Every time they "fix" or add one thing, they break 10 other things. I'm especially thinking about werewolf skill progression reset and lost skill points, but that's one among many other things.

Maybe rushing content over a year just to meet some self-imposed deadlines isn't that smart an idea.

Gotta be fair though, if the amount of bugs this year has been staggering, at least Greymoor felt like a properly built and itemised place, unlike Elsweyr.

Yeah, this year just sorta sucked for me. I haven't really played much since, wow, July? There haven't even been many other good games to come out, so I'm actually a little surprised I skipped out for this long.

The overarching story for the dlc was "meh." But this isn't the first year I've been annoyed by having part of the story locked behind dlc dungeons and a raid, so... Hopefully next year, I can follow an arc without characters I hate coming back from the dead or needing to find a coordinated group to taste all the lore. Gimmie some "prophet" style questing where I can chill out and enjoy the story by myself. (I still want solo versions of dungeons and raids. It's unrealistic, but I still want it).

The combat balance tanked hard. It just wasn't fun to play with all their changes; it felt even more unpolished than it did in the beta, which is a huge step backward for me. Including the grapple gimmick. I really wanted to love the new Arena, but... nope. I feel so slow and weak and useless, and all my characters have become a series of rhythm-pressing, like, three or four buttons over and over again. I can't even go back to being a healer; they're more obsolete than ever before.

Performance in general was a misery; don't even get me started on PVP. I continue never being enticed to go there. The double IC-involved events were tedious and disappointing. It felt like a chore; that's about where I just outright started skipping content and events altogether...

Speaking of PVP, actually, I'm still waiting for a way to do BGs with a single buddy without getting facerolled by a coordinated team. Solo was nice while I was still logging in, but after a while, it was just the same people over and over again... A little too predictable for me outside of leveling alts. Idk, though, it's been a while since I gave it a look and read up on things in that area, it may have changed for the better.

Doing the same basic events over again has gotten really stale. Similar note, fashion this year was kinda lackluster... I don't even care about getting rich anymore because there are no motifs to buy, and all the good gear is raid gear I can't spend coin on.

The houses were all too big, too empty, and poorly designed in terms of layout. I haven't really been pressed to buy and decorate a new one... The decorative items they've added have been... okay. But not something I was excited to see. Even the guests are bland.

Also, and this is the biggest blow for me since ESO has basically become The Sims 5: Medieval, the crates were trash this year! Even by my standards!!! The new radiants weren't something I was compelled to try for and/or build new character aesthetics around. I haven't even bothered to check what the new ones are because I know I'm gonna be disappointed, and at this point, I actually don't want to give them any of my money.

Like... I don't feel like I've outgrown the game. It still interests me. But every time I go in, I end up just... sighing and doing something else.

We did HM Stone Garden yesterday.. Crashed 3 times... Sometimes midfight.. Baaaad.

Couldn't complete White Gold Tower HM the other day because a ghost would always glitch out leaving the boss immortal.
after 3 tries we gave up on the buggy mess.

Honestly... The game is still a mess.

I still get stutter, desynch and skill delay at the most random times.

Every patch and every release the game release with 50 new problems.

I think it's at a stage where even the Zos team is completely overwhelmed.

Only think that works okey is questing... For the most part.

Occasional crashes.

As I mostly do overland content I haven't really encountered the problems that many other plays report.

On my PS4 pretty good, no bluescreen so fare. Haven´t seen any bugs eighter.

Ratzkifal wrote: »

iGotBaited wrote: »

How does working from home impact doing your job as a dev? Honest question.

They don't run into each other during work anymore. It always has to be scheduled an entire meeting even for the smallest of things because they just cannot discuss these things on the fly.

As someone who also works for a big company from home office, I can tell you that it's not that restrictive.
Plenty of business softwares out there that makes working from home a breeze.

please improve honest communication with players & present the company in a more human light.

it will improve player opinion & thus decrease the likelihood of a player deciding to no longer financially support the game due to an affective dislike for the company; therefore increasing profits by decreasing dissonance between a player's opinion of the game itself (which may be good), and the game developer company (which, if very poor, may damage the former).

when player opinion is as poor as it is now, and developers simply cannot keep up with release timeframes & thus deliver buggy patches, your damage-control policy must be flawless. get with the times- relatability sells. stoic company policies are going out of fashion, and players more easily take to a communicative game company- even if it increases overhead statement management requirements- it is worth it.

acknlowedgement of failure is a powerful tool to increase consumer opinion: individuals feel empowered when they offer "forgiveness", as well as showing humility, which invokes empathy, thus evokes positive feelings in the players, regardless of company failure.

you cannot behave like a machine, when you do not deliver the quality a machine would.
honesty and empathy is paramount when your product is flawed.

you need a consumer psychology consultant.
as do many, many companies...

considering that they had to adjust to working through pandemic in a hurry? (remember pandemic that is STILL going on and changed a lot of work to remote which can make communication within teams, let alone between different teams - much harder) pretty good all things considered. am I happy with performance of the game? no. but am I willing to cut them some slack given the circumstances? yes.

Yeah I haven’t been too impressed but what makes it worse for me is the lack of any kind of acknowledgement or responsibility [snip]

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Linaleah wrote: »

considering that they had to adjust to working through pandemic in a hurry? (remember pandemic that is STILL going on and changed a lot of work to remote which can make communication within teams, let alone between different teams - much harder) pretty good all things considered. am I happy with performance of the game? no. but am I willing to cut them some slack given the circumstances? yes.

Huh, I didn’t realize there was a global pandemic in 2019 as well (which is when ESO first started becoming unplayable for me and many others on PS4).

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Edit: I’m not going anywhere, even though the intent is very obvious at this point.