Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-25356303-20170205030108

"Are you the one that boat dropped off? Odd to see a boat arrive at that time of the day. Hope the Imperials treated you okay. I swear they took my ring."

- Fargoth

Hi all, Atvelonis here. I have some very exciting news to share this week, so let's get to it!

TES news

 * There's been a huge announcement for : it will be getting a new expansion pack on the island of Vvardenfell! Yes, really. The expansion will be titled (definitely not confusing at all) and will be released on June 6th, 2017 for all platforms (PC, Xbox One, and PS4). I'll link the related blogs from ZeniMax and Bethesda below:
 * You can currently pre-order the DLC from ZeniMax. Here is the pricing, if you're curious:
 * Morrowind Upgrade – $39.99
 * Standard Edition – $59.99
 * Digital Collector's Edition Upgrade – $59.99
 * Digital Collector's Edition – $79.99
 * Collector's Edition – $99.99
 * Discover the Next Chapter for ESO
 * The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Pre-Order FAQ
 * The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind – Announcement and Details
 * A Closer Look at the Morrowind Announcement Trailer
 * The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind – Announce, Details, and Cinematic Trailer (Bethesda)


 * Homesteads (part of Update 13) should be coming to The Elder Scrolls Online within the next few weeks. The update will be released for PC/Mac on February 6th, and for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 21st.


 * The Crown Store Showcase for February 2017 is out. There are new costumes, houses, pets, and style parlor cosmetics/personalities. You can read about this in more depth here.


 * ZeniMax has also released a blog titled "Welcome to 2017," in which they discuss future updates to Online. You can read the original blog here. Here is a vague roadmap for ESO in 2017:
 * Q1: Homestead, our player housing DLC, in February
 * Q2: ESO: Morrowind, our first Chapter release, in June
 * Q3: A dungeon-based DLC in the third quarter
 * Q4: A content-based DLC in the fourth quarter


 * Lastly, ZeniMax (Bethesda's parent company) has absorbed a company called "Escalation Studios," which has done work on games such as DOOM (2016). You can read more about this here.

Wiki news

 * As I mentioned in my Discussions post on the topic, our head forum moderator Khaleesi Zhavorsa is taking a break from the wiki for an indefinite amount of time due to real-life health concerns. She will retain her moderator tools until she returns.
 * Filling her spot is our newest moderator, Rose-blade94. Congrats Rose! We are currently reviewing applications for an additional moderator, so it's possible that we'll see one more promotion by roughly the end of the month.


 * Having been available on PC for several weeks now, the Discussions section of the mobile app has finally had a minor update on iOS (should be coming to Android soon). The primary two sorting buttons on Discussions are now "Latest" and "Following" (rather than "Trending"). You will now be able to follow posts that you are interested in, and get notifications for new comments on these posts. You will automatically follow every post you comment on, although you can unfollow them if you want. You can still access the "Trending" button on the app via the categories button on the top right.


 * Timeoin had the honor of correcting our lord and savior Pete Hines after he made a blunder in a livestream. In fact, Hines even replied to Tim on Twitter. Even the gods are fallible, it seems!

Moot
We had February's moot this afternoon. If you missed the moot today, we will be holding our next one on Saturday, March 4th at 4:00 pm EST. We made some relatively small formatting decisions, as follows:


 * The template XBOX is being renamed to XBOX360 to avoid confusion with the XB1 template. We will use our bot KINMUNE to fix the links.


 * We decided to do away with the policy that the name of the game would be absent from the leads of character articles. While it did serve to help un-clutter the lead somewhat, it proved confusing for readers, who are forced to scroll to the bottom of the page to figure out which game something is from if they are unfamiliar with the subject matter.


 * We are also changing the headings on book articles from "Known locations" to simply "Locations," to keep in style with other headers. This will probably also be done via KINMUNE.


 * ShawnCognitionCP suggested that we try to do a better job with our articles. While it may be difficult to de-stub all of our Daggerfall pages anytime soon, we should at the very least have good walkthroughs of the main quest of the game. I will start this off by improving our walkthrough of the game's first dungeon. Anyone else who is willing to help out should do everything that they can to improve our Daggerfall pages, with the main quest walkthroughs being our highest priority.

That's about all I have for this week, folks. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend, and as always, happy editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 03:01, February 5, 2017 (UTC) 