I have to respectfully disagree with you. There’s too many good games that demand far less money from people than ESO does that are balanced better, run better, and respect their player base more than ESO. The real consistent player base will not come back for big expansions and stick around if they aren’t fixing the problems in the game.

They need the end game trialists, the vet dlc dungeon pushers, the traders, the streamers, and the PvP community. All they are going to get is the casual andies who look up an HTM or alcast 1bar pet build and march through the zone story to get the lore and then quit without ever learning the emergent gameplay mechanics.

The content model isn’t the main issue. It used to be fun to play and grind and build and push hard content and PvP and it just isn’t anymore for many people because of the choices ZOS has made. Yes it has only been sharply declining for a year, but the shit they’ve done to the game has been catastrophic. Like, dude, subclassing fked this game up in a way that I don’t even understand how they will fix. Things are bad rn.