/agree I stopped leveling my VR 2 and VR3 toon and have been working on a 3rd to get to 50 before 1.6 comes. What's the point of progressing past VR1 at this point? I want the CP exp when it comes and better to have them at low VR levels so I can do silver and gold after 1.6.

I actually got tired of Cadwells silver anyway so my vet player has been stuck at vr4 for months, so glad all I do is craft with him, and play the game with my alts.

It will be nice to have the 30 cps when 1.6 goes live and still have all the xp I didn't work on yet. I'm guessing when 1.6 goes live a lot of the xp charts will still be broke so the silver and gold missions have the potential to payout a ton of xp to a level 50 character.

There is a LOT of work ahead before VR are completely gone. I'd not worry about it. They need to rescale all equipment, gear, food, drinks, potions, etc. In most areas, it will likely just be a display change. I doubt they are going to remove VR and just leave the game at level 50. Game would be incredibly boring. And I don't believe Cadwell's Silver/Gold is going anywhere. You'll still want to do those.

Aside from PvP, I've pretty much stopped playing. Taking my time playing all the nifty console games that came out over the holidays. Will return on a more day to day schedule once I start getting credit for the things I'm doing.

I'm not waiting til Vet levels go away, I'm just waiting til I get Champion Points for my troubles.

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

snip

I'm really hoping this next update is incredible because I'm at the point now where I'm running out of reasons to play. It amazes me that I'm even saying this because I played Oblivion and Skyrim for years and the expectation should be that an MMO should provide for a much longer playing experience. I do not want to do anything with my alts because I absolutely HATE that I am forced to do the main quests, not once, but three times to even get access to all the shards. At this point I'm feeling that ZOS has failed in this game. The fact that I find single player fantasy RPGs are more entertaining than a just released AAA MMO is telling. So updated 6 had better be killer otherwise I suspect that many will probably jump ship, myself included. There just isn't any reason for me to pay for a game that I have stopped playing. This isn't a /quit post, I'm really just frustrated and disappointed.

I don't think you are alone. I suspect a lot of people are going to be looking at 1.6 as the make-or-break moment. And I think ZOS is well aware of this. I myself will give ZOS one or two patches to fix the inevitable bugs in 1.6.

I like the PvE content. I've done it multiple times, and try it a different way and discover new things each time. If the content isn't appealing, the options are wait for more or try something else. Not sure how playing a game is torture.

Cody wrote: »

1.6 is what will decide if I stay or leave.

If it sucks, I go back to WoW
/awaits insults over the fact I used to play WoW

This is silly.

I could see people saying this about Update 7, but in most ways, Update 6 is an interim update.

lordrichter wrote: »

Cody wrote: »

1.6 is what will decide if I stay or leave.

If it sucks, I go back to WoW
/awaits insults over the fact I used to play WoW

This is silly.

I could see people saying this about Update 7, but in most ways, Update 6 is an interim update.

lets forget the fact it is a major rework of the game, and that many of us have put up with annoying crap for the last 9 months and are losing patience, yes, let's forget that.

I did cadwell's silver and gold on one toon, not really interesting in doing it again but I've been trudging through it with my second one. But yes it's not fun at all.

I will admit that as the game has been currently set up with the issues over ChP and the eventual loss of Veteran Ranks, ZOS has (unintentionally) made all current Veteran Ranked characters more or less useless for further game progression.
However, I heavily disagree that this game has become pointless, boring, and no longer fun. It's a game you guys, look around, there's a ton of stuff to do! If nothing is fun, what's keeping you hear to play it? Are you admitting that you enjoy doing tedious tasks that are not fun?
I stopped playing my Veteran Character for the same reasons as you guys, but I'm not angry or playing the game spitefully. I'm finding entertainment in exploration, I'm looking up away from my mini map and away from quest objectives and roads to find interesting things. I'm treasure chest hunting in level appropriate areas. I'm fishing hoping to get that one rare fish that seems impossible to find. I'm sitting in a single spot and chatting with friends and random people across the zone chat. I'm running over to places I forgot to look for in order to hunt down achievements.
So what, are you saying you've really done everything? Sure I bet you power leveled you're way through everything, but have you guys noticed there are roses that deserve to be sniffed?

A lot of you who seem to be complaining about content, not having things to do, and nothing in the game is fun any more, it sounds like you're part of one of two groups, you're either a person who should not be playing MMO's because it sounds like MMO activities are a chore for you, or you're a person who wants to complain because nothing will ever apply to your standard of ideal game play but you will still play the game anyways if only just to complain about it and act like you're not really enjoying yourselves.

The secret to having fun in MMO's is to take the activities that seem boring or repetitive and spice them up based on what you find fun. Sure you've done every dungeon in the game... but have you done every dungeon in the game naked? Sure you've done a bunch of fishing, but have you ever gotten on the zone chat and set up a large fishing party with a bet as to who can find the rarest fish first? Sure you've tried playing your favorite build against most of the content, but how many times have you built a character with a weird build that just seems fun rather than cookie cutter style? Yeah I bet you talk to members of your guild but how many times have you tried to set up a get together for drinking at the local pub in a random city? How many Hidden Treasure chests have you hunted down? Are you an avid reader, because if you are I bet your Eidetic Memory isn't anywhere near being completely filled up yet.
A lot of MMO playing is building your own adventure, it doesn't even have to be Role Playing. There's just a lot of content in the game that just sits there waiting to be used in some creative and unconventional way, but in order to actually enjoy it you deviate away from the norm and be creative.

Ask yourselves this, if you're not enjoying the game and having fun any more, then why are you here? Are you just some die hard fan that believes that if you take enough personal punishment that things will just magically fix themselves because a Developer must be capable of recognizing your pain?
The moment a game makes me frustrated, I take a break, if the frustration is repeated and unending then I stop playing it, no questions asked. I quit all my previous MMO's this way and I like to think that because my old MMO's punished me, I punished them back by not playing and ending my payment towards their service. That's more than enough punishment for any company, and every little player counts.
However, if you're just complaining and threatening but never actually leaving, then you are paying the company to punish you in hopes that maybe they will eventually feel bad.
Another way to see it is that if you keep participating in the game despite that you don't like it, you're actually hindering the company's growth. How is the company ever going to know that their game is angering people if the people who are angry never stop playing. As long as there is a large enough player base using their services, they're going top think everything is okay even with all the complaints. Sure you can send in angry comments and reviews, but what really speaks is the player population and the amount of money that rolls in from those players.

A lot of people have quit this game with only a couple complaints or sometimes none at all. Those people who have quit have made the perfect point which is, "I believe you guys messed up, thus you have lost my subscription." That's way more than enough to show the company that they need to start making changes or continue to lose players until the game is empty and the company fails.

I personally have found much joy in the game and even with my new alternative characters that I started I'm still finding fresh and new game play as well as I'm always able to find an activity within the game that is considered mundane but I can easily think of something weird or different to add challenge or complexity to the activity.

Every MMO I've played becomes boring if you just constantly play it the way it was designed to be played, material runs out all the time, it's up to you to find a way to recycle the material in order to make it fun for you.

yea remove the Vet ASAP, who cares if Justice system works or not. I dont like the veteran ranks anyways. it's unnecessary and an overflow and the most stupid level *** i ever saw.

I hope the change comes in as soon as possible I do kinda feel like being in limbo at the moment just waiting to find out.

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Volla wrote: »

yea remove the Vet ASAP, who cares if Justice system works or not. I dont like the veteran ranks anyways. it's unnecessary and an overflow and the most stupid level *** i ever saw.

Lets make sure the replacement system works before we get rid of the Vet System.

But you recognize this is something they should put the accelerator all the way to the floor for?