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Player's Choice Awards 2020 Winners | MMORPG.com
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Player's Choice Awards 2020 Winners | MMORPG.com
You voted and here are the results of the Player's Choice Awards of 2020!
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Unless you count P5 the Royal, which is barely a new game.
Umm.. what it says a lot about is the disconnect between the staff and PC games. This was a good year for PC RPGs and not a single one made the "list".
SHAME
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They made it, and trying to pass it as "user's choice". This site has become a joke and the "gamer journalists" are just writing to pay their bills by adding a link in the content for SEO purposes. Sex workers are more honest than the guest posters on this website.
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Oh really? I came back for Greymoor, as I ALWAYS have for new expansions. I have one of each class maxed (two NB's one Magblade for Cyro bombing and one Stamblade) with a 790 champ level. I played in a streak of DC campaigns in no cp where we won like 4 months in a row, then all of the new Cyrodiil lag tests on live serve all but killed PvP. So I moved to Grey Host and the new meta in CP is tank meta where you can do more damage than a glass cannon but with 40k health thanks for Malacath and proc sets. The lag makes it unplayable during primetime, desync is a HUGE issue.
Sound like I haven't played since beta still? Sounds to me like YOU are the only who hasn't played since beta.
How about this, I have a fking opinion, sucks you don't agree with it but when your first inclination is to discredit me instead of posting an actual "this is why you're wrong" you obviously don't have shit for an argument.
This game still has shit performance and bugs that are not fixed since this beta you claimed I played in, yet the Crown Store has new items almost weekly. So YOU TELL ME how am I wrong?
Then again, I guess I'm putting up with similar shenanigans with FO76 which has an equally long list of issues, probably more even.
Heck PVP got so bad they pretty much have all but neutralized it completely from the public servers rather than bother to fix it.
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That's easy.
Because the majority of people who voted don't care about the cash shop.
Some of the most vocal people here scream, rant and rave about cash shops. I bet they are used to the earlier monetization models. But a good many people, especially if they have never played earlier games, were introduced to these games 'with cash shop."
They probably just shrug their shoulders and say "whatever."
There are players on this site who have clearly stated that they would never play a game that has a sub. It's possible they like the idea of the cash shop whether they spend money or not. It's very easy to say "I"m not spending a dime let others support the game" and they play on.
For the record, I don't really care about the Elder Scrolls cash shop other than a good many items are a bit tacky. I'll add that they also might not have the issues you talk about or care about them. Again, I've played the game and the worst issues I've experienced were at launch. Not saying others don't have far worse but I don't really pay any mind to what I have experienced as minor issue. My complaints with Elder Scrolls Online are about it's entire design as mmorpg.
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ESO only has a big franchise behind its back and voice acting, that's all the game has. Everything about ESO sucks and I played it for hundreds of hours (can't stomach it anymore though).
Combat is one of the worst and most mundane combats I've ever had the misfortune to experience.
The other issue I have is compared to previous TES games, you are locked behind classes and can't really create a character that is truly yours and unique.
WoW was at its peak between 2004 and 2009. It was (and still is) a B2P + Subscription MMO and the build quality of the product justified the high price, but everyone was happy during this time period.
ESO was B2P + Sub, but later dropped the Sub, because their numbers were not high enough and a Subscription is another paywall for many people who straight up just refuse to pay a monthly subscription on top of a game they ALREADY bought. That's why the Crown Store became the main source of income for ESO after the switch to B2P.
I personally have no issue with the Crown Store, for me the combat of the game sucks and the class limitations are annoying me. But regardless I don't see why you would defend ESO like it's some kind of a great game.
ESO is like "the lesser of two evils" or in other words "the less shittier game", that's why it won the award, not because it's some kind of masterpiece. We are in a period in gaming where standards are so low that ESO is considered a good MMO and Retail WoW is still the most populated MMO in the West. That's how bad things are.
While I agree with this, i think the problem with ESO's cash shop is not the regular microtransaction business model. The problem with ESO's cash shop is the DLC business model. Back when they made the transition to the current model I loudly vouched for it and bought the first 4 DLCs, but then it became highway robbery for non-subscribers.
I agree with you. And I even like the game. But you are right.
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It's just about as legit as some recent elections. In similar fashion to the election comment, then the same few posters come in here to make comments about how they don't really like the games they were forced to vote for and then the other side of the crew shows up to set up their arguments against, either white knighting said games or bashing the people that support said games.
It's truly amazing, like Christmas when I was a kid half my family was Vets the other half hippies and they all got together and got drunk. Like a monkey shit fight at the zoo. Ahh what an awesome childhood.
At any rate the arguments are about nothing, until we decide what the "list" is and then vote for the final outcome, it's just this site manipulating us into thinking there is some sort of content here.
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Putting game time aside, buying a full fledge expansion in WoW/FFXIV is cheaper for the amount of content it has than buying DLC separately in ESO. To buy a single small DLC in ESO using the crowns you get as a subber you need at least 2 months of subscription, that's $30 for very little content. That's my logic. Paying more money and getting less content. Again, i'm not talking about paying for game time in a subscription game, i'm talking about paying for content.
Things aren't equal and you are therefore comparing things that aren't the same. The goal of the subscription in ESO is to allow you access to the game including the DLC am I right? I don't know because I don't play ESO. So how can you compare it to WoW.
Different payment systems and I believe that the entire optional sub in ESO is actually geared towards getting people to sub hence the DLC will cost more when you opt to buy it for crowns.
They could have actually not allowed the purchase of the DLC for crowns. Like buying an expansion for WoW is not something you can exchange for WoW currency. So you're never actually comparing two things that are exactly the same.
WoW is just an example, any mmo with paid large expansions applies here. GW2, Everquest, FFXIV, etc. I'm not talking about subscription to play the game either. If the game has the option to play with no subscription, then non-subbers have a choice to make. And in ESO, the choice of paying for new content separately is more expensive than the competition (if you want all new content), which is less content for the price anyway. That's all i'm saying. Subscribers have nothing to do with this, it doesn't affect them.