Glurin wrote: »

You know, it's really too bad that they changed the definition of literally so that it is now a literally meaningless word.

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

LITERALLY. UNPLAYABLE.
You're able to log in, therefore, the game is indeed playable.

Not necessarily. There are lots of ways that it could be unplayable other than not being able to log in. For example, you may be able to log in but find the lag is so bad that your commands either don't work or have so much of a random delay that they may as well not work at all.

I agree that the OP is probably exaggerating out of frustration though.

The op JUST cancelled plus and probobally onl y gonna login to destroy all my stuff then uninstall. this game is a steaming turd!

Mine hasnt been to bad lately. Except the odd disconnect

How bad the game is for you depends on three things:

1) How much you pay attention. For example i notice bugs and glitches and lag spikes, etc all the time. My wife on the other hand is pretty oblivious to such things and only really notice when it actually slaps her in the face. So it would be like me noticing potholes in the road and her only noticing if we drive off a cliff.

2) What you do and where you go in the game. If you are just running around some base game zone picking nodes or running quests or chatting, etc you probably are not going to see many issues. If you are going to vivec, alinor, or the capitals( especially the undaunted areas) then you might experience pretty drastic issues. You probably wont have many issues when you weapon swap fighting a delve boss but in a dungeon, trial, BG, or Cyro you might find it very frustrating when you tap the button for your first ability on back bar and it cast the ability on front bar instead. So you slowly and deliberately swap weapons instead of the fluid motion it is suppose to be between abilities. Really messes with your timing. WS is so messed up i try to play without it most of the time.

3)Your machine and your connection. As much as i would love to blame ZOS for all ESO problems ultimately the problems often lie in things that are outside their realm of control such as your ISP and your system. Just because you meet minimum system requirements doesnt mean its a good idea to run the game on that machine. Your machine can make up for a lot of issues the game is causing( such as memory leaks), if its a high end machine. The higher end the machine the less problems you will incur because the machine will be able to handle many of those client issues without you even noticing. However if your using a lower end machine, when there is a glitch it is a big problem because the machine is already trying hard to deal with the normal game. Throw a few complications in there and it just falls on its face. ( never go cheap on electronics, its not worth it in the long run)

Some people might almost never experience any issues in this game while others may have constant issues every time they try to login.

The game has a lot of problems, but sometimes I've found connection issues are due to addons making it worse. Make sure you run Minion daily as they can cause conflicts even without an update. I'm with you on playing less and less. Bought another game and have been playing it a bit more than ESO recently. Check your addons for when you do play. It might help out with connection issues outside of Cyrodiil at least. Inside Cyrodiil, especially during primetime is hopeless. I dont even bother trying to pvp during primetime anymore. I also avoid running in ball groups because the lag gets so bad. Haven't ran with my pvp guild in about a month for this very reason. No point in trying to play in a group when ping is constantly spiking to 500+.