ESO Writing Team: Please...stop it.

Rohamad_Ali

Spot on assessment.

xbluerosesx

PrinceShroob wrote: »

It's odd that you'd call "and stuff" millennial, given that, just off the top of my head, the phrase shows up in Merrily We Roll Along ("We'll have Bernstein play next on / The Bechstein piano— / And Auden read poems and stuff") written by the celebrated Stephen Sondheim for a show that premiered in 1981. I even did some brief research and there's examples of the phrase being used back to at least the 16th century. The phrase tends to show up in Online (yes, and in the base game from back in 2014), but even Arena had "I cook and stuff" as a possible greeting for a chef.

I really, truly do not care a whit about vernacular, since this ain't period, pals--it's a medieval aesthetic but not literally medieval. If vernacular breaks your immersion maybe your impression of what's immersive is infinitesimal.

"duuuuurrr the writing was always like this. leave the billion dollar company alone!!!!111 how dare you demand quality in the writing, don't ask questions just consoom the eso cringeslop then get excited for next season!!!1111"

it's okay you spacebar through quests but the rest of us who can read don't want to be reading Forspoken tier dialogue

MasterSpatula

On a related topic, the SHEER NUMBER OF TYPOS that made it through to Live in the dialogue transcriptions is disheartening. I know ZOS/Bethesda/Zenimax/Microsoft currently has a mania for cutting jobs despite being spectacularly profitable, but copy editors actually matter. They keep you from looking unprofessional.

xbluerosesx

I'll never complain about AI writing again if they get rid of this

ZOS_Icy

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NotaDaedraWorshipper

Is it really millenial writers doing this? Always feel like millenials are blamed for everything, especially since many I see complain about writing like this are millenials. Myself included. Like they can't have more bad writers than other generations. All must have good and bad writers.

mdjessup4906

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Is it really millenial writers doing this? Always feel like millenials are blamed for everything, especially since many I see complain about writing like this are millenials. Myself included. Like they can't have more bad writers than other generations. All must have good and bad writers.

I find it both funny and sad how many people my age and even younger are all "back in my day...". Or "xyz gen" whatever. Why does humanity have such short memories.