I wont pretend to be a developer, but I'll answer the last question-

It's because people keep subscribing, keep making crown store purchases, keep buying DLC. That is the only reason this performance has been deemed acceptable.

Cannot answer as stating facts is apparently "bashing" ???

This is a perpetual topic. They have been working on performance for six years. They even stepped up their efforts over the past year. Sure, there are more players on some of the megaservers recently but that just made things worse, it didn't create the problem. You'd honestly have to chat with the people who work on backend stuff about what has or hasn't been tried and what is or isn't possible. I've heard 101 players theories on possible causes, and a dozen or so seem like they might be plausible (while the others are so bad even a layperson is gonna facepalm, especially the conspiracy theories).

As much as Blizzard screwed things up with their combat system and storylines in WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion, they still had decent performance and are trying to woo back players with tons of changes meant to show they are taking player feedback seriously. Square Enix continues to hit home runs with its fanbase for its Shadowbringers expansion and performance is fine with a solid internet connection and good machine. (Now there's Amazon dumping a pittance of its mindboggling into a PvP-centric MMO with the funds to buy whatever fixes it needs for as long as it takes so that will be an interesting comparison.) This isn't to suggest that ESO is going to take a nose-dive from the competition, but that other top MMOs who see active concurrent player numbers rise or fall don't have such severe performance problems. It seems pretty steady.

So what is different in ESO? Graphics requirements? Special effects/particle tracking? The numerous gear bonuses, skill line passives, and active combat abilities that all have to be tracked and work together in hundreds of unique combinations all at once? Or maybe one of a ton of other things about how the game works that just exceeds what the game code and server capacity can handle? Who knows? But nothing else I've played recently comes close to the performance problems in ESO in general and Cyrodiil in particular.

That's not a bash on the game or on the devs. I'm an ESO fan and player. But performance really keeps some people away. It's practically a meme at this point for the game, which is sad. I hope that ZOS' additional plans for making the game run well for all game modes and for as many players as possible bear fruit. It's tiring to see performance threads over and over, and moreso to encounter the issue firsthand, but I get why these threads keep popping up. They are so numerous and frequent they could get their own forum.

When performance get worse and worse the more time goes by it will always be the worst it's ever been.

Logged in tonight, had a long load screen travelling to an Outpost. A small group of reds were attacking it by the time I got loaded in, all my stamina disappeared and they killed me. Respawned at a Keep with my group, set off to attack the next Keep and froze as we approached it. Turned eso off and went to play a proper game.

Are you guys talking about pvp part of the game? I've been questing only since release (no dungeons or raids) and I don't have such issues except HUGE fps drops.

razieltrutheb17_ESO wrote: »

Are you guys talking about pvp part of the game? I've been questing only since release (no dungeons or raids) and I don't have such problems except HUGE fps drops.

It's overland, in dungeons, trials, at merchants, the issues that have existed have been around for 6+ years.

Wait until you start actually doing the content everyone else is doing. It's not just PvP, it's everything...