Hello from the Lead Gameplay Designer

DarcyMardin

Welcome to the forums and thanks so much for communicating with us!

Sheezabeast

Welcome to our game!

Can’t wait to see what you can bring to the team, hope to see you around the forums more!

MakoFore

we have always wanted this- just open and even discourse and dialogue with the devs to make the game better. not a "eat what your served" attitude which we ve had in the past. that attiude has led to viper, sloads, etc.

DirkRavenclaw

Welcome to the Team, i find communication is key. Its awesome, to see the Universe of Tamriel getting so much Attention and when you Guys begin to adress more Issues, we all can have Fun

The_Protagonist

Welcome Rob

Good to know we will have you regularly here on the forums.

Nifty2g

Welcome @ZOS_RobGarrett I have a question though that hasn't been asked or shared here

What do you do as the lead gameplay designer, in depth would you mind explaining what that job title entails, and what you mostly work on in ESO?

Jameliel

Do you PvP? If so, why is Cyrodiil gameplay so terrible? What's going on with the resources, wall strength, disconnects and lag?

SenorCrouch

Welcome to the team, Rob! I think I speak for a good portion of the community division, we are happy to have you aboard!

lol Reading some of the prior posts, it looks like our division is already hammering you with questions. I guess I'll sling ya one for kicks. Currently, which is your favorite League of Legends Champion? Mine has been and continues to be Heimerdinger.

SantieClaws

Many greetings traveller.

May bright moons guide you.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Hotdog_23

Hello and thanks for helping to make ESO a better game for everyone.

As a console player I appreciate you playing on that medium to learn our view as it seems that we are 2nd class here to the PC players with all the add-ons they can use to enhance their game time and play time.

Welcome!!

ScardyFox

Just wanted to say I appreciated the reach out to the community and hope the best for you - because selfishly that would best for us! :P

Path

/salute

werzui

Hello and salute, @ZOS_RobGarrett

There is one thing i wanna know;
You are a new Gameplay Designer, means you are responsible for Combat and Pvp + PvE balance right?!
If im right with this, then im looking forward that you as someone that actually plays the Game and listenes to the right people

btw. if you have a Character at max. CP on PC EU Server, then i challenge u to duell me
i always wanted to see a ZoS member ingame and it would be cooler to duell him also

if you accept, my name is @werzui

Knootewoot

So many people with a brown ring around their nose.

Welcome Rob.

Please fix everything broken with this game. You have your work cutout for you.

This game still has potential of being (one of) the best mmo's around. It just needs a lot of work. I really wish you all the best of luck and I will stick around and see how you will pull it of.

Adernath

ZOS_RobGarrett wrote: »

it turns out shipping an update every 3 months leads to a pretty aggressive development schedule!

So far most updates have had good quality imo, but I believe that I am not the only one who are fine with a longer period of time if this can lead to larger updates. For example Summerset could have been a little larger if there would be more time. It's important because things can hardly be reversed as soon as they are out.

frausty

Welcome. It's good to see you engage. Most of us here are passionate about the game and are able to debate in a civilised manner.

It will be good to get your insight into some of the topics raised in this forum.

Itzmichi

Welcome good to have you on board! It's really great to have an actual developer around here. Good choice to switch to console as they really struggle a lot with the game.

ChunkyCat

Khajiits should take less fall damage. Make this a thing.

Banana

People like buffs

bloodthirstyvampire

coop500 wrote: »

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

Hello Rob, it's nice to see a developer who plays and enjoys this game and can be considered one of us.

Let me tell you one thing:


Don't listen to nerf calls, fix the broken staff HAs and have fun!

Also, if HAs would restore both damage attributes (stam+mag), no matter which weapon is used, we would see more interesting builds.

@Salvas_Aren OMG another Lucifer fan! I could hug you~

Group hug then

Gythral

@ZOS_RobGarrett

Welcome to the team

So you have the unenviable job of fixing the Loading Screens and converting the Useless Interference in to a User Interface

I wish you well with that,
so can we look forward to fewer and faster loading screens, a text search in guild stores and being able to order our characters on the initial screen as a few or the QoL improvements or something totally different

FrancisCrawford

CavalryPK wrote: »

I humbly and selfishly ask your highness to adjust your resource management to balance of pvp!

Much love

I request that balance be PvE-first. I even have a good reason: Edit: lack of cooldowns entail a DoT focus in PvE, and all those DoTs are useless in PvP. So PvP balance focuses on only a limited subset of the capabilities in the game.

I'll make a more substantive suggestion when I'm through with any post rebuttals I feel are required.

Raudgrani

Nice to see you here. Get into Cyrodiil and experience the world of glitchyness, and make your colleagues aware of them please. That's about the only thing with this game (in terms of quality) that kind of [removed profanity] me me off. Take care!

FrancisCrawford

Nightfall12 wrote: »

If i could ask anything of you,

It is when you look forward to new content that you do not cater to just a single group. We know that there are...
Hardcore PvPers including large scale and small scale, to duelists. (These guys deserve some love)
There elite PvEers running trials and speedflawlessperfectrun-dungeoneers. Perfect rotation DPS kings and mega tanks!

There are also casuals, new players and those with disabilities that get left out of a great deal of content. Please don't forget us.

Thank you

This dovetails with my serious comments.

First, welcome!!

Second, as you surely know and probably utilize, it is a standard practice in product management to think in terms of specific "personas". I suggest that you make it a high priority to ensure a set of personas or other group segmentation that accurately covers most of your player base, whether you see the segmentation as a true "partition" in the mathematical sense, or if you see them more as subsets that overlap.

For example:

• I'm a self-employed older player, with a lot of time to play. (It would probably be OK to lump me in with retirees.)
• I have poor reflexes/situational awareness, but good game knowledge and general brains. (I've been playing a long time. I was recently accosted by a guy in Vivec City who asked "Are you the guy who wrote the guides that were so valuable to me years ago?" That was indeed me.
• I commonly play solo or else duo with my wife @DarcyMardin , who would fit into the same segment I do. We can face roll the easiest 12-14 dungeons as duos in normal mode, but things get a lot harder for us after that, and if we want to do more challenging content we need to join fuller groups of players. To date, I've done more of that than she has.
• PvP, as you might imagine, is not important to us.
• A game change that would FORCE the constant use of accurate reflexes, like the proposed shield nerf, would probably drive Darcy and me out of endgame, much like the Fractals jumping puzzles kept us from ever trying Guild Wars 2 endgame in the first place. In that case we might well scale back on our participation in the game entirely, much as we did in GW 2 (and we were huge fans of Guild Wars Classic). I think that in that respect we're representative of a large-ish and reasonably affluent group of players.

Other obvious segments to try to capture include:

• Busy, results-oriented endgame PvEers.
• Busy, results-oriented PvPers.
• Generic RPGers who have a lot of time and money to spend on the rich ESO world, with no real concern for endgame; i.e., the ones who might care more about mounts and housing than functional gear.

LMar

Welcome on-board! Hope the river takes all of us together to warm and nice places!

FrancisCrawford

ChunkyCat wrote: »

Khajiits should take less fall damage. Make this a thing.

LOL. Good point, but that they gave that to Bosmers instead.

Bosmers are basically Khajiit with cuteness.

ConeOfSilence

Welcome to the forum. You have got my respect by appearing here and introducing yourself. I hope you enjoy your time working on one of the most addictive games ever. I really enjoyed Summerset keep up the good work.

mr_wazzabi

Welcome @ZOS_RobGarrett

We absolutely needed a dev that plays and loves the game as much as we do.

It would be great if you have BOTH stamina and magicka toons so you can understand each half of the playerbase's pain points.

Look forward to seeing your input!

BigM

Great to hear we have new blood floating around. Lord knows Wrobel needs a little help with issues he has to deal with daily.

NewBlacksmurf

Hello and thanks for posting