This seems like you are drunk and somehow blaming the game that you lost your raid spot because you are busy with friends and drinking?

Hmm..

Oh well, enjoy your drink and have a good weekend!

I have to agree that I too find it frustrating that there is a big aspect of the game, that I other wise love, that I can't really take part in because it requires people to prioritize the game over real life. It is what it is tho and I can see why it is designed that way. Still irks me tho.

So I guess this is a good time to ask:

What is a progression spot?

If they made the content more reasonable to complete, there wouldn't be this issue. It doesn't need to be so easy anyone can do it, but it at least could be at the level that maybe 10% could do it so that there is always someone running one.

Instead its all based off like .1% of the playerbase because it requires way more than just being skilled.

So blaming real life is appropriate for why you can’t be on your game 24/7? Yeah real life sucks, but I also have priorities there, so I can’t blow my time playing the game 24/7 so I just accept that.

Finding a Trials group is the true end game.

Like stated above maybe find a different guild.

One of my guilds also have profession groups, but as long as you meet the requirements, all is good. You sign up for the event on their website, and even if you haven't been able to make it for a couple of weeks (I had to sign off lot of times due to real life stuff last minute) it's no problem for them, and we still beat the content.

Hope you manage to find such people and beat vMoL!

I hear ya but it isn't the game's fault.

kylewwefan wrote: »

I lost my Progression spot for VMOL, now back to being an alt. Because real life got in the way. Again. Feels like I’m always on and playing this game, but never at the right time. I’ll probably have no interruptions for the next year, but the past three weeks stuff comes up and I can’t make it. I’ve had to leave in the middle and then had friends show up out of the blue, then being stuck out and would be late.

Really I can’t blame them for kicking me out of that spot. There’s 11 other real people waiting and ready and I can’t get myself straight 1 day in a month. Adulting blows. I think the vast majority of players in this game are just like me. We can’t fill out rosters half the time because people don’t want to commit to something they might get pulled away from at a moments notice.

Availability is such an issue. Trying to get the same 12 people to be available, ready and willing to play at the same time a couple weeks in a row to work on something is quite the achievement in itself.

I’m just so upset and disgusted with this game. I put so much time and effort into it, but it’s never the right time. Eff it. Let’s have a beer.

I think one of the major issues is the End game community is so damn small now , it had very little support or content that progression population moved on. The bad part is most updates do not bring them back either. the was teaming with Trial people a couple years ago. The lack of any real vertical system in character development has really left nothing for that playstyle to do other then alt or PVP. Its a bummer your in that posistion. It was better times when people had 3 or 4 progression groups going at any given time and could easily field their time slots. I understand the frustration with adulting i dont play this MMO anymore because i dont feel my time spent is rewarding , and when new content does come its primarily leveling content with no levels and the story is not that great to play it likes its a single player RPG.ZOS has been feeding at the churn base population with crown store, easy bake DLCs that are reskins . very rudimentary game systems have allowed them to pump out shallow chapters that are large but not deep. I think part of the issue is though the game population is good they are all visitors, they dont find value ion ESO plus. They dont really play all of the game just come in do some quests play some dungeons and leave again. It was very profitable but there is only so many people in the MMO gaming market and once you have recycled them so many times they quit coming back for the same game just a new image.Its almost like a bad realationship lol.

i have a solution. make it possible to get the gear through a single player dungeon which is as hard as maelstrom. done. or make it avaible for 5 million AP or smthing like that. boom done.

kylewwefan wrote: »

There’s frustration about finally being able to get into a progression. Then having miss them for real life issues. I’m not gonna be mad at my friends or family. But this game. It shouldn’t be like that.

You can’t pick up group these things with any kind of reasonable success. It’s terrible. They know this. That’s why there’s no group finder for trials. There never will be. I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove vet dungeons from group finder.

I'm confused-- do you think this is a game design problem, a community problem, a content difficulty problem, or a you problem?

Honestly, this reads like every other frustration post I've read in other game forums where there is raiding available. Seems like it's a clash of MMO tradition against the changing lives of its core audience. I wouldn't be surprised if raiding eventually either dies or evolves into something else. It's going to take awhile, though. The audience is full of purists.

And if that's the case, what do you think ZOS needs to do about it?