10th Anniversary in-game aftertaste: What's your impression in total?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Cake slices tied to achievements from event ticket purchases

Bonemold, Saberkeel, and Worm Cult really should be in a grab bag by now IMO

Hard agree to both of these. I actually forgot about the cake slices; I missed a couple Anniversaries due to taking a break from the game, so I am permanently locked out of those achievements.

DoofusMax

Other

I'm among the banned until released (hopefully by tomorrow afternoon), so I missed about half of the event on my main account. While the team is sending some stuff by way of apology, there is nothing in that stuff aside from five Glorious coffers that I actually wanted (the month of ESO Plus is to compensate for the subscription time I had already paid for). I'd have finished off the mount on my own if left to my own devices and been well on my way to completing a seasonal Indrik morph with the remaining event tickets (I'm out roughly 30-33 of those). Although I had already picked up the Trueflame page, I wasn't farming the style pages (if one dropped, cool; if not, that's cool, too). And I don't pay a whole heckuva lot of attention to Seals of Endeavor most of the time, anyway. I was in it for the coffers and event tickets. For the part of the event that I was able to participate in, I enjoyed myself. The rest? Not so much. Final verdict for the main account for the event as a whole? Worst event I've ever had the displeasure of participating in and there isn't much other than the coffers and event tickets which is going to change my mind on that point.

On the other side of that, I already had an alt account (the code for the base-game remains unredeemed, but I appreciate the gesture), so I dusted that off and have been playing/participating in the event from there. With a Sorc in the 20s and a new Templar, I've been doing the crafting dailies on two toons (not the seven I usually run); doing a small bit of dolmen-crunching and daily-doing; picked up a Trueflame page on something like the 3rd fishing spot (while waiting on a dolmen respawn); collected a few bits of confetti for a mount I'll never be able to finish; gave a few World Bosses the ol' cuz why, what for, and how come; and have generally enjoyed myself (after being pointedly reminded that low-levels are pretty squishy critters). Final verdict for the alt account? Pretty much what I expected and about as enjoyable as other anniversary events (had I been playing with the account during those events - it's a few years old, so lots of accumulated digital dust).

Tatanko

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

I enjoyed the small part I got to participate in. Unfortunately, I've now spent half the event locked out of my account, and that's how I'm going to remember it forever.

AzuraFan

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

The anniversary boxes and the decorations were great. Everything else was a complete and embarrassing failure.

Elvenheart

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

SilverBride wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

...who eats cake while riding a horse?

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...

Mount spreads a trail of confetti behind it!

Well.

moderatelyfatman

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

They say that the difference between tragedy and comedy is in the timing.

The Jubilee Event is probably my favourite event in ESO. The base aspects of the event were as good as every other year.

The business with the motifs was intended to be a bonus to spice up the event but backfired due to the low drop rates and left a sour taste in most players' mouths. The intention was good but the execution was terrible and I gave up on trying to get these motifs when I realised I was no longer enjoying the game.

As for the PTS debacle..... well.... I'd have to say thay ZOS delivered a once in a decade event that everyone will remember. Just not in the way they intended!

So lets just hope that ZOS can pick up the pieces, work out what went wrong and we can have a great year!

Tallon_IV

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

The style page fiasco is definitely a pain point, but otherwise it still has the aspects I like about Jubilee: lengthy double XP and boxes for doing what I normally do already (writs).

SeaGtGruff

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

For me personally, it was very little different than other anniversary events.

I'm not interested in collecting style pages other than for the sake of completionism, so I have no lasting disappointments over not finding all 5 of the "special" style pages.

I actually enjoyed grinding dolmens for a short time, much more so than trying to fight the Vvardenfell world bosses with over a dozen high-DPS players burning them down in seconds. The Summerset geysers were not as bad as the Vvardenfell world bosses, but most of the geysers are uncomfortably far from any wayshrines.

To be perfectly honest, my biggest complaint about this event is the same as my biggest complaint during most other events, which is that I have too little free inventory and bank space as it is, and the accumulation of yet more duplicate runeboxes, or style pages, or motif pages, etc., just wipes out what little space I do have. Before this event began I was able to free up what I thought was a tidy bit of free space in my PC NA bank account, but now all of that is filled up again.

But I don't think this event was horrible, or that it was ruined by the "special" pages-- not for me, anyway. I like this event each year because it doesn't require doing anything different than what we enjoy doing every other day in the game. Well, I think the 5th anniversary did, in a way, because each week was like a different event-within-an-event. But it's nice that we don't really need to alter our daily play sessions to fit them around this event the way we must do during some of the other events.

IIBonesII

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

1. Event was too grindy
2. PTS/PCNA bugs - awfully managed and continuing to be awfully managed.
3. Another reskinned horse. Thanks. /s
4. Being forced into buying bits of the damn horse with tickets was ANNOYING. Stop this.
5. Maintenance on the morning of the last day of the event. Extend the event 1 day. Those who were banned can go spend their tickets.


Good thing? Communication over the pts/pcna issue was the communication we've been asking for, for years. Literally. You were clear and concise.

Except the '2 days' extension of the event isn't actually 2 days is it? Because of the maintenance. Can this be construed as false advertising? Because we're not really getting 2 days are we now?

10/10 would not do this event again. Only good thing about it, in hindsight now, was double XP.

#ExtendTheEventForTheBanned

RicAlmighty

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

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SilverBride

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

IIBonesII wrote: »

Communication over the pts/pcna issue was the communication we've been asking for, for years.

I wish we could say that about the extremely low style page drop rates. There were multiple threads and posts about how bad it was, and requests to please explain why they did it that way, but there was not one single word about it.

HatchetHaro

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

Horrible from top to bottom. An embarrassment to gaming everywhere.

ArchangelIsraphel

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

To clarify: I found some parts to be badly designed, but overall I really enjoyed myself, so I picked this option.

Parts I loved:
-Really enjoyed having the boxes drop from dragons and sources other than dalies this year.

-I farmed my weaselly black guts out, and indulged in unbridled avarice as I squirreled away tons of motif pages and furnishing plans on my alt accounts to sell in the future.

- I probably have enough columbine and dragon rheum to last me for the next 10 years.

- Every single purple box contained items that were valuable and useful, driving me to new heights of madness.

-Cake slice furnishings were magnificent.

-Jubilee mount was fun, in spite of some tail weirdness.

-SilverBride's highly entertaining Haiku thread.

-The design of this years cake was awesome.


Parts I did not love:
-Being driven to gibbering madness by the poor drop rate of the special weapon style pages.

-Watching the ESO community slowly cannibalize itself as arguments from multiple different points of view were lobbed back and fourth like shots from a meatbag catapult.

-The lack of meaningful quests using familiar characters to make the 10th anniversary feel more like a celebration of the games story. It would have been better if the special style pages had been given as rewards for doing a quest line designed for the event.

In Retrospect
-I genuinely feel that the devs did want us to have a good time during the festival, as evidenced by the rewards we were given, but somewhere along the line someone over estimated the amount of grind that should be involved in said rewards, and things went haywire.

-I still continue to sympathize with those whose accounts were locked out- both because they could not play on their main accounts, and because the communities reaction to you receiving just compensation was down right awful. In truth, I feel all of you deserve more than the 16k seals, because you lost out on much more than what those seals are worth.

-I feel for the devs. Under normal circumstances, I don't mince words when it comes to ZOS. If I feel they have done something badly, I call it out as politely as possible. But in this instance, I really do feel bad for them. I think that they genuinely wanted us to enjoy this celebration, and it must have been gut-wrenching to have the PTS incident happen during the worst possible time it could.

ZhuJiuyin

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

This event is amazing, it's the perfect way to reminisce about your time as a slave to Coldharbour, and get different players fighting over who benefited from it.
It is simply the perfect textbook for public relations disasters.

Desiato

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

The gift boxes were insanely rewarding. I earned easily 10M+ in mats, recipes and motifs. Probably way more.

Then the past couple of days I completed most crafting styles, buying 20M worth of motifs for about 10M gold.

The icing on the top was the rare style pages. I didn't care about any of the yellow style pages that drop from gift boxes because they're so common.

Life is what you make of it, and so too was this event.



The dolmen and geyser grinding brought me back to 2014 when grinding crag anomalies for vet levels was in fashion! I know not everyone is into them, but such activities are part of the ESO culture. Though it's not my cup of tea, I did enjoy spending time with players I wouldn't normally encounter.

With that said, I'm glad it's over. I'm tired and looking forward to normalcy and doing things I enjoy more. I participate in the events only because it is an efficient use of time that allows me to spend more time on what I enjoy later.

DreamyLu

Other

I didn't participate. I only did more daily master writs than usual, to get more event boxes. I was very happy with all the presents I got out of those (including an aetheric cypher!), and I got the horse too. For that specifically, I really enjoyed the jubilee. But that's all I can say about it as I didn't touch anything else of the content.

guul

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

It was OK because I didn't expect that much.

M0ntie

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Love the horse and costume.
Its personal choice if you bore yourself silly grinding for the rare style pages. I chose not to.
Good loot drops just from the purple boxes.

The PTS debacle is disgraceful. Indicative of very poor IT management practices that something like that can happen. People do make mistakes, but sound companies have processes in place so this type of stuff up can't happen.

Server instability during the event has been terrible. PC NA and people were crashing out multiple times every trial we ran.

Uvi_AUT

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

No complaint here. 3 passive Event-Tickets a day and I got the golden cosmetic-set.
I did one Heist one one character a couple of times a week (thats the most time I can spare for playing ESO) and the return for that was great.

Plus the daily loginrewards where also very generous.

Big thumbs UP for ZOS, well done! (Now get rid of Lootboxes ;-))

Natakiro

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

I actually managed to get everything, but OH MAN was this a disgustingly grindy event. It took the worst parts of ESO and made a big event around it.

I have never hated something in this game as much as I despise Abyssal Geysers now. I spent literally over 15 hours farming for the staff page. Horrid. They are so tedious and take so much longer than other world events, reason why I hate the Summerset event, too.

The rest weren't nearly as bad but YIKES it was soooo grindy. I had to farm on off hours just to get a chance at getting the event boxes from the bosses.

AND add that PCNA players can't get the final 3 event tickets due to maintenance starting right at reset, why can't maintenance be pushed back at least an hour or two? EU players can get them, why can't we?

This event left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. Probably gonna take a break from the game for a little bit to get over massive burnout and let my sub lapse again. For being 10 years old, the celebration should have been funner and felt special, instead of a huge slogfest.

However, I did like how many new motifs and style pages I got. Sold a lot and have more to sell and made a TON of gold off them so far selling them on the traders. Also, as goofy as the event mount is, I like it, so cheesy and gaudy lol I don't recall there being another mount that makes a sound when it starts moving, either.

BlueRaven

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

Elvenheart wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

The ugly: who eats cake while riding a horse?

I haven’t yet tried riding the horse because of the rump “smear”. I keep hoping for a fix before I have to look at it. Oh please, please say it isn’t so that while we ride the horse, we are eating cake? 😳

SilverBride wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

...who eats cake while riding a horse?

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...

Mount spreads a trail of confetti behind it!

Yeah, it’s not so much ESO Jubilee event mount, but more like a “My Little Pony” event mount.

SalamanNZ

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

It would have been great except for the PTS rubbish. No PTS should start in a major event. And the "fact" it only affected a small playerbase but they got everything and eventually everyone was affected made this event one of the worst in any MMO. I think ZOS should be not thinking the dodged a bullet and take a good look at the entire deployment team.

Grec1a

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

Where do I start? The ugly, lacklustre Earthbone Ayleid event style (aka. 'discount store Gravegrasp')? The ridiculous amount of Bonemold and Saberkeel style pages in the purple boxes? The free mount, and the confusion over how many tickets/confetti packs you needed with the ever-changing event end date? The two outages, one of them at prime time? The limited-time-only style pages attained through luck, rather than (finite and measurable) hard work, that could not be bought with gold or tickets? The 2-day extension that wasn't?

I have to say, I opted out of the style page grind and set my own challenges for the event. But I am not going to give ZOS any credit for the sense of achievement I got from using my own imagination to make their event less frustrating.

MonkLoHan

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

With all the new recipes, motifs, gold mats and perfect roe that I got from just doing dailies, I'd say this was a very very good event for me.

Nerouyn

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Like any anniversary, I came out with more motifs.

Though I had to buy many to finish the set, I got a few Scribes of Mora drops, including the expensive chest, and that's the one set I cared about.

I'm ahead.

Shame about the ridiculously low rng on the super shinies but I didn't especially want any of them. I feel sorry for those who did and didn't manage or have time to get them though.

Anifaas

It was not OK. I found only a small part acceptable.

I find most new content in this game is somewhat lacklustre compared to what I’m used to in other games. So in that regard, I feel as though this anniversary wasn’t the worst, but it could’ve been better.

Nerouyn

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

ZoeliTintanie wrote: »

I'd like my inventory space back. I've been "forced" to save so many recipes for an alt in the future (my only main is templar since 2019) and I dont know what to save/sell etc and have used/learned most,extras are all in the bank taking up room. (no sticker book to put the learned recipes in for alts to use later)

Erm.....

Come take a look at MY inventory.

I have 20 max level characters on my main account. All were fully horse trained and trait researched until I had to delete some to make way for arcanists cos I find I quite like those.

But I only really learn motifs now on my first character cos, well I've ended up deleting so many that I figure I should just bank them until I'm really really sure they won't end up deleted.

Hello second account.

And third.

And fourth! Well no, the fourth was to reserve a trading guild name I may need for the first.

I probably have a small fortune worth of motifs spread across my two mule accounts. Plus two guild banks.

Drammanoth

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

As for a 10 year anniversary, I did enjoy the purple loot boxes, BUT some of my Guildmates have been affected by this feck-up and I can't imagine how they must feel - oh, wait, I don't need to. They're MAD as hell.

Sooo... talking about reputation... ZOS has seen better days.

amig186

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

I appreciate all the mats and motifs from event boxes, and the ease of getting tickets by just eating some cake every day. Managed to buy everything I had intended, dropped the whole Earthbone Ayleid style and have a nice stock for future crafting. On the other hand, I didn't find the event collectibles particularly appealing visually, the Earthbone Ayleid style doesn't look very Ayleid to me, for one. I was able to check out the mount on PTS and immediately knew that I'm not going to bother with it, it's just not my style at all. I would have preferred if the fragments weren't bound so I could have given them away to friends and guildies who were actually interested in completing it. The replicas like Trueflame and the worm staff were also pretty old models and nothing special compared to weapons from recent expansions and arms packs. And speaking of them, I don't think I have to mention how awful that particular grind was. I went all in on the geyser grind, which bore fruit eventually, but my daily Vvardenfell WB circuit wasn't enough to get the motifs, which is too bad but there was no way I was going to commit to it as heavily. I guess I'd give the event a 6/10 this year. That is without taking into account the PTS ban fiasco, which probably soured the whole event for many people.

Nerouyn

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

amig186 wrote: »

Managed to buy everything I had intended, dropped the whole Earthbone Ayleid style and have a nice stock for future crafting. On the other hand, I didn't find the event collectibles particularly appealing visually, the Earthbone Ayleid style doesn't look very Ayleid to me, for one.

They were uncommonly hideous this year.

My guess is that this one was aimed at necromancers. Poor things are constantly begging for perma pets.

This ain't that but they can now at least dress up their companions in bony outfits.