The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood

— Zone is small. — Story is copy/paste from TES4: Oblivion, but within a vastly smaller area. — Writing level of a fanfiction. — Too many agenda (strong wamen and weak useless men) — Main feature – companions – is only two characters with no dialogues at all. They are like talking sorc pets. We can't even change their hairstyle or put on helmet, so there are dozens of clones everywhere. — Side quests are all the same except few. Each of them has template like: strong waman who is the bestest evaaar needs trying to save her poor useless male lover, or brother, or son, or friend. — ESO always had not much of a variety in choices, but now there's no at all. And not only that, now our character is just a mercenary: he doesn't make decisions, he has no thoughts on what's happening, but only asks stupid questions like "Who are you again?", "What we are doing right now?", "What is three banners war?" "Who is Mehrunes Dagon?" etc. Story isn't complete, but I don't want to buy DLC-ending, because previous (Northen Elsweyr, Markarth) had content for three hours and then I never visit them again. Chapter feels raw, It isn't complete as well. ZOS should stop their "Year long story" because they are just breaking the game in hurry.

I bet this chapter took a large amount of work (new locations, Oblivion portals scenery, voice acting and so on..) but the actual content is absolutely dead. From one of the worst methods of farming leads for mythic items to another dirt easy zone for new players (all 16 now! Cool concept for new players that dont exist anyway). Zone Craglorn was released only few months after release in 2014 and it was quite tough zone back in the day with very limited CPs and game knowledge.. Craglorn, 7 years after release is probably still the hardest zone in the game - that can't be right. There HAS to be serious rethink of PAID chapters for the future.. You basically buy this to get 2 mythic items and Trial if you have guild to run it with. Also wrong focus with the companions (which are garbage anyway). Honestly ZOS don't even have the quality of developers required for proper AI, most companies don't and thats for singleplayer games. Wrong focus on something they can't achieve. MMO, create better grouping tools for dungeons and trials, have an actual store with auctions and so on, this Ultima Online vendor system from 1999 is really something else. Focus on under 50 level players is wrong at this point, majority of population is high level - fact and yet they have Trial and two mythics with the most impossible and toxic farming ever made in MMO. Low level players don't exist, i only see 1000+ CPs around and one under leveled that can't even run fast enough through that new, empty Oblivion portal that is already cleared by high CPs... DLCs are fine, they come with sub, chapters have to improve big time. Better content for high levels, improve group tools and possibly Veteran difficulty for overland content, i can't bring myself 7 years after release to pretend to be low level and do the stories in the zonei. If it was challenging and rewarding for high levels, i'd do it gladly. Very active game with strong high level population but very much in stagnant state of development. No surprises, no challenge to improve the game, move the game forward. Just the same stuff for 17th zone to what was done at release 7 years ago (not Craglorn, that one is harder anyway). Oh, still not another class or race... cmon. Terrible value product.

Story is bad as it always been in eso. Content is copy paste from Oblivion. It is not worth the money. You will not find that spark in it. Only thing good on ESO right now is the engine.

The story is ok-ish. The zone is small, the enemies too easy, the fights boring - even the bossfight in the end of the story is underwhealming. The new "dolmen" which are oblivion portals are bland and boring. Most of the time, when you enter a portal the enemies are dead - even if it just spawned - , because players stay inside to farm - which ruins the experience if you want to run thorugh your first portal - or in general any portal - from start to end. To top all of this off, the game in its current state is full of bugs - I experience one in almost every quest. The game forces you to play with a subscription and even then it has a very overpriced shop. I really dont know, why i come back every now and then. Bethasda should just focus und elder scrolls 6 and let eso die in peace.

There's barely anything to do and the new companions are useless plus the storyline was shody at best imo. The worst thing though is that as of their last privacy agreement update with this DLC it states they will sell users information including but not limited to their legal name, age, gender, email, billing address, and other private information to basically any third party companies (and yes that includes social media and advertising companies) and since there is no way of playing this without accepting those terms. you basically need to be willing allow your private information to be sold in order to play this dlc.