Quote Originally Posted by Garet View Post
I do get an itch for ESO from time to time. But last few years I read the cash shop has gotten so bad and server support seems to be minimal hence there is a lot of server lag. is this true?
I haven't noticed much lag myself. Though I play on the European megaserver so it might be different elsewhere. I also tend to play in short bursts, logging on to do a quest or two every once in a while so I can soak up all the lore/thoroughly explore the environment for each area.

I dislike the cash shop being the way that it is, especially with how many offers are limited in their availability but FFXIV isn't immune to that - it just locks such items behind merchandise with special bonus codes.

Quote Originally Posted by Imora View Post
The only thing ESO has going for it is 5 main titles, a couple mobile games, some series spinoffs and such backing it's lore up, and I'm not a fan of ESO being canon because it's just absurd fan service and retcons existing stuff to make it's BS fit.

I detest retcons and the lore in ESO is squiffy at best.

That said, the elder scrolls series *is* bigger, if only because each game in the FF series for the most part, are individual stories independent of each other. Never played a FF game? That's fine, don't need to!

To appreciate TES games you need to play all of them. Which I have. Embarrassingly enough.
I guess the retcons don't bother me much because FFXIV has done the same thing - such as the handling of Garlemald and merging it with the Ascian story rather than allowing it to exist as its own thing. Or how there's now suddenly a cure for Tempering and Primals are even less of a threat than they've been for a while.

If one of the upcoming MMO's happens to do well and takes its story more seriously and consistently, I'll likely swap one or both current MMO's out for that.