Year Long Story, zos trying to hype again standard two dungeon dlcs, chapter with trial, q4 zone (maybe with some end game activity but doubt). Another mini game like antiquities, a lot of perfrmance problems, some nice QoL, new shiny crate items, weak main story about another big bad trying to end the world because he/she is evil.
Sorry for cynical comment but at this point unless zos decide to do some major changes, i don't expect a lot. They were so afraid to take a risk and do something outside the box that I seriously doubt they will manage to shock us (like Rich promised that next year will be something nobody is expecting).

francesinhalover wrote: »

Harvokaan wrote: »

weak main story about another big bad trying to end the world because he/she is evil.
Sorry for cynical comment but at this point unless zos decide to do some major changes, i don't expect a lot.

In no way trying to be rude. But please, could you give me examples of a better story and what major changes should be?

Better story in Elder Scrolls universe? Wrothgar have nice story based on region politics with no big bad trying to destroy the world, just intrigue that is not obvious from the start. Last couple years shows us that zos is not really good with those grand, "world is in danger" stories but smaller ones are much better. Those big stories lack relevance and often provide uninteresting solutions (anyone remember Sai Sahan returning from dead "just because"?)
Throw us in the middle of conflict between two clans, war of succession in smaller kingdom, fight gaisnt cult that is trying to frame our previous allies into something, give us more personal story with complex characters, where we need to choose between something, where player is left with this bittersweet feeling that "my choice was good but what if...". Some main stories tried to do that but failed.
Stories with some hard choices (we had choices in this game, now it is mostly "pick one dumb question option or do something"). Example from the latest chapter, why we need to tell Eveli about being a member of DB? What if dialogue option allow us to not say anything but later Eveli would find it out by herself which would create new dynamic where she isn't trusting us that much because we didn't tell her the truth?
Stories with some hard dialogues like the one with Sotha in CC where he basically mention that he and other gods (his friends) are a prisoners of their destiny, that dialogue was a small piece of art.
Stories with some memorable characters. If the most memorable character from year story is a comic relief like Arox then it means something is wrong.
TL;DR: major changes: more personal story, with not so obvious plot, some interesting conflict that is not related to "win against big bad that is bad because is bad", choices, no more dumb main character, more memorable side characters, setting with no good/bad sides but more grey, morally doubtful decisions where we gain and lose something with each possible ending. You know, something inspiring.
PS. please ZOS if you decide to kill a character, let it be dead. Killing a character only to show him/her in another expansion without explanation is a cheap move that force us to treat every death in story as something negligible (why should i care if it can return in any moment? We had a lot of that in the game)