Any chance ZOS throws us a bone to make another year of "we're working on it" easier to accept?

AJones43865 · February 2022

I'm not alone in being entirely frustrated and fed up with the "we're working on it" line after so many years of not seeing any notable performance improvements.

Does ZOS have anything planned to help mitigate the player frustration with the lack of any performance improvements over the last 4-5 years?

Are there any plans to show some appreciation for the players that are still around after all these years of enduring the "we're working on it" claim?

Someone in the PvP forums came up with the idea of giving some better PvP rewards until performance is improved. I think that would be a great start.

Aardappelboom · February 2022

I m all for, I read somewhere that was their plan anyway.

I still enjoy PVP but on xbox EU there's only BG a'd Cyro, IC should get a revamp, not in its core but in its rewards. The new outfit is fine but I'd rather have some more PVP related rewards. If all creativity is lost I'd be fine with achievement rewards: "kill 200 players and take at least 10 flags" and get a mount. Something like that.

Seals of endeavor would also make for a currency to make it attractive for pvp'ers.

Mojmir · February 2022

Devs- "Everyone come to cyrodiil for a new reward!"
Servers- "........bruh"

Indigogo · February 2022

I vote for the delve buff to be added to battlespirit as a minimum.

Amottica · February 2022

The problem with providing greater rewards over a long period of time is played will tend to expect them to continue making them a base game change. Looking at the forums and the constant flow of complaints about pretty much anything supports this.

VaranisArano · February 2022

This appears to be their plan. YMMV.

"In the meantime, we’ll consider additional ways to keep Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds interesting and exciting (for example, potentially special rulesets or weekend events) and will continue to work on bug fixes affecting combat, but we won’t be adding any new features to PvP until the work mentioned above is complete. Doing so would not only prolong the fixes we want to implement but would also exacerbate the issue of poor performance."

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/595442/eso-pvp-update-january-2022

Amottica · February 2022

VaranisArano wrote: »

This appears to be their plan. YMMV.

"In the meantime, we’ll consider additional ways to keep Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds interesting and exciting (for example, potentially special rulesets or weekend events) and will continue to work on bug fixes affecting combat, but we won’t be adding any new features to PvP until the work mentioned above is complete. Doing so would not only prolong the fixes we want to implement but would also exacerbate the issue of poor performance."

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/595442/eso-pvp-update-january-2022

Good information for this thread.

Wolfpaw · February 2022

I hope no Whitestrake's Mayhems, and no new rewards. All this does is bring players who don't want to PvP, and takes the queue through the roof.

I would like to see in the meantime,

1. Removal of all unnecessary npc's and animals-including keep guards, let players defend keeps.
2. Region locked servers for Cyrodiil.
3. Add a 2 or 3 month cooldown on Faction swapping.

Jaimeh · February 2022

AJones43865 wrote: »

Does ZOS have anything planned to help mitigate the player frustration with the lack of any performance improvements over the last 4-5 years?

Are there any plans to show some appreciation for the players that are still around after all these years of enduring the "we're working on it" claim?

No and no, if the past is anything to go by. The decision to clean up the code should have been taken years ago, but I guess their logic is why fix it when it ain't (completely) broken? It's a pity because the playerbase is very loyal, and does so much work on every PTS cycle (for free!) again and again.

katanagirl1 · February 2022

Wolfpaw wrote: »

I hope no Whitestrake's Mayhems, and no new rewards. All this does is bring players who don't want to PvP, and takes the queue through the roof.

I would like to see in the meantime,

1. Removal of all unnecessary npc's and animals-including keep guards, let players defend keeps.
2. Region locked servers for Cyrodiil.
3. Add a 2 or 3 month cooldown on Faction swapping.

No. Don’t remove the only PvP event for those of us who enjoy it. Removing NPCs from Cyro would be highly detrimental to defending home keeps as well. Players could not get there in time to defend without them.

Vylaera · February 2022

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Wolfpaw wrote: »

I hope no Whitestrake's Mayhems, and no new rewards. All this does is bring players who don't want to PvP, and takes the queue through the roof.

I would like to see in the meantime,

1. Removal of all unnecessary npc's and animals-including keep guards, let players defend keeps.
2. Region locked servers for Cyrodiil.
3. Add a 2 or 3 month cooldown on Faction swapping.

No. Don’t remove the only PvP event for those of us who enjoy it. Removing NPCs from Cyro would be highly detrimental to defending home keeps as well. Players could not get there in time to defend without them.

NPCs don't even slow a good group down, they're just something else to fight so it isn't boring.

That said, they should stay right where they are