Zenimax Mysteriously CANCELS 10 Year Anniversary Event

[@samuraichicken2315]

I don’t think it’s a money issue: I think Microsoft is dropping the hammer and doing a major restructure.

[@NefasQS]

Whether it’s financial constraints by lack of budget or by orders from higher up, it’s still a money thing. Some have suggested security to be a primary motivator but I highly doubt it as there’s a vetting process for both online and offline ESO events with additional physical security in place at the venues. Some have suggested the recent PR backlash over the recent BG stream though it would make no sense to cancel an entire promised IRL event for people who - while sharing similar sentiments - can overlook that stream. The biggest clue is the lack of a reason given. While I think it’s terrible to not be transparent and not give people a reason, I suspect saying they have no money could have been worse or in the case of Xbox/Microsoft, bad news/higher up orders could have led to an impact on the public shares in the market so in the latter case, speculation rather than bad news would be better even if it comes at the cost of playerbase frustration.

[@xyourdeus4972]

I'd be hard pressed to assume Microsoft got involved. They've never cared about any of the controversies up to this point. I'm pretty sure they just ran out of money and decided that it'd be better to use on their new mmo

[@DrizztRPG]

​@@NefasQS "PR backlash" It makes perfect sense. Easier to dismiss your "gaming family" when they are not face to face with you. They want to hide and dismiss evidence of their PR fail now so they need to stay 'low' for a bit because people tend to forget about those things and zos knows it.

[@NefasQS]

No it doesn't make sense because an IRL event would have helped a lot with said PR backlash. Canceling without giving a reason just makes the whole thing worse.

[@CallMeElwis94]

@@NefasQS At this point, we can only speculate until we are given an official response. How good or bad the reason behind it turn out to be, we have yet to find out.

[@Knowledge.to_Come]

Players mysteriously cancel ESO+

[@lazymadness4924]

If that would really happen, then they will hear players because 20$ is 20$

[@RobertMalachowski]

The combat dev is probably scared he’ll be teabagged some more or asked what PvP stands for

[@Lowbei]

I think they are scared of being asked certain questions that they cant answer while on someones phone video at an event. Questions like "What does your Lead Combat Dev do all day to earn a paycheck for years when they dont know the basics of combat?" or "What does your community manager do all day to earn a paycheck for years while literally and objectively not communicating with the community?"

[@Jannah_2k]

This. They are just going into turtle defense mode as always and ignoring even more than before and probably forums going under even tighter tyranny. :(

[@DrizztRPG]

That live stream was huge and maybe even the biggest PR disaster from them, that's what it was and now it continues. They are aware that they must stay low for a few and wait for people to forget or atleast lose interest about their flop. However the cancellation of this 10 year anniversary live event in NA shows how deep they don't care about the whole player base. They will continue to milk off money from their customers.

[@naplzt4k]

or why does your design team still make awful looking gear and still adds the hip flaps to chest pieces

[@RatstabOfficial]

​@@naplzt4k Asking the real questions here. 😂

[@DrizztRPG]

​@@naplzt4k Indeed, literally every armor now is re:skinned, every material looks like "worn-rubber"..steel is not steel, leather is not leather, clothing is not clothing..everything is medicore and boring. *just an observation

[@Venin6]

Nah, this year the devs kept shitting on the game, while spitting on their fanbase. -guildchats im in are dead now because people are affraid to trigger the a.i. and wake up with a perma ban. -new players get banned after 4 hours of playing. -players comments get deleted from the forums because they dare to complain about the new battlegrounds -they take months or even years to fix simple bugs, but at the same time the servers go down for maintenance even more often then before on PS. -They even ban players complaining in the zonechat about the devs choices. -They act like dictators. Its like they are trying their best to get rid of their playerbase and stop attracting new players.

[@DrizztRPG]

They use an AI bot to censor zone chat, whispers, every chat really. They invigilate player private messages. It seems like barely anyone speaks about anything ingame now, this is sickening.

[@sk8legendz]

I was wondering why everything was so quiet all of a sudden...​@@DrizztRPG

[@frankenstein4968]

Yeah I caught a 72 hour ban for a maybe pg13 whisper last week, first offense 72hr ban

[@DrizztRPG]

@@sk8legendz Same here.. that's why I started looking for some answers on the subject matter and I've found that they did what they did, behind customers backs. Its basically a dictatorship now.

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

@@DrizztRPG Take the community aspect out of an MMO and you've given every player a reason to focus on every last flaw present in the game. Keep making choices like that and there's a non-zero chance that they ultimately end up like Ubisoft.

[@jdm8702]

Speed running to game shutdown.

[@skulpturostone4621]

They are just not ready to show Brian Wheelchair's face so soon after he shtted his pants on a PvP event

[@Downshift25]

What if I buy more crown crates? Will that save the event?

[@tfchaffee4393]

Feels like 50% of development is crown crates items 😅 "sorry I'm swamped with making cosmetic items 2% of the community will acquire"

[@kuna507]

No one likes to pay for a crafting bag!!

[@CountessKek]

It's ALWAYS about money, the days of devs loving the gamers and making games and events for gamers are gone...it makes me sad but can we PLEASE keep good games going and not create absolute crap going forward???

[@Conqyest-ESO]

We’re those “free” skill skins the apology

[@DrizztRPG]

Ye they should give away something easy to make like they always used to do. Another RE:Skin of an existing one. For example "Crystal Frost" which already have two reskins like "Sunspire Ice-Fire Skin" and lazy designed bit darker crystalfrost called "Frosthaunt Glister Skin" All they need to do now is to change base colour from blue to red and called it "Blood Frost", it will pair ideally with abilities red morphs from scribing. Their crown store motto reads: "cover up your mistakes behind lazy designs and people will love you for it"

[@RTRMuizer]

The Amsterdam event was to no small extent a promotional event for the 2024 content. Perhaps having no event in 2025 is telling us something about what is (or isn't) coming in 2025

[@WELIS000]

The Dev's Ego is destroying this game. Replace them. EZ fix

[@maliceshadows7044]

Zenimax is in Dev Hell with new Ip it's totally a Financial reason they already loosing tons of money. They no longer care about ESO everything about the new IP.

[@maliceshadows7044]

@@fffx2 It will bomb cause going to be full of DEI. Disney has final say on all projects involving anything they own.

[@naplzt4k]

​@@maliceshadows7044everything is infested with DEI now...I was sad to discover it happened to Obsidian and even Rockstar said they're going to make GTA less offensive

[@jokeassasin7733]

@@fffx2Star Wars fans are known to be so understanding when things aren’t exactly what they wanted. It’s going to make their community moderating even worse than ESO.

[@DrizztRPG]

Our Beloved Gaming Company strikes back at their customers! Zos: You don't liked our latest live stream?! You don't deserve a live event in NA! Sit at home and play our game.🤬

[@LaidU2Rxst]

This happened simultaneously after the “PvP Brawl Livestream “ with Brian. Sounds suspicious

[@EstinR]

This year was so bad for ESO. So many major issues paired with obvious minor bugs getting pass QA. Not to mention the complete embarrassment that was the battlegrounds live stream hosted on the official bethesda channel to thousands of people. I won't be surprised if Microsoft is slashing budgets for this game because of how bad this year was. I'm honestly concerned about the future of this game. It's in desperate need of attention, and now that is even more unlikely unless microsoft is planning on putting this game into much more capable hands.

[@DrizztRPG]

They've took that stream off official bethesda twitch, it really speaks volumes that it was beyond bad, anyone who defend that is really blind.

[@TheDrewbe3]

@@DrizztRPGI’ve been out of the eso world for a bit. What happened during the live stream?

[@DrizztRPG]

@@TheDrewbe3 Just watch JTK GAMING clip: "ESOs Failed Battle-Grounds Live Stream", you will know what happened

[@ircjesselee]

They canceled because the budget is going towards a new free mount 😊

[@pklemming]

I am so sad for them. Oh, wait... No, I am not. I am assuming that they either can not afford it, or MS told them NO after the recent debacle. 10 years of asking them to be more receptive to the player base. GGG really showed me what ZoS should have been. Back to PoE2...

[@Cyhawkx]

They spent the event money on SypherPK to stream for 2 hours.

[@evalera]

funnily enough, they did not cancelled any of the nice travel destinations for the dev team... I don't think they care about US customers, they just care if they can get a paid vacation to a nice European country 🤣

[@DBTT1000]

Hasn't ESO alone made 4 billion in the past decade though? How do you not have budget? Like damn, how much does one need to make on their paychecks that they cant afford it LMAO

[@NefasQS]

"Nearly $2 billion" is the direct quote.

[@DrizztRPG]

Maybe they are to busy playing THRONE AND LIBERTY?

[@RaZurDar]

Renting out that castle every year for a week is expensive

[@DBTT1000]

@@NefasQS Thanks for the correction but still, 2 billion bro?? On top of that, they are making more money now than they ever have.

[@box-headrobot7531]

@@DBTT1000 Just because a game makes that much doesn't mean that is how much they get for budget. They would never reveal what that budget is though, how much goes to paying people and other expenses, and how much is left over for actual development. Whatever that number(s) is, it's far far less that 2 billion.

[@ChaiTea17]

Ayooo I just got into learning and playing the game and already I'm seeing the true colors of the devs, what a pity.

[@Eso_lags]

The billion dollar company, with one of the most aggressive cash shops and monetization of their mmo, at the cost of rewarding gameplay, are out of money? Ya i dont think so. Just a pattern of greed. But who cares, zos deals in disappointment on a regular basis so this is nothing new.

[@fredEVOIX]

sad for real ESO fans it wasn't my thing as an elder scrolls modder but it did add to ES lore and if you had fun with it cool I want all ES games to be successful

[@Spider-Bite]

They probably are worried about hoarcrux showing up...👀

[@Conqyest-ESO]

Fr 💀

[@kalgrave497]

why do i feel like there is more to this xD

[@Kyng88]

😂 in a trench coat and dark shades

[@Kitkatklaws]

Lmfaoo

[@mcpumii_]

Games dying fr , that’s what happens when you recycle the same content for 5years straight and don’t cater anything for PvP players which imo is the longevity of every MMO. But they went with costumes pets housing and pve. Nobody is interested. I give them one more push and after that … flatlined

[@poopikins]

PVP is not the answer to ESO's success lol

[@Jannah_2k]

Dead game pog, not even want to or can have live events for a decade celebration. Things are more serious than thought.. no wonder last years Chapters have been low effort maintenance mode updates anymore. :/

[@jokeassasin7733]

I think ESO players sub money have been getting diverted to the game under development.

[@kainedg6094]

Not a good look when your company can't budget accordingly.

[@unomauhasard5219]

I quit playing when I felt like I was doing the same thing with a different background for every chapter. The game just wasn’t surprising anymore and the world didn’t feel organic. It could’ve been great but they abandoned so many systems while giving us slop…

[@abcd-vk8zn]

I have 0 convidence to ZOS to make a new good mmo it will be same shit as eso whit more microtransactions

[@Shocknen]

ESO needs an overhaul

[@Shadow_Ronin200]

I just gonna say but ESO died duing lost depths and if they have just been milking the money what money out of it and if they were just revive it it would take more money then what they have

[@heteroGMRVet]

I blame ai censorship and moderation for killing their game

[@CallMeElwis94]

Now that ain't simply fair. Pre-watch comment: I guess, reason they did it, is because they did not wanted to hear more backlash from the PVP stream, that they flopped on hard. But to punish us like that, for their mistake? Not cool.

[@DrizztRPG]

By playing eso, humans worldwide punish themselves. This only make zos richer, their smile bigger and their laugh louder.

[@Masheen]

​@@DrizztRPG True. I should've quit earlier. The game hasn't been in a good state since Blackwood. Even at that time I was worried about the direction the game was going. Hybridization messed everything up. Proc sets and mythics got out of hand. Gold Road just didn't excite me at all either. I quit before it came out because I was fed up with the game getting worse with every new update. Such a shame how far ESO has fallen.

[@sep.42]

Wasn't this the one for consoles? ...

[@jaccexx7565]

Zo$ .... well definately money thing. The game has lost so many players and spiral will continue... they also deserve all this crap

[@gangleotron4697]

Games made $2B in the past 10 years. How are they out of money? Who's running this company, the Kamala Harris political team?

[@mcpumii_]

Yes , they’ve seeped their woke weird ideas into every aspect of every game we love. Fk em Trump 2024! Godbless brother

[@Art_and_Logic]

Yes but look at how much GTA and Genshin impact made...

[@Azerkeux]

>set record profits >fire 1500 employees

[@TheSteadyeddieShow]

Budgets don't really work like that - one department will be given a budget to do the EU event, their bosses will see that it didn't make much money and cut the funding for it. It's kinda dumb since irl events drum up support and connection to a game (even if it loses money) when connection is one thing ESO is majorly lacking rn lol

[@gangleotron4697]

@@TheSteadyeddieShow you shouldn’t be doing events to make money. You should be doing events to show your support to the community because they support you.

[@CattieESO]

oh my gosh..what happened, why?😔😔😔

[@mardotilk5254]

most gaming companies only have the events in the US so the fact we got something in Europe was amazing

[@chiefexecutive]

The United health CEO has them all scared. This is what happens in third world countries. Shame.

[@itssnoopy333]

You can’t be this slow Lmfao

[@JReyesTbn46]

My thoughts and prayers for everything going on right now is out of network.

[@Azerkeux]

@@itssnoopy333 eat the rich

[@sk8legendz]

They should give us a free pet, that'll fix it😂

[@randomperson2160]

I think they are hemorrhaging money. The crowns are too expensive and buying stuff with the crowns is even more expensive. Think of it like this, every 1000 crowns is roughly $7.10. They make stupid design decisions which is causing the player base to dwindle. They take away the things people like to give them things they do not like nor did they ask for. The new BGs are absolutely terrible. If one teams gets a slight advantage, it is all over. I was in one where the final score was 500+ to 0. How the heck is that fun for anyone? The other team just gave up after about 3 minutes of playing. They could not get off their platform without dying. The constant change and lack of caring about the pve customers and the constant lying to the pvp community is taking its toll. There is no new content on ESO with U44 with regards to content creators If you say anything on the forums they do not like, they ban you or at a minimum take down the post. I was warned that what I said one time was considered rude and offensive. I do not care. I pay to play the game with ESO+ if I am not happy about something I should have the right to state my displeasure. However, if you do then the developers and designers get all sensitive and ban you. My guess is they have a special room for them to go an cry about how the community hates what they are doing. Hello, if that is the case, then one is a quarter call someone who cares and two get a clue. I reported a player for griefing and harassment and I was told by Customer Service that griefing and harassment are okay and do not violate the TOS. Well if that is the case, then why would I want to play this game. I come to play the game and have fun and when a game is no longer fun, it is time to move on. I think a lot of players are to that point. It is no longer fun.

[@DrizztRPG]

Those players who are still influenced by fake TES sentiment, initially generated to possess customer, will make sure that eso will still earn money. *Not every human have the knowledge and ability to see beyond the global company curtain.

[@frankenstein4968]

Agreed the new bgs are an absolute disgrace there "MMR" just doesn't work at all

[@TakaChan569]

I keep forgetting this game is still alive lol.

[@insideartist3374]

BDO and now eso… ugh where to now..

[@Kyng88]

The only thing keeping me from quitting this game is aaalllll the money I’ve spent over 10 years between PlayStation and pc

[@DrizztRPG]

the more you stay, the more they get, wanna lose more?

[@Kyng88]

@ naw I only resub yearly now. I don’t spend money anymore. I said the money I “spent” lol as in past times

[@FernandoPerez-zx2vz]

Jokes on you guys for paying to play. I got the game for free and i will never pay a single penny to those people. I will enjoy the game for free forever or stop playing at all and give my money to companied making games like wukong.

[@Crimson_Mysterium]

I apologize, my initial post turned into a 7 paragraph rant about Bethesda being bought out by Microsoft and what a massive mistake that was. So, I think I can simplify with a singular point. Microsoft is literally self-sabotaging the A tier games that are still available on the Playstation platform. If they stop, producing a quality product, overcharge for items like DLC, and then completely blow off their largest player base. Eventually the numbers will drop low enough where they will justify closing the servers. Which in turn will increase demand for the next Elder Scrolls game due to be released on PC and Xbox exclusively. This has been a very specific and targeted goal for Microsoft. Sharing titles is not something they do. If you believe I am wrong, think about titles such as Fable, Halo, or Gears of War. Bethesda is mid-game of phasing Playstation out from all of the games Microsoft now owns.

[@DrizztRPG]

Well said, we need to alert and inform those players who are still blind about those stuff.

[@mikebraun7668]

Couldn't disagree more. As an Xbox player all I hear lately is how they are bringing more Xbox exclusives to PlayStation. This is just the devs making bad decisions constantly

[@Crimson_Mysterium]

@mikebraun7668 That they are planning? Yeah, more talk as usual.

[@Ho0pxr]

Brian Wheeler made this decision.

[@TaxiDriver2116]

I hope they get their shit together and find a way to keep this game alive for a long time. I really have no interest at all in switching to another game.

[@IncultaWolf]

Shame, cause I was actually planning on going to this 😿

[@DrizztRPG]

Me too😕 #playerlifesmatters

[@goboltz26]

EVERYTHING Micro$oft buys, they kill . . . All downhill from here . . . .

[@LurnWell]

I don't think they ran out of anything, but I definitely agree that they feel that effort, time, and finances could be used elsewhere. When the events outside of the game get better QOL in a timely manner, there's a problem.

[@Bloodsaber64]

ZOS and ESO are TRASH. Play something else they dont deserve your dollars

[@Belle75468]

It's def NOT about money. Game made almost 2 Billion. It's either about United Health Ceo, or that Failed Livestream By failed livestream I mean people would livestream and ask the devs questions in real life

[@LostHorizons0]

Zos is garbage. I love the elder scrolls series from a lore perspective and morrowind is my favorite game ever. But the deserve this they killed the game and created a toxic relationship with their player base f zos

[@malhondize3898]

who gives a shit really. I don't care about meeting devs or streamers.

[@DavidAppear]

I blame Bina Gruno for this purely for my amusement.😁

[@Jeanmarie-i9x]

Y'all should play Warframe and abandon this game for good 😂. It's wild that you have to spend hundreds to roll crates to get cosmetics! That alone is a MASSIVE Red Flag!!

[@albertoortiz6850]

Elder woke online, game is dead and ppl r boycotting the garbage game thanks to Bethesda for going woke and be selling woke toons as companions

[@DrizztRPG]

Minority who is continuesly influenced by artificially created degeneration in disguise as new world, will never win. They are walking dreaming, they don't create they just playing roles of fictional characters in real life. *seek knowledge to prevent yourself of falling in global lies.

[@funkydunkas101]

Dude if you had a problem with queer characters maybe you shouldn’t play the game, there’s gay characters in base game lol

[@Sporkonafork1]

Bunch of punks. They are nothing but bullies that always play the victim card. All people in gaming that aren't involved with the active creation are useless. Facts.

[@seaofgalaxies2232]

I acknowledge people don't realize business and management of a business when you are functioning with a budget. How many of you guys know that businesses have to pay for their own trash to be pick up. That's a part of the budget just like keeping the lights on. The problem is the financial team (Sometimes the Boss Man) probably overlooked their budget and added more stuff without paying attention.

[@Belle75468]

2 billion. Excuses, excuses

[@seaofgalaxies2232]

@Belle75468 True, they're also owned by Microsoft, so they still have a limit.

[@philippeplouffe5332]

Not everyone can attend those events. So if they prefer to keep their money and concentrate on in game events, it not bad either. Everyone profit from that.

[@Belle75468]

No need to defend them and make excuses

[@mybeagleapproves8590]

Good same thing every year games trash get over it people

[@travismiller1491]

It's not a money issue or a game issue. This is clearly in response to everyone absolutely ripping them on their live stream the other week. They obviously don't want another re-run of that and can you blame them? They definitely don't want that online let alone in person.

[@fireraid9173]

Yes I can blame them, that was a perfect showcase of everything wrong with the dev team and they refuse criticism on every front. The game is done for, and all they wanna do is bury their heads.

[@damiansmith7106]

​@fireraid9173 people should have been quit playing, I'm only here because I like nefas, eso lost most of its real players in u35. Look at trends compared to WoW, eso is a footnote. They seem to have forgot catering to the casuals and "people who aren't god-tier gamers" isn't where most games make money. You make money from the dedicated fat whales. Pitiful company. How does a lead combat dev not know heavy attacking? What the fuck have you been working on? The game deserves to go down and their new mmo will too, star wars is a sorry ass franchise that definitely won't bring the dedicated players because the franchise has no integrity anymore.

[@LaurenSchraderMusic]

Welcome to Colorado!

[@Zerodead_1]

Crown store purchases!! KEKW !! HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

[@halloweye4613]

First comment! How do you like CO?

[@NefasQS]

7 days left until the move!

[@jmbrady1]

why can't they just do the event in the game?

[@JonTheGamerGuru]

I may be dumb and way too affectionate for this, or, just, something dumb, but I do hope they don’t cancel ESO. Maybe just pull a full on ESO2, but I doubt it. Damn, I don’t wanna think about this game actually being taken down.

[@RobertMalachowski]

I don’t think they’ll make a different game. But they really need to overhaul the game, drop the old consoles, and combine the console servers or I don’t think it’ll go much further

[@nblife916]

Weellllll why would devs want to come after creators flamed them so hard in last live stream?

[@ekaprakoso6818]

dead game,but i still playing it

[@funkydunkas101]

Crazy that people are upset about queer characters, buddy just don’t play the quest. Companions are mid anyway

[@kaczmarek1514]

Game is dead

[@DrizztRPG]

Game is dead 'inside' (however zos will still gather solid profit of customers/players)

[@Masheen]

​@@DrizztRPG Coz id**ts with too much money keep on buying their overpriced crown store crap.

[@MClaudiusMarcellus]

@@DrizztRPG The piggies love their crown store slop.

[@P1MPINSINSE1997]

Game is alive and breathing on PS. Cope harder 🤡

[@theangryimp1345]

Not at all its not dead and people like it as a multiplayer elder scrolls. You guys want a pvp gane and a modern mmo. And that's fine but it's not like everyone gives a dam. We're one skyrim chapter away from a shed load of money again.

[@acidkick2057]

NA got Trump again. I don’t blame them.

[@NefasQS]

What would Trump winning have anything to do with organizing an IRL event for a 10+ year old MMO??

[@jose_305]

@@NefasQSthe MAGA supporters are toxic as hell and that extends into gaming.

[@SirSquash]

bro your TDS is showing

[@LaRevolution0]

snowflake

[@slayergus8252]

Tbf I seriously couldn’t say 1 decent thing towards this game or company. I have played since 6 weeks after the console release. Nothing but absolute garbage in charge of this game. Sadly missed the mark not even close to the mass fight on the cinematic intro every was sucked in to believe 10year ago. State of PvP is beyond fixing with the current dev team.