ÉSO told us we were getting a shiny new rogue like dungeon to crawl and it was open to everyone, even if you only had the base game, and you could solo it. I thought we were finally getting some beginner friendly content beyond questing and delves. Instead, it's another arena. In a month, the devs are going to be asking why only 10% of the players are playing it and how to attract and keep new players. Well, I have a solution for you. Maybe stop tuning every new piece of the game up for the long-time players, and actually introduce things new players can play.
I'm sorry some long time player managed to get to arc 14 on week one of the Player Test Server. That was Veteran Georg and he can beat the entire game. The first version of the Endless Archive was a perfect introduction for new players. I wish I had seen th first version of the Bastion Nymics. I might have enjoyed those. New parts of the game without the grind sound amazing. But the higher level I get to, the more I notice the grind. Everything just takes forever. And I again, find myself drifting back into single player games. I said it before, ESO's main competition isn't any other MMO, it is every other single player game. Maybe Bethesda doesn't want to introduce Elder Scrolls VI because the know ESO's players will abandon ESO for the new single player Elder Scrolls game. I saw there was a certain emptiness in towns when Starfield came out. Come Christmas when more people buy themselves the game, there will probably be more emptiness that even the New Life festival can't balance out. As for your long time players, another big MMO is about to release their new chapter, so they are going to be off for a month or so. I don't mind having Blackreach or Clockwork city all to myself. I just hope that if the servers go offline, ESO will still be available as an offline game, with no changes to the difficulty, no decreases, no decreases, just as it is. Because I might not enjoy trials or arenas or Bastion Nymics or the Endless Archive or the last eight 4-person dungeons, but I'm loving the rest of the game. Even Galen. The overland content is amazing, better than any other RPG or MMO I've ever played. Though, I'm just a little casual player with no interest in grinding, PVP, veteran content, or leader boards. If things keep going the way they are, after all the quests and delves and public dungeons, I'm going to run out of things to do in ESO. At least I have a stack of single player games waiting for me. One thing though, the zone quest bosses for Necrom were brutal on a new character and just a grind on a leveled character. If the overland content gets less story oriented and more combat orientated, then I'll have nothing left to do.
Some Control, some Battle Royale, and Arenas. I’ve put nearly 60k arena damage with Newcastle over the last couple days playing here and there. I also stream under masc_ofstars if that’s ever of interest (on Twitch).
“Y bien sé yo cómo haré para arreglármelas y quitarle crédito a esa banda de gachupines que nos miran como inferiores, nada más que por haber nacido en esta tierra de donde los muy bribones lo sacan todo para hinchar sus bolsas y cubrirse de indumentarias estrafalarias...”
— El mundo alucinante (Andanzas) por Reinaldo Arenas