Yeah... I'm kinda done at this point, usually I get stuff on day 1 but the last few zone dlcs have been disappointing to say the least. I thought gold coast was bad back then because not much was given at the time and the fact the guild skill line required constant repetitive quests like the thieves guild but the thieves guild did add new stuff that was useful and gave ledgerdmain a use other than using lockpicks.

Ttree wrote: »

Could i ask for more choices in the Poll

1 I feel cheated out of my hard earned money and would like it back .

2 Were do i go for my refund .

Haha yeah same - that’s the follow-up poll

Money is tight and I can't say I was very impressed with this years stuff - not at the price it cost. Maybe if it was half the price I'd think it was acceptable but it wasn't up to the price level charged, for sure.

So I will wait and see. May not buy bc of money, may not bc it just isn't worth it to me or maybe they change the price level (probably not but just saying). Will decide when the time comes.

For prebuys, I haven't been impressed with the pkgs for the last few years. I don't need another mount covered in whatever, or another pet. Offer me crowns with my prebuy or an impressive house (THAT ISN'T GOING TO BE OFFERED TO EVERYONE 6 MONTHS LATER!!!! Make it STRICTLY a prebuy house... forever!!). I hate buying special stuff only to have everyone whine a year later that they want it too and its offered again.

I was not happy at all with subclassing (it's a grind, it felt insulting to me to cost two skill points, just give us the stupid changes free of a grind, or at least not that much of a grind), but then on the first day of the writhing wall event I started with the crafting dailies, really? Run here take the quest, walk ten feet craft an item, walk back turn it in? Then did a few more and the rewards were junk (once in a lifetime junk though, but junk)I literally turned off my auto renew for ESO and am done and haven't logged back in since. I've played almost every day since Summerset if that says anything. What the kicker is i PAID for the season pass which includes the last half of Solstice and I still quit lol. Tired of the constant tone deaf changes the last two years.

Don't get me wrong, I want the game to succeed which is why I'm on the forums for a while. It was a beautifully designed game for a long time. It has not been for a while now however. Not saying there have not been improvements but the negatives outweigh those. My trust is gone.

It just feels like every major change was done to alienate the player base and drive people away. It's almost like it was deliberate, as one example the change from 30 day vendoring to 14 days. A huge change, there were many people who just loved vendoring myself included. I really did not care about the shorter duration but the COST did not go down. It's only stupid ingame gold, why not just halve the cost also to be respectful to the players? In real life if a business did that sort of thing, we are reducing the duration you can list your items online but still charging you the same amount they would be out of business, period. As I said tone-deaf...

All that being said, I do not feel this is the design teams fault. I suspect it has to do with Microsoft forcing changes for whatever reason as a lot of the discontent I've had with the game started around 2021 when chapter releases started being less detailed and has only gotten worse.

Yes. I always do. I just hope there will be still somethung to preorder.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I’m one of the players who has no idea where this “we want change!” idea came from. I actually liked the Chapter model since we had some idea what was coming (dungeons, then huge zone and new feature, then QoL or more dungeons, then little DLC or other tentpole). But now, all we have is change for the sake of change and more questions than answers, coupled with an impossibly overhyped event that overstayed its welcome and doesn’t even measure up to the ones we used to have.

I'm totally with you on this. I really liked the Chapter model. Content wise, it was great. Big stories, big zones, new systems. My only real gripe was the cliffhanger story writing.

And yes, there are way more questions than answers. My post history is littered with them.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

There is one thing that they could announce that would get me to preorder the next Pass sight unseen: a new Class. Announce that there’s a new Class coming next year, and that’ll instantly be worth the $50 (or even more if it’s an Artificer). If they don’t have that up their sleeve, then I can wait. I have other games in my backlog.
(*ok, fine, there is a second hyperspecific thing that could also get me: if one of the premium early adopter goodies was a brown werebear skin for the werewolves.)

For me to preorder blindly again, I need more meaningful content for my characters. IA was the last big system and has broader reaching rewards than just sets. Chasing overland sets doesn't do it for me anymore. My time in the game is spent on skyshards and stories. So while a new class would be cool, that's all I'd really do on them.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

And I don’t take “it’s a transition year!” as an adequate response. First, I grew up with the military, so the euphemism “transition” has always meant one thing to me: transitioning from open to closed. As soon as I heard that, that just screamed “maintenance mode.” But even if we want to take that word at face value, then there should be an end goal. Why do we still not have a single clue about what they’re transitioning to? All we have are “we can’t wait to reveal things!” Ok, then do it already!

It's pretty frustrating they keep posting things in the “we can’t wait to reveal things!” fashion. I'm not sure how people could be more clear, but they keep doing it. Meanwhile, it's taking forever to get any roadmap on where combat's going. Other studios can publish these things all the time. I've seen GW2 laying out their plans. Same for FF14.

It's not hard. And it's not really a time to be tight-lipped either. Given what's been happening in the gaming world, it's weird they're not going well out of their way to inspire confidence in players. I would think that'd include just doing what your customers are asking of you on a communication front. Easy wins.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

And I can’t not complain about how insufficient the responses to the PTS were all year. So many reported issues from PTS week 1 end up going live that it’s almost like the devs don’t read a single piece of feedback. If I see a major enough bug, I have to send the forum link to one of my StreamTeam friends who can then post it in their secret Creator Discord server for a chance that it may get noticed. And that’s not even considering how some major issues like the U33 Account-wide achieves or the U35 Jabs change or the U41 Class style locking or U46 Subclassing get massive threads full of feedback that is summarily ignored… and then the playerbase reacts exactly like the testers warned they would.

I've found their handling of PTS this year and our feedback about it, more frustrating than U35. For me, the biggest frustration is asking CMs questions and just not hearing anything back. People are asking why PTS feedback isn't making it to live. That should be a question that gets answered. Really frustrating that it's not. It's not like ignoring the sentiments about PTS will make them go away.

I did not purchase the 2025 content pass, and I won't until it's on sale for $15-20 next year. From what I've seen that's what the content is worth, so that's what I'll pay, or I'll go without.

The FOMO is dead and gone for me and I blame the marketing practices for the apathy.

My wife and I have been playing since the Beta... so this is like 3 votes.

i mean 50% less team, 100% recycled assets ... and asking for 98$ ... i don't think so

Of course! What kind of question is that? If ESO keeps going this way, of course I’ll keep paying and giving them my money. Why else would I play this game? Nothing makes sense in ESO right now, the game’s a complete disgrace. So yeah, I’ll keep giving them my money, because disappointment is the only thing they never fail to deliver.

I was thinking of having a while off game pass so I'll be playing on PC and I don't have as many DLCs on there, so I could buy next year's DLC if I get caught up and next year's content gets good reviews

Radiate77 wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Radiate77 wrote: »

Yeah I’m actually sick right now.

New World had a triumphant comeback and had over 50,000 concurrent players on Steam alone, and even that wasn’t enough to save the studio from Amazon.

Makes me wonder how much time is left with ESO considering Microsoft is just as bad if not worse than Amazon.

50,000 for one month - when new content dropped. Then they went away again.

ESO has consistent numbers meaning predictable revenue, NW did not.

See this is the 2nd time you’ve said that and you have no idea how great Nighthaven actually was, this was the launch pad for an entirely new generation of New World players, and that mid-patch number would still settle much higher than ESO as a result.

But if we want to talk about numbers sure it’s been a few weeks, how do you think we’re doing?…

Didn't Amazon just announce no more new content for New World? The player count is about to plummet me thinks.

Really depends on whether I find the second half of Solstice was worth the wait.

This drawn out event isn't doing ZOS any favours, the 2nd and 3rd phases better be something truly impressive, to make up for phase 1.

Undecided. I've hit a point where I'm bored with ESO content. Taking a bit of a break. If the new pass looks interesting, I'll consider it.

This "season" was not worth the price, thin content, buggy mess, lousy event that is not fun at all. Not pre-ordering anything from ESO again after this experience.