Did you start out first as a TES fan or an MMO fan?

GreySix

Saw this on another MMO forum, so thought it might be a swell idea to get an actual pulse of folks here:

"The thing with ESO that I've observed is that the only people I can find who like it are people who have either 1) only played MMO's and never an Elder Scrolls game, or 2) people who have only played a few Elder Scrolls games, but never an MMO.

A lot of people who play MMO's and Elder Scrolls games all seem to have the same reaction I had which was 'DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!!!'"

Full disclosure: Started out playing Oblivion before messing with an MMO (SWTOR), and really thought ESO would be a great way to cooperatively play a TES game with my wife.

magickats242cub18_ESO

I don't see my option, I played both MMOs and TES games.

Sakiri

Played TES before any MMO

Started with Morrowind.

Laura

Played TES before any MMO

yeah missing my option too I should be in the don't cross the streams. Been playing MMOs since UO (EQ, EQ2, WoW, Lotro, Rift, FFXIV always went back to EQ) and literally my first single player game was Arena and I have played evey elder scrolls.

In fact my rule of thumb has always been, "its time to upgrade my computer because a new ES is coming out"


Please redo this poll with another option for those of us that fall into the mixed camp I think you would be surprised.


For me this is a match made in heaven, other than the poor state of EP and some bugs I am into this game like no other.

ebondeath

Played TES before any MMO

Oblivion was my first ES game, I played that for about a year before I picked up WoW and played that for 4 years. I only picked up Skyrim this February after I quit WoW, so my experience is sort of an ES-MMO-ES sandwich.

Wolfaen

Hmm my option is missing as well. I have been an avid MMO player since EQ and a TES player since Morrowind so it would be both for me.

KrisButtar

Played TES before any MMO

magickats242cub18_ESO wrote: »

I don't see my option, I played both MMOs and TES games.

Which did you play 1st a MMO or a TES game? Its clear your a fan of both if you play both but which came 1st

SFBryan18

Played TES before any MMO

Started with Oblivion on PS3. Skyrim on PC took it to a whole new level when I started adding mods and learned how to use the creation kit. I've played many multiplayer shooters before TES, but the whole WoW generic MMO is not really something I care about. I prefer the massive multiplayer without the game hopping neckbeards who care more about the genre than the franchise. I believe TES was amazing before they added MMO to it, so they should keep it as much like TES as they can, and only change what they absolutely must to make it a multiplayer game.

oxylus

This poll is missing the options to make it yield any real information

Tavore1138

Played TES before any MMO

Started at Daggerfall... Had a very very brief EQ experience and hated it enough that I never played online again until this.

Falmer

Played TES before any MMO

I have played both. My first TES game was Arena and at that point MUDs were about the only thing you could qualify as MMO.

Have played every ES game, including Redguard and Battlespire.

Loved EQ, DaOC, EQ2, Conan. Never played WoW and honestly wouldn't even try it.

Honestly, the people I see that HATE ESO are the WoW players who thought it was going to be WoW in Tamriel. People who LOVE the lore and storyline aspect tend to like ESO a lot. The MMO crowd who thought racing to the end, because "that's where any MMO really starts"... those are the ones who hate it.

magickats242cub18_ESO

Well they both came out around the same time, World of Warcraft, and the TES titles. I played both, not at the same time, but would alternate when I got tired of playing one or the other.

GreySix

Played TES before any MMO

magickats242cub18_ESO wrote: »

I don't see my option, I played both MMOs and TES games.

Which did you play first though?

rorcusb16_ESO

Played TES before any MMO

Played TES since Arena, as it felt like a massive upgrade from Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder at the time and MMO's didn't really take off until 5 years later.

Fuzzylumpkins

Played an MMO before any TES game

Was an mmo player that had enjoyed Morrowind and Oblivion. This experience though has pretty much not felt like either. Not an epic ES single player game or the experience you get from an mmo. Unless you only focus on inability to balance abilities, stop gold spam and inability for the product to stay true to it's own lore, then I guess its similar to either.

driosketch

Played TES before any MMO

GreySix wrote: »

"The thing with ESO that I've observed is that the only people I can find who like it are people who have either 1) only played MMO's and never an Elder Scrolls game, or 2) people who have only played a few Elder Scrolls games, but never an MMO.

Like the game, never played an MMO RPG before it, been playing every TES since Arena. You can now say you've found someone who fits beyond the limits of bracket 2.

GreySix

Played TES before any MMO

driosketch wrote: »

GreySix wrote: »

"The thing with ESO that I've observed is that the only people I can find who like it are people who have either 1) only played MMO's and never an Elder Scrolls game, or 2) people who have only played a few Elder Scrolls games, but never an MMO.

Like the game, never played an MMO RPG before it, been playing every TES since Arena. You can now say you've found someone who fits beyond the limits of bracket 2.

Yeah, don't credit me with that quote. I pulled it from another popular MMO's forum.

driosketch

Played TES before any MMO

GreySix wrote: »

driosketch wrote: »

GreySix wrote: »

"The thing with ESO that I've observed is that the only people I can find who like it are people who have either 1) only played MMO's and never an Elder Scrolls game, or 2) people who have only played a few Elder Scrolls games, but never an MMO.

Like the game, never played an MMO RPG before it, been playing every TES since Arena. You can now say you've found someone who fits beyond the limits of bracket 2.

Yeah, don't credit me with that quote. I pulled it from another popular MMO's forum.

Ah, well then sadly we will never meet, and the limited exposure will forever lock the original poster into that view point.

Lalai

Played an MMO before any TES game

I'm a fan of both MMOs and TES games. MMOs since Shadowbane, and TES games starting with Morrowind. Technically I played MMOs first, but I hardly see how that's relevant if I've been playing both things for years, and actually like both. I don't mind at all that they "crossed streams".

Armianlee

Played TES before any MMO

Started with Arena back in the day. MMOs weren't a thing, unless you considered MUDs, MMOs.

Bloodfang

You forgot an option "BOTH".

I'm not really a dedicated TES fan, more like an RPG fan. Though sometimes I prefer MMOs, and ESO seems to be just the best mix of the two.

It's kinda weird pool as you are asking how did we start first, instead of asking us what do we prefer. So to answer your question I began with RPGs - though never really spent as much of my time as in the MMO genre, which is obvious.

FrauPerchta

I played The Elder Scrolls: Arena ('94) before there were any mmos to play unless you count MUDs. But Richard Garriott, Ultima Online, coined the term MMORPG in '97. Pre- UO they were called graphic MUDs. At any rate I played them all because I'm a PC game junkie.

stabbykitteh

Played TES before any MMO

Started TES with Morrowind. Doubt I would have ever played an MMO if this one hadn't been made.

Ragekniv

Played an MMO before any TES game

Missing some options...

Been playing MMOs since EQ and Ultima Online. Hell I remember MUDs and playing D&D and Gamma World with pencil, paper and dice.

Yes, that means I'm an old fart that still enjoys MMOs and TES!

ers101284b14_ESO

Played TES before any MMO

Like a lot of people I started with Morrowind. I tried the Major MMo's WoW, SWTOR, Aion,Rift,GW2,Every F2P asian one that came out, couldn't find any that I actually enjoyed. Until FF14 1.0. That game may have had its problems but it had a lot of great mechanics in it just held back by the lack of content and the lag. Then they remade it and well.....Now I enjoy this one. I don't care about lack of endgame, or bugs, or glitches or anything else because I like the actual combat and upgrade system. I also think this has one of the best crafting systems in an MMO. But thats just me.

UrQuan

Played TES before any MMO

To all the people saying "where's the option for both" you clearly didn't understand the question. Unless you're trying to say that you literally first played your first MMO and your first TES game at the exact same time. On 2 computers side by side maybe?

Swordguy

Played an MMO before any TES game

I honestly can't remember whether I played morrowind before I started playing Anarchy Online, but I'm sure it was after.

PBpsy

Played TES before any MMO

TES first.
I kind of stopped playing mmos some time ago. I think they are the worst type of game . If it wasn't a TES game I wouldn't have touched it. I love the TES part dislike the unavoidable mmorpg mechanics but manage to tolerate them.

kimboh

Played TES before any MMO

I'm a TES fan first but I'm no stranger to MMOs.

Lalai

Played an MMO before any TES game

Ur-Quan wrote: »

To all the people saying "where's the option for both" you clearly didn't understand the question. Unless you're trying to say that you literally first played your first MMO and your first TES game at the exact same time. On 2 computers side by side maybe?

To be fair.. the subject title question and the poll question are kinda different. The question doesn't actually have much to do with the quoted paragraphs of text right before the poll either. If the poll was reflective of the quoted text, it would have simply asked if we'd played a TES game prior to ESO, or an MMO prior to ESO.. or both... two options for each to say something like:

ESO is my first TES game, but I've played other MMOs. I like the mix.
ESO is my first TES game, but I've played other MMOs. I dislike the mix.
ESO is my first MMO, but I've played other TES games. I like the mix.
ESO is my first MMO, but I've played other TES games. I dislike the mix.
I've played both TES games and MMOs. I like the mix.
I've played both TES games and MMOs. I dislike the mix.
I've played neither a TES game, nor an MMO prior to ESO. I like the mix.
I've played neither a TES game, nor an MMO prior to ESO. I dislike the mix.

The confusion is probably coming in because people actually read the whole thing, rather than not reading it at all.

If you were doing what you're a fan of first, the poll question would also need to be changed a bit.. as just because you played something first doesn't mean you were a fan of it first. You could have played it and found it mediocre, or disliked it.

Edited because I forgot the option for neither.

CaffeinatedMayhem

Played TES before any MMO

TES fan, and still not an MMO fan.