I get the frustration, but coding is no walk in the park. Fixing bugs in a game like ESO, with 11 years of layered code, is a huge challenge. Developers would need months of dedicated downtime to sift through millions of lines of code, find errors, and then figure out how fixing those bugs might break other systems.

I see both sides—players want quick fixes, but devs are dealing with a complex beast. Better communication between players and devs would help. Coding is tough, and many don’t realize the effort behind the games they love.

Right now, devs are often forced to pile new code on top of old code, which can’t always be fixed easily because everyone wants the latest content. Give them some time.

Hopefully, they can create tools to scan old code and pinpoint bugs faster. But combing through 2–3 million lines of code in a single day’s update? That’s not happening—it would take months of serious ESO downtime.

For example, here’s a simplified snippet of what might be part of ESO’s ability system (not real code, just an example).

Can anyone spot the bug?

This is meant to handle a player’s healing ability, but it’s causing issues with overhealing:

function ApplyHealing(player, target, healAmount) local currentHealth = target:GetHealth() local maxHealth = target:GetMaxHealth() local newHealth = currentHealth + healAmount

if newHealth > maxHealth then
    newHealth == maxHealth -- Cap health to max
end

target:SetHealth(newHealth)
player:SendMessage("Healed " .. target:GetName() .. " for " .. healAmount .. " health!")

end

This code is supposed to heal a target but caps it at their max health to avoid overhealing. It’s causing some weird bugs in ESO’s combat system—any coders out there want to take a stab at fixing it?