2025 ESO content pass made me quit ESO btw.

Anilahation

Feel like the same is with other people as well since the average number of players this year (at least on steam charts) has gone down for 2024 compared to previous years.

You changed the way you did DLC, it didn't look interesting, its price went up... SO i just stopped played.

Dock01

same but i cant yet , will soon tho , still have a friend playing but i wont be touching anything or staying in game long

Erickson9610

I played ESO for the gameplay. Hopefully next year's major feature makes the gameplay more exciting.

MaraxusTheOrc

Yeah. This “content pass” is, at least to me, the worst value/deployment of any annual content release. It’s unfortunate WoW just released legion remix (which solved overland difficulty mind you) and New World just released a huge new patch while ESO deploys its “massive, don’t miss event” of four dailies. The competition is eating ESO’s lunch.

Vonnegut2506

MaraxusTheOrc wrote: »

Yeah. This “content pass” is, at least to me, the worst value/deployment of any annual content release. It’s unfortunate WoW just released legion remix (which solved overland difficulty mind you) and New World just released a huge new patch while ESO deploys its “massive, don’t miss event” of four dailies. The competition is eating ESO’s lunch.

Doesn't matter if the New World patch is more enjoyable because no one can play it without waiting in a queue for several hours. I would love to try the new zone, but playing on the West Coast server (which is supposedly one of the shortest queues) my queue position just now was in the 2000s. No thanks. That is in no way to say that ESO's new event is any good, but at least I can log in and play it.

agelonestar

I’ve been looking around for the first time since the beta.

Give the very poor state of content this year, I’m not surprised player numbers are through the floor. As a GM, I see increasing numbers of new players who don’t last two weeks. It’s not surprising - if I started this year, I wouldn’t either.

manukartofanu

agelonestar wrote: »

I’ve been looking around for the first time since the beta.

Give the very poor state of content this year, I’m not surprised player numbers are through the floor. As a GM, I see increasing numbers of new players who don’t last two weeks. It’s not surprising - if I started this year, I wouldn’t either.

A new player has so much old content that there’s no way they could quit the game just because little was added this year. There’s more than enough content to last them for a whole year. The reason lies elsewhere.

Danikat

I'm not going to drop ESO completely because of the event, because there's still a lot of the game I do like, so I can just play that instead. I've been doing 1 event daily per day just to see what happens and what I get, and when it gets boring I'll stop. Alongside that I'm still playing other parts of the game, and I've always played other games as well (lately I've been getting into Stardew Valley).

Vonnegut2506 wrote: »

MaraxusTheOrc wrote: »

Yeah. This “content pass” is, at least to me, the worst value/deployment of any annual content release. It’s unfortunate WoW just released legion remix (which solved overland difficulty mind you) and New World just released a huge new patch while ESO deploys its “massive, don’t miss event” of four dailies. The competition is eating ESO’s lunch.

Doesn't matter if the New World patch is more enjoyable because no one can play it without waiting in a queue for several hours. I would love to try the new zone, but playing on the West Coast server (which is supposedly one of the shortest queues) my queue position just now was in the 2000s. No thanks. That is in no way to say that ESO's new event is any good, but at least I can log in and play it.

I'm surprised New World has login queues when the point of it was to showcase Amazon's servers and other games on their servers (including ESO I think) solved that problem before New World came out.

manukartofanu

By the way, about new players. Even three years ago it was already hard to get into the game. There are so many expansions, tons of quests pop up at once, and you have no idea where to go or what to do. It’s just overwhelming from the very start. So yeah, giving up after two weeks sounds like a pretty realistic scenario even back then.

To fix this, first, stop bombarding new players with NPCs chasing them around with new DLC starters. Let people focus on one area and progress at their own pace without all the noise. Second, simplify the core systems and make them easier to understand.

Take gear sets, for example. Their descriptions are long, confusing, and basically useless for beginners. Only a small group of endgame players actually understand them, and even they get lost sometimes. How is a new player supposed to know they can just ignore all that?

Or look at multiclassing. That’s already a complex mechanic, and now newbies also have to deal with it. And then last year we got scribing on top of that.

The problem is, new players need simple, clear progression systems. So if anything needs to change, it should be simplified, not made more complicated. Right now, we have the opposite: the progression systems get more and more complex, while the overland gameplay stays the same. It should be the other way around. Progression should be easy to grasp, and the overland should keep evolving every year so veteran players don’t get bored.

Gabriel_H

MaraxusTheOrc wrote: »

Yeah. This “content pass” is, at least to me, the worst value/deployment of any annual content release. It’s unfortunate WoW just released legion remix (which solved overland difficulty mind you) and New World just released a huge new patch while ESO deploys its “massive, don’t miss event” of four dailies. The competition is eating ESO’s lunch.

So, it took WoW only 21 years to solve overland difficulty and then they only put it in to a gimmicky time-limited event. You think that is competition?

ZOS_GregoryV

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