Havent had time to read it yet but bookmarked for later.


Does it cover how they got a grant from the Irish goverment, got a massive complex, hired ~400 boys then sacked them all 6 months later?. Still considered as a scam move by the Irish and company doesnt have a good reputation here )

I dont mind them being quiet on many issues but there is a clear lack of transparency with Z0$. Almost every time i see this trait in a company it is usually because they withhold information that would be damaging to them, mainly because of incompetence or inability to deal with the problem. That is no excuse though.


Like detailed before, no transparency on cheating. They stated ~50 people banned for using cheat engine. 2 years people using CE and 50 people banned is a laughable number. Then most recently, cant name and shame, but the player 'won' a dueling tourney in EU. He was banned for using Cheat Engine, though a lot knew he was, then his ban was rescinded 2 weeks later and he is back playing.

How many gimps will that now attract to using Cheat Engine?. A lot. Does Z0$ comment on this, no. There is no excuse why a player using 3rd party software, to impact others game by blatantly cheating, would be allowed back in. I heard he spends a lot though lol


Now im seeing more and more botting and multiboxing.

Should i waste my play time reporting them? No.

Do i have any confidence that if i did it would be taken seriously?. No.

Only 1 out of over 10 support tickets was addressed properly, damn if i am going to squander more playtime policing their game for them.

I don't know what to think about it. I have heard about Skyrim, that it was an attempt to bring Morrowind system back, but less complicated, so what kind of games they were thinking that Elderscrolls are? The system of 3 alliances is the system taken from Camelot, what I have heard, so what Skyrim has to do with that? Also the statement about the only MMO were WoW and Camelot? What about LOTRO or AoC, which were really good RPG MMOs?
And my biggest complains were always - lack of small skill based factions and the possibility to join one or another, system of professions (like bards, soldiers) and a lack of character creation freedom - the 4 classes don't fit TES games. And I have heard it was different before, but they changed it to worse. And the skills were cut off because of consoles, even though it didn't have to be only 5 and less skills...

But if I should thank for the idea of One Tamriel to Pete Hines and his son, that is quite new to me, so well thank you!

I had a good laugh when they said something about "when Skyrim came out and everything went out the window."

Oh so true you can see it on release how fracked the developers were. Really had to feel sorry for the Zenimax developers and just shows how awesome the Bethesda Developers were and did their jobs.

Lysette wrote: »

The whole story in the article tells, that they were always behind and not at the pulse of what customers want and expect. And this is still ongoing. They still do not get, that if they would make a good game, which appeals to many, they would not need abusive methods to get to their money, because people would freely spend money on amazing game content - but what do they do instead?- Go for systems, which are made to drain people's wallets with abusive methods, like these RNG boxes - it is really a shame.

So true. How ironic being a single player person if in the next two weeks I start getting issues like a lot of single players in here, I will be cancelling my subscription AGAIN and going back to Skyrim once again.

So it's twice that it will screw ESO. At least from my end.

Lysette wrote: »

@Davor what exactly is your current problem?- Is it One Tamriel?

He said that he would stop playing ESO and go back to the (arguably second) worst game that Bethesda has put out, a game that can hardly be called competent by any stretch of the imagination in terms of gameplay, writing, and innumerable other factors that almost constantly get ignored because of the sheer hype machine that Skyrim was.

Or in other words, he likes painfully mediocre games. Best not give that one any more attention.

Lysette wrote: »

Well, it is hard to talk about Skyrim, because we have basically all played a different kind of Skyrim due to those mods we installed. There is not really a common ground, because IMO most will not have played Skyrim in vanilla in full, but sooner or later added mods to it and then it becomes a personalized game and is no longer vanilla Skyrim.

I agree, but I think that kind of applies to most moddable games. Heck, it even applies to ESO, to a large extent. Do you know how much easier things got once I installed the Minimap?

The issue with Skyrim is simply that it brought in a zillion new players, many of whom don't really have that good a grasp of game design (and not like, "hurr hardcore vs casuals", that kind of talk is just silly), so a lot of Skyrim's questionable decisions were overlooked by these new players, who were - let's face the unfortunate truth here - an extremely large part of the game's playerbase. They didn't have any other experiences to really compare it to, most of them were new to the series. I've met a lot of people who moved on to the previous games and then started to notice how... stilted Skyrim is, to put it one way. No amount of mods can fix the engine's lack of dynamism and the way so many mechanics clash or trip over each other.

(Also I don't mean to sound as harsh on Skyrim as I am - I still think it's okay and put a lot of hours into it. It's just... painfully cardboard, if that makes any sense. From what I hear FO4 has the same problem, and everyone stopped playing it after three months and went back to New Vegas.)

So like, when I read this article, if anything I'm rather pleased with a number of things it says. I do think that ZOS probably has issues with transparency, and there's other little issues that are here and there, but by and large I'm glad that they decided to go the route they did.

Lysette wrote: »

@Davor what exactly is your current problem?- Is it One Tamriel?

Right now I have no problem. As a single player person, I keep reading stories that it's hard to play single player now. Bosses are so much harder and you must need partners to keep continuing. As a single player if I can't complete the quests alone then the game is not for me. But I will try it out. So far so good for me at level 10. So will wait and see if this is true or not.

If true, I will spend all my time on the new Skyrim Remastered Special Edition. If not true, I will keep continuing playing both then.

Davor wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

@Davor what exactly is your current problem?- Is it One Tamriel?

Right now I have no problem. As a single player person, I keep reading stories that it's hard to play single player now. Bosses are so much harder and you must need partners to keep continuing. As a single player if I can't complete the quests alone then the game is not for me. But I will try it out. So far so good for me at level 10. So will wait and see if this is true or not.

If anything I actually kind of feel the opposite, at least to an extent. Granted, I've blown most of my new-character's skill points on Thieves Guild/Legerdemain passives instead, so combat is a bit more painful for poor old Jah'zaan, but on the whole combat is arguably about as normal as its ever been. By comparison, combat for my Champion main is much, much better, and it's very easy to solo the veteran areas as long as I eat some health food for the dungeon/quest bosses. The only things I can't handle are group dungeons or world bosses (and dolmens, obviously), and there's always people hanging around to grind those no matter where I go.

Like, I was expecting the level scaling to be a pain, and on some level I'm still not sure about it, but the other updates did a lot to alleviate the problems it brought. It still screws up the story progression, but I guess if you want to do Reaper's March first and Auridon last, then you can, even if the story doesn't adapt to it.

Very great read!

Love the transformation of ESO!

I remember seeing the game two years ago and I thought it wouldn't be fun... I then got the game two years later on March of 2016.... and boy, I fell in love with the game... One of the best games I've played over the years