please remember that this forum is a very small portion of the eso community, if you want to see what all the population of eso thinks then you have to ask them by email on their @esonameaccount and not the forums.

making a 30 day choice has consequences, both good and bad.
but that's the way it should be, no one should be able to alter their faction choice until after the campaign has ended, the results of your choice may have been good or may have been bad, none the less it was a choice and should be stayed with untill the 30 days has expired.

Doesn't matter to me since I only have characters in one faction (even though I have any race, any alliance).

I want the system to stay as is, but I'm not opposed to soft locks at all. I'd be fine with not being able to be on the leaderboard for multiple factions; I mainly hop to find fights anyways. I think that would be a really good middle ground here.

Gilvoth wrote: »

no one should be able to alter their faction choice until after the campaign has ended.

You can't ever alter your faction choice, you pick it when you make your character and it's permanent. I am not sure what you are talking about.

Love it

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

Ok let me get this straight... majority of people don't want faction locks because there is a 33% chance that it will be them that is stuck on the most populated faction?

Well yes, I've PvP in ESO now for 5 years, as well as doing end game PvE.

I don't care about faction winning a campign I want fights, I don't care if I don't get any AP. I play for the competition and being on the faction that is zerging down the map is dreadfully dull. There was a reason they removed the old faction lock after all.

I feel that if ZOS released the data about how many people actually "faction hopped", "spying" what ever you want to call it, those figures would be much lower than you think. I've stuck with the game though a lot and I'm going to be honest how they handle this issue will be the diffrence of me staying or going, and I know I'm not alone in this.

TBois wrote: »

Incentivising alliance loyalty with actually good rewards (which we lack in pvp currently) would have been a smarter move than locking campaigns.

Ahh the good old days, remember when we used to have a chance of getting Master's weapons for end of campaign rewards? Nine kinds of awesome.

I think this is great, only because its going to force players to jump in IC/Shor and spread out the pops off vivec.

Other than that, sorry oceanic/frienemies you got the axe for "performance" based changes lol.

The_Shadowborn wrote: »

IxSTALKERxI wrote: »

Ok let me get this straight... majority of people don't want faction locks because there is a 33% chance that it will be them that is stuck on the most populated faction?

Well yes, I've PvP in ESO now for 5 years, as well as doing end game PvE.

I don't care about faction winning a campign I want fights, I don't care if I don't get any AP. I play for the competition and being on the faction that is zerging down the map is dreadfully dull. There was a reason they removed the old faction lock after all.

Yeah I agree. Thing is though on the 5 years I've played on AD ( a lot during oceanic) I haven't had too much trouble with not being able to find a fight. Sure there are periods where AD has dominated, during those times I just do something else like pledges etc. But I think overall the majority of the time there was people on one of the other 2 factions to fight.

Actually there has been many times that I remember when there was literally only 5 AD players on the whole map... There have been times when it was just me and Iskra defending fare against pop lock DC... So much for people swapping factions for the 'good fight' haha. In fact I also remember times during oceanic when people swapped from AD to EP because they were sick of being zerged down and got fed up with people in AD zone chat...

Tbh overall I think in my time playing on one faction I've been zerged down just as hard and just as often as people that hop between them.

Anyways, tbh I don't care either way, I just don't see what the big deal is... I think people might be over reacting, you can still change factions once every 30 days. The population might be more stable to. Worse case scenario it can just be reverted the following update.

If this change spreads the population out and people who zerg for AP on whatever side is winning at the moment go to the 7 day campaign then I think this change will actually be for the better. If people who want to play with their friends go to the 7 day campaign that's great too. If they boosted the AP gain on 7 day campaigns to further incentivize pure AP farmers and PVE players after Caltrops to go there that'd be even better. If campaigns are dead when 100+ are queued for Vivec that probably means that the rewards for those campaigns are too low. Spread out the population.

I don't think faction lock will help at all with faction parity and it may harm faction parity even more than even the pessimists are expecting. That's not why I'm optimistic. The fact that there is any pull factor for a 7 day campaign seems like it should spread the PvP population around. The fact it could reduce Vivec to not cap during prime time seems like a plus right now.

Finally, they have said that it is an experiment and not a locked in thing. You can't run an experiment without, well, running the experiment. I would 100% oppose faction lock for all campaigns, but I'm hoping the general terribleness of faction locks spreads the population in a way that reduces lag. If it doesn't and the campaigns are terribly unbalanced then there's always the option to revert the changes.