Honestly it's not just the horrible drop rate...

BlueRaven · April 2024

vsrs_au wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

dcrush wrote: »

Because the anniversary event is less of a celebration and more of a marketing tool to try and increase the time players spend in-game with the hopes of enticing them to spend some money in the crown store.

Well, speaking for myself, it's not working.

Same here, I'm afraid. I've spent the last several months playing other games, and only logging into ESO for less than 10 minutes each day to collect a few things. My ESO motivation is pretty low right now.

Aektann wrote: »

Carcamongus wrote: »

People won't want to spend more at the crown store if they're frustrated by a celebration that feels like punishment. This should've been indeed an event for good marketing, but it seems to be backfiring terribly. You don't want unhappy and burnt-out players at the beginning of the 10th anniversary celebration, but that's what's happening. Also notice how the devs are silent on this matter. Unless I missed something, not a word was said by them to even at least acknowledge our complaints. There's still time to undo some of the damage, but I fear nothing is going to change. This isn't a good omen for the next 10 years.

Totally agree. I spent money in another game and this one is now in "maintenance mode" for me. I'm logging in, use cake and log out.

I'm sure that all this was invented for the sake of beautiful statistics for investors, and not for us to have fun.

Same here. Necrom plus IA made me move away from the game. I am on vacation and I cannot farm for these drops at all. Two years ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now, after reading everyone’s bad experiences during the event, it feels like I dodged a bullet.

I really have to wonder why they decided to do the event like this. How is this good for player retention? Burn out by those who get it after farming for hours? Frustration from this who don’t get it? Very few people are walking away from this happy if seems.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 2024

The sad part is I was all ready to burn lots of my free time on ESO for the normal event rewards. This is usually the best event of the year, because the mats are useful and the Motifs help fill out my crafter and the extras can be sold later or used to boost the Master Writ drop rate of my alts. They’re available in every zone for nearly every sort of activity. If I got bored doing one thing I could switch to something else, or go to a different zone to freshen things up.

With this if I want the pages, I can’t do any of that.

Right now I’ve been spending multiple hours camped in Vvardenfell in front of the same world boss. I can’t leave Vvardenfell because the pages don’t drop anywhere else. If I leave the world boss I risk missing the spawn, and anyway there isn’t that much variety to be had by switching. It’s boring. Even if they didn’t up the drop rate, they could have had them drop from anything in Vvardenfell. It’s a big zone, with multiple delves and dailies. Why did they have to tie these things to something so repetitive??? I’ve gotten three Multifaceted Eyes from the Nix Hounds around the Nix Ox boss and I’m not even farming those!

AvalonRanger · April 2024

"Business tactics" of ZOS game designer is totally wrong.

It's a "10 years anniversary event", right?

There're much of contents which need featuring against newbie players.
But only "Summerset Geyser" and Vvardenfel WB.

Why?

If you want to sell notable house against players, then housing contents
also should be featuring, but only Geyser and Vvardenfel WB.

Why?

Do you want to explain attractive point of ESO as "time wasting contents of
stupid rare drop game"?

shallot · April 2024

TheImperfect wrote: »

I have been fairly lucky with drops for the most part but do think an adjustment could be made to make it less frustrating for people whose RNG is really bad. It could have a system that asks you what antiquity (or in an event, what event item) you are trying for and after so many tries/drops/hours of trying it could then let you have the reward or choose from the reward options depending because you made enough effort for it. Or maybe you could accrue points for the zone which unlock it.
I have no idea if that is possible to implement or too difficult to be a practical solution because I don't work on games development.

That's pretty much the runebox fragment system already used for other events and for the imperial city siege merits costumes, so yeah there's no reason not to have set something like that up.

DanteTheDeviant · April 2024

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

dcrush wrote: »

Because the anniversary event is less of a celebration and more of a marketing tool to try and increase the time players spend in-game with the hopes of enticing them to spend some money in the crown store.

I don't think hours sitting at a world boss makes them wanna splurge on crates. If anything it might burn them out on the game, right?

Agreed, I spent 7 days trying to get the staff style page from the geysers, once I got it, I stopped playing the game. I won't be renewing my membership either, the game is pretty dead to me now.

AnduinTryggva · April 2024

Reginald_leBlem wrote: »

Once again, they have announced a free gift (Thieves guild DLC) tied to an achievement. Good!!! Excellent!! More of this!!!

Whhyyyyy didn't they make these drops tied to achievements?

Well, as far as I understood this mount is one that some players already got and probably purchased. As in how can this be considered a gift for these players?

I for instance already own this mount.

Calastir · April 2024

DanteTheDeviant wrote: »

Agreed, I spent 7 days trying to get the staff style page from the geysers, once I got it, I stopped playing the game. I won't be renewing my membership either, the game is pretty dead to me now.

Pardon me for asking but if that is the case...

...can I have your stuff?

Sarannah · April 2024

Have four of the five anniversary style pages myself, and am having terrible luck with geysers(which is my least favorite activity from all the sources, relaxing at a Vvardenfell world boss spawn was my favorite).

Now I do not mind the droprate, but there need to be gains along the way: The anniversary box needs to be a guaranteed drop from all the sources that can drop the event style page. And ZOS needs to introduce something like badluck tokens, where all the sources that can drop an anniversary style page can drop a badluck coin or something. And for 50-100 coins we can buy one anniversary style. To combat bad RNG during a limited time event.

I was planning on completing a full alliance on one of my characters, with double exp active. But right now I'm stuck farming the style pages, which isn't fun to me!

PS: On the bright side, I love that ZOS made the parts for the anniversary steed and the impressario style pages a guaranteed drop! Absolutely love this! Having to buy some parts with tickets for the anniversary steed is fine with me, as long as the event itself grants enough tickets to get all the available base pet/upgrade parts. Which this event does grant plenty of.