UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

I think it would be hilarious. Maybe then things would actually improve in the game. What reason do the devs have to improve the ui/buff trackers or other quality of life things for us console folks when they can just download something to make it look better for themselves and not worry about it?

This does bring up a valid point. There are so many essential, quality-of-life changes which SHOULD have been added to the base game at this point after 5 years. Many other good MMOs out there actually improve their UIs and add qol features where they should logically exist because it makes their customers happy and playing. Zo$ however, doesn't seem worried about qol as long as they have a free volunteer workforce which they don't have to pay (addons). Zo$ seems to only worry about how much stuff they have to make for each gamble crate season. They probably have more workforce assigned to swap color palettes on assets than they do on combat, story, and zone dev teams. Heck, I doubt they even have designated employees for UI development because the only improvement they've added was Guild Store filters, which came like 4 (?) years after launch.

Addons do affect performance negatively, and console players can't even access addons, but unless ZoS management gets their *** together and start being concerned with making a better game than a gambling money machine, I don't think these addons aren't going anywhere.

I'd be worried if they didn't close this thread or the one I made here is why. If they are allowing to continue on its likely that the rumors are true. Now I think they do know how much of a hot mess or potato this would be and the backlash if they did it though. So I hope there is a middle ground solution and they will just disable addons that collect data like MM or some other merchant addon that scans in game data. And since this thread has been active since nine or ten am one would figure it might have been closed already. Yet it wasn't closed throughout the entire day. Given their policies they would have most likely closed it. If they didn't then there would likely be either they are out or there is some truth to this. Which I do hope is not the case. But in the past they have done this left a thread open even if it was unconfirmed rumors and they turned out to be true like the previous lore master leaving. Hopefully it isn't the case with this.

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

I agree that the UI needs some overhauls. If the addons do go away, that's not saying that some of the features in current mods might not be added as actual UI upgrades.

Um. Much as I love TES and this game.... I would never hold my breath on that.

Yeah. I can dream. LOL

Alphawolf01A wrote: »

It may be necessary to disable mods temporarily for the big re-install coming up, as many of the mods may not function properly with any new coding from the rewrite. Then the mods could be checked for compatibility and re-activated.

That's already in effect after every Update.

ZOS_AntonioP wrote: »

Hello everyone,

Recently we've had to remove several comments for baiting and flaming, content that violates the Forum Rules. For further posts be sure to stay constructive and respectful to avoid thread derailment or action on one's own account.

Thank you for understanding.

Can you please confirm or not? Because the fact your not closing this is quite telling.
As I do know you guys close threads just for being hearsay with no real basis. The exception is when the rumors are true. Because this thread would technically fall under this.
Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation: We do not tolerate the deliberate and malicious spreading of false info or conspiracy theories about ZeniMax Online Studios, its game(s), or its employees. This does not include honest mistakes; rather, this rule pertains to those who go out of their way to spread harmful or malicious rumors about ZeniMax Online Studios and its employees, or The Elder Scrolls Online.

But this didn't get closed it was just moderated not a very good sign at all.

Sourceless nonsense. Nothing to see here.

I SMELL A TROLL!!!

C'mon this is a troll post intended to freak everyone out while the DEVS are on vacation the MOD that responded earlier was just doing moderation so they weren't the one to ask for a confirmation they were a moderator, forums have them to do just that most times they are senior members of the community or volunteers they are not DEVS thats like going to work yelling at a salesman because he has no idea why the draftsmen used chamfers instead of fillets on some rando project he was told to sell 5 mins after it was given to him to do so. Some one might have said something that got taken way out of context but I highly doubt they would do away with all mods full stop.

UntilValhalla13 wrote: »

I think it would be hilarious. Maybe then things would actually improve in the game. What reason do the devs have to improve the ui/buff trackers or other quality of life things for us console folks when they can just download something to make it look better for themselves and not worry about it?

Except you see they have done improvements to the UI and QOL issues. Aka multicrafting. Nameplates and several other UI enhancements. It's just, as we have seen, that what it takes years for ZOS to release it only takes months for the modding community to address.

Really though I dont see them removing addon. Changing how the API works and what it can access? Well that's more likely.

I heard