[Poll] How can we improve ESO?

Craziux

Hi, thanks for having a look at this thread!

Now, what do you think would improve ESO?
What do you think can be changed or improved to make yourself enjoy the game even more?

I'm leaving a lot of choices for this poll so we can see what players want most from these options, kinda like an "wish-list". I've spent countless of hours into ESO, but things haven't changed much the last few years and game-play have become a bit stale in my opinion, so I decided to spend the last 2 years designing my first, very own game from scratch.

Even if what I've worked on is 2D and not relevant to most of you, I now understand the concept of coding and I've kept that in mind, so most of this shouldn't be that hard to change or implement into the game:



Character:

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots. (Example: Hide Shoulders, Belts, Gloves etc in the same way as hide Helmet. (Only at Outfit-Stations))
   [Link to thread]
2. Make choices feel like they have an bigger impact. (The base game have certain zones which either makes NPCs passive/stays aggressive once you complete certain quests.)
3. More available Dyes to unlock with Achievements!

Client-Side:

1. 4. Ability to hide the Block-Indicator. (Enable/Disable) (Magic Floating Shield when you block.)
   [Link to thread]
2. 5. Ability to hide CP-Rank. (Champion-Points shown next to NPCs and Player names.) (Everyone can still see others CP, but YOU can hide it on enemies, NPCs and Players on your screen. NPCs showing their CP (cp160) is now obsolete and show unnecessary information on screen since everything is already level-scaled.)

Housing:

1. 6. Plant-able Alchemy & Food Ingredients and/or Fishing at home.

Bug-fixes/Optimization:

1. 7. Just please fix the Dungeon-Finder.
2. 8. Just please fix Cyrodiil Lag/Loading-Times.
3. 9. Improve & fix Battlegrounds issues.
4. 10. Optimize & fix PVE Dungeons and Trials for the thought of everyone with slower internet & latency. (Not making it too easy, but so it's possible to do the hardest content if you got really slow internet or latency.)

Other:

1. (Please leave a comment.)*

* There was more choices like "Battle-music Overhaul, Crown-Store suggestions, More consistent Storytelling etc", (Battle-music can turn stale after a while, unlike f.example FFXIV's Battle-music.) but you're only allowed 10 options for a poll. So if you have anything else on what can be improved, please comment. Also please keep it nice and civil.
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tmbrinks

1. Sure
2. Sure
3. Already tons, how many different shades of colors can you have?
4. Sure
5. For what purpose... damn near everybody is cp810
6. This would be awesome
7. Of Course
8. Of Course
9. Of Course - Should be working on these always
10. Absolutely not. It's the only content in the game that's even remotely challenging, it's less than 5% of the game, let there be something for people to push to achieve.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

sure nice ideas...would also add x3 more housing slots for the eso+ since the 700 on notable houses is a complete joke...but I realized making pools dont mean anything...

CassandraGemini

2. Make choices feel like they have an bigger impact.

Honestly, the impact of those things varies strongly. Some are more QoL improvements or even come down to personal preference. I would like it if the choices I made in game would actually mean something, even if this means, I'll have to face repercussions at some point. The way it is now it doesn't really matter what you do, nothing has a real effect on the bigger picture.

7, 8 and 9 we should actually be able to take for granted, but, sadly, we can't. And given how long these things have been issues and how little the patches that were supposed to help actually did, I kind of doubt this'll change in the near future. Even though I still dare to hope sometimes.

oxygen_thief

we can think whatever we want it doesnt matter because zos thinks that everything is fine

vestahls

2. Make choices feel like they have an bigger impact.

It goes without saying that performance improvements have priority over everything else - and it's not just because ESO has had issues, but this is true for any game.

That said, out of all options on the list, what I miss the most is more of an RPG feeling to go with the MMO side of things. TES games have never particularly been good at multiple options/butterfly effect storytelling, so ESO just inherited that linear style of plot.
But having your options really impact the world - and actually having options, like how for some quests you can side with the "baddies" or other stuff that completely changes the experience. If the game invested more in that, it would be a big improvement.

Generally, the writing could do with some development as well. I really miss the strange, mind bending, almost esoteric kind of story that TESIII had, and even TESIV. I know this is not the sort of thing you really expect from video games, but I'd love it if all TES games went back to this mix of silly/typical quests on one side, and then where you least expect it, bigger overarching quests that make you get all real-life-existential once you grasp what you're dealing with.

They sort of touched on the edges of it with the Clockwork City DLC, with The Truth in Sequence and stuff because that's just the nature of the Nirn-Ensuing idea. But it didn't scratch the itch for me, so ESO is still just a high-fantasy game which makes use of ideas that are interchangeable with any other fantasy game. Even the in-game books that touch on the more philosophical notions from the earlier games (which are very much appreciated) are here in only a simplified format - which I understand as a technical limitation, but it's still a pity.

I think if they put more effort into the writing (which is already quite good) and made use of a few more big-boi ideas and concepts that are weird af but compelling and valuable, it would blow any other MMO out of the water.

ArchMikem

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

Ive been wishing to go topless for a long while.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

ArchMikem wrote: »

Ive been wishing to go topless for a long while.

but shouldn't that apply to underwear?

Iskiab

8. Please fix Cyrodiil Lag/Loading-Times.

Lag and the huge memory leak.

It’s having such a huge effect, to the point where they might have to rebalance again if the game ran smoothly. A lot of pvp strategies revolve around lag.

Anotherone773

11. Better engage the community and actually listen to our feedback and implement it. We literally tell you how to get us to open our wallet and how to keep us as customers, yet we (feel like we) are mostly ignored... except for the occasional acknowledgement that we do exist

ArchMikem

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Ive been wishing to go topless for a long while.

but shouldn't that apply to underwear?

It can, though the upper bits can withstand the chilling bite of Skyrim better than the lower bits.

Ri_Khan

Yes, all that and let me add a few more...

11. Find new competent dev team to fix all this mess.
12. Find new publisher that will enable said team to do so.
13. Purge servers of botters, macro scrubs and cheaters.

and last but not least...

14. GAH!!!

Ysbriel

Human Catapults! should had been there from day one.

Karmanorway

8. Please fix Cyrodiil Lag/Loading-Times.

7 8 9, also, a separate queue for premades in BGs thank you

Neoealth

9. Improve and fix Battlegrounds issues.

I want all aspects to be improved. But found myself torn between cyrodiil and battlegrounds as a priority. Since I play more bgs I voted this way.

The state of bg's at the moment is abysmal.

Gythral

7-10 and maybe the ones no-one will mention!

ATomiX69

The only answer ZOS wants to hear is: "Find ways to make people spend even more money on cosmetics and RNG crates."

But for real, since we know optimization and bug-fixing is far above ZOS' level of competence, we should see what they have planned with the "upcomming" (a.k.a. not anytime soon) CP system rework and go from there.
If it ends up being a bug-plagued, imbalanced and boring system, then I officially lost all faith in the dev/design-team and the future of this game.
Im just really hoping they somehow manage to make the new cp system exciting and with class specific trees and talents, thats gonna be the decider for me if I come back to ESO or move on away from this "game" (which implies its playable).

ArchMikem

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

Ri_Khan wrote: »

Yes, all that and let me add a few more...

11. Find new competent dev team to fix all this mess.
12. Find new publisher that will enable said team to do so.
13. Purge servers of botters, macro scrubs and cheaters.

and last but not least...

14. GAH!!!

No.

wanders_the_swamps

It's too bad you have none of the options option. The performance of the game is what is pissing off most players I know. The lag, the disconnects during dungeons and trials.

Endgame is subjective.

For some its pvp for some its pve for some its housing for some its something else.

For those who it's pve raids / trials / arenas / vet dungeons and for those who it's PvP , when you can't perform to your potential due to the limitations of the game and not to your ability or skills, it's a big let down.

Bottom line "we " can't improve eso. Not our job.

Stovahkiin

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

Two big problems prevent me from ever coming back to the game:

- The game has constantly had some kind of performance issue, whether it be lag, endless loading screens, crashing, or even all three.

- A total lack of side content. If you don’t want to do repetitive quests, pvp, or play digital housing, then there is literally nothing to do in this game. I can only run the same dungeons and fight over the same keeps in Cyrodiil so many times before I get completely bored. This game needs social side activities, minigames, etc, to give players things to enjoy. Back in the day, Runescape had these things and it was a blast to play.

As it is now, the game still has too many problems that the devs clearly aren’t going to fix, and there just isn’t enough engaging content to keep me around.

CaffeinatedMayhem

5. Ability to hide CP-Rank.

810 is the max that anyone should ever be able to see. It doesn't matter how many CP I have over that amount, they aren't allocated. Also, just because a toon has CP810 doesn't mean I've been playing them for a long time.

My yearly wish: Please fix gamepad ui on PC. It would be nice to have ALL the functionality of keyboardui: like being able to search outfit styles at the station!!!! The extra 0.5 second lag would be nice to get rid of, would also make consistent animation cancelling easier. Block mostly works now, I think The Warrior is the only boss that is still bugged.
Would be super totally awesome if addons could modify the gamepadui: MM could display prices in my inventory without a bunch of UI switches and bank visits, CP change addons would work without a UI switch, same for Awesome Guild Store, and inventory addons.

Would also be super great if the ESO addon API failed *gracefully* at a keyboard/gamepad error, instead of requiring a restart.But that's probably asking too much. (color pickers are a prime example)

And lastly - I noticed that I can do some dual-button binds now, thank you! Can I bind Y+B to something OTHER than synergy? Because it's the worst combo for my particular hand issues but I can't change it because I can't map Y+B!

Sylianwe

6. Plant-able Alchemy and Food Ingredients and/or Fishing at home.

6. Plant-able Alchemy and Food Ingredients and/or Fishing at home

Would love this.

I do enjoy Alchemy profoundly. The food ingredients would be handy too.

But, I'm also happy with how things are now. Perhaps one day.. .

Tigerseye

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

I'm not going to waste a vote on improved performance, because that should just be a given.

So, went for this, instead.

Skwor

Sorry cannot vote in your poll, a little bit selfish isn't it, it only represents your choices in that you asked "What do you think can be changed or improved to make yourself enjoy the game even more?" You left no option for other and I have things that I prefer over all the choices you offered

Asys

oxygen_thief wrote: »

we can think whatever we want it doesnt matter because zos thinks that everything is fine

/Thread

Contaminate

7. Please fix the Dungeon-Finder.

7 - 10 should be the biggest priority

And instead we get more gamble crates and more people throwing out hundreds of dollars on Crowns when the game hardly even works

precambria

9. Improve and fix Battlegrounds issues.

7-10 game is in a borderline unplayable state with performance issues and PVP is being completely pushed out of the game by LAGGED out play in both Cyrodil and Bg's, Bg's at least could get something resembling PVP but now the lag is there too and the Queue system is not functional at all for well over a month and a half.

Craziux

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

Skwor wrote: »

Sorry cannot vote in your poll, a little bit selfish isn't it, it only represents your choices in that you asked "What do you think can be changed or improved to make yourself enjoy the game even more?" You left no option for other and I have things that I prefer over all the choices you offered

Sorry, I was going to add more options, I had 15 in mind including "Other", but had to remove 5 of them, and it was a hard choice to figure out what to remove. The forums simply doesn't allow more options, and I can't change or add poll answers once submitted, if it was possible, I would happily have added the option. That's why I wrote it in the description of the poll instead, if you have other things you want to add to suggestions.

pod88kk

All of the above

Hymzir

Remove pointless grind.

I want to play the game, I do not want to slave away in the salt mines of Tamrilando.

I do not want to spend countless hours preparing for a brief spell of actually entertaining gameplay.

Requiring me to run around doing busybody work, does not entice me to play more, it makes me rather spend my free time playing other games instead. Games where I can actually just do those fun things instead of constantly farming for mats or playing the RNG lottery.

It most certainly does not incentivize me to spend more money on this crud.

Craziux

1. Ability to hide Armor Slots.

I personally would really like to see them add an option to hide the shield indicator and adding the "motif pages" for the invisible/hidden armor slots should be pretty easy to implement. It's what I'm most hopeful for.