Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?

Erickson9610 · August 30

It's my personal opinion that Crossplay is a great way to get a stable population across all platforms and regions of this game. It's my understanding that certain platforms have very few players to do activities with. Cyrodiil campaigns wouldn't be so dead, and there would be far more people queuing for Battlegrounds and Dungeons. Maybe we'd see more people out in the world, and have more activity in guilds (leading to more activity with progression groups for Trials).

How would you, as an active player of ESO, feel about having more players in the game? You might see new faces if you don't regularly play on all platforms. If you had to choose, would you rather see players in other regions (crossplay between NA and EU servers) or see players from other platforms (crossplay between PC, PlayStation, and XBOX) or both?

FeedbackOnly · August 30

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

I would quest if I could play with console friends.

* Battleground needs more people

* Make it a new map feature?

Don't mix our economies though such a guild traders

karthrag_inak · August 30

Cross-platform AND Cross-region (You can play with anyone on any platform in any region)

Khajiit would like to play with anyone.

LunaFlora · August 30

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

yes i would love Crossplay between all the platforms and i hope it eventually happens.

merging the NA and EU megaservers?
i would not be opposed to playing with everyone, but how do you even merge servers that are an ocean away physically?

spartaxoxo · August 30

I can't vote because of the biased poll. I think they should offer cross play (same region) for consoles but keep PC separate. That's how a lot of games do it and it makes sense.

MrGarlic · August 30

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

I play on both PC servers so I don't want to lose all the progress and crowns spent on DLCs to be lost.

tomofhyrule · August 30

Can't vote, since I don't really have a dog in this race.

Crossplay seems like a good thing and they should do it, but console by nature has a lot more to gain from getting crossplay than PC does - PC would by nature have to contend with longer Grey Host and DPS queues if more people were going into it, not to mention an added 2 weeks before any patches can land, which means any issues that are found after PTS would hang around for over a month. I also hear that PS isn't too bad in terms of population, but I'm sure XB is really seeing issues with low pop (especially XBEU, considering there are probably only 10 people who even have an XB console outside of the US). However, BG queues might be helped in all cases

Seems the most intelligent way is to keep EU and NA separate and merge the PC/PS/XB servers. Otherwise you'd get a lot of complaints about ping issues across the ocean.

But the one thing I want is to be sure that nobody's going to get a forced character name change from this. If they just went and made it so character names could be duplicated across the same server, then go for crossplay however you want.

kargen27 · August 31

If there is no impact on performance and the economies don't get wrecked I don't care what they do as far as crossplay goes. I don't really want to see a little pc after my characters names or something like that but that would be a small inconvenience if crossplay otherwise makes the game better.

Sheridan · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

Does crossplay between PC-NA and PC-EU means that everyone will connect to NA, or everyone will connect to EU?

Maitsukas · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

Sheridan wrote: »

Does crossplay between PC-NA and PC-EU means that everyone will connect to NA, or everyone will connect to EU?

Depends on where the megaserver is physically located. PTS is a good example, as an EU player, I have a slightly larger latency there, as if I was playing on PC-NA.

Renalds · August 31

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

Server performance is already terrible, combine that with having to play as a european with NA is going to make it even worse.

The people in NA are great, but it's not worth suffering the hike in ping for regular and competitive gameplay.
Most europeans will be going from 30-60 ping to 100++ if they were to play on NA.

SkaiFaith · August 31

One thing is what I wish, and what is best is another: cross platform + cross region sounds awesome to an Xbox EU player which is now playing a single player game basically, but... It would likely mean an increase in my Ping and could make the game "unplayable" just as it already is for Oceanian people.

So... Sure, dreaming of more players feels great, but reality always hits anyway - I am very much in favor of the idea of crossplay, but I'm not sure how it can be done and have all players happy.

ghastley · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

I currently play on both PC servers with the same group of friends. No interest in joining consoles to the mix.

Freelancer_ESO · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

I just play PC so I might be biased.

I think performance and communication could take a bit of a hit combining regions.

I think combining PC and Consoles could cause economic disruption.

It's possible it's changed since last I knew but, last I knew Consoles had noticeable amounts of bots in some areas. So bringing them to PC might mean bringing the bots depending on implementation.

AzuraFan · August 31

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

I wouldn't mind playing with players on other platforms, but I think we still need NA or EU, for performance reasons.

Zodiarkslayer · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

I would like to keep the both PC servers apart from one another. There are many reasons to, but my main reason is to keep the economies seperate. PCNA is crazy. PCEU is pretty healthy atm. It would be a shame to change that.

There is no reason to not have a big "all consoles" server, though.

amiiegee · August 31

Cross-region only (PC-NA plays with PC-EU, PlayStation-NA plays with PlayStation-EU, and XBOX-NA plays with XBOX-EU)

Cross Region would be best

LPapirius · August 31

Why not ask ZOS what they're going to do? ...because that's what's going to happen.

joergino · August 31

Cross-platform AND Cross-region (You can play with anyone on any platform in any region)

Sheridan wrote: »

Does crossplay between PC-NA and PC-EU means that everyone will connect to NA, or everyone will connect to EU?

I'm sure they would move the "central" server to Iceland or a newly-created floating island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

wolfie1.0. · August 31

So long as the gameplay and impact to players is low, I dont care.

If the implementation ruins my player experience, im probably done.

It isnt exactly an easy thing to implement if rhe gsme wasn't designed with the possibility in mind from the start, and we know that eso wasnt designed like that

Elsonso · August 31

Option 5: Don't care as long as it doesn't break the game.

The game technology already culls people in overland, so if there were a million more people in Vulkhel Guard, it would look pretty much the same as it does today.

I expect that queue times for dungeons would be shorter because it would collect the people that do that sort of thing. I think part of the problem with dungeon queue times is the number of people that actually do that, so getting more of them together can't hurt. I probably queue for a dungeon a couple dozen times per year, so this would impact me at those times.

I am not the target audience for cross play, so I guess I am "happy" as long as it doesn't break the game. I do not expect to be happy if they do this.

joergino wrote: »

I'm sure they would move the "central" server to Iceland or a newly-created floating island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

I would suggest Atlantis, but then no one would be able to find the server.

Tandor · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

I can understand the case for merging the console servers (separately for EU and NA) and if crossplay is the best way of doing that then fine.

However, taking any such action by way of combining the regions or adding more loading to the already performance-struggling PC servers with very different economies would I suspect be an absolute disaster.

JemadarofCaerSalis · August 31

Elsonso wrote: »

Option 5: Don't care as long as it doesn't break the game.

The game technology already culls people in overland, so if there were a million more people in Vulkhel Guard, it would look pretty much the same as it does today.

I expect that queue times for dungeons would be shorter because it would collect the people that do that sort of thing. I think part of the problem with dungeon queue times is the number of people that actually do that, so getting more of them together can't hurt. I probably queue for a dungeon a couple dozen times per year, so this would impact me at those times.

I am not the target audience for cross play, so I guess I am "happy" as long as it doesn't break the game. I do not expect to be happy if they do this.

joergino wrote: »

I'm sure they would move the "central" server to Iceland or a newly-created floating island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

I would suggest Atlantis, but then no one would be able to find the server.

This is why I didn't vote.

Because I don't really care. I said in a different thread it might be interesting to be able to 'meet' some of the people I have talked to on the forums, but since most of them seem to be on PC EU, and people are pointing out that NA and EU are unlikely to be merged, it wouldn't happen anyway.

As long as it doesn't impact me (the thread about forced name changes come to mind, or server performance) then I don't really care.

BretonMage · August 31

Cross-region only (PC-NA plays with PC-EU, PlayStation-NA plays with PlayStation-EU, and XBOX-NA plays with XBOX-EU)

The only thing I want is to be able to transfer my character between the NA and EU servers.

Otherwise, as others have said, if it means negative effects on performance, then I'd really rather leave it as is.

frogthroat · August 31

Cross-platform only (PC, PlayStation, and XBOX can play together, but must choose either the North American or European server)

Cross region would be cool, but the ping wouldn't be.

AlnilamE · August 31

I'm with the folks that voted don't care. I have one char on the EU server that I log in to for events with my guild, otherwise I play on NA. Merging regions would exacerbate ping issues.

As for cross-platform, I think people underestimate the amount of work it would take for a game that wasn't designed for it.

And with the shard system, if we do get a big population boost, people will probably only notice it in the activity finder.

SilverBride · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

I think it would be interesting to play with players from different regions and different platforms but I voted to keep things as they are because I'm afraid of how it would be implemented.

tomofhyrule · August 31

I can't imagine that we'd get account merges in any case. I could completely see each account still being individual, just accessed from a different place. I know there are a lot of people who are hoping they could get their Emperor costume from their PS account on their PC character, but that I think is not going to happen. You'd probably essentially end up with having a series of alt accounts.

There are even ways that they could do a sort-of Crossplay without fully doing it. I'm envisioning something like Vengeance, since the way that seems to work mechanically is that it generates a template character instead of your real character (which is why everything in Cyro is marked as undiscovered and the once-only quests are uncompleted and your timed buffs like food and XP will pause) and then you're playing that and get all your rewards as a lump sum at the end. If it does work that way, that would mean that all servers could theoretically just log in and get a 'vengeance server' which allows crossplay without affecting the main servers at all.

Rampeal · August 31

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

PC is loaded with cheaters. I would never play with a PC player. Not saying Consoles can't cheat, but they are a lot harder to cheat on than PC.

Imryll · September 1

If I've acquired copies of houses on both PC EU and PC NA, how would that work during crossplay? Would all my characters have access to both versions of the house? Would all players be able to create multiple versions of a house even if they only play on a single platform? In general how would content which is currently earned or purchased by platform be handled? Think major Golden Pursuit rewards, hairstyles, costumes, pets, and motifs purchased from the crown store, and lots of other things I'm sure I'm not thinking of right off.

I currently rather like having two separate sets of characters, each with their own sets of relationships and upgrades. It's not that I'm opposed to new companions, but I wouldn't want to lose the benefits of separation, either. Would my NA characters automatically become members of my EU guild? Would it mean merged achievements? I guess I'm not really sure what crossplay would entail--and would need to know more before forming an opinion.

tincanman · September 1

Neither (Keep things as they currently are)

no_thanks_because_this_suggestion_totally_sucks wrote:

Cross-region only (PC-NA plays with PC-EU...

Could you please just STOP with merging regional server suggestions please.

Some of us have spent considerable time and cash over many years on BOTH servers and such a merger would be a TOTAL DISASTER (aka rip-off) for us.

edit: eventually, despite poll bias options, voted least change - given zos history, implementation of anything like this would probably adversely affect at least one player demographic. Not opposed to console merger since that would not affect me.

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