BalticBlues wrote: »The art team is getting better and better. Kudos!
I don't buy costumes and that kind of fancy stuff, so I do not know about these luxury problems. I just enjoy the new zones, and especially the Markath terrain team has done a fantastic job where I sometimes just stop and enjoy the scenery. IMHO ESO never looked better since release. - On the other hand, however, the new level of crashes, freezes and bugs rips me out of enjoyment probably every 10-20 mins now, and on a pure functional level ESO never sucked more since release.Like the increasingly bigger flaps and hip guards that nobody likes? Or releasing hats and costumes that make your character bald, because they couldn't be bothered to add hair? Or perhaps costumes with adult diapers that they refuse to fix?
Edit: now that forums are full of dissatisfied players, I wonder if that dissatisfaction is displayed outside of them? I mean, if the **** is boiling only here it's unlikely that ZOS would care.
BalticBlues wrote: »BalticBlues wrote: »The art team is getting better and better. Kudos!I don't buy costumes and that kind of fancy stuff, so I do not know about these luxury problems. I just enjoy the new zones, and especially the Markath terrain team has done a fantastic job where I sometimes just stop and enjoy the scenery.Like the increasingly bigger flaps and hip guards that nobody likes? Or releasing hats and costumes that make your character bald, because they couldn't be bothered to add hair? Or perhaps costumes with adult diapers that they refuse to fix?
Attackopsn wrote: »<snip> As a player, you should feel disrespected, treated like your experience is unimportant as long as your money keeps coming in by a company that blatantly ignored bug reports and is not interested in solving performance issues.
Supporting this game with any money until that mistreatment is acknowledged is simply disrespectful to you, the player.
If we just allow this to happen in Markarth, expect this to happen in the future too.
If you really care about this game, cancel your sub, don’t buy any crowns, enough is enough <snip>
What I don't understand, tho, is why that is only ever translated into "stop paying" rather than "stop playing". If a game is good enough to continue playing (and, for that matter, posting) then it's good enough to continue paying for.
cave_troll wrote: »I am getting the vibes I had towards the last year of Landmark. The devs stopped streaming on twitch as much, the weekly updates went to two weeks, then a month. The communication as a whole slowed down to a crawl, only forum moderation seemed to be the same. They kept their cash store though, in fact we got some good sales towards the end (in hind sight I should have known what this meant).
I can't say this is the same case with ESO but the internal feelings are the same.
This describes what I was thinking. I am rather afraid to spent any money here because in theory they could just shut it down without refunding anything. I remember when I made the mistake to spent money at a game that was called Battlefield Heroes. EA was doing big sales in the games shop even after announcing that the game will be shut down.
That's why I will never ever touch any game with the EA logo no matter how good it is.
I really do hope that won't happen to Eso.
cave_troll wrote: »I am getting the vibes I had towards the last year of Landmark. The devs stopped streaming on twitch as much, the weekly updates went to two weeks, then a month. The communication as a whole slowed down to a crawl, only forum moderation seemed to be the same. They kept their cash store though, in fact we got some good sales towards the end (in hind sight I should have known what this meant).
I can't say this is the same case with ESO but the internal feelings are the same.
This describes what I was thinking. I am rather afraid to spent any money here because in theory they could just shut it down without refunding anything. I remember when I made the mistake to spent money at a game that was called Battlefield Heroes. EA was doing big sales in the games shop even after announcing that the game will be shut down.
That's why I will never ever touch any game with the EA logo no matter how good it is.
I really do hope that won't happen to Eso.
Battlefield Heros was shut down because it was not as popular as was expected. Essentially they were not able to successfully monetize the game. The big kicker was when they increased the VP cost of weapons and essentially made it more favorable to buy the weapons via funds (the equivalent of crowns). That really pushed the game towards P2W which turns away a lot of quality players.
In contrast, even before COVICD, ESO had too many players for them to consider shutting down. ESO is a cash cow. Further, the ESO cash shop is not a necessity and we can't buy actual weapons or armor with crowns.
On this I have to agree. Remembering Markarth from Skyrim, I could hardly believe the tiny, simplistic version ESO has. Perhaps they could not finish their vision due to Corona. I find this excusable in times like that. - However, I find it inexcusable if developers take a working product, transform it into a crashing and freezing mess, and then even release it for real money. ESO always felt like an "endless beta", but since U28 it even feels like being "back in alpha". In this state IMHO a software simply must not be released, because it means more harm than good to the customers.Markarth had the opportunity to be a grand and beautiful city..... but the fact that they trailer parked it up with wooden palisades is one of the greatest artwork disappointments yet.
cave_troll wrote: »I am getting the vibes I had towards the last year of Landmark. The devs stopped streaming on twitch as much, the weekly updates went to two weeks, then a month. The communication as a whole slowed down to a crawl, only forum moderation seemed to be the same. They kept their cash store though, in fact we got some good sales towards the end (in hind sight I should have known what this meant).
I can't say this is the same case with ESO but the internal feelings are the same.
This describes what I was thinking. I am rather afraid to spent any money here because in theory they could just shut it down without refunding anything. I remember when I made the mistake to spent money at a game that was called Battlefield Heroes. EA was doing big sales in the games shop even after announcing that the game will be shut down.
That's why I will never ever touch any game with the EA logo no matter how good it is.
I really do hope that won't happen to Eso.
Battlefield Heros was shut down because it was not as popular as was expected. Essentially they were not able to successfully monetize the game. The big kicker was when they increased the VP cost of weapons and essentially made it more favorable to buy the weapons via funds (the equivalent of crowns). That really pushed the game towards P2W which turns away a lot of quality players.
In contrast, even before COVICD, ESO had too many players for them to consider shutting down. ESO is a cash cow. Further, the ESO cash shop is not a necessity and we can't buy actual weapons or armor with crowns.
Havent they considered that around the backlash 4 years ago? when the game were so bad they did one tamriel?
What I don't understand, tho, is why that is only ever translated into "stop paying" rather than "stop playing". If a game is good enough to continue playing (and, for that matter, posting) then it's good enough to continue paying for.
Yeah I don't really understand this way of thinking. People pay extra to enhance their playing experience..... so why would you continue playing a more stripped down version of the game if it makes you so unhappy? As long as I'm still playing the game, I'll want to keep my double inventory space, bottomless craft bag, and double furnishing slots. If the game gets to the point where the problems outweigh the fun, then I would walk away 100%, rather than trying to 'teach ZOS a lesson' by slowly choking their revenue stream while still enjoying playing their game.
What I don't understand, tho, is why that is only ever translated into "stop paying" rather than "stop playing". If a game is good enough to continue playing (and, for that matter, posting) then it's good enough to continue paying for.
Yeah I don't really understand this way of thinking. People pay extra to enhance their playing experience..... so why would you continue playing a more stripped down version of the game if it makes you so unhappy? As long as I'm still playing the game, I'll want to keep my double inventory space, bottomless craft bag, and double furnishing slots. If the game gets to the point where the problems outweigh the fun, then I would walk away 100%, rather than trying to 'teach ZOS a lesson' by slowly choking their revenue stream while still enjoying playing their game.
I can help you understand this simple thing. People love this game. The story, the characters, the ambient, the music, probably everything but the state of it ... they want to keep playing but not like this, with all the disconnects, bugs and the silent ignoring by the devs. It is a shame, really because so many people are upset and sad how they and the game is threated by the owners.
Obviously money is all they care about, so some people believe if they cancel their subscription, it will hurt enough to make them act and change things for the better. I am afraid they are wrong, it feels like they are letting it die, god knows why. Hope not though ....
Depending on who publishes that information, yes and no. Going by pure numbers, Elder Scrolls does not hit the 100m mark. Elder Scrolls would take the 37th place in this regard.It is true that people love Elder Scrolls. It is probably close to being a top 25 game franchises of all time.
In your opinon. In my opinion I personally prefer WOW mechanics to ESO by a landslide. The thing that ESO offers me is housing, if WOW had housing it's doubtful I would play ESO.ESO is also a nice change from the older MMORPG mechanics that WoW and FF use.
Which one? New World? Lord of the Rings? Project TL?The unfortunate reality is there is only one MMORPG being developed by a large company and it is so early in its development we have no idea how it will be designed on top of the high chance it will never see the light of day.
BUGesda_lazy wrote: »I cannot leave Hew's Bane 'cause the game crashing to login screen every time when I trying to move to any other location. Moreover I cannot login right after these crashes because of errors. After 20 minutes I manage to log in but everything repeats round and round. This is a mockery.
gatekeeper13 wrote: »After the "performance fixes", the game performs worse than before.
How they achieved that, I dont know.
Subscription cancelled
With respect to the craftbag I'll lose, I already decon'd all my hoarded sets (thanks reconstruction feature) and cleared out all my toons inventory slots in preparation for the manual chores of inventory management that will ensue. Having said that, wouldn't it be nice if if an addon was allowed to store our crafting material .. oh well.
The client performance y'all are seeing used to be reserved for Cyrodiil's finest - it's nice to know we're all in this together now.
Game crashes build character, pun intended.
Obviously money is all they care about, so some people believe if they cancel their subscription, it will hurt enough to make them act and change things for the better. I am afraid they are wrong, it feels like they are letting it die, god knows why. Hope not though ....
The game will just shut down if people stop subbing and stop buying crowns because this was likely never meant to be anything but a cash grab from the beginning and anyone as far as developers who care about the game who came along after have to deal with that reality while producing content.
Mostly all i do is crafting dailies and survey maps and crafting writs for vouchers and i get disconnects just traveling to my player home.... that's on top of the d/c's and lockups while doing dungeons and delves. It's difficult to do much of anything in this game without having to restart the game.
ZOS should just do the right thing here and shut the servers down. no new content. just quit. you know its what you really have wanted to do anyway so just do it.
Depending on who publishes that information, yes and no. Going by pure numbers, Elder Scrolls does not hit the 100m mark. Elder Scrolls would take the 37th place in this regard.It is true that people love Elder Scrolls. It is probably close to being a top 25 game franchises of all time.In your opinon. In my opinion I personally prefer WOW mechanics to ESO by a landslide. The thing that ESO offers me is housing, if WOW had housing it's doubtful I would play ESO.ESO is also a nice change from the older MMORPG mechanics that WoW and FF use.Which one? New World? Lord of the Rings? Project TL?The unfortunate reality is there is only one MMORPG being developed by a large company and it is so early in its development we have no idea how it will be designed on top of the high chance it will never see the light of day.
Leaderboards are dead because no one can run any content. People want to raid and do 4 man arenas, but they can't. I really am curious if ZOS sees that number. I am assuming they only see one number, and it's $$$. They will see that number drop dramatically with the next expansion. End game players are leaving in droves because the game is unplayable.
Its an skill issue, so is not wiping on first trash in Wayrest 1.gatekeeper13 wrote: »After the "performance fixes", the game performs worse than before.
How they achieved that, I dont know.
The problem with that is that the list of bug is larger than the update.HappyElephant wrote: »It is not just the game that was broken, but also their accounting system, their crown store and more.
For example, ESO e-mailed me an invoice for an item I bought back in 2016!
The bugs are everywhere.
ZOS could use an honest postmortem to identify all the things that went wrong with the Markath update.
Attackopsn wrote: »Things have just unhinged.
Before I rant, run my opinion into the dirt, or put negative energy into the room, I want to say that I care about the game. I remember being young and playing games like Morrowind and Oblivion and just hoping they took that world into the genre of something like RuneScape or World of Warcraft, which felt massive and overwhelming at the time.
I remember ESO being announced, and waiting years for it to be released, poking around in the beta at a friends house, and overlooking all the bugs for something I probably spent a decade just crossing my fingers to see come to fruition. Even counting down the final five seconds on the release screen with friends in a PSN party chat who were all eager to hop into this incredible game.
Things were never perfect, the game always had problems, but I think any veteran player will agree that we all just rolled with the punches, it was a big game, things were often rocky, but we all cared about it and stuck with it.
This last update is so different from iterations of the game when random bugs came to light that allowed people to desync people with emotes, or get into keeps, or even slay zergs and dungeons with camohunter. This last update had issues that were documented before release, widely known before release, acknowledged early within the PTS cycle, and then still released with the issues unchanged months later.
Some issues only relevant to end game such as minor slayer, some issues detracted enjoyment from a major portion of the player base such as the issues with light attacks in relation to their subsequent casted ability, some just blatantly surfaced as an extreme increase in error screens and performance drops within all areas of the game, not just the nearly unplayable performance wreck that is cyrodiil, ironically in a year named for performance fixes.
I’ve ran through the motions with this game from the very beginning, and I’ve seen problems arise, be frustrating, persist for too long and eventually receive a fix, etc, but this was just plainly disrespectful to your players.
As a player, you should feel disrespected, treated like your experience is unimportant as long as your money keeps coming in by a company that blatantly ignored bug reports and is not interested in solving performance issues.
Supporting this game with any money until that mistreatment is acknowledged is simply disrespectful to you, the player.
If we just allow this to happen in Markarth, expect this to happen in the future too.
If you really care about this game, cancel your sub, don’t buy any crowns, enough is enough.