Lag/delays

It might not be very flashy, but it's sure to keep existing players from moving to newer/more stable games. Also is likely to keep people playing longer (i.e. more hours at a time) and with more characters. Lag has a way of wearing on your nerves.

Work on fixing the content that we've already paid for instead of releasing new paid content that'll also need fixing.

It's a company, so it always prioritizes making money. How they actually chose to serve their customers entirely depends on what brings in more revenue in the long run. The game gets a spike in new players and purchases when major DLCs and expansions get released, so I think that's their main focus. 3 DLC and one expansion every year is pretty solid. I can't really blame them for neglecting other areas though, a major performance improvement will come with Summerset, and it implies a complicated code overhaul; from what I've heard from guild mates who played PTS it's much smoother, especially in trials. So I don't actually want the developers to focus on a particular area, but just make incremental performance improvements and keep releasing new content regularly, so mostly what they've been doing.

As for the tall tale that they don't do those fast enough because they focus on crown store, that sounds like total bollocks. Most crown store items only require minimal, low skill work to produce, and they are simply re-skins of existing items, so the cost is proportionally low. It's likely they're not even developed in house, but probably subcontracted to smaller companies; there's a plethora of such companies that make various objects, textures, animations and other game components for major game studios for years now, just like in pretty much every other industry. Developing more complex content and overhauling the code is orders of magnitude more expensive, and requires a dedicated core of programmers, so that occurs in house at Zenimax.

for me it is rather difficult to pick any one answer.

I have had on rare occasions lag and disconnect issues. all mmos have these though. nothing really new here

the guild system is rather odd as you can have so many memberships. how does this build any loyalty or chest thumping for first kills, etc?

trade system is like what a mmo would have 15 years ago. i'm a old fart so I don't like to travel all over to shop. when I want something I want it now. i'm here to quest and kill stuff.

class balance will never happen. class vision would be better use of resources.

on occasion I would "get stuck" in an animation and can't do any spell casting. don't use animations as a spell casting delay mechanic. ie recast time.


I like the quests and stories. having played the original daggerfall and morrowind when they first came out I wanted to see what the E S world is like now. other than the above my biggest disappoint is to yet come across the mummies finger like i did in daggerfall.

Performance first, balance second.

for what all the patches, class balances and content if the game is not even playable, i hope the multicore that was promised in summerset will solve some of our problem but it wont solve any server stability :<

I can't pick just one.

Performance - Bug Fixes, solving Lag, Latency and Crash issues, Graphic Engine Optimization
48% is of course a no brainer but they've been "trying" for 4 years and I don't get my hopes up.

At least expand Cyrodiil or add more stuff because it's the same old crap for 4 years straight.

Performance, especially in Cyrodiil, Lag freezing and constantly being kicked is at a new time high!

Bug fixes should always be separate from content development. Prioritization of performance issues should never be at the expense of content. Otherwise it's nice to have a relatively thorough poll for a change.