Currently? Good.

There is a trick to this, though. Never expect more than you are getting, and always have something else to do in the game for when they come along and *** on you.

ZOS has done countless things to "ruin" the game for me over the years, and I simply stop seriously playing the parts that they have "ruined". I move on and do something else. Eventually, I will run out of places in the game to hide from them, but there will be some other game to play, and I will hide there.

Mostly good. There are definitely things that need to be worked on like disconnects, set and power balance (making them all useful), but overall I think it's a pretty decent game.

same as ever, ambivalent.

Only been playing a month, but I’m really enjoying the game. I did a steam review listing the specifics, but there was a lot more positives than negatives. I really like the freedom I feel when playing. There are so many options, and yet I usually find myself wondering around aimlessly, farming, fishing, and taking in the sights. The races and classes are super interesting and deeply embedded within the phenomenal stories. I think I might actually be becoming a little obsessed tbh.

It's very interesting how everyone's opinion varies from other. Though i see that people do agree on lags and that everyday nerfs are annoying. Though i agree, it's the best MMO i've played.

I do wonder if the votes are accurate now?

Storyline and singleplayer? Great and fun!
Endgame pve and use of pvp? /Leave

Yeah... no real reason to keep doing PvE and no reward for skill-ful PvP either.
One is tank and spank, the other is a 40-50 man zerg, because having more population is always a garanteed win anyway. You can be as skilled as a group you can possible be, but the moment you dont have at least 25% of the enemies zerg's size.... youre basically ***.

I had never played an mmo so much in my entire life. I really love it. Yes, it has bugs, crashes, lag, and other problems but still I love it. And I'm learning new things every day.

In general, the game concept is well-executed. As a primarily solo PvE player, or one who plays with just a few friends or family members, the MMO world is an active and interesting place. There are plenty of options for group-focused and solo play. Having it based on years' worth of Elder Scrolls lore gives the game a depth that would be hard to do with a new-from-the-ground-up sword-and-sorcery MMO.

I know some things like Crown Crates annoy some players; I can just ignore them. I have an ESO Plus membership, which generates enough "free" crowns to save each month to get a mount, costume, or housing/furnishings once in a while. Having choices with paid content is good. The craft bag benefit for ESO Plus is really useful, even if I'm not a heavy crafter. My wife is, and I can collect things in the craft bag and trade/send them to her, and I don't get loaded down with too much loot too fast while playing.

The bad? It's the universal complaints -- lag/instability and the relentless nerf-onslaught. The lag can't be 100% blamed on players' computers and internet connections. Something is not right with the servers and/or the game code that communicates with them. And the nerfing is just tiresome. I understand the point in encouraging players to try different build variations and play strategies, but there's a difference between encouraging and near-nonstop beating them with a nerf-hammer. The new meta is confusion and frustration with constant reactive build changes.

Yeah, there's tons to do, a lot of different content, player housing, furniture crafting, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Orsinium, Vvardenfell, countless dungeons, dyes titles and all kinds of things to unlock. Love the trader system and the game economy. The game's aesthetic is still one of my favorites. It's also one of the few MMOs where you can experience and have nice things without doing PVP or Raiding, which are not things I enjoy. The CP system is one of my favorite systems. The game has grown and evolved in a positive trend since its themeparkian launch in 2014. It's now a bonafide sandpark, and that's right up my alley.

Since you asked, and hopefully ZOS will read some of what people are writing and look for some common claims, I'll actually respond.

The leveling system is still flawed. I'm not sure why they start characters at level 1 and require them to level up to level 50 before achieving champion status. Those levels are very wasteful and frustrating to veteran players, and for new players I don't see it adding anything to their experience. They should phase out levels completely and have new players start at CP 1. All gear should fit all players, no more VR level on gear. They are afraid to scrap all their work on the tiered gear system, but they need to realize it is so fundamentally different than their original concept that it is pointless.

Player vs Player combat needs a balance.
AoE needs to be scaled back. I love that they made some of the wardens heals directional but they need to follow through in doing that with the Templar, then rework some of the existing heal and damage skills, reducing point blank AoE skill strength by reducing their radius, making them directional, and drastically increasing those cost of those that aren't nerfed.
They really need to scale back on CC immunity, the duration needs a nerf. It shouldn't be so easy to so completely ignore a huge part of pvp. Perhaps a brief immunity followed by free breakouts for the duration.
Sneaking needs a nerf, I really wish they would have made this a genuine sneak skill by concealing name tags and causing the player to become transparent and not actually vanish.
Nightblade cloaking, damage shields, heals, purge, and dodges all need to have multiplicative costs. Each time you press the button without letting it cool down would cause the ability to cost more, to the point that spamming it several times would drain most players completely.
Siege needs to be overhauled. Siege weapon damage should be nerfed against walls and other seige, increased against players, and the cost of siege weapons drastically increased. The intent would be to slow down the rate in which keeps are flipped. Players would place less siege weapons and damage keeps slower. Factions would defend their territory rather than rushing to retake the keep which just becomes a game of who can flip keeps faster.

I realize that some of these ideas wont be popular, but that is my input. Overall PvP needs to slow down. It is just a cluster of ability spam and speeding through keep flipping.


Bugs, lag, communication with playerbase. I'm not going to write a novel, but this all needs work... I know they have some comm via the cast they they do, but it isn't enough. They aren't engaging their playerbase enough.

christopher.duvalub17_ESO wrote: »

Since you asked, and hopefully ZOS will read some of what people are writing and look for some common claims, I'll actually respond.

The leveling system is still flawed. I'm not sure why they start characters at level 1 and require them to level up to level 50 before achieving champion status. Those levels are very wasteful and frustrating to veteran players, and for new players I don't see it adding anything to their experience. They should phase out levels completely and have new players start at CP 1. All gear should fit all players, no more VR level on gear. They are afraid to scrap all their work on the tiered gear system, but they need to realize it is so fundamentally different than their original concept that it is pointless.

Player vs Player combat needs a balance.
AoE needs to be scaled back. I love that they made some of the wardens heals directional but they need to follow through in doing that with the Templar, then rework some of the existing heal and damage skills, reducing point blank AoE skill strength by reducing their radius, making them directional, and drastically increasing those cost of those that aren't nerfed.
They really need to scale back on CC immunity, the duration needs a nerf. It shouldn't be so easy to so completely ignore a huge part of pvp. Perhaps a brief immunity followed by free breakouts for the duration.
Sneaking needs a nerf, I really wish they would have made this a genuine sneak skill by concealing name tags and causing the player to become transparent and not actually vanish.
Nightblade cloaking, damage shields, heals, purge, and dodges all need to have multiplicative costs. Each time you press the button without letting it cool down would cause the ability to cost more, to the point that spamming it several times would drain most players completely.
Siege needs to be overhauled. Siege weapon damage should be nerfed against walls and other seige, increased against players, and the cost of siege weapons drastically increased. The intent would be to slow down the rate in which keeps are flipped. Players would place less siege weapons and damage keeps slower. Factions would defend their territory rather than rushing to retake the keep which just becomes a game of who can flip keeps faster.

I realize that some of these ideas wont be popular, but that is my input. Overall PvP needs to slow down. It is just a cluster of ability spam and speeding through keep flipping.


Bugs, lag, communication with playerbase. I'm not going to write a novel, but this all needs work... I know they have some comm via the cast they they do, but it isn't enough. They aren't engaging their playerbase enough.

Honestly, this is the whole point of this thread. I made it for ZOS to see their flaws and how can they can improve. I do wonder though, have they seen it yet? Im hoping this thread would take as much attention as possible so ZOS could see this, and maybe they should be tagged, too...

PVP is unplayable on Xbox. I don't find trials very much fun. I prefer smaller group content, 2-4 four person stuff. I've done all that content. I'm bored. We need another 4 person or 2 person trial in the vain of vDSA with a skin reward or something worthwhile.

The game generally runs pretty well and I don't have the crashing/launcher/server/{insert complained about problem here} that most people on the forums mention frequently. Crown store could be updated with more new items that aren't behind the crates though and performance in trials that run longer than 1-2 hours needs to be improved. Bit hard when you have to deal with 15-20FPS because the run is taking a while because of teaching people

The lore and the artwork is stunning.

The lack of ability diversity over the years has stagnated combat for me--well that and AOE caps.

I remember feeling so anxious for this game to come out and the hype for the first year of the game being live was wonderous, but then the crown store came into the picture and then the crown crates and the hope started to dwindle. Well the hope for a game that had so much opportunity and potential at launch. Anyone else remember how exciting Quake Con 2014 was?

The game hit a huge impediment imho when the direction shifted to gimmicky micro-transactions rather than quality game improvements and combat enhancements.