What content/lore do you want to see in the upcoming Expansions after Microsoft acquired Zenimax?

Agalloch

I'll change the Chapter concept into a REAL Expansion, with more content and more features.

I hope Microsoft will change Chapters in Expansions...also I hope they will decide that Zenimax to bring more content to an ESO Expansion.

First ESO Expansion made together with Microsoft would have :

- 6 new zones
- 6 group dungeons
- 18 public dungeons
- 48 delves
- 400 quests
- 2 Trials
- 1 new class
- 2 new weapons (ex crossbow and wand )
- Spellcrafting
- An upgrade class system
- A new tier of gear that can be acquired from everywhere as drops or the existing ones could be upgraded easily using tokens, mats..AP..etc . So no grind involved..only fun. These items will be Ancient legendary items.
- Justice System 2.0 ( also, ZOS forgot TG and DB ? )
- 1 solo arena
- A dungeon/trial token system
- new mount stats ( every mount can be upgraded to gain more stats)
- 6 BG maps
- a real working Cyrodiil as it was in 2014-2016
- Mount combat in PVP
- lots of motifs/styles
-6 new houses


This kind of expansion would launch every year after the anniversary event. This will bring more players and the existing ones will be very happy.

The rest of the patches should be only for balance, fixes, improvements, events, tiny new additions , QOL..etc..

The second and the next expansions must have the same concept.( ex if in the first expansion they implement spellcrafting ..in the second one they introduce another feature ;like gardening as ZOS said years ago)

The third if not the second ..? could be the first expansion with a revamped engine that permit water and underwater content...so the next big feature could be naval combat

Cheers!


How do you want to be ESO Expansions ( Chapters) , starting 2022?



Eso is not my native language.

coop500

I'd expect Morrowind, or Elsweyr.

One major zone
One new major feature (A class, a new guild/skilline, a new weapon type or something)
One new minor feature (a new race, a new way to customize ourselves, something more 'RP' and less combat related)

I'm not really that picky, I feel like a lot of stuff on that list of yours just isn't that plausible

YstradClud

I think most people were hoping Microsoft would bring better server support to the game. I have noticed my latency is no longer in the red since they came on board though so they maybe already utilising some of the server infrastructure already.

That said I hope Zenimax can just really give us a really good chapter as far as their writing goes. Something that has some feels. Haven't played a mmorpg expansion/chapter for many years that really digs deep and produces a meaningful story.

rpa

I do not think Microsoft will meddle with specifics of content released but would be concerned of the long term health of the Bethesda IPs in general. They do not invenst billions to expect a jackpot from next quarter. Things like QA of updates and maintainability of services for example.

hafgood

Bug fixes.

Pure and simple, that's what I want to see in upcoming chapters. I want a game that works.

Raegwyr

From lore perspective? Imperial colonies on moon.
Yes, they exist in lore.
Whole concept of mothship, sload voidships and masser and secunda cities sounds like great setting to tell amazing story.

I hope they will start being innovative instead of chapter content based mostly on nostalgia. When you count blackwood, 4 out of 5 chapters where milking nostalgia. At this point im not sure if they can do it any further

wazzz56

functioning content that doesn't break other parts of the game upon release would be decent

Zorgon_The_Revenged

I don't know, but hopefully not a complete change of game to one where you move brightly coloured squares around.

kargen27

I doubt Microsoft is going to be hands on at all and any development they might have would be years down the line. Microsoft invested for future projects and more X box exclusive titles not to jump in on existing games.

What is being asked for in the OP is basically an entirely new game and those take years not months to accomplish.

Stahlor

A game without insane lag, full of bugs and a service team, that knows their, job would be great already

Reverb

I don’t want or expect anything to change in the content development cycles. I highly doubt that MS will involve themselves in the Zeni (or any other Bethsoft) studio operations much.

I do want and hope for performance improvements in the form of system and database infrastructure. Azure is what MS brings to the table in this partnership.

WhyMustItBe

With the steep hike in prices for all microtransaction stuff and massive shift to most things being crown gem exclusive, I am seriously starting to suspect MS just bought this game to put it in maintenance mode to milk whales while they work to cash in on TESVI box sale release.

I am increasingly doubtful that project, when it finally releases in 2045, will not be a thinly veiled front end for another gambling-driven cash grab.

Big companies just don't make good games anymore.

SidraWillowsky

Raegwyr wrote: »

From lore perspective? Imperial colonies on moon.
Yes, they exist in lore.
Whole concept of mothship, sload voidships and masser and secunda cities sounds like great setting to tell amazing story.

I hope they will start being innovative instead of chapter content based mostly on nostalgia. When you count blackwood, 4 out of 5 chapters where milking nostalgia. At this point im not sure if they can do it any further

That's Kirkbride, not canon, I believe.

Araneae6537

I’d be excited to see a new Elven focused chapter, especially the Telvanni lands or Falinestri! I do think that next year will be Blackmarsh and my preference is for a non-human focus as the other races as humans are, well, relatively boring (I am one so I can say that ).

More skill lines, especially ones that you had to choose between and only have one at a time, to further customize our characters could be fun.

I hope there is NEVER a new higher level of gear to grind for! That to me is the opposite of fun.

I would like to see the servers upgraded and beyond that, more of what ZOS has been doing, perhaps with some extra focus on things players have long been requesting, such as a hair color pack, more hair styles released, and furnishings already in-game such as weapon and armor racks, instruments, and more structural furnishings (these are some of the first to come to mind because they are high on my list too, but I’m sure there is more that I’ve not thought of).

SantieClaws

This one would like missing Elsweyr chunk and stackable treasure maps.

A new colour of yarn would be nice too. Maybe blue?

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Slyclone

Bug fix

Tethilia

Solitare in Taverns! XD

I'm not joking.

Raegwyr

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Raegwyr wrote: »

From lore perspective? Imperial colonies on moon.
Yes, they exist in lore.
Whole concept of mothship, sload voidships and masser and secunda cities sounds like great setting to tell amazing story.

I hope they will start being innovative instead of chapter content based mostly on nostalgia. When you count blackwood, 4 out of 5 chapters where milking nostalgia. At this point im not sure if they can do it any further

That's Kirkbride, not canon, I believe.

If i remember it was mentioned in few books, the best source nad most known is definietely Kirkbride's Tiber Septim’s Sword-Meeting with Cyrus but there were a book mentioning something about ppl living on Masser

Aliyavana

Bretons and their Druids of Galen origin.

tsaescishoeshiner

Thieves Guild 2! Walks-Softly! Zajji! Caska! Fa-Nuit-Hen! Hermaeus Mora! Sanguine! Sun-In-Shadow!

And last but not least ... Xukas

Ceejengine

+ increased number of side distractions (i.e tavern brawling or horse racing)
+ Rebrand accounts into Houses that combine things such as your mount upgrades and faction rep.
+ Redesign skill lines to function more like CP constellations. (I'd go so far as to just use CP and have skyshards / dung quest / etc directly give you CP.
+ Introduce weapon type trees (bladed (sword + greatsword), Blunt (Maul + Mace), Edged (Axe, Greataxe), and Piercing (Bow + Dagger), Magi (Staves + 1h Rune) that give passive bonuses based on your weapon type.
+ Modify the current weapon types to instead be fighting styles that don't require a specific weapon to use. With the following styles, you can use any weapon type with their skills. However, different weapons interact with these skills in different ways.
1h + Shield -> Defensive. Focuses on empowering shields and CC'ing the enemy
2h -> Brutish. Focuses on modifying heavy attacks and critical strike.
DW -> Duelist. Focuses on increasing speed and DoTs
Bow -> Ranged. Includes Javelin/ tomahawks. This would be the weirdest change. Snipe with a 2h would be hurling your axe, knocking them down. With a dagger, you fling the dagger, inflicting bleed, etc.
+ Drastically reinforce damage type focus. No more Physical or Magical. Fire, Lightning, Cold, Necrotic, Radiant, Daedric, Bleed, Poison, Disease, Slashing, Piercing, Bludgeoning. CP stars allow you to needle-focus on how you want to modify your damage and there wouldn't be enough CP available to max out all damage types. Same with resistances.
+ Cut all numbers by 10. 50,000 HP becomes 5,000. Across the board.
+ Remove heals from all abilities that are not specifically heals, or do not have a thematic function for healing. Ie Strife would still heal, but Artic Wind would not.
+ The 2-4 pc bonus in all set pieces are now slottables. Enchanting provides the new runes. 5 pc remains set in place.
+ Increase collision physics and introduce climbing and gliding. Add penalties to heavy armor for these new effects.
+ Add environmental tools to fights and PvP. Things like oil barrels or water puddles that you can ignite or electrify.
+ Change Cyrodiil to a warlike sim. Players now select pre-made templates to enter the war with. Such as a Cleric who has a Radiant DoT, a HoT and an AoE cleanse. Or a bounty Hunter with a speed increase, a chain pull and an execute. Set bonuses do not work anymore. Daedric artifacts are their own pre-made class.
+ Redesign all classes together and introduce powerful strengths and weaknesses to each. Give each a unique buff, debuff and overall theme that their 3 skill lines adhere to.
+ Delete Loot crates. All rewards are now directly purchasable with gems, which can be purchased with real currency or earnable as a possible reward for all end-game content.

TX12001rwb17_ESO

Raegwyr wrote: »

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Raegwyr wrote: »

From lore perspective? Imperial colonies on moon.
Yes, they exist in lore.
Whole concept of mothship, sload voidships and masser and secunda cities sounds like great setting to tell amazing story.

I hope they will start being innovative instead of chapter content based mostly on nostalgia. When you count blackwood, 4 out of 5 chapters where milking nostalgia. At this point im not sure if they can do it any further

That's Kirkbride, not canon, I believe.

If i remember it was mentioned in few books, the best source nad most known is definietely Kirkbride's Tiber Septim’s Sword-Meeting with Cyrus but there were a book mentioning something about ppl living on Masser

Does the concept of ingame-fiction not exist?

People look at Mysterious Akavir as being some kind of holy truth on Akavir even though it is quite obvious it is a children's fairytale.

Orion_89

Akavir, Colored Rooms, Pyandonea (with sea travelling mechanics), Mundus (space) and time travelling stories, flying/soaring mechanics with multi-level landscapes and jumping puzzles (like in GW2), new tamriel's race wich state in lore like Lilmothiit...
There are many ways for move on.

ArchMikem

So, you want almost an entirely new game, every year?

TX12001rwb17_ESO

Probably bigger then what we get but I doubt they would be anywhere close to being that big, I would suggest something the size of an entire Chapter worth of Content in a single DLC.

- Harrowstorm
- Greymoor
- Stonethorn
- Markarth

Now Imagine if they were a single expansion pack, in the second half of the year we would get a smaller DLC unrelated to the expansion like Murkmire.

Orion_89

ArchMikem wrote: »

So, you want almost an entirely new game, every year?

I suggested what I will pay for.

Raegwyr

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Raegwyr wrote: »

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Raegwyr wrote: »

From lore perspective? Imperial colonies on moon.
Yes, they exist in lore.
Whole concept of mothship, sload voidships and masser and secunda cities sounds like great setting to tell amazing story.

I hope they will start being innovative instead of chapter content based mostly on nostalgia. When you count blackwood, 4 out of 5 chapters where milking nostalgia. At this point im not sure if they can do it any further

That's Kirkbride, not canon, I believe.

If i remember it was mentioned in few books, the best source nad most known is definietely Kirkbride's Tiber Septim’s Sword-Meeting with Cyrus but there were a book mentioning something about ppl living on Masser

Does the concept of ingame-fiction not exist?

People look at Mysterious Akavir as being some kind of holy truth on Akavir even though it is quite obvious it is a children's fairytale.

Of course the concept exist but why you count it as ingame fiction? Remember that moon and space in elder scrolls universe are nothing like in real life. We even have been on Masser in ESO (Demi-Plane of Jode)!
If we have a city in domain of Molag Bal and had access to moon via questline, why colony on moon would be only fiction?

Skall66

MasterChief armor style!!
joking..

I would hope for a better support for console versions, it's inexistant atm, I know PC is not in a better state, but at least you have mods

Bradyfjord

• Rework the Major/Minor system. It works, but is too narrow for my taste.
• Fix servers
• Rework classes. Right now the dlc classes have very overloaded skills, imo.

Tethilia

Skall66 wrote: »

MasterChief armor style!!
joking..

Would be funny to see a Master Chief outfit that was some orc's cooking armor. Sorta like how the old ES games had silly things like Eltonbrand.

Tandor

While I have no problem with MS funding some hardware improvements server-side if that actually helps those with performance issues without creating problems for those who don't currently have them, so far as the actual game itself is concerned I hope that they stay out of it and leave ZOS to carry on as existing. I have no problems with any of the content or balancing etc decisions taken with ESO but have some not so positive memories of other games that Microsoft have been involved with. The Zenimax/Bethesda group produces great games, they should be left to get on with doing so. The last thing any development team needs or wants is outside interference in their daily work.