Thanks for the AUA Gina. Also thanks for doing it in the "evening" when more can attend. Hope to see a lot of you there.Also come join our awesome Reddit Community:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/

Dominoid wrote: »

Thanks for the AUA Gina. Also thanks for doing it in the "evening" when more can attend. Hope to see a lot of you there.Also come join our awesome Reddit Community:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/

The reddit ESO community is just fantastic. Thanks for announcing this, Gina! Look forward to seeing you guys there!

Don't understand why developers with there own websites/forums only discuss their games on Reddit.

Bungie is the same way. Get gud guys.

SneaK wrote: »

Don't understand why developers with there own websites/forums only discuss their games on Reddit.

Bungie is the same way. Get gud guys.

This is a closed forum for players only. If you ever want to see this game reach beyond its current footprint, things like this need to occur OUTSIDE this forum.

Orsinium released like 2 weeks ago or more. Can we have a Thieves Guild one instead? Go on!

Dominoid wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

Don't understand why developers with there own websites/forums only discuss their games on Reddit.

Bungie is the same way. Get gud guys.

This is a closed forum for players only. If you ever want to see this game reach beyond its current footprint, things like this need to occur OUTSIDE this forum.

Hahaha, yea, they should occur here too.

EST boo! I won't be home till 6:00 MST... why do you have to be in the future?

FWIW Orsinium has rekindled my love for this game, and I don't want it to end! I'm enjoying every story, and really trying to take my time.

Now for a few questions since I will miss the AMA:

1. Would you ever consider bundling DLC for a holiday promo?
2. Will we ever be able to purchase new mounts and costumes in game, or will they always be cash shop exclusives?
3. How do you think the success of Orsinium compares to that of The Imperial City?

Bit of background on the IC vs. Orsinium question- I for one did not purchase IC due to this comment:

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »
I've seen this mentioned a few times in various threads now, so i'll clarify some here. Imperial City is meant for the PVP player - it's their turn for some love. If you love PVE and are clamoring for more of that type of content, the Orsinium DLC will be exactly what you want.

Now that a lot of time has passed, you've been able to collect and analyze player feedback, I'd like to know if you still feel IC is for PVP only players. From a marketing perspective (and the overwhelming amount of PVE content in IC) I simply don't understand why this was said. I'm still curious about it all these months later, and would reconsider purchase if the Creative Director has reconsidered his stance on IC is for PVP only players.

Daenerys wrote: »

EST boo! I won't be home till 6:00 MST... why do you have to be in the future?

FWIW Orsinium has rekindled my love for this game, and I don't want it to end! I'm enjoying every story, and really trying to take my time.

Now for a few questions since I will miss the AMA:

1. Would you ever consider bundling DLC for a holiday promo?
2. Will we ever be able to purchase new mounts and costumes in game, or will they always be cash shop exclusives?
3. How do you think the success of Orsinium compares to that of The Imperial City?

Bit of background on the IC vs. Orsinium question- I for one did not purchase IC due to this comment:

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »
I've seen this mentioned a few times in various threads now, so i'll clarify some here. Imperial City is meant for the PVP player - it's their turn for some love. If you love PVE and are clamoring for more of that type of content, the Orsinium DLC will be exactly what you want.

Now that a lot of time has passed, you've been able to collect and analyze player feedback, I'd like to know if you still feel IC is for PVP only players. From a marketing perspective (and the overwhelming amount of PVE content in IC) I simply don't understand why this was said. I'm still curious about it all these months later, and would reconsider purchase if the Creative Director has reconsidered his stance on IC is for PVP only players.

I have to agree about the city part. As a player that took his sweet time before purchasing (and purposely avoided too much knowledge about it) its really not what I expected. I had based my expectations on official releases.

Im well versed in PvE and I gotta say the city feels a lot like PvE for me. My points would be: I purposely avoid crowded servers as I know there is no real reward for killing players. At this time in IC the few players in IC that are looking to be found are killers, they wont be having any TV stones. Those like myself, that are there to grind, are so few in number we wont be found on any consistent basis. I guess a long winded way of saying its unrewarding to look for players. There is huge insensitive to find a good location and grind (and if you take this away then you really would kill IC) and never go more than 1/10 of the map.

Just real quick, a very easy and great fix would be an automatic reward for killing players. This would encourage a lot of activity as players fighting each other would produce great numbers of TV stones and incentives to return and get vegence and the return of said stones plus the auto reward. This would result in more fighting. And yes I can think of an exploit now, but you could have a set amount of times players can kill each other, make it an odd number so tv stones have to exchange hands.

Edit: destruction of wall o' words.

BlackEar wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

Don't understand why developers with there own websites/forums only discuss their games on Reddit.

Bungie is the same way. Get gud guys.

It is way of showing interest in different communities surrounding this game and a nice gesture from Zenimax.

Besides, the reddit community is far more friendly and constructive than the official forums. It is easier to facilitate a good discussion there than on here.

But they show little to now interest in THIS community... the OFFICIAL community @BlackEar. And I would argue that whatever animosity or disgruntled behavior that exists on this forum stems from being stepped over time and time again for the Reddit community.

Gidorick wrote: »

BlackEar wrote: »

SneaK wrote: »

Don't understand why developers with there own websites/forums only discuss their games on Reddit.

Bungie is the same way. Get gud guys.

It is way of showing interest in different communities surrounding this game and a nice gesture from Zenimax.

Besides, the reddit community is far more friendly and constructive than the official forums. It is easier to facilitate a good discussion there than on here.

But they show little to now interest in THIS community... the OFFICIAL community @BlackEar. And I would argue that whatever animosity or disgruntled behavior that exists on this forum stems from being stepped over time and time again for the Reddit community.

This has a lot to do with it yes...again it should occur here first....then on Reddit.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

As @dominoid mentioned, we plan these AMAs on Reddit because anyone can join and ask questions. In order to participate on the official forums, you must have purchased the game and have an account. There's no secret agenda - just want to make sure everyone has the option to join in.

This is a decent explanation for offering an AmA on Reddit if you did this in ADDITION to the official forums. But a when you consider it doesn't occur here....it's alienates your LOYAL customers by giving people who don't play this game this opportunity BEFORE your actual customers.

The fact is forcing your actual customers to participate in Reddit to even get this opportunity is BS, when they are the ppl who play and pay your salaries, for this game and you guys have an official forum. Do it here, then do it on Reddit.

I realize this is more work for you guys, and maybe Dominoid is doing most of the leg work on this, which is why it occurs this way. Doing it here would require you guys to organize it and maybe you're not equipped to that at this time and that's ok, but I feel we deserve more of a reason why this isn't occuring. I assume it's easier for you to just show up on Reddit when asked to be there by whoever organized it.

I hate to be so critical on this, but it really irks me this doesn't happen here first.

@ZOS_ZebCook In today's Reddit forum (I won't be able to attend), could you (or Mike Finnigan) please speak to the number (or percentage) of active accounts on PC that have characters that have completed veteran Maelstrom Arena, and is the Zenimax team happy with that number? What is the target percentage of accounts that ZOS would like to see completing veteran Maelstrom Arena (and over what time period)?

Thanks

I just want to post here real quick, but Gina, right now I feel a lot of people in this community on the official forums feel ignored. At best we seem to get a chance during ESO Live to have a question get a solid answer beyond a flat out no (random questions like work place dog practices excluded). The dev to player communications have improved but there has been so much silence the community doesn't get the feedback it needs to stay constructive.

You remember the thread about the meeting that was closed because of how volatile it got? I knew in the past these meetings happened, but where on earth do I learn about them, what happened, who was there, what was said? I feel like i've been kept in the dark and am not even worth the time to be given a shred of information. That is why this community is so quick to argue, it is the only thing we are really able to without knowing what is going on. So please, for how nice it is that people who don't own the game can talk in the reddit ama, please try to have more active communications here as well, this coming AMA and ESO Live will decide a lot which direction I see the communication for this game going.

If anyone's looking for the answers, try these:
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_MattF
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_RichLambert
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_JaredCarr
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_BradDerrick
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_eWrobel
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_Finnigan
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_ZebCook
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_Bill_Slavicsek
https://www.reddit.com/user/ZOS_GinaBruno

... 90% of which is future-related, not Orsinium-related :-( Not that I mind informations regarding "the Road Ahead" but I'd have loved more "behind-the-scenes" info about Orsinium/Wrothgar... I got my questions answered, but with a "can't tell too much / cannot spoil"... So the actual topic cannot be talked about in details because of potential spoilers ??? :-(