Did I made a mistake returning to ES0?

FixedBlade123 · June 2019

I've been playing since day one. There are good days and bad days but the glitches have been horrible lately. Often time the audio is 3 to 5 seconds the action. Often times I'm getting about one or two screens per second. SUPER glitchy. Of course, load times are always in lag mode. I just don't understand why such a wealthy company like Z can't just fix the problems!!?? It makes no sense. I would rather see a smooth game rather than all the side frills. Get the basics down then start adding things on.

FixedBlade123 · June 2019

I wish there was an edit feature (if there is ... I can't find it). Anyway ... posting the same as above with some edits:

I've been playing since day one. There are good days and bad days but the glitches have been horrible lately. Often time the audio is 3 to 5 seconds behind the action. Often times I'm getting about one or two screenshots per second. SUPER glitchy. Of course, load times are always in lag mode. I just don't understand why such a wealthy company like Z can't just fix the problems!!?? It makes no sense. I would rather see a smooth game rather than all the side frills. Get the basics down then start adding things on.

ESO is an awesome game. I really love it. But the sporadic motion, lag times, etc. makes it super frustrating to play a lot of the time. What really has me bothered at the moment is that we didn't get any Champion points at the Elsweyr add-on. In fact, my DK Stam is actually weaker or less effective than before so I took a step backward. Disheartening to say the least.

vonknobby · June 2019

Walman wrote: »

After 3 years I returned to the game, but its a bugfest and reading the forum here don't make me any happier. I remember ESO as a almost bugfree game some years ago, what happend? I also play WOW and that game is flawless and smooth, big difference there.

Don't wanna compare the 2 games, but is ESO programming crew out of his depth and the megaserver concept a mistake?

If you're basing the equity of a game on it's forums, you're going to have a bad time.

Are you enjoying the game? Do any of the issues directly effect you regularly or ruin your time playing?

Don't base your experience, on the experience of others.

khajiitNPC · June 2019

Personally, if you have to ask, then it sounds like a resounding yes.

Forums are never the best place to ask an opinion. It can give you a general consensus but a very skewed one.

I used to play PC moved to Xbox. I have an Xbox one x. I’ve yet to see any sort of ‘game breaking’ bugs. Yes occasionally I’ll get a frame rate drop in Cyrodiil at pop locked hours. And yes sometimes the performance is not up to par — but! If it is so frustrating that you are genuinely angry, then it’s time to disconnect from the game.

Also it’s laughable and misleading to compare WoW stability to ESO (where it is better than ESO), but it’s nowhere near as demanding on your computer.

Which is the final point nobody wants to hear. Maybe it’s time to upgrade, to make sure your ISP is working as it should, to optimize your settings.

Now I’m not saying ESO doesn’t have issues. But I’ve yet to experience “game breaking” bugs. Sure a few hangs ups here and there, but nothing that “ruins” my fun. I suggest maybe going outside for a while.

Mathius_Mordred · June 2019

elvenmad wrote: »

Reverb wrote: »

SilverPaws wrote: »

Matter about what content ingame are you looking for.
If you just want to quest or do housing then game is fine.
If you want to go PvP or endgame raiding then it's really not game for you. PvP is unplayable most of the time and even in trials the ping is just really bad.

Pretty much this. If you like to adventure, craft, or decorate, and treat your mmos as a solo pve game with a social community, you’ll be very happy with eso. If you prefer pvp or group content this game is maddening, due to the bugs, connectivity, and zeni’s poor communication on all of it.

My feelings also, only be back to the game 2 weeks , I was planning to subscribe after a few weeks and get back into it deep, but been put off by so many issues, just issues I have come across myself I know there are tons more, Plus biggest off put for me up to now is the appalling communication from CM's regarding the E3 event, stayed up until like 4 am watched the whole event with my linked account was really looking forward to the new mount, but have not received a thing as yet and theres been no communication about the matter from ZOS, its very off putting, been back 2 weeks and already lost faith in the company.

You linked your own personal twitch account to your game account and didn't receive anything? Are you absolutely sure you were watching the show on your personal twitch feed and not via a hosted site? Everyone in our guild, who had explicit instructions on how to do this, who took part has received the rewards. If you are sure then contact support, they should sort it out for you.

Mathius_Mordred · June 2019

hmsdragonfly wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

LiraTaurwen wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

LiraTaurwen wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

Reverb wrote: »

SilverPaws wrote: »

Matter about what content ingame are you looking for.
If you just want to quest or do housing then game is fine.
If you want to go PvP or endgame raiding then it's really not game for you. PvP is unplayable most of the time and even in trials the ping is just really bad.

Pretty much this. If you like to adventure, craft, or decorate, and treat your mmos as a solo pve game with a social community, you’ll be very happy with eso. If you prefer pvp or group content this game is maddening, due to the bugs, connectivity, and zeni’s poor communication on all of it.

Hmm, and yet our guild manages to do one or two trials a day at peak time on the EU server with no issues at all. Those who do complain about FPS always admit it's down to their potato rig or *** internet connection. Last night we had one bug in nHRC where an overcharger got stuck in a wall near the start and we had to restart the trial, that's the first time we've had to do that. An occasional glitch is usual in a complex bit of coding, but the way some people describe it here you'd think it was a case of 100% uptime bugs online.

For proof here is last night's trial events:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/439991332?t=00h03m35s

Of course it does not affecr everyone, might be time or play or other combination of factors but nonine can deny thewe issues are affecting a whole of people.
Only idiots would come here with such an attitude by the way... One day it might affect you and your guild too lol
NA players used to come crap all over EU topics and look what happens now lol it sucks when the problems happen directly to you.

Hypocrisy everywhere!

So I am an idiot for showing proof that we had no issues, and if you care to look back at ALL our other videos for the last 60 days you will also see no issues, so I'm an idiot for telling people of our experience? Who isn't an idiot then, I suppose only people who agree with you are intelligent erudite scribes telling it how it really is and everyone else, even those with video evidence are at best misguided and at worst trollish idiots, is that right?

Idiots who downplay the current issues because they are not affected. Can't you all see someday it might affect you? Don't you all want a game that works for all the community? I can't understand this. And please don't play the all high and mighty, that comment about people admitting they only have issues because of potato pcs and bad connection is a slap on the face for a lot of people here who experience this terrible performance everyday.

Your use of the English language will be your downfall, I am going to put it down to you not being a native English speaker and leave it at that.

Ask yourself this:

If these issues do not affect every player, as you admitted earlier, then how can it be a problem on the server? E.G. If the server is down, as it is now for patching, then every player who tries to connect sees the same error, Server down for maintenance.

Now, if two people living in different countries on different ISP providers and with vastly different computer specifications have vastly different experiences are you surprised? However if two people with almost identical PCs living in the same area and using the same ISP at the same broadband speed have a vastly different experience which alternates between player 1 and player 2, then you could say there is a problem with the game or servers, however in the latter example I am speaking from experience, my son and I both play, neither of us have most of the problems you and many others speak of.

Now, that is not to say there are no bugs or issues with ping and FPS because we all know there are, especially when it's at peak time in a busy area like Cyrodiil, in this case it does affect everyone, this is a server bandwidth problem and is currently being addressed. Bugs like battering rams in the air are also down to bandwidth issues, if it was a persistent bug then they would always be up in the air.

It is necessary to understand the anatomy of a bug and the anatomy of packet loss before climbing on a bandwagon, in many many cases it is down to local conditions client side, the only real issue server side is bandwidth, which we have been told is being increased over the course of the year. If you are still experiencing issues during off-peak load conditions then take a look at your ISP, your router (switch it off for 5 minutes), your wi-fi (get it on LAN if possible) and your PC specs.

From the twitch feeds I have shared, which are on the EU server at Peak hours 8pm - 10pm, you can clearly see that there are no issues, you will, however, hear one person talking about lag, ask him why and it's because his internet connection is crap.

So, are there problems? Yes, but they are either server bandwidth issues or Client side issues or both. The former is being addressed, the latter two are your problem.

Also I don't know why not being a native English speaker is am issue? Why not being a native English speaker is someone's downfall?

Sorry, there was a mix up in communication there, you replied to someone else I was quoting, it wasn't your English I was referring to, but someone else who I think was misunderstanding the language somewhat.

Yuffie91 · June 2019

I dont regret leaving wow for eso after 14 years ^^ at all.

SirAxen · June 2019

GarnetFire17 wrote: »

A Mandatory subscription fee is a deal breaker for any video game to me. Also, FFXIV 's anime look is cringey. And drop the stupid roman numerals already.

The single biggest reason why I won't play FFXIV is because of this right here. I feel like an pervert just looking at it.