I've been with this game since open beta. I think it's safe to say I was quite patient with all the issues the game has had since launch. For a brief time I was a member of an open source MMO developer team so I get it - a game this massive is not the same as making Tetris or PacMan or even Skyrim for that matter.

Now after 6 months of playing my character has hardly any achievements left to do except fishing and PvP rank - and I know many (if not most) players are in that position. Sadly, PvP seems to be the most under appreciated and looked at (by ZOS developers) feature of the game. My conclusion is only based on what we've got in game, not what developers are claiming.

I've lost the willpower to restart my client every few minutes due to Cyrodiil crashes to desktop introduced with the update 1.4. On top of that - spells not rendering, sounds not playing... etc. I'm not going to count them all here since the whole forum is raging about it, and even I myself made the list of bugs.

After last Friday, I pretty much stopped playing the game after getting annoyed with crashes to desktop and massive Thornblade EU lag spikes.

Today, after update 1.4.7. I gave it another try - only to discover a new graphic bug with igneus shield rendering (you get two layers while riding a horse - big rocks below, small ones around character) - not a big deal, but come on it's version 1.4.7. Then, I really wanted to save a bunch of players but I couldn't save them due to the damn "Can't swap weapons right now" - by the time I realized it and hit ESC->ESC they were dead. I managed to escape the group. One of them found me but couldn't seem to scratch my nightblade - and I'm pretty sure I know why (see next).

Then I played my main character who is a DK. Generally doing OK as usual. Also, to be noted, I haven't had a single crash after 1.4.7. update. Then I saw a nightblade annoying another allied player. I rushed in to help and then started to take ridiculous amounts of damage for some reason. The enemy NB clearly wasn't that good, and wasn't doing much except blocking and an occasional Funnel Health - only to discover after death I was clearly standing in his invisible veil of blades the whole time (so, veil of blades didn't render - other examples: soul strike or bat swarm).

I don't mind getting killed, but seriously - COME ON. This clearly isn't my PC issue - I'm a 3D professional running a high end PC and the whole forum has been complaining for weeks about spells not rendering and other stuff.

I've decided to stay away from Cyrodiil until the next patch because I don't want to participate in something I can not enjoy. But my question to customer support: how soon can we hope for a proper PvP fix? I've read the update 5 report and I didn't see anything about crashes, lag or rendering issues.

If I can't enjoy PvP anymore there's hardly anything left for me to do, and if I'm forced to stay away from PvP - what's the purpose of extending my subscription? As before, I'll gladly help with hunting bugs if there's anything on my end I can do.