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Studio Director’s Letter: What are you hoping to hear?

  • TheImperfect
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    I want to hear that we will get big pve chapters with immersive dialogue, characters, music and quests completely based in lore but also with humor sprinkled in and amazing things to astound and amuse us. I want new exciting things in the game but not gimmicky and short term. New furnishings and updates to existing furniture. I'd like to be able to play more of the in game board games but perhaps a lighter style of game than Tales of Tribute (which I love but I mean that games are shorter and less time consuming). I think the story and quests are the most important part as is combat and dungeons and trials etc.
    I'm not as into PvP though I like to dip my toes in now and then but would wish something for those who are. More antiquities, fashion and mounts and pets, and ones we can earn. I want to hear long term about the game and how its going to be successful and make us all happy. Anything about the game expanding - more characters slots, classes or races , item limits increases.
  • Diundriel
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    Improve Cyrodil Performance and Increase Limit of Players again.
    Farming EP but not like few years ago when max limit of players was way higher:

    https://youtu.be/i-O_geHXfoA
    https://youtu.be/rV5s1_0OqW0
    My YT:
    https://www.youtube.com/@MHWPLZ_ESO

    GM of former Slack Squad PvP Raid Guild
    Our Vids:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKLwZNZlv8an4p-xNoboE7w

    Characters:
    Zoe'la- AD Magplar AvA 50 x2.5
    Not Zoe'la- DC Magplar AvA 27
    Worst Healbot EU- EP Magplar AvA 20
    Diundriel- AD StamNB AvA 39
    Pugs Got Bombed- AD ManaNB AvA 36
    Cause we have dots- AD ManaSorc AvA 35
    Red Zergs Again- AD StamDen AvA 30
    Synergy Spam Bot- AD MagDK AvA 17
    Heals of Cyrodiil- AD ManaDen AvA 14
    Nawrina- DC StamDK AvA 26
    Not Ganking- StamNB PVE DD
    Stack Pls- DC ManaNB AvA 20
    Der Katzenmensch- AD AvA 30
    Der kleine Troll- DC StamDen AvA 25
    and some I deleted and new ones I am to lazy to add so well above 250 Mio AP and 7 Former Emperor Characters

    PvE: multiple Flawless Conqueror Chars, Spirit Slayer, vAS +2, vCloudrest +3, vRG, vKAhm etc
  • o_Primate_o
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    Diundriel wrote: »
    Improve Cyrodil Performance and Increase Limit of Players again.
    Farming EP but not like few years ago when max limit of players was way higher:

    i usually dont have problems in Cyrodiil (except Templar which breaks when i run sweeps), but the past few days...the rubberbanding, omg.

    Edited by o_Primate_o on December 13, 2024 12:34AM
    Xbox NA as o Primate o
  • huskandhunger
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    I have no expectations and a letter is not needed. Just focus more on putting out a quality product in actions and player experience than words or platitudes.
  • huskandhunger
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    Currently downloading FF14 ✌️
  • LadyGP
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    Diundriel wrote: »
    Improve Cyrodil Performance and Increase Limit of Players again.
    Farming EP but not like few years ago when max limit of players was way higher:

    i usually dont have problems in Cyrodiil (except Templar which breaks when i run sweeps), but the past few days...the rubberbanding, omg.

    Jump over to this thread and give some context to your issues. Devs are monitoring it. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658253/zos-massive-spike-in-ping-lag-in-recent-days-what-gives/p89
    Will the real LadyGP please stand up.
  • Sinlar
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    This one ponders, if this is the time that Zeni will release will release information about the upcoming Aurbic realms.

    0.o
  • allochthons
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    Most of what I would suggest has been said, but I would like to emphasize a few things.

    One of the big ESO Streamers, who has mostly moved away from ESO, had this in a recent stream:

    "Players should never dread an upcoming update."

    Every time a new update comes out, something we love gets nerfed. And there are painful, obvious bugs that anyone who plays on a regular basis encounters regularly. These are often pointed out in PTS, yet still make it to the Live servers.

    So my three main points or ideas are:

    1) A significant amount of the bad PR / pain points that have occurred this year were pointed out during the PTS cycle. They could have been avoided if those suggestions were acknowledged and explored before the changes were pushed to the Live servers. I would like ZoS to lengthen the PTS Cycle, and honestly, truly take the feedback. Maybe make a change suggested by folks and actually see if it works, and have the time to switch it back or continue to work on it, without having it forced into the Live servers.

    2) Acknowledge and give meaningful updates to the performance issues from https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658253/zos-massive-spike-in-ping-lag-in-recent-days-what-gives/
    (TBF, they had an update about this coming out today, but was delayed due to the data center issue. Maybe tomorrow this point can be removed.)

    3) Please implement a dedicated search and destroy of long-standing bugs. For instance the block bug(s). Cloudrest synergies not working. There are a ton. They've been pointed out here often.

    I dread updates. They're a stream of features no one wanted or asked for, and zero progress on long-standing issues. Please change that.
    She/They
    PS5/NA
  • VastoPenguin
    Great post.

    CYRODIIL, CYRODIIL, and CYRODIIL is my Christmas list as well.

    It's what brought me and my mostly departed friends to ESO to begin with, in expectation of DAoC style AvAvA combined with the rich depth of Elder Scrolls Lore and setting.

    Though I suppose now that I said that second bit, I'd also like them to dial back the weird "Family Friendly" tone things are drifting towards, more and more each Xpac. Don't lose sight of the gritty, harsh, and often grey-moral setting because you're scared of certain topics that have always existed in it. Less bouncy Bosmer pals, less black and white, please. Don't be afraid of your own Lore!

    Im not a Cyrodiil player at all, and even I agree it needs more content. I've been playing for the last 5 years and i've only seen increasing complaints about it always being left out, but hey lets revamp battlegrounds and make it more unstable right?
  • TaSheen
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    Im not a Cyrodiil player at all, and even I agree it needs more content. I've been playing for the last 5 years and i've only seen increasing complaints about it always being left out, but hey lets revamp battlegrounds and make it more unstable right?

    Agreed. The pvp folks NEED real stuff.

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    "But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West

    PC NA, PC EU (non steam)- four accounts, many alts....
  • DreadKnight
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    2025 needs to be the year Cyrodiil was made great again. Expansions of the map, alterations to the war ravaged area, new siege, buildable moving siege towers, there are infinite improvements that could be made in Cyrodiil to bring back the massively reduced interest and population in this area, not to mention IC. First however, please fix stuck in combat and the 0 stam recovery bugs that have plagued these areas for so long.

    I would also like to see a massive review of the sets in the game. Instead of introducing new sets, work on some of the older sets. I would like to see someway of customising or augmenting the final piece bonus of sets to make them more unique.



  • Eliahnus
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    I hope to hear they will be using another datacenter. ;)
  • BelmontDrakul
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    I want to know what is going on. I want a crew member to record some short video about what happening is right now. Give us something, man!!!
    Edited by BelmontDrakul on December 13, 2024 10:04AM
  • Sheridan
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    I only want to hear that there will be, as always, a new chapter in the coming year. Because last two years marked the trend for reducing the amount of new content. And I fear that after the anniversary the game will finally switch to maintenance mode, with the promise of small patches and features here and there.

    If there will be a new zone and a new adventure next year, I don't want and don't care about anything else.
  • huskandhunger
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    The instability coupled with the lack of meaningful updates to game content, makes me feel like they do not care about the game at all. So I have decided to try other mmos, like Throne and Liberty, Final Fantasy 14, New World etc. ESO has too many problems now that are actually impacting my experience and it's not fun as when I first started back in 2017.
  • SkaiFaith
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    Not really an info that would come out of the letter but I am enjoying the new approach of less huge changes adopted since 2023 - I don't want the state of the gameplay to be shifted and changed much from what it is now (combat, classes, crafting...). I'm in the camp for improving other areas, such as TRUE quality of life and update graphics/assets etc.
    A: "We, as humans, should respect and take care of each other like in a Co-op, not a PvP 🌸"
    B: "Too many words. Words bad. Won't read. ⚔️"
  • Sheridan
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    Sheridan wrote: »
    I only want to hear that there will be, as always, a new chapter in the coming year. Because last two years marked the trend for reducing the amount of new content. And I fear that after the anniversary the game will finally switch to maintenance mode, with the promise of small patches and features here and there.

    If there will be a new zone and a new adventure next year, I don't want and don't care about anything else.

    Well, my fears were confirmed...
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