Almost certainly not going to happen, unless you are willing to pay Chapter/DLC prices for each overhauled zone and put new zone development on hold until the rework is complete.

Are you willing to do that?

More pertinently, do you think it's cost effective across the whole playerbase for ZOS to do so?

Me, I doubt it. Fixing the stuff the lore enthusiasts whine and moan about in the old zones zone - I say this affectionately, seeing as I'm one of the lore enthusiasts whining - is not going to bring in the amount of (money that it would cost to fix) + (money lost from selling new content in that time). Therefore, it's almost certainly not going to happen.

And if TES 6 is returning to Breton lands, then again, I'd be really surprised if ESO started mucking around in the same areas.

It's not happening. That's an insane amount of dev time, more than an entire Chapter and Q4 DLC's worth, just to redo old content rather than create new content (which we know sells better, so they can't justify that time).

I had been hoping the Direnni Isle would be their chance to address some of those mistakes and create some sizable new Breton DLC, but it's just become a small tutorial zone instead.

We just have to suck it up and mostly ignore the "visual lore" from zones like High Rock and Valenwood. They were both created during a time early in the game's dev cycle when lore clearly wasn't the priority, but traditional MMO design was the focus instead. That shifted later in development as devs saw negative reactions to the game reveal and questions like "where is first person?" (this game had a cartoon art direction at first, remember? And High Rock was heavily featured demonstrating that it was one of the first zones they developed), and One Tamriel in particular marked a point where (most) visual lore has been excellent ever since (Summerset Isle's copy/paste cities aside...). At least with Valenwood there's still hope for a decent Falinesti Chapter/DLC, but I think it's time to let High Rock go until it's tackled in a single player game again, or in ESO2 if that ever happens.

Well, it's not about rework existing content to replace it (it will never happen and that's good) - instead they can put base game zones into some "legacy" tab and release a lof of Tamriel for future, quality chapters.

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I like it how it is right now (I mean european vibes in architecture) but breton's culture needs some deepness and uniqueness. Also bretons doesn't look like half-elves, I know they have more nedic blood, but anyway.

They don't look like half-elves because they aren't half-elves. They are a race of man with some mer ancestry. Which is also why they can have slightly pointed ears.

Yes. Jehanna exists. The Western Reach exists. Ephesus should have literally anything defining its character and lore. Orcs shouldn't represent 3/4 of the province. Mournoth is supposed to be part of The Reach, not a tropical pirate cove, and The Dragontails shouldn't be a ridiculously thin rock wall separating drastically different biomes.

Seriously though, a re-worked High Rock would probably be part of a broader update of the base-game zones, as the drastic difference in sheer quality of anything released a moment after launch would probably be the biggest motivation for any development.

But yes, they would have to find a way to make it work within the framework of their release cadence, in some way that wouldn't compete with production of newer stuff. If the reworks were drastic enough, it could essentially be new content, I guess?

I really hope they do - its one of my biggest wishes for the game to see my favourite places rendered with the design principles and technology they are using today.

I'd love it, but it's not going to happen because there's no way to monetize the refreshing of base game content.

Obviously, but it's not gonna happen until there's something to squeeze inbetween existing zones.

Eso has so many lore problems,
Khajit in morrowind are meant to have normal animal legs.
there's many races missing.
The locations aren't that canonical, some quests could use some more npcs also. oh no there's a war, what? only 5 soldiers?

That being said , what should really be reworked is textures, sorcerers conjured monsters, armors etc.
many armors look like painted paper.

Now that Microsoft bought the company, they should make more than the usual year long chapter updates.

TBH, I would like to see updates in parallel to the new content. Quality of life updates, visual updates, such as improved textures and effects, etc. These could have their own pace, they shouldn't be tied to a big content update. Mostly because I am talking about visual enhancements. Some textures are still low res, you can't match some outfit pieces with newer ones, or furnishings like Breton or Orc is low res compared to the newer released ones.

I hope one day they will do a One Tamriel Plus, or 2.0

Other: Meh / no strong opinion. I'm not a major lore-hound (I know general lore from the games, I don't seek out extras or read all the in-game books), and have no particular knowledge or opinions about Bretons.

(most of my "I like race X, I don't like race Y" is based entirely on aesthetics, anyway.)