The Elder Scrolls Online: The Road Ahead #2

Game director Matt Firor has taken to ZeniMax Online’s official The Elder Scrolls Online website to share additional details on “the road ahead” for the MMORPG, including their plans to combat botters, add more raids, introduce cosmetic customizations, improve the LFG system, and much more. Future updates will bring:

Along with fixing bugs, combatting black market gold farmers, and balance tweaks, we have a long list of features and updates we’re working on that will be coming throughout 2014 and beyond. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming up. For most of these, we don’t know yet which update they’ll be in, but they’re under active development right now:

‘¢ A system that allows grouped players to see each other even when they’re in different phases
‘¢ A justice system steal from and kill NPCs and deal with the consequences if you are caught
‘¢ Migration of European Megaserver to our European datacenter.
‘¢ Field of View (FOV) adjustment
‘¢ Armor dyeing and tinting
‘¢ Two new Veteran Dungeons: Crypt of Hearts and City of Ash
‘¢ New region of Craglorn with a new Trial (the Serpent)
‘¢ Increased ability to pick up items in the world
‘¢ Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood storyline and quests.
‘¢ Spellcrafting
‘¢ Horse Racing
‘¢ Dragonstar Arena similar to Trials, but built for a group of four
‘¢ Improvements to fishing
‘¢ Crafting system improvements
‘¢ Improved Looking for Group system
‘¢ Better NPC facial animations
‘¢ Guild functionality updates: guild store interface updates, customizable guild insignias, tabards, and guild ranks, and Guild Kiosks guild stores open to everyone that are available to the highest-bidding guild.
‘¢ Auto-leveling dungeons that level to your group leader
‘¢ Awards when you repeat dungeons
‘¢ Imperial City PvP dungeon

We recognize that some of the launch issues especially black market botting and spam, de-synced quests, and the disappearing bank slot bug affected the early gameplay experience of a number of players. Fixing these problems required us to take the megaservers offline, costing players time in the game. In recognition of this experience and to show our gratitude to everyone who supported the launch, we are giving an additional five days of included game time to every ESO player who set up an active account prior to 8pm EDT Thursday May 1st and who are currently enjoying their 30 days of included game time. If you’re eligible to receive the five additional days, a confirmation will be sent to your account’s registered email address. For further details, please visit help.elderscrollsonline.com. This is a small gesture to show our thanks for being part of the ESO community while we work to make this extraordinary game and service even better.