Well, I have been playing since I started Beta. The game would have to become absolutely horrible and unenjoyable to quit.

soooooo, you believe that they care about this poll?

Lately they have me worried, but we'll see what happens. I've played several MMOs who make all the same mistakes. If they fail and lose their player base and have their marketing team spam us with "Come back to [insert game name]" ads then it'll just be one of those things.

Carbonised wrote: »

This is pretty much the loss aversion and sunk cost fallacy bias. Aka. throwing good money after bad.

Yup. I am sticking around in the hope that my investment will turn around.

I'm thinking I need to do what a friend said and just step back from the game and get a recharge.

JD2013 wrote: »

It hasn't been out 3 years officially until April

Lol, I figured I would be off on the times just a little bit... I will check this off to growing older and my memory getting worse .

Thanks for the update!

Mass effect 4 out in March

Don't like the direction the game is going , was going to type a great big list of stuff but can't be bothered as many of the players are as guilty as they would rather have housing than having more actual content to keep them occupied..

Any way not played for god knows how long so dosn't really effect me either .

Carbonised wrote: »

If a game has to become "absolutely horrible and unenjoyable" for you to quit it, because you have invested too much time and effort into it, and passed a point of no return - that is the sunk cost fallacy.

I'm not saying the person should or should not play ESO, I'm just saying that that is the principle that keeps that person in the game, until the point where it may or may not become "absolutely horrible and unenjoyable".

This is a pretty interesting discussion on its own. It is highly possible that some people may invest so much time and real world money (as is the new trend) with this game that they may never leave no matter how bad the game gets. Maybe ZOS understands this and is eagerly waiting for people to purchase homes with real world money knowing full well that these people may have to be pried away from the game.... but then again this is just me thinking out loud.

For me, it's not "being concerned ZOS is taking the game in the wrong direction"... it's about tolerating the F2P-ish elements because I enjoy the rest of the game, and I understand that ZOS needs to make money to keep the game afloat.

Things like gamble boxes and cash shop convenience items are just what happen when an MMO comes off subscription, because running servers played by millions of players isn't cheap. So while I don't agree with some of their choices, I don't know what their finances are, so I give them the benefit of the doubt and figure that such moves are necessary. Then, I pay my subscription to do my part and go back to enjoying my characters' journeys through Tamriel.

To me, "I won't stop playing but I worry zos is taking the game in the wrong direction" is not a very useful metric.

Such a category encompasses almost every perspective from "I am wary of microtransactions and the greater trends of online multiplayer game design" to "I've recently experienced minor frustration" to "I want the success of a top-tier e-athlete handed to me by design always" to "I am poor at curating my own experience online and I'd like the staff to do it."

hugocbp wrote: »

They did and continue to do an amazing job.

While I'm not overly happy with Crown Crates, I will still buy a few of them and subscribe each month to support them because this game is a huge source of entertainment to me.

People here don't give them the credit they deserve. Of course there is still a lot to be done and I wouldn't mind at all if after Homestead and Vvardenfell they took 6 months to address all those long standing bugs, stability and fixed Cyrodiil PvP even when Battlegrounds arrive.

I can't even imagine the amount of work that is already in this game. It is mind-blowing the amount of attention to details that I still find after more than a year playing on console.

We are still due for a few essential things, like Housing (that is being addressed now), Transmog System, small scale instanced PvP, more end game content variety (more trials, 6 man PvE stuff, 24 PvE stuff...).

My only disappointment with them right now is the state of PvP. It is broken, it is getting emptier by the week, and it looks like it won't be seriously address for at least 6-9 months if the plans datamined for U14 and U15 (small dungeons) are confirmed.

^ This is broadly speaking where I am at.

I left the game just as IC was going live because I simply wasn't enjoying it.

I played other games, some I enjoyed more than others, some I enjoyed more than I had enjoyed ESO. After SWTOR's last patch I unsubbed (it had been running for 8 months+) and uninstalled the game. If you think anything in ESO is "really bad" go play SWTOR end-game for a week. You'll beg to come back to ESO.

I came back to ESO the 2nd week of December, within 2 or 3 days I was enjoying the game so much that I had subbed for 3 months. I am really looking forward to Homestead, even though I think there are one or two essential elements missing from them.

My first TES game was Morrowind, never really got into it that much because my PC was at the low end of the recommended specs, so seeing all the data-mined stuff on Vvaedenfell stuff is quite exciting.

I don't tend to PvP in MMORPGs (I simply don't think its the right medium for PvP due to ubiquitous balancing issues) but what little I have done in ESO has been enjoyable it short stints. I would like to see PvP improved because PvPers are just as much a part of the game community as anyone else and no one should be getting short-changed.

My major issue with the game when I quit was the Trade Kiosk system, and how it gated trading from so many players - sellers and buyers. One Tamriel has addressed the issue of buyers being unable to search all the kiosks for what they are looking for. But I still think the Trade system can, and SHOULD, be improved so that even players not in a Trade Guild can have a chance to sell their goods - and I have seen many good suggestions on how that could be done and still keep the Kiosks and Trade Guilds in place.

Crown Crates concern me, greatly, because I have seen the impact they have had in SWTOR, where a few whales generate enough revenue on Cartel Crates to enable the Devs to be very, very lazy and unimaginative when it comes to new content - KOTET and Galactic Command for example (for the record I consider SWTOR 5.0 to be the very worst expac I have played in any game).

However, I simply will not, EVER, spend RL money on a gambling crate of virtual goods. If I am parting with RL money I want to buy EXACTLY what I want to buy. NOT a chance at a box full of rubbish I will never use and don't want.

So, over all, I am generally speaking happy with where ESO is right now, but do recognise that there are still areas ripe for significant improvement, and do have some concerns about certain elements of the current direction of travel.

What I will say is this: 18-24 months ago that was how I felt about SWTOR, and the Devs got lazy and unimaginative, and in the immediate aftermath of 5.0 being released so many players unsubbed that EA felt the need to send out a player survey to find out why so many players were quitting. That is the same EA that had said it wanted to be more hands-off with its various studios and only offer strategic oversight.

Were we are now with ESO can, very quickly, turn into where SWTOR is now. It is simply too late if games studios leave issues simmering away until they explode. Get in early, listen to player feedback and actually HEAR what is being said, and look for solutions.

I fully understand that Game Developers have a "vision" for their games, and that "vision" may not entirely match up with the players' vision or expectations of the game. But one a product has been released for consumption it stops being the producers' product and becomes the "consumers' product and that may (will) mean that some elements of that vision need to be compromised. Because a product without enough consumers very soon becomes a product that can#t afford to pay its producers.

All The Best

I've got my hopes on Camelot Unchained and Crowfall.
I've been playing since march 2014 and the game has only gotten worse imo. But there is no other option with PvP as good as ESO (yet). So gotta stick with it.

You should start such votes right between certain updates, if you are really interested in our opinion.