Endgame is my final worry. What's yours?

Post » Wed May 22, 2013 1:58 pm

So I've come to love everything about the game over the past months. I admit to being a sceptic back when the game was announced, but ZOS have really gone above and beyond themselves to fix things I worried about, and produce a game which looks spectacular at this point.

But...

Endgame PvE. That's my one lingering concern. At this point we don't know much, save for the name 'Adventure Zones'.

We've been told that dungeons, PvP, and cross-faction questing is all part of the endgame, which has me a bit worried. If they believed in AZ enough, would they even bother labelling those other things as 'endgame'?

But yeah, that's my single concern at this point. Apart from it, it genuinely looks as if they have managed to re-capture that solid world which once made WoW a success, while placing all these awesome TES mechanics and art style in there.

What's your #1 concern? Only mention one, please.

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Steve Smith
 
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Post » Thu May 23, 2013 4:26 am

Game performance.

Not even the missing PvE end game is as bad as a badly optimized game.

SWTOR being the best example.

What does it matter if there is no end game content if you can't even get that far before throwing your game DVD's out of the window in frustration because of a really bad playing experience.

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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 3:39 pm

Lack of real lore content, or effecting lore that we've known.

I'm hoping this is a rather silly fear, and that the ingame world is much deeper than whatever text they've got up now, but I still have that fear. The Meri physically appearing very classically elven is both boring and unlike TES depicts, all the races lore and history are barely summed up by a single paragraph per race, with no richness whatsoever. They also changed the Meri life span from 1000+ years to 200-300 years, for reasons beyond me.

Also, they supposedly changed the Sumurset Isles from the kind of whimsical realm of crystalline houses to something more realistic, but this is more of a good thing.

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Everardo Montano
 
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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 9:32 pm

I think ZOS realised that PVE Enggame is very important and they are working hard on finishing the PVE Endgame. Open PVP would be a nice add, but maybe we will get this after release. Overall im OK with the Infos we got this far.

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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 6:50 pm

This being yet another missed opportunity to create something great on the MMO scene. Thats not an actual fear, fear is worthless waste of time, I dont recommend for anyone for any reason :D.

The good thing is no matter how good or how bad ESO ends up. The people who make games will learn something from it, so eventually MMOs can get better with all these ambitious big projects.

I already know not to expect a traditional TES game, even tho it was an inevitable change in direction. I really prefer the more advanced and complex systems in computer games, once I figure them out much of the fun is done for me, and time to move on to learn and experience new.

So my best expectation for TESO is to bring many new things to figure out. The coop skills and synergy stuff looks fun and complex enough on first sight.

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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 8:43 pm

The butchering of existing lore is my first worry. It being declared canon is my second worry.
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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 3:03 pm

My #1 concern is that they will make a low production quality game (like GW2) that isn't as slick as it should be, though quite dazzling esthetically, and that everyone (again, just like in GW2) will keep saying "no, my game runs perfectly, maybe it's your PC" when in fact they are too slow to notice the lack of slickness, and ZoS won't even address the issue because most people don't notice it.

This would be a deal breaker to me even if everything else was perfect.

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Post » Wed May 22, 2013 8:55 pm

ZOS listening to vocal people, who are claming to speak for the crowd

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