I come from a history of guild wars 1&2 and have to say while I have enjoyed this game more than I did guild wars over the last two years and haven’t touched guild wars recently, ESO could stand to adopt the massive quality of life patch they do once a year (second quarter I think). They took enough other ideas from GW, why not that? Mix in bug fixes and QOL in every patch but have one massive QOL patch in place of more content. Keep in mind this opinion is coming from a player who almost entirely plays the game for difficult achievements from DLC dungeons and yet I still agree on giving up my favorable content for this. No need to make up for revenue in crown store (crown store already has too much emphasis and is toe-ing the line WoW just crossed in focusing on it too much and driving the majority of players away), big QOL patch will draw enough people back to the game to pay for itself. I’m sure you could do it for just one cycle and the data would support this in being correct if you advertised the patch even only the same as you have other DLCs. It also shows you care about your game and the players, some much needed PR from what I can see considering everyone is saying they would literally pay for a DLC that fixed the game. Hire me ZOS, I’ll make the big boy decisions for ya.

Writers, musicians, and other artists don't handle software quality control. You're really doing nothing more than shutting people out of employment to chase fan wish lists and unreasonable expectations.

ZonasArch wrote: »

idk wrote: »

I would rather Zos work on bugs and stability all year round than have to live with them until the second quarter.

I'm willing to bet all my millions that you'll come here complain the very second they announce that. You'll say "what about new content? I'm tired of the old content already!"
So yeah...

I also think op forgets that every patch has bug fixes as it is.

Only change we need, I think, is that clear balancing issues should be dealt with inbetween patches too, maybe every month or so, and in more incremental pacing. That's what we need.

I agree for the most part but referencing my original response, unless you have come from a high quality recent MMO that did do what OP is talking about I don’t think you can give enough of a sound opinion. I’ve seen both sides of it, I’ve seen how excited people get for a huge QOL patch vs a patch like murkmife or wolf hunter. The QOL patch is earth shattering by comparison. Is it as big a deal as a big fanboy expansion like morrowind? Maybe not. But we’re not talking about taking that away, we’re only talking about reducing from two dungeon DLC a year to one. Maybe people don’t get it because they don’t realize what an entire patch 100% related to QOL looks like. For arguments sake (and don’t focus on the details just focus on the magnitude of examples) Imagine things like:
1) changing the way Cyrodiil works to where you can scale keep walls maybe? Or some other drastic change alongside fixing performance issues there and several other changes to change the way cyrodiil works.
2) overhaul of CP system to fix pvp and power creep
4) another skill line for every class so they have 4 each instead of 3 making them more effective in whatever role of trinity they lack in while also bringing more class deffinition.
5) massive balance changes to go alongside #4.
6) FPS improvements alongside some graphical enhancements to get caught up closer to par in 2019

And that’s (in theory) just for 2019. Obviously these are just examples so again don’t get stuck on specifics just think of the gravity of an entire patch being focusing on QOL. Yes they can sprinkle QOL throughout the year but then you don’t get the focus the majority of the community is asking for.

G1Countdown wrote: »

How would the player base feel about ZOS changing the current content release schedule to be something along these lines?

First Quarter - Dungeon DLC

Second Quarter - Bug Fixes, Stability, & Quality of Life Patch

Third Quarter - Chapter Release

Fourth Quarter - Zone DLC Release

This proposed schedule removes one Dungeon DLC release that currently exists. I'm thinking that zos could also do special crown store releases during the third quarter to help mitigate profit loss. Thoughts? Feedback? Suggestions?

I agree, but why would zos do 2nd quarter when it'll make them no money, current model has people spending money on either overpriced dlc or eso+ so there is no need to "fix" anything.... Until the money train stops this practice will contiune