What do you want the game to be? There needs to be a variety of activities to keep all players engaged over the long term.
This seems a very different version to the developers and a lot of players want. Skyshards reward you for exploring in addition to the discovery experience. You don't need every skyshard on every character and you can threfore chose which zones/delves to collect them from. Daily and weekly Endeavors provide an incentive to complete delves and public dungeons on alts.
You are probably not going to want to explore everything on your 17th alt and ZOS have already provided you with an option to get around that - and yes you do need to pay. For other players, the time taken to complete that task is part of playing the game and they will do it.
I'm not sure what problem you are trying to solve.

No, sending out a new character to gather skyshards is still satisfying after 30 characters on two accounts
As has been said, it's a good way to explore and revisit the map, as well as kill for XP, gather resources or pick up quests while you're at it

No, please no!

I'm a PvE player and what I like the most in the game content are "treasures hunts" all types. For me, finding and activating skyshards is a sort of treasure hunt and I don't want to see it disappearing.

I also enjoy hunting for skyshards. But I also think it's important to encourage players to actually play their characters, including while developing a build.

If you want to bypass that and jump straight to the end you already have the option by buying skyshards from the crown store. I'm not sure how many people actually do that, but the option is there if you want it. I don't think the process needs to be trivialised any further.

Not really. These should stay in the game because of lore of your characters and also they are a very good designed system for character development which encourages exploration. They are the prime source of skill points also.

AvalonRanger wrote: »

Vanthras79 wrote: »

Skyshards have long been used in ESO for purchasing skills, passives, and morphs. But what if you could just purchase the skills/passives/morphs by just leveling up the skill-line and not by chasing over Tamriel for meteoric shards of glass that rained from the heavens?

purchase the skills?

Purchase???
Nonsense. It will destroy RPG experience.

I assume what they meant by purchase is that you will gain a skill point every time you level up, like other games, and you would use that skill point to purchase/obtain the skill or passive. Rather than using real life money/crowns or gold to purchase. In this way, it's perfectly in keeping with the RPG experience.

It's fine at it is.

I like that it encourages exploration. As someone who primary does pve it gives me incentive to spend some time in overland besides mat farming.

Skyshards are a welcome reason to go into random base-game delves in otherwise drab and boring zones I'd never bother visiting (looking at you, Glenumbra).

Nomadic_Atmoran wrote: »

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

It's a reward for exploring

You actually believe anyone outside of the most casual is just happening upon these and not actually looking up a map of their locations on google?

My first character, absolutely. I managed to get almost all of the base game shards on my own. Unfortunately only most, because Zos changed it so they appeared on the map (should have been an optional toggle, imho) before I got them all.

Not everyone plays with a speedrun mentality, some players like to take their time and just play the game.

I'll be honest, when I recently did my run to get all of the Cyrodiil shards, I absolutely used a map 😅

"No (Please explain why)"

Lol how about explain why they should be removed?

No. You seem to be looking at Skyshards in isolation.

Skill points, 64 from leveling. 30'ish group dungeons. 14 public dungeons. 50 alliance ranks. 160+ from quests.

Skyshards are just one of many ways of collecting skill points.

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There's a enormous difference between "Thinking you have to" do something, and doing it because you enjoy it. For many people who like this kind of gameplay and wish to repeat it on different characters, it is NOT about "earning the right" to do something at all. It is, instead, about the journey taken on each character. Many treat it as a kind of additional quest and a way to connect to a new character. Many find it highly relaxing and do not consider it to be a chore. For some, they aren't even doing it in order to get to other content- for some, the gathering of skyshards, lorebooks, and other such collectibles IS the content they want to repeat when they make a new character!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the repetition of such a task no matter what reason you like it. Perhaps some do feel they wish to have the character "earn the right"- and there is nothing wrong with that style of gameplay.

Do not presume to understand how others think or feel about things and attempt to diagnose them with mental illness simply because you do not think they should be enjoying something a certain way.

Yeah it feels silly to have them nowadays since they're just like a chore you need to do.

But how else would we get those points if they were gone.

Getting skyshards feels like one of those outdated single player game side quests you find in assassins creed games.