The real world can be such a cruel and harsh place. Sometimes also a little dull and boring. But that all changes the moment i step foot into the Elder Scrolls Online. I find myself whisked away, into another world, another reality. It helps me forget about my troubles in the real world. The world of Elder Scrolls is really beautiful, filled with atmospheric location. The sound when cranked right up brings the world around me in the game alive. Before long, i am completely immersed in the world. I absolutely LOVE adventure, exploration, progression. I absolutely adore my toons. I take extra special care when creating them. They will be part of me forever afterall. There is so much to do. You can fish, go for a long ride just coz you just can, story telling is well done as well. I love the fact you can become a vampire or werewolf, however i feel they need to add story-lines to those, with on-going daily missions for those factions to and make them a cult you are a part of. Will add realism and would be awesome for RP too.

Its a game that is just so perfect for soloing as well as adventuring with your better half, friends, or family. My husband had ankle surgery 6 months back, but at least when you are on a game, you can still run around and feel like you are doing all those things that people take for granted in real life.

I truly enjoy crafting in this game as well. Most other games, they were rather average. ESO did a good job on this one. Well done.

I really love skies in a game. Night time skies are my personal favorite. I find myself glancing up into the night sky in ESO and get mesmerized just watching the stars twinkle. I am ALMOST convinced i am looking up into a real sky, and wondering to myself "I wonder what other worlds are out there, waiting to be explored." Absolutely love the realism.

And i absolutely LOVE the size of the world and all the potential this game has. I can't wait for those empty sections of the map to eventually fill into locations we have access to. The thought alone is exciting.

I love the skill system a lot too and the ability to earn heaps more via the discovery of Skyshards. The combat is pretty neat as well. Better than any other MMORPG I've ever played.

There are so many more reasons i do enjoy the game. I could probably write a novel just about. ~GiGgLeS~ Easy to do when you are passionate about something i suppose.

Well there you have it. Just some of the stuff that keep me playing ESO, and the joys that it offers me.

Here are my Provisioner's Dozen reasons:

1. I love the artwork, graphics, animation and cinematics. The first thing that drew me to the game visually was the Breton Archer in the cinematics. While all three of the characters are great, he is flawless. The attention to detail in his armor amazing. In the game itself, I enjoy finding unusual locales that allow me to see the world from a rare perspective. Also, the designers' continual drive for improvement, such as redesigning the Orcish and Khajiit crafted armors to show more detail, and adding the mouth animations, shows it's just getting better.

2. I enjoy immersing myself in the stories of the questgivers, the races, and the alliances. While I won't always feel that I have the time to enjoy it this way, either because I'm in a group, or in an area where monsters will respawn on top of me, or I've just done it recently and don't want to repeat the dialog, the story is the bottom line of what impels me to play ESO. It defines who my characters are and the world in which they live. A different game with the same mechanics, but a completely different premise, wouldn't necessarily hold my attention. I really enjoy the fact that the developers periodically modify questlines. This helps keep them fresh for those altaholics like myself who keep coming back for more.

3. I believe that Zenimax supports the players who support Zenimax, and that keeps my subscription active. I enjoy the benefits I get as a subscriber, and use them on a daily basis. Congratulations on Nirn! It's a most bodacious creation! Not to mention your other excellent creations, like Oblivion, Aetherius… Jehannas.

4. I love the freedom of the gathering and crafting systems in ESO. It has always frustrated me in other MMOs to pass by resources unable to harvest them because the character I'm using at the time hasn't learned how to chop wood, or isn't skilled enough to chop that particular kind of wood. Being able to harvest all resources on any character makes it unnecessary for me to designate one character to pick flowers, another to pick ore, etc., along with dedicating time on each character to farm. And being able to craft your own gear immediately without spending skill points when you start the game is a great touch. The best part of the crafting system is knowing that you can craft your own set gear, and that it's actually useful. The bonuses are worthwhile, and the items are customizable enough to allow for a huge variety of looks and skills.

5. I like the fact that there are 4 classes, and all of them have the versatility to perform all roles, wear all armor and use all weapons. I've seen people wish for more classes, but when you have the basic archetypal roles who are free to morph into any combination currently available that doesn't leave a lot of room for a truly unique additional class. I have multiple veteran ranked characters on all 4 classes (except DK, I only have 1), and I've used different specs with each, so there truly is a lot of variety with only 4 classes.

6. I really like the way the Crown Store is set up. They promised it wouldn't be filled with pay-to-win items when they first opened it, and they've kept that promise. They also asked what people would be willing to pay cash for, and have listened, putting those items up for sale, and periodically adding fresh products. I like to collect the limited-release mounts, so I enjoy it when I see a new one appear. I'll admit I really laughed out loud when I saw on the PTS that they're offering Vampire and Werewolf bites on the crown store. Not that selling them is funny in itself, but thinking about the ever-present arguments in zone from people saying those bites should be free, and that people charging gold are ripping off others.

7. I don't know if they'll keep the current pace of releasing downloadable content, but I was surprised when they announced the release of Orsinium so soon after Imperial City. I'm all for it. As a subscriber I'll be in Wrothgar with the best of them, and from what I've seen on the PTS it will definitely be worth having. So for those who don't subscribe, I'd recommend shelling out some Crowns. It gives me hope though that the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild will release soon, since they discussed both on the same Twitch feed a while back with Orisinium.

8. I've traded in other games, but this is the first game I've ever had guilds specifically for trading. It probably resulted from the fact that they hadn't instituted the guild trader system when I started, and guild stores were only for members. But the community it has built up seems to have made a niche in the game. I enjoy trading, and it makes up a large part of my time and resources, but is only incidental to the game itself, and I think that's great.

9. I really like the fact that veteran dungeons (with the exception of a very few) have different bosses than their normal versions. The story progresses, and you meet the next generation of bosses, not just the same bosses with more health and an extra mechanic or two. I know they didn't follow this with the latest releases in Imperial City, but I hope they keep that model as their standard.

10. I enjoyed the release of the Dragonstar Arena. It seems like a raid built for a dungeon group, which is nice because it's a lot easier to get four people together than 12. I know they haven't been able to do it yet because they weren't designed that way initially, but I hope they eventually get to scale the Arena and the Trials. The addition of a solo arena in Wrothgar is amazing, and it scales! So I can see getting a lot of enjoyment there.

11. The Justice System! Adding that made being in town fun again. It brought the adventure within the city walls instead of having it be Tamriel's time-out corner. And some of the Legerdemain passives are indispensible.

12. Increases in our available carrying capacity have been very welcome. This includes increasing stack sizes to 200 on many items helped a lot (although I'm still waiting for them to include prepared food/drink and potions to this, since all their materials stack to 200 now). And the latest increase of bag slots purchasable from a pack merchant from 5 upgrades to 8, for a maximum capacity of 140 character bag slots (200 with a max-capacity mount). The change to account-bound mounts, pets and costumes, as well as putting them in collections instead of taking up precious bag or bank space, was a great move. (If only there was a way to do this with the disguises we pick up…) Revamping the provisioning system has to be one of the best changes they've made in the way the game operates. We've come down to 50 ingredients (51 now with the addition of Perfect Roe) from what, about infintity? It actually is possible for a character to have all ingredients now, which wasn't possible before. While I still miss some of the recipes, which I felt gave each race and alliance some of their unique charm (Fried Worms, for example), the new system is a huge improvement.

13. Last but not least, the best reason to play any MMO: the friends and guildies who play with me, making bad times good, and good times great.

Sure I want to play but all the servers have been offline for a long long time.

My reason? The RP. Nothing beats having my Nord come back to Heimlyn after a long day of smithing or guard patrol, kicking her boots up, and relaxing with her friends and loved ones in Telvanni Contracts. I spend more time in RP than I do questing or dungeon grinding or in Cyrodiil. Hell, it took me almost a year to hit the level cap at v14 and I had been playing since closed beta. I only just got a second character to v2 two months ago, but I own two accounts with multiple RP characters ^_^

The people are good, even those that have had past.... differences... we'll say, have attempted to make amends, and that means a lot. Largescale RP events that incorporate dozens of people, or hundreds if it happens to be some of the longterm plots.

~Salyyn Rysa~ (NA/EP)

I play for the water-downed version of Tamriel, which sacrificed story, immersion and lore for an mmo experience that is mostly single player without the quality of an authentic Elder Scrolls game.

- listening to Cadwell's voice
- finding amazing poetry like 'A Nereid Stole My Husband'

- DOING /KOWTOW IN FRONT OF YOUR FRIEND WHO IS AFK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DUNGEON, ALONGSIDE 2 OTHER MATES
OH GREAT ALMIGHTY HEAR OUR SUMMONINGS AND RETURN, WE NEED YOU OH SO BADLY

Here are three reasons outta million!

Honestly..I can't think of a single reason to play this game

Guess thats why I don't log in anymore

My reason for playing is simple

Community and friendship.. I've been playing this game since early access, and have made some of the best and closest friends in my life in game. Games come and go, we can all agree with that. But whether the friends I've made continue to play ESO, or move on to another game, they are still friends. That is my reason for playing.. the ability to make friendships that can continue past the game's world.

I have yet to meet more than two cool people. But I'm level 35, C'est la vi... Unless your cool, in which case mail me through forums

the amount of stuff to do over 1500 quests, killing demons and a god, fishing, finally a decent game with swords, its not another generic call of duty type FPS game, its different, crafting, its fun, even though it doesn't look as good as skyrim ESO still looks good anyway you look at it. the PvP is broken and is quite boring but I make do because im forced to do so.
I like to craft armors, I wish we had horse armor, shield dyes, weapon dyes, better looking armor and weapons.

After logging in being kick back out to the login screen after about 10 secs, LOVE THAT.

This game has room for everyone! Serious player thinking about min/max builds and how to pulverize other players in PVP - you can do that. Casual player who just wants to kill stuff? Check. Achievement hound who likes to grind for points? Yup. Don't want to do anything but hang out in town but post in zone chat and make your armor pretty? Sure! Like to make a lot of gold crafting stuff for people who are too lazy to gather their own damn Lady's Smock? Come on in!!!

Plus, there is a great community of people who genuinely like the game. I was a little worried about that when they went FTP, but my personal experience has been that the community on a whole has stayed positive and helpful. LOVE this game!

To the moments when the Aldmeri Dominion has a two hour defense at Fare, defending from the Daggerfall Covenant and the Ebonheart Pact, running around repairing walls, shooting ballistae all the while our guild is running around defending every portion possible, to simply fighting Molag Bal with the great sunset I had to make it all the more cinematic. Their are many great moments to be had in this game, whether Dragon Leaping onto a group of enemy players and conquering them with your group, to simply running through a dungeon with your friends or guildmates. This game has done well, and has so much room for a lot of great potential.