Asherons_Call wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

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I may come off as heartless or rude but the reality is, this feature was very clearly stated as not being on consoles prior to release so even for those who pre-ordred, they had ample time (over 45 days) to cancel.

It was not clearly stated. Do you think if they put on the box ( voice chat only, no pesky text chat, no pesky numbers such as XP gain or damage, gamer tag names displayed, etc etc etc) that a MMO gamer would pick this up?

For the average gamer (one that picks up the game at their local store or online), very few will research every aspect of the game prior to ordering it. Most people pick it up and play it. The draw for ESO is the fact that it is elder scrolls and an MMO. Delving further, anyone that has played an MMO expect certain common elements that should exist in all MMOs regardless of platform. Many people including myself were blind sighted by the lack of text chat (among other things). I suppose new players used to the single player genre and haven't touched an MMO wouldn't know the difference and are blissfully unaware

It's extremely clear if any potential buyer seeks before they buy
https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26768/kw/Text chat

And many as well as myself kept an updated thread that began months prior to console beta on this thread.
Later that info was posted on the Xbox forums under this game prior to release

I saw a lot of articles on gaming sites, social media pages, as well as Twitter and Facebook official and non-official pages for this game. Even comments on sites that sold the game where comments are allowed about a product have this

Regarding any persons decisions to buy, make assumptions and not be throrough before investing in a product....we all live and learn.

Regarding you and other players feeling indifferent about the feature....if something like this is important to you or anyone else, it should drive interest to research and confirm before you buy

There are features many of us wanted this game to have but ZOS felt otherwise. It's not worth a petition, or creating many threads about after we had official responses to each feature. You buy or choose not to and move on but the cool thing here is that PC offers both game pad and text chat

Alec508 wrote: »

Lightninvash wrote: »

Alec508 wrote: »

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

Alec508 wrote: »

zornyan wrote: »

Justice31st wrote: »

No, why would I want to have a keyboard on my lap on the couch. If you want use a desk then play the PC version.

Obvious troll is obvious, I play eso on my pc in the living room, right next to it is my ps4, I sit in the same position and use a controller for both, or is it too hard to fathom the idea of a keyboard just sitting to the side for when you need it?

Not a troll. He is right. If you want text support then play the PC version. This is the console version

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so you had 3 ps 4s that's kinda a waste tbh just cus you had 3 of them it still counts as 1 console and xbox is ur second one haha

p.s. neverwinter is an mmo so id warframe and both have text chat and voice
not to mention the fact that there is the companion app for swift typing of messages that doesn't cost a dime and I don't know anyone who don't have a smart phone anymore

I never played never winter so I wouldn't know. Only played war frame on the ps4 and I didn't like it. And about me owning 3 ps4s I didn't buy 3 at a time I kept selling it when I needed the money and selling it back. And what do you mean that only counts as 2 consoles? How many are there? If you mean last gen , then yeah who hasn't owned a 360 or PS3? I don't get why that has anything to do with it. And a phone app is not logical. I don't even like using my phone to find sky shards never mind using it constantly to talk to each other

then that is you being too stubborn to use the tools available to you. not everyone is that way they would rather use them.

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NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

So @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_RichLambert or anyone from Zenimax for that matter what's the official word here? Is it possible? Is it not possible? Is bread conspiring with pie?

This was addressed many many months ago in two different ESO Live episodes in my signature and months later in the ESO Live chat by Jessica Folsom..... please check out the two ESO Live episodes to gather the full context of why this feature was removed by ZOS during development and why they do not want to provide this for consoles.
ESO Live 4-24-15, ESO Live 6-4-15

September ESO Live in chat was written "ZOS_Jessica_Folsom: For those asking about text chat on console, we do see all the requests for it (on our forums, social media channels, reddit, etc.), but we don't have anything new to share about the topic."

Well it has been a few months since September so there is always the chance something may have changed lol and if not they can give us the same message Jessica did then