Cities Should be Decorated for the New Life Festival, etc

Guyle

No way, while I like this idea in theory, our couldn't code a bug free game of pong if their lives depended on it devs would figure out some way to screw it up and break the game even more. I'm actually surprised they got the dragons flying over major cities during rise of the dragonguard event to work without having the game down for 12 hours on 3 seperate occasions.

craybest

They could choose 1 city for every different celebration even.

Synthwavius

I'd rather get some special boss/dungeon to do

TX12001rwb17_ESO

There is also a bunch of world ending problems happening, I think they have bigger issues then their cities not being decorated for the holidays.

eso_lags

I cant think of an mmo that ive played that doesnt do this tbh.

Seminolegirl1992

I don't think it would be that intensive tbh. They add dragons to major cities during dragon events. It wouldn't be difficult to add a festive touch during holidays. I imagine their team is large enough to be able to focus on more than one thing at once. So yes, while the game has a myriad of issues, it's not like the dev team can't focus on a small touch.

Tandor

I much prefer the present setup, to be honest. I hate too much decoration for events - Rift looks awful with every single NPC having a pumpkin head at the moment, for example - and if ZOS were going to spend time on adding event decorations it would be better spent in my view on varying the event tasks which can get tired in any game when you've run them for several years without any changes.

rpa

Well, it is a medieval themed game so lack of anacrhonic seasonal tinsel kind of makes sense. The real reason for it is publisher being cheap.

Xebov

sionIV wrote: »

Xebov wrote: »

Its a waste of time. Given all the seasonal things you would spend huge amounts of dev resources for soemthing thats only visible for a week or two. That dev time is better used for permanent content.

I'm having a really hard time seeing where those developer resources end up, so if they changed a town or two, at least I would know they're getting used.

Motifs/Styles/Mounts/Furniture/Mementos from Events? Especially Styles that frequently came during the last events? Or maybe DLC areas? Its not like that stuff grows on trees.

Aliyavana

Wish they did it

MajThorax

I agree! Fallout 4 had christmas decorations. Why Eso shouldn't have too? At least in Eastmarch where the quest hub is located.

Jaraal

Guyle wrote: »

No way, while I like this idea in theory, our couldn't code a bug free game of pong if their lives depended on it devs would figure out some way to screw it up and break the game even more. I'm actually surprised they got the dragons flying over major cities during rise of the dragonguard event to work without having the game down for 12 hours on 3 seperate occasions.

This.

Please don't give them another opportunity to break things that have (sort of) been working for years. I do believe we are safe though, as there's no financial motivation for them to do it.

Faiza

eso_lags wrote: »

I cant think of an mmo that ive played that doesnt do this tbh.

I can but it's SWTOR lol

Anyway I think this a great idea and would love to see it.

linuxlady

No holiday decorations in cities. NO THANk YOU!!! I don’t celebrate them in the real world.

Aliyavana

linuxlady wrote: »

No holiday decorations in cities. NO THANk YOU!!! I don’t celebrate them in the real world.

That's ok, you don't have to celebrate them ingame either. Did you know that seeing holiday decorations does not force you to participate in said holiday?

Aliyavana

Tandor wrote: »

I much prefer the present setup, to be honest. I hate too much decoration for events - Rift looks awful with every single NPC having a pumpkin head at the moment, for example - and if ZOS were going to spend time on adding event decorations it would be better spent in my view on varying the event tasks which can get tired in any game when you've run them for several years without any changes.

i thought that game was shut down

Grianasteri

Its not enough that its difficult to escape the overly commercialised, wantonly wasteful, fairy tale nonsense, in real life... I have to deal with it in ESO as well? No thanks.

Bah humbug doesnt even come close.

Parasaurolophus

Different cultures in Tamriel celebrate this holiday in their own way, not only as a Christian Christmas in Europe or America. In general, I generally think that the transfer of real-life celebrations with their attributes to Nirn destroys the identity of Tamriel.

omegatay_ESO

Raideen wrote: »

I never understood why they did not do this in the first place. Anyone who has played any MMO ever (I assume the ESO designers played other MMO's), would have seen this done in other games. It adds life to the game. So ya, go figure. Sure would be nice to see in game though.

Because they would not make any money from it. Just saying.. The Crown sale might happen soon, and it's spun as a holiday discount. All that Christmas money being gifted, ehehe, zos smelling a payday, nothing more. Bah humbug..

Nordic__Knights

they will make it an new dlc as to NOT do so brings no new money to ZOS ANY OTHER WAY from it

linuxlady

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real world religion discussion is against tos... aligning in game decorations with real world holidays is in fact bringing real world religion into the game and the discussion of them into the forums

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SeaGtGruff

I would tend to doubt that it's technically feasible to let the players decorate the towns. If it's something that could be done without much trouble, then okay. But if it would mean having to do a lot of work just to make it feasible, then no thanks.

Nordic__Knights

linuxlady wrote: »

xclassgaming wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

No holiday decorations in cities. NO THANkimages YOU!!! I don’t celebrate them in the real world.

Yes, because everything revolves around you.

real world religion discussion is against tos... aligning in game decorations with real world holidays is in fact bringing real world religion into the game and the discussion of them into the forums

theres an time to turn off the game and theres an time to play the game if seeing decorations of any given event makes you feel unconformable in RL its time to turn it off sorry , people play games to get out of RL for an lil , not bring RL into their game time

iksde

Raideen wrote: »

I never understood why they did not do this in the first place. Anyone who has played any MMO ever (I assume the ESO designers played other MMO's), would have seen this done in other games. It adds life to the game. So ya, go figure. Sure would be nice to see in game though.

yeah when i started playing ESO (since beta :v) it was looking very umm...boring, sad, nothing fresh when holidays come and literally nnothing was specailly added in this game, later ZOS added events for this but still I cant feel anything special, good playing this game during holidays like I was feeling this magic while playing any other mmo or even small online game

ESO was my 1st and only game without special felings, taste of playing game during holidays

iksde

rpa wrote: »

Well, it is a medieval themed game so lack of anacrhonic seasonal tinsel kind of makes sense. The real reason for it is publisher being cheap.

it doesnt matter what theme is game, if you have played many other online games you could see they do care about holidays magic even in game not matter of game theme if it was in time long long ago or in future, it is hard to find especailly big mmo not caring this way for their game and players

linuxlady

Nordic__Knights wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

xclassgaming wrote: »

linuxlady wrote: »

No holiday decorations in cities. NO THANkimages YOU!!! I don’t celebrate them in the real world.

Yes, because everything revolves around you.

real world religion discussion is against tos... aligning in game decorations with real world holidays is in fact bringing real world religion into the game and the discussion of them into the forums

theres an time to turn off the game and theres an time to play the game if seeing decorations of any given event makes you feel unconformable in RL its time to turn it off sorry , people play games to get out of RL for an lil , not bring RL into their game time

it seems as though you are trying to assert something as though i said it when i had not.

Arahallris

One of the aspects I really loved about Wildstar is that they went all out on decorating their main cities. Really loved Shade's Eve. They even added in special music.

Shade's Eve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLMUEdxo5U

Winterfest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-6yM03LPc

defcon.dealer1b14_ESO

As if there aren't enough 'stability' issues..so no to flooding the servers with 'art'.

Put a Christmas tree up in watever room u roll the game.....and stare at it.

Problem solved. 🍺

SickleCider

COSIGNED.

It'd be nice to see the game become less static in general. It feels pretty wooden at times.

Sylvermynx

Aliyavana wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

I much prefer the present setup, to be honest. I hate too much decoration for events - Rift looks awful with every single NPC having a pumpkin head at the moment, for example - and if ZOS were going to spend time on adding event decorations it would be better spent in my view on varying the event tasks which can get tired in any game when you've run them for several years without any changes.

i thought that game was shut down

No.... Trion sold it to gamigo. It's still running, but it's not the same according to my daughter who does still play some.