Are you happy with the game overall

Elsonso · November 2019

Disappointed but hopefully

caperb wrote: »

I play since beta, but this is the first time in all those years that when I come across a better medieval fantasy mmo I will switch to that game. In the meantime I will continue playing eso.

I used to say that there was nothing better than ESO on the market. Then Update 24 and suddenly the game is not as much fun for the character that I want to play. Yes, I can rebuild to make the character comply with the changes in the Update, and I have done that in the past. This time, not feeling it.

Now, even Minecraft is looking attractive against ESO.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »

Starting to believe Elder Scrolls can’t be a real MMO. This series is know for near endless choices and play styles while ESO has tons of sets most are just beyond subpar.

I am not sure what Elder Scrolls you play, but I have to go back to Morrowind to find the last Elder Scrolls game that even attempted to deliver on what you just said. Starting with Oblivion, the Elder Scrolls transition to what is now ESO began.

Lylith · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

akl77 wrote: »

For a quest dlc, the quests are horrible, tedious, bad designed, it can win the worst quest design of all games reward.
Not to mention the lag, dcs and numerous serious bugs that plague the game and never get fixed.
Plus the horrible low iq class and combat changes the whole year.
It’s a disappointment.
All I can say is ZOS probably been lazy this year, or only 1 or 2 people working to get this dlc out. The 17mil dragon fight at the ending, I mean just because people complain quest boss too easy does not mean simply adding more boss health and making more adds to make the fight drag on forever. Bad designed.

yeah, that's a paradigm of lazy programming, imho.

'tedious...' there's that word again.

BXR_Lonestar · November 2019

Only been playing ~ 3 years, but I'm mostly happy with the game overall. The amount of content and options this game gives you is amazing. The worlds and the stories are mostly fantastic.

My one BIG issue with the game is that they continue to add content to the game without addressing server performance issues, so the game has continued to get more and more buggy and server performance has continued to degrade, at least over the time span that I have played the game.

Kahnak · November 2019

Just content

Solid poll. Always good to leave some room for nuance.

I honestly love this game. That being said, I feel like I'm being more and more critical of the way that ZOS utilizes it's own resources. The Scalebreaker patch was a real let down for me. Even though I agreed with quite a few of the changes made during that patch, I did not agree with the blanket changes they made to abilities without any real explanation other than that was the direction they were heading. It seems to me like they truly squandered all of their dragon and necromancer hype simply because the new Combat lead felt the need to make a big change in order to distinguish themselves from the previous Combat lead. While I don't think all of the changes that have been made are bad, it has occurred to me that ZOS can't avoid shooting themselves in the foot for whatever reason. Also, this 'new and improved' version of the group finder is worse than the old one. I'm not inclined to unsubscribe as of yet, but if this is the direction they continue to take and another good looking MMO comes along, I may just do it. I earnestly hope that it doesn't.

vibeborn · November 2019

Very happy

I'm very happy

Just two years ago it was completely out of the question that I should ever play a game like this, but it's probably the gift I've spent most time using and I haven't regretted it

Sure there are bumps on the road, but as someone who worked in the IT department at a hospital, where if something went wrong it would get on the front page of the local news paper, I don't consider the game itself bad for whatever problems may occur

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · November 2019

Just here cause of the friends I made/time invested

Siohwenoeht wrote: »

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »

Siohwenoeht wrote: »

I'm in a holding pattern with the game. I've adjusted to all the recent combat changes fairly well, but I'm reluctant to build for any endgame content other than PVP for the moment. My hope is we'll see what the actual combat direction is soon, but I'm not going to build for trials or vet dlc until it's done.

I'm not fond of the direction of monetization, but unfortunately that is seeping into single player titles now as well. It could be the new standard and us old gamers will just have to live with it, idk...

I haven't experienced nearly the performance issues that some have, but I'd like to see the game more stable especially post patches.

That’s how they win players just learning to live with it. Ipaid full price for this game and monthly membership they should have enough to keep the lights on and get paid. This is greed and the only way to beat greed is to starve the beast.

25-30 years ago I'd have been right with you. But in this day and age, you'd need to change the midset of the younger adult/teen generation. I've stood on picket lines and fought with corporations, but I'll tell you this, a product or service stops making money, that product or service just goes away. Nothing is permanent anymore.

With the box price and subs all you have to do is have a good quality game and the players will reward your work on so many don’t understand how packed to the rim this game was on launch we had much higher PvP caps and three full camps. They had to drop alliances in PvE so to get the world to look like it did on year one.

They had the player base they had the subs from 100% of players cause it was a sub game and they just half *** it and started to bleed gamers greed and no clear path forward is killing this game

Rake · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

yeah...

Indoril_Nerevar · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

No because most of you are incredibly *** up and treat people like ***.

It gets so sad and pathetic too. Hopping on multiple accounts and telling your friends to like your stuff and make the same comments as you. God now apply that ingame.

Lmfao right!?!

Forums define more idiots who ruined the game and much LESS of players who actually have useful information or a decent head on their shoulder for that matter.

It literally has chased everyone away. And the gameplay sucks now too so thats just a TERRIBLE combination.

It gets so bad - you cant even provide accurate information. Suddenly your thread is swarmed with a load of crap to make it look bad or to get it removed.

Its all a joke and most of you are just losers. Its so easy to find one who isnt. Thats why I never reply hardly.

My thread today is a perfect example of how unreliable and unfriendly and just pointless dealing with anyone is.

Atleast Me and MY guild are cool people and 400 strong! So I never gave a ***. But its nice to be better than them just as annoying as it is to deal with it just because you PLAY a game where there is an OVER ABUNDABCE of losers, and to still stick around no matter what people do or say?

Yeah I'm King than.

Its like having the bigger ***. Thats why idgaf about notifications no more. I just want my point across and im done while they waste their time being *** who will never change

I think someone broke me today. Oh well. Only a loser could

but thats the most important thing man..Thats what im explaining...

Just Get Your Point Across! Who cares how it was done!

Neoealth · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

Bored of the game right now, on bit of a break. Tired of all the changes that make little sense. And sick to the back teeth of all the performance issues and false promises to fix them.

Still paying for eso + though for reasons. So ZOS loves me. Paying customer who does not add to server strain.

Sarannah · November 2019

Quite happy with the game overall, but I really wish they would remove the gold cost from traveling to wayshrines/houses, and give use wayshrines for in our houses. So we don't have to leave the house, go to nearest wayshrine, then go to where I want to go, then travel further on foot. This is three loading screens instead of one.
Due to these restrainst I always feel like I should have alot of time, or I don't even bother logging in. As traveling large distances to/from wayshrines and houses on foot, and going through multiple loading screens unnecessarily takes (a)way too much time. And causes me quite some annoyance. Even with loading screens as short as mine.

This also causes me to quickly wear out when playing TESO for more than a few days at a time, causing me to only resistantly log in for the daily rewards.

But yeah, love the game!

PS: Where are the "Other" and "Quite happy" options? (Also, players can be happy with the game without asking gameplay changes specifically)

Starlock · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

It bears elaboration why I marked this choice.

In terms of the quality of the game content - the stories, the lore - Elder Scrolls Online continues to deliver. If assessed on these matters alone, it's a solid game that I would recommend without hesitation to others who have a love of Elder Scrolls lore and want a giant landscape to craft RPG experiences.

It is because of that high quality content that ESO has long been my sole exception to outright boycotting games that are heavily monetized post-launch with microtransactions. The balance of that equation has shifted substantially for me over the past year. That is why I vote as I do now. Microtransactions in this game have become increasingly predatory, underhanded, and manipulative. It is far, far harder to look the other way these days. It has gotten bad enough that I no longer recommend this game to anyone. In fact, I tell them to stay away.

I have no faith whatsoever that ZoS will change course and make their microtransactions more ethical. I have absolute faith that they will instead make them more predatory, underhanded, and manipulative.

GrimTheReaper45 · November 2019

Just here cause of the friends I made/time invested

Ya im basically here to just talk in guild chat and update member notes. Over the last year and a half I have just completely lost interest and stopped caring. I dont see zos ever fixing things, which is sad because there was a time when this game was amazing.

Biggest issues imo:

1) Combat, They have just sucked every bit of fun out of it.
2) Frequent major combat changes, I know this is sort of conflicting with #1 but I and a lot of other players are sick of "adapting" every patch. Like ya, combat sucks massively and definitely needs to be improved. At the same time though its like Im burnt asf on relearning the game every patch. I dont even want to see another eso patch note combat section as long as i live.
3) Performance and game stability, its trash. Lag, lag spikes causing temporary freezing, permanent freezing, game crashing, usually long load screens, bugs, dungeon finder sucking (still), whole server bursting into flames every hr (im not pc eu but I got you fam, remember i had your back the next time they nerf sorc)

WeerW3ir · November 2019

A year ago yes. Now? Nope

Gnome_Saiyan · November 2019

Very happy

Love the game.

The forums on the other hand...actually, ya know what...

AndyMac · November 2019

Just content

By content, I mean that the positives generally outweigh the negatives.

I’ve been happy to let my annual sub renew this year.

Positives

- there’s always too much to do in the game - it’s a ton of game for the money.

- not hard to get a decent challenge in the game - non hm vet DLC dungeons, vMA and vet CP PvP are about right for me - ZOS keeps delivering some great new dungeon content.

- The ESO community is generally fun to be a part of.

- The Tamriel environment is beautiful- one of the best looking games I’ve ever seen.

- the Oceanic ping was seriously improved this year.

Negatives

- Basic stuff just plain doesn’t work - ie BG queues or Event performance- it just seems like amateur hour too often.

- despite the ping improvement, lag is still a real problem.

- other technical problems like glitches and crashes- too often ESO seems like a great game built on a dodgy technical platform

- ridiculous buffs followed by hard nerfs - gameplay people WTH are you doing? How are we supposed to be confident in where you’re going with stuff like this going on.

But, yeah, as I say - I’m generally happy with game.

CiliPadi · November 2019

Just here cause of the friends I made/time invested

There's nothing better out there really at the moment. Once a good MMO comes out, I'm gone.

Aurielle · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

TBH, I think I’m done with this game and MMOs in general. Very close to deconning everything and giving it all away to strangers and guildies.

I enjoy the RPG elements of the game and I adore the Elder Scrolls lore, but I can’t stand doing PVE quests in this game due to their trivial difficulty. Not worth it.

I used to enjoy running dungeons and trials, but keeping up with the meta became exhausting and overly time consuming. Unless you have the free time and the will to log in for 2+ hours every day, the grind is too much. Also, if you’re not able to devote the time often demanded of you by good end game guilds, you’re left to run with pugs and deal with all the frustration that goes along with running with pugs. Not worth it.

I used to enjoy PVP, but performance is terrible in Cyrodiil and queuing for BGs is often an infuriating experience. The gear grind is also exhausting/frustrating for PVP, as is the lack of balance. The constant back and forth during the buff/nerf cycles, continually trying to adapt to overpowered FOTM cheese builds, etc... Not worth it.

I’ve decided now that if I want to enjoy PVP, I need to play PVP games that AREN’T loot-based sandboxes. Battlefield, for instance, does not force players to spend hours upon hours grinding for better weapons or golden combat boots or whatever. Starter weapons are not inherently weaker than max level weapons. There are no complex class skill systems or stat pools to exploit. Success is based on skill, not gear cheese or zerging. It’s possible for a single small group to back cap a flag and change the course of a battle while the zergs focus on one objective. Try doing that in Cyrodiil with a group of four!

I’ve also decided now that if I want an enjoyable RPG experience, single-player is the way to go. Going back to games like Witcher 3 demonstrates just how shallow the RPG elements of MMOs are, and how frustrating it is to LOSE progress. When I return to Witcher 3 after a break, Geralt is as powerful as he was when I last played the game. I don’t have to rebuild EVERYTHING, and I don’t have to get rid of gear that was previously difficult to earn.

Overall, I’m more interested in playing games that excel at ONE thing rather than games that try to do it all with mediocre results. I’m also more interested in playing games that DON’T require days/weeks of grinding out gear and levels before you can even BEGIN to play the game effectively. So yeah, it has been a good run, but I think I’m officially done with ESO/all MMOs. Investing time and money into a game genre that does not respect those investments just doesn’t seem worth it to me anymore.

stevenyaub16_ESO · November 2019

Very happy

I'd say I'm happy but would like to see more group content. Would have been nice to see another group arena with Dragonhold.

I've done almost all content and I'd say all the trials, story content is excellent.

But i think the weakest elements is the PVP (gets stale fast, would be better if Cyrodil had keep/terrain variety) and world bosses feel underutilised.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO · November 2019

Disappointed but hopefully

this game showed so much promise...that didn't change and im still hoping il be disappointed soon cuz right now its enjoyable yes but we have issues that needs addressing asap...I rly rly hope q1 and q2 fixes will be major cuz otherwise with the amount of competition that's happening next year I dont see eso in a bright spot...after all there has been 5+ years with no challenge and beth/zos been sleeping on their whiskers...time to prove us all wrong and make ESO great again!

Salix_alba · November 2019

Very happy

still playing after all this time other games have come and gone but im still here

Vlad9425 · November 2019

This patch is the least fun this game has been in years imo.

Huyen · November 2019

Happy but would like to see gameplay changes

It all depends on your expectations. If you just play for fun like me, whenever you feel like it, you'll be happy. If you are a die-hard pvper then you will be dissapointed.

markulrich1966 · November 2019

I am mastercrafter with 10 toons on xbox EU.

Daily routine of crafting writs and delves/worldbosses for mats. Rarely Cyro, no Trials.

While those tasks get boring (have 800 shimmering sand meanwhile), they allowed me to get some of the "nice to have" stuff for free, like several houses I bought with gold.
Once you reach this point, you start to miss the normal gameplay though. you *could* play sidequests, but always have in mind "but I could farm more mats, to get even richer".

So when I could not login to xbox EU last weekend, I started from scratch on xbox NA.
And I love it. Have no mats or champion points, just my knowledge and some gold that I exchanged with another player.

Without the ability to craft, I actually focus on questing again. The boredom is gone.
Someone kindly crafted training gear for me, so although I'm noticably weaker than on EU, I can do all quests pretty well. Much better than formerly with my first toon on EU.
Not frustrating, but fun.

People say, that nerfs made the game unplayable, this is not true imho, as my example shows. It is just a question of what you are used to. You focus on one special playstyle, started to ignore the rest of all the content the game offers, and thus feel disappointed if you are suddenly weaker. Too high expectations.

If you lower those, open up again to explore the game, then it can be again a pretty nice experience, like currently for me.

Nordic__Knights · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

AFTER PUTTING 13,000 HRS INTO THE GAME OVER THE LAST 4 1/2 YEARS ITS AT ITS ALL TIME WORSE CAN'T EVEN STAND TO LOG IN ANYMORE TO HURTFUL TBH LOVED THIS GAME BUT ZOS MUST HATE IT SINCE THEIR "KILLING IT"

WeerW3ir · November 2019

Nordic__Knights wrote: »

AFTER PUTTING 13,000 HRS INTO THE GAME OVER THE LAST 4 1/2 YEARS ITS AT ITS ALL TIME WORSE CAN'T EVEN STAND TO LOG IN ANYMORE TO HURTFUL TBH LOVED THIS GAME BUT ZOS MUST HATE IT SINCE THEIR "KILLING IT"

Took some time to you to lose faith in them.

GreenhaloX · November 2019

Petitioning to change this game's name officially to Elder Scrolls Crashfest Online. ZOS and the game developers, your overall performance rating has been nerfed back down to 55%.

SydneyGrey · November 2019

Happy but would like to see gameplay changes

I still love this game, but the endless nerfs have negatively affected how much I love it. I still haven't forgiven them for needlessly taking the fun out of using a bow, when they killed the ability to keep your bow drawn while you aim it at an enemy. It was one of those needless PvP nerfs that everybody hated, and sucked much of the fun out of using a bow.

Nordic__Knights · November 2019

Disappointed with no faith in ZoS

WeerW3ir wrote: »

Nordic__Knights wrote: »

AFTER PUTTING 13,000 HRS INTO THE GAME OVER THE LAST 4 1/2 YEARS ITS AT ITS ALL TIME WORSE CAN'T EVEN STAND TO LOG IN ANYMORE TO HURTFUL TBH LOVED THIS GAME BUT ZOS MUST HATE IT SINCE THEIR "KILLING IT"

Took some time to you to lose faith in them.

I tried to be hopeful been playing ES games since ARENA dropped but the company i ONCE love has turn to greedy its about the money not the players now and its sad imho

FierceSam · November 2019

Happy but would like to see gameplay changes

Currently I am somewhere between, No and F the hell No