you must be new here,

what game are you palying? not to be mean, but simply put, they have lied to the player base A LOT, they have clearly screwed us over many times for profit, and have been basically ignoring adding content for the past year.

You never see devs in-game, and you almost never see them on the forums. the only time them or a moderator does something it tends to be well, moderating and getting rid of their posts, or answering small time questions that are really easy to answer, rarely particpating in dsicussion of anything actually big.

@Warden.Commander

I must have vastly different standards or you simply haven't been around long enough to know better. I give ZOS hell for NOT doing nearly everything you've cited as personally satisfactory to you.


• customer support offers cookie cutter answers, and often doesn't have anything but creative ways to say "we're looking into it" or "we don't know" or "it's coming soon" etc.

• ever since the release of the game, I see NO real effort nor improvements. I don't for a moment feel like I am playing an Elder Scrolls game.

• the majority of the community is welcoming, kind and supportive of ESO, but has nothing but frustration, venom, and distain for Zenimax

• the game is neither rich nor deep in any aspect (to some more than others, perhaps). Graphics, colours, music, atmosphere, ambience, world, quests, classes, pvp, pve, system design and many more are on par for a 5 year old game, with no innovations and actual regressions from modern game design.

• the developers avoid a close relationship with the community, never answering questions directly, and not giving community managers enough if any information to answer the questions on their behalf.

• I see GM forum activity most frequently just moderating posts for MALICIOUS CONSPIRACY or other CODE OF CONDUCT violations. Relegating the ACTUAL conversation about ESO to YouTube or third party ESO unofficial forums.

• when the game went B2P and most of us had our concerns, we were totally let down. The game experience is still as it used be, so far, which is a bugged riddled, lag fest with virtually no consideration for balanced gameplay in mind. Without the Crown Store transforming the game into a "keep-bying-to-play" monstrosity, they have adopted a business model that neither sells a service (subscription fee) nor a product (no game extending content being sold), which is possibly the stupidest move I've ever seen a company make since the failure of APB.

• I never see the Devs. showing care for what they have created, as a matter of fact I only notice the ones that have left likely due to wanting to be done with Zenimax and the poor quality standard that name represents (Mr. Nick Konkle for example now is working for a company that kicks ass and takes names, Riot, where a developer of his calibre belongs).


As for RP and the community, I'd have to say those are subjective, but nice in my opinion as well. The community hates ZOS, pretty much across the board, on pretty much every metric one can be mad, but we all seem to hate on them because we love ESO, and know it deserves much better than ZOS's efforts. It's important to note that no matter how bad the game mechanics are, or how little content ZOS adds, or how imbalanced the game is, the RP heavy players will be here long after the rest of us are fed up and long gone. They're the true unassailable die hard fans and if ZOS caters to only one group of players they should cater to them. I will totally write the studio off, and boycott their future products until I see amazing review scores, but a player that's mainly RP will be here till they turn the server off, very dedicated folk them RPers.

Not to rain on your parade, but I question how informed your position is.