It'll be nice to play ESO from the couch for a change

because they need to keep the content for there next quakecon

@Sirston I think it would be pretty funny if for this year's Quake Con, they just re-released the same video from last year :P

EJRose83 wrote: »

It'll be nice to play ESO from the couch for a change

With a wireless keyboard and mouse and 25 foot USB cord extension for my controller, I already play ESO while sitting on my sofa. I love the fact PCs have HDMI connections and my tv has 4 inputs.

They probably keeping stuff hush hush for E3 or they do want fans yo be hype up about dlc and it getting delayed. You players would outrage if that happen.

Didn't they say somewhere that we wouldn't get any major new content until after console release?

I would guess if that's the case they don't see the point in hyping just yet, after June we will no doubt hear about the new content coming to us.

All focus is on the console version bud you see the market for the elder scrolls series is 86 percent console for skyrim so that is where the big money is. They must do what they must to make sure the the release goes well console side and i wouldn't expect dlc for at least a month after as well.

Skyrim units sold in the first 48 hours 3,500,000
Skyrim units sold in the first week release 7,000,000
Skyrim sales in the first week of release $450,000,000
Total Skyrim units sold 23,270,000
Total Skyrim sales revenue $1,390,000,000
Average user review rating 92 / 100
Highest number of concurrent players on Steam 320,000
Skryim Sales By Platform
XBox 360 59 %
Playstation 3 27 %
PC 14 %

So you can see that the console release is really important to them but it should be important to you as well.
Because the income from the consoles is expected to be much more than the pc version thats alot of money to go towards say more devs to push content and bring the rest up ready for release.

Hope this helps:)

EJRose83 wrote: »

@Sirston I think it would be pretty funny if for this year's Quake Con, they just re-released the same video from last year :P

To be fair, at least the new facial expressions made it into the game, so they'll only have 90% of the footage to reuse.

EJRose83 wrote: »

They should advertise the heck out of all of the upcoming stuff, IMO.

I will tell you what is going to happen and why you can wait another year for new content:

In June Console release, after that they will be fixing bugs/loading screens/Disconnects and all other kind of stuff they dealed with the past year on PC again on CONSOLE. So prolly will take them another year while we will not see any new content

Why are the devs so silent in regards to upcoming content lately?

Because all they are focused on atm is console release. Then they intend to let the game "breathe" (yeah, their words) awhile before adding ANY new content. Ostensibly this is so the shiny new console crowd can have time to play through all the existing content that will be new to THEM while us PC folk languish. One HOPES they'll be using this "breathing" time to eventually FIX the very many things that are wrong with this game, both large and small, and won't just end up endlessly hot fixing issues caused by the console release.

My money is on no new content until at least Xmas time.

EJRose83 wrote: »

They should advertise the heck out of all of the upcoming stuff, IMO.

Because they have nothing being release for several months. Many people I play with are quitting / already quit because of this. I an more new to veteran ranks than they were, so I am lingering still. They tell me the content has been stagnant and boring with nothing new to do.

In days to come scholars will write of the Great Content Drought of Tamriel. When silence scourged the land and the people logged on mostly to keep an eye on their crafting research and feed their horses.

A great hero did eventually emerge from either The Imperial City or Wrothgar and for a while the people were happy again.

The land and the people did recover eventually but not without great loss as content thirsty citizens sailed away to other lands - some never to return.

That one is easy : because they cannot announce anything until they are absolutely sure

1/ that they will implement it
2/ how they will implement it, in details
3/ when they will implement it

Otherwise people will bombard them with questions / requests / complaints to which they will get no answers which in turn will lead to more QQ and ZOS-bashing.

Furthermore, if any change happens between announcement and actual release, (some) people will again call ZOS liars and manipulative. People tend to take annoucements and advertising like promises, commitment if not plain contracts.

And for now they CANNOT guarantee that future content will be exactly as planned since they obviously first have to see how the game is doing on consoles, and get the feedback and expectations of the console crowd - which might be quite different from the PC crowd. Financial aspects are also to be taken into account : size and timetable of future content could just as well depend on how much income is provided by console release, which can be anything from far less than expected up to much more than expected. Technical aspects too : if future content is meant to be played by (let's say) 100 000 players, server requirements are not the same as for, (let's say) 1 000 000 players and this might also impact the size and complexity of further content.

In the meantime, there is absolutely nothing else ZOS can do except keeping silent, because they don't know themselves exactly what, how and when new stuff will come into the game.