It has been brought up in their threads over at esoui, though I haven't seen any kind of official response last I checked. I had to disable ESOHead and the MapMarkers addons to even be able to log in, as something was causing the whole game connection to time out for me. I switched over to SkyShards/LoreBooks, which fill most of my needs, though I do miss having the gathering map icons as I find resources around the world. Hopefully something gets fixed, soon.

Krym wrote: »

tbh the addon-system works as "well" as the rest of the game.

when an addon can crash your client, you know you fcked up.

Im not saying that the game is bug free...but you do realize that plenty of add-on-using MMO's have the same issue right? In that some addons (if handled incorrectly by the creator) can crash your game client...just sayin.

Well I went and checked ESOHead and they indeed updated it on the 17th and it works fine now. I dropped XrysGatherer though since ESOHeadMarkers was updated to do what Gatherer was doing...a couple other addons had updates as well.

Skyrim this isn't.
Failure on devs it is.

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

Because I am currently playing on a toaster. I regularly have issues with parts of the world not loading properly, NPCs not appearing on my screen til I have been knocked down to half dead, and things like skyshards not being visible, because that shiny pillar of light doesn't always work properly.

I am in the process of getting a new PC, but until it's here, I will make use of whatever means are allowed by the game, including addons, to make my experience more tolerable without gimping myself because I didn't find something like skyshards to round out my skillpoints for when I dive headfirst into PvP.

Right now I'm repairing my client, but if that doesn't work, I'll try disabling some Add-ons.

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Why on earth should the devs support addons that remove the need to actually play the game by exploring? In fact why would anyone use addons that remove the need to explore the game - is getting a 5 point achievement so urgent that you'd take away the fun of simply finding this stuff yourself and maybe looking it up if you really couldn't find it?

Because as a MMORPG ESO leaves much to be desired functionality wise.

Daggers wrote: »

Add-ons should only be culpable to the API - if Zeni have changed the API, they should broadcast this fact to everyone. To not do so would only result in an increase in support queries, which would be counter-productive, and of course extremely dumb.

I haven't read the patch notes but I know the two addon's that I use that were causing the long loading times load and save map data so this was causing the long load screens and time outs for me because of these two apps. ESOHead and ESOHeadMarkers.

I updated it to the latest version and my issues went away.