Played FFXIV from beta. Hit a wall once you hit level cap.
Then decided to come to ESO. A whole lot better game. Lots more to do, havent hit wall yet !

Before release? ESO Weekly by ShoddyCast. I was originally on the ol' bandwagon of hating the game because "It won't be either a good Elder Scrolls game, and it won't be a good MMO", and I wanted to mock the game for the rumoured $500M budget. However, I got more into it and SC's personalities and decided to follow it further. I didn't like the launch and the game didn't do anything to grip me early on, so I decided to quit.

Skipping forward to now, it's because my WoW Guild Master decided to play this while the next patch is in testing, and may give that a shot depending on if it solves his problems with the game (mostly a lack of stuff to do pre-Mythic+ or raiding). I decided to give ESO a shot with him, and so far I'm loving it. He seems to be fairly impressed too.

ESO is not my permanent MMO home. I play for friends and set goals, and without either, it cannot keep me active. I've only really got one, maybe two friends in this game, but I've got goals to keep me active for the time being.

I'd played TES 3, 4, 5, so I was interested in ESO. But I was far too busy IRL to get involved with the beta or the first months after ESO was released. By that time I'd seen and heard a lot a bad things about the game. And it was an MMO, and I'd had bad experiences in MMO's, being punished for not guilding or grouping. So, I was very dubious about ESO, especially as it was subscription only, and the first DLC's were aimed at groups and PvP, not solo questing.

Then ESO Tamriel Unlimited was released. It was desperately cheap and didn't require a sub. So, I thought I'd give it a try, just to see for myself. Do the quests and ditch it, at very little expense, if it didn't work out.

By the time I'd done the base zones they'd really started to fix the game. I could see it was heading in the right direction, so I stayed. And look at the game we have now

Signed up for beta access, but wasn't found of the very idea of tes game in mmo setting. Next time Vvardenfell was announced and I was thinking of finally buying it as they removed sub somewhere in time before. Bought it next sale and here am I now.

I like TES games and I like some MMOs, so when I saw the advert for ESO beta (on Facebook of all places) I was intrigued. I did some investigating into the history of the game first - who was developing it, where did the idea come from, what exactly did they intend to make etc. I wanted to make sure this was a game I'd actually want to play and not another rushed WoW-clone with an existing franchise tacked on to suck in players. (There was a lot of that going on at the time.)

It sounded good so I signed up and got into the first public beta. Unfortunately I was put off by the number of bugs and other issues which kept being reported and then kept coming up in future betas. (At first I was the one saying "it's a beta test, of course there's bugs!" but when the same ones kept coming up, right up to launch I got discouraged. Also somehow ESO always made me want to play GW2 or Skyrim instead when it should have been an ideal mix of both. I was willing to pay £30 for it, but not to keep paying £9 a month to play, especially when the subscription model doesn't work with my erratic free time.

I kept following the game, waiting for something to persuade me it was worth buying and in the end that was the switch to buy-to-play. I bought the game a month before the switch (to use my free 30 days) and I've been here ever since. It had improved a lot between the betas and Tamriel Unlimited, but it was One Tamriel which really made this feel like a TES game.

Soldier224 wrote: »

First: Sorry for my bad english

I love the TES Series. I have played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. None of them has disappointed me. Since 2005 i am fan of MMorpgs too. The first one i have play was WoW. As ESO was announced i was skeptical but then i have play the Beta and was convinced. I have buy the Imperial Edition.

A lack of Content has lead to a break from ESO but since Orsinium i play ESO again. ESO provide me a world where i can do singleplayer activities and Multiplayer activities when ever i want and how I want with many TES elements and a very good Housing system. It has a great Story and a good Content circulation since Orsinium. And the best crafting system for me. No MMO since WoW i played throughout.

Your English is fine.

Bought it pre launch in beta was hoping to have housing at first quit after 3 months then came back like 2 years later cause of Homestead then quit on and off

It looked like a fun adventure and it was a little bit cheaper sub than EVE Online.

I had too much IRL stuff going on when WOW released and its look didn't appeal to me (recently played for the first time and uninstalled within an hour). 18 months before ESO's release I got more time to play games.

I like MMOs. I like Elder Scrolls. Started back in beta but didn't play much before 1T was added. Prior to 1T, ESO was a little too theme park imo. After 1T it became more TES and that's when I really started enjoying it. That's also the same time Blizzard started their weird crusade against flying in WoD, so I cancelled my sub to WoW and devoted my time and money to ESO.

When Morrowind came out I began looking into it and thought "if I don't like it I don't have to play". And here I am. You could say I liked it.

Broke off a toxic relationship which playing whatever games I wanted was an “issue”

Because I had like more than 1000 hours in Skyrim and the gameplays from TESO looked nice!! I am really glad I got into this game, has everything I want!

I was about to start my 6th playthrough of Skyrim when I heard that this was free to play now from a friend (who sadly plays on Xbox when I am on PC).