One thing I realised today.

Although the overworld doesn't seem much bigger, all the additional maps (delves, dungeons, story maps etc.) are pretty damn big as well. I do wonder how large entire map space would be including these.

No no no......size do matter....err what are we talking about again? I can only hope that future additions to the game will see things added to this zone

I very much agree with pretty much all of your criticisms, aliyavana.

Agobi wrote: »

F7sus4 wrote: »

Took me 3 days of casual questing to complete 100% of Morrowind "expansion" map. It took weeks of intensive TES III gameplay to go through it. This alone allows to draw enough conclusion without measuring the map.

I have spent more than 3 days sofar...and I have barely gotten started...

So I guess my conclusion will differ from yours

Are you fighting all the mobs along the way? Not using wayshrines? Using a slow mount? Looting the scarce nodes?

The best thing is that the silent majority is losing their shii in area chat.

Also @ZOS_GinaBruno It would be helpful for you guys to place on the menu when you login that ESO+ will not unlock morrowind; I'm tired of answering the same question on XBL Ambassador support. It is also annoying when I'm told "You do not know what you are talking about", when I tell them the hard to drink truth.

I went into Zainsipilu last night exploring with the boyfriend, and well we were both pretty much like giddy schoolchildren. To each their own, but even if it only ends up being a max of 20-25 hours of additional game time, it beats out a night at the movies in terms of costs.

Plus we each got a kick-ass item from the Dwarven crate (costume for him, mount for me) we were still high on.

Since I refused to buy Morrowind myself, I've been watching some Streamers.

I'm actually amazed at how many areas/buildings/ruins are locked off. Add that in with the geographical barriers in place just by the map design, and it's shocking (in all the worst ways) at how small this DLC is.

ZOS really, really missed an opportunity to take attention away from the disastrous Update changes to the game by giving Players massive areas/ruins/places to explore.

But by failing to put allow exploration of this many areas (which is most every door the streamers come across), the DLC just feels really limiting to what is possibly the biggest strength of ANY Elder Scrolls title: the ability to free-roam and explore a varied plethora of locations.

The lack of both Quantity and Quality is very shocking.

Pathetic, ZOS. Just pathetic.

Cillion3117 wrote: »

No complaints here. I'm digging it.

The locked off buildings and the fact there is less quests than orsinium doesn't bother you?

Graphically, I think Morrowind is pretty amazing. It's obvious the developers put a lot of work into Morrowind for Vvardenfell. But herein lies the problem. They put so much development cost into the new zone I think they had to recoup some of it by changing it from a DLC to an expansion. I think it was originally meant to be a DLC, but they couldn't justify the costs to keep it so. Probably what they should have done was to only open up a section of Vvardenfell, but increase the quests and other things to keep the players engaged, like a couple of group dungeons, etc.

I will agree it was disappointing not seeing many of the recurring characters that we have grown to love in ESO like Kireth and Raynor Vanos, Lady Laurent & Stibbons (plenty of stuff in Vvardenfell for those two to get in trouble), Razum-dar, Sheogorath, etc.

Since I don't want to put out any spoilers, I will just say that what was found as the end of the main quest was not as majestic as I thought it was going to be. Of course, exploration can always open up new areas so you never know

Having said this, I still think Vvardenfell is a graphical masterpiece and enjoyed most of the quests. But I just wonder what the zone will be like a month or two from now when most players have completed the questing and main story..

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

This is just another DLC.

The sad thing is that if ZOS just kept their promises and treated this zone like a DLC, it would have been considered the best DLC to date. Since it is one of the largest zones to date.

But instead, they got dollar signs in their eyes, decided to betray subscribers and play fast and loose with the definition of DLC (which is hard to do since it literally means "Downloadable Content") just so they could make everyone pay in cash instead of crowns.

So instead of an ample DLC, we got an anemic "expansion". GG ZOS. Fire your marketing team (which seems like 90% of your company) and hire actual game developers, more customer service reps, and get a real Quality Assurance department that knows what Regression Testing is.

without battlegrounds and the warden, i'd agree with you

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

This is just another DLC.

The sad thing is that if ZOS just kept their promises and treated this zone like a DLC, it would have been considered the best DLC to date. Since it is one of the largest zones to date.

But instead, they got dollar signs in their eyes, decided to betray subscribers and play fast and loose with the definition of DLC (which is hard to do since it literally means "Downloadable Content") just so they could make everyone pay in cash instead of crowns.

So instead of an ample DLC, we got an anemic "expansion". GG ZOS. Fire your marketing team (which seems like 90% of your company) and hire actual game developers, more customer service reps, and get a real Quality Assurance department that knows what Regression Testing is.

^ This.

100 time this.

All The Best