I've long felt the developers have become so institutionalised in their own creation that they have forgotten what it would feel like to a new player. And at this point, what it feels like to a new player is: completely incomprehensible.

The problem extends beyond the game itself into its own marketing. Even to buy the game you're looking at DLCs, Chapters, ESO plus with no sensible, plain English explanation of what that even means. Then there are events: what is a ticket (because it is not what that word means in the English language), what is a drop, what are these people even talking about.

And that's without even going into the utter car crash that is the main story after One Tamriel. Not only does the game not even tell you that a main story exists, it is possible to play chunks of it completely out of order without having even started it, effectively breaking the main quest because, when you hit the bit you've already done when trying to play the quest for real, the quest simply disappears, and you are likely never to be able to find where to pick it up again. Not to mention that characters can be left simultaneously alive and dead.

Even when you get to champion level, the champion skills refer to attributes that most newer players have never even heard of. How am I supposed to know what skill to put points into when I don't even know what the obscure type of damage referred to in the champion skill trees description even *is*. Did the developers expect players to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of game mechanics that the game itself never actually explains by the time they hit level 50?

A game that almost requires players to Google search *before they even buy it* to make sure they buy the right thing, and then again to make sure it is played in the right order (WHY would a new player even guess they needed to do that), etc, needs a serious, serious overhaul. There needs to be some sort of onscreen on-the-fly help that appears automatically and isn't buried in menus that tells you *in real world, non-lore language* what is going on.

That includes language that explains faults in the game that players need to know exist to understand what is happening. In the main quest, that means an admission that ESO started off having three gated regions, which players could not leave until they had finished the main quest, and because the main quest was written at that time, a lot of its story plain does not make sense any more. Without that admission, you're left with a constant sense of "what the...?!?!"

Jarl_Ironheart wrote: »

Youyouz06 wrote: »

It's time to justify the pricing, that's for sure.

What do you mean justify the pricing?

The game is absolutely huge. You can get 7 years of content for free with game pass. Even then the game is super cheap on other consoles for a ton of content.

The game functioning properly on PC EU.

I've done raids, raids in PvP and all the rest there is to do in game (besides the latest dlc)

The performance does not justify the pricing on PC EU and I am personally not a fan of the subscription system + payments on DLC, especially when mythicals hit and they are evidently overpowered.

I'm not going to pay for a game just for a set(s), I desire a global and functionating package (my opinion)

I’ve brought some ten or so folks into the game over the years. All of them close friends who have a high tolerance for new things. Most with a long experience with gaming, including rpgs and mmos.

The only one that stuck was my wife of 25 years. And that because we are in the same home and I was able to act as her guide in all things.

All of the rest stuck with it for a max of a couple of weeks. The bulk of those folks I’m still very close to and we do any number of activities together in RL, and play other games together.

But the general mess, aimlessness, raw and avaricious monetization were just too much to get around to the point the game “stuck”.

And directly speaking, U35 is just the latest reason that I can’t in good faith advocate the game to borderline insisting. There is always something these last few years that keeps me from being able to do that in good conscience. I’d be more of a closer about the game to my friends if I felt genuinely as if I was opening a door to value. But I can’t, so I don’t.

Stories a year long are the most unfriendly content for the player. You are forced to purchase paid pieces of this story and constantly forget what these dolls are talking about and what the point is.