Stibbons wrote: »

They really need to invest heavily in servers or this game will die no matter the content they keep adding.

Or they can just hire experienced programmers instead of trainees

I been playing eso since release. I love the game and as a die hard elder scrolls fan in general I try to hold on to hope for eso future.

A. The Hamster memorial they keep at the headquarters.
B. Have you tried powering off and on your router

Any more Questions?

We all know ZoS is raking in money, why not improve servers and rake in more money? How are we supposed to spend money if the servers are down half the time? Almost down or unplayable everyday this week for EU.

p4l4mu7 wrote: »

Servers were never good enough, for years Cyrodiil was unplayable when it was crowded and still is, now we can't even login. Yet they're still trying to save money by not upgrading the servers. They only fix issues when they start losing players. Priority is adding new stuff to crownstore, fixing issues was never their priority.
I wonder what they do with my money other than releasing an update nobody asked for and breaking the game. I don't know what happened to zos but their stinginess will be the end of this game.
Stop creating new content and fix the game first...

It really comes down to their engine . It's a horrid patchwork . it does not matter how good the servers are it what your putting in it and how it handles input and transfers response. Eso is in milk mode it's a half finished idea of a game they rewrote to a single player rpg with online options.

MajBludd wrote: »

Is it possible they see a trend in the loss of players and are in "cash in while we can" mode?

And then what? Shut down the servers and run towards Mexican border?

Move on to the new game they are developing. It’s not to hard to come to the conclusion that this game is in its back 9 of its life cycle .

It’s really as simple as grabbing all the 💵💵💵💵now with little effort and turn the switch on the new shiny.
Most MMO don’t last forever.

p4l4mu7 wrote: »

Stibbons wrote: »

They really need to invest heavily in servers or this game will die no matter the content they keep adding.

Or they can just hire experienced programmers instead of trainees

Did you already submit your resume? No?

Surely, you have a deep technical/programming background involving MMOs that you could make that statement.

I don't think EA is worse, they're both quite bad. I love the Bethesda franchises but they're really making problems / inconveniences on purpose and selling solutions. ESO is technically not pay to win but it has lootboxes same as EA, it has skill lines for sale and skill points / skyshards for sale for veteran players. We could've just had some of these things account wide but they found a way to have us buy undaunted passives and such. They also have that pet on PTS that holds inventory for you. On the other Bethesda side of things, they said FO76 would have no paywall and all items would be cosmetic. Then they did the fallout first thing instead of fixing the game, bait and switch in the pre-order bags, there's repair kits for IRL money, a robot that collects junk for you even in PvP servers, and the clothes from the atom store that give extra stats. I don't think they're inherently pay to win, but Pete Hines said there would be no stuff like this. They could've just kept fixing the game but instead they copied ESO's subscription model and went back on their word. They literally said on a blog post they will no longer sell cosmetics only on the store, then they released all this. And you can't even mod the private fo76 servers.

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

SipofMaim wrote: »

It will be interesting to revisit this topic after Dragon Age 4 and Elders Scrolls VI come out. Place your bets now for which series will be wrecked harder and more definitively.

i am pretty cautious at this point with regards to TES VI after seeing Fallout 76...or do you have any doubt that they will try to nickel and dime the community horse armor style? The best thing that could happen to fallout and elder scrolls if microsoft bought the franchise and gave it to obsidian...

Honestly, no other mmo i play or see has the same issues - which tells me the problem is structural - e.g. caused by the mega server structure... same with all the skill change that try to ease performance on the server...

I think this mega server structure is the issue and therefore we will not see a real improvement of performance...maybe a slow down of its decay

I agree with you. The megaserver was a cool idea that has failed. If they could fix it, they would have done so long before now.

There's always hope for technical or software innovations, but since they're now trying to address performance by changing combat abilities, I think we're down to bandaids and luck.