Should Summerset Chapter cover the whole island?

Lyserus · November 2017

^this
Since last year Chapter came before the dlcs, and summerset is a big place full of stuff and players never been there in previous games, I'd say summerset will be a chapter.

However we all know that in the original map design, only the lower part (1/4 of the whole island) of alinor is covered, which is definitely not enough for a chapter.

So consideirng the "chapter" concept is only introduced after few years of development, surely the map of summerset should be expand to the whole map?

Sixty5 · November 2017

I'd hope that it covers the entire island.

Lots of stuff to explore.

SisterGoat · November 2017

We need Summerset chapter, Murkmire DLC, and Mephaela's Web DLC. Web would make a great trial.

jeedrzej · November 2017

before morrowind chapter, people begged for all Vvanderfell being added, then when they got it, they were complaining how much unfinished it was(cannot enter some places, big inaccesible volcano ect). Summerset is bigger than Vvardenfell, if they will add entire island at once, it will be even more unfinished :P

SisterGoat · November 2017

Morrowind came out in June, so if they release the next chapter in the summer, that gives them awhile. They also released Homestead last year as well, so that gave ZOS even more work.

jeedrzej · November 2017

Chapters are always in Q2 so it must be somewhere between april and June

Turelus · November 2017

I hope it's the entire island and scaled a little more than Morrowind (if possible) to try and really have a larger zone to explore.

SisterGoat · November 2017

jeedrzej wrote: »

Chapters are always in Q2 so it must be somewhere between april and June

Wait, I thought Morrowind was the first chapter released?

jeedrzej · November 2017

Yes but they stated their "Update's Plan" one year ago. Its like:
Q1 - DLC
Q2 - Chapter
Q3 - Dungeon pack
Q4 - DLC

So... chapters are between April and June

SisterGoat · November 2017

I wonder, if they don't plan on adding another class in the next chapter, that would mean more room for something else, which could justify for the larger landmass of Summerset Isles.

Voxicity · November 2017

SisterGoat wrote: »

I wonder, if they don't plan on adding another class in the next chapter, that would mean more room for something else, which could justify for the larger landmass of Summerset Isles.

I'm personally placing my bets on new weapon type

Tyrion87 · November 2017

If ZOS plans to charge us for that "Chapter" the same as for Morrowind, then it has to cover the whole island to be worth that price tag.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · November 2017

Judging by the hints in CWC we may only be getting Artaeum. I would LIKE to see the whole of Summerset though.

mb10 · November 2017

Have we officially been promised a chapter every year?
I get the feeling Summerset Isles wont be out until 2019. Look how long it took for Morrowind to come when we all knew it was coming from datamined maps etc

Tyrion87 · November 2017

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Judging by the hints in CWC we may only be getting Artaeum. I would LIKE to see the whole of Summerset though.

Artaeum is the third largest island in the Summerset archipelago, so it's even smaller than Auridon. Thus, such small island won't be the setting for the next chapter for sure. But it would fit perfectly as the setting for the 4th quarter DLC - pretty much like CWC is connected with Morrowind stuff in many aspects.

kojou · November 2017

I will always vote more content over less, assuming it is high quality.

Digielf · November 2017

Yea it should there are still many regions of ''Tamriel Unlimited'' that are limited and not available

Jade1986 · November 2017

Honestly, as long as we can get away from the god forsaken EP lands I will be happy. Summerset, Elswyr, vallenwood, something! More colovial dlcs and cyrodiil areas like the Golden Coast.

ArchMikem · November 2017

Nothing in ESO is full size whatsoever, so of course the devs are going to give us the entire island in a downscaled fashion. Probably, what, 3x to 4x the playable landmass of Auridon?

Jim_Pipp · November 2017

mb10 wrote: »

Have we officially been promised a chapter every year?

Yes. However what constitutes a chapter isn't very well defined.

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Personally I'd prefer quality over quantity. Substance over size.

I almost quit the game after testing morrowind in the closed beta. I was angry, upset and heartbroken that my favourite single player game was so half-arsed in ESO. Months later I did play the morrowind chapter and it is good for eso, but still not even the best dlc. Cwc is pretty good though.

I would rather have half of the sumerset Isles done well than a whole zone that gives none of the wierdness the lore promises. The cities are meant to look like glass, so maybe the cities could be offered as separate dlc's so summerset can be unlocked piece by piece, quarter by quarter.

Jade1986 · November 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

Nothing in ESO is full size whatsoever, so of course the devs are going to give us the entire island in a downscaled fashion. Probably, what, 3x to 4x the playable landmass of Auridon?

Thats not true, the cities in eso are about the same size as the ones in skyrim. Same with anvil for example, same as oblivion. Now compared to lore, of course , otherwise the game would be 500 gigs.

MissBizz · November 2017

mb10 wrote: »

Have we officially been promised a chapter every year?
I get the feeling Summerset Isles wont be out until 2019. Look how long it took for Morrowind to come when we all knew it was coming from datamined maps etc

Yup, it was in an article shortly after the Morrowind announcement. Q2 will always be a chapter, Q3 will always be a dungeon pack, Q1/Q4 will be content DLCs

altemriel · November 2017

hopefuly yes

DMuehlhausen · November 2017

SisterGoat wrote: »

Morrowind came out in June, so if they release the next chapter in the summer, that gives them awhile. They also released Homestead last year as well, so that gave ZOS even more work.

You obviously don't know how software development works. They are already planning out and probably coding the next couple chapters. They have the story line written out and everything for the next couple years is laid out and being worked on. The work on this chapter began probably around the time the game launched. Yes it takes that long to develop something even the size as an island.

Tavore1138 · November 2017

Probably depends what else we get in the chapter other than zone content - Morrowind purely judged as a new region is not worthy of the price IMO, it's short on quest content and, as people have said, it has a lot of dead space and unusable doors.Wrothgar has more to do and feels bigger.

However if you add in the new class, the new trial and a new PvP system then the whole package stacks up better.

So I guess it depends on whether it is solely giving us a new area in which case I would expect a full sized area with a full 50+ quota of decent quests, new Anchors/WBs/delves etc to the level of a main story zone and some sort of story advancing main quests.

Or a we get a less fully featured area but the extra value comes from the others things they add in with it.

I imagine it also depends on what each team has got in it's work queue and who can spend the most time contributing content and features to the next Chapter...

VaranisArano · November 2017

Considering that the main island of the Summerset Island is lots of different kingdoms, I'd be highly impressed if ZOS manages to cover the entire thing in the sort of depth that would do it justice. I will settle for ZOS doing some of the island in the sort of depth that does it justice.

What I don't want to happen is for ZOS to gloss over the major areas of the island in the sort of "depth" we got with Vvardenfell, where there was a ton of decorative locations and very little depth or room to explore.

Shorter me: I want a ratio of content/quality that's closer to Orsinium's depth and storytelling, not Morrowind's.

SisterGoat · November 2017

DMuehlhausen wrote: »

SisterGoat wrote: »

Morrowind came out in June, so if they release the next chapter in the summer, that gives them awhile. They also released Homestead last year as well, so that gave ZOS even more work.

You obviously don't know how software development works. They are already planning out and probably coding the next couple chapters. They have the story line written out and everything for the next couple years is laid out and being worked on. The work on this chapter began probably around the time the game launched. Yes it takes that long to develop something even the size as an island.

I was referring to the actual assets, like graphics, sound, quests, etc. Of course I don't mean they are starting from scratch as soon as they finish Morrowind. Their team has been expanding every year, allowing them to have different teams for each DLC/chapter, but I'm sure they sometimes have to temporally pull away people from future projects to fill in for the most recent if they are doing cram time.

Taleof2Cities · November 2017

Most of us know that land area does not necessarily equal content.

Whatever parts of the Isles are covered, my hope is that every part includes quests, new discoveries, and something for every player ... including something for the PvP player.

BlazingDynamo · November 2017

No just give us half and make us pay for the other half 3 months later please

Thannazzar · November 2017

Sure, gives us more Thalmor scum to kill. (Sharpens blade of woe)

sigirri · November 2017

I don't care about the size, as long as it is full of high quality content.