I miss hireling messages

alsonotan0rc

Will we ever see new hireling messages? Some of the most memorable, diverse, and fun characters in the game for me were hirelings.

I really enjoyed logging in every day to read them--and I know I'm not the only one--but there haven't been any updates in years, if I'm not mistaken. The bits of story always made up for any crummy RNG on materials. I remember hunting all over a number of fansites to see the text of a mail I accidentally deleted before reading it because I didn't want to miss a piece of the story.

It would also be nice if the existing (and future? ) hireling messages were compiled into a Lore Book or an entry in Shalidor's Eidetic Memory library.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

You are not mistaken; I stopped playing before Greymoor and came back about the time of Deadlands and there were no new messages on my return; that was a little less than two years.

If it helps UESP has a pretty good archive.

FlopsyPrince

I don't miss them. Another advantage of addons on the PC is removing the need to even view those.

Interesting for the first time, but not after that.

Fizzyapple

It would be great if they extended the stories into some full blown character development with plots etc. Maybe even connect them to a quest down the road. I love reading the lore books I find and some of the writing is really good imo. I love some of the poems too. An entire novel laid out overtime through hireling messages would be fantastic.

I know its a bit much and that they need to put their resources elsewhere but one can hope.

whitecrow

I haven't used hirelings in ages but I loved these too, and was sad when they stopped. It has been a few years.

Erebear

Am I missing something or did something change? I get them every day!?!?

The wife has a message from Zukki that is the same everyday, but she gets all the other ones as well.

Sczymyx

I'm 100% with you on this. I took a year and a half break from playing and when I came back a few weeks ago, the emails were still the final ones for each mat. I'd hoped that after 2 full expansions, there would be new hireling messages.

I bet there are enough creative fans that Bethesda could hold a contest and end-up with a library of stories, long and short, for each role.