The year of silence

OtarTheMad · March 5

Dekrypted wrote: »

IncultaWolf wrote: »

Suddwrath wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

To still be ''working on communication'' 10 years later is an insult to the playerbase intelligence. How long must it take for the dev team to do better in this regard, it has been a pain point for years and it's only gotten worse.

The saga continues, unfortunately. Until the 'improvements' actually manifest in a meaningful way, I will remain skeptical.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/446497/so-about-that-communication-zos/p1

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/528790/improving-communication#latest

Wow, 4 years ago and they're still saying the same thing with nothing improving

They did say there was a big pvp update in Q4. My guess is the PvErs and RPers are getting their wish. Cyrodiil removed and replaced with a PvE zone. 🫤

ZOS has told some players who were at some meeting that it has nothing to do with Cyrodiil.

duagloth · March 6

More like decade

Stncold · March 6

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi All,

Just wanted to chime in here. So the dev team does read the forums often, especially during PTS. Over the last few cycles, we've tried communication via the developer commentary sections in the patch notes as it's helpful to address the philosophy around choices being made.

However given the feedback in this thread, while we will continue to do the developer commentary notes, the desire to have more of your direct questions answered is something everyone values. We want to meet this request to go back to some of the direct communication during PTS cycles, so we will do so with the U42 PTS cycle. To set expectations, while we won't be able to answer every question, we will find some of the more commonly asked questions and get those answered. And the bigger bulk of answer will come following week 1 and week 3 of PTS, as those are the weeks most changes occur.

Outside of the PTS cycle, we do answer questions pretty often, however a good portion of them tend to be either specific to the user or contained within a thread, like the Whitestrake's Mayhem blog. However, if there is a greater desire to see some of those conversations in the Dev Tracker, we can accommodate that. It still won't have everything as we also want to make sure those who have alerts tied to the dev tracker are not getting a ton of pings, but we can make a greater effort to have some conversations more visible there.

Lastly, we are working on some additional communication related items for later this year, so we'll update on those when we are closer, but we have some of this on the horizon.

Thanks again for your feedback thus far. Feel free to leave any additional feedback here and we'll review. Thanks!

I'm not trying to shoot the messenger but it just really does not feel like this. It doesn't feel like anything is read or addressed here and when it is it's either done wrong or takes ages. I'm pretty sure the average local government works faster than zos does and having used to work for two different local governments I know just how slow they move. Magsorcs are finally getting some proper love(though more needs to be done) but there's nothing in sight for any of the other common complaints.
Templars being terrible outside of j-beam, necros being terrible in general, redguard and bosmer racials being vastly inferior to every other race, DK's still being ridiculous, NB's getting buffs while other classes are drowning, the lack of tank diversity because DK's and arcs are so much better than everyone else, the lack of buff access.

It honestly saddens me how archaic many of the old classes are compared to arcanists and there just doesn't seem to be any attempt to tell us "Hey we're working on it and we're gonna modernize all the other classes at some point" while I watch Blizzard put a ton of effort into reworking underperforming specs over the past year and so far all of them have come out much better for it.