Are you happy with High Isle?

Thecompton73

I do not own High Isle

AzuraFan wrote: »

Yes, in the sense that it's exactly as advertised. But I wish there was an "I have High Isle and it barely meets my expectations" option.

My issue is mainly with the price. ZOS delivered what it said it would, but there's definitely less content than there has been in other chapters, but they charged the same price for it. I got it at a small discount, but it was still overpriced.

If you don't like the card game or will only play it occasionally, High Isle isn't tremendously bigger in terms of gameplay than the 4Q DLC. I'll get maybe a few more days of play out of it before I've completed the zone quest, all the quest hubs, and completed the map, but that's all.

If the chapter had cost $30 in my currency, I'd be happy. It's WAY overpriced at the $50-something I paid for it. I won't be buying the next chapter anywhere near that price unless there's something major introduced, like a new class, a skill line, a new joinable guild with a decent quest line (on top of the usual zone quests and quest hubs), or a new mechanic (like antiquities) that's part of regular gameplay (not something like a card game).

Or maybe there should be a "I own High Isle and it meets my expectations, but only because they were incredibly low to begin with" option.

proprio.meb16_ESO

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

it did meet my expectations (maybe even exceeded them), but those were not particularly high... so in a few words: quite better than i feared.

Card game is still dull and boring for me, but the overall setting is definitely enjoyable.

It is a tiny zone though and, except for the mythic lead hunt, it will end pretty quick... on that extent it looks more like a mid-year dlc with more wb and delves (s. elsweyr, markhart, deadlands) than a new chapter.
I'm curios what the next dlc will be... an islet?

Frogmother

I do not own High Isle

I wanted to keep the choice options as simple as possible.
If the game met your expectations just becasue your expectations were low, then it still met the expectations.
Same for "I have High Isle and it barely meets my expectations", it was maybe barely but still met the expectations.

I find the answers very interesting, I assumed more players will be happy with the addon and more players have bought it (console players excluded).

richieh99

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

High Isle is a great addition to ESO, the best for a few years. I enjoyed Blackwood but do feel that High Isle feels much more complete and treated with a great deal of care by the devs. The quests are great and the location is stunning! I can't wait for the Q4 DLC

Castagere

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

I love the zone so much. And the starting city is so much fun to explore.

Jeffrey530

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Loving it so far

bmnoble

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Not fond of the card game but everything else was largely how I expected it would be but not necessarily as good as I hoped it could be.

Still some annoying bugs but that always happens, so its hard to say it falls outside of what I expected would happen.

FlopsyPrince

Neyhtsul wrote: »

I'm not a big fan of card games - not good at them, don't have the patience for them and all around don't like them.
Considering that High Isle's main feature this year IS the card game, I'm not interested in purchasing it full price. I'll wait for a sale to do the story.

That is one of the reasons this release gives me a "Meh" feeling. I buy expansions for games I am playing, but this would not be enough to keep me playing and a CCG has no appeal to me at all.

AzuraFan

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Thecompton73 wrote: »

Or maybe there should be a "I own High Isle and it meets my expectations, but only because they were incredibly low to begin with" option.

That would work too.

FlopsyPrince

TaSheen wrote: »

It exceeds my expectations (outside of the card game which is just not anything I'm ever going to be interested in).

What exceeds your expectations? I don't see anything truly new. Sure, new areas, but those are like the areas we have.

Too many "try to figure out how to get from here to there stuff that just ends up being frustrating until you finally figure it out.

haelgaan

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

the trial is crap. too mechanic-heavy (and not in a cool, puzzle solving way, but rather in a forced obvious boring way), boring, too much random junk to avoid, and did i mention boring? i finished it to support my guildmates, but i've never wanted to just drop out of a trial like that before. just didn't find it compelling or enjoyable at all, which was surprising to me.

Jeffrey530

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

It exceeds my expectations (outside of the card game which is just not anything I'm ever going to be interested in).

What exceeds your expectations? I don't see anything truly new. Sure, new areas, but those are like the areas we have.

Which expansion/dlc is 'truly new' in your eyes lol, I never recall previous eso dlcs turning it into a space fps shooter game.

AvalonRanger

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Frogmother wrote: »

I am just curious.

The term expectations in the poll means positive expectations.

Just I don't need card game. ESO version gwent is terrible.
Not interested in those things. Mount racing game will be more fun.

TaSheen

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

It exceeds my expectations (outside of the card game which is just not anything I'm ever going to be interested in).

What exceeds your expectations? I don't see anything truly new. Sure, new areas, but those are like the areas we have.

Too many "try to figure out how to get from here to there stuff that just ends up being frustrating until you finally figure it out.

I'm very happy with the islands, the scenery, just the whole ambience. I haven't started the quest line yet; I've had kids here for days, and I've got some things to finish up elsweyr before I start that.

FlopsyPrince

Jeffrey530 wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

It exceeds my expectations (outside of the card game which is just not anything I'm ever going to be interested in).

What exceeds your expectations? I don't see anything truly new. Sure, new areas, but those are like the areas we have.

Which expansion/dlc is 'truly new' in your eyes lol, I never recall previous eso dlcs turning it into a space fps shooter game.

The post said it "exceeded expectations" not that it was "more of the same". Hence I asked what "exceeded expectations".

DreamyLu

I can't vote. The question in title of OP is "am I happy with High Isle". To that question, answer is yes. The poll questions are different: they ask about fulfilment of expectations. To that question, answer is no.

So, I don't vote but can elaborate a bit: I really enjoy the new area so far, I even do love it, but it doesn't meet my expectations, because to my eyes, it's no "expansion pack". It's "just" one more area. And as I have zero interest in the card game and zero need for one more companion, I get just a standard content, with nothing "extraordinary" that would match my own interests.

Iselin

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

Yeah but I'm still not crazy about the shorter main stories in chapters so that the fall DLC can be meatier and end the storty once they started doing the year long thing.

I much prefer the older, heftier, self-contained chapters like Morrowind and Summerset... or Orsinium before big DLCs were called chapters

High Isle's main quest has a bit of a cliffhanger ending and the main quest feels too short... but I've come to expect that from this new year long story thing so yes, it met my expectations.

aaisoaho

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

So far the expansion has been good. Do note that I have not yet experienced it a lot, since I've been stuck at the worse part of the expansion: Leads.

When High Isles launched, I decided I'd want to get my hands on Sea-serpent's coil and Mora's whispers mythics. The first few leads for both were quite simple and fast to get nd I felt like this is going to be a fun and fast task. Nope. I ended up levelling several characters to get them to do jewelry crafting writs to get more jeqelry crafting surveys and after 5 days of writs I finally got the lead. Now I finally have Sea-serpent's coil, but I'm stuck on hunting watchers and watchlings. Eww.

On High Isles, I have done a couple of quests, a delve and a companion quest. The first quest of High Isles I do not remember that well, but the side quests I did were quite good and I still remember those.

The new trial, even tho it is mechanics-heavy, does feel fun on veteran non-HM. I think it is difficulty-wise on par with vRG and definetly not as hard as things like Lokke HM. I actually enjoyed the first boss quite a lot, the play experience from a dd PoV feels like a Bahsei + Twins. It of course requires everyone to know what they are doing, but there's very little RNG to it and compared to Bahsei, very little movement to do. (no curses to take out of the group, no meteors to seek and destroy etc)

SammyKhajit

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

This one had the following expectations:

- fun and interesting side quests
- intriguing locations and NPCs
- new companions that Sammy won’t perform the Black Sacrement upon
- excellent main quest
- nice costumes and motifs which are not too painful to obtain

So far, the top three expectations have been met. Going through the main quest slowly, and haven’t been too impressed by the motifs etc on offer. Companions in the form of Dame Isobel is the biggest draw card right now - she is a loyal and enjoyable company.

ToT is just not this one’s thing.

All in all, the game met some of Sammy’s expectations but not all (yet).

Tenthirty2

I own High Isle and it meets my expectations

AzuraFan wrote: »

Tenthirty2 wrote: »

My only concern is how deserted it seems for a new zone launch?
I do see other players fairly often, but not in the amounts I'd expected. Maybe its due to most of the players that would be there, are farming leads in other zones.
But I'd thought once this weekend hit there be a huge pop boost, I'm not seeing it yet.
So that's causing me mild concern.

That has surprised me too. I think someone mentioned in a thread that ZOS caps the population in an instance at launch so players aren't on top of each other, but that can't be it. I can remember when earlier chapters came out, there were always players at world bosses and group stuff like the volcanic vents, and huge crowds around quest givers and quest advancement points. Not so with High Isle.

From day one, people have been asking for help in zone chat with world bosses, offering to share the quest, etc. That didn't happen with Blackwood, even. Also, delves aren't that full, and the same goes for quest hub locations and overland in general. When I've gone to other chapters and zones to dig up an antiquity or whatever, they're more crowded. Definitely makes me wonder whether the sales for this chapter were way below expectations.

(either that, or 90% of those who own High Isle are in Murkmire looking for that lead...)

Murkmire, I would not be surprised tbh

Checking in since I posted earlier to say I did notice more players running around.
Still not the droves I've seen with other chapters, or even yearly events.
But the vents I went to had large groups at them maybe 15+
Couple delves and a WB, I met a few more. And where I spent the majority of my time in Gonfalon's ToT Hall, regularly ppl running in and out.

So maybe I'm concerned over nothing

FeedbackOnly

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

It's fun and I do enjoy it, but world development feels less impressive than all the other chapters. The art needs work next time.

Qagh

I do not own High Isle

Oh sorry!

It' s wrong. I own High Isle! 😁

I like the new zone. Only the card game is very boring.

Treeshka

It is all good, but bugged achievements takes all my desire to play especially when others can get it and i can not. It is scary to not be able to get an achievement where other can get it since it means achievement is not generally bugged but bugged for you.

Reaver999

I do not own High Isle

I've been rather unhappy with the game in general lately and High Isle didn't seem to add or fix anything significant.

Ascarl

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

I would have appreciated more options as I have mixed feelings

The expansion has it ups and downs.
The card game is better than expected but I am still unsure why I should play that game. There used to be another MMORPG with a TCG called Vanguard. They better integrated the card game to overall game play IMHO.

The zones are graphically well done. Some quests are good, some are not.

The public dungeons are very meh. Even more than Blackwood, which also have been pretty disappointing.
Delves are nice but offer little replay value.

Ember is a nice companion that complains less than her predecessors, haven't tried Isobel yet.

Antiquities are a major disgrace due to bad decisions like Murkmire strongholds. This questions quality assurance.

For me it's too early for a final verdict, but given the price tag the expansion doesn't meet my expectation yet in terms of quality.

Einar_Hrafnarsson

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

It is worse than i expected. To little content and the card game is... just boring (even though i win most of the games). The thing that baffles me most though is that you can get Errors and Server timeouts while playing your daily card game. Imagine having a client and Servers so broken that they can not handle a card game.....

Squeaky_Clean

I do not own High Isle

Won't spend a dollar on ESO, until the hardware update has taken place on PC EU servers.

Also the card game is not a big incentive for me to buy High Isles. I may pick it up later, if it's for sale *and* after the hardware upgrade.

rpa

I do not own High Isle

I wait for sale because that's my usual approach with games in general. When the chapter goes on sale, urgent bugfixes and nerfs to game breaking OP things likely have been done. It will be nearly as polished as it ever will be - for better price.

DarcyMardin

I own High Isle and does not meet my expectations

I’m feeling very meh about High Isle. I really like the new artwork, especially after the gloom and flames of the Greymoor and Blackwood chapter. Riding around the new region provides me with many lovely views. Isobel and Ember seem fine to me and improvements over Bastion and Mirri. But the questing so far for me seems same old, same old and not very inspired or interesting. “there’s trouble in these three place, so go investigate and report back.” Or “go find or activate these 3 or 4 items”. Yawn.

I have zero interest in the card game. The antiquity leads situation sounds abysmal (I’m not grinding for the new mythic items because who wants to stand in line around a “maybe it’ll spawn soon” chest with dozens of other players?)

I’m also surprised at how empty the region is. Where is everybody? I’m on PC NA and I was standing around yesterday at vents, I.e., dolmen clones, and world bosses. By myself. Multiple times. I have never seen that happen before at any hour of the day or night during the first week of a new chapter. The new crafting area in Godolfin Bay (or whatever it’s called) was empty of everybody except NPCs last night (evening, east coast USA late prime time) when I was doing my daily writs. And it’s quite convenient for writs, too, so I expected to see other crafters. I felt as if I was alone in an instanced game. WTH? Is everybody in Mirkwood chasing leads? Or did fewer than people buy the chapter? Other zones seem to have the normal population.

MJ202

Where's the option for I haven't been able to play it yet? Given the game is played on PC, PS4, and XBOX, this poll misses potentially 2/3 of the polling population.