Do you think The Elder Scrolls Online is a good, or a bad game?

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

I wouldn't be surprised to find out another, if not, many other posts like this exist, but I wanna give it a shot. I was talking with a friend at work last night about the game, and to sum up the conversation, he doesn't think ESO is a good game. I found it preposterous, since his reasoning was "There's no central player store." It reminded me of how people nitpick at the little things that aren't in the game, or should be removed, or at least changed, and then go on to make that the one reason the game is "bad". And although I have no way to stop joke votes, I still ask that you be completely honest. Do you think that ESO is a good, or bad game?

THEDKEXPERIENCE · June 2019

In many ways it’s literally the best game. Main reason why I keep coming back. Most games have a bunch of issues these days. At least ESO has depth and doesn’t require a super mega insano laptop.

tyggerbob · June 2019

CMDR_Un1k0rn · June 2019

Well, it's the game that broke my Elite Dangerous habit.

Had around 10k hours in ED across my two accounts.

Ever since I started playing ESO, think I've put in like, 24 hours to ED.

In ESO there's real progression, real trading, real rare finds. Much more to do than ED. A hell of a lot more...

I voted good. I can't vote any other way.

TequilaFire · June 2019

Good game, but sadly poorly maintained.

Karm1cOne · June 2019

Does it matter? All of us keep playing, whatever our reasons.

LiraTaurwen · June 2019

Could be one of the best but sadly some greedy monkeys run this company and so it is just going downhill.

MartiniDaniels · June 2019

I won't vote, poll is biased. Obviously we can't call ESO entirely bad game, but in current state it's hard to perceive it as good game. So it's something like "potentially good game"

karthrag_inak · June 2019

LiraTaurwen wrote: »

Could be one of the best but sadly some greedy monkeys run this company and so it is just going downhill.

bull. it's never been better.

Girl_Number8 · June 2019

It has given me many years of joy, new lasting friendships, and plenty of content to engage in.

Do I think performance issues deserve a major look over a new dlc, sure 100%. With the nerf threads down on the forum, just maybe they will finally do that, I doubt it but I hope they will.

Either way I am still having fun with my friends and that is all that matters.

elvenmad · June 2019

The game itself is really good, just a shame its let down so much by bad servers and terrible maintenance and bug fixing, basically a first class product just very very poor management.

Tasear · June 2019

I was looking at video of wow newest content and I almost laughed. Where's the depth.

ESO has depth in many areas. They really make landscape alive with each area feeling like people actually been there or live there. Also you can grow attached to even NPCs without plot. ( Sleeps on bridges, lost murcrab, roaming frog) .

There's also growing list of activities to enjoy. Fishing, treasure hunting, questing, fashion, housing, crafting, battlegrounds, imperial city, cydrolli, active trading and of course my favorite fluid combat.

Eso isn't just a good game but great one.

VaranisArano · June 2019

Great game, when it works properly.

Still great, but also extremely frustrating, when it doesn't.

Edziu · June 2019

game itself is good, but how it is going by devs is not that good, game have very great potential whoch ZOS dont know/cant or even dont want to make better use of this because some reasons which we know what can be

Gilvoth · June 2019

elvenmad wrote: »

The game itself is really good, just as shame its let down so much by bad servers and terrible maintenance and bug fixing, basically a first class product just very very poor management.

this ^
well said.

redspecter23 · June 2019

I think you'll get a biased opinion here.

Overall it's an amazing game.

Some of the decisions made are absolutely mind boggling though.

Katahdin · June 2019

Excellent game

If I didn't, I wouldn't be playing it

Tandor · June 2019

Excellent game with no issues for me other than the poor trading system but that certainly doesn't stop it being an excellent game, it just means I sell everything to NPC merchants and buy on average one thing per year from a guild trader whereas in other MMOs I'd be active in both buying and selling. That aside, however, I have no complaints at all.

Ace_SiN · June 2019

*Looks at every MMO on the market*

ESO is a great game even though it's plagued by one of the most horrible MMO engines imaginable. Despite all the, sometimes understandable, hate that ZOS receives it's improved a great deal and they have clearly learned a lot since launch. I've been secretly hoping Matt Firor is off making ESO 2 with a new engine, better servers, and hopefully more sandbox gameplay. One can dream though.

mann9753b16_ESO · June 2019

Its a great game for solo play and Veteran Group content.

Sadly the overworld is not designed for multiple people and yu get way too strong for the overworld way too fast.

And even if you try to limit yourself, at some point when you try to get immeresed into a dungeon some CP 500+ will just sprintgt past you, having each boss drop dead in a second.

The game would be awesome if it was solo unless you are in a group activity, sadly the always multiplayer kinda ruins every sense of immersion in the overworld.

Ratzkifal · June 2019

Good game but riddled with bugs and devs that are helplessly understaffed.
Probably under bad management too considering that they don't dare to reinvest into the product and fear to cut into their profit margin. 4 Updates a year is also not nearly frequent enough when it comes to glaring issues in regards to balance. Leaving a skill OP for 3 months is just not good.

Wolfpaw · June 2019

karthrag_inak wrote: »

LiraTaurwen wrote: »

Could be one of the best but sadly some greedy monkeys run this company and so it is just going downhill.

bull. it's never been better.

That's not saying much considering its launch, & years after...the ip has carried this game, otherwise it would have been dropped like Wildstar.

A great game when it works.

Poor management & performance has anchored this game for too long.

ATomiX96 · June 2019

Gameplay at least top 3 mmos I've played.
Performance, lets not talk about that aspect, hmm?

Tasear · June 2019

mann9753b16_ESO wrote: »

Its a great game for solo play and Veteran Group content.

Sadly the overworld is not designed for multiple people and yu get way too strong for the overworld way too fast.

And even if you try to limit yourself, at some point when you try to get immeresed into a dungeon some CP 500+ will just sprintgt past you, having each boss drop dead in a second.

The game would be awesome if it was solo unless you are in a group activity, sadly the always multiplayer kinda ruins every sense of immersion in the overworld.

On reddit there's a post saying they are working on that issue of "overland being to easy"

AcadianPaladin · June 2019

I find ESO to be a very good game.

I enjoy the mass and scale that is way beyond any other TES game. I also like the great graphics & music, open world, 'medieval fantasy' theme that I also enjoyed in Oblivion and Skyrim. I find the combat system pretty good and, for the first time in Elder Scrolls history, staves are actually good weapons! Like all large games, there are activities/questlines I'm not interested in but I do enjoy the questlines that suit my character.

The game's biggest detractor for me is that it is multiplayer, with all the drawbacks that come with that (no mods, a hopeless fetish to 'balance' things and having other humans mucking about in the same areas as my character). So, though I'm a soloist by nature, ESO works for me. For now.

Ildun · June 2019

Game good, but still not TES game some of us want.

Myrm · June 2019

CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »

Well, it's the game that broke my Elite Dangerous habit.

Yes, it has kept me away from Elite Dangerous and Fuel Ratting for a couple of months now. I voted good.

BlueRaven · June 2019

Tasear wrote: »

mann9753b16_ESO wrote: »

Its a great game for solo play and Veteran Group content.

Sadly the overworld is not designed for multiple people and yu get way too strong for the overworld way too fast.

And even if you try to limit yourself, at some point when you try to get immeresed into a dungeon some CP 500+ will just sprintgt past you, having each boss drop dead in a second.

The game would be awesome if it was solo unless you are in a group activity, sadly the always multiplayer kinda ruins every sense of immersion in the overworld.

On reddit there's a post saying they are working on that issue of "overland being to easy"

I have to ask;

They have a perfectly good forum here. Why don’t they use it? Why is it that reddit gets all the attention?

Might as well save some money, shut down the forums that they don’t like using, and just communicate through Reddit.

MartiniDaniels wrote: »

I won't vote, poll is biased. Obviously we can't call ESO entirely bad game, but in current state it's hard to perceive it as good game. So it's something like "potentially good game"

This.^

I won’t vote either because with me it’s “MOSTLY” a great game, but the flaws are just tremendous. It’s very disheartening. And all of the flaws seem self inflicted.

They don’t listen to the forums for feedback and they are slow to fix the things they themselves broke, being technical or gameplay changes.

For example;

There is a major client issue with the Mac right now. Every time you load the game it goes into a hyper spinning mode. To get beyond it you have to reset the game permissions in the system preferences every time you start the game. How did this go live? How is this not fixed yet? It’s embarrassing.

And then there is the whole thing with the bosmer. How do you make the stealthy race unstealthy? Have they ever played elder scrolls games before? How did this go live?

Tandor · June 2019

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

I find ESO to be a very good game.

I enjoy the mass and scale, great graphics & music, open world, 'medieval fantasy' theme that I also enjoyed in Oblivion and Skyrim. I also find the combat system pretty good and, for the first time in Elder Scrolls history, staves are actually good weapons! Like all large games, there are activities/questlines I'm not interested in but I do enjoy the questlines that suit my character.

The game's biggest detractor for me is that it is multiplayer, with all the drawbacks that come with that (no mods, a hopeless fetish to 'balance' things and having other humans mucking about in the same areas as my character). So, though I'm a soloist by nature, ESO works for me. For now.

Why, given that your signature indicates you play on PC, do you say that there are no mods? I personally haven't used a single one since PC launch but the addons are there if you want them, plus you can make your own.

VagabondAngel · June 2019

Its the gaming equivalent of McLaren P1 with a '98 Landrover TDi engine. Looks great but coughs like an old tractor. You know, the one with the blown head gasket... ZOS keep topping the radiator up and calling it maintenance.

Greg11jkalfa · June 2019

I know it's barely been a few hours, but I'm happy to see the vast majority of votes are positive so far. I was slightly worried about it at first.
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Do you think The Elder Scrolls Online is a good, or a bad game?

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