I have also a lot of negativ feelings towards the state of the game.

It kinda feels like it is being abandoned slowly.
I do suspect it is because they use most of their ressources for their new project. In their twitch streams they pretend like there are only minor problems.

I really would like to get the snowglobe home but I wonder If it's a good decision to use real money. Also with the new MMOs coming next year ESO might lose a lot of players.

But I will stop here before I get silenced.

I also wish their was any PvP balance at all.

But I fear that If they nerf classes they might become useless in PvE. My current main is a stam warden. I play PvE most of the time switching from bow/bow to 2h/bow as the situation changes. Warden seems to be broken in PvP that's why I fear for PvE nerfs because it is not balanced seperately.

AliRay wrote: »

I think a lot of people are feeling this way. The lack of transparency, refusal to acknowledge issues and communicate what's going on really IS a slap in the face. The reasons for accounts being banned or deleted (even on the forums) is just about ridiculous at times.

yeah lately I got few reports for names...with 1st ticket I could talk some with support and get help to find more agaoinst TOS or offending names which was sucess, they found more names for which I gould get reported in futere and get rid of them right now but also they forced me to change name on few more names which was fine for whcih I was so suprised they are agaisnt TOS...but after question for them they apologise me for this, here was fine work with support

but after next time I got next warn and suspended for 3 days in game because for NEXT! violating name!!!! and the best it it doesnt even matter how much I was explaining for myself it is error, it is not my fault because I was now noot aware becaue of last contact wtith support about bad name which I just wrote, everything I was writing was cleary ignored and at the end their response was:

"Your request for an appeal has been reviewed and denied. Due to our previous attempt to curb this behavior being ignored, it has been decided that the suspension on this account will remain in place and will expire"

which is the best in it becasue I got reported for name which was created with character good 5 years ago and everything was fine and it wasn't even noticed along other ciolationg names for which I asked to look at my account, I havn't created a single new name since this 1st warning because of my bad name and yet I got punished so hardly and ignored

I still tried to talk with support but it get me nothing, literlly 100% of my informations for this case was just ignored and now Im jus scared I can again get reported for something Im not even aware and got again suspended or even ban this time because support wont read anything I want to explain for me defense and support blindly judge for reports
like....."Loves tea bags" was offensive name and they even didnt give me any response how this name is violating TOS and they jsut ound this nme being offensive for report fr different nme while I was playing on EU and this "Loves tea bags" name was on NA server for which I want's logging for 1-2 years now

StarOfElyon wrote: »

I try not to pile on the devs because I know they work hard but something here feels unethical. If customers are valued, the product should reflect that. Rather, it feels like the customers are disrespected with a product that doesn't function, and when it does function it works in a way that rewards lazy play.

I have NPCs that are missing from my quests (I've put in a ticket through the game). Every night, the game crashes now. And there are builds in PVP that I can't kill wearing two damage sets yet they can hit me once and proc two effects that nuke my life-bar. What did I even spend years trying to be skilled at the game for then? It was a waste of time. And feeling like I've wasted my time is the big slap in the face as a paying customer.

I try to overlook the fact that old classes need to be updated while new classes that people have to pay to play are being added. There's enough in the game that can be expanded and deepened. And while good ideas come along (like leads to antiquities that can reward exploration) there's also the feeling that the game is only being expanded with the sole purpose of getting us to pay for the new thing. This again feels like a slap in the face.

The devs have done good things. When the old sets in the game were being adjusted and made more competitive, that felt good and made me excited to look at some of those sets again. I don't want to only point out the bad. It's just that the bad is so bad that it leaves me feeling like a fool for still being loyal to the game.

So much this.

I know the feeling you express OP: players love the game and keep coming back, but the bugs pile on, there's lack of communication, blatant milking of the CS, etc., so it's like an exploitation even, to keep making as much money as they can with a broken product. The way they are treating their playerbase is abhorrent: ''Please buy our new DLC and then wait 3 weeks for incremental patches that don't fix anything''... It's our fault, I guess, but I agree OP that they are indeed treading on almost unethical grounds.

IMO they are working on a new MMORPG (about two years) and are no longer interested in "doin' ESO better". So just don't pay'em or play another game.

Husan wrote: »

StarOfElyon wrote: »

badmojo wrote: »

Stop paying them for this treatment.

My eso plus has been canceled but it's still good for about another month.

I tried. But the game is unplayable for me without ESO+, just because of the lack of storage for crafting materials. By themselves they already take more than the 240 slots that you can get max without ESO+, not to mention all the inventory juggling you have to do just to put the crafting materials in your bank.

I also don't own many of the DLCs, Markarth for example I could not play without ESO+.

You know you don't need to carry around all those crafting materials all the time though. I only got ESO+ for a few months at a time throughout the past 4 years, and for the longest while have gone without. That, plus the periods when there's ESO+ free trial, fills up the craft bag so fast you won't need to save everything.
Just give it a go, it's incredibly easy now with the collections book, because there's no more unnecessary sets taking up space.

Playing without ESO+ is entirely doable.

I completely feel the same way. With personal events that happened for me last year, coupled with this years craziness, I no longer am able to be so "forgiving" and look the other way while so many things are just so off in this game. Just can't. There is something "empty" about this game and I've been feeling it for awhile now. I guess I'll just have to pull the plug and move on. Oh well. I've been playing since beta and now I have no idea why. Very sad and disappointing.

ESO is about the journey, not the destination.

I've felt this way for a while too. Another thing imo making the game feel this way is a years worth of the same style zones and continuing story with minor differences. It's a major burnout. I can't remember what the story even was from the first dungeon dlc this year, so how is a new player that's saying buying the Greymoor chapter to start off going to follow the overarching story?

The second thing is it feels like classes are being left behind, especially in pvp. For a long time warden and necro dominated over the other base game classes in a P2W manner in pvp. While the gap has closed slightly, it hasn't changed too much. Classes like stamplar have useless passives and no good burst heal compared to warden for example.

Crashes have gotten way worse again since Markarth, I had 2 in a row doing a dark brotherhood daily that lost me the bonus objectives of remaining hidden because when I logged back in, I was on top of 2 invisible npc's that had not loaded in yet.

The 3 months for skill changes and bug fixes is totally unacceptable in this day in age. I don't mind the 3 month window between content but improvements to the game overall should not take this long and a consequence of this already has been the game bleeding players. Imagine in the infamous Morrowind patch lasted 1 month and was reversed. How many more people would still be playing?

Overall the devs need to get way better at communicating with the player base and not only acknowledge issue's, bugs and imbalances but listen to the player base on actual pain problems people have.

My top ESO wish for 2021 is ESO devs listen to the players top 5 big problems with the game atm and do their best to fix them.

Raideen wrote: »

I have to wonder if the game does not feel rewarding because much of the stuff we obtain is done through the crown store instead of "earning" it. Obviously there is a lot of content earned that is not done through the crown store like titles, but the amount of mounts, pets, outfits, houses, costumes that are only offered with crowns may not give us that same level of earned satisfaction. Its like how many teenagers treat their first car (often given to them) terribly, and do not respect it. But the first one they purchase with their own money is treated with much more respect.

All of that is entirely down to the player. This isn't one of those games where you have no option but to buy a mount in the cash shop, for example. The game is perfectly playable without going near the Crown Store. If someone is only playing in order to collect e.g. mounts or costumes then of course they will need to use the Crown Store a lot, but is ESO the right game for them? Surely this is a game where it's the gameplay that is supposed to be rewarding, not the collection of cosmetic items.