State of the Game Address
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doggie✭✭✭Are there any news about content not including Craglorn? That zone will affect a tiny ammount of players after all. Any new content for 1-50 or VR1-10?1 -
Yankee✭✭✭✭Thank you for the update.
Besides the annoying boss bots, I have few complaints.
Keep at it ZOS.0 -
Kililin✭✭✭✭Thanks for the update!
When you say: ..update.. including class and weapon ability tweaks, i really hope you are not starting to balance abilities while so many of them are simply broken or bugged.
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Krohm✭✭Like all thank you for the update but are we going to see dungeon xp increased, as of right now people either don't want to run them or they do them once and there done with them, would love for them to give a little bit better xp and loot.0 -
Aggelos✭✭✭Great work Zenimax! This is an amazing game keep up the great work!Aggelos
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Great that you provide an update!
Some things I would have liked to hear about:
-achievements not triggering
-the EU server still has no ETA on when it will actually move there
-Customer Support giving wrong and weird responses (For an example, PM)
-Animation bugs (stuck in weapon swing, among others)
Keep updating and keep having me hooked on the game. I like it.3 -
Xnemesis✭✭✭✭williamcurrier_ESO wrote: »Thanks for posting an update. Are these things upcoming or already in?
I would just like to say a couple things. One of the biggest issues I have with the game(besides gold sellers, bots, campers and broken stuff) is the inventory. To me it feels like a free to play game that is limiting you so that you have to buy. Yes we can buy with in game gold and that is nice. However at this point after upgrading bank 3-4 times and every characters inventory 2-3 times I would much rather just pay some real cash and open the space up. There are so many crafting materials that my bank is always full and I spend 30m or so logging on alts grabbing items, logging back on other characters to put more in etc etc. I realize it is a gold sink but I think its a bad choice. It creates discomfort and un-fun waste of gaming time. I notice a lot of things in game are like GW2 Weapon swapping to get more moves, Original guild framework(multiple guilds have a serious lack of guild bank control) I would like to see you grab one more thing from GW2 and that being craft materials go into a complete different place than your bank. A "Material Bank".
Anyhow one of my main hesitations when logging in to play is I know my characters inventory is full and I know all the hassle I am going to have to go through to get him clear and playable again.
Thanks for listening(if you are)
Have you even played an elder scrolls game? If so how many times, if you didn't cheat, have you had to dump items to get under your carrying weight? Inventory has always been limited in ES games. Why not get rid of all the previous tier mats when you gain a level in one of your skill lines. You could also throw away all the non rare racial/trait stones and provisioning mats. You can buy racial stones from vendors and trait stones are received every time you deconstruct an item. Provisioning mats are stupid easy to get as well walk the docks twice take the mats and go make food then discard the leftover mats. A little bank maintenance can go a long way. The game is working as intended and fine the way it is.3 -
Armoril✭✭✭I'm glad to see that botters and spammers are a majority of the CS complaints, because in my opinion this is hurting the game even more than quest and combat bugs. I have taken the time out of my day today to report dozens of them, from the ones camping a dungeon boss, to the ones teleporting around collecting ore. But I was in a few of the low level areas starting characters on a new alliance and I seemed to see more of these bots than actual players. I even asked a few to prove if they were human, but they were on auto-pilot, often walking to node spawn locations where the nodes weren't even there (something no human would do). You can usually tell them because they're still wearing the starter armor from Coldharbour and they have names like "bhnmk". I don't mind volunteering some of my free-time to report these people when I see it, but it feels like I'm fighting a losing battle. What we need is a better solution than the report/ban. I could walk around reporting them all day, Zenimax could sit around banning accounts all day, but they're like a hydra: you cut off one head and two more pop up. I know the solution is possible, and it may take some time, perhaps even longer than we want it to, but I'm just glad to see that this is the priority and that it's not going unnoticed.5 -
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So it's "all over Reddit", big deal, that's no reason it's a high priority which I agree, it isn't.RianaTheBosmer wrote: »It's all over reddit. So if they haven't heard about it, they're not reading the forums or their bug reports.
In any case, Vamp is totally OP and people are flocking to it for easy kills because God knows they don't want a fair fight they may actually lose.
Edited by KerinKor on April 23, 2014 11:53AM3 -
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✭✭✭✭✭williamcurrier_ESO wrote: »Thanks for posting an update. Are these things upcoming or already in?
I would just like to say a couple things. One of the biggest issues I have with the game(besides gold sellers, bots, campers and broken stuff) is the inventory. To me it feels like a free to play game that is limiting you so that you have to buy. Yes we can buy with in game gold and that is nice. However at this point after upgrading bank 3-4 times and every characters inventory 2-3 times I would much rather just pay some real cash and open the space up. There are so many crafting materials that my bank is always full and I spend 30m or so logging on alts grabbing items, logging back on other characters to put more in etc etc. I realize it is a gold sink but I think its a bad choice. It creates discomfort and un-fun waste of gaming time. I notice a lot of things in game are like GW2 Weapon swapping to get more moves, Original guild framework(multiple guilds have a serious lack of guild bank control) I would like to see you grab one more thing from GW2 and that being craft materials go into a complete different place than your bank. A "Material Bank".
Anyhow one of my main hesitations when logging in to play is I know my characters inventory is full and I know all the hassle I am going to have to go through to get him clear and playable again.
Thanks for listening(if you are)
Have you even played an elder scrolls game? If so how many times, if you didn't cheat, have you had to dump items to get under your carrying weight? Inventory has always been limited in ES games. Why not get rid of all the previous tier mats when you gain a level in one of your skill lines. You could also throw away all the non rare racial/trait stones and provisioning mats. You can buy racial stones from vendors and trait stones are received every time you deconstruct an item. Provisioning mats are stupid easy to get as well walk the docks twice take the mats and go make food then discard the leftover mats. A little bank maintenance can go a long way. The game is working as intended and fine the way it is.
Join a small friendly guild and use the guild bank to store the cheap stuff like lots of the runes, racial style and trait stones you don't use and so on, then take back stuff you need.
My main issue now is stored items for future research, however here the guild is very nice ask if somebody can make an junk item with the trait you want and use this for research.
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
We fixed the problem and banned the accounts of the worst offenders
So, just the worst offenders. Guess I should of duped a few dozen or hundred legendary crafting mats as well then.4 -
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So your solution would be to ... what, exactly?fragspotpeb18_ESO wrote: »We fixed the problem and banned the accounts of the worst offenders
So, just the worst offenders. Guess I should of duped a few dozen or hundred legendary crafting mats as well then.
Assuming the system logs don't provide clear evidence then ZOS' actions have to balance effects achieved versus false positive, meaning they can't afford any collateral damage so they'd have to draw a line where they know full well dome people got away with it.
In any case having "a few hundred" of these things are clearly way above Joe Average so no, you'd not have got away with it either.
Edited by KerinKor on April 23, 2014 12:04PM2 -
lylanya✭✭williamcurrier_ESO wrote: »Thanks for posting an update. Are these things upcoming or already in?
I would just like to say a couple things. One of the biggest issues I have with the game(besides gold sellers, bots, campers and broken stuff) is the inventory. To me it feels like a free to play game that is limiting you so that you have to buy. Yes we can buy with in game gold and that is nice. However at this point after upgrading bank 3-4 times and every characters inventory 2-3 times I would much rather just pay some real cash and open the space up. There are so many crafting materials that my bank is always full and I spend 30m or so logging on alts grabbing items, logging back on other characters to put more in etc etc. I realize it is a gold sink but I think its a bad choice. It creates discomfort and un-fun waste of gaming time. I notice a lot of things in game are like GW2 Weapon swapping to get more moves, Original guild framework(multiple guilds have a serious lack of guild bank control) I would like to see you grab one more thing from GW2 and that being craft materials go into a complete different place than your bank. A "Material Bank".
Anyhow one of my main hesitations when logging in to play is I know my characters inventory is full and I know all the hassle I am going to have to go through to get him clear and playable again.
Thanks for listening(if you are)
THIS! The GW2 model for bank space with the separate "collectibles" area is amazing! It's so nice in my GW2 bags to be able to right click on the item in your bag and use the "Deposit Collectible" option. This can be done from anywhere you happen to be in the game (out adventuring, or not within reach of a major city). To retrieve the materials from the bank you must go to a physical bank location. It also breaks down the collectible slots by collection; in the case of ESO, metalworking, clothier, enchanting, alchemy, provisioning...
As far as the spawn camping of dungeon bosses... why not just make a loot or lock out timer? Once you've killed the boss and looted him once, you're
either not allowed to loot him again for say... 24 to 48 hours or you're locked out of the dungeon alltogether. It worked in every other game. How many times did you see boss campers in Sigmar's or LV or ToVL in Warhammer?Co-GM Legions of Mordor
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Vaerth✭✭✭✭I'm thinking about coming back later maybe as well. Current state not so engaging as I thought at the start. Barely got to level 30.
Still think we need close up 1v1 2v2 3v3 ARENA PvP.
Cyrodiil PvP for people with average PC is a horrible experience and it is so time consuming. I always have walk more than I fight. Ridiculous, just because I did not want to pay +15 euros.
Mind boggling.
Get a better computer, if you have no money then get a better job (or a job most likely). It is 2014, it is not very expensive to upgrade a PC these days. Make your own system, easy and very cost effective.
NOTE: This will improve your gaming experience on all games, not just ESO.
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Indeed, I see people bragging daily about the thousands of legendary mat upgrades they have. Kind of sad.fragspotpeb18_ESO wrote: »We fixed the problem and banned the accounts of the worst offenders
So, just the worst offenders. Guess I should of duped a few dozen or hundred legendary crafting mats as well then.1 -
knaveofengland✭✭✭it is nice to seeing the above mentioned getting done and seeing the results , I would also like to say the forums in general need some attention like war thunder , be more pro active less channels have a general chat.
if you give people as say they will use it, being pro active and list the problem you get better response not what we get now.
like the film kellys heros negative airwaves we need more positive ones,
I would like to suggest we need more gameplay that you have to make a team to do many quests this is after all a mmo,the game plays more like the series ,
finally please make a new class thief so much fun to be hard reason I am still playing the original elder scrolls have played them all.
keep up the good work
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still waitng for me missing bank slots and 10k gold to be sorted0 -
Katkon✭✭✭Thanks for the update. Despite the various issues/bugs, this is still the most fun I've had in a very long time. I'll be playing this for a long while to come.0
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MorHawk✭✭✭✭✭liam.dinsdalerwb17_ESO wrote: »Any ETA on Australian servers? The latency is really a problem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNk-kLq-_3A I can count to potato.
WWJLHD?Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »another topic that cant see past its own farts.1 -
Vaerth✭✭✭✭No information on EU server? That's pathetic. There is no chance you get my $15 next month.
Oh No! NOT YOUR $15! That will destroy the game! Please, give them your $15! Not having everything done in 2 weeks is just not acceptable!
PS: I suggest you never buy another MMO game a launch. Maybe your more of a "lobby" gamer. This game is doing very good given it is LESS than a month old!
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✭Loving the game so far. You guys are doing what needs done, and it's hard work. Keep at it!
Forums aren't dead. They just have the worst setup I've seen in years, having too few usable sections and too many language options. Confusing, and have really made me ignore them almost entirely.
Economy isn't dead. It's just private, and far harder to ruin with large scale issues, because there is no official server-wide auction system. Love it that way!
Game has bugs. But I'm a 10+ year veteran of MMO's. If the quest can't complete, I go do something else. Keep fixing these, guys.
Suggestion? Housing. Fix the grouping issue (allow one player to control quest progression for entire group, and allow players to repeat quests). Give us crime and murder.
Honestly, if it was easier to quest together, I'd be happy. My wife and best friend play solo, unless I have an alt at their level, and that's just wrong.Ruze Aulus. Mayor of Dhalmora. Archer, hunter, assassin. Nightblade.
Gral. Mountain Terror. Barbarian, marauder, murderer. Nightblade.
Na'Djin. Knight-Blade. Knight, vanguard, defender. Nightblade.
XBOX NARuze is a veteran of the PC Beta, lived through the year one drought, survived the buy-to-play conversion, and has stepped foot in the hells known as Craglorn. He mained a nightlbade when nightblades weren't good, and has never worn a robe. He converted from PC during the console betas, and hasn't regretted it a moment since.
He'd rank ESO:TU (in it's current state) a 4.8 out of 5, loving the game almost entirely.
This is an multiplayer game. I should be able to log in, join a dungeon, join a battleground, queue for a dolmen or world boss or delve, teleport in, play for 20 minutes, and not worry about getting kicked, failing to join, having perfect voice coms, or being unable to complete content because someone's lagging behind. Group Finder and matchmaking is broken. Take a note from Destiny and build a system that allows from drop-in/drop-out functionality and quick play.2 -
djodars✭✭✭liam.dinsdalerwb17_ESO wrote: »Any ETA on Australian servers? The latency is really a problem...
@liam.dinsdalerwb17_ESO This will never happen... there isn't enough Australian players to warrant their own server. Maybe if the market extends to Asia you'll have a server then.
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Thanks for all your work! Been a great game to date.
One thing I would recommend is to assign 2 or 3 CS agents to patrol the public dungeon boss sites and manually bane bots until you get your backend fixes in place.2 -
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✭nerfed XP in PVP = bad
nerfed XP in dungeons = bad
Dont force players to PVE only
LET ME PLAY THE GAME AND LEVEL THE WAY I LIKE.Insulting people on the internet is cowardly.3 -
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✭Thank you so much for this detailed update!
THIS is the reason why I only play online game with a monthly fee. So they can hire staff like this.
Keep up the good work. You have a lot of customers who are playing the game and fully accept the bugs/fixes/patches/downtime as long as you keep developing the game and take care of problems.
Kudos!Oghur Hatemachine, Guild leader of The Nephilim - EU Megaserver
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✭@ZOS_MattFiror, thank you for the update. As always, it is good to get a rare glimpse of what is going on behind the scene. All MMOs have launch issues and teething problems, and I trust that you guys are working your butts off to present results.
The game still have issues, no question about it, and I don't agree with some of the marketing decisions made, but fact of the matter is that I am still enjoying this game more than I have ever enjoyed an MMO before.
I will gladly pay (donate)15$ a month to help make this game all it can be instead of just whine about its current (and temporary) flaws and threaten to cancel my subscription. I wish more players were of that disposition.Edited by Baphomet on April 23, 2014 12:57PM- The Psijic Order
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FlaeorSoul ShrivenAwesome!! Thank you for all the awesome info
Please continue to do these once a month at least! Edited by Flaeor on April 23, 2014 1:07PM2 -
Vaerth✭✭✭✭METALPUNKS wrote: »Thanks a bunch. My real question is this. I plan on playing on ps4 but I decided your game was way to good looking to wait so I decided to buy it on oc only to hold me over until console. I got 4 friends to follow in my footsteps. That's a pretty big deal considering once the ps4 version launches we will not be playing on pc, our guild is ps4 and we prefer console, I know I know....lol. So please any info on ps4? Can you drop even a hint. Im tracking the console version like crazy looking for any news. I noticed today beta sign ups were back up for console then back down and I think back up. This is a good sign and I am hoping to hear something, anything. Please bro.
Ps . Oh do you we need to sign up again for Console if we already did before?
Yeah this is not a thread to address sneak peaks at the console versions. Stay on topic much? lolPact Bloodwraith0 -
Vaerth✭✭✭✭thorsonwongb16_ESO wrote: »This game needs open world pvp
No thanks, I'd rather not randomly get ganked while trying to level because some vet rank 10 wants to stroke their epeen. An arena-styled PVP for skill based competition, however...
EDIT: And cloaks, one day. Maybe. No? Tails causing clipping and physics causing lag in Cyrodiil? Okay, how about customizable guild embelms to go on tabards?
The Breton Nightblade in the trailers had a cloak, was great disappointed there are none in this game. If they never had the intention of adding cloaks, then show off a main character wearing one?
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