Canceled subscription today, 5 reasons why.

ink · May 2014

Ordered by importance, here are my top five reasons why:

A month from launch and your forums still look like something from 1995. No general discussion? Sub-sub-sub forums? Your forum administrator/cm should be ashamed. Who hired this guy?
Failure to adequately respond to economy exploits.
Instability of the Mac client. How do you launch with a well documented memory leak? "Oh we'll fix it later, until then you have to relaunch your client every 20 minutes."
Shallow/boring quests. Cadwell was humorous and interesting but everything else, including voice overs, and the tasks themselves feel really forced and unoriginal. Way too easy and required virtually zero coordination with fellow players. This is an MMO that feels like a single player game without the nuance that makes single player games worth playing. You can easily go 1-VR10 without ever having to interact with another player. Even in veteran content, you don't experience the other factions despite running through their zones. No world PvP, no need to group up for a difficult quest, nothing. Honestly, other players are annoying as they frequently bug or interrupt your single player quest flow.
Deceptive/inaccurate information for pre-launch. Your community representatives provided a specific launch time (server status online) over a week before pre-launch. Yet the servers were brought online over and hour earlier than was stated. Many players buy pre-launch access specifically to reserve character names

You will notice only one of these reasons has to do with the actual gameplay of ESO. The game is solid in terms of character mechanics (despite vampire bugs, broken Nightblade skills, ect.) but falls way short everywhere else. I believe there is hope for ESO in the future and could see myself returning at some point, but like a customer served bad food, that trust will have to be earned back.

Oblongship · May 2014

Thread will be locked 1 reason why.

This is Customer Support and Goodbye threads aren't permitted.

Seroczynski · May 2014

k, later.

ZiRM · May 2014

Sadly, you won't be the first or the last OP.

Worstluck · May 2014

Thanks for letting us know, instead of you know, using the actual feedback tool in game. I am guessing you went all the VR10? Doesn't sound like you made into the veteran ranks at all, or did a public dungeon, or an instanced dungeon, or dolmens, or world bosses (most, some are easy) because I am pretty sure you need to group for a lot of that stuff.

And wow, complaining they brought the servers up early? I was like 'Hell yeah! I get to play already!" I wont dispute the forums, they are bad, but they know it and are working on it. As far as dupes, yeah not defending that either, they knew about a lot of the exploits from the beta testers I believe, but didn't fix them.

Matfido · May 2014

This one would be glad if you give your stuff to him since you are gone:P

Tarwin · May 2014

1) Um what does a forum have to do with your subscription/game play. Lots of Fansites out there with a better setup

2) I dunno about that, people seem to complain a lot when the servers come down, shut down mail or guild banks when Zen reacts to duping exploits. So obviously there is a "response"

3)Don't use a Mac, but have seen a bunch of kudo's for the last Mac stability fixes

4) You put a bunch of points in one point, but in a nutshell, guess the game architecture isn't up to what you want/like. It is for thousands of others so I maybe a new game is what you need to look for

5)Are you serious? Complaints like that really don't help your cause. If it's all about "first man on deck to be uber have bragging rights" then that is more something you need to address with yourself, not a game that caters to thousands

Sounds to me this is NOT the game for you, you appear to be looking for pure PvP, group only game. Unfortunately those don't appeal to the majority and don't get very far due to lack of profits. I bet Shadowsbane would have tickled you pink!

Jim_McMasterub17_ESO · May 2014

That's cool man, DO hope you enjoyed the game while you were here.

Check back in a month or two, you will hopefully be pleasantly surprised at the length & breadth of their changes & implementations.

ink · May 2014

Worstluck wrote: »

Thanks for letting us know, instead of you know, using the actual feedback tool in game.

Oh you mean the one that YOU mention that they ignore five sentences later in your post?

Worstluck wrote: »

I am guessing you went all the VR10? Doesn't sound like you made into the veteran ranks at all, or did a public dungeon, or an instanced dungeon, or dolmens, or world bosses (most, some are easy) because I am pretty sure you need to group for a lot of that stuff.

You should note that I explicitly state "Quests" in the first three words of point #4. None of what you mentioned is questing.

LadyDestiny · May 2014

Complaining because they brought the servers online early? LOL that is a first.

Noth · May 2014

Anyone who complains about shallow quests should probably not play any quest based games as even the quests in the single player games are shallow

the.dzeneralb16_ESO · May 2014

Anyone who complains that these quests are shallow either doesn't read dialogue, or has very very poor reading comprehension

Worstluck · May 2014

ink wrote: »

Worstluck wrote: »

Thanks for letting us know, instead of you know, using the actual feedback tool in game.

Oh you mean the one that YOU mention that they ignore five sentences later in your post?

Worstluck wrote: »

I am guessing you went all the VR10? Doesn't sound like you made into the veteran ranks at all, or did a public dungeon, or an instanced dungeon, or dolmens, or world bosses (most, some are easy) because I am pretty sure you need to group for a lot of that stuff.

You should note that I explicitly state "Quests" in the first three words of point #4. None of what you mentioned is questing.

I referred to a dupe, or a bug. They most likely did listen, just didn't have the time or resources to fix them. I never said they didn't listen, but thanks for putting words in my mouth. Of course they listen to feedback...My point was that this is the customer support forum, not a place for you to air your complaints.

So yeah, quests are shallow...did you bother to read any of them? You mentioned quests once there, you said you could go from 1 to vr10 solo...There is tons of group content in the game, you choose to leave that out.

Regardless, posts like these are just flamebaits and the thread should be closed, so enjoy whatever game you play next. I am sure it will be a million times better!

McNicholas10 · May 2014

The biggest reason for leaving the game is the setup of the forums? You might want to go see a specialist cause that's pretty neurotic.

ZOS_MichaelM · May 2014

We understand and respect that sometimes people will leave The Elder Scrolls Online community. @ink, we thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we wish you the very best. We're closing this thread now per our Code of Conduct policy on quitting/goodbye threads.