and LOL and everyone crying about my open world PVP combat message. Bunch of PVE softcore scrubs. This is why the current PVP sucks, it's being played by a bunch of care bears.

The game absolutely needs small scale PVP like battlegrounds and Arena. Oh well, it's not like most people will be playing this game soon anyways. Not with ArcheAge and Wildstar coming out soon.

Taven wrote: »

Daverios wrote: »

[snip] that the dupes did not effect the economy. [snip] Matt so I guess the fact that Tempering Alloy and Druegh Wax were selling for 10k before the dupe and overnight went down to 1500 had nothing to do with this dupe or the economy.

Give us a break! We are not brainless. Seriously I cannot even fathom how you can even say this. [snip]

[snip] but no one paid 10k. Those that advertised it were laughed out of zone. 2k has been max for a while.

Yeah on what planet were they selling for 10k? Highest I saw was about 3k, some idiots tried for 6k but got laughed at.

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Greyhaven wrote: »

Become a designer and maybe you will aqurie some understanding on the reality of game devlopment

Actually I am a software designer and I guarantee I would not have gotten caught flatfooted this bad. BUT, the point is that anyone who knows anything about the history of online gaming, designer or not, knows that botting and gold selling will be rampant unless you take adequate measures. All that baloney about you have to be a designer to comment is wrongheaded. After all, if you walked out of heart surgery missing both legs you don't have to be a doctor to know something went horribly wrong.

AstroCat wrote: »

keondre.branchcub18_ESO wrote: »

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What in the world are you even talking about!? You are a joke right?

Yeah this guy's comment totally confused me. I think he must not know how to navigate the forums, LOL.

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TGEK wrote: »

This game needs open world pvp.

and lol @ there being no one on these forums. What a farce.

No, it does not -- that what that one PVP zone is for, rest of the factions are just fine with no open world PVP!

No Guild / Zone AH's either IMHO. I really love the fact that we have to talk interact with people, not faceless UI window.

Please, all content should stay with the limits of lore -- no flying mounts or silly pig / bear / wolf riding mounts! Horses are fine. May be some race based lore friendly mounts -- like Gaur or Khajiit battle cats, but nothing silly like pink bunny rabbits.

Thanks for the update! Mar. Matt

Pyatra wrote: »

No, we don't need more inventory. I have 4 crafting skills including provisioning, just saying, if you have the mats... craft it. Unless you get to VR don't let them sit there wasting away in your bank. Otherwise make some items from friends/guildies to deconstruct to help them level crafting.

I disagree. When there's a shared bank between ALL characters and you are doing alchemy, provisioning and others you fill up alt inventories and your main very quickly. You tell people to just craft items to free up inventory space. But some items you want to keep, not just use up for the sake of it. Such as the rare upgrade materials, spare runes, etc, etc.

Crafting ISN'T just about leveling it up. It's about making money from it, but you cannot do that if you are constantly throwing ingredients away.

SANTANTICA wrote: »

And lost BANK SLOTS, GOLD etc???? When fixed and give back?

I can speak from experience, they ARE dealing with people with those issues. But as the OP said, the fact that gold sellers / bots account for 80% of the incoming tickets to CS, this goes some (not all) of the way to explain why CS are appearing to be slow to deal with people who experienced the "Bank bug".

Well my guild and I all think this is a great game, and we number around 160ish people. We understand the problems associated with putting out a new MMORPG. Angry Joe and his AD cult are just mad because we wiped the keep floor with their blood the other night, so much so their zerg rush (because thats all they know) failed and they couldnt even get their foot in the door.

have you considerd adjusting your TOS to allow TES to buill an administrative fee to the credit card or paypal account of owners, specifically if they are botting, spamming or engaged in other black market activities. Realistically you should be able, legally, to recover some of the costs associated with dealing with the black market. After all, the EULA is a contract that the courts have held as being binding.

rfpalmerb16_ESO wrote: »

have you considerd adjusting your TOS to allow TES to buill an administrative fee to the credit card or paypal account of owners, specifically if they are botting, spamming or engaged in other black market activities. Realistically you should be able, legally, to recover some of the costs associated with dealing with the black market. After all, the EULA is a contract that the courts have held as being binding.

The biggest issue with botters and gold sellers in ANY MMO, is that the sellers/botters account is usually bought with illegitimate funds. Stolen credit cards, hacked paypal, etc. Since the vast majority of these charges are then contested, either legally or through in-house consumer protection practices, Zenimax gets to keep none of the profit.

It's a major loss for any game company. You have to hire people to help regulate them, ACTIVELY, because the Korean child work force is simply too persistent. You lose legally paying customers to annoyance and griefing. And you lose out on the accounts and games bought by these rather organized Russian mafia businesses because it wasn't their money to spend in the first place. Not to mention the international law headaches.

Watch a pawn shop owner unknowingly buy stolen goods. The cops come and take it away and you don't get crap. Best you can hope is to claim it on a tax return at the end of the year for 2% writeoff.

Thanks for the update ESO is indeed an awesome game and I have no doubt it will only get better with time. See you in Tamriel! :P

Thanks for taking time out to tell us all this, it helps to know these things are happening behind the scenes.

Please fix the nightblade class! Most of their skills or passives aren't even working properly.