Lack of communication regarding Eidetic Memory Books bugs

Rishikesa108 · February 16

Regarding the numerous bugs affecting the Eidetic Memory Books, there are two mega-threads open in the Forum. Players have been writing there for years, but I NEVER see any response, any interest from GMs.
The modules continue to come, the books continue to be created, and consequently the related bugs also increase. No one ever listens to what players, interested in this aspect of the game, have been saying for years.
Recently, a paradoxical bug was created, which personally offends me greatly. In fact, a certain book (Worm Cult Correspondence) was made available ONLY to players who had NOT purchased the latest Season Pass, and only for a limited period of time, namely during the Writhing Wall event.
We've asked @ZOS_Kevin countless times for help with all these bugs, but to no avail.
Every time an update, maintenance, or PTS comes out... we're all there checking to see if any books have been fixed. Every now and then, yes, randomly, something gets fixed.
But there's never any communication, never any consideration, never any demonstration of interest.
I even asked myself a question... in fact, it's obvious that these Eidetic Memory Books attract little interest from the gaming community, so they come last in the bug pyramid.
I wonder: why do they continue to create more books (so many) and more bugs, if they're not appreciated and never fixed? One of two things: either they're fixed and they keep producing them, or let's stop there!!!

Emeratis · February 16

This has been a major frustration for me for years. I originally joined the forums to contribute to the eidetic threads way back when. It's been an ongoing frustration point for me and several friends of mine who do not have forum accounts for years. Eidetic Memory is the only system that has been in game since base game but never been fully bug free and functional. It's so easy to miss books even if you are relatively observant and some of them have a history of being buggy. While issues were fixed in the past, it's been years since an official statement (I do not recall where but I can probably try to dig it up) where we got a promise to not only fix bugged books but make it so future books would not be quest locked....given how so many new books since then have been bugged and quest locked you know how that went.

What's worse, is on the pts a third thread was made to ensure that the limited Night Market books were easy for people to find on launch. We found all but 3, and I am 99% sure one of the books is bugged. We. did. not. get. one. word. of. response.

While the communication this pts was way better, it also felt very selective and like some longstanding issues just aren't cared about. I hate that I've been bugged out of 100% on lorebooks on my main for years and since the Writhing Wall nobody can be at 100% due to the one book that is locked behind the quest you get for not owning the pass. I've talked more recently a lot about how the lead system is similarly near impossible for the people who are passionate about lore to 100% but considering both systems that emphasize collecting bits of lore are like this is infuriating for such a lore heavy game and franchise. They may not be vocal and many of them might not even visit the forum or have accounts but lore fans deserve to have the systems in game that support them feel fun and rewarding and completable too.

For my own personal lorebooks, I'm currently missing five:

Gleaner's Claim-commonly missable, quest locked location and no post location
Letter from Aradros-missing from game for years??????
Items Needed for Curative-quest in public dungeon, put in inventory and easy to miss but I'm pretty sure I read it on launch and it just didn't register in my eidetic and I didn't find out til post-quest which...you guessed it! no location after
Letter from the Stirk Fellowship-similar to Aradros's, not in game at all? hello?
Worm Cult Correspondence-only obtainable during Writhing Wall event if you don't own the pass, as if this event needed anymore frustration

So two books never in game, two quest books easy to miss, and one that I had no hope of getting at all due to how it was put in game....

Seriously, it might be something small and some people might not care but I think given how persistent several of us have been over the years and given the continuation of the two threads and our attempt in the pts this cycle to bring attention to lorebook bugs and issues and pain points, it's at least worth a response....We've curated the list of books that are bugged and tried to be as detailed as possible about how they're bugged, where they are, etc so they're easy to fix and respond to. I don't think it's too much to ask for something here....

Gandalf_72 · February 17

I strongly agree.

BradTheNord · February 18

@ZOS_Kevin we need a real clean up for the EM luckily I’m only missing 5 books apart from the new motif that hasn’t landed yet but I know friends that missing so many due to being bugged still.

Tra_Lalan · February 18

I hope they will adress Eidetic Memory issues in some of the next player expierience improvements.
Many good stuff (long requested) coming with u49 so lets hope this one also gets fixed.

Destai · February 18

@ZOS_Kira is this on your radar?

AzuraFan · February 18

I agree. Lorebooks need fixing. Also, I'd love the eidetic memory to be account wide.

GeneralEU · 12:06AM

Personally, since June 2025, I have stopped looking for books or searching for locations that are still bugged. It's just ridiculous that completely unavailable books are not fixed or removed from the list to avoid further frustrating players who have been seeing the book unfixed for two years or more. Letter from Aradros, Worm Cult Correspondence, or Letter from the Stirk Fellowship. And even ‘probably’ Chapter Summerset is still not fixed.

I decided that there is simply NO POINT in struggling with something that is not being fixed, at least for the next major update, and instead there are ‘new’ bugged books.