Would you donate for ZOS to upgrade the servers ?

WeylandLabs

I know this sounds crazy and ZOM is a multimillion dollor company that gives ZOS a budget probably, and they work with that.

But let's say if we can help this a little bit bye donating or starting a Gofundme.com account to pay to upgrade servers. I don't know the problems behind it or if that's even the true problem of lag and performance.

But it's a good to know if the community would or not ?

Elwendryll

Yes I would donate

I already donate. By buying useless things like arm packs each month.

WoppaBoem

Yes I would donate

I pay for ESO plus so I already 'donate'

pauli133

No I wouldn't donate

Sorry, but you aren't going to shame them into addressing their infrastucture and netcode issues.

Turelus

No I wouldn't donate

Nope, because it wouldn't solve the issue.

Servers are not the main problem, the problem is the bottleneck of information going too and from the servers when it comes to lag. Upgrading servers might make it a bit better but until they solve the issues of servers having too many calls for too many calculations the lag will remain.

Also I shouldn't have to donate on top of the cost I am paying for access to the content for them to upgrade any hardware required to run that game. ZOS/ZOM is making enough money to do any hardware upgrades the game might need, it's up to them as companies to put that money where it's needed.

moses1763

No I wouldn't donate

for myself I already sub, buy crowns, and play countless hours what more is required I can't imagine.

Its a business for profit and I get that; its on them to keep the infrastructure up if they want to KEEP making that PROFIT. They seem to be on a path to working on performance and I for one will give em the time they need for NOW.

P.S. I love the game and am having a blast.

Neyane

No I wouldn't donate

No I wouldn’t. They get enough money from their ca$h crates, expansions, limited time sales, eso+ members, crowns...

Alucardo

No I wouldn't donate

ZOS aren't an indie company asking for handouts on kickstarter and patreon. Besides, upgrading the servers won't help in the long run. I have a feeling most of the problems are to do with software optimization. Having said that, it doesn't explain why it feels like the EU mega server is constantly on fire and the NA one is running fine.

VaranisArano

If throwing money at the problem was going to solve it, ESO would have pretty PVP performance, less lag, less bugs, less recurring bugs, and their game updates wouldn't suffer from crippling QA issues.

Mind you, I'm sure some of that is simply intrinsic to the nature of the beast at this point.

Prof_Bawbag

One of the most ridiculous threads I've ever seen on here. Poor little Zenimax. As others have said, we already donate when purchasing the game, items and subbing.

Some people really can't wrap their head around the fact that this isn't some backstreet 4 man, for the love of gaming, company. Maybe Bethesda or Zeni can help ZoS out. I dunno. I suspect they are in a better financial situation than all of us on here combined.

Kulvar

Yes I would donate

It's "I already give money to ZOS".
Or you think buying expansion, buying DLC, or subscribing to ESO+ is charity?

Danikat

Other

As other people have said I already give money to ZOS in return for expansions, DLC, crowns etc. and I expect some of that money to go on maintaining the game. I don't think it's a question of 'yes I would' or 'no I would not'.

But I also agree that fixing it isn't as simple as throwing money at it until the problem goes away. Just like the question about taking the servers offline until everything is fixed or not making any new content so they can get everyone working on fixing bugs (because artists and writers are well known for their expert server debugging skills) I find it hard to believe ZOS knows how to fix all the problems in the game and what it would take to do that and is simply refusing to allocate the necessary resources.

TequilaFire

The servers isn't the problem

Nope, hardware alone won't fix the issues with the unoptimized client, Akamai and bad anti cheat code implementation.

Mayrael

Other

I already did by being ESO+ member, all I see is just more lags, EU being second class customer, I won't give them a cent on server upgrades because:
1. It won't help (problems are caused by to heavy and inefficient algorithms).
2. They would spent those money on new crown crates design rather than on upgrading servers.

John_Falstaff

Other

Not to sound jaded, but I'm already giving ZOS plenty of money, both in subscription and by buying crowns now and then, and I'm pretty sure they have a good profit margin selling those. I don't think I'm ready to give even more. I'm also pretty sure that the only thing I'll get back if I did would be getting nerfed into oblivion again / getting ignored / et cetera, et cetera. Not too long ago ZOS promised to improve whole that communication thing, and I'm still waiting for it to happen; I'm not giving even more money to them until I'm reasonably sure that I'm something other than just a money bag in their eyes.

method__01

No I wouldn't donate

im paying sub 3 years now(plus many ingame purchases from store) ,wth i should give them more money?

NO WAY

Alienoutlaw

No I wouldn't donate

i buy crown crates, sub to ESO+ buy expansions, i think i do enough

Nemesis7884

No I wouldn't donate

Kulvar wrote: »

It's "I already give money to ZOS".
Or you think buying expansion, buying DLC, or subscribing to ESO+ is charity?

No but its part of the expected service when you pay for it....when you buy a car you also not only buy a nicely colored frame but expect it to drive

Browiseth

The servers isn't the problem

it's probably a lot more complicated than just "throw more money at the servers"

Gythral

Other

Browiseth wrote: »

it's probably a lot more complicated than just "throw more money at the servers"

First you have to pry that money out of the suits wallet

R1ckyDaMan

No I wouldn't donate

You are more than welcome to throw your life savings at ZOS op, go get em champ!

idk

Other

We already give Zos money. Many of us do at least.

Besides, what good would upgrading the servers do. My guess is OP thinks upgrading the servers would solve the issues we experience but that is far from the case.

We experience issues like server lag, especially in Cyrodiil due to poor management of this game starting with the person who leads Zos. They have admitted changes they have made to the game have added to the server stress which means they have actually made it worse with their choices

Digiman

The servers isn't the problem

Would be better if ZoS got rid of Akamai to save money... that would leave a lot less stress in routing information to and from your PC to the servers.

Commancho

Other

Because purcharsing a game, subscription and crowns once for a while is not enaugh...

Oberstein

No I wouldn't donate

It's safe to assume people who voted to donate is just kidding.

Sanctuary_Reaper

No I wouldn't donate

Why should i pay extra, i buy the game, dlc and chapters, i sub every month, this is an mmo they should make sure there hardware can handle multiple players at anytime.

Michae

No I wouldn't donate

Kulvar wrote: »

It's "I already give money to ZOS".
Or you think buying expansion, buying DLC, or subscribing to ESO+ is charity?

It's a business, not a charity. They're making millions on top of millions of dollars. It's their job to make things work first of all.

DirkRavenclaw

Other

I play only with ESO+ so i already donate.

Universe

No I wouldn't donate

They received more than enough $ from me over the years... ESO Plus, crown store & crown crates purchases etc.
I already donated enough and I'm still donating with ESO plus
ZOS don't need charity and with the money they make every month/year it should be enough to upgrade the servers.
PC EU server performance is worse than PC NA server performance and my guess is that the server they have in Germany is cheaper & less reliable than the one they have on USA.
This may also be related to the data center infrastructure & content delivery network (CDN) they have for PC EU too.
So the infrastructure itself should also be upgraded and the & content delivery network (CDN) to be replaced to a better one.

daemonios

No I wouldn't donate

Are you sick in the head? What do you call the money I pay every month? Or the money people pay for their shiny barbie doll costumes and lottery crates?

I would suggest the contrary. Spend as little as possible until ZOS get their act together. Performance is going downhill. I play in EU and the forums are full of threads with people complaining about growing instability in EU servers, something I've felt myself. No, I won't donate. If ZOS can't keep the game up, then shut it down.

ghastley

The servers isn't the problem

The servers may be one of the problems, but they're not the only problem. Most of the complaints I see on these forums suggest it's the network connections which are mostly outside ZOS's control.

I'd suggest a global ban on streaming video. That would leave more bandwidth for games.