If you are considering playing The Elder Scrolls Online on a console (Playstation or Xbox One), you should carefully consider the limitions:
- No crossplay with other platforms
- No account transfer to any other platform
- No access to AddOns, unlike PC
- Slower to update and receive bugfixes, unlike PC
Bugfixes -- even for severe bugs -- is the main drawback of playing on Playstation or Xbox. Case in point:
- There is currently a severe bug where basic access and management of inventory is crippled. This bug was introduced on 2021-April-21 following a major patch.
- There is supposedly a tedious workaround but this does not even work for some players.
- It took over a week of investigation before ZOS made an official announcement on April-29. There would be NO fix for this broken basic function until June-8. That's five weeks.
Players were understandably outraged but there was no further communication from ZOS.
The announcement made it sound like "certification timing" for console made it impossible to fix until that time, but it has since been pointed out that many other companies can issue bug fixes with very short turnaround.
As well, players on the official forums also cite fixes announced in patch notes which were actually not fixed.
And because there is no account transfer, players would have to buy the game again and start all over on another platform if they no longer wanted to play on console -- i.e., start all over from zero.
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