3+ months spent focusing on Performance; how did it get worse?

Elsonso

oXI_Viper_IXo wrote: »

Nanfoodle wrote: »

The facts:

Most major updates are followed by about 2 weeks of hot fixes. This is normal for any large scale launch on ununified tech. This game runs on everything from high end PC's to laptops I would not use to cruse the web on. People running so many combinations of add ons on top of that. People with up to date drivers and many that don't even know how to. If you could picture the number of moving parts, people would be more forgiving. It's a wonder any MMO works at all.

Funny, even games that seem to have it together, read their tech section of the forums and you will see this is not so uncommon. I laugh when people in game get upset about the lag and I ask them. Do you play via WiFi or do you hard wire with a gigabit cat 6 cable? Do you play the game on a HD, or an SSD? Do you use software that sets your PC into game mode so your PC plays the game most efficiently? Did you buy a cheap HDMI cable for your monitor/video card, or are you using a high end HDMI cable? Most times I get back all the wrong answers. I rarely lag.

Why are you spamming this all over the forums? The blame lies entirely with ZOS, quit trying to white knight.

At least part of what they posted was right. With the complexity of modern games, and just the way they all seem to do QA and development schedules, we should expect a couple rounds of patches and updates immediately following a large release. For ESO, that means weekly patches. For other game companies, maybe different patch sizes and schedules, or maybe nothing at all. Games these days are too complicated to test for all cases or to detect all regressions.

Admittedly, sometimes ZOS needs a couple rounds to fix each weekly patch, in addition to the large update, so I am glad they halted next week's patch so they could fix it.

FierceSam wrote: »

I doubt our ESO+ money is going unspent. Whether players are getting good value for their subscription is a different issue.

I am under no illusions that the ESO Plus money, Crown money, and pre-orders are going to ESO. They are going to Bethesda Softworks, who takes their publisher cut, then a cut gets separated out for mommy corporate and the investors, and whatever is left over ends up in the ZOS general funds bucket. That gets used to pay for whatever ZOS needs to pay for. It could be a developer for ESO, a developer for Game X, or bagels in the cafeteria.

As you suggested, the issue is whether what people buy has value appropriate to what they spent for it. The issue is not what happens to the money.