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Now I just need to get my video issues straightened out. At some point in the last week, something changed such that I can't run the D3D renderer at all. I have to change SET GraphicsDriver.7 to "OPENGL" from "D3D11" to get characters to load into the game. The trouble with this is it looks...

So, in fairness to ZOS, as it turns out, something in the Comcast infrastructure has totally grudge-pounded my upload speeds; still 60Mbps down, ranging from 3 Mbps down to 300Kps up, down from 12Mbps normally. When I started bitching about crashes, I am betting that is the main culprit...

To reply to my own post, I finally found something that let me log in: Although my framerate is down from 60FPS to 40FPS (this is after a video card upgrade in the middle of all this just because, from a 7970 to a 290), and visibly worse graphics, with that change I can now load all the way into...

Well, after redownloading the game, moving the installs around to different drives, trying all of the tricks in all the threads I can find, I can't log in at all, under any circumstances. 20+ crashes, some at the launcher, most trying to load any characters, including newly created ones, into...

So, just now had 6 straight crashes at various points, a couple times just hitting play on the launcher, a few times trying to load in my character. I am redownloading all 50 frigging gigs to see if that improves the experience; right now its easily the least stable since my first beta weekend...

I try to make up for it by giving Draegan straight cash. Premium blend ftw!

Hopefully they can fix the LLAAAAAAAG that I was seeing. It may be whatever MITM issue they are seeing could be the cause of that as well. Is that really a thing, dev/programmers acting as DBAs? What kind of tomfoolery/shenanigans is that?

At this point, I wouldn't put it past them that someone forgot to remove it from the first play, or some prototype legalese makes them have it upfront the first time but then no more. Who knows? The game doesn't seem generally unplayable; when I am on, while lots of people are complaining...

Not that I doubt Tidbit but before you start admitting things, can anyone else confirm this? Because I don't buy this, really. I am not going to download 50gb to prove him wrong but I would like to phone a friend or anyone else really who sees this. Or screenshots, etc.

OMG the evening lag is sooooo frustrating. Nothing like 5+ min of fighting, then everyone in combat stopping, then disconning, the coming back to the Anchor beaten with no reward. Multiply that times multiple resource captures in Cyrodiil. Or the final fight of a quest (rescuing Merric), when...

I am seeing some server stability issues. It isn't as close to as stable as GW2 was, and is close to where TSW was at launch, although TSW was better, too, at least for me. I haven't seen the terrible lag I saw last night but I have had way more crashes in the last 3 days than I had in all of...

Annnnnd down goes Frasier!

2:30AM here and I was able to set Dawnbreaker as my home campaign just now.

Damn, its been good so far but right now I am hitting some long laaaag spikes, which wouldn't be that much of an issue, except the reactive combat doesn't work so well when the NPCs are server-side and still doing shit while you are frozen and unresponsive. I took my Orc Sorc to 8 and then...

He's talking about templates, etc sold in the store, obviously.

GMG is well-established and awesome; have no fears.

If that is what FTC looks like now, I am ok with the changes. Also, after watching him beat all those people, I may roll a Nightblade for Cyrodiil rather than a Sorceror.

Some of the comments made by posters in this thread are "monumentally stupic". Your guild(s) store can be accessed from any bank in the world. Its nothing close to a real AH but since you can join up to 5 guilds per character, I imagine something will come along that allows this, either by...

I will leave the prognosticating to Ut but I think that everything works great for the 5-day start, sags with the 3-day start, and then a wheel may come off at Retail launch. There are going to be way less Imperial editions and ZOS-store bought copies than pre-orders and then day-of's.

SWG was the same way. "I thought putting the login on a webpage was genius! What do you mean we didn't built a big enough webserver?" Almost no one played the entire first day. I took off the 31st and the 1st. I was ordered to take some time; if it works out I get to play ESO, all the better.

Not that I in any way support the vast majority of the API changes but they have, indeed, on occasion, listened. Look at the changes in the start of the game, with the tutorial optional after the first run-through and then going directly to the alliance's major city, making the starter islands...

I have already expressed how WoW addons became so required that on several attempts to restart playing, I gave out trying to figure which I needed. And they were needed, because the default UI was(is?) so bad; it could be that bad because Blizz outsourced real improvements to the community at...

In this area, I will say that for Champions Online, early access was fun and as great as the beta had been, then there was a retail launch day-0 patch that nerfed the living hell out of everything, completely breaking some archetypes and power sets. Word on the street was that some late-comer (...

Seriously, STFU and GTFO with the SHILL!!!!11!! BS. It was stupid and lame when it was all the rage before, and it still is. The same cast of folks on both sides hasn't really changed that much, other than a few folks who were on the fence pre-ordering and then changing their minds when the...

Meh. If they fix the quest spawning issue, then it will be fine. The API change and XP nerf are somewhat regrettable, if only from a philosophical point of view that overnerfing and trying to force gameplay down set paths as guiding principles suck. If that is how they are going to run the...

Not that I would buy it for TESO but I liked TSW enough that I bought a lifetime sub for it. Such a great game! GW2 and TSW are different reflections of best-in-current gen MMOs. Hearts, as most will probably know, were added very late to GW2 after feedback and concern that WoW players...

It doesn't shock me in the slightest that they didn't have all the hardware online the last beta weekend; its way more overhead to handle a larger farm of infrastructure and software, particularly when all of that data and those databases are going to get blown away and have to be rebuilt...

One thing leads me to hope for some improvement before launch: The issue isn't with a bunch of different quests but rather with the way instances are spawned and quest phases are handled. Its not a bunch of issues to fix but really only one. So we will just have to see what happens at launch...

It's just as effective as anything else, really. Also see: Live chicken/bucket of Popeye's sacrifice. Obviously the megaserver tech has issues with getting overwhelmed when the number of phase requests reach a certain critical level. While one can get through it, it sucks. Hopefully they...

Which is exactly what I use on my Sorc, along with a bow. The game improved for me very much when I stopped waiting for it to give me drops I wanted in particular and made the stuff I wanted for myself. ESO doesn't tail those things to your class, since your class can do anything you want...

This notes part of the paradox this and every game faces. Lots of folks say: "Same themepark" because its too much like previous games. Yet, where they differ from the genre standards established now by WoW, lots of people complain as well: "Why can't my buffs all be in a window in the upper...

The easy answer is for any quest that requires a spawn to re-log; that resets the quest phase where the game becomes confused because 10x10^2343 a-holes are trying to run the same quest. I was able to complete all of Benthik tonight where a dozen of ass-hats were sitting in zone chat bitching...

-You won't have isolated server communities get stagnant; -You won't have to set up/maintain processes to move characters between servers; -You won't have some servers become wastelands while others are hot spots; -You don't have to do mergers which have a bad rep even when done for good...

I am a collectible Guide/Lore book whore but f*ck that price right in the enhanced book spine.

Also from the reddit thread: It's not like they are leaving you to the tender mercies of ProSeiben.

They are closing this loophole on 26 March (at least what Google Translate says the banner at the top means) but there isn't anything illegal or EULA-breaking about this. On the 26th the Mexican version of the Origin store will require payment in dollars, which means rather than giving...

Just going to leave this here so I can find it later. Mad props to Zooce on the Bethsoft forums: Edit: originally quoted post but that is too much italics for me. 1. You can travel between wayshrines for free, you only pay to travel to one if you're not at another 2. You can feed horses...

How did Vitality go from potential Ut beard to ESL drunk-poster in like two pages?

They just released a video re: crafting where they talk about that very thing of crafting the best items. It really does give lie to the whole bit; that very much sounds like someone preemptively shitting on a change ZO has said they are going to make the API to combat what was already...

Was it here I read that thing about someone writing an auto-cast interrupt macro based on the API basically giving too much information? That kind of stuff I would indeed like to see squashed. As long as it doesn't allow for that big of an impact and just provides player/team information, I am...