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Kallykat · January 2023

About which of the following are you most excited to receive information/hints in the upcoming livestreams?

AJTC5000 · January 2023

Q1 Dungeon DLC

Kallykat wrote: »

About which of the following are you most excited to receive information/hints in the upcoming livestreams?

Already planning for PTS dungeon runs on the 30th

colossalvoids · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

Can't say I'm "excited" for anything but kinda want to know what was our "most requested" feature and if it was even requested that much, especially after three years of drough can't really expect much.

Tommy_The_Gun · January 2023

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Tbh. I kinda lost hope that we will ever have a proper Argonian chapter & story DLC (just like Khajiits had Elsweyr year long story).

At this point my only hope is um... I guess not to many niche things I use getting nerfed for arbitrary reason (ok, not arbitrary but rather to force me to grind new things that may not even be necessary lol).

Syldras · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

Isn't the "new feature" the "new tentpole system" they want to announce in Q4? Or is there also one in Q2?

Anyway, I'm interested both in story/zone and the new feature. Although I could imagine that the "much requested" new feature might be something I wasn't expecting at all (and maybe something that's of no interest for me).

colossalvoids · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

Syldras wrote: »

Isn't the "new feature" the "new tentpole system" they want to announce in Q4? Or is there also one in Q2?

One q2 feature as always and one system that is large enough to replace whole q4 zone dlc apparently.

DinoZavr · January 2023

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Sorry to say that: i do not see "Not excited at all" option.

Last 3 years were the years of non-fulfilled promises.
2020 the year of Performance with performance decline
2021 the year oh Hardware Upgrades (hello form EU and Consoles) and stability of Releases (hello U36)
2022 the year of good story-telling with quite rushed one-year story and, again, upgrades (again hello PC EU)

Also Matt in his interview stated consoles clients are limiting factor in implementing something big like new class ir even a skill line, increasing housing limits, etc as theirs resources are close to be exhausted.

Consoles has not went anywhere, so we would probably get Q2 Telavnnis zone (to re-use many of existing Morrowind models, textures and objects), gardening/farming as a main feature, as plants are already in the game. This could successfully postpone legacy clients issue for another year.
Q3 is quite logical fixing bugs released in Q2, no surprise here.

For the Q4 system, in my understanding the term "tentpole" was used intentionally to confuse most of non-native speakers
(and, please, let me remind that ESO players community is very international, not everyone is that fluent in English)
I don't expect Ember and Isobel to do pole dances near my tent (though it might be quite nice),
but i honestly don't know what to expect, especially considering such a nebulous term was carefully selected.
Spellcrafting might be an option as it would not require a lot of new resources, but i'd expect a balancing nightmare with it.

Yes, these last years were a serious ordeal, mostly because of COVID lockdowns, rough changes to working patterns.
I still love the ESO game, but i don't expect much (as not much of promised recently was actually delivered),
so not excited at all.
Sorry for that

BretonMage · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I'm REEEALLY curious about the new feature AND the new system! I'm not sure I'm excited though - anxious might be a better term.

Syldras wrote: »

Isn't the "new feature" the "new tentpole system" they want to announce in Q4? Or is there also one in Q2?

In the letter, this was their Q2 description: "Full-featured Chapter in June. The 2023 ESO Chapter will be a complete story: you will be able to play all the way through it without a storyline that is broken out and reserved for later in the year. We will return to larger/better and more detailed Chapters by doing this. We are REALLY excited about next year's Chapter—for details, you'll have to wait for our Global Reveal Event in January. But one hint: this will be part one of a multi-year story arc and will contain one of the most requested new features." Whilst Q4 seems to be all about the new system.
(Sorry, colossalvoids, just saw you already answered the question).

ForumBully · January 2023

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I'm looking forward to watching them smile and laugh off all the problems while congratulating themselves on their success.

Syldras · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

colossalvoids wrote: »

One q2 feature as always and one system that is large enough to replace whole q4 zone dlc apparently.

BretonMage wrote: »

In the letter, this was their Q2 description: "Full-featured Chapter in June. The 2023 ESO Chapter will be a complete story: you will be able to play all the way through it without a storyline that is broken out and reserved for later in the year. We will return to larger/better and more detailed Chapters by doing this. We are REALLY excited about next year's Chapter—for details, you'll have to wait for our Global Reveal Event in January. But one hint: this will be part one of a multi-year story arc and will contain one of the most requested new features." Whilst Q4 seems to be all about the new system.

Thanks. They only call the Q2 thing a "feature" though (not a "system"), which could really be anything, no matter how minor, even just an in-game hairdresser or something like that.

The way I understood it, although I see it's not completely clear by the wording, was that the "system" we normally got with Q2 (no matter if it was a new class in the earlier years or the companions and the card game from the last years) was moved to Q4. I might be too pessimistic, though.

Danikat · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

I mainly play this game for the stories, lore and the world so I'm mainly interested in where we'll be going next and what the new story will focus on.

I'm curious about the new feature/s or systems or whatever they want to call them, but if it's not something that interests me I'll simply ignore it.

BretonMage · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Syldras wrote: »

Thanks. They only call the Q2 thing a "feature" though (not a "system"), which could really be anything, no matter how minor, even just an in-game hairdresser or something like that.

The way I understood it, although I see it's not completely clear by the wording, was that the "system" we normally got with Q2 (no matter if it was a new class in the earlier years or the companions and the card game from the last years) was moved to Q4. I might be too pessimistic, though.

That's fair, though. The new feature was mentioned almost as a side note and wasn't hyped at all, which means it could be quite minor. And I assume the new system in Q4 will be the one bringing repeatable content? Or will the Q2 feature be the repeatable content, and the Q4 system will be the system like spellcrafting, or guar racing, or what not? I'm not sure what to expect, tbh.

TaSheen · January 2023

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I can't say I'm excited about any of it. I'm hoping the chapter will not be about Dunmer or Argonians. I hope it will be something I enjoy questing through, but I'm not holding my breath. As for the rest of it, I'll see what it all is (of course, already know I don't care about the dungeons, but don't know yet if I'm glad there will be something different from dungeons in Q4) and whether any of it at all is relevant to how I play and what I enjoy.

Snamyap · January 2023

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Not excited, just a mild anticipation. I just hope I don't have to watch four adults pretending to be excited about monetization of a visual modification of a standard mechanic again, that was pretty embarrassing.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

"Most excited" about the zone.
"Most concerned" about the feature, although that system is a close second.

This is all relative. I am actually more excited about lunch right now than about the next zone.

Edit: I did see this morning that they started the engines on the hype train. Waiting to see which former ESO streamers and content creators will be chiming in this month.

freespirit · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

As usual their wording is open to interpretation!

Personally I am excited for any new feature or system, I really hope that somewhere in all of this Housing gets some love!

They continue to try sell us huge and imo virtually impossible to decorate houses at horrendous real life money cost, yet never give us anything to make those houses worth buying(again my opinion).

At the very least there has to be a gold purchasable house this year!!

Vrienda · January 2023

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I'm expecting the chapter to be set in Morrowind (Which I don't want because ZOS have yet to do that province justice) or Black Marsh (Which I don't want because farm tools are the least interesting race in the game to me).

I want to know what we're getting that's supposed to replace a second story DLC, I'm glad the year long story stuff is over but a big benefit of the older way of doing things was you would get Orsinium, then a smaller thieves guild DLC.

[snip]

The most requested feature thing probably isn't going to be anything I want (RP realms, a cheaper, dungeonless ESO+, PvE cyrodiil/IC) because none of those are popular with the community. So I've little interest there too.

If ESO+ is just gonna be a craftbag I don't need, home stuff I don't need, a furnishing I don't need every month and a dungeon DLC that actively makes the random dungeon tool worse to use then I'm probably gonna let it lapse on purpose for the first time in nine years when it's up for renewal. I haven't had ESO be unstable for me since Orsinium and I haven't had a major bug since 2014 so none of those fixes really light my eyes up because I ain't experienced all the stuff [snip]

I don't really know where ZOS is going but I'm desperately hoping they have something to capture me again. Even crown store stuff has become stagnant and uninteresting because of the overabundance and constant FOMO of it all.

TL;DR: Please give me something new I'm not expecting.

[edited for baiting & conspiracy theory/misinformation]

Melivar · January 2023

Other (specify below)

All of the above. New content is always good even though i am still way behind on some things.

If I had to pick one it would be the tent pole system mostly due to curiosity.

TechMaybeHic · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I'm going to keep my mouth shut for a change and just say I can only hope for better. Not sure where I prefer it to be, but just generally; better.

UnabashedlyHonest · January 2023

Q3 QOL Improvements and Fixes

Aren't they still banning people from the streams if they mention PvP or Cyrodiil? That's why I stopped watching or caring what ZOS has to say a while back. I only judge them by their actions now.

WuffyCerulei · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

There's just so many possibilities that said feature could be.

Cireous · January 2023

Q4 New "Tentpole" System

This new 'tentpole' system fascinates me.
I sure know what I want it to be, but Im definitely not going to jinx it by typing it out.

...

SilverBride · January 2023

DinoZavr wrote: »

For the Q4 system, in my understanding the term "tentpole" was used intentionally to confuse most of non-native speakers
(and, please, let me remind that ESO players community is very international, not everyone is that fluent in English)

English is my native language but I have no idea what they mean by "tentpole" either.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

SilverBride wrote: »

DinoZavr wrote: »

For the Q4 system, in my understanding the term "tentpole" was used intentionally to confuse most of non-native speakers
(and, please, let me remind that ESO players community is very international, not everyone is that fluent in English)

English is my native language but I have no idea what they mean by "tentpole" either.

Jargon. I would have translated it into English because it isn't clear what they mean. Typical.

I am hoping they are using the term to describe a new system that extends across the existing game, similar to how the Antiquities system did. However, my fear is that it is going to be more like Housing, which spans the whole game _and_ opens up new monetization possibilities for them.

(Edit... "tentpole" describes the last part of the second example.. It is a marketing term for describing a system that opens them up to a variety of new monetization options, but they could be using in a manner that does not include monetization)

SilverBride · January 2023

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

Will you please explain what is meant by a "tentpole" system?

FeedbackOnly · January 2023

Q4 New "Tentpole" System

Syldras wrote: »

Isn't the "new feature" the "new tentpole system" they want to announce in Q4? Or is there also one in Q2?

Anyway, I'm interested both in story/zone and the new feature. Although I could imagine that the "much requested" new feature might be something I wasn't expecting at all (and maybe something that's of no interest for me).

What's tentpole system?

FeedbackOnly · January 2023

Q4 New "Tentpole" System

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

There's just so many possibilities that said feature could be.

As long as it's directly combat related this time

ArchMikem · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

I'm just a Tourist really, I go where the pretty is.

Syldras · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

I would have interpreted "tentpole system" as something that serves as a new "base" that will have more content added each year? If it's that, they could have called every system of the last few years (companions, ToT, excavations) that, though.

Alinhbo_Tyaka · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I'm not excited at all and have no plans to watch. At this point ZOS can hype 2023 all they want but until I see how the actual implementations turn out I will be sitting on the sidelines and spending my game money elsewhere.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

SilverBride wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

Will you please explain what is meant by a "tentpole" system?

My guess is that they consider this to be something that we will find out on Jan 25. While we may find out what they are planning to do, I am not sure we will find out exactly what they mean by "tentpole" until whatever it is hits PTS and we can actually see for ourselves. My thinking is that, ultimately, they consider this to be "player testable" and they won't need to answer.

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