Why I Think Elder Scrolls Online Has Stagnated
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- ESO feels a bit dated and stale. I still love it and it did manage to pull me back in a bit recently but it does leave me wanting.
I do want to add a quick note that I feel now should have been included in this video: I don't mean to say that the devs don't care about this game. I think it is very obvious that they do care about it. It is the source of their livelihood after all, I just think their perspective on the game's experience is largely incomplete.
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I was going to post a witty answer to this video, but apparently I cannot do that in combat.
most definitely you can chat in combat - combat fixes are porting to cyrodiil or imperial city.
LOL
eso has stagnated because the devs release the same content over and over and over and over again since launch.
Yeah. They've added some interesting stuff here and made the game overall more interesting, but they need to branch out.
I've seen a lot of other channels say they feel the devs play primarily DK, which is why they get so much love from them.
Just as I start having fun with a tank by using the Tormentor set... they take it out back and 'Ol Yeller it.
Raise your hand if you love being shot by enemies able to shoot through "solid" objects.
They straight up admitted they use dk to test everything in these latest patch notes. It’s why the game isn’t working properly. They test on one class then copy/ paste the results onto the others and “adjust” accordingly. It’s a very inefficient nay, incorrect way to test anything.
You can fix the stuck in combat bug by going into cheese monger's hollow, while in Cyrodiil.
Or by closing the game and playing something else. :P
Whats wrong with dks other than coag being overtuned? The clip just shows a blocktank (with appearently infinite cc immunity) spamming coag so Im willing to bet thats a cp campaign.
The issue isnt dk, although tbh i cant wait till coag gets nerfed so all the metahoppers can give the class some rest and dignity, the issue is cp and potentially procsets.
Theres no way a dk can do that in ravenwatch. Arcanists on the other hand.......
Mainly its their core reliance on casting ult and regaining all their resources while either outputting a ton of damage, or abusing the absolutely overpowered Corrosive Armor. There's also the issue of having access to an unblockable, undodgeable stun and immobilize. Their kit allows DK players to build to be essentially unkillable in 1v1 while being able to dish out absurd damage without really building for it.
I disagree with that sentiment.
Corrosive ignores resistances so you can still block the attacks, block is still the largest damage mitigator next to dodge. Also even in your own clip the dude popped corrosive and couldnt dent you in a 1v1 situation but you said templar is very bad. So either templar isnt bad as you say or corrosive isnt as bad as you say otherwise he would have melted you. Most dks dont even use corrosive, its a good choice but often overshadowed by leap as an offensive ult or s&b ult as a defensive one. Bow dks do tend to use corrosive alot but theyre an almost extinct species lol.
Regarding the stun, sorcs have streak and the ranged one, albeit the ranged one is dodgeable
Templars have javelin( i also disagree with your comment about templars being bad atm)
Wardens have crystal blast
Nightblades have fear
Im not familiar enough to speak on the other classes but clearly having an unblockable and undodgeable stun isnt unique to dk.
Again its not the kit that allow dks to do what youve explained, its the buffs enabled by cp. You could build the same "unkillable" character with basically any class if you have the cp buffs and use them in a specific way. The only class right now that comes close to unkillable and maintaining the damage to kill the average joe while relying only on the class is arcanist.
Ive played in noncp since it was still named azuras star and the times i went to a cp campaign even i felt godlike surviving and beating players in situations i had no business winning on a 2h bow build.
Block is highly overtuned and in dks case has coag been turned into a severe crutch so if you put cp on top where block is even more effective, coag heals more and is easier sustained then its obvious youll get these unkillable appearing people hopping around. In ravenwatch they drop like flies when pressured tho.
100%...and then consider how much money they charge for a chapter, how much one has to spend in the crown store or gamble crates to get cool stuff, on top of ESO+
One would think Zenimax has the money to solve these issues...actually, I know they have the money to fix these issues....and yet they refuse to do so.
This is the definition of a slow release cash grab/maintenance mode.
And don't even get me started on the abuse from the official forum moderators.
This is the problem with every MMO (really every game) of the last 15 years. Every studio is more concerned with maximizing profit instead of actually making a good game. It becomes just a complete waste of time to even play anything.
They do have the money, so much so in fact, they are working on a new MMO according to some outlets. If true it’s safe to say ESO is funding that game, and most of their A team’s attention.
I love this game, and I really empathize with what you are saying. I love this game so much. I love playing it, I love talking about it. I love diving into all the side stuff and learning the lore. I sweat over trifectas with friends, and I even hook people up with the game often. However. I am heart broken this year. Between the reduction of content, and the necromancer changes coming this week with the new dungeons- I just don't feel confident in the game going in a good direction. It feels diffrent then the 'u 35 LA nerf' or the 'nerfmire' update, or even when we saw the chaos of what Vvardenfel update brought the end game play.
It just feels half-done. Half done good ideas that are poorly executed and they're closing their ears when we give good data and feedback on the forums and other social-outlets of communication. Ever since hybriization its made the game feel smaller and less diverse for the end game, honestly, and killed any 'magic wizard' vibes for viable end game builds other then tee-hee funny not-sweaty achviement play. Mind you, I am coming from someone who is 90% PVE and 10% PVP (I exclusively just play sweaty lowbies because of how complicated mythics, monsters and arena weapons have made it feel to me). I havn't turned my sub off in a long time, but I am debating it, if it wasn't for the fact I run a guild, and my friends play it and its kinda our 3rd space in a world where there are no good 3rd spaces to enjoy.
I'm mostly on a break- I log in, do writs- and I do like a trial, or a dungeon once a week now. Been trying other games, and exploring stuff. Neverwinter has been a nice vacation, but the jank and the charm around it is very clear- but its cute, and my friends and I are enjoying the break from ESO- with little money investment. Enshrouded is on the next vacation spot. But really, this whole year- 2024- for ESO feels like 'wait for the chapter to be on sale, and just coast out to hope that 2025 is better'-- for me at least. MMOs are not making money, and captalism is runing the art of the games and enjoyment people have with them. Sorry for the long comment. I just really-- love this game and I guess this is grief?
Pvp’s stagnant because of the stack healing Zergs and tank meta. Shouldn’t have groups of 8-12 players all popping echoing vigor and 8-12 echoing vigors being able to stack on one player. Pvp is gauged to be so rewarding to large groups that it’s really only fun to me as a solo player to be a stealth nightblade bomber otherwise I’m just getting zerged down and outnumbered.
This is absolutely fair. The groups out there that run like this are also very toxic and in-crowd in nature, partially because they believe that if they tell people what they run, that it'll get nerfed and they'll have to actually come up with something else.
@@BlackBlazeGaming yeah the solo playstyle has really died. Even in small scale you’ll run into small scale group players that are forced into running powerful assault, rallying cry, spell power cure, transmutation, and arkasis with certain class layouts to complement buff each other to even pull off successful fun small scale plays. Back when it was in it was in its launch years you could casually hop into a group of 4 buddy’s no matter the pvp setup and go out and have successful fun small scale plays if you knew how to play. Now you’re forced into actually perfecting all the playstyle’s each player plays and gear each player has in order to really pull it off.
@@ViiViiDvTxproc sets destroyed pvp. Every chapter comes with an op proc set that gets nerfed a few months after release...
@@Jubafree proc sets are only used because raw damage is a dead stat. Raw damage is a dead stat because the healing capabilities in pvp are insane leading to the need of a proc set that does crazy damage in order to pull off kills. The jeralls warchief monster 2 piece is a staple in pvp because it debuffs healing and gives you a chance to out pressure opponents with out them having the ability to recover from a fight as easily via a singular block and 1 heal cast. There has been a power creep with raw damage in eso with very little adjustment to how healing actually gets scaled and changed. 7k weapon damage used to be OP back in the OG days now its achievable in double defensive sets with balorgh and pushed even higher when paired with a comped group buffing all their members.
Played it between 20-23 and just got fed up with the repetitive nature of the game, the tweaks and nerfs. I just got bored tbh
This vid spoke to my soul. ty for making it.
You're very sweet! I'm glad its resonating with people.
I love eso as well. After training pvpers for 4 years now, the upcoming changes to battlegrounds will ruin BG. On top of ALL the things not working like you mentioned, there is simply too many calculations having to happen with all the armor sets. Would love to discuss this topic further with you in discord sometime! Keep up the great work.
That clip of you and multiple others trying to kill one guy is why I stop playing PVP. PVP is ridiculously unbalanced because it’s either one shots or people never dying.
The PVP was one of my favourites ever, but it quickly became nonsense.
I was so dissapointed when I saw the mobs for the Infinite Archive. They just rehashed all the stuff they already had and sold it to us as this amazing new thing. That attitude there sums it up for me. While ESO is not bad, it could be so much better. And if people leave and the game dies at some point, I would not be surprised. I was expecting a click baity, over the top rant but the criticism in this video was surprisingly accurate.
I play it in-between good games. Im back playing now after a long break replaying Elden Ring, DA Inquisition and then BG3. Dragons Dogma 2 and rise of the Ronin are out end of month, then Elden Ring DLC, so that will be another long break from ESO.
Yeah I came back while waiting for Nightingale. Not 100% sure about Dragon's Dogma 2 yet with Capcom's weird DRM tomfoolery, but Elden Ring DLC is a big draw for sure.
(PvP main here) that clip of your Templar fighting the DK sums up what's wrong with PvP. if a game allows a player to build a character that can survive multiple enemy players dishing out all the damage they can and still survive (whilst still having decent damage output) does not have the best designed game combat system out there. the "You Can't Mount In Combat" is now a feature. just like LA weaving. that was never supposed to be a part of the combat, some players found early on that it's possible to LA weave for more damage and instead of fixing it the devs just kept it in the game. now it even tells you on a loading screen that "you can activate an ability immediately after starting a LA". one of my friends summed it up perfectly - "the game engine has been overwritten and modified so much that even the devs themselves don't know what the hell is going on with it and the game can't be fixed any more without completely re-coding it". and that does NOT sell more Crown crates. so tough luck, we have to deal with it..
sets. soo many sets! why?! what is the point of having hundreds of sets when no one is using them? you can have the meta sets, or you can have the 'just below meta' sets and that's it. diversity of builds was supposed to be the be-all and end-all thing that sets ESO apart from any other game. there is less build diversity now than back when there was no hybrid gameplay. you either use the S-tier or A-tier sets or just don't compete. i don't understand why do they have to release several new sets each patch instead of just fixing the game as much as they can (see my point above about the game code)..
ESO has the best combat of all MMOs. that's why people are sticking with it. sadly, the devs don't care about players any more (anyone remembers the last PvP update? i mean a real update, not just some fixes, new gear sets or BG game modes). but we are all to blame for this. players buy Crown crates like crazy, so as long as it brings money in why bother making the game better for players? how many years have we asked (for example) for the option to hide tabbards? i mean, some players have designed truly remarkable outfits, only for those great looking outfits to be covered by a tabbard that is so badly designed that the back side is split in two parts. but wait! you can hide your tabbard! just buy a costume from the Crown store! or does anyone know which other MMO does not have a minimap? i mean, IT WAS THERE during the Beta! why did they (devs) decide to remove it on launch day is beyond me. the PC addon simply re-activates it, 'cause the minimap is STILL there, you just don't have an option to activate it yourself. why?!?
i could go on, but i've written a huge wall of text now that no one will read anyway, so apologies for the rant, i'll see you (EU players) in Cyrodiil some time..
These are really good points except I doubt that light attack weaving was unintended. Typically animations have to be programmed to allow interruptions, and animation canceling is a long-standing tradition of action combat design. That said, knowing how ZOS is, it still very well could have been unintentional, though many skills in game have been built with light attack weaving to some degree since launch.
@@BlackBlazeGaming i am a closed Beta player (and have got the Imgakin monkey to prove it 😁). there was no mention of animation canceling back then. no tutorial had mentioned LA weaving. when i've been playing the game for over a year (mostly by meself) when i got into my first guild and that's when i heard about it for the first time. back then people were talking about 20k DPS as the top damage you could do and LA weaving was something people were recomending, it wasn't a 'must have' thing to do. there has never been any official info about it, it now just 'is' in the game. that's why i think it was unintentional. also, i have read about it on the Forums (years and years ago), where people were actually explaining how to LA weave properly, because that was not how the game was designed, it was something players have discovered. don't know, i may be wrong, as i am a lot of times, but looking at the game and seeing all the 'features' we now have to deal with i am inclined to think it was not the original design. oh, great video by the way..
(pvp main here as well) What you just said is 100% correct.
Stepped away a few months ago. Feel like it was a very good decision
Hopefully they do something that brings you back. I feel like there's so much potential here, I really hope it doesn't go to waste.
my biggest gripe with ESO are the paywalls! I love ESO! but to players who enjoyed any elder scrolls game and then buy ESO for 5 or 10 dollars on sale only to find out to access the dark brotherhood or thieves guild they will have to pay another 20 is demoralizing! anyone who isn't adamant about playing mmos will see that and run the other way! and I understand why there are paywalls! the game has a lot of things going on! the world is huge! and it's not easy making and sustaining a game like ESO! I get it! but new players have it rough! to say the least!
Yeah I think the paid DLC is very daunting. Not everyone wants to pay for the ESO subscription, some people just want a casual play experience that isn't walled off everywhere they go.
that's why eso+ exists, a 1 month access to all dlcs just for 12 bucks can cancel anytime you want, imagine paying 2k crowns for a dlc only to find out it's just endless grind of fetch quests and useless passives
Very misleading...you can buy DLCs , character slots etc with gold..and even chapters once their p2w cycle ends. In fact, ESO is probably the only "mmo" that has the least restrictions/handicaps when not subbed.
that's not misleading! new players have no clue what you're talking about or how to buy dlc with gold! I've been playing for years and I don't know how to do that! @@ryuzakikazeshini4012
@@ryuzakikazeshini4012
This is a flat out lie. You cannot buy DLC's with gold natively from the game itself. You have to pay a person for crowns for gold, with a very high chance to get ripped off...there is no way to just use your gold to pay directly for DLC's.
Very misleading comment and a bad faith representation of what actually occurs. The game itself gives you no option to do that, you have to open yourself to a chance to get ripped off by other players.
There is no way to directly buy things from the crown store with gold.
This game is almost antagonistic to new players after the tutorial you choose a world and the game expects you to just figure out which is nice in some ways but can be very frustrating in a mmo
Yeah I think with how complex this game is it could benefit from helping new players understand the mindset that goes into building yourself for engaging in the various content that's available. Instead it sort of leaves people to their own devices having to instead rely on the community for access to that knowledge, which is a gamble. This community is mostly decent compared with other MMOs, but like I mentioned, there's a lot of people who don't even bother teaching the basics and just tell people, "run this set, do this mech this one way" but never explain why.
Ok I’m going to be the one to say this every single one of you guys are focusing on cosmetics as rewards guys have we as gamers forgotten what actually is a reward in playing these games it’s about your character getting stronger, incrementally, of course cause MMO, the minute they stripped vertical progression from the game the game was on its way to death. This new champion point system that they put in champion system 2.0 or whatever it’s called is a mistake. Yes, it’s nice for new players but let’s be honest. New players aren’t gonna stay new players for long if they realize that there’s nowhere to actually shoot for.
Once you said DC online is close to esol you lost me horrible game play but to each their own
I hope this game dies, it’s sad seeing how you grown men are so tied into a simulation instead of actually doing something worth while for your one life…….
They definitely do miss the chance to add stuff, like being a werebear. Did you know there’s even 14 different kinds of Khajiit? Yet the games make it seem that there’s only 1 or 3 of them. So many opportunities for racial customization, but they just stick to what already been established. I would love to play as a sea elf or even a daedra.
Maybe they could introduce these different options the way World of Warcraft introduced death knights etc.
Dude if they added subraces? I'm all in for that. Suthays, Dagis, Cathays. That'd be hella.
Your ranting is an artform. Ever considered doing audiobooks?
The game where dungeon doors are the real endboss. I really wish the PvP meta wouldnt be so dirt / set balancing against skills. Its all sets (not stats) doing the work and results in unskillful combat.
lol I have considered doing audio books. Would especially love to be a voice actor.
animation canceling should cancel the attack and allow no damage - that is the problem. one is supposed to be able to bash and interrupt attacks, so the animation canceling is a flawed system from the start that negates part of the risk involved with using an ability and multiplies damage so that one cannot see all the attacks that are happening. fighting could be more tactical
Glad this video came to me, I feel completely the same! I also really feel like the dungeons aren't really unique enough for me to want to play them, which leads me to just want to do PVP... but I have to do PVE stuff to get the gear to not get slapped around in PVP. Just a vicious cycle for me where I play for a month, grind for the newest baddest PVP gear and just stop playing after I get it lol.
Also find myself only really wanting to do Cyrodill PVP cause its just vast and fun and really unique, but man if theres more than like 30 people in an area, you better just forget about any good gameplay cause with the server lag, you'll be at full health and suddenly it'll just disappear LOL
@@Z0inks69 Honestly those are very good points. Go to Cyrodiil, yellow is zerging, blue is farming them with ball groups, and red is disorganized running all over and usually helping blue kill yellow. Dungeons really are kind of lackluster. I used to really enjoy learning mechanics and pushing achievements but the only thing that ever surprises me in them anymore is the spectacle. Sometimes there's really pretty things to look at and not much else.
Bro take it from me who only jumps in once in a blue moon to play a few battlegrounds. I still use old ass gear and still slap. You don't need the new cheese if you have a solid Stat build and mechanical skill. I haven't touched a dungeon since I farmed essence thief and bloodspawn
Hrmm how about just questing in a mmo ...99% ofnthe shit in the crown store could be quest rewards through the world..they force u to pay for convenience becsue if u want to take the game half ass seriously ur forced to...God forbid u make a new char lmfao spend 6months collecting 800 sky shards all over mages guild exct...just to much bs the game has so much potential to be great..
The code for this game is a huge spiderweb of fucked up, and team leads don't care about it, they are getting the micro transaction sales and thats all they care about. Production is switching to the next elder scrolls game soon
They are not the team that works on mainline Elder Scrolls titles. Zenimax Online Studios was specifically formed under the Zenimax Media umbrella and the direction of Bethesda to make an MMO Elder Scrolls game. The two teams work together on lore and that's about it.
Hey man, i agree with a lot of your takes here. But give us DK's a break lol we spent years at the bottom of the totem pole. For years every single patch featured a change or nerf that directly gutted DK. Patch 1.6 being cheif among them. Imperial city was the change that destroyed the class entirely and it took like 8 years for the class to recover...
Beyond that, i agree 👍
That's pretty fair. I just think it really hurts the game's overall feel in PvP to have a class that's unkillable in 1v1, but dishes out so much damage they can't be ignored. Though I will say as a Nightblade main, they are also pretty screwey right now and next patch I think they're going to be really fuckin annoying.
@@BlackBlazeGaming This brings up a concern I've had for many years with ESO. While DKs are top of the class tier list in PVP, but they aren't the best in PVE. Not saying they are bad by any means, I main a magika DK and can wreck the place. ZOS likes to nerf and buff skills to constantly to try and balance for PVP then wreck the PVE builds, and vice versa. It's frustrating when we have a great build in PVE then ZOS nerfs something for PVP and wrecks the PVE version. Just following the nerfs and buffs every few months waiting on the next big thing to throw a wrench in my playstyle. Don't get me wrong, I play ESO daily and mostly love it but the things like that wear on me.
ive mained Dk since day 1 but i have to admit dk has been buffed and broken since day 1. Us dk players dont need a break lol DK has the most broken ult in the game thats called corrosive
I love the game. It's the first MMO i really played and it's the one i've played the longest out of the others. But sadly, the devs just don't understand there is PVE and PVP differences, they just nerf or buff the class in on direction.
-U41 brought the undaunted keys up to 4, but only for the paid DLC dungeon run....which means you're still only getting 2 keys for the others instead of making the RNG system less shitty cuz of more rewards.
-Lack of earnable achievement mounts. Most are locked behind pay wall. How can you make an MMO and not lock rewards behind content? it's literally the only reason you grind.
There is no more developers, there is only corporate money schemes.
Good to also see a fellow player who enjoyed ESO too much for their own good. It's an easy game to fall in love with, and its limitations (at least in its current form and management) can be a hard wall that you run into. And they can, in the chasing of more casual players, keep moving the wall forward further. One ray of hope may exist: some team of devs may oneday realize how many subtle little things about MMOs that ESO solved. It got some things so, so right. And would not be an impossible format to clone. Especially in the age of AI voice acting. If terrain, NPC models/npc animations, etc could all be speedily generated by AI and a team is able to focus on the core coding, writing, and skill systems then they'd have a game for the ages.
Invent a big world. Have 3-4 sides at war within it. Have characters with around 5-10 skills in smooth action combat with meticulous hand-tuned animations and feedback. Have a less aggressive cash shop, instead focusing on the selling of high-effort DLC and big production expansions (players want to give you money, but you have to earn it by providing new value).
Players will figure out the rest. It's almost better to make it a bit too difficult for the average player as well. Less talented PvE and PvP-ers often find the coattails of better players to help them. RUclipsrs will make in-depth guides. Guilds form to complete content and figure out mechanics.
You just have to build it. They will come. They will figure it out. And the product they want is simpler than it appears:
Good combat, good questing, some interesting crafting systems. The cherry on top is PvP that listens to the players while having a long-term vision for how PvP grows and matures. Granted, the last one is not easy to get right, but as long as you don't botch it, players will still stick around and play a PvP that's not weird and not broken.
And whoever is in charge must have a *burning* passion for the game. Players must know the Captain of the ship loves the voyage and the crew.
i love eso but i have a hard time coming back to it i constantly feel like playing catch up and pvp is dumd last i p,layed everyone was a tank meta build and it required you to run specific meta sets or builds to even compete and dont even bother joining cyro at a mid level cp other wise you wont be able to do anything because of the massive difference between high level cp players and mid level so its not super balanced its more about gear grinding and constantly changing builds to new metas
Warframe producers actually care about their game…….
This man said a templar is pathetic. Sir have you tried playing necro in pvp
I mean you right
I'll be honest brother I put 100 hours into early ESO, its been 3 years since ive even booted it up. If its just now starting to feel stagnant to you, that game has done much better than i ever expected
Like... its really good, I just feel like the state of the game's overall experience is being kind of ignored by the devs.
They stuck in combat bug used to not be an issue. It used to be that after like 8 seconds of not fighting you could change the skills on your bar, and people did that sometimes. So ZOS removed it by added that new stuck and combat figure. You were never able to swap gear though, just skills.
As for devs playing the game? I wouldn't be surprised if most don't, however I know that Rich and Gilliam do and at least one more who few people know.
I had such high hopes for ESO, as the art style a world scale is perfection to me.
However, I got burned out early on because the combat became so repetitive -- you just find the perfect combination to cause the most DPS and repeat those buttons over, and over, and over, and over. And the "amusement park" style of quests makes you feel like you have no effect on the world -- it just goes back to the way it was. And the difficulty scaling ... makes it kind of pointless to grind and feel like you've earned the level and equipment to be in the area or dungeon you're in.
If we could combine Elder Scrolls Online world with the combat and leveling style of Elden Ring.....then we'd have something. I installed Guild Wars 2 because I heard that was better ... and I uninstalled it after 2 minutes because the cheesy cartoon style was just not my thing.
I want to come back so bad. But it just looks like the ride is over. The updates and expansions for awhile now has been cookie cutter. I think after 5000 hours there just isnt anything left for me.
FFXIV S-tier
i think the game went downhill when veteran ranks got removed. Not specifically the removal but that state of the game was in when vr was still a thing. Remember when clearing vet rank maelstrom arena was a big deal and a significant boost to character power? I do and it felt great.
I feel like this every now and then but I just find new content and wait for those events, just like life, distracting myself from the grim truth.
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I don't even bother with jabs anymore cuz of this
It couldn't be more obvious that they don't play PVP.
12:55 As a professional animator, I appreciate this more than you can imagine. I was a templar main, because the old animation was my favorite in the game. But again, I'm a professional animator, and the new animation is basically just keys. I am beyond upset at it.
Yeah and the weird way that the player character tries to use a spear really bothers me.
Great video dude. I too love this game and I appreciate all valid criticisms to it. That's how games get better.
Banger Video and totally underrated
Seems like many players have been sour lately. Just step away and try some other game for a while. I stopped playing ESO for more than a year ago and now that I watch all these frustrated content creators on youtube ranting about it, I think I made a sound decision to hop off. I never understood PVP and got stomped in there mostly, but I use to love the solo trials and I thought the card game was pretty fun too when it came out, but I got burned out by all the nerfs and changes, and stopped wanting to collect new sets because it drained my time. Plus all the nice furniture is in the crown store. Meanwhile you can get three versions of the same carpet or lantern from ingame. Why do they make all those dupes that are almost identical furniture from same regional style?
This video was made after I returned from a long hiatus I took, during which I played Warframe, Baldur's Gate 3, Phantom Liberty, Path of Exile, Lies of P, and several others. It is not burnout it is me coming back to the game with fresh eyes after seeing what the rest of the industry has to offer.
Its just like real life the wrong people are typically put in charge
I feel your pain. But I think ZOS's focus is on getting new players through the turnstile rather than taking care of long-term players like us.
As for skill crafting, in the short term, it will result in all the players wearing the same sets and using the same skills. Class diversity will be basically dead.
good point, new players spend money because they dont have everything, and of course, they have to buy the game
If they offer free susbcription again it will be lively 😂
eso's combat first 2 years was much better. yeah infinite dodge rolls. sorc ports were over the top, but instead of introducing things to counter these powers, they nerfed it to the ground. only selling point for me was dk's chain pull and gs uppercut. it felt like mortal kombat's scorpion. nope you can't do it anymore. damage reflection... this game once offered most interesting combat. until some incompetent game director start giving bad decisions. let's not forget other fiascos like spellcrafting and pvp portion of the justice system. only tes game sold dark brotherhood and thieves guild separately. only tes game since 90's that lacks underwater exploration. fucking awful housing system with insanely overpriced crowns. ad infested UI. all kinds of predatory tactics to make you buy their lackluster dlcs, paygated crafting. this game is a way to donate bethseda money. this isn't even a game.
Noone hates eso more than diehard eso fans...
I must be the only guy who keeps wondering why did they make eso in this everyone is tiny lost planet aesthetic instead of like Skyrim or what they did with fallout 76 who asked for this and how can this even be called elder scrolls why?
They wanted to do an MMO set in the Elder Scrolls universe, rather than an Elder Scrolls game with multiplayer features. Keep in mind this game's development began early in the production cycle of Skyrim. TES was not necessarily mainstream at the time and Skyrim's success came right around the middle of ESO's production, so people clamoring for a proper co-op TES experience wasn't really common until they were already knee-deep in developing an MMO. I think ESO was ultimately a dream of Bethesda's rather than a response to something fans were asking for.
@@BlackBlazeGaming well that makes a lot of sense… but with the success of Skyrim and fallout 4 only to flip the assets and create seven six lol and the hype and love and want for Skyrim together u would think Bethesda would give us an alternative to an alternative if only I worked at Bethesda
The devs do play. They all play DKs.
game is dead since 2019
Very well said, one thing that I think was a huge factor in stagnation was player feedback about having to change their builds/how they play every 3 months. So ZOS took it very literally and hardly changed anything for the last 2 years.
A lot of your overall game direction takes are bang on, but some of your balance comments seem to come from a lack of PvP experience. Currently NB is leagues above DK, and sorc is going to be right up there with it next patch. I don't even play DK but yeah, you missed the mark lol.
as a new player playing as a duo, an overland difficulty setting would make this game 500x better
unfortunately, i doubt it's ever gonna happen...the forum thread discussing this issue has 200+ pages and counting lol
@@ryuzakikazeshini4012 one can only hope. Surprised there are so many people against an optional difficulty
That would be a reason to actively play this game again for me.
Overland gameplay is mind numbingly boring
There’s just no fun in everything being so easy. Even in instanced story areas there’s no difficulty options
It just sucks the life out of the game. It’s another thing that Nefas also discussed
I think the game has really just reached a certain "graceful" age - as all games do. Yes it's creaky but I haven't forgotten the years of enjoyment I've had from it even though I do often feel like I've mostly run out of things to do.
As to sets - well, you use lesser ones to get better (or more specifically beneficial) ones. Nothing wrong with that.
There is a furniture calalogue add on btw.
Templar is cringe since U35, thankyou for pointing that out. ❤
They need to actually test every class rather than just use one as the standard. Every class is unique it’s why you can’t mix their skills.
fck me that stuck in combat is the worst... it seems that using a mythic item makes it worse. my char with oakensoul or ddf is stuck in combat way more often than my char without mythic.
I would love to see your review of Guild Wars 2 combat and movement. I play both, and the gw2's combat seems so smooth in comparison to ESO's. Could take some inspiration.
I have heard that but I've not gotten very far in it. I'll have to set aside some time to progress in it and see what its like deeper in
So the same problems wow has been having for 10 years. 😂
5:45 me learning I can display user names not character and title! thank you
The fact that after all these years they haven’t added another weapon and skill line is insane
As someone who has 15,000 hours I'll tell you this, the game died in 2019 funny to see anyone have deep dive opinions about this game in 2024
So you’ve been playing this game since 2007?
Why 2019?
@@martinhill9561 what lol
@@samuraichicken2315 when they removed animation canceling and added mythicals while focusing the metas on procs it ruined the game forever.
@@MagikaSorcerer he said he has 15,000 hours of gameplay. Even if he did that straight through he would’ve had to start playing eso in 2007 (the game came out in 2014).
Right on point ✌🏻
PVE nightblades are doing just fine with their Combat prayers ;)
I'll admit this one lost me :P
@@BlackBlazeGaming I meant that while you don't see much blades dpsing in pve endgame, they are good ultigen healers ;)
@@calendulaofficinalis7303 Oh okay yeah I have heard something to that effect then.
Also solo.
All these points ill be honest is just a SKILL ISSUE lmao JK. Some bugs isnt game breaking like the running on your mount bug for example. But the cant mount in combat even tho im at the home base in pvp yeah thats game breaking cause im not in combat and i gotta sprint to the next keep or i cant log out so i gotta reset my game.
This is an amazing video that could teach us all one thing - dont make yt videos about thing while being frustrated with IRL things that have nothing to do with the subject. Karen vibes allover the space.
Not exactly sure what you're referring to, as most people seem to be echoing most of the sentiments I expressed here. Sounds to me like maybe you're projecting and have some other unrelated frustration that you're taking out on me. I guess you could say that your comment is an amazing example that could teach us all one thing - don't write comments about videos while being frustrated with something completely unrelated to the content in question. Funny that you're implying that I'm somehow a Karen.
this game was advertised as do any role on any class, play how you want. the second the community said "naw, this build or get the fuck out" i was done.
Yeah and its really sad the community has gone down this path because we absolutely can complete any content with any sensible build. And sensible builds are a wide spectrum. Optimization can be nice, but the freedom to iterate on your own is there and needs to be encouraged.
@@BlackBlazeGamingYup. The devs didn't fuck up much. But the community is focused on min-maxing, also known as playing on easy mode instead of actually getting good or learning the game mechanics. Sure, the people who make these 'standard' builds know the mechanics, but everyone else is a sheep following it by peer pressure. The community sucked all the fun out of their own game by being incredibly bad at it.
As a new player that's having an amazing time, maybe it's the long term players that also have some element of being out of touch on the average experience. I came as a longtime WoW raider and I'm loving it.
That's absolutely possible. I mean, I'm still loving this game, and its not like I'm looking to some past era with rose-tinted glasses, so much as I don't want ZOS stop pushing the envelope on what they can do with this IP and this genre. It is also fair to say that this is largely my own perspective and will differ from that of others.
I downloaded it after 2 years because free 10th anniversary stuff..,.,,.this game is shit
Ooof. What turns you off of it?