New lootable weapons and armor.

Sturmwaffel · June 2014

So I received an advertisement/news email today and I found this hilarious.

"NEW LOOTABLES, LIGHTING, AND MORE
You'll find lootable weapon and armor racks, beautiful interior lighting, and a host of fixes and improvements in Update 2."

Then I remembered...

Pick up Armor and Weapons

Weapons and armor found in the world can now be picked up and equipped.
These items are low quality, but can be used if needed.
These items sell for 0 gold.
These items can be upgraded through crafting.
These items can be deconstructed, but yield very low inspiration and rarely yield usable resources.

Is this seriously a selling point?

Moxan · June 2014

Yes, yes it is. Apparently the point of this game is to make it just like Skyrim, when its NOT; its an MMO!!!!

Nebthet78 · June 2014

My thoughts exactly.

colonel_schmeevin · June 2014

If it was like skyrim it might actually be enjoyable lol. At least you could pick up stuff from enemies and sell then for gold every time. I don't like this 0g junk laying around and taking up loot container space. I have no clue why the devs did this. It's completely pointless to me. Same with the lighting. It's as if I'm buying a car and I see it has no engine and I say "hey this doesn't have an engine" and the salesman just keeps referring me to the other features of the car. Wish ZOS would just work on fixing existing issues rather than trying to add useless features and meanwhile break things with every update.

Valerien · June 2014

I cant work out what the point of it was.

I get that its nice to be able to pick stuff up that is lying around and it adds to the fullness of the game world. Not many MMO's out there that you can do that, but this is just junk items that nobody is going to want to pick up. If the day comes that I need to grab a junk sword from a table to fight an opponent I will be amazed. But since the game engine wont allow me to equip it if I'm in combat, my far better sword is already going to be slotted and many attacks use magic and can be done unarmed I just don't see this as ever going to happen.

Nice enough option but plenty of more important things could have been added.

Hamfast · June 2014

There are two different things going on here, first, as in the picture above, there are items in the world you can now pickup... they are low quality, can't be sold and are worthless for crafting, the items in the world like this should be able to be interacted with, it makes sense...

The second is the containers, about half of what I see in containers is crap, useless pack filling crap... before you got lockpicks, more then you will ever need, stale food (I did see some "Greef" in a desk, almost grabbed it just to give someone Greef) Motif Stones, Provisioning Supplies, recipes, and every so often, a Motif... now, useless weapons and armor...

Keep the intractable items, get rid of the container trash.

Volkodav · June 2014

I dont see the point in making stuff pickupable when it is useless. It isnt even worth any gold,there are no decent stats for anything.I am disappointed. Why do they do this to us when we have paid a good chunk of money.Why not just make it like any other piece of armor or weapon,with the same stats.It isnt like they are making money by you purchasing stuff at merchants.I mean,most of the rewards we get for quests are already cheap,so why not give us at least one good break.
For this they use their 'valuable time'(as they say) when they could be fixing broken classes like the Nightblade.Oh,wait,..that comes in the NEXT great patch,..whenever.
I love this game,but,man,..there are times I wonder if it's a good use of my money when I am saving every other cent to go to Germany and the Ukraine.

Anastasia · June 2014

Sturmwaffel wrote: »

So I received an advertisement/news email today and I found this hilarious.

"NEW LOOTABLES, LIGHTING, AND MORE
You'll find lootable weapon and armor racks, beautiful interior lighting, and a host of fixes and improvements in Update 2."

Then I remembered...

Pick up Armor and Weapons
Weapons and armor found in the world can now be picked up and equipped.

These items are low quality, but can be used if needed.

These items sell for 0 gold.

These items can be upgraded through crafting.

These items can be deconstructed, but yield very low inspiration and rarely yield usable resources.

Is this seriously a selling point?

0-o Agreed Sturmwaffel, I SOOOOO don't even understand or comprehend in ANY way why even one iota of manpower/art design/intern practice was used to put this in. Perhaps SOMEONE can shed light from a devil's advocate point of view on these pieces of literally near-useless items lying around???

Cogo · June 2014

They deliver what was promised to be included in the game.
I don't pick em up, but I do like that they deliver what we paid for.

NakedSnake · June 2014

Just saw this ad in my email and had to give a little chuckle.
Think about all the rubes who have never played but are thinking of joining.

Malmai · June 2014

Cogo wrote: »

They deliver what was promised to be included in the game.
I don't pick em up, but I do like that they deliver what we paid for.

I remember Matt said we gnna have LAG free exp. smooth gameplay even at start but we didn't get what was promised/paid did we now ?

Liquid_Time · June 2014

Should have only been added to the starter islands... Nuf said.

Cogo · June 2014

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2014/05/01/the-road-ahead---may-1st

Increased ability to pick up items in the world

Delivered as stated.

Chiraku · June 2014

LOL ppl keep on bitching about everything every *** time.
This is something that makes the game more alive and your not happy?
Do you really think that they can fart gold? This is something that might not be big, but there where tons of ppl like those in this topic that kept on bitching about not being able to loot items from weapon racks and from other locations.
Now you have it, and still want to cry about it?

Sorry to say but please gtfo, Zenimax + Bethesda did a great job with adding this to the game.
Be happy for a change!

CTraveler · June 2014

I love the pickupable items! They may be low-quality and don't provide much on return, but they *level* to your character! And that is *great*

AngryWolf · June 2014

I think it's nice to make the world more interactive, but when you suck any enjoyment these items, I figure, what was the point

jamie.goddenrwb17_ESO · June 2014

Yeah but when they get around to implementing the thieves guild and it becomes a crime to just steal stuff off tables you can bet they'll add a value to them all then.

Baby steps folks

Cogo · June 2014

AngryWolf wrote: »

I think it's nice to make the world more interactive, but when you suck any enjoyment these items, I figure, what was the point

Point I guess was to add more items in the world. Several interviews stated ESO will be a living world instead of a static. You could pick up a cup....

They never said anything about gold value. Makes it more real for me.

If you really need 1 gold, I can give you one. :-)

pecheckler · June 2014

All the random *** that I picked up in Skyrim is why I had to use mods granting 600 inventory spaces. The add-ons to only someone alleviate that pain in ESO require much more effort and constant updating.

KORJ · June 2014

Chiraku wrote: »

This is something that makes the game more alive and your not happy?

Now when I search for motives and resources for cooking,
my inventory is filled with trash.

What I should be happy and why it makes the game more lively?

Let's ask the developers to bring into play the toilets that can be used.
This will make game even more lively, am sure people like you will be happy about that.

Cogo · June 2014

I also look for mats. Do you have to pick em up? I get to choose.

Enkil · June 2014

Cogo wrote: »

AngryWolf wrote: »

I think it's nice to make the world more interactive, but when you suck any enjoyment these items, I figure, what was the point

Point I guess was to add more items in the world. Several interviews stated ESO will be a living world instead of a static. You could pick up a cup....

They never said anything about gold value. Makes it more real for me.

If you really need 1 gold, I can give you one. :-)

They didn't do it in a way that makes sense however. Being able to loot items in the world does improve immersion and is normal to the franchise. But making them worthless makes no sense and isn't really necessary. I am not going break it down for you how ridiculous and illogical the implementation is.. There are about 10 other threads in which is has been pointed out already.

Mordria · June 2014

Are you really complaining about things added to the game?? If you don't want it, don't pick it up. Simple.

Cogo · June 2014

Woooaa! It wasn't my idea! They put in what they stated. Don't flame me for this! (Died enough today trying to solo vet 2 mobs.)

gamma71 · June 2014

Hey dev team putting worthless junk in the world was so brilliant, who ever thought of this deserves a giant raise. I know there was something missing in the world, and yep worthless junk now makes my gaming experience so much better.

Thank you.

AngryWolf · June 2014

I got this email now myself...and it does make you chuckle, till how thought about how deceptive this is, wording it like it was a big improvement in the game.

Come see what we did everybody! Uh...just don't try and actually use that crap for real..ok? Great. Enjoy!

Chiraku · June 2014

KORJ wrote: »

Chiraku wrote: »

This is something that makes the game more alive and your not happy?

Now when I search for motives and resources for cooking,
my inventory is filled with trash.

What I should be happy and why it makes the game more lively?

Let's ask the developers to bring into play the toilets that can be used.
This will make game even more lively, am sure people like you will be happy about that.

I am so not getting your point, do we humans have to be *** to understand this guy?

He is saying its bad to have the game look more lively?
I mean if you dont like the game to look more alive then please do us a favor...
Grap your bags and get back to the stupid asian mmos from perfect world.
These games are stiff and almost nothing more then just walk to the npc (that doesnt move and talk!) then kill the mob 100 million times and complete the quest.

Maybe you like that instead of a game where they want to make it feel like your inside a world instead of just a boring landscape.

Gwarok · June 2014

Game breaking junk/trash is game breaking
Especially since inventory/item/bag filters/addons are now frowned upon like junk destroyers ie Wykkyd's Framework that does not pick up this crap and/or (auto) destroys/sells items marked as junk.

#ThreeMonthRule /reactivated

Mescalamba · June 2014

Lootable content from world? Sure, but only useful one.

There is thing called "vendor junk" in most games, no point in not making it same here. Except..

Yea, there is masterplan behind this and everything else. Its very simply trick thats there for one purpouse only.

"It increases playtime!"

More junk they put into containers, less good items you will get and since you get less good items, you must play and grind those items for longer time, thus you in theory waste more time doing this and might subscribe for another month.

Thats if you dont reach your tolerance threshold and just cancel and leave.

If you think about all those little or big things, that FORCE you to do something for longer time than is sensible, then you will most likely realize that Im probably right. They dont have content, or are unable to provide it, so they do artificial "slowers" in some fools hope that it will work.

It surely will, good way to get rid of more players.

Sindala · June 2014

The junk armour and weapons wouldn't be so bad if you could atleast deconstruct them for base mats like ingots/wood/leather.
They would then be atleast half worth picking up since most of the 'natural' ways to get said items are constantly farmed by bots.

Don't give traits but why not base items???

KORJ · June 2014

Chiraku wrote: »

Grap your bags and get back to the stupid asian mmos from perfect world.
These games are stiff and almost nothing more then just walk to the npc (that doesnt move and talk!) then kill the mob 100 million times and complete the quest.

Maybe you like that instead of a game where they want to make it feel like your inside a world instead of just a boring landscape.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Flaming]

In order for craft leather armor, I need to kill the mob 100 million times, in this, not asian game.
In my bank lying 1000 Great Soul Gems and 1000 potions of each type, that I grind in Darkshade Caverns.

MMO world make a lively not pile of useless crap that you can put in your inventory.

In EVE Online world is lively, without any landscape.

In ESO world is this:

Living world is only possible in the sandbox.
I have not seen an MMORPG in which there was the really living world.
So shall bring in order the things that are already there and do not make useless content.