Elder Scrolls Online

I actually prefer the normal horses over the crazy weird mounts but I'm also collecting the tickets because I have a habit of collecting anything and EVERYTHING if given half the chance. However with that said I actually think they're kind of cute, but then I'm also the type of person that finds snakes and even some spiders cute....so my opinion is probably not worth much when it comes to judging cuteness. 

Don't delete (or buy) anything. AFAIK we're going to get a free slot in June.

A few race/name change tokens are something we got now due to racial passive changes that came recently with Wrathstone patch. If I recall correctly you can hear about the additional slot in a livestream in which they announced Elsweyr expansion. Naturally, I already bought one in preparation for the Chapter, since I have at least 2 (fully leveled) character in each class

Oh wait ... update 21 is just a new patch for consoles. PC users got it a couple of weeks ago. Just woke up and saw people talking about more health and thought it affected everyone. Didn't know they staggered their updates between PC and consoles 0.0

Well, they eliminated the Wood Elf racial stealth bonuses and ruined my two favourite characters.

Almost all the time I've invested in this game has been wasted. I'll be permanently bidding farewell to Bethesda and Zenimax. I'm so tired of this bullshit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/b0ez1w/devs_clarify_why_anz_will_not_get_a_megaserver/

...ima frankly preplexed they'd even be seriously (?) looking into a AUS/NZ shard alone, it's quite obvious we'd not pull enough pop. but why not the larger APAC?? ah well, i guess they come to that decision based on the numbers and it just that ESO really aint that popular in our region overall. quite a bummer still.

The amount of money I'm spending on my computer because I love this game has increased to well over a thousand (Aud)

I may as well include a solid state drive too. Some games seem to require that sort of thing now and ESO also has quite a few loading screens xD

I highly recommend SSDs - I use a few HDDs for some file storage, but other than that I've swapped drives I use for work and gaming (and OS) to SSDs. Once you get used back to SSD speed, you're just not going to look back. Optimally, I'd recommend investing in something of decent quality. My personal go to for discs is Western Digital - I use their Blue SSD for storing my games. Crucial and Samsung SSDs are good as well.

Yep, same here... Running a mix of conventional HHDs and SSDs.

Really, there's no need to pay extra to access things like user data/video recordings/media libraries really. And by now the likes of ShadowPlay have matured enough and are fine to live with the spinny drives performance. I don't do much of video editing though or even recording under uber resolutions, but even if i did i'd probably consider a hardware RAID which might be still more cost effective (or not).

Oh and i also run my OS off a conventional drive too i don't care much if the OS starts/restarts mere seconds faster really. it doesn't happen often anyway, mostly once a month with Microsoft pushing out updates. And once that startup is done, for the rest, just "throw more RAM at it" and let the memory management deal with it. 

As for the SSD... Well that's for the juicy stuff that needs to be loaded/unloaded fast and lots of it i.e. game installs/content that doesn't get changed too frequently. Although supposedly the SSD got past the performance deterioration issues caused by read/write cycles so i guess just a force of habit to be that precious about it. Oh and keeping it on a different controller wehn possible too. No need to compete with all the other activities

I'm not having much to compare it to in its own class only tap in a couple other mmos, but for me ESO is the worst offender. Even my modded to the death Skyrim loads stuff faster hehe.

And again, remember it got worse over time. The char/zone loads were noticeable quicker until one of the updates. i can't remember which one that was. could have benn the One Tamriel one? nah can't remember. it may have been a result of them tightening up their clients security wise so an acceptable trade off if so, but it still is a pity to spend gaming time on time sinks like this. 

From what i gather (not playing the game myself) Anthem's loading issue sound to me more alike to the good ole Cyrodiil loading screens issue, where you'd get hit with them already loaded in the zone, not the initial zone/char load necessarily. Can be wrong like i said have no first hand Anthem experience. but if that's the case indeed, that sure can have a larger impact and be quite disruptive to ones gameplay.

I used to have a book beside me for just such occasions. At points during my gaming I'd pick up my book and start reading, sometimes during loading screens but sometimes in the middle of a dungeon Unfortunately I've long since had to convert my library to a digital collection. So with ESO whenever a loading screen pops up I alt-tab to my ebook and read.

There was a post on the ESO forums a while back which said something like "I find it very rude when people's characters just stand in front of doors doing nothing". That describes me, I do that a lot, I've alt-tabbed back to my book and hit a good bit so I just keep reading for a little bit more xD

 well, im sorry to hear that