Probably worst chapter so far. 1.No major performance fixes, more bugs than I have ever encountered so far, spanning through all activities, and going unfixed for weeks. Problems with access to the chapter itself. 2. vampire revamp caused most playstyles to cure vamps, people angry with maelstrom changes too. 3. main quest have too many similarities to main quest of previous chapters, big gender disbalance of npc's questgivers, and most quests are either copies from previous zones, or unmemorable. Also, no overall sense of 'Dark heart', when playing trough the chapter. 4. Wayshrines are not conveniently located, hunting harrowstorms is a pain, without good rewards. Even vampiric furniture, is almost the same as alinor one. Also, why devs tease people, saying, they added new furniture paintings, when in reality, we all know, what are the chances to get one (same as vvardenfell ones, that are nearly impossible to find)
Good things are landscape, it is gorgeous, quick fix of antiquity system, also, new models for furniture there. I also found 2 really good quests.
"Big gender disbalance of npc's questgivers ..."
Uh, what? Not enough guys? Not enough ladies?
There is a very noticeable preponderance of female NPCs across all quest content in Greymoor. When I took count at the end of the main quest where notable side quest NPCs gather for a great hurrah (as was the case in all other chapters, too), I counted around 10 men and 18 women - and 2 of the men were Jorunn and his son who showed up literally just a moment before. So this is not one of those "uh any woman is too much for you guys" moments, there are nearly twice as many women as men around.
One might think that this is somehow supposed to correct a previous gender imbalance, but I have never noticed one in any of ESO's content. Admittedly I didn't take count before, but would people really say that there has been a shortage of women in Tamriel until now?
Even Orsinium, with all its patriarchal politics, has at least as many important women as men just in the main quest (Eveli, Alga, Solgra, etc.), and many more in the side quests.
At least from my impression, Greymoor has taken a 6-year history of egalitarian representation in ESO and opted for something kind of revanchist, and I don't know why. It feels jarring compared to the rest of the game.
The question is what one considers the "larger picture". Personally I'd consider a chapter to be a sufficiently large slice of content to average things out. Or at least it should be.There is a very noticeable preponderance of female NPCs across all quest content in Greymoor. When I took count at the end of the main quest where notable side quest NPCs gather for a great hurrah (as was the case in all other chapters, too), I counted around 10 men and 18 women - and 2 of the men were Jorunn and his son who showed up literally just a moment before. So this is not one of those "uh any woman is too much for you guys" moments, there are nearly twice as many women as men around.
One might think that this is somehow supposed to correct a previous gender imbalance, but I have never noticed one in any of ESO's content. Admittedly I didn't take count before, but would people really say that there has been a shortage of women in Tamriel until now?
Even Orsinium, with all its patriarchal politics, has at least as many important women as men just in the main quest (Eveli, Alga, Solgra, etc.), and many more in the side quests.
At least from my impression, Greymoor has taken a 6-year history of egalitarian representation in ESO and opted for something kind of revanchist, and I don't know why. It feels jarring compared to the rest of the game.
I think that this reads a whole lot more into things than is necessary. Content does not need to be homogeneous. It just needs to average out that way over the larger picture.
The question is what one considers the "larger picture". Personally I'd consider a chapter to be a sufficiently large slice of content to average things out. Or at least it should be.There is a very noticeable preponderance of female NPCs across all quest content in Greymoor. When I took count at the end of the main quest where notable side quest NPCs gather for a great hurrah (as was the case in all other chapters, too), I counted around 10 men and 18 women - and 2 of the men were Jorunn and his son who showed up literally just a moment before. So this is not one of those "uh any woman is too much for you guys" moments, there are nearly twice as many women as men around.
One might think that this is somehow supposed to correct a previous gender imbalance, but I have never noticed one in any of ESO's content. Admittedly I didn't take count before, but would people really say that there has been a shortage of women in Tamriel until now?
Even Orsinium, with all its patriarchal politics, has at least as many important women as men just in the main quest (Eveli, Alga, Solgra, etc.), and many more in the side quests.
At least from my impression, Greymoor has taken a 6-year history of egalitarian representation in ESO and opted for something kind of revanchist, and I don't know why. It feels jarring compared to the rest of the game.
I think that this reads a whole lot more into things than is necessary. Content does not need to be homogeneous. It just needs to average out that way over the larger picture.
Rate it based on what exactly? I'd like to give it a big fat "0" due to ZOS's failure to convince me to even purchase it.