At least we got gold spelunker in the vendor

My frustration levels aren't rising, they are peaking with the fact that the last month has seen Cyrodiil performance being the worst its ever been

Seems the norm now is that no matter if you are 1v1, 4v4, 8v8 and any other combination there is an artificial throttling of the skills happening. Its quite obvious, not just large groups suffer but they seem to suffer much more so- but all players are seeing a throttle of the speed that the game is responding to the keystrokes.

Now all you need to do is throw in unfixed longstanding bugs, massive combat changes in resource management and crippling lag and you have the end result of the ‘combat overhaul.’ ZOS appears to be gone- MIA as the game dies completely and we are left with something I have to say after being here since the beginning…….just isn’t fun anymore. For the game design team- just letting you know, your game is not fun. Not at all. As I write this a guild of 160 players is looking for a new game that is fun.

The game managers running things now aren't the devs who created it. They're in over their heads, but the bean counters are never going to invest in getting more talent, or better talent. ESO endgame may be dead, but they don't care about a niche when the great bulk of casuals aren't playing at a level where performance really matters. Casuals and COVID hermits are going to continue filling the coffers whether they fix things or not, so why invest?

I have always said that the creativity that created the graphics and the rest of the game was phenomenal. First rate. Originally, the game was fun, even with the lag of Thornblade. Now ... With CCs the way they are the game got unfun for me. Now, it's just a race to CC people to death and then throw ultimate skills before the other team. It's been headed this way for a long time, but now it is complete. If they are trying to fix the performance issues, I'm not sure what they're really doing. I hate to be blunt, but I'm stating the obvious. It just isn't fun anymore.

I haven't logged in since April 6th because of performance issues. I used to be excited when i had time to play now I just refuse to log in because I know what will happen.

Cost too much money to fix game at this point compared to what it's worth. My bet is, they gonna sell this skyrim patch, they focus on elder scrolls 6.

In all my years of gaming history i've never played anything that gets me as frustrated as ESO - nothing works!!! i look like a complete tool entering a fight 1v1 and being CC'd and nothing i do registers so i eat the whole CC full duration then die.
Playing a magden as well its not like i can even return the favour.
I hate this feeling so much,
Really though at this point, just take CC's out!
Take in combat status out as well so i can get on my mount please.

This game is in a pretty sorry state, every time I think this game cannot get worse it does.

I have no had a pleasant experience in cyrodiil in months and it's solely because zos cannot get their game performance together.

Skills not firing off, transporting across the battlefield, they should be embarrassed, but they aren't. They just play PR and keep their heads in the sand and hope that some promises of improvement will tide people over until the next big release. I guess it's been working for them.

How many times do I have to hit a button to get a skill to fire off? Ten isn't working.
How many times do I have to click a door to go inside? Once? No, tried that. More than that and it's just a crapshoot of whether you double door or get inside, but I can tell you one time does not work if the server has more than five people on it fighting.

Cyrodiil has been the biggest failure of this game from launch on it's been a straight downward spiral.

TL;DR: Don't read, skip! (I just scrolled up from the bottom. This turned out to be a subjective, but substantive, melodramatic rant. Consider yourself warned!) 

Less than a week ago, my subscription expired. Honestly, I'm not happy about not renewing ESO+, as I have enjoyed ESO itself so incredibly much over all these years since the beta.

It has brought so many hours, so many thousand hours; of joy and fun, adrenalin and despair, rage and smugness. 

When I think about it, I even went from my old school laptop to assembling my own gaming rig, just for Skyrim with mods and ESO with add-ons. 

To this date, I still enjoy my 2600k unchanged rig, but I can sadly not say the same for ESO, even though it's changes, on the other hand, have been countless since.

I really try to enjoy it, I really do! So I find myself exploring new builds and play styles, finding new ways to experience the game. To not let the frustration win. Adapt or die, they say. Adapt and kill, I say! (In-game ofc.. )

Amazingly enough, I enjoyed the same archer assassin type build for the first 4-5 years. But with all the nerfs (oversimplified, but generally speaking) instead of buffs, and the Bosmer passive changes hitting me the hardest..

... It at least made me enjoy frost tanking for a while. Also bombing, helping, healing, laughing, ganking. 1vX'ing (lol, all evidences of the last one are GONE!)

It also made me try Wardens, DKs, Sorcs and even a Necro and a cheesy Templar (I even recently changed my IGN and forum name on behalf of my cheesy stamplar<3) 

Today I tried healing, and found myself struggling to keep three completely fresh Nirn Dwellers that were all over the place, alive.

The pleasant gang of three knew each other IRL, came from France, and ended up joining my private little guild to utilize a stocked guild bank and assistants they didn't know existed yet, at my humble Creek. 

ESO needs promising new players like this, so what worries me is; what will they face tomorrow? If they want to give PvP a shot, they might start with BGs, only to be smashed by golded out werewolves, tricked out pet sorcs and one button jabbers? But let's say they won't give up, they might just move on to Cyro instead. 

They won't know properly know what they can expect. But we do. The forum does. Threads like this one does.

Cyrodill, prime time. Nada lag, right? 


--- Time moves on, home quaranteens ends, and impressions lasts ---

Will they stay? If PvP is something they liked the gist of, will they continue trying BGs and Alliance War? 

Was ESO not what they thought it was, what it actually *was*? And what it still can be, if some drastical measures are taken to turn things around? 

In regards to the fast-approaching time ahead for ESO, which will be immensely important and defining for the future of ESO, will players like this stay? 


... I have this weird feeling that the next 2-3 months of ESO will show whether or not ESO really is a game able to continue for both twice and thrice its current lifetime, with each new day showing more and more clearly the beginning of the end. 

After such a long time with so many improvements and changes, with so much effort and resources put into making an amazing game with so much potential.. 


Dear Zenimax, please consider this: what do you want both your current - and new - player base to say to themselves (and others!)?

- "Yes, this was fun, but... Let's check what else is out there."

- "Yes, this is fun! Let's check what else ESO have in store for us!"


Will your players stay? 
Will your legacy stay? 

How much do you want your players to stay?
How much do you want your legacy to stay?

How much do you want your players to want to stay?

You should really all be aware by now that the intention is to remove PvP from the game. Killing it softly. Imagine being able to develop a game without having to spend a lot of your time worrying about less than a percentage of the player population. Sounds pretty good to me. Just chill out man, make more pets and furniture for houses.

The fact you all are still here is astonishing...Yet alone any of you can fathom ZOS turning around from years of treating pvpers like 3rd rate costumers to somehow fixing something? Ya'll got crazy levels of patience and a lack of other options I guess. On behalf of the 98% of ESO's pvpers who left and are never coming back, I salute you

@Pain In The Axe You are so right, Pain. Many of us have been around a very long time and it seems the frustration levels do little more than induce people to cancel their subs in lieu of another game. :-(