"Performance Issues"

synnerman · April 2015

I have once again logged off Thornblade EU due to "Performance Issues". This is beyond a joke now as the lag ie pings in the multiples of 1000s is happening at every single keep contest.
I really like the way you say "performance issues" as if its something small...its not , its absolutely ridiculous and is making PvP unplayable. These Issues need addressing now not when you've finished getting the console ready because to be honest looking at zone chat and my various guild chats the console customers will be the only ones you will be catering for in PvP at this rate.
Its an absolute disgrace that after 12 months that this games PvP performance is worse than its ever been apart from the 5fps debacle.

ThyIronFist · April 2015

Yup and that is why I won't bother with this game anymore.

Pointless having paid for a product that doesn't work, it frustrates me and I'm having more fun playing other stuff. I thought they could fix the lag to some extent, but it's obvious they can't. In fact they've done the opposite.

Also, ZOS abandoned Cyrodiil, and after beta testing and playing since launch... by this point I dont ever think they'll get it right. And content wise you wont see Imperial City after "console release settled down".

Brian Wheeler and the server engineers seem to be on vacation again, such hard working men deserve another 6-month holiday for sure!

skarvika · April 2015

Yep...been playing since beta. It's never been this bad. I can't believe that a triple-A company like Zenimax which has developed 2 of the biggest modern day game franchises, TES and Fallout, can't seem to allot the resources to be able to have all areas of the game be at least somewhat playable.

LameoveR · April 2015

Zenimax didn't develop TES and Fallout franchises, FYI. It bought them both.

skarvika · April 2015

LameoveR wrote: »

Zenimax didn't develop TES and Fallout franchises, FYI. It bought them both.

The have owned the rights to TES for 13 years and Fallout for 7.
Okay, so Bethesda developed the games. Zenimax owns Bethesda. Was it really necessary to nitpick that?
Either way, at this point, games with the Zenimax brand have a certain expectation of quality to live up to and there's no reason they shouldn't be able to at least make things a little more stable.

ItsRejectz · April 2015

It's obvious that what they wanted from PvP was to ambitious and they can't deliver it, without performance issues anyway.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · April 2015

They were able to deliver on their promises with their original network code. Sadly, that code was exploitable and basically allowed free roam for all kinds of cheaters and bots. After they added server checks and server intervention on things like collision detection and damage computations, bots and cheating hackers have become more or less extinct, but the game has been struggling to support large groups in Cyrodiil. The servers seem unable to keep up with the increased workload, and fixing that would likely involve quite a lot of recoding. It's not even certain that it can be fixed. The computations and the communications could be too much to handle now that they have been forced to redesign their game to basically remove all the remote processing on the clients, or at least duplicate a lot of it on the server and do double checks all the time.

LameoveR · April 2015

skarvika wrote: »

Okay, so Bethesda developed the games. Zenimax owns Bethesda. Was it really necessary to nitpick that?

Bethesda developed TES in 1994, Zenimax bought Bethesda in 1999.
Fallout was developed in 1997 by completely different studio. You didn't play Fallout, for sure. You played Oblivion in Fallout's setting.

skarvika wrote: »

Either way, at this point, games with the Zenimax brand have a certain expectation of quality to live up to and there's no reason they shouldn't be able to at least make things a little more stable.

Expectations of quality is only what we have. Expectations.