Things are so bad that a few of their stream team members are playing New World.

Need better drop rates, better rewards, better just everything.

Very very disappointed. Do better.

Destai wrote: »

Not enjoying it, first impressions were quite negative, and won't be returning to the event.

Here were my gripes:
1. Quests were not fun. They felt like dailies and didn't introduce any unique mechanics. Content feels stale.
2. Quest related drops weren't frequent, so it was more of a grind than I have tolerance for.
3. The rewards were not there. While there are a number of attractive rewards, they seem to be RNG rather than guaranteed or curated drops.
4. Stirk Motif was the main attraction for me and is still not dropping.
5. The game design forces players to compete instead of cooperate.

To wait a whole for this year, only for it to be really disappointing is quite sad. It's definitely a once-in-a-lifetime moment that unfortunately isn't a positive one. Certainly a fork in the road for me.

few hour ago have hot fix,the stirk now is dropping

Pepegrillos wrote: »

Things are so bad that a few of their stream team members are playing New World.

New World just made their Angry Earth expansion free for everyone, while simultaneously dropping yet another completely free expansion in Nighthaven.

You’d almost have to be crazy NOT to be playing New World right now, I know I just picked it up.

As I posted that I got an email about Nighthaven. You can’t make this stuff up. 😂

On the first day I struggled to complete the quests, but persevered. In the first box opened I got the Coldharbour Surreal Estate, which was a delight until I actually went there.

Then I remembered about the house from when the Doomchar plateau was released, that it was also just a building site. All the fun went out of the event at that point.

Today, I completed the quests to get the gold boxes, and no more, having lost all interest in the event.

not sure which poll is me,I'm not looking forward to any event but not hate them too,
event never fun for me ,but I still do a daily for gold box
there reward not anything is I want
but today I can feel my RP friend and zone player chat is sad
so I feel some bad too

My hangup with the event is this..

I just don't find it fun. There's nothing especially rewarding after performing a litany of mundane tasks for so little return. I sometimes think "no sweat, I can get past the mundane slog". But then I realize that there are still 35 more days of it yet to come, and my motivation takes a significant hit. There's absolutely nothing rewarding, nor anything I can point at and say "See! That! That's what we're doing it for!"

Yesterday I did the event crafting on all of my toons, as well dipped a bit into the other daily repeatables on each of them. Today I got my 3 Gold Coffers, did the crafting daily repeatables on 2 of my toons, and called it a day. Tomorrow and going forward I'll likely just get the 3 Gold Coffers each day and that's about it.

Which really blows chunks, because I truly was hoping this event would raise the bar. Prior to the start of the event I was more concerned about PC servers getting the Phase 3 update 2 weeks before consoles just in case that difference in time could make a difference. Today that concern doesn't bother me in the least because I couldn't care less.

Meh. I did all the event dailies on two characters yesterday and again today with the crafting dailies on my others and I'm honestly...just kinda over it? The rewards haven't been amazing, the drop rates for the needed items aren't great, and the camps spawning and despawning makes it so much worse - when it works I can get all 15 vitrified souls from one siege camp, but when it doesn't I'm left running around a lot, which is not fun especially on my alts that don't have maxed mount speed.

Based on the progress bar it seems like we will be at this for weeks, and if phase 2 is just "phase 1, but with harder enemies" I'm not feeling it.

To be honest, I thought it would be someting else, yet it's another fetch quest not worth doing.

I haven't bought the content pass, so that might figure into this as I can access only the quests on Stirk.

I'm not enjoying the event at all. The dialog writing for many of the major NPCs you can talk to on Stirk is atrocious and that alone would have been a major turn off for me. In addition the "quests" or chores are horribly grindy with low drop chance for the quest items and a lot of competition.

The invasions of delves and public dungeons is nice in theory, but in practice it has prevented some of my characters from doing the Undaunted daily from Bolgrul since the the delves I get sent to are also the ones that are used for invasions.

I'll probably do a bunch of the crafting quests, but that's about it. I see absolutely no point in doing any of the other stuff.

No answer here - I’m getting about what I expected (except for the motif they forgot to turn on)

But I knew that with the amount that this was hyped up, there was no way they’d be able to deliver and that it would lead to a lot of disappointment. So I’m really not surprised on that front.

My main fear is that, since things are planned like a year in advance, that the 2026 Seasons are planned to have more FOMO events to drive sales instead of being good products, exactly the same way Solstice went. Stick your head in the sand all you want, but every metric players have access to is showing a decline, and even most of ESO’s content creators are now making content primarily for other games. It is pretty evident that almost every decision ZOS has made since Gold Road released was a bust (or worse!), and I’m sure that the Microsoft executives are hovering their fingers over the kill switch if ESO’s playerbase continues to decline.

We definitely need a lot more than empty platitudes in the Director’s Letter this year. And a concrete reveal of an actual thing that we can expect in 2026, no more of this “we can’t wait to talk about what’s coming up” nonreveals.

Do they still have internal testers? It released broken, missing drops, etc. half the camp spawns deactivate, once that is fixed it may be better. I noticed I started getting the new motif and mats half way through my game session, which is an improvement. Bethesda charges AAA prices, we deserve AAA quality. Smaller teams will take their base if not.

None of the choices apply to me. I am participating, so the last choice is out. I'm not not-enjoying, so that's out, too. But I'm also not particularly enthused, so the first one doesn't work, either.

1. the Vitrified Souls and Quartermaster dailies are way too much grind for the rewards. Drop rates for the objectives are too low and the rewards are mostly gear that I've already collected while running around on Solstice. Once for the Golden coffer is enough for me.
2. the Crafting dailies are crafting dailies. The reward boxes mostly just give you back the mats you expended to do them (except the style mat), so pretty much a wash outside of the first one for the Golden coffer.
3. the siege camp dailies are kind of interesting, but the Stirk Fellowship motifs were bugged (supposed to have been hotfixed earlier this morning), so the main reason for me doing them was a non-starter.

The Hag Mota pet isn't especially interesting. I have one character with a pet and don't otherwise use them, but I'll collect the fragments because "why not?" I can't get the Coldharbour house because I already own it. I'm not especially stricken with the Wormwrithe style, but it's there with the pet in "why not?" I probably will chase the Stirk Fellowship motifs because I have a couple of Master Writs asking for it. I've got about 60 others which are unopened, so no idea what's in those. Whoever thought of "let's put Master Writs into people's inventories that can't be done because the style doesn't exist yet" should have their head examined. Eastern Solstice will unlock when it unlocks. Personally, I'm all in favor of console users finally getting to be first into a zone, but Phase 3 can't even start until the end of the month at the earliest, so I can't claim great enthusiasm on that front, either.

Not enjoying it at all. The development team has shown their lack of skill, imagination, understanding, originality, or anything else involving how a MMORPG works, or should be ran. The devs hyped this up so much and have clearly lost the plot on what a "historic game changing event" is let alone how to create one. I think it's time Microsoft forces ZOS to outsource the development or bring in development leadership that has some real vision, because there hasn't been anything more than fetch quest added to the game in years. This event is especially pathetic.