You change your mind like a girl changes clothes. Im trying to not think about what you will be like in a year because its a scary and "time to move on feeling" i get. I remember when Wildstar came out all my friends laughed at how cartoony it was and said eso is the best mmo out and i believed it. Eso does look realistic and the new update has that cool stealth and yes i love using the god laser....but all the same problems in a new system still exist. I always felt the game was clunky and just unattractive to play, but i played on because its elder scrolls and the community we have here. You have a lot of work to do with scaling this game properly and ontop of that, you have the work from before that still needs fixing, and ontop of that youll need to scale the newer system of champion as well. I dont see you doing that as an f2p in any reasonable time and this game will always carry too many problems, it has always had for years to come.

The veteran community in eso is and will always be your last and most loyal customers. I am upset that i cant be one of those veteran loyalist anymore, but i am certain you will have a strong base at least until the console is released and players see your marketing plan differences between con/pc. I have been in many community voice chatrooms for DC and AD since this game was released, and i noticed something interesting, many of these players are here for there friends first and eso second. Its like going to the beach with a football, you are there with your friends but will play ball as a secondary form of fun. Eso is the football. I believe you unkowingly brought many many people together into these rooms and for the future you should focus on building on that. Give people more identity with there friends and im sure youll keep this game up. Otherwise you are going to sink mid 2016, projected based on the competition you have coming by the mid/end of that year. You possibly have an additional year now that the lead designer of EQ next has been booted and the game may not come out or worse... comes out as a corporate greed mongering machine.

I downloaded and played Wildstar and the secret world about a week ago and both games are overrall superior to eso in everything but graphics and brand name. The elder scrolls franshise and the developer name it carries is what stabilizes your player base into staying, in somewhat of a facade fashion. You dont have any more power in keeping this game alive with your powerhouse brand franchise than most other mmos. I did not initially intend to come here to the forums and mention these things when i had unsubbed back in January and then resubbed again like an idiot thinking you had something special coming. I am an upset customer and the human thing to do is try and leave some form of comment to release that disapointed feeling. I played this game since release and learned the classes and learned everything about the game. Now you do a complete overhaul and you did it poorly. I look at my characters and ask "what are you", then after a a while i looked at eso and realized you will never know what you want to be so long as you market for all the wrong factors. You are holding content and timing resources/fixes and making changes based on your f2p model and your console aims. You will always make decisions based on those factors and for this reason plus+you simply dont have the skills in your team needed to make this game fluid and playable (interface and game scaling wise), you will dissapoint players over and over. I dont want to be part of that anymore, i just want to have fun. This game is not fun.

I couldnt stay in TSW because the player base is too small, but i am playing wildstar now. At first i felt like such a fake after having said so many negative things about it. The game really does have an appeal to it when you see the difference in clunky eso versus the fluid movements of wildstar. The game is a cartoon but what i learned about it is; that its because it doesnt take itself serious, its just trying to have fun in an exciting fashion. I believe eso takes itself too serious because of the franchise history, so you lack the ability to create fun events for holidays and do wild and exciting things. In some ways, the community has followed suit with you or maybe you just attracted very serious and uninteresting people. The kind who are shelled up in rp elitism and the kind who farm alliance points in cyrodiil all day with tailored made groups using players for specific builds and blob effects. Its little things like a feature that gives someone emperorship that drives players to be this machinist and impersonable. You never equalized this with something fun for those who want to really have fun. You made more trials instead and put a timer for competition, something that the elite guilds here on the forums have been blatantly observed creating drama and fighting about regularly. These type of features are not unique to mmo's..but eso has had a way of making it uncomfortable when everyone thinks they are at war with eachother, even allies. Those of you who are pvp guild leaders and officers know exactly what im talking about when you spend so much time downing fellow ally players and their guilds in order to promote your own guilds and give yourselves identity. You arent to blame, eso never gave you a reason to actually like anyone, even your own faction.

The good news is that lesser mmos have failed and are still around today. Only a few have actually completely closed their doors. The bad news is that this game cant afford a smaller player base. Its built to big for it, especially cyrodiil. Imagine a supermetropolis city built and only housing a few thousand people. This is already happening right now and has been for quite a long time. Eso has put out so much in a year in sloppy fashion, craglorn and its populace is a good example of my point. The game never had a big suscriber base and i dont think the console market is going to bite the way zeni is hoping. Anyway, thanks again for the stealth and the god laser and making Dk squishy. You made my templar happy for 5 minutes and my Dk...well lets not talk about DK lol. Wildstar until eq next until black desert or bust.