Dear Developers,

Hello, I have played and loved your game since the first beta, bought both an XBox & PS4 just to try your game on the consoles and loved it. I was about to begin creating a console PvP music video since my last one was so well received on the community and features on your website, Facebook and Twitter. I have kept 2 accounts actively subscribed to you until today, and want to ask you to reconsider a decision I read which finally made me unsubscribe and lose my monetary contributions and public community endorsements as a streamer and social media content creator.

Please do not remove Former Emperor buffs from PvP. You made us a promise that we would have permanent state increases for the rest of our character lives if we achieved that feat. I have, and I am asking you now to make good on that promise. I was the leader of two guilds in SWTOR, and because of the Emperor system whereby one player could achieve a permanent state increase I decided that this was a better place and 350 members came with me as Exceptional Legion. From a combination of Twitch and Twitter I have over 20,000 followers and both my stream and website have been viewed over 100,000 times. My Tweet request to @TESOnline to not do this has already gotten over 100 Retweets in 24 hours. As a live streamer I have been told by dozens and dozens of people that I have been the deciding factor on their subscription, and their purchase of your game for PC, Xbox and PS4.

I have never before openly asked a game to reconsider a decision because I know you have the hardest job of all by trying to balance what is perceived as "fair" to thousands of people who can't agree on anything. I do not envy your position, though I do think you are making a huge mistake.

Removing Former Emperor buffs is a slap in the face of those most diligent in paying you and loving your game. Those who changed their lives to achieve what you said they could have, in a system which you created to allow for these permanent state increases. In my opinion you made a mistake by introducing less than 30 day campaigns in which "Emperor Farming" could exist, it took me over 5 weeks of playing nearly 20 hours a day, being awake for 37 hours before finally getting Emperor on Auriels Bow. There were ONLY 8 Emperors for DC in Auriels Bow and I was 2 of them. You created a system where through tremendous challenges a player could shine, but then, catering to the whining unpaying masses, you cheapened that system with 5 day and nonvet and everything else which created this fopaa of Emperor farming. Now that there are thousands who have gotten it with insignificant effort the undedicated masses are again calling for change, and you are considering catering to their whims.

The problem with this is that the 2% is not game breaking, Dev Cyrodiil Pickle I still would have killed you before you got an attack on me during the Dev test without the 2%. The problem is that the player base, who LOVES YOU, can no longer trust you. I am a player who would probably be here for 10 years, getting all my characters on both accounts to V14 and eventually getting 3600 Champion Points...except one thing, I do not trust that once I do that, it'll still be there for me. I now see that, IF you go through with removing Former Emperor buffs, you are a game that says "Oh people think the strong and strong, okay now they can't be strong anymore" irrespective of the work they put in to use the system you gave us. I do not believe that when I hit 3600 CP, they will be there, I don't think you'll allow that "imbalance" because you are setting a precedent now that disintegrates the bases from which players build, the trust that they can log in and advance their character. Those that dislike a 2% increase are the fly by night players that play a game during release hype and never look back.

You are considering violating the trust of those of us who are long term lovers and players of your games that do not want to leave, but will, if you prove we cannot trust you.

With that trust of character advancement gone, your game will perish and your funds will dry up like the flesh of a careless youth who never thought of the future and woke up old and said "I am frail and dying. Where has my vitality gone all there years?" You are consuming your own community by this vampiric decision in the same way a man with hunger eats his own limbs rather than reach for food. However, you now have the moment right now to became a beacon of light to MMOs and to the community which WILL support you and raise you up if you do not remove the very legs they stand on.

I am already being asked which game I will go to so that my viewers and friends can leave with me. I do not want to leave, I love this game and what you've done to it, please do not go back on your word to use by removing permanent state increases while inside PvP. Here is the segment of my live stream when I discovered you were making these changes, my reaction, and the Twitch chat reaction who believed I am overly justified and still showing considerable restraint. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6SZdRwgFo

My name is Blade Boques and both my accounts are @BoquesBlade and @BladeBoques. If the forum community manager who reads this would like to allow for an in person meeting I will go to your headquarters in Rockville MD, my expenses, and explain my concerns and discuss this further in person to your boss.

- Blade Boques
- Twitter @BladeBoques
- Twitch.tv/BladeBoques
- Youtube.com/BladeBoques
- ExceptionalLegion.com