nathanphillipconnors: If the guy who I gave all my stuff to when I quit ESO is watching this, can I please have my stuff back?

funkydunkas101: It’s been a rollercoaster of “It’s so over” and “We’re so Back”.

LowEffortDoodles: I mean, do u really expect a "Live Service" game OF ALL TYPES OF GAMES to just say:

"No yeah we're cooked. Go ahead and leave now" instead of letting the ship sink slowly as ppl invest not knowing what's to come?

Cris1Mac: Great video. I knew about the forum post, but I did not know about Asha Sharma's Letter. Lots of interesting info on their plan going forward. Thanks for sharing. I have really enjoyed your content lately and decided to join. Love your honest takes.

ESO_Ivi_Ro: More info:

Additional infos from Jason Barnes at the tavern:

They won’t cut anything that is planned, but with less ppl they now need to relocate some ppl and will come to us soonish with a new updated schedule. (What Neifary wrote above)

Combat Team is still mostly intact and if I understood correctly also the one that lost fewest ppl. But the combat team was also small before the layoffs.

I asked him what in his opinion changed mostly with the switch from Rich to Nick. Jason said the biggest change was that Nick wants them to be more open to player feedback and experiment stuff. Before they were kinda stiff with their chapter-thinking and that they need to deliver XY for this chapter, now they do stuff more freely according to what players and they themselves want. Jason said this change in mindset was definitely new and different to before, but he and the team enjoys the contact and the transparency a lot.

dreadnaughtvcn6932: Glad to catch this vid early! Good morning from Australia.

Blank-Knight: I am still catching up years of content. But I am glad ESO still grows and adds to the world.

I am a bit angry at TES 6... guess it's the sole reason why Hammerfall was not added over the years.

Realmreaver1: What they never lied before? You naive mah dood.

DelbertStinkfester: I don't believe them

omensoffate: Ah yes the please don’t stop buying from the crown shop message

tinasmith1391: As soon as I saw the numbers I knew they weren't just going to pull the plug. The haters say ESO is a "dead game" but it's taking in about $200 million per year and most of that is profit.

GhostZaith: Thank god eso is okay

maxbjr: While we will see a slower rate of content but the content we get will be better then the endless mind numbing cycle of back to back to back festivals. It was getting apparent that Bethesda, ZOS and other gaming companies are filled with managerial bloat and Mircosoft just got rid of Bethesda/ZOS bloat. Honestly when a smaller "AA" team of a 100 or so in 3 years puts out a great game. Meanwhile it takes "AAA" devs 400 people and 8 years to put out mid level trash at best, something needs to change. You don't need 14 levels of management to green light an idea. I don't like seeing people lose their jobs but many of the "Old Guard" devs who just got fired, where the very same ones who where gatekeeping the game from moving forwards.

Tonneback: What are they supposed to say? Of course they say they're not going into maintenance mode. That statement isn't worth much.

T00solid: The whole naval battle thing they have going on, I’m truly interested, but I don’t see high hopes for. As a poster said experimental content. Again the state of Cyrodiil is currently in disarray, you can’t get to a fight unless spending a ridiculous amount of time in the loading screen or just hoofing there, by the time you get to said keep, everything’s done and blue and red have gone on to take 3 more keeps.

CABWrites: Team cautious optimism! I suspect that Brian Wheeler will quietly leave as he’s packaged out before the end of the year too. He’s probably just setting up his team for succession. But he would actually be needed if the focus is going to be on combat and systems since he simply knows so much and has been here since the beginning – his personal competence in gaming aside lol

allcomplexthingsdecay: Asha's letter literally just says "we're not making enough money" and you think this is going to improve the game? We were hoping that ESO was going to improve, not that "the servers are just going to stay online". Yes. of course the servers will be kept online as long as skyrim fanboys keep pumping money into crates. That will end the moment TES6 goes live. PVP and connection issues won't be fixed. We were already at one class refresh per year. Do you think that's going to now somehow get faster? as you keep repeating there's no indication that ZOS had "14 layers of mgmt" so not sure why you keep harping on it as an improvement. Microsoft is fully in the middle of the AI Bubble and is desperate for cash. Your cute little jabs at gay people aside, good luck if you think Microsoft keeping their crown crate machine online is somehow a "bright future".

nikolasismusic4389: Let's fucking gooooooooooo ESO still stands hahahahahaahahahhhgaahahah yes !

robthebell4914: Thank you for being on top of this issue. Honestly, brings much relief to my day.

WiShTheRapper: Heck yeah! ESO is FINE!

Commenting before I finish the video.

NovaNelsonGaming: Good! I knew that ESO would hold strong. It’s just picking up and getting better so they need to keep that momentum

RaskusArhaus: I'll be honest: cross play is huge and utterly unnecessary. Some of the extras can be dropped. Like Spopes, I completely agree with focusing on the two announced expansions and finish the fixes (update classes faster, tweak potions, clean up base game dungeons, etc.). If there is time (eventually), flesh out a smaller Night Market using the old base. Get PVP to a stable point for the moment. See how it goes. It can all be fine. Money is made when it's COOL and FUN, not how BIG or FAST.

inkognito2425: Stop spreading these dumb analogies with anet, gw1 is simply maintained online, not receiving any updates, gw2 they said will be on semi maintenance until they release gw3,this has been years in the making for anet

boi-u4c: SWTOR said the same thing and its been in a sudo maint mode for a looooong time. so..

JepsonPA: "Not necessarily the end of new content or the game going into maintenance mode" is not very affirming for me.

ookie4179: We went from 14 layers of management to get things done to probably a couple

Twenty4AM: Wherever eso goes I go

Jul 13 2026

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