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

xclassgaming

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

imagine getting to play the full event...couldnt be me and my locked account ._.

karthrag_inak

Khajiit loved the event, but this one is quite embarrassed for ZOS with all their self-generated issues, which were only compounded by them choosing a maintenance time that blocks the last 4 hours-worth of extra event day tickets. There's a few folks walking around there with a lot of arrows in their knees.

So event was only extended for 1 day - Wednesday - since if it had ended on Tuesday, it would have still been possible to get Tuesday's tickets.

RaddlemanNumber7

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

Apart from eating cake, and occasional visits to the Impresario, my engagement was entirely passive. I enjoyed getting extra rewards for doing things I was going to do anyway. I particularly enjoyed the flowery decorations.

Gorø

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

So far:

• Absurd drop rate for style pages (I like the concept, makes old activities alive but making it in such limited amount brings burn outs)
• Achievements locked behind tickets (Worst design ever. Never do this ZOS)
• "Don't worry guys, you will be unlocked in 2-3 days" > "Maybe the end of the week?" > "Ok you might be unlocked in 10 days idk man"
• Literally separating the community (drop rates, compensation, etc)

So yep, for a 10th anniversary (or even just a basic anniversary) event, this is a complete failure.

LanteanPegasus

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

I chose this option, because for me it mostly played like any other Jubilee event. And I always enjoy those for the lots of easy to obtain boxes with great rewards like motifs, furnishing plans and materials.

The event style being easy to collect is also a plus in my books.
The idea of the horse was a nice touch, and I like the design (aside from the usual ESO-Horse-leg-problem), but the odd confetti popping permanently from somewhere under the saddle is a bit offputting for me. The placement is just bizarre.
But oh well, the mount was an extra bonus anyway.
The cake slices make for some nice furnishings, so I'm happy about that addition.

With the special style pages I was lucky in two regards - a. I only was interested in two of them (and that was more a "might want" than a "must have", so no FOMO), and b. the sword dropped at my second fishing hole, and the Summerset staff after about 30 or so Geysirs (accumulated in doing an chunk of them here and there, not hours in one go). So not much time wasted, and no feeling of missing out.

That said - the event could have been better. As others suggested, special event quests to get the rare style pages would have been much more fun (ideally with different levels of work involved, depending on if you played older content already or not). Having nods to the main story or the base game plots popping up in the form of random zone encounters, or certain NSCs placed somewhere, or books/letters with messages found here and there would have made it so much more memorable.

Also, I just view this as the Jubilee event in the 10th Anniversary year, not as THE one and only 10th Anniversary celebration ingame. There's a lot more going on (and probably to come) in addition to the Jubilee event. (Like the Orsinium giveaways, the ongoing Thieves event and so on.)

barney2525

Other

There is a Wide chasm between ' It was great ' and ' It was OK '

And this is going to be a subjective poll because of the RNG involved. For me, the RNG was good. The only rares I went for were dolmen staff and fishing sword. Got both in a hour or less on each.

But I also got rare gear motifs and have been making gold hand over fist. One of the last I got lists at over 1 million. by itself. also had one that listed over 600k. Figure I'll list the top one just under the mil and hope for the best.

There have been some issues, some down time with lag. didn't like the ticket issue with the anniversary mount. thought it was pretty cheezey to give one confetti per day but still would not be able to get the mount just by logging in every day. So I wouldn't say it was " great " , but I wouldn't say it was ' just OK ' either. I think it was a good event, very profitable in Mats as well as gold,

And as one who does enjoy running dolmens, I had a fun time. People don't enjoy running dolmens would not have had a fun time.

MasterSpatula

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

I mean, it was typical ZOS. It had all the required elements for greatness, but it failed to achieve even goodness due to a lack of thinking things through.

This isn't even the first time scheduling an update of some kind during an event has backfired on them. But they didn't learn from previous mistakes, scheduled a major update during an event, and players (some of whom are friend of mine) paid the price for them not considering the possible consequences.

If I never see another purple Provisioning recipe again, it'll be too soon. I swear to God the loot tables for the boxes had to be weighted heavily to the oldest motifs, and heavier still toward vendor-trash purple recipes. I opened one batch of 32 boxes in one go the other day, and I got no motifs, no furniture plans, only five recipes. I have Vvarenfell and Craglorn motifs coming out my ears, but motifs from the last three years? Two drops. Two. A simple weighting towards more recent stuff would have made for a much more satisfying event, and even a little foresight would have suggested that was the best strategy.

For every person who got the gold style pages inside of ten attempts, there's someone who did a thousand attempts without success. A thousand attempts is improbable, but it's not impossible, and in a sufficiently large sample, anything possible becomes certain. Which is to say, when you design an RNG grind with no mitigating factors, you know someone is going to be subject to improbably poor outcomes. It's inevitable. Knowing this will definitely happen to someone, when you choose to implement a reward system based on RNG alone, you are choosing this. You did it to someone, and you did it on purpose. That's contemptuous, and it's contemptible. After long enough grind, players can't help but feel that contempt.

Shutting down the servers at ticket rollover is not a "two day extension" of the event. It's simply not.

But hey, at least they communicated with us on the PTS and Lockout debacle. That's the only thing they did communicate with us on, though, allowing us to feel ignored and disregarded as we begged for any word on whether they genuinely thought the style page grind was reasonable or defensible or in any way ethical (it was none of these). I don't understand looking at what this forum turned into for the last few weeks and thinking, "Well, the best thing to do is just let them think we don't even notice them."

With a little foresight and a little empathy, this event could have been great. With neither, it wasn't even good.

Blackbird_V

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

Hey, I'm happy with all the free Transmute crystals, free perfect roes, dragon rheum, powdered mother of pearls, clam gall and tempering materials I got. I'm also really happy with the *minor* price reduction in guild traders for these items.

Style pages are kinda eh for me, but grind for a few was nice. Something to actually do in what is a very boring overland for me. Ignoring ofc all the complainers that just want free *** for little to no work. Some parts of the grind were not ok and shows how outdated the loot system is: only top 12 DPS get loot - that needs changing to tagging an enemy for loot.

The only downside for me is the motif crash. A lot of dungeon motifs have drastically reduced in price, killing off a good reason to run dungeons. I'll always be against dungeon motifs being in reward boxes.

Other than that, gna miss the event for the free Transmutes and crafting mats. That was really nice.

Wiseau

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

From making the style pages incredibly difficult, grindy, and time consuming to get, to multiple days of maintenance, shutting down the servers for 9 hours, "promising" us 2 days of extension only to snatch the last day away, RIGHT at reset so the majority of people can't even get their tickets or boxes. Zos dropped the ball HARD this event. SO disappointing. Was really expecting better from them.

purple-magicb16_ESO

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

karthrag_inak wrote: »

Khajiit loved the event, but this one is quite embarrassed for ZOS with all their self-generated issues, which were only compounded by them choosing a maintenance time that blocks the last 4 hours-worth of extra event day tickets. There's a few folks walking around there with a lot of arrows in their knees.

So event was only extended for 1 day - Wednesday - since if it had ended on Tuesday, it would have still been possible to get Tuesday's tickets.

I have to agree with your comment on their choice to schedule maintenance today blocking the last 4 hours of the event. It almost cancels out a day from the extension because it's the start of a new day with more tickets and boxes from writs. They've done this before and its very unpopular.

I was able to participate and got a lot of great stuff from the event so I can't complain. I did the grind and got 3 of the weapon styles, I missed the helm but it felt like I did hundreds of wbs in Vvardenfell so I feel like I gave it a good go and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think that the way new stuff looks is a reflection on how successful or enjoyable the event was. If you don't like the horse or motifs, then don't use them, simple as that.

The PTS incident was unfortunate but they jumped right on it to fix it. Also unfortunate that they had to lock accounts. If I was in that boat I mite feel differently, maybe not though because they were compensated.

Bethgael

Other

I mostly ignored it. Boxes were nice, getting the style drop in my fishing was nice, finally finishing some group-based achieves no one would have bothered doing otherwise was nice; picking up some purple pages I needed (and some rare mats) was nice. I also used my tickets on furnishings I wanted. Cake am yummy.

All in all, my expectations were nil, I did what I otherwise would have while playing, and Azander now has a pretty pony to match his alleged style to complain about riding (and I never have to look at its butt because compani9ons ride behind us--as another horsey person, horses in this game, OMG). The anniversary was no better than the last few; I didn't have enough FOMO to make it worse on myself, either (I'm too old to be sucked in by grindy crap anymore, she says, laughing because she's still trying to get that fishing achieve she started....)

All in all, ZOS lived down to my expectations.

James-Wayne

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

For a 10-year event that should have been about celebrating and having fun it was a total failure.

ZOS could have easily made this the best event they have ever done as a thank you to the players for 10 years.

agelonestar

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

The anniversary event has always been my favourite, so maybe I'm a little biased in saying I enjoyed it - especially the longer timeline.

I would have liked to see:-

• Less grind required for stuff - I don't participate in anything that requires more than five attempts. I'm playing a game, for fun, and I want to grind I'll go clear out my work email inbox!
• I didn't really like the Jubilee Mount - I'd love to be able to toggle holding the plate of cake as, for me, it makes the mount pretty useless. Otherwise it was nice.... but gimme that toggle please!
• Crown sale was good & always welcome - but it could have lasted a little longer IMO.

I'm a serial complainer (British.......it's in the DNA) , but honestly I don't see what anyone really has to complain about with this event.


PS: I LOVE having more Seals of Endeavour for tougher daily Endeavours. Awesome idea.

daim

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

I'm giving it more than many but only because I wasn't expecting more than a regular anniversary event.

Most memorable things about the event:
1. anniversary mount (or whatever) farm was a bad design, it felt like it was there only to market tickets from the shop
2. style page farm .. yeah I can see people were frustrated. I wasn't even planning to farm them but did some dolmens to do an endeavour and was lucky to get the worm staff after a few minutes. Same with the fishing page, didn't really plan it but got it fast. I did farm some geysers just to get a few missing deed but there I ran out of luck. Not a big deal, but I understand for those whom wanted them badly and farmed for days with zero results got upset.

That's my main thoughts. I suppose it was really nice to give DLC for free for those whom didn't have them. I barely noticed though as I have them all already.

heaven13

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

Misclicked but meant worst event ever. Rewards lackluster, disaster after disaster after disaster, grind for stuff way too high.

I was personally not affected by the PTS fiasco but still worst event ever.

As I said in the beginning of this entire thing, well before PTS, “where is the heart” in the event? It was just a grind fest, with more spent on publicity than on actually treating the player base to a celebration.

DonHardstyle

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

The event itself wasnt bad, The same as every year. But we mostly do it for the exp and mats etc annyway. The drop rates on the special motifs where way to low. That made me skip out the majority of the even tbh. 400 boring dolmens was to much for me.
It is the stuff around it what made the event bad, Read the pts screw up and the people that got banned for almost 2 weeks now.
Also the thing with random crowns showing up at people's accounts. And no communication from ZOS about this whatsoever. Im afraid we will remember the 10th year anniversary for all the wrong reasons.

Anachronian

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Overall, I enjoyed playing the event, but my issues with the event were either outside the event itself with the lockout, or related to the bound style pages unobtainable except through grinding the same task rather than a variety of tasks in those zones.

Ulvich

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

I was expecting something a little more exciting. This celebration seemed a bit flat to me. And the grind certainly didn't help matters.

WhisperLFE

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

The PTS situation was obviously bad, but I do appreciate ZOS's relative transparency with it and the compensation they'll be offering those affected (full disclosure: I wasn't affected).

Overall, I've liked this anniversary event as much as any other; probably no more or less. Which might be saying something, given that it's the 10 year. I've never been big on caring about grinding for style pages, so that aspect didn't bug me. I did enjoy getting to stream a bit of the in-person event, which seemed like it was fun.

I know they have things for the rest of the calendar year and then some, so we'll see how the rest goes.

dwright09ub17_ESO

This is the last part of the event that makes me angry...the whole thing other than the purple containers was not thought out well.

Once PC NA maintenance concludes by 2pm EDT, anyone currently with a locked account due to the PTS issue last week, on any server, will once again have access to their accounts. You will also receive an email once your account is unlocked.

2pm, really? 2pm!

deadlric

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Honestly a bit of a grind, been playing the game since 2017 and have never grinded this much for gear or an event.

I think the worst was the Geyser... the drop rate for that style page was atrocious. All of my grinding were done during PC NA's lower population timing (5am-7am EST), I'd imagine it be a nightmare if I wasn't farming at those hours.

Good:

• The mount was kinda cute, but I don't really know if it is worth the amount of confetti needed.
• Got to stock up on mats, motifs, recipes for selling in the future.
• Cake furnishing was pretty neat.

oddbasket

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

Logged on to do about an hour of crafting writs everyday, rewarded with plenty of motifs, furnishing plans and recipes.
Also collected the free mount.

Overall, very rewarding event for the time I've spent logged in.

sarahthes

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Eh, it was fine. I got the things I cared about. I didn't care about any of the grindy styles so I didn't go for any of them.

Just wish my husband had been able to play with me the past 10 days.

Shara_Wynn

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

I feel that the drop rate on the replica style pages was abysmal and the need to have to purchase 5 further Jubilee confetti for the mount, caught a lot of people out I think.

Overall I enjoyed the event. I was lucky however and got all my style pages within the first 4 or 5 days and had no issues getting all the things I wanted from the impresario, including the mount.

There are still people on the EU server even now trying to get their style pages. Outliers on the RNG algorithm for the drop rate on the style pages should have been modified to return a positive result after "X" number of attempts. That way a drop would have been guaranteed eventually and everyone would have gotten their pages.

Ah well.

BretonMage

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

My own experience was pretty good, on balance. I didn't like farming for the style pages - the geyser experience was really terrible, and the Vvardenfell WB atmosphere of quiet desperation was a bit a depressing. I didn't try for the Staff of Worms page.

I'd say the worst parts of this event were the misfortunes of others - fickle RNG and the PTS fiasco. Hard to completely enjoy something when you know others are missing out.

Other than that, I liked the jubilee boxes: I completed 2 motif books, got a lot of transmutes and some perfect roe, finally replaced the Buoyant Armiger Staff page that I had mistakenly sold some months ago (for an also mistakenly low, low price, lol).

I find the world events a lot of fun during the anniversary events. I would never attempt harrowstorms otherwise. And the Southern Elsweyr dragon raids during events are quite an experience.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

Hapexamendios wrote: »

Good loot from purple crates. Too much grind for style pages. Love the cake. Horse is unappealing.

Wait... there was a horse? . But I agree here ^. Other then doing an extra round of crafting on a few characters for boxes in the beginning, I was mainly getting extra reward boxes for things I normally do. The event did boost my vendor sales quite abit.

master_vanargand

The worst event ever. I hate everything in it.

ESO's game balance is a mess.
It's like an old fighting game.
For example, Street Fighter 2's game balance was a mess.
However, the current Street Fighter 6 is trying to improve the game balance.

Current competitive games strive to improve game balance.
Because game creators understand that this is the best way for the game to survive.

But MMORPG game creators are clinging to the old ways.
Powers new set and class and ignores old sets and classes.
And repeat it forever. What a stupid method.

As a result, even after 10 years, ESO's game balance is messed up and it's full of bugs.

Create the meta set. Then weaken the meta set.
Create the meta class. Then weaken the meta class.

All game creators have done in combat in ESO's 10 years is repeat this.
Will we repeat this for the next 10 years? It is ridiculous.

Game creators, your true power is not at this level, right?
To all the game creators who are artists who amaze, excite and entertain the world, be serious.

Nerouyn

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

master_vanargand wrote: »

ESO's game balance is a mess.

I think the mistake you make is assuming they want the game to balanced.

It's a class based game with many things being character specific.

What you describe as failures to achieve balance is more likely developers deliberately rocking that boat to push players into playing other classes and characters, which means they play longer and spend more money.

TaSheen

Everything was great. I enjoyed it.

Quoting something I posted in another thread:

TaSheen wrote: »

I didn't have any expectations (I almost never do) - after losing out on the last indrik I wanted (until next Q1, if they're still going - yes, I know "what they said" but I believe I'm justified in feeling iffy that will continue) because I had issues setting up my new machine and missed the last 5 days of Jester's; and then being very ill for about 10 days of the Jubilee - it's a really good thing I did NOT have any expectations.

I'm happy with the motifs I've got that I didn't know. I'm happy I'm finishing the event with 12/12 tickets on 3 accounts both PC megaservers. I'm happy with my new machine, happy I got my addons mess sorted, happy I'm not sick. And I really appreciate the little gryphon pet and the costume.

That'll have to do.

The parts of the event I was able to do were great - and now it's nearly over, I'm perfectly happy to go back to "eventless" play, because I am tired to death of events now.

ApoAlaia

It was OK, but some parts were unpleasant.

I was lucky that I was too tired and went to bed rather than jumping in the PTS with my friends otherwise this would have been the worse anniversary bar none.

The compensation offered would not have even made up for the loss in purple boxes alone (340+ a day).

Said that it did sour thing quite a bit because we 'lost' some GMs for two ****** trader swaps, on the busiest weeks of the year for all things trading guild related.

And the prog groups they were part of ground to a screeching halt.

That was definitely 'interesting times', let's never do this again.

And on that note, let's not have more instances of 'FOMO trifecta' fun times either. The 'grind' for the event-specific pages was hideous.

On the upside they did add all the new motif pages to the boxes, and the boxes seemed pretty generous in other ways too (transmutes, yum!), so that was nice.