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where has the focus to ESO gone?
SeaArcanist
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Senior Technical Artist (Character Systems)
DEPARTMENT ART DIVISION ZENIMAX ONLINE STUDIOS LOCATION HUNT VALLEY MD
Overview
ZeniMax Online Studios is seeking a Senior Technical Artist that will be focused on character systems to join our studio for the development of our next AAA game. This is a chance to join an experienced group of developers in pre-production for a new IP.
The ideal candidate is a skilled Technical Artist with extensive experience building systems to support character production. Character customization is an important aspect of this IP and extends into nearly everything the player can do. You will be working with small, multidisciplinary groups of artists, designers and engineers to develop efficient, intuitive workflows, build production tools, and identify performance metrics parameters.
^ ZOS is hiring positions to work on their new tripple A title, but thats besides the main point here..
Can we trust the direction eso is going, and what will be left to inherit if the base foundation of former updates are "faulty"? will the game still hold up?
ESO is made for us, the player, the community to essentially inherit with every update. This is ours. We funded, we helped, we gave feedback. we are by every right entitled to it and our opinions about it.
As of late the devs dont see that, and only care about their content, their direction. and how they feel about the game. and new content strongly overshadows core issues left behind that need addressed.
will eso be negelected? thoughts?
Edited by SeaArcanist on March 11, 2021 9:04PM DEPARTMENT ART DIVISION ZENIMAX ONLINE STUDIOS LOCATION HUNT VALLEY MD
Overview
ZeniMax Online Studios is seeking a Senior Technical Artist that will be focused on character systems to join our studio for the development of our next AAA game. This is a chance to join an experienced group of developers in pre-production for a new IP.
The ideal candidate is a skilled Technical Artist with extensive experience building systems to support character production. Character customization is an important aspect of this IP and extends into nearly everything the player can do. You will be working with small, multidisciplinary groups of artists, designers and engineers to develop efficient, intuitive workflows, build production tools, and identify performance metrics parameters.
^ ZOS is hiring positions to work on their new tripple A title, but thats besides the main point here..
Can we trust the direction eso is going, and what will be left to inherit if the base foundation of former updates are "faulty"? will the game still hold up?
ESO is made for us, the player, the community to essentially inherit with every update. This is ours. We funded, we helped, we gave feedback. we are by every right entitled to it and our opinions about it.
As of late the devs dont see that, and only care about their content, their direction. and how they feel about the game. and new content strongly overshadows core issues left behind that need addressed.
will eso be negelected? thoughts?
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✭✭✭✭✭If you're hiring someone odds are you're expanding the company to be able to do the new task without withdrawing manpower from something else.PC NA - Ceyanna Ashton - Breton Vampire MagDK14 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭If you're hiring someone odds are you're expanding the company to be able to do the new task without withdrawing manpower from something else.
well of course, but my question isnt who will be working on the new project, but instead "who's currently working on the projects?"
meaning atm eso's team is split up to also work on this new project until they hire sombody to fill in.0 -
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✭✭We've known that Bethesda has been working on at least one new ip for literally years. The fact that they are currently actively hiring for it likely means absolutely nothing for ESO.6 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭you think they jsut have thta project on pause until they randomly find sombody? NOPE. it's still being worked on, and possibly they have taken staff away from current projects to work on this new one.0
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✭✭you think they jsut have thta project on pause until they randomly find sombody? NOPE. it's still being worked on
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Yes. The fact that that other project has likely been being worked on while ESO has been running concurrently is precisely my point. The fact that they are either hiring additional personnel or replacing personnel for it at this time likely means nothing for ESO.possibly they have taken staff away from current projects to work on this new one.
Yes, and possibly Todd Howard is a reptilian alien from another dimension who feeds off of my personal sense of disappointment, but unless we actually have any proof for either possibility, both amout to nothing more than idle and baseless speculation.Edited by Mindcr0w on March 11, 2021 7:17AM10 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭you think they jsut have thta project on pause until they randomly find sombody? NOPE. it's still being worked on
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Yes. The fact that that other project has likely been being worked on while ESO has been running concurrently is precisely my point. The fact that they are either hiring additional personnel or replacing personnel for it at this time likely means nothing for ESO.possibly they have taken staff away from current projects to work on this new one.
Yes, and possibly Todd Howard is a reptilian alien from another dimension who feeds off of my personal sense of disappointment, but unless we actually have any proof for either possibility, both amout to nothing more than idle and baseless speculation.
the absense of evidence, is not the evidence of absense. and yoru comparison sir, althought im 99% certian might actually be true, is silly.2 -
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✭✭SeaArcanist wrote: »the absense of evidence, is not the evidence of absense. and yoru comparison sir, althought im 99% certian might actually be true, is silly.
That first part is true only to a point.
Regardless, what can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. 🤷♂️Edited by Mindcr0w on March 11, 2021 8:03AM4 -
Snowstrider✭✭✭✭✭It wont be TES related at all and its obvious the focus will be put and already is put on this new game5 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Snowstrider wrote: »It wont be TES related at all and its obvious the focus will be put and already is put on this new game
^ This.
This game feels neglected. It seems like the developers are working on eso part time.3 -
TineaCruris✭✭✭✭✭SeaArcanist wrote: »Senior Technical Artist (Character Systems)
DEPARTMENT ART DIVISION ZENIMAX ONLINE STUDIOS LOCATION HUNT VALLEY MD
Overview
ZeniMax Online Studios is seeking a Senior Technical Artist that will be focused on character systems to join our studio for the development of our next AAA game. This is a chance to join an experienced group of developers in pre-production for a new IP.
The ideal candidate is a skilled Technical Artist with extensive experience building systems to support character production. Character customization is an important aspect of this IP and extends into nearly everything the player can do. You will be working with small, multidisciplinary groups of artists, designers and engineers to develop efficient, intuitive workflows, build production tools, and identify performance metrics parameters.
^ ZOS is hiring positions to work on their new tripple A title.
will eso be negelected? thoughts?
You don't think ESO is being neglected right now as of today? Even after the "we not going to touch cyrodiil for six months or more" announcement?2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭So the premise here is what?
That a large game company with an MMO, can't work on additional projects without neglecting the MMO?
I bet Blizzard would be interested to learn that.
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✭✭✭✭✭They're also hiring people specifically to work on ESO. I'm not going to look at all the individual jobs but the careers page includes several where ESO is in the job title.
Does that mean we should conclude they're neglecting all their other projects to focus on ESO?PC EU player | She/her/hers | PAWS (Positively Against Wrip-off Stuff) - Say No to Crown Crates!
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2 years of discussion this.SeaArcanist wrote: »will eso be negelected? thoughts?
But after 2 years since the first news about the new project we can see that devs starts to save on 3d-modeling (and it was said in 2019). Why? I don't know. But you can see a result on a very similar locations during a year. Then there was some save on a few more elements. I'm a bit afraid about the project status.0 -
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✭I just hope ESO doesn't end up in some secondary branch like they did with Fallout 76 and the team in Austin, Texas.
Apparently that didn't go so well.0 -
Slyclone✭✭✭✭Someone who makes the decisions (production manager) is at fault.
No one else. The vision is clear for this game. You can hire 100s of people and pump out the outfits, costumes and systems, zones, DLCs, but without proper attention to quality and glitches other than on the cash shop, you distance yourselves from the cash.
They are getting new hardware. I like that decision.
I know of hundreds of quality issues that need to be addressed once their hardware is installed.
The idea that there needs to be 1000s of people with same bug to address it, is just plain wrong.
Especially when most of my issues can be fixed in minutes.
That's where I feel the distance between me and the service provider.
Otherwise it's a solid vision, set in a wonderful work of art, which I feel will continue to grow for at least another 3 to 5 years.
Good luck.
That's it, that's all.1 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭ZOS reminds me of my step father. He'd have me help him build his projects with him. when he was done with a project tho, he'd move on. he wouldnt even try to manage it. so the older projects suffered where as he only had tunnel vision for the future, and past problems were never adressed.1
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Mythreindeer✭✭✭✭✭SeaArcanist wrote: »his bussiness plummeted btw, and my inheritence ruined. if ur wondering.
What makes you think your stepfather was going to leave you anything?8 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭Mythreindeer wrote: »SeaArcanist wrote: »his bussiness plummeted btw, and my inheritence ruined. if ur wondering.
What makes you think your stepfather was going to leave you anything?
im glad you asked, simply put "trust". when you work on somthing and they tell ya for years "this is yours" and yo uthink your opinion matters and they leave you a part of their legacy behind... then they dont.
we "trusted" ZOS, when we gave them our opinion and support, that they would leave us somthign worth while behind.
as much like my stepfather. it's ont othe next project, former content isnt really touched. and the legacy is ruined.0 -
SeaArcanist✭✭✭ESO, as a community. this is built for US. the players. game studios dont build games for themselves. (unless its a super rich guy with a vision). but ukw i mean.
ANYWAYS! point being~, is eso catered to us anymore, or are these changes to both work effort, and the game itself. to benefit them? minimal effort, their opinions are the only ones thta matter. etc0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭We've known that Bethesda has been working on at least one new ip for literally years. The fact that they are currently actively hiring for it likely means absolutely nothing for ESO.
Not least as they're also hiring for ESO.
I get that some people are currently unhappy with the game, but plenty more are perfectly happy with it.2 -
AlextheMuspel✭✭✭Trusting big corporations is essentially a mistake to begin with.
Comeon lads, capitalism has been around for hundreds of years. It’s not funny anymore to be so naive.
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✭SeaArcanist wrote: »will eso be negelected? thoughts?
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✭SeaArcanist wrote: »Can we trust the direction eso is going
You're assuming the game has a direction at all, to start with.
For the past few years, it's been "make changes that only benefit PvP, and may be detrimental to everyone else, without a care to give", and only recently have we seen that trend stop, and even slightly reverse.
Then, you have the trip down memory lane. First, Morrowind, a throwback to 2002's major hit. Just like back then, the Tribunal faces a threat, just a different one. Then, Skyrim, and it's basically the same story : dragons. Now we're getting Oblivion, because we apparently need the whole package of "we've done that in other games, so we'll do it here too". I'm already uninterested by this year's content, and it hass barely even started to come out.
Quite frankly, if the direction was to change from nostalgia to something actually new, something that we've seen only in ESO, instead of trying to bank on player's memories, I'd be pleasantly surprised. Because what we have now isn't a direction, it's a marketing ploy. But at least the new champion system is good.1
