Console to PC - Biggest Annoyance is Losing All Event Mounts!

FlopsyPrince · June 2021

All that time spent grinding Indiriks is down the drain....

Not that I liked them much, but it is still annoying for mounts to be server-specific.

method__01 · June 2021

i left ps4 after 5+ years with 2000+ cp,many notable houses and a ton of cosmetics,all 18 toons leveled with high PvP ranks,master crafters all content cleared etc
started on PC during 2017 and from this year i only play at PC,now im at 800+ cp and i never looked back
the difference in gameplay is so huge that i almost forgot the gazzilion of crowns ive spend at ps4
some of the store items had to be re-purchase like banker, merchant my Tel Galen house etc but i dont regret it
cause im playing every day and tbh ESO is my game since 2006 and im still *** love it

Lucozade85 · June 2021

I would have moved to PC if I didn't lose everything and have to start over. The thought of regrinding everything just puts me off.

Cross save should be a thing.

Blinx · June 2021

I been playing on pc a week now, but I can't say I'm making it my main platform, Once my toon hits cp160, I'll only touch it when xbox servers are down.
I like the community it's very friendly, but my pc stutters, and lags sometimes , and I find myself missing too many things I already have paid for.

Snowstrider · June 2021

Yeah i miss all my stuff as well

dont understand why they wont just allow us to transfer or have crossprogression its 2021 ffs

Danikat · June 2021

Considering they were planning console releases, not to mention 2 different PC servers, since before the game launched I don't understand why they didn't consider that players would want to transfer between servers sometimes and ensure it would be possible.

I know they can't do it now because their system only allows them to copy data to an empty database, so they could only offer the one-time transfer to consoles, but that's obviously not the case with all server systems or even all MMOs so it seems to me ZOS could have made it possible the same way other companies have, if they'd considered it early enough.

In some ways the server system for this game often seems fairly 'old fashioned'. I know a lot of the developers had worked on older MMOs and it sometimes seems like they came into ESO thinking they'd just do the same things again, but TES themed, rather than looking at developments in the industry and what players might expect from a modern MMO. (But at least they updated the graphics and UI design after Skyrim was such a hit.)

FlopsyPrince · June 2021

Danikat wrote: »

Considering they were planning console releases, not to mention 2 different PC servers, since before the game launched I don't understand why they didn't consider that players would want to transfer between servers sometimes and ensure it would be possible.

I know they can't do it now because their system only allows them to copy data to an empty database, so they could only offer the one-time transfer to consoles, but that's obviously not the case with all server systems or even all MMOs so it seems to me ZOS could have made it possible the same way other companies have, if they'd considered it early enough.

In some ways the server system for this game often seems fairly 'old fashioned'. I know a lot of the developers had worked on older MMOs and it sometimes seems like they came into ESO thinking they'd just do the same things again, but TES themed, rather than looking at developments in the industry and what players might expect from a modern MMO. (But at least they updated the graphics and UI design after Skyrim was such a hit.)

They could still work a script to copy things like mounts and even housing. That would extract it from one server and insert it into another. Moving Crowns should be equally doable.

method__01 wrote: »

i left ps4 after 5+ years with 2000+ cp,many notable houses and a ton of cosmetics,all 18 toons leveled with high PvP ranks,master crafters all content cleared etc
started on PC during 2017 and from this year i only play at PC,now im at 800+ cp and i never looked back
the difference in gameplay is so huge that i almost forgot the gazzilion of crowns ive spend at ps4
some of the store items had to be re-purchase like banker, merchant my Tel Galen house etc but i dont regret it
cause im playing every day and tbh ESO is my game since 2006 and im still *** love it

I agree that addons make a HUGE difference in play. Enough to lose things, but ZOS needs to realize that things like this are little annoyances that get some players (like me) to just walk from a game at some point.

I left WoW with lots of stuff on it. I could do it again here. Not yet, but the annoyances do add up!

FlopsyPrince · June 2021

Blinx wrote: »

I been playing on pc a week now, but I can't say I'm making it my main platform, Once my toon hits cp160, I'll only touch it when xbox servers are down.
I like the community it's very friendly, but my pc stutters, and lags sometimes , and I find myself missing too many things I already have paid for.

Stay away from addons then. They automate so many things that are very painful/annoying on consoles that switching is worthwhile.

itscompton · June 2021

Even with the next gen update the PS5 version doesn't look quite as good as playing on PC with everything maxed. But between the house I spent at least a couple of hundred dollars and hours decorating, the CP grind, and especially having to level all the crafting from scratch I just can't bring myself to start again.
I've always thought the event mounts were ugly and don't have any so that's not a concern at all for me.