BBSooner wrote: »

I hope they continue to stand their ground on guild stores.

I have reversed my opinion and now want a global AH. The guild stores "might" have worked if the population was strong/steady. Now guild store after guild store continues to die.

The game doesn't need a road ahead--it needs a superhighway, with actual developers coming to the forums and posting like crazy just like they do in Wildstar.

We don't want generic useless statements like "we're working on making the game better" filtered through intermediaries, or "we'll talk about it in another two weeks at Quakecon". It's always another two weeks, and then we don't actually get any real meat--just generic statements with no substance--and it's another two weeks gone.

ZOS, we know you care. Of course you do. But...you're not showing it. Players on the fence have lost faith and are canceling their subs left and right. My guilds are emptying out and many zones are a ghost town.

Now, I don't like Wildstar--it's flat-out a direct copy of WoW, which is no surprise given their development team came from Blizzard. It's a terrible game for players who like to solo, and has a host of other issues.

One problem they don't have, though, is their developers actually talk directly to the community. They don't give generic statements full of hot air, and they fix things fast. Real fast. If something is broken they admit it, openly and honestly, and they fix it extremely quickly. They are not afraid to admit their mistakes, and from the perspective of ESO, that's incredibly refreshing.

Even their engineers and of course their game designers are constantly on their forums and talk directly to the players. Yes, their programmers, devs, engineers, you name it they speak right to the players on their forums.

Everybody knows that Werewolves are completely useless. Offensively, defensively, survival skills, all of it is mathematically worse when you are in Werewolf form. It's better to just stay in human form, and if you're doing that, what's the point of the design?

If turning into a Werewolf cost zero ultimate, it would still be a terrible decision by the player. This isn't murky. It's well known in the game. WW was designed horribly and needs a complete rework. You have yet to simply admit to it, which leads players to think you are either not competent, don't care, or actually (and this is almost unimaginable) think all is rosy with Werewolves.

The same issue exists for stamina-based builds. Can you get through the game wielding daggers and wearing medium armor, using primarily stamina-based skills? Sure you can--but it's really, really painful in comparison to magicka builds and don't expect to be welcomed to raid teams, because your dps is a joke. Strap on that light armor, pick up that staff, and melt faces like everybody else. Tinkering with medium armor like you did recently isn't enough--stamina skills are still really, really bad.

Some of these game features don't need tinkering. They need serious, significant changes.

ZOS, please lose the game designer hubris that everything you've done was great or even good, or will somehow magically work out if you fiddle with things here and there. When a game design feature is bad, it's bad. Period. Admit it and make changes with rapidity. We don't care if you made mistakes as long as you fix them and fix much more quickly than you have so far. The patient is dying on the table here.

Of course you made some terrible game design decisions. You just did. We know it. You know it. It's not exactly a secret, guys. You have passion, but if you're young and inexperienced, or you just made mistakes, it doesn't matter any more. You don't have time to just let the game continue to bleed.

You need a sea change with regard to how you communicate with your players. A. Sea. Change. Tear up your current system which consists of pretty much saying nothing of actual substance for weeks at a time and throw it out. It's not working.

You need a sea change with regard to how you reflect on your own game design skills. Admit to yourselves that some game systems are simply awful--either scrap them out right or redesign them from scratch.

Now, I don't recommend Wildstar to anyone, as I just don't like the gameplay--but if ZOS doesn't figure out how to connect with their customers like Carbine does with its Wildstar subscribers, the bleeding will continue. Given the few players left in the formerly large guilds I belong to, it's not a trickle--it's gushing out.

My guild of a large number of die-hard PvP'ers left for Wildstar because the lag in Wabbajack was unbearable. We had 11 players in the top 20 for Emperorship, 6 of those in the top 10, and owned the Emperor position at the time. This isn't just some random group of players I'm talking about. You lost a lot of customers who loved the PvP in the game....but couldn't play it. Zero communication from ZOS + unplayable lag in Wabbajack + Wildstar = lost customers.

You can fix this.

• Post a "Road Ahead" message that is long on meat and short on PR.
• Get your developers, engineers, coders, artists, level designers, lore writers and producers to personally post on the forums and post often.
• Convince your game designers that they made mistakes and made them in a big way. They're human, they made some really bad calls, and are willing to admit it and fix the game even when that means scrapping entire systems that simply do not work.

Turn this train wreck back into the great game we all thought it could be.

Thanks.

Lord_Draevan wrote: »

Looks like no "Road Ahead" today, today's news update is another Loremaster Archive.

Yep time running out, looking doubtful.

Sylvyr wrote: »

I'd like to see a shift in fixing things as opposed to developing new content/looks.

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Drake81 wrote: »

- earnest Templar rework, nut such bad tinckering
- complete WW rework

The change to Puncturing Sweep (Heal) is a great step in the right direction. I'm enjoying my templar again already.

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

sotonin wrote: »

Drake81 wrote: »

- earnest Templar rework, nut such bad tinckering
- complete WW rework

The change to Puncturing Sweep (Heal) is a great step in the right direction. I'm enjoying my templar again already.

The only thing that annoyed me was it was already the templar go to skill. So you buffed. Now it is close to the only templar mandatory skill if you are dps. I know with only 5 spots you cant have an army of dps skills there, but i would have liked another option, not making the one good skill most people used already, even better.

as someone who has played all 4 classes in a effectively identical setup (mage) the perspective on class skills when used by the same build i found that Templar is far from one of the weaker DPS classes, and is in fact one of the best AOE options in the game thanks to several spammable moves, 2 of which is the best ranged AOE spammable move in the game.

I personally don't need a 'Road Ahead' till all the potholes on the road we are on now patched up.

ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »

xy_productions wrote: »

Forum posts make Matt Firor cry, No Road ahead for you!

That made me shoot milk out of my nose from laughing.

Me too, scary thing is I wasn't drinking milk....

Phantax wrote: »

Well according to Mr Firor, we will be getting the next "The Road Ahead" update, blog, thingie this week !

Considering tomorrow is 4th July (pretty important date for the yanks) and basically a holiday all weekend for them, I'm guessing we should hear something today ! ?

As the German CM allready stated out, there won't be anything before the weekend and he allready told this two days ago.