How long have you played in PvP ?

WeylandLabs · January 2023

Easy question : How long have played in pvp ?

Just getting some data

Thecompton73 · January 2023

8 years

Is it weird I miss the days when the only place to get lvl160 mats for crafting was to farm IC for them?
Many of my favorite memories in the game come from the times when IC and the sewers were full of people because there was something required by everyone they could only get there.
Everywhere you went you knew there could be danger just around the corner and the thought of losing 80% of your Tel Var gave every encounter pulse pounding high stakes.
But when you failed you could instantly respawn in any district and be back in action in seconds.

SkaraMinoc · January 2023

8 years

On and off since beta so technically 9 years.

Before ESO, I PvP'd heavily in GW2, SWTOR, WoW, DAoC, and UO. PvP in MMORPG is my favorite type of video game.

MEBengalsFan2001 · January 2023

2 years

If we are talking PVP in general I've been PVPing since arcade times when Street Fighter 1(ONE) was in the arcades. That to me is true player vs player back in the late 1980's.

ESO PVP is more group of 6+ vs solo players or Zerg vs. a group of 12. Rarely do I see true PVP.

In Battlegrounds you have an objective and most battle grounds are preformed groups making battle grounds not so random or fun.

katorga · January 2023

8 years

8 years, off and on - I basically stop pvp completely while I do the content from new chapters, level an alt or get some OCD compulsion to get some achievement.

Araneae6537 · January 2023

2 years

Difficult to say… In ESO, off and on in Battlegrounds only at first as my first experience in Cyrodiil was to ride out to join a group, promptly die, respawn, want to leave, cannot find the exit, frustration mounts…
I was lured back into Cyrodiil in 2020 for the Sorcerer King’s blade furnishing. I ended up joining groups on occasion and enjoying it. I like all three PvP modes (Cyrodiil, IC, and BG), depending on my mood, game state, and especially whether I have a group I play with.

If in total… around ten years, off and on, as I started in my first MMORPG, SWTOR, where I played on a server that also had open world PvP.

martinhpb16_ESO · January 2023

8 years

Except for the last 8 months where it has been practically zilch

OBJnoob · January 2023

5 years

About 5 years. I really need to look up how long it's been... It might be longer, but I'd rather not exaggerate.

I'm 35 years old and am happy to have lived through the advent of online gaming. I haven't played a "campaign" in 15 years. Prefer beating people than computers.

MMOs are my favorite type of game. Played EverQuest on PC then switched to EverQuest Online Adventures when it came out for playstation. Went back to PC for WoW, now I'm playing this on Xbox.

Jsmalls · January 2023

7 Years

Thecompton73 wrote: »

Is it weird I miss the days when the only place to get lvl160 mats for crafting was to farm IC for them?
Many of my favorite memories in the game come from the times when IC and the sewers were full of people because there was something required by everyone they could only get there.
Everywhere you went you knew there could be danger just around the corner and the thought of losing 80% of your Tel Var gave every encounter pulse pounding high stakes.
But when you failed you could instantly respawn in any district and be back in action in seconds.

Some of my best PvP memories come from those times (after the hectic times from release of IC). Used to have duels setup right outside of the vault in arena pre Duel on interact wheel function. This was in the meta where an ultimate was used when fighting outnumbered, and all you needed was normal abilities to kill people and If you were a tank you did NO damage. And health pools above 23k were rare. Good times...

taugrim · January 2023

All the way back to Meridian 59, the world's first MMORPG.

For ESO, since my 1st month of playing back in July 2020.

Oakenaxe · January 2023

5 years

Used to be the best part of this game, it is a shame how things turned out for PvP.

WaywardArgonian · January 2023

3 years

Give or take 3 years. I played PVP before that but it was very on-and-off, and a lot of it was in Under 50.

Kikazaru · January 2023

8 years

I’ve been PvPing on and off since the day the game came out.

Dojohoda · January 2023

7 Years

I tried PVP shortly after getting the game (2015) and I became hooked.

Vevvev · January 2023

8 years

Has it really been 8 years? I can't believe it, but I remember back when I played ESO just for the PvP always wanting to do co-op and PvP style combat in an Elder Scrolls game. I sucked really badly, but I knew how to throw down siege and tried to help out in any way I could on my hybrid Nightblade that barely put out 7k DPS

Edit: I did my math wrong and in April it'll be 8 years for me lol. Still at 7... for now

Jaimeh · January 2023

7 Years

Dojohoda wrote: »

I tried PVP shortly after getting the game (2015) and I became hooked.

Same case, and still love Cyro!

SkaraMinoc · January 2023

8 years

taugrim wrote: »

All the way back to Meridian 59, the world's first MMORPG.

For ESO, since my 1st month of playing back in July 2020.

Meridian 59, The Realm, Ultima Online

HowlKimchi · January 2023

8 years

on release, I leveled my first toon to max in non-vet pvp.

MEBengalsFan2001 · January 2023

2 years

taugrim wrote: »

All the way back to Meridian 59, the world's first MMORPG.

For ESO, since my 1st month of playing back in July 2020.

Let's get technical here. The first MMO was Island of Kesmai back in mid 1980's with up to 100 users on at one time.

The first graphical MMO was AOL Neverwinter Nights that ran from 1991-1997 which I had a chance to play and really didn't like.

Minno · January 2023

5 years

I stopped when classic wow/new world came out. I tried to come back but the lag gets me every time lol.

Theignson · February 2023

8 years

I first entered Zerodil in 2015, so that's 8 years technically. But I didn't start doing it full time until 2017. I got GO in 2019, so that was a lot of time sink in those 2 years.

HowlKimchi · February 2023

8 years

I was born with a twin brother so you could say i've been PvPing all my life

Thraben · February 2023

8 years

9 years - and it was so awesome in the beginning

Hundreds of players rolling over a hill towards the next Keep.

Good times.

taugrim · February 2023

MEBengalsFan2001 wrote: »

taugrim wrote: »

All the way back to Meridian 59, the world's first MMORPG.

For ESO, since my 1st month of playing back in July 2020.

Let's get technical here. The first MMO was Island of Kesmai back in mid 1980's with up to 100 users on at one time.

The first graphical MMO was AOL Neverwinter Nights that ran from 1991-1997 which I had a chance to play and really didn't like.

My post intentionally said "MMORPG" not "MMO".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_59

Meridian 59 is a 1996 video game developed by Archetype Interactive and published by The 3DO Company. It was the first 3D graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and one of the longest running original online role-playing games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(1991_video_game)

Neverwinter Nights was the first multiplayer online role-playing game to display graphics, and ran from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.

There's a debate on whether NWN 1991 was "massively multiplayer" or just "multiplayer", given that it didn't reach meaningful scale in terms of players until after M59 and UO surpassed it.

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