ESO 'Special Holiday' Live

altemriel · December 2016

any news to housing?

NewBlacksmurf · December 2016

altemriel wrote: »

can anyone share the youtube link to that video please?

@altemriel
There's two posts with photos.
That's a short version of the hours all together. That's it. No dialogue

No new info so to speak either. Some comments were made via text in the chat log but it's largely around the items on the screen. See the photos

altemriel · December 2016

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

altemriel wrote: »

can anyone share the youtube link to that video please?

@altemriel
There's two posts with photos.
That's a short version of the hours all together. That's it. No dialogue

No new info so to speak either. Some comments were made via text in the chat log but it's largely around the items on the screen. See the photos

what? no new info? no Q&A? nothing about storage or prices????

Pallmor · December 2016

altemriel wrote: »

what? no new info? no Q&A? nothing about storage or prices????

At the beginning of the Stream, Gina said they were still trying to decide on pricing.

NewBlacksmurf · December 2016

@altemriel
If they did I missed it in the chat

That is a huge pet leave of mine.....they allow too much garbage so why they were responding in chat vs popping it up on the screen. IDK but all I saw were responses to things like...

Hey Gina or Jessica, can you put a sweet roll on that table or the floor or the ceiling
-Yes

Hey Gina or Jessica, can we sit in that big throne chair?
-maybe

Hey Gina or Jessica, can you .....some item on the screen....
-yes or it was ignored

Nothing was responded to or show outside of completely random items that all exist in the game now. Nothing other than what appeared to be a reindeer and a Christmas tree was a new item

Just think of all the items you see in game in dungeons, towns etc.
they placed some of those objects in the house

It literally was a waste of most people's time

James-Wayne · December 2016

https://www.twitch.tv/bethesda/v/107428598

I can't believe I got up early to watch this... BIGGEST ZOS LET DOWN OF THE YEAR!

If only I could get that part of my life back so I could actually play the game instead.

Rosveen · December 2016

Okay, serious feedback time.

I think the stream did a pretty good job of showing the decoration potential of our new houses. The system appears to be robust and flexible.

However, it wasn't at all engaging. I think most of us expected something more lively, but we got a static shot of a fireplace instead. I'm sure some found it soothing, but for me it was about as fascinating as watching paint dry; I'd prefer to look at screenshots instead, or see a dynamic video of different decoration setups (including varied racial styles). I'm not sure where you were going with this - was it meant to imitate those yuletide fireplace videos? If so, maybe some value was lost in translation, because these videos aren't a thing where I live and I find them really weird. To each their own though.

As someone who isn't interested in The Sims-like furnishing and decorating, the stream failed to capture my attention. I'm still not sure if the houses have any real value for me. In other Elder Scrolls games I'd normally use them as a base to come back to after a long day adventuring: to restock my potions, drop off the the trinkets I've collected and items that might be useful in the future. I hoped for immersive storage (e.g. mannequins), but we're not getting it and I still don't know how the crafting stations are going to work - if they can't be used to craft special sets, it will be hard to justify using them over the regular ones in town where all other services are. Is anything interactable? Do the pets move around the house or do they stand still like in the stream? I'd like some detailed information about what I can do in the house, not just what I can make it look like.

nimander99 · December 2016

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

EnviousStruggle wrote: »

booring
i closed the stream

I was confused the entire time, I thought is was going to be a informational ESO Live, instead it was kinda like the Yuletide Christmas fireplace video you put on tv with music, then they just decorated and udecorated, no talking.

Kept asking in chat if there was going to be any actual info or if it was just displaying the system in sort of a hidden way... As in, we saw things being placed but didn't see the editor itself in use....

They made it pretty clear that the ESO Live was not going to be like the others.

Interesting that I missed that. I follow the social media side of this game as closely as I play it, I'm not sure how I missed that or misinterpreted it. I guess my expectations were one thing and their plans another

Edit: Not that it was bad or anything, it just would have been nice to have some narrative or at the very least show us the actual editing process...

f047ys3v3n · December 2016

I logged in at noon to see the stream and thought, how cute, they are doing the whole fireplace on Christmas thing to welcome us to the stream. It seemed like a nice integration of the homesteading content with the live event. I switched tabs over to watch some vMA videos while I waited for the stream to begin.....

30 min later I switched back and thought, hmm, I don't remember a sweetroll by the fireplace, did something change? So I watched for a while to see if anything else changed. Lo and behold an elk appeared and I thought, well that is a change I definitely noticed.

It then dawned on me that the fireplace was not a cute intro before the event, it was the event and every once in a while in that mile a minute comments box there were ZOS comments.

So..... for those not from the USofA, the fireplace broadcast thing is a tradition with television networks on Christmas. The employees are all off for the day (almost everyone is and this is very rare in 60 hour a week America) so rather than just leave the station off the air (this used to be what stations actually did every night) they will play a recording of a fireplace with a roaring fire so folks at home who don't have one have something soothing to watch.

I thought the idea was a clever one. Thanks to Gina and Jessica for doing it. I also couldn't help but notice the parallel with the tv employees not a work though. Where is Worbel anyway he didn't walk into an alley full of endgame PVP players wearing proc sets and get detonated did he? It has been how long since we had an ESO live with some comments on direction of game, upcoming content, and balance. I couldn't help but think It was a little too much like the fireplace broadcast in light of the lack of an ESO live event in a very long time. Basically, I thought it was cute but couldn't help but be very disappointed that ultimately I didn't get any information about the game beyond that there is a very wide variety of things that can be put in a house but that mounting your weapons or armor does not appear to be among them.

NewBlacksmurf · December 2016

f047ys3v3n wrote: »

I logged in at noon to see the stream and thought, how cute, they are doing the whole fireplace on Christmas thing to welcome us to the stream. It seemed like a nice integration of the homesteading content with the live event. I switched tabs over to watch some vMA videos while I waited for the stream to begin.....

30 min later I switched back and thought, hmm, I don't remember a sweetroll by the fireplace, did something change? So I watched for a while to see if anything else changed. Lo and behold an elk appeared and I thought, well that is a change I definitely noticed.

It then dawned on me that the fireplace was not a cute intro before the event, it was the event and every once in a while in that mile a minute comments box there were ZOS comments.

So..... for those not from the USofA, the fireplace broadcast thing is a tradition with television networks on Christmas. The employees are all off for the day (almost everyone is and this is very rare in 60 hour a week America) so rather than just leave the station off the air (this used to be what stations actually did every night) they will play a recording of a fireplace with a roaring fire so folks at home who don't have one have something soothing to watch.

I thought the idea was a clever one. Thanks to Gina and Jessica for doing it. I also couldn't help but notice the parallel with the tv employees not a work though. Where is Worbel anyway he didn't walk into an alley full of endgame PVP players wearing proc sets and get detonated did he? It has been how long since we had an ESO live with some comments on direction of game, upcoming content, and balance. I couldn't help but think It was a little too much like the fireplace broadcast in light of the lack of an ESO live event in a very long time. Basically, I thought it was cute but couldn't help but be very disappointed that ultimately I didn't get any information about the game beyond that there is a very wide variety of things that can be put in a house but that mounting your weapons or armor does not appear to be among them.

Let's be honest....when is the last time television broadcasted the fireplace for more than 5 minutes?
1980's?

MarrazzMist · December 2016

This was not ESO live. It was a live stream event to show a bit of homestead.

No talk, just chat and sweet rolls on the floor. And up in the seeling. Sweet little stream and very cosy little house. Didn't like the red nosed deer, but oh I can live with it.

Recremen · December 2016

Was a cute little stream, though a little more info about what it would entail beforehand might have saved on some headaches for some of the viewers. Some voiceover would probably have been nice, too, but I understand that might have ruined the mood. It was really interesting to see that we could indeed drop plants where we wanted. Leaves me with lots of ideas!

NovaShadow · December 2016

Well that was boring and a colossal waste of time. Glad I watched it after the live stream and skimmed the entire 2 ish hours looking for the actual talk segment.

I cannot see the point in this actually being streamed. There was literally nothing new.

Completely misleading calling it an ESO Live, even though it was mentioned it wasn't like other ESO Live's, the expectation is still there just from the title that it would incorporate some elements of an actual ESO Live.

I expected we'd learn some kind of new information about housing. Whoever wrote the tweet that mentioned 'a sneak peak of homestead' needs to learn what a sneak peak is and what a 2 ish hour stream of a fireplace is.

MarrazzMist · December 2016

And the chat was acting civil too. Some always so funny aoe caps and pvp balance shouts, but not so much to break the mood. Normal ESO live is hard to watch chat open.

Enodoc · December 2016

NovaShadow wrote: »

Completely misleading calling it an ESO Live, even though it was mentioned it wasn't like other ESO Live's, the expectation is still there just from the title that it would incorporate some elements of an actual ESO Live.

Nobody called it an ESO Live. In fact, Gina specifically said

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

this isn't an episode of ESO Live

It was cutesy, and rather a waste of time, but it was interesting to see how things could be placed in the house. Certainly not worth watching for an hour though.

Pallmor · December 2016

MarrazzMist wrote: »

And the chat was acting civil too. Some always so funny aoe caps and pvp balance shouts, but not so much to break the mood. Normal ESO live is hard to watch chat open.

Maybe all the trolls were filled with exceptional holiday cheer.

Darkheart · December 2016

I Like what I saw.That was the flexibility of the decoration tool. I think the home decorators going to have a lot of fun with it. I look forward to see some great house designs.