What do you not like about playing ESO?

Lettigall · June 2014

I don't like that to make best out of my class I need to wear dress and run around with a stick in my hands(no, not that stick

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kieso · June 2014

the fact that when I hit 50 and defeat my main enemy I'm not done with levels..

Dusty5 · June 2014

We really going to drag this dead horse out again? TESO released uncompleted and with very poor quality mmo. Starting line is at first log on to find German speaking NPC's spaming the zone with audio chat. Stack all other bugs behind this first one please. Not begin about to have a full use guild for just our friends and family. ZOS trying to copy SONY/CCP with a multi-platform mmo restricting the action bar to 5 slots. Not begin able to group with my wife and run all quests/instances. Non-stop nerfs and ninja changes to the game.

Lynx7386 · June 2014

1. The massive imbalance between the effectiveness and viability of magicka-focused character builds and stamina-focused character builds. You cannot create two different resources that receive the same bonus from enchantments/attribute points and then give one of them more costly abilities that deal less damage, and you definitely shouldnt have given the same resource pool a bunch of game-critical abilities (dodging, blocking, interrupting, cc breaking, sprinting, and sneaking).

I just dont get how ZOS can possibly justify stamina being balanced with magicka right now, and they seem to be perfectly content ignoring the issue completely.

2. The vast statistical differences between players in cyrodiil. ZOS claims that the scaling system puts everyone on equal footing, but right now even a vet 2 character has quite a bit more power than a level 50 (vet 1) character, and anyone in the 1-40 range is absolute cannon fodder. The stat scaling system does not take into account anything about a lower level player's attribute allocations or build, so you're automatically stuck with ghost attributes that do not fit the way you play your character. You literally get the same stats whether you're wearing heavy armor or you're naked.

The difference between vet rank stats also compounds the issue. A vet 12 (who probably got there by exploiting and abusing game mechanics in the first place) is literally a demigod on the battlefield, moreso if they're a current or past emperor. I've seen one vet 12 player, and not even a particularly good one at that, demolish dozens of lower level players in cyrodiil by himself without even looking like he was having to put effort into it.

3. The players. This is something all MMO's have in common though, I love multiplayer games and the ability to group up with friends to compete against others, but I absolutely hate the type of playerbase that this kind of game draws. It's not quite as bad as your typical FPS game, but the MMO crowd is overflowing with whiny, self-entitled, instant-gratification losers that will cry nerf against anything that they cannot plow through, and then turn around and rub it in your face when they manage to kill you, or take that loot that you really need and they just want for the prestige, or do 0.01% more DPS than you, or get one more kill or one less death than you on a scoreboard that will seconds later be lost in bowels of the internet.

These games would be so much better if the players were a little more mature.

OrangeTheCat · June 2014

I choose to not be negative. I would invert the question and ask what is good and right about ESO. Stop spreading negativity.

Alazarz · June 2014

I'd have to say the lack of fundamental MMO (official) features. Such as a buff / de-buff window. Also, detailed tooltips on buffs that show in the character menu. IE; 'Molten Armaments'. Okay so I've a temporary buff on me called 'Molten Armaments'... but no detailed tooltip displaying what the buff actually does. For this particular buff, it should present a tooltip like so; Increases allies weapon damage by X amount and the casters by 100%

Also the ability / spell lag can be annoying at times. I'll interrupt a mob and it wont show the animation, but the mob will be stunned in any case.

GreySix · June 2014

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

I choose to not be negative. I would invert the question and ask what is good and right about ESO. Stop spreading negativity.

Okay.

Well, there are elves ... and talking cats; that's always a bonus.

And there's cool magic spells, and swords and stuff.

fredarbonab14_ESO · June 2014

Love the game, absolutely well done. Two things I would love to see: auto-stacking and ability to click on another player and brings up options, the most important si sending them a private message, like thank them for their help.

Moiskormoimi · June 2014

There's so many things but it wasn't just one thing or another that brought me to the breaking point. It was the sum of all of them. If I had to choose, I guess it would be that I have never played any other mmo where the higher I leveled up, the weaker I felt. That in itself breaks my immersion and makes everything else seem so linear.

fredarbonab14_ESO · June 2014

^^^ Now that makes 0 sense. Never heard of a game that the higher you go the ~easier~ it got, that would eliminate the challenge at some point, and what would be the point of playing then?

dsalter · June 2014

3 things.
1: phasing
2: not being able to preview items before crafting them (or wearing them)
3: not being able to play as a 2handed cast slasher without dying on packs of 2+ VR mobs but if i slap on a dress and stick, i can take on 5+ at once

Head.hunter · June 2014

When it comes down to it I'm pleased with basically everything that has been achieved with ESO, except for the system performance in cyrodiil (even if it's a million times better than it was). That's basically the only thing that makes the game unplayable in a major way.

Lynx7386 · June 2014

fredarbonab14_ESO wrote: »

^^^ Now that makes 0 sense. Never heard of a game that the higher you go the ~easier~ it got, that would eliminate the challenge at some point, and what would be the point of playing then?

He didnt say other mmo's felt easier as you levelled up, he said that in other mmo's you feel more -powerful- as you level up.

There's a difference.

Content can get harder, but the way in which it gets harder makes a big impact. When you go from being able to slaughter a group of bandits one level to being slaughtered by them the next, something is wrong. The proper way to go about increasing the difficulty is to make the enemies seem more 'epic', and to give the player increasingly 'cooler' abilities to fight them with.

So in a normal mmo, you'd go from slaughtering bandits one level to having a slightly more difficult time killing necromancers the next, and then it'd go from necromancers to elementals or something, and then from elementals to dragons, and then from dragons to demigods.
As this progression is happening, the player will go from using, say, a firebolt spell to using a fireball, and then to a bigger fireball, and then he'll be throwing molten boulders at his enemies, and eventually he'll be calling down meteors from the sky, all with the same spell. That's a progression of power that makes the player feel more powerful, even if the effect is that he's continuing into more difficult content.

Instead, we use the same firebolt every level, and we're fighting the same enemies, they just get ridiculously more difficult. There's no feeling of progression, only the feeling of hitting a brick wall.

Shanna · June 2014

I've been trying to be open minded about Zen not going the auction house route (while simultaneously refusing to join a guild - or 5 - for the purpose of buying from, or selling to, a limited number of people)...but I've just realized that not having the ability to sell my goods as a SOLO player is yet another turn off for me. So, I can add that aspect to the no housing, the limited customization, and the monotonous questing in V levels list to explain why I can't seem to bring myself to log on for anything other than resetting timers at this point.

AelyinESO · June 2014

I don't like:

Boring VET Content;
Less conversation and more action;
Many complains that results and many nerfs, and till now game need to be balance, and in the end, DK's and Sorc's players will be UP classes and Templars and NB's OP, coz ZoS sometimes listen to wrong people complains;
I like the idea to be in a different faction, but not to play all same quests again, really I'm Veteran player and I need to help to catch rats in the town?
I would to feel LIKE a Veteran, I would like a UNIQUE Veteran Skill line for EACH classes, UNIQUE, to make the difference about what is a Veteran Player;
I don't like to feel like VR6 almost like VR12, well so why I need to level up? all hard content, difficult, low Vet XP for nothing? just to use "level VR12 gears and weapons?);
And go on ....

I guess ZoS need to start to pay attention, I try to play in the Veteran Zones, and it's getting low and low, hard to find people, groups, helps or anything else.

But I guess ZoS its not listen to all, I real like the game, but I can't keep going since the game needs "urgent" fixes.

kip_silverwolf · June 2014

Dislike - the dreary tavern music. It makes me want to stab the bards just to put them out of their misery (and to stop my ears bleeding!). Would be good if we could pay them to shut-up or change to a more lively song!

Like (or rather loves

) - all those naked Nords running around, especially in EP!

Blackwidow · June 2014

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

I choose to not be negative. I would invert the question and ask what is good and right about ESO. Stop spreading negativity.

First, asking for constructive criticism is a positive thing, even if some people can not see it that way.

Second, please don't derail my thread on purpose. It is against the forum rules.

Also....

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/108244/why-do-you-like-playing-eso#latest

poodlemasterb16_ESO · June 2014

Thevampirenight wrote: »

the loading and the three loading screens in towns need only one where it needs it the most and not seeing enemy players due to them not loaded on your screen and they kill you and the lack of rez in cyradil for pve that and the load screens popping up in the middle of a fight killing you

Whuu. You have problems, I'm not sure it's the game though.

Mortosk · June 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

If a friends asked you what you did not like about ESO, what are the bad points of the game, or what specifically about ESO upsets you, what would be your response?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that might make you not want to log on and visit Tamriel?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that may keep it from being a king among MMOs?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow · June 2014

Mortosk wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

If a friends asked you what you did not like about ESO, what are the bad points of the game, or what specifically about ESO upsets you, what would be your response?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that might make you not want to log on and visit Tamriel?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that may keep it from being a king among MMOs?

Being a Templar.

I honestly do not get why people hate templars so much. I have a V8 Templar and love it.

I mostly play a healer. Is it the DPS side that is the problem?

orablast · June 2014

I would say that the newbie zones on prime time evenings already look like mmos that have been out for 10+ years. You see hardly anyone running around anymore. Although, I suppose this could be a phasing issue. However, it still says a lot about this game only being what? 4 months old?

Mortosk · June 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Mortosk wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

If a friends asked you what you did not like about ESO, what are the bad points of the game, or what specifically about ESO upsets you, what would be your response?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that might make you not want to log on and visit Tamriel?

Being a Templar.

Blackwidow wrote: »

What is it about ESO that may keep it from being a king among MMOs?

Being a Templar.

I honestly do not get why people hate templars so much. I have a V8 Templar and love it.

I mostly play a healer. Is it the DPS side that is the problem?

Yea. There's a problem on the DPS side.

Blackwidow · June 2014

orablast wrote: »

I would say that the newbie zones on prime time evenings already look like mmos that have been out for 10+ years. You see hardly anyone running around anymore. Although, I suppose this could be a phasing issue. However, it still says a lot about this game only being what? 4 months old?

Shouldn't be a phasing issue. If anything phasing should make the game look populated, just not over crowded.

Synfaer · June 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Hadria wrote: »

All the complaining

You see a lot of complaining in the game? And your problem is not that the game has issues, but that players bring up these issues?

Facts;
Every game has issues and people post on game forums in response to these issues.

A. Some people complain about issues in the hope of getting things fixed.
B. Some people complain excessively about every little thing that annoys them creating their own little whine train.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Flaming]

Blackwidow · June 2014

Synfaer wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Hadria wrote: »

All the complaining

You see a lot of complaining in the game? And your problem is not that the game has issues, but that players bring up these issues?

Facts;
Every game has issues and people post on game forums in response to these issues.

A. Some people complain about issues in the hope of getting things fixed.
B. Some people complain excessively about every little thing that annoys them creating their own little whine train.

The mature thing would to not post on those threads and ignore them, if it bothers you that much that you feel you need post and complain about them.

Also, what you might consider whining, might be very important to that person and others, so dismissing it as just whining might be very short sighted of you.

tlainya_ESO · June 2014

1. Group/phasing issues-It's very difficult to keep in synch or get in synch with a friend and having to travel to group member can get really annoying. It's also a little frustrating not being able to go back and help friends with certain quests due to the phase issues.
2. Bugs with keys not responding, can be fatal anytime but especially in VR areas. Having to repeatedly reloadui or relog just to loot isn't fun. Erratic and random delays on weapon swaps, quickslot use and skills is a problem.

And 2 minor issues... reduced loot radius, my bosmer is my provisioner and having to jump around like a 5 year old on a sugar rush just to loot stuff to cook is a pain. Last and least... vanity pet collision, seriously why do the monkey pets have collision?

Haxer · June 2014

I would tell them the good = lore, world, graphics, quests, voiced dialogue, controls, combat.

I would tell them the bad = phasing/grouping, PvP pop balance, VR, and lack of ability to interact with community (phases, no guild hall/player housing). The latter have caused me to end sub today

and I am sad.

I hope that these ^ all get fixed and I will be the first in line to come back. Until then, see you on Nexus.

Synfaer · June 2014

Blackwidow wrote: »

Synfaer wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Hadria wrote: »

All the complaining

You see a lot of complaining in the game? And your problem is not that the game has issues, but that players bring up these issues?

Facts;
Every game has issues and people post on game forums in response to these issues.

A. Some people complain about issues in the hope of getting things fixed.
B. Some people complain excessively about every little thing that annoys them creating their own little whine train.

The mature thing would to not post on those threads and ignore them, if it bothers you that much that you feel you need post and complain about them.

Also, what you might consider whining, might be very important to that person and others, so dismissing it as just whining might be very short sighted of you.

So if it is important to me that I value constructive discussion on the forums about game issues and bugs rather than persistent raging by a few individuals, I should not comment or complain about those individuals?
I think that is a bit hypocritical.

Sunrock · June 2014

Best thing about ESO is the veteran content... However the last zone in ++ content is stupid hard some times. Siege weapon in PvP do 40% less damage then normal mobs standard attacks.

Mablung · June 2014

Synfaer wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Synfaer wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Hadria wrote: »

All the complaining

You see a lot of complaining in the game? And your problem is not that the game has issues, but that players bring up these issues?

Facts;
Every game has issues and people post on game forums in response to these issues.

A. Some people complain about issues in the hope of getting things fixed.
B. Some people complain excessively about every little thing that annoys them creating their own little whine train.

The mature thing would to not post on those threads and ignore them, if it bothers you that much that you feel you need post and complain about them.

Also, what you might consider whining, might be very important to that person and others, so dismissing it as just whining might be very short sighted of you.

So if it is important to me that I value constructive discussion on the forums about game issues and bugs rather than persistent raging by a few individuals, I should not comment or complain about those individuals?
I think that is a bit hypocritical.

What is hypocritical is you stating that you value constructive discussion yet you also want to engage in threads that are volatile and nonconstructive?