Official Feedback Thread For 2026 ESO Reveal

twisttop138 · January 9

zenonuk wrote: »

Sarannah wrote: »

-Multi-stage cooperative events: Events are not content.

My take/read of it, is that the multi-stage "world" events (using the terminology from the screenshot) are actually more akin to existing world events / incursions - dolmens, volcanic vents, etc. Maybe even something similar to the random encounters (e.g. dark fissures)... or combining both of these into a new type of event.

My hope is that these will be permanent, come with their own dailies, loot tables, etc. ... and therefore do classify as "content" and something that can tracked/cleared over time. Perhaps they'll even have their own achievements.

Obviously that's my interpretation of what's presented. They may indeed be one-off/time-limited events in the traditional "jester's festival" style events. I don't think we can draw conclusions one way or the other at this stage.

This would be really cool. I envision something like fallout 76's public events. They already mentioned something like this, and ninja pulls talked some about it iirc. Something will happen and it will notify us and those who want to will port to the zone to deal with the threat. I think Fallout 76 does this well. They also do their battle pass well. The things in it cost tickets (tome whatevers here) and some stuff you need to be a subscriber for but if not you still can pull some really cool stuff from it. New weapon types, cosmetics and housing items. And the best most important things like housing items that collect resources or new weapons can later be purchased for in game currency. It already seems like they're pulling from 76 with some of the stuff they announced, so taking the best aspects can only help them, as battle pass is a dirty word in gaming. And for the money they want, yeesh. These better be amazing items.

Pauwin · January 9

Tornaad wrote: »

Honestly, from my perspective, it is a few (extremely vocal individuals) who don't want a change to overland difficulty while a large number of people want something. In my case, I stopped going into that thread after it got too hostile and not because of my lack of interest in the topic.

I agree, I think the devs should be careful about the source of feedback, since they said they will give more credit to it. I think they should look into feedback from external sources too like Youtube comments and X posts for example. I noticed that the forum and subreddit had very vocal individuals who create an echo-chamber and give an "everything is fine, I just want a new dog pet and nothing else" type of mentality.

It was not representing the opinions I saw from the "less involved" players who don't go out of their way to post on the forum, because the game didn't attract them enough for obvious reasons which those active vocal players ignore, like overland difficulty.

LadyBriala · January 9

WolfStar07 wrote: »

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?

++++ This.. I subbed in October 2025 and it ends somewhere in October 2026 :S PS5 doesn't allow you to resub over an already active sub 🫠

Also as a PS5 player..

Paying for:
--PS+ per year
--ESO+ per year

..and now you expect us to pay for another subscription... huh? 🫣 ..Console players are already paying more than PC players to 'support' your game with next to no increased incentive.. our community is dieing because no one wants to pay double costs just to play ESO and now you add more subscriptions to scare more people away.. 😭

You mention not wanting to cause FOMO but you know right well that you will add things in there to tempt us..

jirusan · January 9

It is unlikely I engage with any other content than the raid this year, if there are still other players for this.

Overland activities meant for PUGs don't compare with aspirational organized group achievements.

A pay-to-grind content pass is out of touch for me, I just don't see the value at all.

Coincidentally Destiny 2 did almost exactly the same change a few years ago, and lost its most loyal community.

So I sincerely wish to the ESO fans who are excited by this change that they will get what they hope, and success to the team at Zenimax, but frankly this is not why I am playing ESO.

majulook · January 9

I am very confused by the information that is in the articles (one section seems to contradict another section) on how this works with and affects existing ESO+ subs.

I for one have a ESO+ Yearly sub that I renew every June.

I get none of the new benefits of having ESO+ until I renew?

And i have to pay extra for Premium and / or Premium + ?

ALSO

Why does ESO+ not cover it all?

Wildberryjack · January 9

It looks good on the surface, we'll have to see how it ends up practically. But I am curious why no vampire rework? Not one vampire skill is worth taking and that's messed up. Replacing any class or weapon skill with any vampire skill is a downgrade in dps.

Oh and if they can have crossplay as they briefly discussed that would be awesome. However what about connecting the NA and EU servers?

allochthons · January 9

The first Seasons graphic in the "Seasons of Change" news posts explicitly says
Seasons = 3 months.

But during some of the earlier live streams, it was emphasized that seasons could be different lengths, to give devs flexibility.
Has that changed? Or is just Season 0 definitely 3 months, and future seasons may be of different lengths?

SilverBride · January 9

The past 3 years have been progressively more disappointing, this one being the worst by far. I don't even recognize this game any more. I have enough zones I still need to complete on 3 characters to last me a year or more so I will just ignore all these changes and play like I always have until I no longer can.

The most disturbing part to me is that we are being given so many QOL changes that we asked for for years now, all at once. While they are nice, they don't make up for everything we are losing.

I have a basic understanding of the battle pass thanks to @DenverRalphy explanations, because this wasn't explained well in the stream at all. If all this offers is cosmetics then count me out.

Once again I ask for some transparency on what is going on with this game. What is the final goal for all these drastic not requested changes?

BoloBoffin · January 9

It would be nice to get prorated Tome Tokens for multi-month subs that renewed before January. Say, you renewed six months in December, then in April, you'd have January through May - five Tome Tokens - ready to go.

But the other benefits for ESO+ will start when Season Zero starts, like the faster rate of earning Tome... Points? Tokens are for the free Season upgrade, Points are for unlocking items in the Tome, and Trader Bars are for buying things at the Gold Coast Bazaar.

AzuraFan · January 9

BoloBoffin wrote: »

What I heard is that any sub renewals from the start of the year do count.

That's not how I understood it, but I could be wrong. I was under the impression that you'll only get tokens for the months that are left on your sub after seasons go live. So if you renew in January, you won't get tokens for Jan, Feb, March. You'd end up getting 9 tokens when seasons go live in April.

I could have misunderstood, though, and I'd like to be wrong. They should really give 12 tokens to everyone on an annual sub when seasons go live, 6 tokens to anyone on a 6 month sub, etc. I know that means some people will get free tokens in the end, but it's the fairest way to do it for the transition to tomes.

Otherwise someone who had to renew (or subscribes for the first time) in March could end up waiting an entire year to get enough tokens to get a premium tome, whereas someone who subscribes/renews two weeks later in April gets 12 tokens off the bat. That doesn't seem right.

Hopefully someone from ZOS will clarify how this will work.

BoloBoffin · January 9

AzuraFan wrote: »

BoloBoffin wrote: »

What I heard is that any sub renewals from the start of the year do count.

That's not how I understood it, but I could be wrong. I was under the impression that you'll only get tokens for the months that are left on your sub after seasons go live. So if you renew in January, you won't get tokens for Jan, Feb, March. You'd end up getting 9 tokens when seasons go live in April.

I could have misunderstood, though, and I'd like to be wrong. They should really give 12 tokens to everyone on an annual sub when seasons go live, 6 tokens to anyone on a 6 month sub, etc. I know that means some people will get free tokens in the end, but it's the fairest way to do it for the transition to tomes.

Otherwise someone who had to renew (or subscribes for the first time) in March could end up waiting an entire year to get enough tokens to get a premium tome, whereas someone who subscribes/renews two weeks later in April gets 12 tokens off the bat. That doesn't seem right.

Hopefully someone from ZOS will clarify how this will work.

I would go back and watch the video to be sure, but Twitch is an awful, awful platform to do searches on (so many ads!). Is this up on YouTube yet? I'll go look.

EDITED TO ADD: It is!! I'm looking now.

LouisaB75 · January 9

AzuraFan wrote: »

BoloBoffin wrote: »

What I heard is that any sub renewals from the start of the year do count.

That's not how I understood it, but I could be wrong. I was under the impression that you'll only get tokens for the months that are left on your sub after seasons go live. So if you renew in January, you won't get tokens for Jan, Feb, March. You'd end up getting 9 tokens when seasons go live in April.

I could have misunderstood, though, and I'd like to be wrong. They should really give 12 tokens to everyone on an annual sub when seasons go live, 6 tokens to anyone on a 6 month sub, etc. I know that means some people will get free tokens in the end, but it's the fairest way to do it for the transition to tomes.

Otherwise someone who had to renew (or subscribes for the first time) in March could end up waiting an entire year to get enough tokens to get a premium tome, whereas someone who subscribes/renews two weeks later in April gets 12 tokens off the bat. That doesn't seem right.

Hopefully someone from ZOS will clarify how this will work.

We need much more clarification on this.

And as someone who has been subscribed on a monthly basis for almost 3 years I am in the going to have to wait a year regardless before I get my tokens built up, unless I alter my sub to another version.

BoloBoffin · January 9

In the YouTube video, it says this at 28:30:

Beginning with this month (i.e., January), any ESO Plus subscribers will receive credit every month towards a free Premium+ Season upgrade.

So, at the very least, any renewal starting in January will get the Tome Token credit, but that also reads to me that we are getting prorated credit for previous renewals. She doesn't say you have to do anything to get the credit but be a subscriber. Renewals, however, give you all the credits right then.

The example given in this thread was a 12-month renewal in December. It sounds like that person will get 11 Tome Tokens when Season Zero goes live. I'm not with ZOS, so someone can clear that up who is with ZOS. But very definitely current ESO+ subscribers are getting some credit starting this month.

Here's a clip from YouTube about this with that quote.

majulook · January 9

Ty for the info @BoloBoffin ...

would be nice if someone form ZOS would confirm this as there are 4 threads with players asking this type of question about current ESO+ subs.

omegatay_ESO · January 9

opethmaniac wrote: »

I don't understand why so many players are complaining about the Battle Pass. Tier 0 is completely free and offers far more value than the previous login rewards (e.g., 8,000 Seals of Endeavor) and other stuff we don't even know about yet.

Tiers 1 and 2 offer (of course) even more rewards, but these are completely optional, from everything I've seen. Everyone can decide for themselves whether they want to spend the money, for example, on the new mount.

Pay-to-win expansions like new Mythics or the Scribing (at the time of release) are eliminated, and you're not forced to always buy the latest expansion for them (we'll see what the future holds).

The only thing that really bothered me were the vague hints regarding PvP. In my opinion, there's still a lot of potential here to make PvP more attractive (e.g., levelable PvP sets with progressive skins or new prestige ranks). Let's see what else comes along.

Obviously we don't know what the reward tiers look like yet. But from other games I have played with Battle Pass systems. The free tier is usually garbage. They Want you to buy the premium tiers, it's where they make money. Look at the login rewards for example, that is free tier. My two cents.

ESO_player123 · January 9

Wildberryjack wrote: »

It looks good on the surface, we'll have to see how it ends up practically. But I am curious why no vampire rework? Not one vampire skill is worth taking and that's messed up. Replacing any class or weapon skill with any vampire skill is a downgrade in dps.

Oh and if they can have crossplay as they briefly discussed that would be awesome. However what about connecting the NA and EU servers?

@Wildberryjack From what I remember they said that they are not planning to connect EU and NA. Their plan at that moment was: optional, some rewards, regional only (NA to NA, EU to EU).

AzuraFan · January 9

BoloBoffin wrote: »

In the YouTube video, it says this at 28:30:

Beginning with this month (i.e., January), any ESO Plus subscribers will receive credit every month towards a free Premium+ Season upgrade.

If that's true, awesome. That should mean that annual renewals in Jan, Feb, March should get 12 tokens when they become available.

DenverRalphy · January 10

majulook wrote: »

Ty for the info @BoloBoffin ...

would be nice if someone form ZOS would confirm this as there are 4 threads with players asking this type of question about current ESO+ subs.

From the front page article...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/687182/official-feedback-thread-for-2026-eso-reveal#latest

BoloBoffin · January 10

DenverRalphy wrote: »

majulook wrote: »

Ty for the info @BoloBoffin ...

would be nice if someone form ZOS would confirm this as there are 4 threads with players asking this type of question about current ESO+ subs.

From the front page article...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/687182/official-feedback-thread-for-2026-eso-reveal#latest

So that's at least three Premium Tome Tokens and three Caches of Tome Points for anyone subbed Jan-Mar when Season One goes live. That's pretty clear! Thanks!

AzuraFan · January 10

DenverRalphy wrote: »

majulook wrote: »

Ty for the info @BoloBoffin ...

would be nice if someone form ZOS would confirm this as there are 4 threads with players asking this type of question about current ESO+ subs.

From the front page article...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/687182/official-feedback-thread-for-2026-eso-reveal#latest

Thanks for posting that. It sounds like you get all the tokens for 2026 up front when seasons go live, with the number depending on your sub length(s). That works!

WolfStar07 · January 10

That's how I'm reading that too. Technically I'm subbed last December through this December, so I'm assuming that means I get 12 tokens once they implement this, and then another 12 if I choose to renew again at Christmas.

Aliniel · January 10

I feel like ESO+ losing value once again.

One of the reasons I sub for ESO+ is access to DLCs. Now you are starting to give older DLCs for free. This means ESO+ loses value once again.

You are promising us some extra rewards for being an ESO+ member. Promising us more of something we have no experience with. There's no way for us to know how impactful these extra tokens, resources, whatever will be. These are cosmetics and we have so much cosmetics already - do we even need more? ESO+ already gives us crowns which we can use for cosmetics. Yet, you still stuff more of it into ESO+ hoping we'll keep quiet.

ESO+ used to grant us access to content. Now it grants us some extra cosmetics and we can't even measure it. And at the same time it loses its value since you're giving away some of that stuff for free.

And that's after 2025 disastrous value loss for the ESO+ which was never even addressed (double billing on the dungeon DLCs).

SerafinaWaterstar · January 10

DenverRalphy wrote: »

majulook wrote: »

Ty for the info @BoloBoffin ...

would be nice if someone form ZOS would confirm this as there are 4 threads with players asking this type of question about current ESO+ subs.

From the front page article...
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/687182/official-feedback-thread-for-2026-eso-reveal#latest

Thanks to all that have posted about this & checking the info (had power cut here so not internet). Much clearer now.

So monthly subbing won’t make a difference as long as the sub is kept up month to month?

Does need to be crystal clear otherwise there will be quite a few players bothering the customer service team asking where their Tome Tokens are!

disky · January 10

I LOVE the move to account-wide outfit slots! As someone who spent a significant portion of time in a fashion guild, and as someone who spends an incredible amount of time on outfits in general, this makes a huge difference for me. Thank you guys. One thing I would like to request since you're already fooling around with that bit of code...can you please also make it possible to add outfits to the general radial selection menus? I like to be able to quickly swap outfits, but I really can't with the way things are now. I use the radial menus on the gamepad UI to swap appearance items like skins, costumes and helmets, but outfits don't seem to have the "Link" option, and it would be so much more convenient if we were able to do it. Thanks!

LouisaB75 · January 10

SerafinaWaterstar wrote: »

So monthly subbing won’t make a difference as long as the sub is kept up month to month?

Does need to be crystal clear otherwise there will be quite a few players bothering the customer service team asking where their Tome Tokens are!

My interpretation of that is that monthly subs that renewed in January, February and March will count, but as it is monthly we will have to wait until December to accumulate the tokens for the free premium tome. Which is slightly better than waiting until a year after it goes live in game at least.

But leads me back to the questions I posted a couple of pages ago about how those free ones work and the contradictory information on the stream and the website about which tomes you can use them for.

On the news page of the website, it says that "Note that a Tome’s free options and its two upgrades can be acquired only during its specific Season". However, the page also has the image from the stream that says to "use for any season". I also checked back on the stream itself and they do say that it can be used for any season too.

So, can you use it for any season's tome or not?

I would have hoped to be able to use it to get the one with the gorgeous wolf mount that was shown on the stream, but it will obviously be long gone by the time my 12 months has accrued.

Also, on a similar note, assuming that the answer is that you can only use your accrued free premium tome for either the current one or a future one, what happens to the progress bar if you decide to hold onto it because the current season doesn't have something that interests you? Does it stay locked at 12 months until you effectively cash it in, or does it continue to accrue points towards the next one?

BoloBoffin · January 10

I don't think there would be a cap on the Premium Tome Tokens. I'll start with at least 3 when Zero goes live, and I planned on going back to a 12-month asap. I would expect all 12 tokens from the 12-month renewal to go on top of the 3 or more tokens I have at that point.

It's interesting, though, that the Premium+ tier is the only one they say you can upgrade to with the tokens. Why not let people upgrade to the Premium mid-tier with 6 or 9 tokens?

Dojohoda · January 10

Nice QOL listed but no more new Wrothgar-esqe zone chapters? Just FOMO events and cosmetics? The memory of last year's paid FOMO event and handful of quests lingers unfavorably. Am I missing something?

Vampryss · January 10

What ever happened to 'The Elder Scrolls' story line anyway? In the stand-alone games, this is the core story. Currently, there is nothing regarding that. Just in PVP moving scrolls. The Elder Scroll lore is lost. I would really like the game to get back to its core lore in some way. Right now, the game is just an acronym. Hoping this is a direction at some point.

tomofhyrule · January 10

Vampryss wrote: »

What ever happened to 'The Elder Scrolls' story line anyway? In the stand-alone games, this is the core story. Currently, there is nothing regarding that. Just in PVP moving scrolls. The Elder Scroll lore is lost. I would really like the game to get back to its core lore in some way. Right now, the game is just an acronym. Hoping this is a direction at some point.

I mean... if we want to be technical, the first time an Elder Scroll is even seen in the mainline games is in TES4, and that's only in one guild quest. Only in TES5 did we actually see a scroll in the Main Quest and see its importance. The previous games were pretty much like "this is a mystical-enough sounding framing device" and basically never mentioned them at all.

ESO's Scrolls lore is honestly par for the course.

Cerbolt · January 10

I mainly play for the story and lore these days, nothing said here really appeals to me. I didnt really enjoy the writhering wall event so I'm not particularly excited about more events like that. A battle pass is basically just another subscription, I already pay for ESO+ and PS+, I'm not paying for another one. The QOL stuff seems decent, and the vague promise of crossplay some time in the future is at least something.

Overall, I wouldn't say I'm excited for the future of ESO. Not in the same way I was when One Tamriel or Morrowind were announced.