Upcoming Livestream Anticipation Poll

Muizer · January 2023

Q4 New "Tentpole" System

SilverBride wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

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

If the parallel with 'tentpole movies' is valid, it doesn't mean anything other than "main system of the year".

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

Muizer wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

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

If the parallel with 'tentpole movies' is valid, it doesn't mean anything other than "main system of the year".

... that can be leveraged for monetization.

Now, if ZOS were a software company, that definition would make less sense in context, and an analogue definition would be more appropriate. However, the gaming industry like to pretend they are like movie studios, so the definition makes more sense if you include the monetization.

DreamyLu · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I would prefer the minimum spoilers possible.

Since some years, most players want to know everything in advance. I can witness it in GW2. Players already know everything in details before the next download and once it's downloaded, they get rid of content within a few hours. I'm not like that. I'm one who enjoy as much surprises as possible and that the new content last long enough. Unfortunately, nowadays, it's hardly possible.

OtarTheMad · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I am really not that excited at all, in fact, this will be the first year I don't watch the Global Reveal. Like @DinoZavr said, Matt, has said in interviews that consoles hold back some things which, to me, just means that as long as they are included this game is limited in terms of what it can release now. I doubt we will ever get a new class or weapon line or guild line again nor will we get a new playable race.

I was always so excited because I thought that one day, far in the future, all of Tamriel would be in the game (Lord knows Bethesda won't get to all of it) but the more I think about it the more I question whether it can happen. Not consoles fault, things have limits... that's fine just sucks.

I get that Covid really messed up plans for ZOS, and forced them to delay and change a lot which is probably frustrating but the releases just continue to be meh to me. I doubt anything I want will be in any chapter and with the hope of anything really big and new like classes, lines etc sort of dashed I'm just not that interested in DLC's.

SeaGtGruff · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I'm interested in learning about all of the above-- and simultaneously cringing in anticipation of how the playerbase is going to react. Given that there are different types of players-- casual vs. hardcore, noob vs. vet, PvE vs. PvP, etc.-- plus different wants and needs from different players, it's difficult to please everyone, so there's likely to be at least some unhappy reactions. I'll be fine with whatever's in the works, but I don't enjoy seeing other players unhappy.

endgamesmug · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

See what this dice game is gonna be like

robwolf666 · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

As always, the next story and zone.

No interest, honestly, in the dungeons.

Definite curiosity about the new feature and QoL stuff.

Curious about the tentpole, but have no idea what it even means. (all a tent pole does is hold up/support a tent)

fizzylu · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

Only because I'm curious if it's really going to be something players have been requesting a lot and how "big" of a feature it actually is. Whatever they do end up announcing will probably be the final factor in me determining if the game will ever be worth playing actively again so yeah haha I'm "excited".

ADarklore · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

DinoZavr wrote: »

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

In regards to consoles being a 'limiting factor' then ZOS needs to move beyond the old gen consoles then and realize that next gen consoles are much more capable. Heck, even DCUO is doing a next gen console graphics update late this year. DCUO learned the hard way that refusing to move beyond the old gen consoles was a seriously limiting factor and they finally had to cut the cord on PS3 support a few years ago- after spending many years refusing to do so- but at the cost of decline of the game and players. ESO cannot make that same mistake, and moving on sooner rather than later is key to continued growth of the game.

DinoZavr · January 2023

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@ADarklore, RIght.
What really baffles me about the legacy consoles support is the absence of declared "End of Life".
So if Zeni really planned to discontinue support of PS4 (for example) they should issue the EoL statement long long ago to give owners of the said legacy boxes enough time to upgrade.
Still i failed to discover any hardware EoL statements from @ZOS.
That is alarming.

Though there might be Business Partners Agreements between Zeni and consoles vendors we have no clue about,
which might basically oblige ZOS to support these platforms until vendors themselves discontinue theirs products,
we know not.
For ESO evoultion something has to be done with them limitations.
Matt simply confirmed the issue, but gave no hints how Zenimax would resolve that, or even if they plan to do that at all.

edit: typos.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

ADarklore wrote: »

In regards to consoles being a 'limiting factor' then ZOS needs to move beyond the old gen consoles then and realize that next gen consoles are much more capable. Heck, even DCUO is doing a next gen console graphics update late this year. DCUO learned the hard way that refusing to move beyond the old gen consoles was a seriously limiting factor and they finally had to cut the cord on PS3 support a few years ago- after spending many years refusing to do so- but at the cost of decline of the game and players. ESO cannot make that same mistake, and moving on sooner rather than later is key to continued growth of the game.

While Microsoft has incentive to use sunsetting of older console support to prod older console users to upgrade, this is a touchy time to be removing support for Playstation consoles outside of direction from Sony to do that.

HappyTheCamper · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

I’m interested in all of it, but I mainly want to know what they consider to be “one of the most requested things.”

MageCatF4F · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Morbid curiosity. I don't expect it will be anything I'm interested in. The equivalent of a card game. It will be super-hyped of course. I hope they don't make things worse.

Darkstorne · January 2023

Q4 New "Tentpole" System

Definitely the tentpole feature. It has the best chance of being their implementation/flavour of vet overland, and being base game is a core feature that will be available to all players regardless of what it is (and I love base game features like that - means they're big).

Housing would be an example of that.

AzuraFan · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

The Q2 new feature will pretty much determine whether I stick with ESO or go. Most of the other options are knowns, and Q4 is too far away to keep me interested if nothing else will in the meantime.

joergino · January 2023

Q3 QOL Improvements and Fixes

After last year I don't expect anything good to happen in this game ever again, so I'm absolutely not excited. I will watch the stream and I will decide what I will do afterwards. So much time and money wasted.

TheImperfect · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

Excited for all of it but really need to know where we are going for definite and the story but want to know about new features too.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

TheImperfect wrote: »

Excited for all of it but really need to know where we are going for definite and the story but want to know about new features too.

For me the feature isn't going to influence any decisions unless it is a super bad decision on their part.

But the ZONE... if it is going to be another place where it is constantly raining and thundering, like 2022 and 2021, then I will probably pass. I am so tired of logging into the game and it is *** raining constantly.

FluffWit · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Potential changes to the creative and combat development teams.

karthrag_inak · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Khajiit is most excited to hear how combat will be completely reinvented from the ground up, changing all existing combat systems, because they will be "better". You know, like this past year, and last year, and the year before, and ...

peacenote · January 2023

Q1 Dungeon DLC

AJTC5000 wrote: »

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

Nice.

I love group content so it's always the thing I like to hear about most. This year, because of the wording of the letter, I'm extra interested in hearing about the actual amount of dungeons and trials we will be getting and if they will be their own self encapsulated stories or not.

I hadn't realized there was a new feature mentioned separate from the system. In that case, the new feature is probably romancing companions/NPCs, which they've hinted was coming I believe. Now, I actively DO NOT WANT this but it comes up a lot, and if you count all the threads where people talk about their favorite NPC I can see how ZOS could call it most requested. I don't want to participate in that or feel like I'm losing out on aspects of a story by NOT getting my character weirdly romantically involved in many different NPCs just to read all the dialogue... but I have a feeling this could be it.

And I think the system has something to do with Overland because they discussed revisiting content.

We'll see, of course. After AwA, my bar these days is "please don't take something I love about the game and remove it or wreck it" more than being actively excited. I'm still reminded of it every time I play an alt and need to go through an area of the map that I would rather explore later, so unlike other changes it is in my face every day as something we have lost, so it is kind of hard to "let it go." THAT, and I'm a Templar main.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

peacenote wrote: »

We'll see, of course. After AwA, my bar these days is "please don't take something I love about the game and remove it or wreck it" more than being actively excited. I'm still reminded of it every time I play an alt and need to go through an area of the map that I would rather explore later, so unlike other changes it is in my face every day as something we have lost, so it is kind of hard to "let it go." THAT, and I'm a Templar main.

Yeah, my trust in this area is so low it cannot be measured. No worries, though. It has saved me some money.

TaSheen · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Elsonso wrote: »

TheImperfect wrote: »

Excited for all of it but really need to know where we are going for definite and the story but want to know about new features too.

For me the feature isn't going to influence any decisions unless it is a super bad decision on their part.

But the ZONE... if it is going to be another place where it is constantly raining and thundering, like 2022 and 2021, then I will probably pass. I am so tired of logging into the game and it is *** raining constantly.

I'm the opposite - rain makes me utterly happy. I want it to rain 24/7/365. Have you tried changing SET RAIN_WETNESS "1" to SET RAIN_WETNESS "0" in UserSettings.txt?

Surragard · January 2023

Q2 "Most-requested" New Feature

I don’t even know what a tent pole system is

DP99 · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

I'm only interested in a new place to explore and a new story to follow.

And, for all of those wondering what a "Tentpole" feature means, it comes from the circus. The "Tentpole" is whatever the "big attraction" was that got people into the stands to watch the show under the ":big top tent, and under the large pole" that supports said tent.

A lot of times stores that sell hardware, appliances, and outdoor items, and even some auto dealers will erect tents in their parking lots and have "big top" or "tentpole" sales harkening back to the same premise. There's something "big and exciting" that they are trying to sell you and the "tent" is just a gimmick to get you to see what all the fuss is about.

Movie studios will also talk about their bit "Summer Blockbusters" as their "tentpole releases" for the year, because those are the films that will set the foundation for the kind of money that they will bring in for the rest of the year with all of their other releases.

K9002 · January 2023

I'm mostly interested in this Developer_Direct part of the stream. On the Xbox's website it says that other Bethesda studios featured in this program are hosting their own Dev_Direct segments which are supposed to reveal this year's upcoming releases. It makes the dedicated ESO chapter reveal part sound redundant.

Elsonso · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

TaSheen wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

TheImperfect wrote: »

Excited for all of it but really need to know where we are going for definite and the story but want to know about new features too.

For me the feature isn't going to influence any decisions unless it is a super bad decision on their part.

But the ZONE... if it is going to be another place where it is constantly raining and thundering, like 2022 and 2021, then I will probably pass. I am so tired of logging into the game and it is *** raining constantly.

I'm the opposite - rain makes me utterly happy. I want it to rain 24/7/365. Have you tried changing SET RAIN_WETNESS "1" to SET RAIN_WETNESS "0" in UserSettings.txt?

I used to like it, but it is all. the. time. and eventually it is just too much. Yes, I know it is not literally all the time, but it feels that way.

I believe that the setting is a graphical fidelity setting, not a game play setting.

What I need is the SET STOP_ANNOYING_ELSONSO_WITH_CONSTANT_RAIN "1" setting.

Starlight_Knight · January 2023

Other (specify below)

Im in the Not Excited Atall catagory.

I'm a pvp player on PC EU [snip]

[edited for bashing]

SaffronCitrusflower · January 2023

Other (specify below)

I don't watch ZOS streams anymore. Too much censorship and too many unfulfilled promises for my tastes.

Syldras · January 2023

Q2 Chapter Story and Zone

peacenote wrote: »

I hadn't realized there was a new feature mentioned separate from the system. In that case, the new feature is probably romancing companions/NPCs, which they've hinted was coming I believe.

I think they'd try to market that as something bigger and wouldn't just call it a feature (that's barely mentioned in the announcement so many people even miss it).