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

  • Wifeaggro13
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    It's my casual game, I don't take it seriously. I play it when there are content droughts in my other game. When WoW 8.2 comes out, I'll be gone again until that stops being fun then I'm back here.

    I think that's a fair statement. Eso could be a ridiculously good MMO had they put more money into progression and emergent systems. Is it a successful game that is another question its wildly successful. Do I think it will last 20 years like Eq1,2 and Wow ? No it wont Zos will milk the cow shoot it and devour anything of value.
  • zaria
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    its one of the three relevant MMO out now, others are FF14 and WOW, most WOW refugees ranks it highest.
    However if more into JRPG FF14 is probably on top.
    Note that this will not change fast, MMO is the definition of life services as in they was life services +20 years before it became an consent as how to release an broken game.
    Yes current life services kind of forget, fix it over the years :)
    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
  • idk
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    While it is not the first time someone asked a rigged question like this, but curious what OP actually expected. Those answering now are not playing this game or are just chronic complainers.

    Lets be real. Who frequents a forum for a game they think is bad? Trolls is about is since anyhow who truly thinks this game is bad has moved on to something else.
  • FierceSam
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    Clearly we all think ESO is a good game to some extent otherwise we’d be idiots to be here.

    I mean I don’t go on forums for games I don’t think are any good.
  • logarifmik
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    It's decent.
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  • Wolfpaw
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    idk wrote: »
    While it is not the first time someone asked a rigged question like this, but curious what OP actually expected. Those answering now are not playing this game or are just chronic complainers.

    Lets be real. Who frequents a forum for a game they think is bad? Trolls is about is since anyhow who truly thinks this game is bad has moved on to something else.

    You can believe this game is both.

    GoodGreat: TES universe, graphics, combat, art style, crafting, topography, character customization, pvp, & pve.

    Bad: management, stability, lfg system, server, engine, bugs, & quantity>quality.

    The bad overshadows the good. Exception for those players that just play house, dress-up, rp, & crown store.

    Edited by Wolfpaw on June 16, 2019 3:57AM
  • Mojmir
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    so much potential
  • ryzen_gamer_gal
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    Are justice and mercy and love and kindness and peacemaking lifted up, exalted in the story line?

    Or is it murder, destruction, thievery, betrayal, war, and injustice that are exalted in the story line?

    What then is GOOD about it.
    Edited by ryzen_gamer_gal on June 16, 2019 12:40AM
  • Ashtaris
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    Considering the wife and I have been involved with the game since beta, and have held our subscriptions continuously since the start of the game, I would say it’s a good game :) Neither one of us are into FPS games, and Skyriim was the motivation to try this game when it was released. We have both enjoyed it and have multiple characters for different roles.

    Having said this, it hasn’t been a perfect game. I hated the sustain nerfs done during Morrowind as we lost a lot of guildies during that purge. Also not too happy with the last round of NB nerfs, but it is what it is and so far we are still playing. It will be a sad day however when the time comes that ZOS totally mucks up the game so badly it will be time for us to leave, and unfortunately, that day will probably come.
  • Deathlord92
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    I been playing since eso came to console yup I love it. It’s a good game imo but it does have its faults.
  • Cążki
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    ZOS must to do lfg and performance upgrade for eu. goodnight
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  • Greg11jkalfa
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    idk wrote: »
    While it is not the first time someone asked a rigged question like this, but curious what OP actually expected. Those answering now are not playing this game or are just chronic complainers.

    Lets be real. Who frequents a forum for a game they think is bad? Trolls is about is since anyhow who truly thinks this game is bad has moved on to something else.

    @idk I frequent the forums, and I think the game is amazing. But I guess I'm just a bad OP as usual..

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  • Kitty_Quietly
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    Tasear wrote: »
    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.
    I don’t know anything about WOW because I never played it. Even ESO trailers probably wouldn’t mean much if I didn’t already like Elder Scrolls from randomly playing Morrowind years ago. Is it even possible to show all the possibilities in such large games through trailers?

    Anyway, I agree ESO has loads of stuff to do. For me, the game seems great because there’s always something to do. Every update seems to add cool stuff too. A game in constant positive evolution is nice. Granted, I play mostly solo, low stress shenanigans ( quests, dolmen runs, or daily things) so obviously my view of the game is different than many others. Excellent game for someone like me though.

  • jcm2606
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    It's a good game that's poorly managed, to the point where technical issues (client & server performance, server stability, bugs, technical balance issues (ie refusal to properly balance something because "it's too hard"), etc) are significantly hurting the experience.
  • Ixilith
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    Tandor wrote: »
    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?

    its neither its a exercise in mediocrity , its a game that ticks a lot of boxes but does non of them welll

    Care to explain? That's very much a tiny minority view given that even the game's critics think that it does a lot of things extremely well, they just think it does some other things extremely badly. They wouldn't still be here if they thought there was nothing that was done well - so why, out of interest, are you still here if you think the whole thing is mediocre? It's not like there isn't any competition in the market.

    i refuse to purchase anything after morrowind . Here , is a list .

    1. and this is major no game has left their alternate advancement a flat system tyhat leads to no where. 5 years post launch i would expect the CP system to have evolved and have role and class definition with active abilities unlocked. games with far less of aa budget have been able to expand alternate advancment class and race selections by 3 x the amount ZOS has with a massive budget.

    2) . content is essentialy the same since the released wrothgar its copy and paste leveing content with no levels or emegrging game play. matter o fact game play has gone backwards in all area's performance emergence and complexcity.

    3). they charge extremely high dollar compared to what other MMO's give for a expansion, im not talking about the quarterly DLC im talking about chapters.

    Hmm, the CP did evolve, CP wasn’t there 5 years ago, and you had veteran points beforehand which people absolutely hated. CP was what your original build turn into, also if you look at their Time table they’ve organised revamping CP later this year. In Q4 lol.

    Second problem. That’s just mmorpg industry, they All suffer this. Although I’d like to see a expansion increase the level cap to maybe throw the old sets away, have a chance at creating some end game only zones at some point to really flip the meta out.

    Now pricing, I wouldn’t say it’s entirely bad, I’d agree they are abit more small scale. But they also cheaper then the costs of other expansions. But again these expansions have been a designed to not punish players who don’t purchase it. So I guess it will have some flaws.
  • mann9753b16_ESO
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    Tasear 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"

    That would be a dream come ture^^

    I would like instanced Delves to have a solo option, but I am sure that would be alot of Work for the servers...
  • Bryath
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    Voted 'Good', but its a 6/10 kind of good. I love the combat (when it lasts more than 3 seconds), housing is good, quests/stories are great, but the bad joke that is overland/delve combat brings it down 3/10. I wouldn't recommend the game to a friend unless they like visual novels or humping dungeons over and over.
  • Rake
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    its a solid game with bad lag
  • BrooksP
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    Really neither, more so a time sink. It is a game that tries to do everything and appeal to everyone, which leads to being nothing. It is good in select areas(story telling/world development) but then blunders it as it has no real relevancy.
  • Nemesis7884
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    Do you think these polls are useful or pointless?
  • MaxJrFTW
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    Good game, but severely understaffed, at least that's the impression they give.
    "I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."
    ―Ulrich Leland, 3E 433
  • Aurie
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    Do you think these polls are useful or pointless?

    This particular poll is probably only vaguely useful to ZOS (if they are interested in seeing what a small sample of the player base think of it in generalised terms).

    I find some of the posts slightly entertaining, but basically in a poll like this you either like the game or you don't.

  • Comixfan
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    Do you think that ESO is a good, or bad game?

    I think it was good, but it needs a lot of work and changes to become good again.

    The performance issues need to be fixed as a priority. Zenimax need to admit there's problems and keep players informed as to expected fix dates.

    They should also stop subs ticking down until such time as the performance issues are fixed.

    They also need to become more alt friendly. There's signs of alt friendliness with things like champion points, houses, mounts, pets, assistants, costumes, dyes, etc being account wide, but then you get things like achievements, riding speed/stamina/capacity, skyshards etc that are not account wide. Instead things like the riding stuff and skyshards they've turned into a cash grab.

    (What's truly bizarre is that achievements are not account wide, yet the dyes you unlock from certain achievements are!)

    Make up your mind, Zenimax. Do you want ESO to be an alt friendly game or not?

    And for the love of all that's holy ADD OCEANIC SERVERS!

    If Blizzard can do it for WoW, surely you can do it for ESO.
  • Moorbis
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    In my opinion this game does everything better than WoW. But Azeroth will be my main mmo universe for a while longer, it's just old and clunky. Which is why we need a WoW#2, with new combat mechanics and updated graphics. Really liking the questing too with the good voice acting and interesting stories.
  • Tandor
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    Do you think these polls are useful or pointless?

    That sounds like a question for a poll!
  • srfrogg23
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    It has far more good qualities than bad.
  • Tigerseye
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    Good and bad.

    More bad than good, right now, for me.
  • Tigerseye
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    Wolfpaw wrote: »
    idk wrote: »
    While it is not the first time someone asked a rigged question like this, but curious what OP actually expected. Those answering now are not playing this game or are just chronic complainers.

    Lets be real. Who frequents a forum for a game they think is bad? Trolls is about is since anyhow who truly thinks this game is bad has moved on to something else.

    You can believe this game is both.

    GoodGreat: TES universe, graphics, combat, art style, crafting, topography, character customization, pvp, & pve.

    Bad: management, stability, lfg system, server, engine, bugs, & quantity>quality.

    The bad overshadows the good. Exception for those players that just play house, dress-up, rp, & crown store.

    Playing "house" and "dress-up" isn't even that great at the moment.

    The latest Crown Store Laurel is bugging and the Elsweyr houses are horrible.

    Also, some of the Elsweyr furnishings are low res (despite being purple quality).

    I'll choose to overlook your derogatory choice of descriptions for artistic expression. :smile:
    Edited by Tigerseye on June 16, 2019 12:54PM
  • usmguy1234
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    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?

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  • Wifeaggro13
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    Ixilith wrote: »
    Tandor wrote: »
    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?

    its neither its a exercise in mediocrity , its a game that ticks a lot of boxes but does non of them welll

    Care to explain? That's very much a tiny minority view given that even the game's critics think that it does a lot of things extremely well, they just think it does some other things extremely badly. They wouldn't still be here if they thought there was nothing that was done well - so why, out of interest, are you still here if you think the whole thing is mediocre? It's not like there isn't any competition in the market.

    i refuse to purchase anything after morrowind . Here , is a list .

    1. and this is major no game has left their alternate advancement a flat system tyhat leads to no where. 5 years post launch i would expect the CP system to have evolved and have role and class definition with active abilities unlocked. games with far less of aa budget have been able to expand alternate advancment class and race selections by 3 x the amount ZOS has with a massive budget.

    2) . content is essentialy the same since the released wrothgar its copy and paste leveing content with no levels or emegrging game play. matter o fact game play has gone backwards in all area's performance emergence and complexcity.

    3). they charge extremely high dollar compared to what other MMO's give for a expansion, im not talking about the quarterly DLC im talking about chapters.

    Hmm, the CP did evolve, CP wasn’t there 5 years ago, and you had veteran points beforehand which people absolutely hated. CP was what your original build turn into, also if you look at their Time table they’ve organised revamping CP later this year. In Q4 lol.

    Second problem. That’s just mmorpg industry, they All suffer this. Although I’d like to see a expansion increase the level cap to maybe throw the old sets away, have a chance at creating some end game only zones at some point to really flip the meta out.

    Now pricing, I wouldn’t say it’s entirely bad, I’d agree they are abit more small scale. But they also cheaper then the costs of other expansions. But again these expansions have been a designed to not punish players who don’t purchase it. So I guess it will have some flaws.

    CP was the replacement for VR yes, i played from launch. the system was implemented june 2016. since then it has not eveolved at all you can think what ever you want but no MMO has left there alternate advancement stagnent like this ever. 3 years in games with smaller teams and far less money were abelt to have multiple layers class definiton ,actives and role definition
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