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Given the issues this year, will you pre-order in 2026?

  • QB1
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    I will definitely pre-order regardless
    Lucjan wrote: »
    I will buy regardless, just to support the devs. A game this size they need at last a year, more likely even 12-18 months for a course correction after team size reductions and leadership change. All that we are seeing content-wise now and most of us don't seem to like a lot has been in the works for a long time, there just wasn't time to change course and given the situation at ZOS they couldn't just trash it and start from scratch.

    Same. Been playing since release, this game has been a huge part of my life. I will support the team and the game. And this is coming from someone who logs in and goes straight to cryodiil everyday 🥲
  • Jinazai
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    I’m not ordering anything else - I’m done - what a mess!
    Soo when will i be allowed to play the rest of the game i payed for. Oh i just need to wait for an abitrary % of the event to be finished by other people. This is so stupid. fu zeni.

    The amount of content released for this chapter is less than some free updates in other games.
    They force us to pay extra for dungeons we would have access to though eso+ anyway.

    So no, this is a complete dealbreaker for me. I have no more intrest in playing this game. Everytime i log on i become annoyed by dumb ***. This is no longer a roleplaying game, it's a dollhouse where the only purpose is to collect and buy cosmetics in the store. Cosmetics for your house that you bought for more than the cost of a whole game, you can only decorate in a meaningful way if you pay even more every month...

    The game is no longer a game, and their business model is built and geared for greed.

    I've played since launch and spent a ton of money on the game over the years.
    If i can endure the inane prattle in chat, I can survive your assuredly erudite eluciations. Proceed.
  • Hotdog_23
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    Don’t Know
    So tired of just “wait,” great things are coming, but we can’t talk about it or the FOMO. I still love ESO but I am leaning heavily toward not buying any more crowns or expansions until I see some proof that the game is going to be expanded on positively.

    Play daily, but this content year I find I am only logging on to do the endeavors and an event dailies and then off. If there's no event, really just do endeavors and then off. As the story content just seems so small this year and uninteresting to me. This year has been a big failure for me. All I hear about is the wall, which is so underwhelming for me, and vengeance, which I could care less about. BG's ruined by 2 teams. Don't even play them anymore. 

    Starting to question why I even log in to do the daily endeavors. May switch to a seasonal player as I am losing interest in ESO. I blame it on the lack of good content that I care about. Really miss the “real” quarterly updates. I can tell they have cut back on content for the last several years. I know some people are turned off by the recent changes of subclassing, but honestly, I really like it. If anything, that is what has kept me even playing this year. 

    They really need to bring it next year for me personally. Also, if I switch to a seasonal player, I will also drop ESO Plus that I have kept up since console launch. What would be the point of Plus if I am not playing daily? 

    I really do hope they bring it, and I get excited, but I have lost faith in ESO to wow me. They revived and saved themselves once before. Hope they can find that same magic again.

    Stay safe :)
  • Ezhh
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    I will only order after launch when I can see what I’m buying
    I've already dropped ESO+ for a combo of different things ranging from the 2025 content (or lack of) to abysmal customer support when things go wrong. Next year I plan to move to only buying new content when it's on sale as well.
  • Carlos93
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    I’m not ordering anything else - I’m done - what a mess!
    It's not worth spending money on its content.

    There have been many problems since the game's release, and they haven't fixed them.

    There's nothing to do in the game (like running businesses in GTA V, managing a tavern and having customers, buying a sawmill and exporting resources for gold, owning a mine and making a profit, etc.). The events are based on doing repetitive and boring missions.

    They haven't fixed the map of the Tamriel continent to add more areas.
    They keep adding islands that shouldn't be on the Tamriel continent.

    They could make new maps, for example, a map called "Sea of ​​Ghosts" to add new areas.

    And much more.
  • AScarlato
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    Don’t Know
    I voted "Don't Know." Throughout the year I heard the next one may have something to do with Dark Brotherhood; if so I probably will. If not I'll see what the story concept is.

    I still don't have Solstice as I'm not super interested in the concept of the story, but I do like Gabrielle so maybe I'll get it soon. I didn't pre-order though as I don't really trust season models and it felt like less content. So waiting on a sale.
  • jle30303
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    I will probably pre-order but yet to decide
    Right now the biggest complaint I have about Phase 2 is that it is just not DIFFERENT enough.

    One mini quest. "Go to place, talk to person, read 1 document, come back, talk to 1 person".

    Minor changes to the dailies we were already doing... but they're the same ones, over and over.

    Lightweight Furs replaced by Heavyweight Furs, for example, or Undead Essence by Undead Ichor... BUT, dropped from the same monsters in the same places. Maybe the drop rate is a little kinder, after all the complaints about previously, or maybe I was just lucky, BUT, they are exactly the same thing, namely "Renamed Quest Coupons".

    Gather 15 Vitrified Souls hasn't even changed.

    Nor has Beat 1 Siege Camp - though it is said these have been made a bit harder (they had better scale back down again when the event is over, because the bosses there are just too difficult for the level of population that's likely to be there *next* year when it isn't the newest thing.)

    More importantly, what they need to do is FIX THE LAG. Make it so that players do not go from 60 fps to 3 spf. (yes, that latter "spf" is intentional, "seconds per frame" is what I get.)

    Give us something DIFFERENT to do. That tiny level of quest is, frankly, an insult.

    Honestly, I'd rather be watching paint dry.

    Or playing my other characters in other content that they haven't all done yet, although my main has done everything. I'd rather be taking my 3rd character through Necrom, which is the bit she's just reached: or my 4th through Blackwood, which is what *he* is doing right now...

    But if I do that, then by *not* doing The Same Old Boring Things Over And Over, I'm making the progress bar go more slowly.

    And two weeks is already too long to have been doing The Same Old Boring Things Over And Over, and I am not looking forward to another two weeks of it.
    Edited by jle30303 on October 30, 2025 5:41PM
  • AvalonRanger
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    Don’t Know
    Just bring it back to the old DLC style. :/
    My playing time Mon-Friday UTC13:00-16:00 [PC-NA] CP over2000 now.
    I have [1Tough tank] [1StamSorc-DD] [1Necro-DD] [1Real Healer]
    with [1Stam Blade].
    But, I'm Tank main player. Recently I'm doing Healer.

    2023/12/21
    By the way...Dungeon-Meshi(One of Famous Japanese fantasy story comic book) got finale...
    Good-bye "King of Monster Eater".

    2024/08/23
    Farewell Atsuko Tanaka...(-_-) I never forget epic acting for major Motoko Kusanagi.
  • jetplane_18
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    Didn't vote because the responses don't match my experience

    Not pre-ordering because duh have you seen this industry's track record lmao
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