Not the Zenimax i knew in this game

Spiros78

After 5-6 months of gameplay in this online version of ES, i have to say, i'm hugely dissapointed, although i payed an amount for eso+.

When i had started this game, i did it to wander again on the lands of Morrowind and Cyrodiil mainly, but i found everything changed. City positions, buildings missing or relocated, blocked paths etc. Newer graphics yes, but at what cost? This relocation thing, made me feel really disgusted. I stick to details very much and can see many things that most people do not, so here are few of the bad spots i caught.

When i entered Vardenfell, i felt joy that i was once again in a land i loved as teenager, but this, until i realize, that everything was .......not vardenfell, and it didn't take long. Bypassing the rest regions now, i reached to the recent past, where i decided to enter Cyrodiil, that i had not search about it in google or bing, because i didn't want to spoil the surprise, but it turns that i should have!!! Entering there, i discovered, that all this huge land, is wasted for......pvp !!!!!!! Talking a walk of 2h around, i was becoming more and more sad, seing everything, like ***, dead, wasted and on top of that, instead of quests and nice pve, i had to take a look around in case someone would see me and chase me!!! I would have left the land sooner, but as i discovered, the only shrines are placed at the corners of the map, so my mistake, was clearly to go deep to the center, making my way back harder even with mount. Cyrodiil now.... equal to a junkyard. Enjoy it!

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Then, we have the combat thingie. I mean, what joke is this? Sleepy movements, with few skills that look like they're made to caress the enemies on their ears, no passion, no feeling, it's like the characters smoked weed or something. They walk as if they have an anchor attached on their legs [snip]. Even the old Morrowind had much more live fight than this here, not to mention oblivion where it was a lot better. Here a two handed weapon, feels like lifting a half car, not to mention the charge attack that takes 3secs to execute.. sleep time!! I won't extend to more details ofc.

As i have mentioned in another topic, i got sick of so many flashing effects whitening the whole screen all of a sudden during a quest progress, nearly blinding me unexpectedly. Same for some pulsing skills, that are too bright, especially in dark places, thus half of quest areas...covering big area of the screen.

Mounts here, need... 2 months to be trained in order to run faster......than a human, or you can pay a week's salary and have them magically run at the speed they should have at the first place, same goes for stamina.

And what to say about the so called.....mega-server......wow!!! pssss..... mega huh? Issues half of the times with it, with lots of complaints from user side. Mega? Well, that thing behaves more like a SOHO server, good for 50-100 clients. Mega.......it sounds so ridiculous.

I won't write anything more, because i don't feel it's worth it, i understood how much Zenimax changed to the worse after all these, and it used to be -( if not my favorite)- among my first 5 favorite companies. All i can say, is huge dissapointment and wasted even a small amount of money, on a game that is clearly made for fashion (see girls) and cosmetics. Gamble and anomaly are the primary messages that this company is trying to promote too.

Bring more crates and place your bets ladies and gentlemen.......casino is open!

[edited for inappropriate content and language/hate speech]

ChunkyCat

Pretty much

NeillMcAttack

INB4LOCK

You could have made your point without the homophobia and your thread may have some merit with regards expectation. If I were you I would just remove that part and keep your ignorance on that topic to yourself.

RefLiberty

Spiros78 wrote: »

Bring more crates and place your bets ladies and gentlemen.......casino is open!

This.

Jaxious79

Wow this was a sad read.

If you think the ESO store is bad you obviously haven't played many mmorpgs. They release a ton of content compared to what goes in the store.

But hey you read the forums a bit found out if you cry about the store and servers you will get a few likes. Hope you get those desperately needed likes and please just stay out of mmorpgs they are not for you.

Chaos2088

Wow this is not the game for you. Homophobic language is not allowed of these forums. Gay people exist and is 100% natural so get over yourself.

Cirantille

Cool story

Needs a little rework for us to get the bait though

CMDR_Un1k0rn

OP.

Do one.

Just do one. Nobody wants you here.

Freakin_Hytte

You're disgusting with your homophobia, just leave the game, I'm pretty sure no one will miss you. seriously it's not 1800's anymore and if you hate the thought of homosexuality just keep it to your self man, no one wants to hang around people like you.

JKorr

I guess congrats on the trolling attempt. Need to do a bit of reading though, if you want to pull it off.

Not the Zenimax you knew? Zenimax Online has exactly one game currently out, and it is ESO. Commander Keen isn't out yet. They have never done another game besides ESO at this point. https://www.zenimaxonline.com/

Bethesda Game Studios is responsible for the single player game you apparently thought you were buying.

Bethesda is the publisher branch. Zenimax Media owns the different studios. https://www.zenimax.com/studios

TequilaFire

You really should research a game before you buy it.
But then again this is a troll thread not knowing about PvP in Cyro?
You have to join a PvP campaign to even go to Cyro. lol

redlink1979

You lost me with your homophobic concerns...

Reverb

There’s a lot to unpack here, but only a few points I feel like addressing.
1) Zenimax Online Studios isn’t the same studio that made the previous (or next) TES games. ESO is the first game they ever developed, and they did so based on the lore and content of the previous games. There is no “changed for the worse” because they aren’t the same company.

2) MMOs don’t play the same as single player games. Ever. The combat systems and gameplay must be different. It seems single player games are more your speed.

3) You will always be disappointed when you try to recreate (or stay stuck in) the past. Always. It’s healthier to assess the present for what it is rather than through the lens of what used to be.

4) there have been homosexual NPCs in every TES game since Morrowind. Check your bias.

5) ESO is set thousands of years earlier than the other games. Settlements were destroyed and rebuilt in the passage of time, just like in real life history. Zeni made an effort to remain faithful to the previously introduced locales while making the changes needed to work for an MMO on a modern(ish) engine. Morrowind was my first TES game and I remember it fondly. The Morrowind expansion in ESO played in that nostalgia and I think they did a pretty decent job of reimagining the map.

rollingphoneseb17_ESO

Totally agree with the OP.

There is no homophobia in the thread at all. I also get tired when I get smacked with 24/7 homosexuality.

CassandraGemini

Wow... single most cringy wall of text I've read in a long time. I was totally prepared to try and write a polite but honest answer here about how it might not be a good idea to come into an MMO with the expectation that everything will be exactly like it was in the single player ES games... but then the homophobia hit. It's the year 2020, how long will it take for some people to understand that everyone can love whomever they damn well please and that there is nothing unnatural about it! ZOS should be applauded for putting relationships of all kinds in their game and not making a big deal about it either, but just having everything exist equally beside one another!

This is not something I would usually say to anyone here, no matter what, but in this case I will: If you don't like that go play a different game!

GusTheWizard

Listen OP you probably live in the US and it’s your right to believe what you want, but these forums have rules and I’d urge you to take those into consideration while writing a thread or it will be locked by the devs.

ManwithBeard9

JKorr wrote: »

I guess congrats on the trolling attempt. Need to do a bit of reading though, if you want to pull it off.

Not the Zenimax you knew? Zenimax Online has exactly one game currently out, and it is ESO. Commander Keen isn't out yet. They have never done another game besides ESO at this point. https://www.zenimaxonline.com/

Bethesda Game Studios is responsible for the single player game you apparently thought you were buying.

Bethesda is the publisher branch. Zenimax Media owns the different studios. https://www.zenimax.com/studios

Pretty sure that's part of the troll. Someone that really believed the stuff in the OP wouldn't be smart enough to know the difference between Zenimax, ZOS, BGS, and Bethesda Softworks.

Nairinhe

Don't feed the troll, people

ZOS_RogerJ

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