Performance is high priority but I've seen a lot of people leave over the difficulty of the overland zones and the lack of a true tutorial. It lead to some of my friends calling ESO a "spam game" because they never learned rotations, how to weave abilities together (not even going to touch LA weaving in this post), and how to build their character.

It got stale for them and I feel the reason ESO got as popular as it did is the universe, the fan base from the single player games, and the story. If you don't care for any of those things and are in it for the gameplay ESO does a poor job of teaching it to you.

Performance fixes (not *performative* “fixes”) are much more valuable to me than new content or cosmetics.

Performance, but this is only from PvP Cyrodiil perspective. While im doing quests, performance is absolutely ok.

Performance needs to improve (servers and bugs)

Performance first, obviously. But their, ahem, "monetisation practices" and "year long stories" needs a serious look right after.

According to Rich on a recent stream of his, the team has found out what the issues are with Cyrodiil’s performance and have plans on getting said issues addressed. Keep in mind that Cyro performance isn’t gonna be fixed overnight. I’m looking forward to whenever the fixes come out, and I hope the team keeps figuring out/working on performance issues in the game in general.

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Performance is high priority but I've seen a lot of people leave over the difficulty of the overland zones and the lack of a true tutorial. It lead to some of my friends calling ESO a "spam game" because they never learned rotations, how to weave abilities together (not even going to touch LA weaving in this post), and how to build their character.

It got stale for them and I feel the reason ESO got as popular as it did is the universe, the fan base from the single player games, and the story. If you don't care for any of those things and are in it for the gameplay ESO does a poor job of teaching it to you.

This is why i think they need to work on the social aspect alot too , its the main way to find help or assistance

Disclaimer: got bored, don't want to do something meaningful, so I write this huge and useless post.

So...
Although I voted for the content release formula, in my opinion the 3 things are equally important in the list:
- the content release formula
- the fake tanks & heals
- the monetization.

As for the content releases, I believe that the current approach probably puts a lot of burden on the team. Having to write, build, voice over and program the DLCs so frequently and get them ready in time might be difficult. So, the team have to hurry, and have no time for any other things like overviewing the old content to fix some issues, make some minor face lifting to the zones, old armor models, tweak and modernize the systems, finish any half-done and canceled stuff, etc.

Fake tanks & healers. Agree with @WraithShadow13 in this regard. The time goes on and the game seems to continue to increase this problem further. And the main reason of that in my opinion is the overall university of the characters.
Although, I understand that it's actually in the game's core design more than anything else. The "play the way you want" slogan and the TES legacy with its all-in-one character building ability that is expected by so many players. And it makes the problem worse, because on one hand we - players - want the freedom of character building and roles, the diversity and hybrids viability, and on the other hand we want the old good "holy trinity" system to remain the optimal choice. That's really hard to manage it all at once and to please everyone. Probably even impossible. So, we have the game leaning more to the all-in-one formula. And in this situation we obviously get those smartest and very busy people who simply don't have time for that "stupid and glitchy queue", especially because they are (or think they are) capable of doing it solo, so they just go sit on the tank/healer chair.
Also, with every next year I notice the tendency that I see fast runners and fake tanks/heals significantly more often. I recently got back to the game after a long break (left shortly after Elsweyr release in 2019) and what I can say is that it feels like PUGs nowadays are not the same they were in 2017-2019. Maybe it's the natural player skills and knowledge progression, maybe a power creep produced by new sets, I can't tell for sure. But I definitely feel like ESO PUGs now remind me of WoW PUGs where player base is much more focused on fast efficient XP grind than actually playing and enjoying the game the way it was designed to be played. And they can do that because they don't really need anyone and don't care about those random garbage losers in their team who only want to waste the whole 10 minutes of their precious time. They just need to get the daily XP bonus ASAP and get out. Have to note that I'm not even that type of a player who wants to slowly explore the dungeon and read the quests. I actually feel fine if I have to skip the dialogues. But even if I myself farm the dungeon gear and I ran it 30 times today already, I still can't run forward without looking back at my teammates and waiting for them if they seem to be doing the quest or got full inventory and especially if I clearly see that it's their very first time. But that's me who don't estimate his time properly. The fake tanks and healers on the other hand are so smart and busy that they just don't have time to wait in the queue.

The monetization. Not much to say here. Just want to point out that it's definitely not because of the recent drama about Rich's stream, respec scrolls ads in shop and such. I just want to say that I can't even imagine how would I consider to buy a costume or a furniture pack in the CS. Looking at the prices I really think that I feel like I am the poorest man in the world and the only ones who could buy that stuff are really rich people. Yeah. The prices are completely out of the way and always have been.

Now, what I think about other points in the poll.
Performance. It's more or less fine in my case. I have issues with certain areas in all the non-vanilla zones. Balmora, where I got micro fps drops which never happened to me before the Morrowind release. Then it was Alinor's central district where I got constant 40 fps. Then Elsweyr (both Northern and Southern) where I finally figured out how to deal with the issues. I had to disable the ambient occlusion completely to get rid of the annoying fps fluctuations. Cyrodiil always has been okay in my experience however (but I don't play it on daily basis though).
The "fake DDs". What do you mean? The newbies randomly using random skills on their magician swordsman? I don't consider it a problem. Sure, I would like ESO to have some more transparent representation of stats and their relations to each other. Like showing off in percents how much more damage I'll get if I increase my max magicka by 1024 points, but in general MMORPGs always have bad dps and great dps and it's mainly on the players themeselves to take some efforts and to do some research. And yeah, as always, if anyone don't like low dps in PUG, then they should just stop PUGing. Simple as that.
New PvP content. Well, looking at the open world arenas in Stormhaven, Artaeum and such I always think "what is that and why does it feel like it meant to be something but never got a proper implementation actually?". We really need them to be dedicated dueling areas. There have to be NPCs to repair the armor, bankers and even the new armory stations to swap equipments and builds, also one could dream of some dueling contests where players come to an NPC to register for a fight and get an opponent chosen from other registered competitors, some daily requirements like win 10 duels to get alliance points maybe. Although the NPC should make sure you don't get a competition duel with your guildmates to prevent one of the most obvious abuses of such system.
In-game economy. I'm not an economist, and I can't tell if it's even possible for devs to balance the economics in-game. How would they do that at all? Regulating the gold rewards in real time? Changing prices of NPC services, houses and such? Don't know.
Balance changes. ZOS do this all the time. And there will always be something requiring more balance changes. I don't know any MMORPG in the world that would be perfectly balanced.
Toxicity. Can't fight against it. The more popular a game becomes, the more "unwanted" people it attracts.

None of these things are a problem for me personally so... guess I'll pick other?

I'd like another look at housing caps, guild perks/management in general, and of course doing some more set audits to fix up some of the ignored ones

I'd vote for the trading system specifically, as opposed to the economy generally. As for the other things listed, I don't have a problem with any of them.

I would really like the content releases to go back to how they used to be. I hate this piecemeal rationing out of story parts. I've been a plus subscriber for a few years now and until recently I was under the impression that if I bought the main part in June, I'd get the second part included when it came out later in the year. Now I've learnt it's not so. I know this is probably done precisely so people will subscribe, but I do not like it. I want them to just release a complete story package, once a year, or whenever. If they want to release a dungeon pack in between that is not related to any other story (like Shadows of the Hist) that's cool too. This would help them too; instead of having to rush unfinished content to meet a deadline, they could release it when it's actually ready.

Most of the other stuff I never have problems with. Performance? Yeah, it was a little glitchy when there were a hundred people around a new world boss, but that's about it. Toxicity? I've only ever had one person in my ignore list. Even in PVP, I've never had someone's arse in my face, or gotten mean private messages. Fake roles? Again, never been a problem, and sometimes if you're playing with a few friends you need to fake it, it works out okay.