I'm thinking that everything they talked about will be released over the span of a year's time. Some things we will see coming sooner rather than later. We know that the next update is improvements to the player guild system and the new dye system.

We know that the Veteran system overhaul is going to be implemented in three stages. Stage one was already implemented.

We know the next major update after 3 is going to be the final phase of Craglorn.

I think Paul Sage said in an interview that the Imperial City would be coming in before the Dark Brotherhood/ Thieves Guild. We know that the Justice System is planned to be launched around the same time as the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild.

So, yeah, it may be some time next year before we see most of the things they talked about implemented. I would be surprised if we see the new facial animations before spring of next year.

Quakecon is only once a year. Obviously they will show their long term plans and development to the viewer. You can always unsub for a month or two and resub as soon as the content comes you want, entirely your choice.

I do think they will implement the Dark Brotherhood and Thief's Guild before christmas, that will increase sales because people that don't have the game are more likely to buy it over/before christmas so new game changing content will help to boos sales (similar to the expansions that WoW brings out reasonably before christmas).

They also release content every 4-6 weeks. Next content will be dyes, then most likely more craglorn and city of ash. That is 3 updates worth meaning that there is a slot free before christmas. I am fairly certain that a massive update (most likely Justice system, because it is already fairly well developed considering the video) will be out by the end of this year.

They must push the solo PVE zone hard that's a given. Right now they only released raid or dungeon content, so that Casuals need to get something too. The demands for solo PVE at max level is big and as longer they wait as bigger it will get, as more and more Casuals reach VR 10 and are then stuck.

I see it coming in Sep or Oct.

Audigy wrote: »

They must push the solo PVE zone hard that's a given. Right now they only released raid or dungeon content, so that Casuals need to get something too. The demands for solo PVE at max level is big and as longer they wait as bigger it will get, as more and more Casuals reach VR 10 and are then stuck.

I see it coming in Sep or Oct.

It is an MMO. Casuals can also group and quest in Craglorn. It is not that hard...

Or run some VR dungeons with "casuals" - if you finish all 6 once you should be halfway to vr11.

I feel more likely is the coming stuff will be released over the span of a year [give or take] maybe with the exception of the facial recognition stuff [cause that stuffs dope] but hopefully we should see the large bulk of it by April; next year. ZOS have committed themselves to releasing new content once every 6 weeks or so which should mean there will be plenty of stuff to sink your teeth into while waiting for the game changing elements to come into play.

My guesstimate for the next few updates

August - Guild Extravaganza

September (late) - "Upper Craglorn" New 12-Person Trial, 4-Person "Arena" (PvE) and more Craglorn overworld

November - Imperial City (PVP super dungeon) and City of Ash vet dungeon

Christmas/New Year - Consoles, DB, TG complete with justice system.

Having said that, spell crafting looked really far along. Not sure when that drops but I say this year. No new zones until 2015.

Lol....If teso was a car...and all the bugs were recalls...no one would want to buy it. But for some reason gamers support spending money for mistakes and overlooks and just plain dumb moves. I am not saying the game is bad...but face it...If numbers are correct they are making 11 million a month...that is on top of the 50 million from selling the game...and all with the hope the game will get better. I can never understand why gamers are so supportive of unfinished products...teso has been in a 4 month beta. It has taken them 7 years to produce what we have today...and since they clearly avoided time frames...These improvements, that are big, could take years to implement.

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Just out of pure, morbid curiosity, why isn't grouping even an option for you? This is an MMO, after all. You had to anticipate playing with others at some point.

@nerevarine1138
Well, without getting into too much detail. My life revolves around monitoring and caring for a person with a traumatic brain injury. This puts me in a situation of having a LOT of time for gaming, but not a minute of 'free time'.

I can be called upon at any instance to assist them going to the bathroom, or changing the channel, or preventing a seizure. So at any given moment I might have to walk away from the game, even if that means in the middle of a battle. I might be away from the game for 10-15 minutes or more at a stretch.

This doesn't typically work well in groups. I have a couple friends who understand my situation and we do group together frequently. However, they also understand and accept that requirements of my priorities. I certainly am not going to explain this all in detail every time a group needs to be formed.

Most of my games I play with a pause button. Certain MMOs like ESO, and SWTOR do offer up enough solo only content that I can also enjoy without burdening fellow players with my circumstances.

I like that they are offering up a range of content that is going well out into the future. It shows the devs confidence in the game and it's ability to stick around. It also just means that we have that much more to look forward over the course of the next year or so. (And of course, 2015 is only a few months away - we are well over half way through 2014.)

Its really not that much of a time...

Dragon Star Arena should be in update 4.

Paul Sage said he expects phase 2 of the vet changes to be in around update 4, so update 4 or 5 hopefully, update 3 is approx 2 weeks away so update 4 is only about 8 weeks away.

Paul also said

"we've got new sets coming out, we're going to more aggressively populate some of the bosses to where there's a lot of reason to go out and kill different bosses for different set pieces and loot, I think the itemisation plan that the team has been working on is pretty solid, especially coming out around update 4"

The lowered respec cost comes out in update 3.

The weapon caching so that we get instant swapping comes out in update 3.

Falmer wrote: »

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Just out of pure, morbid curiosity, why isn't grouping even an option for you? This is an MMO, after all. You had to anticipate playing with others at some point.

@nerevarine1138
Well, without getting into too much detail. My life revolves around monitoring and caring for a person with a traumatic brain injury. This puts me in a situation of having a LOT of time for gaming, but not a minute of 'free time'.

I can be called upon at any instance to assist them going to the bathroom, or changing the channel, or preventing a seizure. So at any given moment I might have to walk away from the game, even if that means in the middle of a battle. I might be away from the game for 10-15 minutes or more at a stretch.

This doesn't typically work well in groups. I have a couple friends who understand my situation and we do group together frequently. However, they also understand and accept that requirements of my priorities. I certainly am not going to explain this all in detail every time a group needs to be formed.

Most of my games I play with a pause button. Certain MMOs like ESO, and SWTOR do offer up enough solo only content that I can also enjoy without burdening fellow players with my circumstances.

The guilds I have been in both I this game and my previous mmo would be very understanding and very accommodating of your circumstances and be happy to group,

Falmer wrote: »

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Just out of pure, morbid curiosity, why isn't grouping even an option for you? This is an MMO, after all. You had to anticipate playing with others at some point.

@nerevarine1138
Well, without getting into too much detail. My life revolves around monitoring and caring for a person with a traumatic brain injury. This puts me in a situation of having a LOT of time for gaming, but not a minute of 'free time'.

I can be called upon at any instance to assist them going to the bathroom, or changing the channel, or preventing a seizure. So at any given moment I might have to walk away from the game, even if that means in the middle of a battle. I might be away from the game for 10-15 minutes or more at a stretch.

This doesn't typically work well in groups. I have a couple friends who understand my situation and we do group together frequently. However, they also understand and accept that requirements of my priorities. I certainly am not going to explain this all in detail every time a group needs to be formed.

Most of my games I play with a pause button. Certain MMOs like ESO, and SWTOR do offer up enough solo only content that I can also enjoy without burdening fellow players with my circumstances.

Keep up the good work mate.

Falmer wrote: »

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Just out of pure, morbid curiosity, why isn't grouping even an option for you? This is an MMO, after all. You had to anticipate playing with others at some point.

@nerevarine1138
Well, without getting into too much detail. My life revolves around monitoring and caring for a person with a traumatic brain injury. This puts me in a situation of having a LOT of time for gaming, but not a minute of 'free time'.

I can be called upon at any instance to assist them going to the bathroom, or changing the channel, or preventing a seizure. So at any given moment I might have to walk away from the game, even if that means in the middle of a battle. I might be away from the game for 10-15 minutes or more at a stretch.

This doesn't typically work well in groups. I have a couple friends who understand my situation and we do group together frequently. However, they also understand and accept that requirements of my priorities. I certainly am not going to explain this all in detail every time a group needs to be formed.

Most of my games I play with a pause button. Certain MMOs like ESO, and SWTOR do offer up enough solo only content that I can also enjoy without burdening fellow players with my circumstances.

What he just described is also the situation for anyone with young children. That is a whole lot of gamers. You can be called away at any given second, or end up playing uninterrupted for ages, you just never know. It makes committing to a group very hard, unless you just don't give a monkeys about the other players and just afk without saying, no one wants that though.