What would convince you to use sections outside of general?

FeedbackOnly

Assuming you do that's great but those who don't.

What makes you only look at general section?

Hapexamendios

General laziness

TaSheen

The mess of different forums means I'm not interested in trying to parse where to post. Not only that, the fact that anything posted somewhere besides this forum dies instantly means it's simply not worth the effort. The only other "viable" forum herein is Housing - and even there, posts are few and far between outside of new house releases etc.

spartaxoxo

If it was the best place to get developer responses to specific issues related to those categories.

Destai

Seeing an actual developer response.

Vynera

For just reading / answering I'm not even using sections.
Most of the time I just click in the nav bar at "Recent" and just check the first page of recent posts / active threads.

MasterSpatula

A massive reduction to the number of subfora. I'd say five at most, not counting the guild recruitment fora, which actually do need to be separated by megaserver.

What makes you only look at general section?

When you give somebody that many choices, they become just noise.

Sakiri

Not high traffic.

DarcyMardin

Nothing. Actually, I just read “recent,” which is usually general.

phaneub17_ESO

I visit: General, Combat, Crafting, Housing, Store, Bugs, Test, Help Players, Guides, and Creation

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Vynera wrote: »

For just reading / answering I'm not even using sections.
Most of the time I just click in the nav bar at "Recent" and just check the first page of recent posts / active threads.

Same here.

jtm1018

Just general I guess, casual talk thats all.

katanagirl1

I hit particular subcategories first and then save general for last.

IZZEFlameLash

Only if devs were active on subcategories. Otherwise, there's literally no reason to look other subcategories because they seem to be just thread dumping grounds for threads to die with exception of very few discussions.

UNSeki

Less categories. There's too much clutter on the forums and not enough activity to warrant it. A few of them can be merged and get more proper traffic.

KlauthWarthog

I only browse by category when there is an update going through the PTS, and then I check that place.
Otherwise, it is just "Participated", then "Dev Tracker" (wishful thinking) and then "Recent".

Zodiarkslayer

It's sheer existence is enough to dominate every other category.

It's a psychological thing. Humans tend to play it safe and general the more unsure they are and the more options there are.

Get rid of the general section!

Danikat

I do use other sections. I'd never use all of them because there's some I'm not going to be interested in, but I look at any which interest me. I agree there's too many, but I wouldn't want to get rid of all of them and have everything jumbled together (especially since there's already an option to read the forum that way if you want), I'd just merge some of the ones with very similar purposes so there's fewer overall and less ambiguity on where specific topics should go.

I was kind of surprised at the number of people who see this forum as purely for interacting with ZOS, I guess I'm just used to 3rd party forums that the creators of a game may not even know about, but I've always thought of them as mainly a way to talk to other players and any developer involvement beyond posting announcements is a bonus.

Reverb

I use Recent Discussions and the Dev Tracker. I use the search to find specific topics. I don’t go to any sections and I don’t plan to start.

TaSheen

Danikat wrote: »

I do use other sections. I'd never use all of them because there's some I'm not going to be interested in, but I look at any which interest me. I agree there's too many, but I wouldn't want to get rid of all of them and have everything jumbled together (especially since there's already an option to read the forum that way if you want), I'd just merge some of the ones with very similar purposes so there's fewer overall and less ambiguity on where specific topics should go.

I was kind of surprised at the number of people who see this forum as purely for interacting with ZOS, I guess I'm just used to 3rd party forums that the creators of a game may not even know about, but I've always thought of them as mainly a way to talk to other players and any developer involvement beyond posting announcements is a bonus.

It would never occur to me to expect dev interaction in a game forum. It wasn't a thing when I played either of the other MMOs years back, so I certainly didn't land here expecting anything different.

I feel like those who keep expecting the devs to post here are WAY out in left field somewhere!

Four_Fingers

IDK as almost every forum I have ever used in the last 25 years general posts were made in the general section.
And sub forums were for specific groups of interest only.
Post were not moved just because they mention a specific subject.

Billium813

I participate in 4 sections: General, Combat & Character Mechanics, Bug Reports, and PTS (when relevant).

• Combat & Character Mechanics - When I want to say something about a set, or a skill, or a build, or anything combat related
• PTS - To give feedback about the current PTS
• Bug Reports - When I encounter a bug and want to post about it
• General - Everything else

wolfie1.0.

Boredom

Ya... pretty much. If nothing is happening in general I venture out... I wouldn't even be on the forums at all if tales of tribute had a mobile app extention...

IZZEFlameLash

This is basically the only place you see anyone with ZOS tag. Other subcategories are basically dead.

thorwyn

The only thing that would convince me to use other sections of the forum was, it general would not exist, OR if I wanted to look up a specific piece of information that might belong into category x. Both never happens.
Whenever I'm opening the forum, I do it to pick up new drama, find out what people are complaining about this week and read the latest suggestions on how to "improve" the game. Jumping through all the sub sections would be too bothersome for me.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

I don't need to be convinced, I already read other sub-forum sections.

SilverBride

Knowing that posters will be checking the other forums and actually see my posts. Having a lot less forums to pick from would help with this.

whitecrow

Immortality.

ganzaeso

I come to general because the topics are varied and I do not always know what kind of topic might peak my interest in discussing or giving an opinion toward.

Kisakee

First they need to split the whole thing into two main categories: PvE and PvP. After that each wrong thread needs to be placed forcefuly where it belongs.

fall0athboy

I already do. I post in Lore periodically, and I go to complain about ToT in that board.