I played Battlegrounds most of the day.

CP Battlegrounds would be terrible, do you really want a bunch of unkillable troll tanks in BG? People actually need to die in those games.
As soon as they fix the Q it will be fine.

Strider_Roshin wrote: »

Trial guilds seem to disappearing.

Battlegrounds are a disaster due to queuing issues, terrible game balance, the lack of a CP mode, and the inability to choose game type.

Then it seems that with each update everyone needs to change their gear which means it's time to farm for gear again.

And with this game's terrible RNG, it seems that's what people spend the majority of their time doing; farming.

It really isn't enjoyable spending days of your life trying to get a particular piece of gear with a specific trait.

And the people that have left the game say things along the lines of "it feels nice to actually play a game again and have fun"

Zenimax, I believe you're killing your own game. You're forcing people to play the way you want them to, and in the end it's going to cause people to seek other video games.

On the flip side though, forums have been pretty good!

I actually tried to re-sub but Chrome spat the dummy at the counter again so I said sod it and spent 10$ on BDO

Not purchased Morrowind yet (will probably do so once I've caught up on all the other content) and I'm not a PvPer but I was just wondering what impact splitting the PvP playerbase between BG haves and have-nots has had? Does it mean that Cyrodil is a lot emptier these days?

ofSunhold wrote: »

Strider_Roshin wrote: »

Trial guilds seem to disappearing.

Battlegrounds are a disaster due to queuing issues, terrible game balance, the lack of a CP mode, and the inability to choose game type.

Then it seems that with each update everyone needs to change their gear which means it's time to farm for gear again.

And with this game's terrible RNG, it seems that's what people spend the majority of their time doing; farming.

It really isn't enjoyable spending days of your life trying to get a particular piece of gear with a specific trait.

And the people that have left the game say things along the lines of "it feels nice to actually play a game again and have fun"

Zenimax, I believe you're killing your own game. You're forcing people to play the way you want them to, and in the end it's going to cause people to seek other video games.

Yeah, it wasn't good. A lot of people I played with left and haven't returned, and my main guild is a ghost town compared to before.

I'm still pretty pissed about some of the changes if I think about it for more than ten seconds, so I don't. But it killed PvE for me, and PvP is not as fun without my friends. Not happy with the new normal.

Morrowind is beautiful. Glad I got to see it. But.

(No, you can't have my stuff.)

The sustain changes and CP overhaul made the game much much better because there is actually some difficulty put back in, the vast majority of content was a joke and uninteresting because the risk of failure did not exist.

That said, BoE should replace BoP because the gear grind is real and having BoE just makes the economy so much more robust.

I am honestly surprised you got 40 likes.

in fact, I think the FORUM population has dwindled as new players trying out the game for the first time dont generally hop on the forums.

ESO is still a high populated bustling environment.

Trials guilds arent dying off. New ones are being created every day. just about everyone in Wayrest has the vMoL dromathra skin. Guilds are clearing some of the hardest content in the game and just because youve never heard of them doesnt mean they dont exist.

PvP is STILL booming. there is one 7 day campaign that doesnt get a lot of attention but the fact that the one 30 day cp enabled campaign is bursting at the seams tells me the 7 day campaign NEEDS to be used, but the players refuse - NOT zos' fault.

Morrowind was an awesome update and one i'd pay full price for again. BGs were a bust but this is a marathon, not a 100 meter dash. Lets hope ZOS does the right thing on that.

Divines is still BiS for PvE gear - coupled with the IMPROVED Lover Mundus and precise weapons, youll be fine.

Impen and Sharpened are still BiS for PvP.

Like this is TYPICAL gloom and doom. TYPICAL its not even original anymore. There was doom and gloom with the sustain changes, but that turned out fine. Stam dps is still fine. DPS is hitting 50k FINE.

Everything is fine and the game is business as usual. now with MORE build diversity which is exactly what the devs promised. You sir, are the boy who cried wolf without anything but your opinion to sustain your bias agenda driven perception.

In fact because of what i just said here, every single one of you OWE zos the benefit of the doubt at this point. every. single. one. of. you.

I'm still enjoying the game.

Retiring from PVP was the best thing I could have done. I knew BG would be a cheese fest like Iron Banner in Destiny.

All I know is my own personal experiences from before and then after the Morrowind Update.

The changes very much negatively affected the game in my opinion, and the experience of playing the game has become almost a chore. This is mainly due to the vastly increased necessity of micro-managing your resources and constantly keeping an eye on your Resource bars rather than being able to simply play. I would much rather have cool-down timers than the current system.

Add in the reduction of Player Power through Skill/Equipment usage, and you get a Resource micro-management farming sim that has had most all of the fun sucked out of it by ZOS's love for their precious spreadsheets.

In all, due to the negative turn the game has taken in my eyes; my total play time has dropped from 14-28 hours per week, to a mere 1-2 hours per week. And that's aggregating my play time each day, adding the time it takes me to take care of minor Guild Management tasks and running the few Daily Quests that I enjoy. Other than these specific tasks, there really is no fire left to tempt me to log-in religiously each night like I was doing before Morrowind.

And this new patch on the PTS further deepens the sour taste from the recent changes to this game.

So I'm not going to harp on people who love absolutely everything that ZOS does. That's their bag, and they should do what pleases them in regard to this game.

But IMO and my own personal experience; the changes from Morrowind and this upcoming patch have soured the game for me and removed nigh-all of the "fun" to be had. There's just not much left to the game that causes me to log-in for more than a half-hour (max) each night.

I know ZOS will never read this, and with their priorities so intently focused on the Crown Store, I don't believe that they would care even if they did read it. But what I described above has made me go back to my other MMORPG's far more, and ESO far less. My sub has long-since been cancelled, and there's just no point in logging-in every night since the Morrowind changes infected this game.

And I can't see my activity in this game changing for the positive until they start changing that game back to what it was pre-Morrowind. Back when I had fun playing it.

Strider_Roshin wrote: »

Tan9oSuccka wrote: »

I'm still enjoying the game.

Retiring from PVP was the best thing I could have done. I knew BG would be a cheese fest like Iron Banner in Destiny.

At least we won't have to worry about everyone carrying either a shotgun or sniper eh?

In reference to the cheesiness of BGs yeah that's a big issue, and really Proc sets were only a facet of the issues with BGs.

Good times! Thorn and Suros scrubs.

I still like the game (Morrowind and PVE) I plan on watching more videos from the lovely sounding French lady on decorating properties, rather than getting insta killed by seven attacks that don't animate or render at all.

Kodrac wrote: »

Drachenfier wrote: »

Got one for "entitled crybabies assemble!"?