Some Necessary Insight into Game Design and Player Pscyhology

Peekachu99

This video popped up on my YouTube feed today, and I found it incredibly interesting, as it’s a similar GaaS (to ESO) with an almost identical content delivery line. I wanted to share it with the community. We often criticize without understanding the complexities, timelines and choices that go on behind the scenes and this one video covers a breadth of issues from retention to content delivery to how to make your game playable forever. Check it out! And maybe take a breather before you go off on ZoS next time (I’m just as guilty of this on occasion, too).

Kuramas9tails

LOL! My boyfriend quit playing ESO because of this game.

He gone.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

daemonios

Path of Exile is a dungeon crawler. It has nowhere near the depth of lore or variety of quests you find in ESO or any Elder Scrolls game. You can change ESO to be a dungeon crawler, but you'll be making a *different* game. As for the competitive aspect, I'd love to see it here. But I dare you to try and set up any kind of competition with the kinds of exploits, cheats and flaky performance you can find in ESO.

Peekachu99

Kuramas9tails wrote: »

LOL! My boyfriend quit playing ESO because of this game.

He gone.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, it’s certainly an an example of F2P done right. But what’s cool about the video is that they show all the failures, development trials and roadblocks along the way. I’m 100% sure ZoS has gone through similar growing pains.