All of the options in the poll are very extremist, and frankly unhelpful. ZOS isn't perfect in any way, but I think they do try to listen to feed back. I don't necessarily think they do a good job of it, and often just make things worse, but they do try. I also think they are trying to fix performance issues, and yet again making things worse as they mess with the code.
I imagine everyone working on the game is just as annoyed as everyone playing the game about the performance issues. I'd bet that they have a lot of awesome ideas that they can't implement because it would break the servers. And servers are expensive. It would be a massive undertaking to replace them, one that I doubt the corporate overlords are willing to consider as long as there are any other options, even bad ones.

It's not hard to see that ZOS has their own vision of the game. While they do occasionally listen (poll didn't provide middle ground) such as on the light attack/heavy attack changes, it's only after outright community uproar that we typically get attention on issues, no matter how pressing. Sometimes, even with community uproar, promises are only made to appease and it can be a while before actual changes are seen, like with performance. We're still waiting on those changes.

Furthermore and in the same vein, its also not hard to see that this company cares more about attracting new customers vs. retaining current ones. The game is a revolving door.

Yes the listen to the community. NOw if you ask for goofy stuff or complain about nothing, they might ignore you. However they do listen to reasonable and realistic requests.

Well they listen to kids crying in forums "nerf this, nerf that" but whenever someone points out that their game doesn't even work BAM! they close the thread. Now they are actually giving a damn about performance issues but it is too late. Performance issues are not new in ESO. Some parts are new problems but lag that makes the game completely unplayable always existed in raids or cyrodil. Like i don't think cyrodil ever worked in this game like ever. I am %100 sure cyro was always this unplayable garbage lagfest and because they did not listen to players when they should have and instead of giving more useless and empty zones for casuals if they had fixed the actual problems ESO would be best MMO in the market today. But no, now things got out of hand and they do not have neither the expreiance or the tools to fix all the technical problems this game has. Tbh i don't even care anymore and ZOS will not get a single dollar from me ever again.

Zos listens only after countless years of players being upset about stuff and even when people start leaving the game. Until then they do not care. Their main care is bottom line. Sure they make changes, but the changes they have made, all of which I do personally appreciate, come after YEARS of players making a fuss about whatever it was. Most commonly, they implement things that in general people don't like. Like right now, having to farm AP for rapid maneuver. No longer is it the first skill, something you need to get across cyro on a newer toon. Last I saw, we were going to have to grind it out to level 5 because they have broken skill design on some stam toons that have no heals. Instead of having a heal on the character build, they stuck it in the PVP line. Completely idiotic design. Instead of fixing the skill lines of those builds, they move that to the first slot and now people will have to farm cyro or BG to get Rapid Maneuver. Brilliant move.

Yes they listen, after people *** for years on end. Let's not give them too much credit. Give them some, but really, they need to listen better and make changes sooner.

The question isn't whether ZOS listens to the community...its whether they SHOULD listen to the community. I mean, how exactly do you think they are going to please everyone? Every single patch you have half the PvP community crying for a nerf to whatever flavor of the month they died to....all the while those people don't consider they are ruining sets for the PvE side of the game, sets like Thrassian stranglers as an example, which can indeed be used in PvE by good enough players...but they have a huge downside and there is no margin for error. But ZOS listened...just like all the PvP people wanted...they nerfed them into uselessness, now no one on either side is going to use the things. So many sets have been made utterly worthless in the same exact way that I am of the strong opinion that ZOS shouldn't listen to the community AT ALL, after all, ZOS doing whatever they want isn't going to be any worse than when they listen to some small loud segment of people. You can't "listen" to everyone, all you can do is listen to loudest segment of the community, which just makes the game miserable for the rest.

Destai wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Can you guys join us in this conversation? Maybe provide some specific examples of feedback being listened to by your team?

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom And then the community can talk about how important those instances are and compare them to the amount of good feedback that got ignored.

We have one here, too! Check out the gear next to the message number on the right. If you have just posted, you will need to refresh before it shows up. If you are the OP trying to edit Comment #1, it is next to the title.

Various super-jaded gamers who have the "devs are my enemy" attitude: Nope, they don't listen at all!


Yep, sounds like a typical game forum. /eyeroll

BigBragg wrote: »

Honestly I believe the community management team, and a good portion of the devs do hear what we have to say. And boy do we say a lot at times... The hangups come with capability, priority, and most importantly what Zenimax Media allocates for budgeting in tandem with what they expect in returns from ZOS.

And don't forget choosing between contradictory requests.

I mean a "no" option would have been enough too but ok.

The forum users are NOT the community. Just a small %