Does the forum represent the entire ESO:TU playerbase?

Kammakazi

Since apparently it "does" according to some people. *rolls eyes*

OrangeTheCat

No

ZOS has forsaken their own forums. People go to Reddit instead.

rotaugen454

No

No, I and I alone represent the entire player base.

Volkodav

No

Oh heck no.
Very few players even come here.We're a drop in the bucket.We just tend to forget that when getting all our feathers all ruffled over something. Lol.

_Chaos

Yes

Clearly yes.

nine9six

No

I bet most haven't even registered for here.

The Uninvited

No

I would say it depends on the topic.

TheBrownWiener

Does this poll represent anything?
No

Muizer

Yes

Voted Yes. And really badly too.

Ackwalan

No

Forums are mostly just the loudest kids. And being the loudest does not make them the most informed or mean what they have to say is anything worth while.

Solariken

No

Nope, but I would argue it represents the entire playerbase that is passionate about the game and the larger community.

Judas Helviaryn

No

Not even close. We are the vocal minority.

Anzriel

No

The forums represent the whiniest and least mature members of the pve, pvp and rp community. Most people, myself included have largely given up on the forums here for that reason. People in game are largely much more helpful and willing to see the opinions of others even if they don't agree. The forums are where all the "my way is the only way" people are herded. It's pretty sad in many ways....

Necrelios

No

A very tiny percentage. Probably more players in Mournhold on a busy day than on the forums in an entire week. They're too busy playing and enjoying the game to worry about the salty peanuts on these forums. Especially the General Discussion section, although the Combat & Character section tends to have some more productive discussion from time to time.

Zyle

Honestly it's hard to say. I've seen people say that they stay away from the forums like the plague but comment frequently. While I see some frequent names, I do see a lot of new names in nearly every thread. I've also seen people claim only 1% of the player base is active on forums, but we all know how statistics work Ultimately only ZOS knows.

Glaiceana

No

Only a small portion of the community. I've spoken to a lot of people in game who weren't even aware there is an official forum for the game. Also add in the problem that not everyone receives the invite code for the forum community when they purchase the game, so some of them may never find out that they need to contact support to get the code resent.

Imperius_Skepta

No

I would say that most of views shared on this forum do not represent the the majority of the player base. For example everyone here seems to be ok with them doing a 7+ hour maintenance patch on the last day of the anniversary cake.

Where as in game from about an hour before the servers went down I saw constant wining in zone chat about how it was unfair and inconsiderate. This inspired me to post here on behalf of these players which I now realize was futile

tinythinker

No

Not even close.

magictucktuck

No

Most people on here just complain, while some has some merit the overall game is great with positive people in game. Coming from Xbox NA server

Zardayne

Yes

With such a question I just had to vote YES...

Katahdin

No

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TerraDewBerry

No

I'm constantly surprised at how many people in a game never.. ever.. visit the forums. I have no idea how they play like that personally. I guess they wait for their guildies and friends to let them know what's changing and upcoming in the game? I don't know.. I couldn't do that. I have always used the forums on any game I've played. I have a "need to know what's up" obsession.

Abeille

Yes

Yes.

In fact, it represents the entire internet.

This one forum.

Makkir

No

To prove a point, I randomly asked 20 players through whispers in Wayrest the other night if they ever use the official forums. Only 4 said Yes.

Volkodav

No

_Chaos wrote: »

Clearly yes.

You do know that there arent enough members in these forums to make up the entire player base? There are tons more people who dont even pay attention to forums at all.

UltimaJoe777

Allow me to direct your attention to the free reskill incident at IC's launch. That is all.

Also what most of the posts here have voted.

jkemmery

No

I know a lot of players in the game who don't ever come on the forum

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO

Yes

I say 'Yes'.

Not for any scientific reason, but because I'm a member of the Ebonheart Pact and I can't STAND seeing all that blue on the page.

FOR THE THREE!!!

kevlarto_ESO

No

I read an article a year or so ago, most games only about 20% of the total player base posts on the forums after account creation, don't know if that holds true for every game, but I doubt 50% of the players post on the forums, I know at lease 5 people in my guild that does not post, and rarely even reads the forums.

DurzoBlint13

No

No! The vast majority have never even been on the website, let alone the forums. There are a large number of players that do not even know there ARE forums or news announcements or patch notes.

hrothbern

No

Cambridge dictionary:
"represent verb (ACT FOR)
C2 [T] to ​speak, ​act, or be ​present ​officially for another ​person or ​people"

Represent ???
Never... we were not elected to represent !

@Kammakazi ,
I think the better question to pose would be:
Are our opinions an indication of what many more players of ESO:TU think.
And that's I guess what your intention is of the question.

I agree very much with @Ackwalan !

Ackwalan wrote: »

Forums are mostly just the loudest kids. And being the loudest does not make them the most informed or mean what they have to say is anything worth while.

What annoys me most of the loudest posts is, that these post dilute the many meaningful contributions to this Forum, that are of the interest of many players of the ESO:TU, including posts with opinions they probably do share.