Hyped but would still like to see an expanded companion system.

just feels like another Chapter for the 10th anniversary for the game we needed something more like giving the base game a bit of love and playing on some Skyrim nostalgia to really get people back into the game while this "scribing" sounds cool sounds like something that should have come out with a Winterhold chapter o well...

I felt a little underwhelmed at present, to be honest. I hope it's good. I always loved the west weald in Oblivion, so I am expecting the area to be beautiful at least. I can't often fault the area design, I always think they're stunning, even if I feel the storyline is lacking.

I don't know if "hyped" is the right word, because I think it's overused. But I always try to stay positive, balanced with a healthy amount of realism. Pessimism and negativity just sour one's mood, and unrealistic optimism inevitably just sets one up for eventual disappointment.

I WAS hyped until I got a better understanding of scribing....which was sold as something pretty cool, but knowing how it will not affect ot be used for class abilities, well all my hype just got flushed.

I like the pre-order raven pet more than anyting I have seen now.

Now, I just have to hope we can get a cool 600 slot 1m gold house in Skingrad that has a normal house layout, not the linear labrinth type layout we see in so many homes.

Pixiepumpkin wrote: »

Awe man, this bums me.

I for all intents and purposes heavily DISLIKE weapons. I play magicka on all my 18 characters and only use lightning staff or ice staff for HA resourse managment. Arcanist was a god send for me becasue I could focus on the class, and the class abilities making the staff less of a thing on my build.

I also use the gloam weapon skin to hide the weapon when I am out of combat.

So this basically offers me zero addition to how I like to play. I was hoping I could turn the animal companion abilities in the warden tree to doing frost damage with frost effects.

Rats.....

OtarTheMad wrote: »

Honestly, not that hyped anymore.

I'd rather have necromancer buffs

I'm cautiously optimistic.

New zone is in Cyrodiil, yay.
As a fan of TES 4, this could be great. I recall people really liked Skingrad a lot back in TES 4.

However the latest expansions have been kinda meh, in my opinion. I'm concerned this will turn into another meh expansion. I definitely hope not! I hope this year proves to be a turning point and things get turned around for the better.

The story seems like it could have a lot of great potential. The issue with the past few expansions is that they have not lived up to their potential.

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

Less than not hyped at all. The Cyrodiil, the only PvP that matters in ESO to most PvP players, gets nothing but further reduction in pop cap yet again in 2024.

It feels like ZOS is slowly shutting Cyrodiil PvP down.

I think ZoS is slowly shutting the entire game down in a controlled demolition of stagnating content drip in anticipation of TES:VI and its other MMO in the works eating into the playerbase eventually. Which is incredibly short sited because I think both will fall short of their expectations, and ESO even now has so much potential. But the developers have always played it safe and not pushed the envelop with this title anyway (lorewise and story content sure, but gameplay and quantity of content nope).

Could of been so much bigger but for whatever reason the morale to compete with the market leaders in this genre just isn't there. You have Blizzard literally stating they are building the foundations for WOW for the next 20 years announcing 3 expansions (each significantly larger than the last 3-4 years of ESO chapters combined) while we get 1 zone for the 10 year anniversary of ESO (30 year anniversary of TES) and one new skill per weapon/guild lines that we can tweak. Bizarre when you think about it.

I didn’t watch the stream but have been following the posts here. I am concerned about this Scribing and what it is going to do to end-game builds. I’m not sure I want any more complexity. Also concerned about balance or perhaps the lack of it with this system. Even if all classes have access to the same things, we all know some classes are more OP than others, and this might exacerbate things immensely.

aspergalas4 wrote: »

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

Less than not hyped at all. The Cyrodiil, the only PvP that matters in ESO to most PvP players, gets nothing but further reduction in pop cap yet again in 2024.

It feels like ZOS is slowly shutting Cyrodiil PvP down.

I think ZoS is slowly shutting the entire game down in a controlled demolition of stagnating content drip in anticipation of TES:VI and its other MMO in the works eating into the playerbase eventually. Which is incredibly short sited because I think both will fall short of their expectations, and ESO even now has so much potential. But the developers have always played it safe and not pushed the envelop with this title anyway (lorewise and story content sure, but gameplay and quantity of content nope).

Could of been so much bigger but for whatever reason the morale to compete with the market leaders in this genre just isn't there. You have Blizzard literally stating they are building the foundations for WOW for the next 20 years announcing 3 expansions (each significantly larger than the last 3-4 years of ESO chapters combined) while we get 1 zone for the 10 year anniversary of ESO (30 year anniversary of TES) and one new skill per weapon/guild lines that we can tweak. Bizarre when you think about it.

This isn't even remotely grounded in truth, though. The game is more successful than ever and the entire tone of the stream felt like they were expressing a newfound optimism for the future. Their team hasn't seemed this excited since 2012 when the first reveal video came out. Do I think we'll eventually get an ESO sequel? Probably at some point, yes, but I think we have a long while to go before that. We'll undoubtedly get TES6 before that unless ESO somehow manages to take a huge dip between now and then (which is also quite unlikely, given its present success).

As for gameplay, I've heard people saying that since launch and frankly, I don't understand it. Yes, at launch until Tamriel Unlimited, the game felt very incomplete in terms of the gameplay. However, starting with Tamriel Unlimited and expanding until One Tamriel, the game was on an upward swing with gameplay. Now, the gameplay experience is fantastic. It maintains the TES gameplay style while also functioning fully in its online setting. That's literally what ZOS was aiming for according to the reveal video: a marriage of TES gameplay and exploration with emergent and online social gameplay. Not even other popular MMOs like Guild Wars 2 or Black Desert are able to manage the feeling of a livable, open sandbox world. To this day, only ESO and Fallout 76 have been able to capture a true sandbox world wherein you can play how you want and truly live in the game world.

The most baffling of these comments are the ones about the combat. Of all the things people could complain about, the comments about combat make the least sense to me. Again using GW2 as an example, that game's combat is often praised (rightfully so) because it's action-driven and fun. However, that sort of combat feels absolutely nothing like a TES game. TES combat has always been that up-and-present style that works just as well in first person as in third person. TES combat feels personal and ESO's combat takes that idea and refines it while adding all sorts of customizable elements via abilities and whatnot. I've been bored in ESO before but never once was I bored with the combat. It still thrills me today as much as it did back in beta. It's the one thing this game did right from the very start.

If we're gonna mention WoW and Blizzard, frankly, I find that claim laughable (particularly given what you said about ZOS 'playing it safe'). The game is already 20 years old, it looks like it and it plays like it. It's a relic of the past and while there are plenty of people that enjoy that, ESO (like GW2) has an advantage because its gameplay is fun even to the non-MMO fans. WoW has been ripping off itself for a decade now, probably longer. Not to mention the fact that the WoW sub is hardly valuable. ESO's business model ain't perfect but I'd much prefer a game where I buy the base game, DLCs and chapters with the option to subscribe and literally get more than my money's worth in return.

WoW is popular simply because it knows how to reel back in its old school playerbase with every expansion, even if the expansion is garbage. Meanwhile, ESO's chapters add entirely new questlines, new skill systems and/or classes, minigames, dungeons, trials, etc. WoW slaps a nostalgic raid into a remade zone and calls it an expansion. I fail to see how that's even remotely ambitious compared to what ESO is doing.

There are things coming that look very interesting 'on paper' and I'm curious to learn more about.

Is just the fact we players are not even remotely on the same page about goals and expectations; factor in that developers will have goals, expectations and vision of their own that are very likely to be at odds with a significant portion of the 'sea' of conflicting and often mutually exclusive player expectations and 'getting hyped' becomes invariably a recipe for permanent disappointment.

More hyped than I was for the WoW trilogy and FFXIV's next expansion announcements.