the game is in a very bad place. it breaks a lot and the new chapter looks boring to me. it almost seems like zos does not want to make money.

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

the game is in a very bad place. it breaks a lot and the new chapter looks boring to me. it almost seems like zos does not want to make money.

pretty much, ESO has to be one of the worst performance wise MMOs currently. Regarding the new Chapter we don't know enough yet sadly, but if I had to guess it will be more of the same.

Red_Feather wrote: »

oXI_Viper_IXo wrote: »

Red_Feather wrote: »

I liked the new systems.

Scrying, excavating, stickerbook are the ones I thinking of at the moment. They really did draw me back into all the game's zones.

Great stuff.

None of that has anything to do with performance though...

If you think making game changing systems while each person is separated and working at home is not reflective of a STUDIO's PERFORMANCE than I would hate for you to ever run a company. Or did you misread the topic.

While the poll specifically refers to the Studio's performance, pretty well everyone's comments are largely influenced by their experience of the game's performance. I suspect that it's the game's performance that the comment you quoted is referring to, although @oXI_Viper_IXo can obviously confirm or correct that.

dinokstrunz wrote: »

So 2020 is almost over and lets all be honest it's been a god awful year for this game.

It's been an awful year for everything. I don't expect this game to run perfectly when nothing else has. I'm sure covid has impacted ZoS staffing as it has most other businesses and this will have a negative effect on productivity.

Mediocre expansion, devs ignoring player feedback on the pts. Silly decisions with made-up silly reasons behind them, the engine seems to be hanging by a thread, little or no communication with the devs (I'm sure we'll get a jolly good back-slapping yearly review post from one of the company heads which will just confirm that they don't play the game).

Performance has gone backwards in the 'year of performance', AAA company - no excuses.

Damn right I quit, and I see no reason to want to go back. Although I would be interested in seeing how deep the nostalgia bucket is after they finish mining Oblivion next year. Elder Scrolls 6 tie-in I would imagine.

The Set Collection was a big feature add. That is one of the all-time best additions to the base game. I have cleared out so much inventory and I just feel far more relaxed dealing with gear.

The small DLC this year was great. I really enjoyed the story.

I haven't played the dungeons. I think I still have one I didn't play from last year either, though I might have finished them during the witches event. The chapter was fine. Nothing special.

During the witches festival, there was the Lich bug that was pretty annoying. For the last few months, group dungeons don't feel responsive. As a tank, it is pretty clear when taunts aren't landing despite you clearly using the skill. I haven't been doing much group content of PvP this year, so if there have been performance issues, I was spared for the most part.

The events are feeling really repetitive.

I did finally work on VMA. I wanted it on my main tank, but was lazy to respec. Once the set collection dropped and cleared out inventory, it became more convenient for my take to have more sets on hand. I spent a week running through VMA and then respecced back to a tank for an event. I'll return at some point, but I should probably work on the new arena first.

Klad wrote: »

dinokstrunz wrote: »

So 2020 is almost over and lets all be honest it's been a god awful year for this game. The inability to fix reported bugs months in advance, failure to crack down on the crashes despite introducing a patch that claimed to address most of the problems, balance of the game probably the worst it has ever been. We have the developers for this game who would applaud that Greymoor and the 2020 dlcs were a huge success but I can almost say that every single update this year has been met with overwhelmingly negative reactions.

2020 has been a year of broken promises, failed experiments and no resolution from this company and I really can't fathom how this company still has it's defenders after it all. I personally can't really trust this group of developers to fix even the most minor of bugs let alone the ones that have plaguing this game over the last year or two. It's a real shame ESO has gone down this path because it really should be doing much better. Anyway I just want to know what other players in this community feel about Zenimax Online Studios this year.

You know you don't have to be here right? : Rich Lambert

No one hates the Elder Scrolls as much as Elder Scrolls "fans" :Todd Howard

The most Toxic fans in any genre is a toss up between Star Wars and Elder Scrolls Fans: MassivelyOP

These creepers will buy the game or several copies of the game when it's on sale for five bucks just for forum keys. They don't play the game they just rant on the forums 16 hours a day. :AlcastHQ

I can promise you if ESO shut down tomorrow the same hate machine that rants about everything ESO, will be crying about evil Microsoft shutting down the best game eva

: Klad

How dare those pesky Elder Scrolls players want better services, improved quality and a functioning game. All of them Toxic right?

dinokstrunz wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

dinokstrunz wrote: »

So 2020 is almost over and lets all be honest it's been a god awful year for this game.

It's been an awful year for everything. I don't expect this game to run perfectly when nothing else has. I'm sure covid has impacted ZoS staffing as it has most other businesses and this will have a negative effect on productivity.

You know most of the issues destroying this game began long before this global pandemic, people need to stop using this card because it's baloney. 2020 has sucked for everyone yes but despite all the changes made to this game it's only gotten worse. ZoS isn't making the illness of this game go away anytime soon it seems.

That may be true to a degree, but you can't expect ZoS to have the manpower to fix all the problems while covid is still running rampant.

I quest, pve, pvp, housing, and rp, and I've crashed in all of these instances within the last two patches (especially Markarth). Admittedly it crashes less in questing and housing. But I can CTD decorating my house. Doing quests and fps drops tremendously...frames not rendering. Multiple dungeons bugged, some not working or spawning last boss. Trials were downright laughably bad for two weeks but are at least doable as of our most recent hotfix (though bugs are prevalent, as are CTDs and skills not firing correcting/weaving). As far as performance goes, judging by all aspects of the game, this is the worst it's ever been.

I'm just curious what the new game/engine is going to be. It's been a few years now and I haven't heard anything.

As for ESO, I'm past caring about bugs and performance problems that have persisted for 3+ years. If things get too bad, I just quit and play something else.

I voted underwhelming but honestly my mood shifts between that and okay.

The Good
- I like the Sticker Book; it is probably one of the best qualities of life changes in the game. Free bag and bank is always nice and I don’t have to feel bad about trashing gear I’m not planning on using right now.
- The Antiquities system is nice, and I like it a lot. Decent money maker with cool housing items and the mythics are nice.
- Some sets getting buffed, I know this one is decisive because of the proc meta in pvp right now but we all know ZoS’s balancing is nonexistent, it’s just nice not seeing a nerf bat every once in a while.
- I like Markarth’s story similarity to how I liked Dragonhold’s. It is like their writers bring their A-Game in Q4 or something.

The Bad
- Vampire rework is meh at best. It is either a hinderance or somewhat useful depending on the character and build. Going higher staging on Vampire is useless on a non maxed out skill line on like a new character or something and is an active hinderance since that dumb skill cost increase penalty exist.
- Leveling an alt was a pain since that low level being placed in vet (but not really vet) bug existed in Stonethorn and some of Markarth. RIP all the new players who were trying to experience dungeons.
- Performance issues are spreading throughout the game even in overland. It’s just more noticeable in more group ordinated content because the harder it is, the less room for error. So when the times the game doesn’t register a block, fire a skill I pressed, or kill me when it thinks I’m still in one AoE I moved out of like 2 seconds ago, it REALLY doesn’t feel good.
- Kind of the same point as above but Markarth’s crashing and bugs which a good bit as been ironed out thankfully. I have maybe froze/crashed in this patch like 15+ times in contrast I have maybe crashed like 3 or 4 times over the year and half playing this game.
- Not a pvp fanatic so this won’t mean much coming from me, but I don’t like the group healing changes. Size is kind of whatever for me though it probably screwed over some guilds. I just don’t have any desire to play anything but my stamdk in Cyrodiil because it’s not like I can help my faction in the moment now anymore. It does not feel like a faction war now it’s just a glorified battleground.

Mixed Opinions
- The Arena changes are nice, they give normal an actual purpose to be ran through. I just wish though those who did ran it through vet got their weapons upgraded or at the very least a token system or something to trade for a perfected version.
- The combat team’s direction is uncertain. I want to have faith in you guys I really do but this spreadsheet balancing ain’t working and this recent buff/debuff change what a skill and set audit really makes me worried.

I voted Okay.

A lot of the balance changes I disagree with, and I find the rationale of moving all the calculations serverside to be a crippling chain around the game's ankles. If this was done for Stadia, it was done for the wrong reasons. I have a pretty powerful computer that performed well, and now I feel like I'm being shackled by server performance. Not in the form of lag, mind, but in the form of decisions made when balancing the "all calculations are serverside" thing with performance.

I don't play Cyrodiil, I PVP in duels and BGs, but BGs have been hamstrung by the proc set changes which themselves were done to reduce calculations and improve performance with the move to all serverside.

PVE has been fun, but less rewarding. I love learning new mechanics, but I don't have a good PVE guild and when I do find a PVE guild, they typically already expect me to know the mechanics (or I have to hunt within the guild for people to help me learn). Other than new boss mechs, though, PVE hasn't been that engaging. Vatesharan's Hollow, the new solo Arena, I appreciate very muchly for its length; I don't feel like I have to be in it for literal hours just to beat it. Once I've learned the mechanics, then precise play and good execution gets me through without necessarily needing to have the BIGGERER NUMBERERS.