Recent reviews by Satanic Wolf

Praise the God-Emperor, for you shall earn redemption by slaughtering these heretics among the fellow faithful. Idleness is heresy, and if you do not join us... then surely you are heretical scum that needs to be purged!

The bad reviews consist of:

-People who have not upgraded their PC in the past 8 years. I run a 4070 and have zero performance issues on max settings.

-People who can not read a simple guide to get their pre-order items (Just talk to any inn keeper after first rest and view storage).

-People who do not understand the fact that if you make a decent pawn that people will want to rent out you will be swimming in RC therefore the "micro-transaction" is just for lazy people. You can buy everything with in game currency. No paywalls, just play the game.

For an example of what a good pawn looks like check out my murderous Sorc who can nuke monsters. Pawn ID: W3RC1JKIL1JY (One, Letter I, One)

Game is a solid 8/10.

Praise the God-Emperor! For you Lord Captain, shall enjoy the thrills of looting and purging in his glorious name!

Damn this review really hurts to write but it must be written. As someone who has seen every stage of the Payday franchise and has been with them since the beginning... I can only concur with the negative reviews. I remember the golden days of Payday:the Heist and even more the golden era of Payday 2. 2014-2015 Overkill was on top of the world, they created an addicting product that I spent countless hours with the same three people...it felt like we were truly a crew. I even joined Cash.net, a group of amazing 1%ers dedicated to the best of the best that the payday franchise offered at the highest difficulty. I had become an overqualified fan sinking countless hours into their game.

After all that... then came the loot safes which turned payday on its head. Overkill slowly recovered and made a decent comeback. After the announcement came of payday 3...surely after learning from their mistakes they were going to honor their roots with a hybrid of both titles like they promised.... Nope. Now after seeing what they were...can be and this steaming pile of bad decision making I can only say that a game about greed and robbery is what paydays legacy has become. I mean in 2023, how the f*ck can you force people into a connection based game with poor stability and no reconnect option. The matchmaking is non existent so most of your game time is finding a match. I can get past the challenge based progression but seriously...no xp on completing a heist on overkill? Forcing people to play other things they really could care less about to get levels is medieval at best.

However, the best part is when the server No Russians you mid heist and you lose all your work which happens frequently even after their "stability" update. Speaking of updates, this game has had the longest period without patches I have ever seen with a newly released AAA game. The very few patches they did after about two months of silence have been ridiculously light and skating around the big elephants of stability, QoL and common sense. Today, they released two "legacy" heists from payday 2 with the revolutionary addition of a pre-game lobby chat. Yes, two months for a pre-game lobby chat. Ignoring of course the major issues that have dried up the player base for this game. I mean you can not keep pulling a Todd Howard redoing old content to buy time with your angry fan base. This is not f*cking Skyrim!

Long story short, they really put on the clown masks during game production. Will they pull a rabbit out of their ass? That has yet to be seen. Do not buy until (if) they fix their damn game. You will only be a disappointed fan like me.

After nearly 4000 hrs, I can say I like the game just a little. Joking aside, this is an MMO that will give you what you put into it. I run one of the largest guilds on the server, I PvPed, PvEed and I even jumped off a few cliffs! Some of the content feels extremely grindy like becoming a mastercrafter and researching for a few months (no exaggeration) gear traits.

All gear in ESO drops with a trait on it and you use your daily research slots (up to 3 with passives) to destroy that item and start a timer that increases over time (up to 9 different traits per an item, last one being about 27 days). Traits for example would be like well-fitted which reduces stamina cost on dodge rolling. This is needed to gain full access to armor/weapon set crafting. Crafted sets are unlocked by the number of traits you know for a weapon/armor category piece. After knowing all 9 you can make anything for that piece (i.e heavy chest). You will definitely get a rewarding sense of accomplishment when you finally finish researching, so start early!

You will also want to visit a stables as early as possible to level your mount for speed, stamina and extra bag space. Unfortunately, without using crown store/daily reward items its 180 days per character (60 times per category, 20 hr waiting per time when you spend 250g at stables). Your mounts fortunately are account wide so you will have wonderful aesthetics from a reward mount on your level 10 alt, riding at the speed of four drunk turtles!

Grindy start up parts aside, there is content and a variety of playstyles for everyone. You can build/decorate homes with items (inside existing ones that you buy with gold or crowns), make/buy furniture that you unlocked after leveling professions (crafting), just solo quest and enjoy amazing story arcs in any order. The world of ESO is rich in lore and quite honestly, there is still stuff that surprises me after all these hours.

There is no one way to gear your character, you can do multiple anti-meta builds and still be viable. Do not worry about gear until you reach level 50 and hit CP 160 which is the gear cap (CP is the account wide progression that starts after reaching 50 on your first character). All that being said however, the small price you pay is worth all the content you can enjoy and quite honestly the grind is not in your face like other MMOs. After all my hours, I have only completed half the game so far!

Finally, the subscription is completely worth it because that craft bag is worth its weight in gold, you also get access to all the DLCs (not including expansions) and double the space for your bank/home. Did I mention the crowns as well that you can use in the game cash shop? Sure a cash shop is not for everyone but its all cosmetics like with most MMOs, however if you are going to use those crowns get the two inventory pets so you get 10 extra bag spaces. Inventory management is extremely important in ESO which is why you want that craft bag!

Thanks for reading, I genuinely hope you enjoy the game!

It was some of the most enjoyable game play I have experienced in a long time. It does its fans justice and I couldnt stop laughing at various moments. Might not be worth the sixty dollars to some of you but it was for me.