Deltias's Gaming - State of ESO

jaws343

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

DemonicGoat wrote: »

And believe me,how the company treats us here WILL be carried over to whatever there next project is.

THIS! People have long memories and word gets around on the internet.

Tandor wrote: »

VinnyGambini wrote: »

Just curious. Will ZOS leave any reply to all this threads that game is dying? Do they even care?

They'll ignore them because they know the game isn't dying from their own data.

At the very least they appear to have squandered the giant influx of new players brought about via Covid and then WoW hemorrhaging players to other MMOs. On Steam, we're nearly back down to 2019 numbers. Final Fantasy 14? It's still more than double its 2019 numbers. So one of these companies appears to have capitalized on the opportunities that were presented to it and the other one didn't. Yes, the game makes money but the point is that it could be making a lot more money if it had managed to retain those 2020-2021 players.

Things to closely examine would be: cadence of content release, content of content release, game performance, and the developer relationship with the community of players. All of these things currently provide unfavorable comparisons with Final Fantasy and likely contribute to the divergent outcomes experienced by the two games.

Arguably, most new players brought in due to covid were always going to be temporary as things opened back up again. That influx was never sustainable.

GreatGildersleeve

We haven’t had a roadmap in as long as I can remember. Couple that with U35 and the radio silence recently, I expect the current state of the game is intentional. They’ve made the decision to mothball PvP and probably endgame raiding (bye bye trials) for dungeon and overland. Think about it… the crown store gets immediate fixes but game issues take months to resolve, if ever. Who spends buckets of cash… role players and overlanders (true Elder Scrolls solo types).

Edit: it just occurred to me that this might get snipped as conspiracy theory/rumour. Oh well, my first snip.

Kredo

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Problem is:

if I understood former statements correctly, the U35 changes were just the start of an ongoing process. It was just a part, more to come.

This sentiment of changes being part of an ongoing process is repeated every update despite them usually reverting or completely overthrowing changes from the previous update, so i doubt it's much more than an attempt to force feed these unwanted patches to the community.

jtm1018

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Problem is:

if I understood former statements correctly, the U35 changes were just the start of an ongoing process. It was just a part, more to come.

However, they are not transparent, and it takes far too long.
You cannot simply start a change, release half of it, and then let the customers sit in uncertainty for half a year.
Nobody has an idea about the final state they are projecting.
And unless that state is reached (let's assume everything would be "perfect" then), you can't let people play with an unfinished and halfbaked change for half a year. Or longer? We don't even have milestones or a timeline.

There might be less protest, if people could understand what the vision is, but still this would not solve the time problem.

Just bought jewelry for 2 mio on console to get some of my characters back to a state they are actually playable. The millions I invested initially to optimize them: lost.
The millions I invest now might be lost, too, once the change is finished in some months.
This is far from encouraging, and sucks a lot of fun out of the game.

Sticking the head in the sand as ZOS currently does will make it just worse, everyones patience has an end at some point.

Sheogoraths smelly beard!

Update 35 is just the begining?

Just stop at upate 36 please!

I cant take anymore than this!