I am very unhappy with how ESO Plus gets treated here. Sure nothing got taken away from it officially, but if all old DLCs get added to the Basegame over time, all ESO Plus has left is the crafting bag. It would have been way better if ESO Plus would just have covered the Premium Pass (the middle one not Premium+) in its entirety, just being able to get 1 Season Pass for 12 months of ESO Plus is not fair treatment at all.

@ZOS_NickG You’re the best, thank you!

You're making it mostly free, but made the season pass $120 if you're someone who prordered chapters at the higher tier. On top of (maybe) buying ESO+ for a discount on one season. This game is now even more of a full time job, events and endeavors and other stuff need to be trimmed down. Can't imagine how a new player will feel being bombarded with daily chores left and right if they are affected by fomo.

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

Really not liking how ESO+ doesn't cover the battlepass premium thing. A year of ESO+ building up to ''purchase'' one of them doesn't make it better.

A year is kind of absurd ngl. And I'm currently on a year sub. Especially as a PlayStation Plus player.

The premium tome and bonuses come with subscribing to eso+ for 12 months. My year sub just renewed at Christmas. Since you guys don't do refunds, even if I were to cancel at any point this year, I've already paid for that year. Do I get the premium tome and bonuses right off the bat, or do I need to wait another year?

Please implement a voting system in-game to gauge feedback prior to major changes, so that even the most reclusive players can have input on our community as a whole

On the whole, I'm very positive about all of this.

However, whenever new flashy and glitzy animations are introduced they need to be optional. They're great for some players, and game-breaking for others.

I'm delighted for console users that all updates and patches from now on are going to be launched simultaneously across all platforms and servers. That seems to be just one of the good things to come from the new leadership team, being part of the decision no longer to do things a certain way just because that's how it's always been, but rather to listen to player feedback on how those things should be done.

I am overall more excited than I thought I would be. Honestly, I had prepared myself for more of what we've seen in previous years. Right now, the game's uninstalled but I'll likely reinstall it now that I feel like there's direction. It's funny how far communication can go.

I took the survey, feeling reservedly positive about the game. I just hope the follow through is there.

One thing I forgot to add to the survey - please let me purchase horse upgrades all at once. Yes, the change you're making is nice and is appreciated, but let this one go.

Darkmage1337 wrote: »

This was by far the best, most-humble, most-transparent, and most-exciting stream that I have ever watched in my 12 years of actively playing ESO. A big thank you to the devs for all of your time, effort, and energy in creating this showcase and improving communication to the community.

I agree. I'm a bit disappointed that there is no lure of a grand new zone like in the past. But, even so, I liked the stream. The direct communication is a breath of fresh air.

For Cyrodiil, "continuing with Vengeance" was mentioned very quickly, in passing, near the end of the stream. Does that mean you will at least continue to offer the Grey Host campaign along side of Vengeance? There are those of us who HAAAATE Vengeance and resent being forced into that play style while being denied our usual campaign preference. I play on Xbox NA server and my guildmaster in my PvP guild feels like quitting if Vengeance is the only option when you implement it Please elaborate.

Honestly, I wasn't too enthused about the presentation.

I get that you want to try new things, re-invigorate the game, and experiment. Game design is art, and artists need the chance to spread their wings and do new things. It sounds like you're aiming to do that, and I respect it.

That having been said, I feel like a customer who enjoyed your still-life paintings of apples and tangerines. It's great that you want to paint geckos and iguanas, now... but that's not really why I'm here. Or, for a better analogy... I get that you're tired of making pizzas and pizza sales are declining year over year, but I don't really want peanut-butter sushi and kale, dude. I'm a pizza guy. I wanted more pizza.

No new full-zone (that we're aware of). No new 25 to 30 hours of questing and exploring content. Instead, we're getting a couple hours of new quest content tied to the Thieves Guild, some Sheogorath content (which could be anything at this point), some experimental class changes and features, and battle passes (which we can pay premium prices to permanently unlock and earn at our own pace).

That last one FLOORED ME. Battle passes... in a game that already has a SUBSCRIPTION FEE fee and GAMBLING CRATES. Oh, and let's not mice words. They are gambling crates. The Crown Crates even have Pacrooti as a mascot, for God's sake. Battle passes. Battle passes. Gadzooks.

I don't mind battle passes in Marvel Rivals, because its' a free-to-play fps. It's not locking core quality-of-life features behind a Marvel Rivals Plus subscription. It's not throwing gambling crates in my face and saying "you want that costume? If you spend $100, you might just get it... or enough gem fragments to barely afford it. Oh no, you already had that item. You get gems instead." It's not nearly as covetous as this game, which is weird to say about a free-to-play game from Communist China.

This is not Marvel Rivals. I deeply mind them here. But hey, when a new zone comes out once in a blue moon...we'll that get as a free base-game update, purportedly, when it happens, which could be whenever because seasons aren't beholden to dedicated new zone release schedules. So it all nets out, eh?

I somehow doubt it.

I just wanted more pizza. Zones to explore with better writing and less agenda. A rework that added combat challenge other than "watch out for that one hit kill attack" or "better get a tank friend because the Silorn minotaur kills non-tanks in one hit." Not experiements and battle passes. More pizza. More comfort food. Not checklists that I have to pay for the right to do at my own pace, with new checklists every three months ad-infinitum.

Oh well. I do wish you the best with this, but I'm not particularly stoked at present.

Edit addition: as an addendum, it's really hard to get excited about quality of life features when battle passes are looming ahead in an already heavily-monetized game. If anything ultimately makes me quit this game, it'll be the excessive FOMO and monetization. $139.99 for 12 months of ESO, which gets me one premium battle-pass. Gotta buy the other 3, for $29.99 each (or so the rumors go. Battle passes in Marvel Rivals are $19.99, fyi). Awesome. $230 down the drain... for no new zones. But don't forget the gamble crates. If you want coveted items from those, that'll be about $99.99 every three months to beat the RNG odds. So We're looking at $630 now... for no new zones. But now the back-bar gains experience too and mount training goes faster. Maybe if we're real lucky, we'll finally be able to hide floating hip-plates on our character models (been dreaming about that for 8 years).

Bleh. I love you kids, but want an awful value proposition. "Well Ingel, you used to spend $49.99 for the Chapter Deluxe Edition, $39.99 for the Mini-Chapter Deluxe Edition, and $59.99 or so on the four new dungeons (deluxe editions with bonus cosmetics). The battle passes are cheaper than that!"

Yes, but those things were NEW ZONES AND QUESTS. I got stuff for that money that wasn't checklists and busy-work. I wasn't paying for lists of chores to do to earn cosmetics and crown potions. I was paying to wander High Isle or Elsweyr. It was meaningful content and not "things to do" to keep me busy and engagement numbers up. I'm so nonplussed, haha. I'm sorry.

I would have liked to learn something about the story content, but aside from mentioning Thieves Guild and Uncle Sheo as keywords, there was nothing – I play ESO for the stories, not for rewards. And there was no mention of a new zone either. Because a new zone always means new furnishings – I don't need a higher limit of housing slots in my houses if there aren't any new furniture or structural furnishings to inspire me to build new houses/decorate something new and excting.

Not sure how people can be excited about the battle pass system.

I guess the main takeaway is at least we can get more endeavors per year, which is good, assuming that you don't retroactively change the costs for things that cost seals.

Quick initial thoughts:

1. I hope someone posts a Cliff Notes of all the changes coming, because that was A LOT and my brain is going brrrrrrr

2. I am very encouraged that you are listening to - and implementing - player feedback, like increasing furnishing limits on some homes and REVERTING BACK TO 30 DAY GUILD TRADER LISTINGS THANK YOU 8 POUND 6 OUNCE BABY JESUS.

3. I would like to have clarification on the new season pass model and how this whole "ESO+ earns X/Y/Z" thing actually works. I have been an ESO+ subscriber for years now, but I am on a 6-month auto-renew level rather than the one-year auto-renew level because it is easier for me to financially absorb in 6 month increments rather than the once a year big ol' lump sum. Would my account be viewed then as only a 6 month subscriber or how is this all working?

4. April 2nd made me laugh because that means Season Zero starts on my birthday. Happy birthday to me!