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Elder Scrolls Online | ESO Hate | MMORPG
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Elder Scrolls Online | ESO Hate | MMORPG
The Elder Scrolls Online sucks, it does not live up to its hype, it’s not an Elder Scrolls game, PvE is lack luster, someone stole my chest, end game is boring, ESO needs . Yes, ESO has flaws, not a game in the world is flawless. In this week’s column I’m going to take a look at the ESO / MMO community and try and explain why they have so much hate towards such a fantastic game.
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Make great, tightly defined, well-tuned classes and you don't have these issues.
There are other ways to present freedom and creativity in builds. When your very class pigeonholes you into a specific build from the get-go though...you've just done the exact thing you were trying NOT to do.
Then I read "about the author"...."Ryan is our resident Elder Scrolls nerd, and columnist for Zenimax's MMO. When he's not out killing things in Tamriel, he's working in IT professionally."
No bias here.....
Providing a platform for industry propaganda, cashing in on it.
Edited for paragraphs which they don't care to fix.
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Chat is completely horrid without addons to assist you and the same for guild management (even addons can't fix the missing features for guilds). As far as the being in 5 guilds to make use of trading.... most players just use their stores to list items. I have been in many trading guilds and guild chat is very quiet and most the time people aren't trying to sell anything, so ZOS did not succeed in getting people... "to broaden your scope and speak to players". Even trade chat in zone channels have dwindled. Who wants to spend half of their gaming time each day trying to find people to buy items?
Update 6 and 7 fixed a lot of performance and gaming issues, but most of them were issues that should have been fixed before the game even released! Unfortunately I believe too many of the MMO community have lost interest in the game and with Orsinium just going further down the single player RPG rabbit hole I doubt many will come back.
The whole problem with ESO is the developers do not work along with the community. I laugh at how they have a ask us anything thread yet they have hardly answered any questions from it. Plus when they do it isn't the most popular one's. Then you have the bugs, from launcher (only use their launcher on patch days then the eso.exe file on all others) to the end game. The vet system was suppose to be removed (devs told us so) but so far that isn't happening.
Or how they told us PC/MAC players they were never going to go F2P and would close the game down before doing so. Well they got it a little right they went B2P and the whole time they were setting up the B2P model with crown store they were telling us they were working on major bugs then finding out even later they were actually working on consoles. So a year passes and then we find out they lied to us. One thing I will give them create for is getting rid of the bots. Early life of the game you couldn't craft because the bots were eating up the resources.
I will touch on ESO plus as something that really hit the loyal players hard, they never gave enough to show how they respected us for paying monthly subs while they lied to us about B2P and consoles to where we keep the income coming in that whole time. A senche and a pet just wasn't enough, but then they sold senche's in the crown store just with different skins. So if you see someone riding a striped senche tell them thank you or you wouldn't be playing ESO.
Then you have ESO live, what can I say about that but they never answer the realy questions have asked and wanted answered to this day. They joke and laugh on that show and believe me a lot ofplayers feel like they are laughing at us. But in reality they are just laughing at inside jokes they never tell us about.
Only other thing I can say about ESO and Zinemax is nothing is their fault, they always blame most issues on our ISP or our systems. For example the patch before last one it really scred up the launcher for a lot of people yet it was always the same response it's your ISP. Finally today they got it fixed oh and would you expect some update telling us it wasn't our fault but theirs. Aother thing about their launcher is this is the only online game I ever played where they never update the launcher. I find that amazing.
I could go on but why it will not make things better and Zenimax will keep going the way they are. Console players yelling for text chat and Zenimax ignoring them and refusing to even answer them when they ask why. I could bring up problems with Imperial City, PVP and so on but it just will not change a thing, it really does seem liek they want the game to fail and NO I do not want it too. But I do want it to get better for both PVE and PVP players.
@SBFord nice write up and maybe the few things you brought up they may listen too. We need more people pointing out their failures so maybe it may wake them up.
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Besides the obvious missing features (like the brotherhood/thieves/enforcer mechanic) the only thing that drives me crazy about ESO now is the tab targeting and enemy tagging hidden behind real time action combat. It is a terrible system but it can be improved if they manage to make it more realistic so some attacks dont clip through enemies and only hit/damage the targeted one. That is beyond silly.
Other than that, i like it way more than what we got at launch.
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