I am very confused with the true voice of us the players. We have the PTS for a reason. Live testing in Cyrodiil crossed a weird boundary, and I don't like it at the end of the day. I also really dislike the new trend of binding certain motifs to treasure map/leads and how long it was bugged. I am sad that ZOS has ignored the need for additional character slots, additional inventory options, whether that be more bank space, more storage, more pets...very important things are being glazed over and it's frustrating. But hey....we have an in-game way to earn a small amount of crowns through endeavors, because they took away most free costumes/pets from daily rewards...give a little, take a little, give a little...

Other:

Performance being addressed was announced, but we've yet to see the dividends of that announcement. Seems to have just really been a ploy to get us to be a bit more quiet as pertains to issues, them probably feeling like we've given them something to chew on.

Am I enjoying playing? Sure. But, my progressive trial guild doesn't enjoy being stuck at vSO (our current plateau, though we did beat vAS) due to the poison bug mechanic plaguing groups as of late. How is that not a priority considering it is end game content?

PvP, this back and forth with proc testing is destroying the consistent players who have established builds/sets NOT being abused by the meta, but being targeted because outcrys of people getting deleted by them.

How about the load times into and out of zones? How is this still an issue? Character loads that take 5 - 10 minutes just to get into game. Even during off peak times. Unacceptable.

It's not worse, or better. It's literally par for course.

I hate to say I'll keep playing, but when I've invested 7 years into characters and an MMO, building achievements, gear collections, etc., (and it being my favorite franchise outside of LotR), kind of hard to stop playing. Especially considering the new LotR MMO got nixed... Fml.

There are positives. The community of players. The content that does work in 4 and 12 man groups. The events (when they do work), especially Halloween. I enjoy the core part of the game. But, some of this stuff still going on really baffles me.

No. I don`t like their "focus on horizontal progression". They nerfed CP very much. After 1000 Cp progression became useless. Also I disappointed that they nerfed proc sets to the ground for magicka characters. 6500 SD is nonsense.

No, more like disappointed, but I'm not going anywhere, anytime soon, Tamriel is my second home, I just been spending less time playing then I use to...

I won't be happy until Cyrodiil, Solstheim and Sheogorad become available as pve quest hubs.

The Good: Personally, I love the changes to CP! This is the first time I've ever considered it generally better to play in Cp campaigns since.. well... ever! I also very much enjoy the fact that vertical progression is very limited after a while. I enjoy trying out new ideas and having a breadth of choices is much better than a depth of choices in this regard. It also puts focus where it belongs - on mastering the game itself. No one writes books about Candyland. After the age of five I think pretty much everyone realizes it trivial and skill-less. Yet after hundreds of years people are still studying chess. Good games should be the same way. Technically finite possibilities but with enough complexity that the only way to make good moves is to learn and understand. And even then one can always be surprised.

One a side note, about two years ago we hit a depth of the tank-met in PvP the likes of which has never been seen before. We've finally started working our way out of this pit. For the most part I'm glad to see set rebalances and some mechanics going the way they are. We still have a way to go. Atm the game is just too explosive. Healing is skyhigh, damage is through the roof. These numbers are just too wild for the network latency of the game currently. I think we need to consider better options like avoiding stacked healing and then slowly reduce damage and healing power to a sensible level so that fights can last more than one or two seconds but also don't drag on forever when large groups roll into town.

The Bad: There are many skills that have been changed or outright removed from the game over the last two or three years. Many of these skill were changed based on numbers balanced in an equation. As a hobbyist game dev myself I understand why standards are important. But they need to be the place where you START to balance things. Not where you end. Too many unique or fun aspects of the game have been removed and I see several more on there way next patch. Some skills have been simply nerfed into oblivion but because they show a green light on a spreadsheet somewhere they are just left to languish. Between wild balance swings and un-requested changes to skills (or perhaps requested but still unwarranted) we've seen a lot of really cool ideas simply vanish into thin air. As a DK main since basically the beginning I've watched a TON of really fun and cool features about the class just get outright removed. Rather than apply a bit of reasoning they simply deleted aspects of their skills or completly changed the numbers in such a way that they simply lack the original vision and concept and instead are just number placeholders. This trend has slowed lately but I look on to each new set of patch notes with dread because of the past.

The Ugly: Performance is just gross. Ultimately I don't really care what anyone says about balance right now. Who could possibly judge what is too strong or too weak with the way the game runs these days?! I'll take all the nerfs in the world if I could just get to see my skills fire consistently during primetime. We should be excited to log on during peak hours and events. Instead, many of us dread it. Or simply skip it outright.

Even PvE isn't safe these days. Lately I've been getting wrecked by overland mobs on occasion because I just can't get skills to work. Speaking of overland content... actually my post is long enough. I'll just say that PvP is literally the only content I find interesting enough to bother with anymore.

I say no for many reasons not gonna say why as when that happens the fast we changed your post to be friendly towards us even though we messed up always happens but there is many reasons why.

I'm fine with the game's direction, and have been since launch.

I dislike cp changes and endeavour system so in general I am not happy at all.
Unlike before I feel game forces lot more daily tasks on its players, and these leave less time for them to do content they might enjoy more than killing 15 enemies with class skills, doing 5 quests for chorrol or mining 8 jewelry crafting nodes. Might sound weird, but I did enjoy playing much more when there were no daily tasks providing crown store related currency.
About cp changes, grind is real yet you still need to play star slot minigame in green tree and that really, really got old fast.
If this game direction continues I might just give up at one point because I feel miserable being bombarded with additional tasks with each new patch. Wont be easy to quit since I am addicted.

It’s been mixed, I love the set collection system, I’ve enjoyed mythic items but they haven’t always got their power level and acquisition right and CP is a step in the right direction but already feels a bit like it’s been forgotten about. I dislike companions and don’t think they really have a place in an MMO which already has water down content

Antiquities are great, reminds me of archeology done right, lets hope ZoS doesn't suddenly decide to drop it like Blizz did their system.

Year long stories are stale and predictable, the writing has definitely gotten worse.

CP 2.0. Sigh....slottables.

Companions - like 'em. Why has Bastion got the face of Nicolas from the Thieves Guild quests.