I do not mind to pay a game that i have fun with...
But i do mind when it is broken and DEVs dont care about to fix and still keep tring to make money only...

The game developers, quest writers, sound designers, balancing team...
I think they value the players. They're passionate about the game. I'd go so far as to say they love it.
The Marketing Team.... They focus on getting money from us. It is what they are hired to do.
The Community Managers. A big part of their job is to get that market info to us. Get us involved, get us to buy stuff.
You know what? We hate the crates, we hate the monetization running rampant in the Crown Store.
I would be willing to bet a LOT of money that the only people who hate it more than us is the devs and Community Managers.

Not only because this is a game they do feel passion for; but because ignorant members of this community give THEM flack for it. Claims that the devs and the much over-tagged Gina don't care about the game because they're too busy lining their pockets are laughable and objectively incorrect.

There is a lot of passion in this game. Just look at those hints the team is sending out for this year. That is excitement. Not just for us, but for them too.

Too bad then, that it is all overshadowed quite frequently by the monetization of the game. Hence my vote.
Communication NEEDS to be better. We get frequent crown store forum updates, why not anything else?

I'm sorry ZoS, but it really feels like now you care more about being as greedy as you can be than player base any more. I remember when ZoS used to communicate very often, but now I rarely see that. All I see is moderator messages about "keeping it civil".

Crown crates, Radiant Apex rewards(wtf?), LIMITED TIME ONLY 600 GEM trash. Awful 1 inch sized statues for ESO+ exclusive rather than free crates. Lack of showing care. PTS comes out and bugs are reported WELL in advance. Oh guess what? PTS goes to live and takes about 4 more mini patches (somtimes more) to fix a *** bug that had reports with details in it,



Admit it, you care MORE about money these days than the game. You literally invited people out to your HQ for feedback and input - like Deltia, Alcast, Sypher (if i remember correctly).... And guess what? You LITERALLY wasted their time 100% and did what you wanted.

I used to be for you, now..... my view has changed.

To those saying "ZOS is a business; what do you expect? Making money off us is supposed to be their goal."

I work in a creative field. There were other things I could have done with my abilities and my degree, but I chose something that interested and excited me. Some projects don't move me at all and end up just being sources of income, but usually, when I'm working, I'm trying to do the best I can to please my bosses and the customers. I take great satisfaction in a job well done and in solving difficult problems. I hope to get noticed for my work and allowed to move up to both better positions and better projects. And when the project is complete, if it's well received, even though my input is relatively small, I still take huge joy in knowing I was a part of making something that entertained and pleased others.

As far as I'm concerned, if you don't feel like that, I would prefer you not work in my business. If I have hiring power, I'll do my best not to hire anyone who thinks it's just a job. I want people passionate about the work and about giving the audience something great. Not every project I do is good. Some of them have been utter garbage. But if you don't at least genuinely want to do great work, go do something else. But if you have the drive to do the work with passion and high quality, then you're be well-compensated--and you'll deserve to be.



I think there are many at ZOS who feel the same was about their work as I do about mine. However, as creating new shines and finding increasingly sleazy ways to monetize those shines has become a much more lucrative part of their business than making a good MMO is, I feel like those the influence of the passionate creators wains. And as this influence wains, so too does my respect for ZOS.

(And yes, by rewarding behavior for which the only reasonable response is punishment, the players own a lot of the blame for this.)

I feel valued, for my wallet.

But anyway, bro, it's a for- profit business. What do you expect?

If anyone injects any thought into anything at this point, that's a huge accomplishment. Let alone loyalty of any kind

At least they have that .

In light of the discussions surrounding race change tokens, I feel like this would be a good time to bump this

This is why I can't understand fanboys of companies, all of them only care about your wallet.

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How is it not both? My gosh. The whining.

Regarding the issue of the racial passive changes, many end game players have 10-15 characters designed to be min/maxed. The new racial changes will impact those who have specifically designed their characters to be min/maxed and in order to change the races of those characters it would cost them $300+ to do so.

I would say the frustration is justified rather than just pure whining. Especially when some of those players already purchased race change tokens in the past, and now they will have to do so again.