I'm as unsatisfied as most with ESO performance (and I play on PC-EU, if you know what I mean...) but targeting this patch in particular seems a bit misguided. This patch was about making the game folder smaller and improving load times. It was not a "performance patch". There are other actions planned for later this year.

This is not to say I have faith in ZOS' ability to deliver. I do not. My sub is cancelled as I wait to be proved wrong. It's understandable that people are upset and impatient when problems aren't fixed for years. But targeting this patch in your post could easily be answered with "we never said everything would be fixed in this patch".

Unfortunately, your only options are put up with it for as long as you still think it's worth it, or leave. If enough people are content to take the game as it is, not much will ever be done.

It would have been ok for me if the performance would have at least stayed at the bad pre-patch level. But it got so much worse.

Dear god... I hope the console patch doesn't create the same mess as it has on PC..

i think the problem is simply the megaserver architecture that probably was never engineered for that many players and content...

I see alot of reasoning and assumptions in multiple threads that seem plausible. We even have some resident programmers that chime in surmising what the issues may be. What I rarely see is any fleshed out PR from ZOS over what's going on. Barring a once a year CON event or random video someone has to post up and remind everyone about from 2 years ago or whatever, the average player is left aloof wondering what in the world is going on. For me, 50% of the struggle is the actual issues of the game. But the other 50% are the rare bare minimum "by the way we know" comments they give us about the issues. If they were to have an honest and frank explanation of why all this is occurring and what they are (and can't) do to address it, I for one would then relax a bit. But when we have to forum surf and essentially self diagnose with little feedback except impersonal dev responses to our understandable frustrations? that seems pretty unprofessional.

Siohwenoeht wrote: »

I'm not white knighting here, but to be fair, this whole year is supposed to be about improving performance, not just this one patch. The roadmap they gave us toward the end of last year listed incremental changes working towards improved performance.

I totally agree that performance should get worse before it gets better, but this wasn't billed as the "end all, be all" performance patch.

My big problem is their roadmap is bs and they constantly sneak change it.. Everything they are doing is client side. When all the issues are server side.. It will cost money to fix their sever side problems which they refuse to spend. They need to stand up and say that and quit blowing smoke up everyones you know what. In game changes is really the best we can hope for. Easy stuff like lowering group size in cyro, making healing and buffs only stack inside group. Incentivize people to spread out. These things imo would make a huge difference to sever performance inside cyro. Instead we get a bunch of tech jargon that means nothing. I haven't seen we thing in their "roadmap" that will make a difference to the server side issues. Not one.

I have given up hope that performance will ever be fixed inside cyrodiil, but there is ways to make it better. I just wish they would be transparent. I want to know their actual goals and if they believe they are reaching those goals. If there plan is to turn the game into an overland questing lore buff non combat mini game skyrim throwback. Then own it be honest. I started the thread hoping that someone from this company would step up and give us some actual answers.

ZOS_RogerJ wrote: »

We've removed some posts from this thread as they were baiting/bashing in nature. While we completely understand everyone has their own opinions, and even frustrations, we want the forums to be a civil and constructive platform for the game and it's community as a whole.

We need answers mate, and fast. I really pumped a lot of money and effort in this game. What the company can do is deliver a working product. this game is getting worse and worse. Address the issue and come clean about progress and status. GGRRRRR

I've heard rumors that ZOS doesn't fund ESO with its own money. Most of the money that ESO generates is being siphoned away from ESO to develop other projects like Redfall and Starfield. It would be nice to know that the money ESO makes is in fact going towards ESO, and not towards projects that most ESO players wouldn't care that much about. Redfall sure is at least the same genre, but Starfield holds no interest for myself personally. I doubt ZOS would ever admit that they were only giving ESO enough development budget to keep it alive, just so they could milk it for their "actual" projects.

LiquidPony wrote: »

daemonios wrote: »

I'm as unsatisfied as most with ESO performance (and I play on PC-EU, if you know what I mean...) but targeting this patch in particular seems a bit misguided. This patch was about making the game folder smaller and improving load times. It was not a "performance patch". There are other actions planned for later this year.

This is not to say I have faith in ZOS' ability to deliver. I do not. My sub is cancelled as I wait to be proved wrong. It's understandable that people are upset and impatient when problems aren't fixed for years. But targeting this patch in your post could easily be answered with "we never said everything would be fixed in this patch".

Unfortunately, your only options are put up with it for as long as you still think it's worth it, or leave. If enough people are content to take the game as it is, not much will ever be done.

@daemonios

This is a quote from the first paragraph of the patch notes:

Our biggest focus for this update was further improving game performance, with an emphasis on frame rate stability, ultimately resulting in fewer drops in your game’s framerate. The combat changes you’ll see support this goal, which you can read more about in this forum post.

So no, sorry. This *was* a "performance patch".

Patch promised framerate improvements, which we got. They never mentioned server performance for this patch. Those two things are completely unrelated.

They did improve the frame rate overall.

But the server latency is 2 to 3 times higher than before the patch. Skills are animating 3 or 4 times before they actually hit and do damage, some never fire at all.

I agree we need answers.
They need to stop hiding and tell us SOMETHING

Madhatten512 wrote: »

The community deserves to know what is being done about the horrible game performance. This was your "performance patch" its done nothing but make the game worse and we have gotten no response as to what is being done to fix it. Pvp is unplayable on PC NA, and I'm sure its even worse on the other platforms that are waiting for this patch that will probably make their consoles explode. We have given enough money to this company that we deserve a straight answer. Its not just pvp that's having issues end game pve is struggling because of the epic skill delay and inability to weave. I'm not going to sit here and name off all the issues just wanted to make a post where ZOS could give us a straight answer. I think we are all tired of being ignored.

I can' agree more than anything to this comment.