Simple poll: Do you think ZOS will revert shields cast time after massive negative feedback?

CrazyOne333

No

In my opinion there should be the "other" option.
Why? Cause I think, that ZOS will surely do SOMETHING after some time...like...hmm..not fully reverse what they do to the shields, but surely half undo it...can't really put it in better words.

On the other hand...let us wait if anything will go life...and if, then how long it will take until another changes will appear and cause the trouble.

LukosCreyden

No

No. Zos rarely revert changes, no matter how poorly conceived they are.

I hate shield stackers, but I hate cast times - ANY cast times more. The other changes are fine, but remove cast times from the game! All of them! They are awful and clunky.

Gunzork

No

They always do what they want even if it's not what the game need to get balanced..I seriously think the devs are not qualified to make change to the game or they just never played it and don't care about it.Like all players who PvP know we face many OP thing that need to get nerfed.But instead of nerfing what players need they nerfed the poor Magsorc instead and they made an already broken set (soldier of anguish) that 99% of stam user will run cause that will kill anything in front of them.We don't even need to try this set to know it will be broken and the devs made it!!!That's why I think they are not competent or they just don't care.And no I'm not playing a magsorc but I'm sad for them and sad for all the players who always wait for good changes and balances in the game but it's always worst every patch!

Lutallo

No

No way. It’s like last update, every single post on the forums for 2 weeks was reinforcing how broken sloads was. What do they do? Add sloads. Then they end up nerfing it after anyways.

They’ll butcher mag classes then next update they’ll either nerf stamina into the ground or buff magicka again.

Starlock

No

And then there are those of us who don’t get the panic over this change or see little cause for the developers to back down on it anyway...

Sylvermynx

No

Most game dev teams in my experience don't go back on stuff like this. And it's not going to matter much to me anyway - I'm new to the game, I'll just adjust.

Drummerx04

No

ZOS listens and then incorporates changes from maybe like 5% of virtually unanimous player feedback. But if ZOS includes a dev comment on a skill change, then it means ZOS thinks they know better than the thousands of players who have logged millions of hours on the classes that use said skill and fight against said skill.

So yeah, I'm expecting them to run forward with this and other horrible changes until all that's left is the casual RP crowd, the die-hard fans, and the whales.

Chicharron

No

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Lylith

No

Do you think ZOS will revert shields cast time after massive negative feedback?

nah, the unspeakable is infallible.

Chicharron

No

while you continue playing, your opinion does not matter to them
they are stubborn like mules.

that is not always bad.

Ratzkifal

No

Honestly, I feel that ZOS, like so many other companies and people in general have a hard time admitting fault. As far as I am aware they never completely reverted a change that went live. Often enough they would then try to compensate through other means just to not go back. Stun on frags for example. The whole rune cage thing is now going on for almost a year and the easiest solution would have been to return the stun to frags and revert rune cage and try something else to nerf or whatever they originally intended.

Kelces

No

If they went out of their way to actually revert only a little bit of the changes, it would create a precedent for the future and they can't have that. Once we get what we ask for, even if it is totally reasonable, they will be faced with more threads they would need to lock. They need to keep their status of absolute authority of what is good for the game, otherwise they might loose their credibility and reputation as a company in general (or whatever is left of it).

Vahrokh

No

- No, because one of the first things they teach you at management is that you never show you are weak or can do mistakes, but you must always double down and then again.

- No, because they know 95% of players are spineless weaklings, who shall bend down and keep paying anyway.

DanteYoda

Yes

Vahrokh wrote: »

- No, because one of the first things they teach you at management is that you never show you are weak or can do mistakes, but you must always double down and then again.

- No, because they know 95% of players are spineless weaklings, who shall bend down and keep paying anyway.

Glad i'm part of the 5%

adeptusminor

No

For a lot of companies it really feels like they have a certain vision of how they want the game to be played, and any other enjoyable playstyle, balanced or not, must not exist and be stomped out. More so of a MMO thing actually, but it's unfortunate that these companies won't embrace organic builds and playstyles that their own players create, and instead insist on trying to force their vision on everyone.

acw37162

Yes

This will go almost exactly like the animation canceling changes.

They will float it out there, let the testers test it, log the complaints and the pull it back.

They will then make a few tweeks and changes and put it back in the next cycle or the cycle after.

They have already told you as much, it will be pulled back in PTS 3.

VikingBerserker

No

No. They already have a similar morph for acceleration.

felinith66

No

I watch Death of a game a lot on youtube. Games die mostly due to changes made by the dev team or the dev team failing to provide a fun game to the players. Devs always do what they want, regardless of player feedback. I can't wait for 'Death of a Game: Elders Scrolls Online' to come out

LadyLethalla

No

VMA will not be possible for me with a cast time but I know they won't care about players with high ping.
And VMA is pretty much all I have focussed on for well over a year. So once this goes live I'll probably just do new quests whenever DLC is released and that's it. That, from playing well over a combined 4000 hours among 10 characters, just on the one server.

Kadoin

No

Unlikely it would happen unless they make shields take a different kind of nerf. ZOS does not want anyone being able to have defense without an active role, and I doubt they would compromise their new combat vision to satisfy LA wearers.

CatchMeTrolling

No

If they didn’t change it after the first pts cycle after all the backlash (which is disturbing) I highly doubt it. Zos tends to stick with their decisions, at best it’ll get reverted in the next dlc.

Sylvermynx

No

LadyLethalla wrote: »

VMA will not be possible for me with a cast time but I know they won't care about players with high ping.
And VMA is pretty much all I have focussed on for well over a year. So once this goes live I'll probably just do new quests whenever DLC is released and that's it. That, from playing well over a combined 4000 hours among 10 characters, just on the one server.

"player with high ping"....

Yep. *raises hand* 2 seconds. This game is really harder for me than either WoW or RIFT were. Not sure what goes on, but the ping here means playing is.... very.... problematic.

I don't want to go back to Skyrim yet though.... but if I'm still alive when TES VI lands, well....

Vehlir

No

Nope. They will be going against the vast majority of the playerbase on this one, and that's that unfortunate.

It's part of the reason this development core will never really reach GREAT levels. The Storytelling, Lore & Art Divisions are all absolute top notch, but ESO's ineptitude regarding Combat & Balancing has long been the laughing stock of MMO's in regard to fun, balanced, competitive play. It's been the game's biggest bane since launch.

Ordeals like this really highlight why this game has to do things like rely so heavily on Lootboxes & Cash Shop Gambling instead of being the undisputed king of the industry, despite having all the tools & potential to accomplish it.

EDIT: It appears there has been an update!

LadyLethalla

No

Sylvermynx wrote: »

LadyLethalla wrote: »

VMA will not be possible for me with a cast time but I know they won't care about players with high ping.
And VMA is pretty much all I have focussed on for well over a year. So once this goes live I'll probably just do new quests whenever DLC is released and that's it. That, from playing well over a combined 4000 hours among 10 characters, just on the one server.

"player with high ping"....

Yep. *raises hand* 2 seconds. This game is really harder for me than either WoW or RIFT were. Not sure what goes on, but the ping here means playing is.... very.... problematic.

I don't want to go back to Skyrim yet though.... but if I'm still alive when TES VI lands, well....

As soon as I have Red Dead 2 in my hands I'm very certain my ESO time will diminish significantly.

Prabooo

Yes

this Summerset event brought the best spirit in the game... I saw it in chat zone PC NA and EU... Everyone helping each other in ways I have not seen in this game before. It brought some new comforting hope in humanity for me. So in this light, I will vote Yes to ESO

Prabooo

Yes

Yes

abigfishy

Yes

There should have been a third option. After the huge negative feedback I think they will save face and still go ahead with the nerfs but listen to the community and make them less extreme so Sorcs are still playable.

Sylvermynx

No

LadyLethalla wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

LadyLethalla wrote: »

VMA will not be possible for me with a cast time but I know they won't care about players with high ping.
And VMA is pretty much all I have focussed on for well over a year. So once this goes live I'll probably just do new quests whenever DLC is released and that's it. That, from playing well over a combined 4000 hours among 10 characters, just on the one server.

"player with high ping"....

Yep. *raises hand* 2 seconds. This game is really harder for me than either WoW or RIFT were. Not sure what goes on, but the ping here means playing is.... very.... problematic.

I don't want to go back to Skyrim yet though.... but if I'm still alive when TES VI lands, well....

As soon as I have Red Dead 2 in my hands I'm very certain my ESO time will diminish significantly.

I have a good friend who loves RDR, and is waiting on 2.... salivating. It's not my thing though.... My thing is bounded by fantasy - FRPGs, FCRPGs, FMMORPGs. I just don't have any interest in anything not total fantasy - beginning with the Brothers Grimm and Scheherazade, as well as and going on from there to Burton's Kama Sutra etc. I've read widely all my life, and fantasy is my first and last love....

efster

No

ZOS does not listen to its playerbase unless we have something nice to say.

SenorCrouch

No

Probably not. I honestly don't trust any studio, besides Digital Extremes, to truly listen to their community.