By time played do you support faction lock?

Haashhtaag

I’ve seen polls regarding faction lock already but let’s break down the support by time played in this game. Please take time to answer the question and I have made this poll anonymous so that we can protect players individual opinions.

NirnStorm

Hell ya leggo Hash!

Kikke

Bring back faction locks, faction loyalty, faction pride!

Lord_Zele

Just lock leaderboards. EZ.
Faction lock is WACK.

Berenhir

Delete Cadwell's Silver and Gold please, it is an abomination.

ScarrX

Lord_Zele wrote: »

Just lock leaderboards. EZ.
Faction lock is WACK.

Leaderboard lock sounds like a good idea, stops factions hopping to the winning side, and still allows us to play with our friends on the other factions

WuffyCerulei

The faction lock’s most likely gonna stick. Good riddance to the useless faction-hopping farm groups who hump a keep or resource for their beloved AP. Or these sorts of people helping their buddies get into keeps to steal scrolls and whatnot on alt toons.

This does suck for the people who casually play on 2 or all factions. I can understand why you do that, to play with friends leisurely.

MipMip

Kikke wrote: »

Bring back faction locks, faction loyalty, faction pride!

@Kikke Faction locks will not increase faction pride: those of us who are not interested in playing for a faction will not suddenly become interested in it because there is faction lock. Most players with whom I play will still, even if we cannot swap to another faction (if this really goes live), pick our fights not based on what will benefit the score (I for example never even look at the score) but based on where we expect to find good fights.

gameswithaspoon

Faction lock will be good for Sotha. Every time we have a nightcap emperor problem it gets made worse by people faction stacking behind it for that easy 4 AM alliance points all the while screaming that they are just “playing with their friends.”

Trinity_Is_My_Name

Lock em up!

dtsharples

MipMip wrote: »

Kikke wrote: »

Bring back faction locks, faction loyalty, faction pride!

@Kikke Faction locks will not increase faction pride: those of us who are not interested in playing for a faction will not suddenly become interested in it because there is faction lock. Most players with whom I play will still, even if we cannot swap to another faction (if this really goes live), pick our fights not based on what will benefit the score (I for example never even look at the score) but based on where we expect to find good fights.

The good fights will be wherever the other ball-groups are I guess, so it depends where they go.
Unless you want to fight the clueless zerg, then I guess you can go anywhere

But it's pretty great to hear that people like you have nothing to complain about concerning the potential faction lock, so that's cool. It will be good for everyone to have the option to play in different ways
It really does seem to be the better alternative for now. Maybe with some tweaking it will be perfect in the near future.

Diundriel

Lord_Zele wrote: »

Just lock leaderboards. EZ.
Faction lock is WACK.

great idea, heard they want to lock emp already

Diundriel

btw guys i have faction pride for all factions
but just for one evening

Dutchessx

I would be cool with locking the leaderboards.

Dutchessx

MipMip wrote: »

Kikke wrote: »

Bring back faction locks, faction loyalty, faction pride!

@Kikke Faction locks will not increase faction pride: those of us who are not interested in playing for a faction will not suddenly become interested in it because there is faction lock. Most players with whom I play will still, even if we cannot swap to another faction (if this really goes live), pick our fights not based on what will benefit the score (I for example never even look at the score) but based on where we expect to find good fights.

To be honest I don’t even know who is winning the campaign on Sotha.

VaranisArano

Shouldn't this specify time played in PVP?

I played as a PVE only player for quite some time before delving into PVP. I'd have to check my achievements to be sure when I started playing in Haderus but probably late 2016.

Personally, I enjoy faction loyal PVP. I like fighting for my faction for the campaign win, night after night, with people who I know are also fighting on my team. I laugh at the people who one night are fighting alongside me when yesterday we killed them on their AD toon.

There are people I trust in zone chat because I see them consistently fighting for the faction in effective ways There are people I roll my eyes at their zone generaling because they faction hop and will fight against us as readily as they fight for us. Why would I want to cooperate with folks like that?

I like knowing that the guildies I fight alongside, whom I've helped acquire PVP gear, who have trained me and I've trained in turn aren't going to turn around and face me across the battlefield once they've gotten what they wanted.

But I'm also well aware that what I enjoy is not best for everyone. So I'm happy there's an option for both (as long as ZOS adds a 7 day no CP campaign like they ought to.)

Thlepse

why isnt there an option to send all the EP guilds on sotha sil EU to shor ? its their PvDoor dream map

poietin

I just think it's really fruitless out of all things to address/fix in Cyrodiil, faction lock is the issue ZOS choose to address?

If you want to keep making money off your loyal fanbase, don't introduce something that will *** off half of Cyrodiil.

Put it plainly, will faction lock bring in more eso plus subscriptions & crown transactions? No because Vivec is still a lagfest. Faction lock doesn't enhance the playing experience.

But faction lock will definitely cause ppl to unsub.

Icarus42

Yes, your choice should mean something.

idk

No offense to OP but the polls on the subject are pretty meaningless. They are entertainment value as they do not get the opinion of the player base nor the forum goers. Just those who choose to come into the thread then chose to vote.

Zos wants to test this and I guess that is fine. However, they lost much more players when we had faction lock than when we did not have it. They failed heavily in the first year of this game and drove off most of the heavy PvP players and leader which have not been replaced.

We used to have two huge campaigns pop locked with much larger population caps than today. Sad to see all that talent leave. Some gave ESO a second chance a few years ago but did not stay long.

vamp_emily

I don't think faction locks are going to fix many issues in PvP. I believe the faction loyal players and faction pride players are seeking a more competitive PvP. I want better PvP too, but until you remove all the flower pickers/ zone pvp groups out of Cyrodill this change won't mean much. There are way too many "Don't tell me how to play" and "I can do what I want" players in PvP to bring back real faction pride.

Mayrael

It amuses me how creative are people to make such polls to prove they are right and yet no matter what, outcome is the same. I guess majority wants faction locks, deal with it.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

Would be interesting by faction and server

IndorilArwynLlethran

Faction lick?

Haashhtaag

Mayrael wrote: »

It amuses me how creative are people to make such polls to prove they are right and yet no matter what, outcome is the same. I guess majority wants faction locks, deal with it.

I think the data points are interesting. So we have by year now after a few days of this thread. Now let’s break this down in a new poll but this time let’s break down by group size playing in

HankTwo

I wanna see how faction lock would actually play out in practice. After all, if such a change results in rather undesirable outcomes, it can be simply reverted again.

Dutchessx

Opps sorry wrong thread....

Haashhtaag

HankTwo wrote: »

I wanna see how faction lock would actually play out in practice. After all, if such a change results in rather undesirable outcomes, it can be simply reverted again.

It’s already been played out.

200+ queues to main campaign that people wait in, off camps turn to buff camps for one faction.

LeifErickson

Faction lock is needed because the alliance that wins is the alliance with the best players and these players want to win because when you win you get amazing rewards. It's that simple folks.

Dutchessx

Haashhtaag wrote: »

HankTwo wrote: »

I wanna see how faction lock would actually play out in practice. After all, if such a change results in rather undesirable outcomes, it can be simply reverted again.

It’s already been played out.

200+ queues to main campaign that people wait in, off camps turn to buff camps for one faction.

Sotha is far from a buff server.

Haashhtaag

Dutchessx wrote: »

Haashhtaag wrote: »

HankTwo wrote: »

I wanna see how faction lock would actually play out in practice. After all, if such a change results in rather undesirable outcomes, it can be simply reverted again.

It’s already been played out.

200+ queues to main campaign that people wait in, off camps turn to buff camps for one faction.

Sotha is far from a buff server.

Honestly we will have to monitor sotha after these changes and see how it plays out. It could be a server that takes a hit due to this.