Hello from the Lead Gameplay Designer

RedRook · August 2018

Hello. *waves*

It is a great game. Good luck, have fun, try not to start hating us.

Ragged_Claw · August 2018

Hey there! Nice to meet you, hope the forums are kind

Nightfall12 · August 2018

If i could ask anything of you,

It is when you look forward to new content that you do not cater to just a single group. We know that there are...
Hardcore PvPers including large scale and small scale, to duelists. (These guys deserve some love)
There elite PvEers running trials and speedflawlessperfectrun-dungeoneers. Perfect rotation DPS kings and mega tanks!

There are also casuals, new players and those with disabilities that get left out of a great deal of content. Please don't forget us.

Thank you

Shraar · August 2018

"You're new in town, aren't you? That makes two of us." - Camilla Valerius, in Riverwood, in Skyrim

Those are the words I say to you. It is so wonderful to hear you have experience gained in the Riot skill tree because I played LoL for two years as a non-competitive support main (Santa Baron Nashor Icon earned!) and I will always fondly remember Riot as a company capable of interacting with and fostering a positive community like no other. I once played an ARAM with Riot_Tryndamere, the president himself! That was a while ago! They are a truly wonderful company and they work so hard (and succeed) at making a wonderful diverse gaming community.

My point is, if you were a part of Riot I have no doubt you will be a wonderful influence on this game. Thank you so much for the work you have done, and will continue to do. From the bottom of my heart thank you! You are and will always be a bright light and Meridia's favored.

Mayrael · August 2018

Amazing

We love people in charge who have time to talk with us, we know it ain't easy to do it that's why we appreciate it so much. Hope we will have a good time together and if you would need anything just ask, I'm sure community will do whatever they can to help you.

JD2013 · August 2018

Hi Rob! Welcome to Tamriel!

May your time with ZOS be awesome

coop500 · August 2018

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

Hello Rob, it's nice to see a developer who plays and enjoys this game and can be considered one of us.

Let me tell you one thing:

Don't listen to nerf calls, fix the broken staff HAs and have fun!

Also, if HAs would restore both damage attributes (stam+mag), no matter which weapon is used, we would see more interesting builds.

@Salvas_Aren OMG another Lucifer fan! I could hug you~

ihazzit · August 2018

ZOS_RobGarrett wrote: »

Hey everyone!

I've been working in games for 15 years, most recently having spent 7 at Riot Games working on League of Legends and several smaller games in the LoL universe.

You just went from one LoL universe to another!

AlnilamE · August 2018

Welcome to Tamriel!

Willard · August 2018

Welcome...hope to see more posts and insights.

I also switched from PC to Console--PS4. I felt all the add-ons were ruining the game and wanted an even playing field.

I love playing on PS4 and do not miss the add-ons at all; however, myself and most people I play with would like a search function and or Tabs added to the inventory system. The bag and bank storage in the current state is cumbersome and next to impossible to efficiently find anything. Do you see a quality of life addition like this being added to consoles in the future??

Glaiceana · August 2018

Hey there Rob, welcome! Thanks for posting a hello and doing an awesome job

Aliyavana · August 2018

Judas Helviaryn wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

If you are lead gameplay designer, what is Wrobel?

Lead Combat Designer..

People are already confusing the two in this thread, because literacy is dead in 2018.

(As well as TL;DRing his OP.)

Gameplay is often associated with combat, esp in a mmo where you kill people

Itacira · August 2018

Welcome to you !

Jake1576 · August 2018

So you said you recently started to playing eso on console to see what it's like i hope that means both ps4 and xbox and just not one of them we desperately need a voice for us console players when we feel the need to give feedback i hope you are that voice anyway it's nice to just see a dev say they are actually playing on console makes me feel like the game actually means something to zos welcome to the forums i look forward to any future posts you might make

Gnortranermara · August 2018

Welcome aboard!

Please consider a "Known Issues" thread to publicly acknowledge which bugs you are aware of and actively working to fix. Not knowing and feeling like ZOS is ignoring these serious problems is a major source of consumer dissatisfaction. Things like the random resource drain bug, heavy attack bug, voice chat channels breaking on console, snipe-glitch exploiters in PvP, (and so on) seem to be ignored and I've seen a lot of people leave the game over these kinds of issues.

Tandor · August 2018

Welcome Rob! I hope you enjoy working on the game as much as we enjoy playing it

!

JamieAubrey · August 2018

Welcome to our little slice of Sovngarde

Tasear · August 2018

Your appearance in forums is most welcome. Though be weary of fires and bait.

SlippyCheeze · August 2018

ZOS_RobGarrett wrote: »

I just wanted to take an opportunity to introduce myself here on the forums. I'm the Lead Gameplay Designer on ESO, overseeing the Systems, Combat, PvP, and User Interface teams. Some of you may have seen me on ESO Live last month. I was a little nervous in the beginning of the show if you couldn't tell. =P

My intent is to start posting here on the forums more regularly and, in time, provide more insight into how we think about Gameplay design. My days are already pretty busy (it turns out shipping an update every 3 months leads to a pretty aggressive development schedule!) but I will engage when I can. I'm also certain Gina will find opportunities to poke me for a response.

Welcome, and thank you for stepping up into the harsh glare of publicity. Since you were at Riot, I'm sure you heard GhostCrawler talking about the less fun times it'll bring, as well as the good ones.

If I may, I'd suggest the most important change to make to this is to tell us, explicitly, how you want the community to talk to you. I suspect that you probably don't want a nice @ZOS_RobGarrett tag every time someone is grumpy about any aspect of gameplay. By being explicit, at least there is some chance that the appropriate community norms will be established.

It'd also be a big help, selfishly, if you laid out what makes for good and useful feedback from your perspective. I, uh, could also say that there are a few things I'd like to see changed, but as "not a ZOS employee", I'd like to know how to make my "just a player" feedback as useful as possible ... and of course, "as convincing as possible"

LegacyDM · August 2018

Nice to meet you.

My only question is Can you fix the lag (I.e,. Cyrodil performance)?

ZOS_RobGarrett · August 2018

Danikat wrote: »

By the way, if you're willing to share: what's your favourite thing in ESO so far? What's made you go "Oh, that's cool!"

Honestly it's difficult to pinpoint a specific thing. I actually played a bit back in beta but got distracted with other games at the time. When I returned to the game last year I was shocked at how improved the entire experience was. The teams here have done fantastic work over the past few years, including taking on some big risks like One Tamriel, and that was a major draw for me coming on board.

As of late, most of my time in game has been spent in PvP and the Thieves Guild DLC.

ArchMikem · August 2018

My only advice? PLEASE, don't let some of the people in these forums get to you too much. For all the bugs and crashes and complaints I know you guys are doing good work that I could never hope to understand myself.

ZOS_RobGarrett · August 2018

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

Which console do you play on?

PlayStation 4. I mostly play games on PC, but it's been a blast playing ESO with a gamepad in front of a big TV.

Judas Helviaryn wrote: »

Aliyavana wrote: »

If you are lead gameplay designer, what is Wrobel?

Lead Combat Designer

Yep. Wrobel is still leading the Combat team. I know a lot of players are particularly passionate about their efforts, and it’s one of the areas I’m particularly interested in shedding more light upon going forward.

Watchdog wrote: »

This one would like to join Rob's forums welcoming party too and wish Rob warm winds, soft sand and as few SNAFU's as possible.

Khajiit thinks Rob should actually not try to read every single complain around here and try to address it properly, because if he does that, his head will surely explode from all the contradicting demands. Preventing oneself from becoming a raving plaything of Sheggorath the Skooma Cat is quite important, yes?

Haha, thanks much!

Sylvermynx · August 2018

Welcome to you Rob Garrett! I'll be very much looking forward to your posts. I'm new here (newer than you by 6 months) so I don't have much input as yet, but I do play from about 8 am to 4 pm every day, so I should begin to have some feeling for things soonish.

The one thing I wish now is that I had accepted the beta invitation - but I didn't as at the time I was involved in other games. Well, water under bridge of course, but I feel like I missed out on a lot. I'm doing my best to make up for that now, and I think your input can only help!

Salvas_Aren · August 2018

LegacyDM wrote: »

Nice to meet you.

My only question is Can you fix the lag (I.e,. Cyrodil performance)?

It would be nice if we could get information which lags and bugs in PvP are server side problems and which can occur due to graphic rendering power, drivers etc on the client side.

ZOS_RobGarrett · August 2018

Aliyavana wrote: »

Gameplay is often associated with combat, esp in a mmo where you kill people

I can understand how the terms can get conflated. In fact, I believe at one point in time the Combat Team was internally referred to as "Gameplay".

I should probably clarify the team structure a bit. As I mentioned before, I oversee the "Gameplay" side which includes Combat, PvP, Systems, and UI. There are also "Content" teams working on things like zones, quests, monsters, and dungeons. Ultimately we're all working together to deliver updates to ESO, but that's how the teams are organized.

And, of course, @ZOS_RichLambert oversees "all the things".

Takes-No-Prisoner · August 2018

ZOS_RobGarrett wrote: »

Takes-No-Prisoner wrote: »

Which console do you play on?

PlayStation 4. I mostly play games on PC, but it's been a blast playing ESO with a gamepad in front of a big TV.

Cool. PM me if you ever need gear/crafting stuffs. I can help you out. It can be really tough starting over again.

drkfrontiers · August 2018

Thank you for sharing - best game in the world. Simply stunning in every way. AAAA+

Mattock_Romulus · August 2018

Thanks for posting @ZOS_RobGarrett !

I'm interested in what your first impressions of ESO were!

max_only · August 2018

Welcome! I hope we don’t scare you away with our frustrated grumbling! Most of us mean well, I promise!