to grow and more hearty than others, making them more lucrative
some even propagate like weeds
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- the 14th Dalai Lama
Wisdom is doing Now that which benefits you later.
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✭✭✭Totally agree.Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
Some plants are more easy to grow and more hearty than others, making them more lucrative
some even propagate like weeds
Weeds is fake !
Is real !0 -
Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
As expected, nothing new here.
You can't compare this things dude. Its the same as saying:
"Ohhhh, your car shop takes sooooo long to fix cars, but your stamps shop is always up to date to sell new stamps! This is an absurd!"
Come on, not even hard to see or understand that....
PS: Never saw a bad upgrade in ESO, its just your opinion.
The car shop has nothing to do with the stamp shop. But the crown store team and balancing team is in the same company, and working on the same game. Your point is totally invalid.0 -
Sovjet✭✭✭Where is the option, this is normal behaviour for a MMO
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Samadhi✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
Some plants are more easy to grow and more hearty than others, making them more lucrative
some even propagate like weeds
Weeds is fake !
Is real !
Well, with Crown Shop and Loot Boxes,
gotta change the laws if you want to change the industry practices
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Wisdom is doing Now that which benefits you later.
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Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.Lord_Dexter wrote: »You just joined in April 2017, barely an year and started complaining crown store.
Crown store is not getting much updates, monthly update or crown crate per quarter is not lot of updates
I was wondering the same thing lol
Dude must be used to a game without shops.
April 2017 is the day I joined this forum. I've been playing this game since 2016.1 -
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✭✭✭I think they need to hold off on the new dlc and prioritize a QoL and balance update, bug fixes and lag fix update0 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
As expected, nothing new here.
You can't compare this things dude. Its the same as saying:
"Ohhhh, your car shop takes sooooo long to fix cars, but your stamps shop is always up to date to sell new stamps! This is an absurd!"
Come on, not even hard to see or understand that....
PS: Never saw a bad upgrade in ESO, its just your opinion.
The car shop has nothing to do with the stamp shop. But the crown store team and balancing team is in the same company, and working on the same game. Your point is totally invalid.
and your point in the OP is pretty invalid. That has been clearly pointed out many time in this short thread. Has anyone actually agreed with you on this? Seems you are clearly wrong.1 -
Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.redshirt_49 wrote: »Quick, someone get these people a crash course in game development and marketing economics, stat!
Seriously, the crown store stuff is planned months and even years in advance by a completely seperate team of developers and artists. It's implementation is also a hundred times simpler than sifting through hundreds of thousands of line of code to iron out bugs, only to create new ones and then iron those out too.
In a game as massive as this, adding things is easy but fixing stuff is generally not.
So often I come here and see people demanding immediate fixes on very complex problems, demonstrating a remarkable ignorance on just how hard these problems can be to even pin down, never mind fix.
I'm not opposing ZOS focusing on Crown store for money (because damn, money is the final goal here). The thing is, with all of those money they've already been generating, how put some of those money into the game balancing team?1 -
Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
As expected, nothing new here.
You can't compare this things dude. Its the same as saying:
"Ohhhh, your car shop takes sooooo long to fix cars, but your stamps shop is always up to date to sell new stamps! This is an absurd!"
Come on, not even hard to see or understand that....
PS: Never saw a bad upgrade in ESO, its just your opinion.
The car shop has nothing to do with the stamp shop. But the crown store team and balancing team is in the same company, and working on the same game. Your point is totally invalid.
and your point in the OP is pretty invalid. That has been clearly pointed out many time in this short thread. Has anyone actually agreed with you on this? Seems you are clearly wrong.
Have you looked at the polls?0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
uh. league and Fornite are not MMO's and the only content updates they have are maps and occasional new hero.
WoW and FF14 are not even remotely free - they are paid expansions, subscription required. so no, those updates are NOT free. and they are most certainly NOT as quick as you say you are, i mean.. WoW balances combat what.. once a year, maybe at most? they have also been known to go without content updates for 6 months or more, AND they have also been known to release a patch that adds ability to take screenshots in game in a new way and post them on twitter and called it full fledged game update, so...
but anyways, what other people said. balancing takes a lot more time and completely different tool set from designing an outfit or a pet/mount recolor and making it available for sale.
so, ESO doesn't have sub? With paid DLCs every 3 months, and a new expansion every year, compare to FF14 and WOW getting only 1 expansion every 2 years?
optional subscription. optional vs mandatory. DLC's are only paid if you chose not to subscribe and again, they are ALSO optional. its totally fine not to buy them, unlike WoW or FF14 where you HAVE to buy expansions to keep participating in end game. you can litteraly play ESO for years while only having a base game and still play with people at end game. you won't be able to do all the dungeons and trials, but you can STILL do non DLC dungeons and trials and they are STILL being run.
and did you just.... did you just prove my point where you agreed that they release expansion content less often than ESO does? and you are still complaining about ESO content release content while comparing it to games that release content LESS often? and STILL have cash shop? that gets updates almost as often as ESO does? yes, that includes WoW.
dirty worthless casual.
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Cpt_Teemo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Totally agree.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
uh. league and Fornite are not MMO's and the only content updates they have are maps and occasional new hero.
WoW and FF14 are not even remotely free - they are paid expansions, subscription required. so no, those updates are NOT free. and they are most certainly NOT as quick as you say you are, i mean.. WoW balances combat what.. once a year, maybe at most? they have also been known to go without content updates for 6 months or more, AND they have also been known to release a patch that adds ability to take screenshots in game in a new way and post them on twitter and called it full fledged game update, so...
but anyways, what other people said. balancing takes a lot more time and completely different tool set from designing an outfit or a pet/mount recolor and making it available for sale.
so, ESO doesn't have sub? With paid DLCs every 3 months, and a new expansion every year, compare to FF14 and WOW getting only 1 expansion every 2 years?
optional subscription. optional vs mandatory. DLC's are only paid if you chose not to subscribe and again, they are ALSO optional. its totally fine not to buy them, unlike WoW or FF14 where you HAVE to buy expansions to keep participating in end game. you can litteraly play ESO for years while only having a base game and still play with people at end game. you won't be able to do all the dungeons and trials, but you can STILL do non DLC dungeons and trials and they are STILL being run.
and did you just.... did you just prove my point where you agreed that they release expansion content less often than ESO does? and you are still complaining about ESO content release content while comparing it to games that release content LESS often? and STILL have cash shop? that gets updates almost as often as ESO does? yes, that includes WoW.
The major difference is ESO's "Chapter's" aren't really chapters, they have less content than Dlcs tbh, also the expansions for FF14 / WoW always add new classes / races as well, ontop of that even more content you can earn in game rather than relying on a cash shop transaction.1 -
Pr0Skygon✭✭✭✭✭Totally agree.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
uh. league and Fornite are not MMO's and the only content updates they have are maps and occasional new hero.
WoW and FF14 are not even remotely free - they are paid expansions, subscription required. so no, those updates are NOT free. and they are most certainly NOT as quick as you say you are, i mean.. WoW balances combat what.. once a year, maybe at most? they have also been known to go without content updates for 6 months or more, AND they have also been known to release a patch that adds ability to take screenshots in game in a new way and post them on twitter and called it full fledged game update, so...
but anyways, what other people said. balancing takes a lot more time and completely different tool set from designing an outfit or a pet/mount recolor and making it available for sale.
so, ESO doesn't have sub? With paid DLCs every 3 months, and a new expansion every year, compare to FF14 and WOW getting only 1 expansion every 2 years?
optional subscription. optional vs mandatory. DLC's are only paid if you chose not to subscribe and again, they are ALSO optional. its totally fine not to buy them, unlike WoW or FF14 where you HAVE to buy expansions to keep participating in end game. you can litteraly play ESO for years while only having a base game and still play with people at end game. you won't be able to do all the dungeons and trials, but you can STILL do non DLC dungeons and trials and they are STILL being run.
and did you just.... did you just prove my point where you agreed that they release expansion content less often than ESO does? and you are still complaining about ESO content release content while comparing it to games that release content LESS often? and STILL have cash shop? that gets updates almost as often as ESO does? yes, that includes WoW.
1 expansion for WOW costs 60$, with contents as many as 2 years worth of ESO DLCs + chapters. While in 2 years 2 time, it'd costs you close to, or even more than 200$ to get all of the DLCs.
And let's be real, most vet players all have ESO+, since it's truly is a handicap to not having it.0 -
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✭✭✭Totally agree.Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
uh. league and Fornite are not MMO's and the only content updates they have are maps and occasional new hero.
WoW and FF14 are not even remotely free - they are paid expansions, subscription required. so no, those updates are NOT free. and they are most certainly NOT as quick as you say you are, i mean.. WoW balances combat what.. once a year, maybe at most? they have also been known to go without content updates for 6 months or more, AND they have also been known to release a patch that adds ability to take screenshots in game in a new way and post them on twitter and called it full fledged game update, so...
but anyways, what other people said. balancing takes a lot more time and completely different tool set from designing an outfit or a pet/mount recolor and making it available for sale.
so, ESO doesn't have sub? With paid DLCs every 3 months, and a new expansion every year, compare to FF14 and WOW getting only 1 expansion every 2 years?
optional subscription. optional vs mandatory. DLC's are only paid if you chose not to subscribe and again, they are ALSO optional. its totally fine not to buy them, unlike WoW or FF14 where you HAVE to buy expansions to keep participating in end game. you can litteraly play ESO for years while only having a base game and still play with people at end game. you won't be able to do all the dungeons and trials, but you can STILL do non DLC dungeons and trials and they are STILL being run.
and did you just.... did you just prove my point where you agreed that they release expansion content less often than ESO does? and you are still complaining about ESO content release content while comparing it to games that release content LESS often? and STILL have cash shop? that gets updates almost as often as ESO does? yes, that includes WoW.
1 expansion for WOW costs 60$, with contents as many as 2 years worth of ESO DLCs + chapters. While in 2 years 2 time, it'd costs you close to, or even more than 200$ to get all of the DLCs.
And let's be real, most vet players all have ESO+, since it's truly is a handicap to not having it.
But yet, if you play WoW enough those expacs will cost nothing, and I also thought they added all previous expansions as base game areas now?Edited by Cpt_Teemo on June 18, 2018 3:27PM0 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Apples and oranges. Update the shop is waaaaaay easier than updating the game.
But then you realized those apples and oranges are from the same grocery. The shop is filled with apples, and barely any oranges, but customers all love orange juice. And when the new oranges do arrive, they're mostly bad.
As expected, nothing new here.
You can't compare this things dude. Its the same as saying:
"Ohhhh, your car shop takes sooooo long to fix cars, but your stamps shop is always up to date to sell new stamps! This is an absurd!"
Come on, not even hard to see or understand that....
PS: Never saw a bad upgrade in ESO, its just your opinion.
The car shop has nothing to do with the stamp shop. But the crown store team and balancing team is in the same company, and working on the same game. Your point is totally invalid.
and your point in the OP is pretty invalid. That has been clearly pointed out many time in this short thread. Has anyone actually agreed with you on this? Seems you are clearly wrong.
Have you looked at the polls?
I have already pointed out the poll is worthless. Even if it was not written so poorly it would be statistically irrelevant.
Without basis. You have been proven wrong many time in here and you have yet to come up with an answer that has any merit.
Oh, BTW, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th replies are being used as a No to what you are saying. So you are not even reading the results of your little poll properly. LOLEdited by idk on June 18, 2018 3:28PM1 -
klowdy1✭✭✭✭✭Isn't the art team responsible for the crown store? I'm pretty sure they aren't the ones responsible for anything technical with the game either. The are multiple teams in every game, all doing different things.0 -
sevomd69✭✭✭✭✭
✭I mean seriously, just look at how fast they update the crown store. EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. And how long does it take between combat balance? THREE MONTHS!.
I think OP needs to look at quanity and it becomes a totally different picture.
So much of what the crown store has is merely reskinned items. At that the work put into them is clearly much less than what it takes to create a zone, quests and more.
Seems pretty obvious the great difference in the amount of work that goes into creating a zone, or even a dungeon vs the little effort that goes into the crown store.
Besides that, the poll was clearly written for bias. There is not an appropriate answer for me on the poll since it is mostly in agreement with OP so I did not reply.
There was suppose to be 2 more polls that disagree with my OP, but somehow the forum decided to leave those 2 out, and just duplicated my post twice instead
So in other words this poll is as "useless" as some of the "balancing" updates op seems to have an issue with... btw "balancing" for what its worth... is not as simple as... for example just "nerf sorc"...any changes to attempt "balancing" can and will have far reaching implications since these changes do not occur in a vacuum...some that even the devs had no idea would happen....
Finally... I don't think the OP has a full grasp on what the term "balancing" in an MMO means...1 -
idk✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I mean seriously, just look at how fast they update the crown store. EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. And how long does it take between combat balance? THREE MONTHS!.
I think OP needs to look at quanity and it becomes a totally different picture.
So much of what the crown store has is merely reskinned items. At that the work put into them is clearly much less than what it takes to create a zone, quests and more.
Seems pretty obvious the great difference in the amount of work that goes into creating a zone, or even a dungeon vs the little effort that goes into the crown store.
Besides that, the poll was clearly written for bias. There is not an appropriate answer for me on the poll since it is mostly in agreement with OP so I did not reply.
There was suppose to be 2 more polls that disagree with my OP, but somehow the forum decided to leave those 2 out, and just duplicated my post twice instead
So in other words this poll is as "useless" as some of the "balancing" updates op seems to have an issue with... btw "balancing" for what its worth... is not as simple as... for example just "nerf sorc"...any changes to attempt "balancing" can and will have far reaching implications since these changes do not occur in a vacuum...some that even the devs had no idea would happen....
Finally... I don't think the OP has a full grasp on what the term "balancing" in an MMO means...
This. OP does not even have a full grasp on what his poll means. Of course he does not understand what balancing means.1 -
Yzalirk✭✭✭✭Totally agree.I don’t mind the Crown Store, especially when there are things that interest me, but I do think they update that more often than the actual game.
We probably will not see the Class Representative updates for six months, maybe a year.0 -
MEBengalsFan2001✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Because "balancing" combat is as quick and simple as a single artist taking an outfit that's already in the game on NPCs, and sticking it into the "sell as a costume" framework that they've already used dozens of times. Right.
Or, for a little more work, taking one of the standard mount bodies and skeletons, and making it rocky/blue, glowy/orange, or jello/green. Again, a task for a single artist that has been done dozens of times by now.
As opposed to "balancing combat", an endless & hopeless task that has absorbed the effort of MMO dev teams as long as the genre has existed.
In the 2018, where even free MMO games such as League, Fornite, WOW, FF14 and such, are giving out faster (and most of the time, free) updates, saying that "Balancing the game is hard, so it's ok to be slow" is no more a reasonable excuse.
If you're slow on updating the game, then maybe hire more staff from all the money you made with your fast-updated crown store.
Zeni and Bethesda are both business in the business of earning money. Simply throwing more resources at the problem may not resolve the issue. You need proper resources that understand your system and game and that is not an easy task. Even with educated and highly trained people working on the issues/bugs, other issues/bugs can slip into code and result in further issues and bugs. This is why dev tend to take there time with code and even with that bugs still hit the game.
It is part of the technology process. Some bugs become part of the game that the players use to their advantage and others become so bad that the devs do a hotfix to resolve the issue. I'm pretty sure animation cancellation that allows players to pull out more damage, healing, etc... is not design as intended, but probably left as is due to the complex nature of fixing such a bug that many devs leave these as is and focus on other issues that are more of a concern and maybe game breaking causing players not complete specific quest, story lines, etc... Getting the resource to fix that issue is one thing, but if that is fixed, how many other bugs will pop up that this bug was covering up that the devs did not realize where there.
Crown store items are for quick profits for Zenimax and Bethesda; most market place cosmetic items designed just for that purpose, to generate profits quickly.1
