Totally not. I have fatigue of the ppl screaming because it is a change, no matter if the change brings good or bad.

Elsonso wrote: »

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Might I recommend a poll, though? This is likely to be closed due to the unproductive nature of the request.

Funny. And btw im eso + free since many years and proud of it. Paying even more for the lag production is absurd (lets see how long this posts lasts).

Honestly not me. The past couple years have been quiet in terms of DRASTIC changes that the community has disliked so vocally. The Scalebreaker patch was the last huge change in DPS and gameplay that for the most part got reversed in Dragonhold. I can’t say I was shocked after seeing changes coming after such a long quiet period. At least they’re not waiting several months while it’s on live and nor ignoring PTS feedback until the next major patch this time around.

I hit change fatigue somewhere in 2018 when I realized I didn't want to keep grinding for new gear.

Then in 2019-20, Warframe started their Nightwave system (think Weekly Endeavors) and broke my "fear of missing out" button by mashing on it too hard. I got burned out and took a healthy break from that game.

But now that I've seen the signs in one game, its hard to ignore when ESO starts causing those same signs. The result is that I've largely tuned out of their meta and combat changes and kept on playing my non-meta builds in non-competitive/high end content.

I used to play much more competitively in PVP, but now I don't. Part of that's because my guild left due to performance. Part of that's because I'm unwilling to subject myself to even more change fatigue and risk of burnout by chasing mythic items that will make me more competitive for three months before they get nerfed. I'm definitely not willing to do the PVE cycle of grinding for new gear and learning a new rotation only to grind/learn a new set the next update.

Ironically, change fatigue makes me much less likely to engage with the powerful mythic items and gear that ZOS uses to sell their new content. It's just so badly balanced that I actively avoid picking them up. Buying a Chapter for its gear makes me feel like the quote "there's a sucker born every minute." I might buy them for other reasons, but not the badly balanced gear.

I don't have change fatigue, I have complete *** change exhaustion. Three years ago, when we were still doing the podcast, I was suffering from change fatigue, since then it's metastasized.

Not change fatigue exactly - but really not liking having to re-apply Champion Points. I do hope this doesn't have to happen too often - although it's moot point I guess, since you can only have 4 items on your Champion Bar.

Khajiit is fatigued. This one was fatigued after Elsweyr - remember it clearly. The "big update" that nerfed the 5-piece NMA bonus. There were other changes too, but this one just remembers that. Since then, khajiit has had it, and has ceased to try to relearn.

Changes to the combat system of any game end up feeling so discordant, especially when they are so obviously arbitrary and subject to continuous further arbitrary change, like they have been here for years. This one is at the stage now with ESO where he just tries to ignore these sweeping changes to what in effect is the fundamental physical reality of the game.

From perspective of a player that do follow the changes and creates build videos, my change fatigue from this patch is higher than from any patch created before. Even hybridisation wasn't as bad (and it was bad).

Like, you do balance swings every 3 month. It takes like 1 month or so to grind new gear, experiment and make something decent. Now you start recording some gameplays, make a vid or two, and new PTS changes come up saying that your vids are outdates. No reason to release any new videos until patch hits. No reason to even showcase 4 new builds I didn't show, it's destroyed next patch anyway.

Worse, that I don't see any reason for those changes. They break almost all of existing builds without introducing any interesting interactions or variety, they reduce variety because the changes nerf certain skills out to the unusable state.

This is what happens when you add more complexity (mostly via items) to a game than your QA team can handle.

From a player point of view, yeah it's tiresome even if we understand that they're just trying to play catch up to the messes they create.

silver1surfer69 wrote: »

Totally not. I have fatigue of the ppl screaming because it is a change, no matter if the change brings good or bad.

I'm actually pretty happy to have a new PvP meta every 3 months, but not when it's due to massive damage nerfs and deleting entire builds or playstyles. Tank metas in this PvP are extremely boring.

FantasticFreddie wrote: »

Not all change is bad.

We loved the stickerbook and quest markers for writs, the new content and new zones, while not quite as good as some of their pre-Covid stuff have been good and the new trials have been excellent, companions and card game, while not exactly my cup of tea, have been largely popular.

Giant sweeping balance changes, that are directly opposite previous giant sweeping balance changes? Highly unpopular, and for good reason. Change needs to feel like we are moving forward, gaining something worthwhile, and refining previous ideas.

Making light and heavy attacks both scale from your highest stats while releasing content with your highest dps check yet and then a couple of months later turning around and removing ALL scaling from light and heavy attacks and nerfing damage is just poor planning, confusing, and overall bad practice.

The stickerbook was both really helpful for combating change fatigue (as in, once you have the sets unlocked you can easily recreate them to match the changing meta) and really bad for causing burnout in the initial "gotta catch 'em all" rush to fill it out.

One of the quirks of ESO is that the Devs have gradually introduced QOL stuff to make change less painful like transmutation, the stickerbook, skyshard packs, better morph/attribute altars, and the Armory. That's a good thing! But on the other hand, all that is only making the change more bearable, instead of not making the change in the first place.