Why does this seem like a thinly-veiled virtue signaling post?

I dunno, I'm a cynic I guess.

Why quit now, when the nerfs haven't hit the main game yet? The play experience today is the same as it was last week. And why not post complaints to ZOS on ZOS' forum? Hopefully, the dismay at nerfs will hit ZOS' collective ears and they'll scale changes back before people might quit.

The time to point out forseeable and avoidable catastrophe is before it hits.

Personally, I think the changes stink but I'm not particularly "angry," just a little cynical and jaded

Kadoin wrote: »

I find the hysteria kind of funny considering every patch my builds almost seemed targeted for nerfs, even the hybrids. All it did was anger me for a short while, then I moved on to a different build and way of thinking, rinse and repeat. Funnily enough, every nerf resulted in me gaining strength as well because I better understood the game and tried things I wouldn't have otherwise. It also helped me see just how broken some things are in this game and understand what needed to be nerfed (like what's in the patchnotes).

I know it sucks to have to be knocked down from your godly builds, but look at the bright side: you can at least look forward to a game that feels different. You can look forward to maybe actually losing again. You can look forward to uncertainty and experimentation. Heck, even new bugs to exploi -- I mean report! New everything!

Don't limit your perspective to only the negatives of change when you encounter it, look towards the positive.

Note: Don't quote this when the patch hits live with changes that nerf me and I rage post...

Y'know, I think I will save your post for later... Told-You-So is my favorite game Don't worry, I only play it in my head.

Losing to me is for platformers, competitive stuff, timed puzzle games, or maybe a rough end boss fight in a single player game. I play this game for storytime and to relax. I don't care about deep system learning or min-maxxing or group content or competitive modes like PvP or trials. I just want to quest and chill.

Every single skill on my fuzzy-bunny-slippers petsorc toon is getting massive nerfs. I recently finished Elsweyr with her after finishing the main story on my less fun magdk. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to trap everything and nuke it into oblivion while my pets kept the aggro off me. I haven't had that much fun in the game in months. Magden isn't that much fun, and magdk requires a lot of attention and twitch.

Making me wear the gaming equivalent of platform stilletos isn't something I'll ever look forward to

I am only happy when I am angry!

And nothing makes me angrier than being happy!

SammyPeer wrote: »

The vast majority of posts on the forum that I have read during today's maintenance are negative in nature.

So I wondered "Why does the player continue playing if they are not having fun anymore?".

Any thoughts?

So, there will always be SOME toxic, "I'm quitting if you do this!". This isn't the only game to ever have that issue.

Even if these changes happen, I'll still love the social interactions, questing, and trading/outfit/housing. All of those don't involve being too interactive with the changes I dislike, which is neat.

But, we also comment because we care.

In my opinion, all I'm getting out of these changes is that there's general indecisiveness about what skills should be after this game being here for years.

Players care about the state of the game, that's why we comment and give our detailed feedback. So that ZOS will hopefully hear and respond to the players. Though, there's multiple instances where the ESO community feels its being ignored, and there's a general consensus of doubt that our feedback will make any difference. That doesn't stop us from trying, and being vocal about that feedback.

If we say, "Hey, this doesn't work", and ZOS chooses to go on with an idea, and it fails. The only logical answer to that is:

"Hey, these people said this wouldn't work.. Well, they were right." So we may get the changes regardless, but if it's true about how bad people dislike the gameplay following the PTS/update or how 'dysfunctional' it is (for any word), if ZOS doesn't respond accordingly, then they will of course suffer the appropriate consequences.

Whether that is losing players, getting a lot of general anger from the community, or losing money because people decide to stop their subs/crown purchases until something changes

We can't do anything but try. If the players don't feel like they're being listened to, they have every fair reason to be disgruntled and not want to participate furthermore.

Be more concerned when people stop getting upset.

SammyPeer wrote: »

The vast majority of posts on the forum that I have read during today's maintenance are negative in nature.

So I wondered "Why does the player continue playing if they are not having fun anymore?".

Any thoughts?

I've unsubbed and won't be returning to the game until they fix the atrocious performance issues currently plaguing Xbox NA.

I like the idea of making completed skill lines available for alts but I don't like the idea of them charging us for it. We've already put the time and effort in to the game to max out these skill lines. We shouldn't then have to pay to have them on alts.

I've gone back to playing WoW and have unlocked flying in the new zones. It's available on ALL my characters at NO extra expense.

If Blizzard can do it, so can Zenimax.

THE LAGG AND HIGH PING IS EXTREME!

People write about those things, the implementation of which they do not like. That doesn't mean they don't like the whole game. There is also such a saying: "A satisfied customer will share joy with ten people, a dissatisfied customer will share negativity with a hundred.