ESO is still fun IF ...

scorpiodog

Everyone's idea of "fun" is different. With the many changes of 1T I've found myself enjoying some changes and absolutely hating others. Other ongoing problems with the game will continue, and there will surely be things in later releases that will either delight or bother me. But there are still parts of the game that are still fun, so it doesn't make sense to just quit.

A few weeks in from 1T, I've found that I enjoy myself much more in ESO if I clearly define my limits and clearly identify things I just won't participate in / ignore / give up on - at the same time recognizing and accepting that others may have "cool stuff" that I will never have, because to me it's just not worth it to invest the time or money into those things.

Below is my list. What is yours?

• I never try to get a specific item with a specific trait: I'll take a Pollyanna attitude that training and prosperous will give me slightly more exp and gold, lol.
• I'll never buy a crown chest: I just never gamble in real life unless the odds are completely even, like in a friendly game of poker.
• I never try to get a special "limited edition" drop item at the same time as hordes of others are: I absolutely cannot stand being in a crowd of scavenging beggars hoping I will be the one to get one of a limited number of nice treats. I just don't do Black Friday and even as a child I never ran for candy Santa threw to mobs of begging kids.
• I accept that soloing Dolmens and world bosses is a thing of the past. I do them once for the FG credit / achievement and move on.
• I understand that PvP is broke and there is no reason to believe it will ever be fixed. Cyrodil and IC will just continue without me unless there is some specific reason to go there. Then I'll just go in and get out as quickly as possible.

Sigtric

ESO is still fun if... I log in and play.

I'm guessing it is still fun if I am not logged in, but since I am not logged in to see it, I can't be 100% sure!

newtinmpls

scorpiodog wrote: »

I've found that I enjoy myself much more in ESO if I clearly define my limits and clearly identify things I just won't participate in / ignore / give up on - at the same time recognizing and accepting that others may have "cool stuff" that I will never have, because to me it's just not worth it to invest the time or money into those things.

Below is my list. What is yours?

• I never try to get a specific item with a specific trait: I'll take a Pollyanna attitude that training and prosperous will give me slightly more exp and gold, lol.
• I'll never buy a crown chest: I just never gamble in real life unless the odds are completely even, like in a friendly game of poker.
• I never try to get a special "limited edition" drop item at the same time as hordes of others are: I absolutely cannot stand being in a crowd of scavenging beggars hoping I will be the one to get one of a limited number of nice treats. I just don't do Black Friday and even as a child I never ran for candy Santa threw to mobs of begging kids.
• I accept that soloing Dolmens and world bosses is a thing of the past. I do them once for the FG credit / achievement and move on.
• I understand that PvP is broke and there is no reason to believe it will ever be fixed. Cyrodil and IC will just continue without me unless there is some specific reason to go there. Then I'll just go in and get out as quickly as possible.

Way cool!!

I totally agree it's not worth worrying about a specific trait. Heck I only have two Maw of the Infernal helms, and one of them is Vet CP 140; I still use them both.

Crown chest - no way no how. Never did the "random" Telvar crates either.

Farming Hoards - yeah I occasionally do that, but mostly not, and mostly only with Templars (Jesusbeam means I'll likely get the drop) or DK (lots of AoE; very good for dolmen mobs).

I don't care so much for PvP, but I still enjoy IC. If it stops being fun... I leave. Although when my sweetie and I are on a late-night "run around the circle and take the flags" it can be fun. OTOH sometimes a really super skilled player shows up and totally (skillfully) wrecks us.

Still fun.

RiddleDiddle

I enjoy this game a lot, so should everybody else.
Make your mind set on other things than min/max and good traits, never do something more than 2 times in a row and see if you can do other things than just farming, enjoy the world of Elder Scrolls at it's fullest.

People come, people go, stuff happens, changes will be made, just get your mind set on a wider view than just getting that 1 helmet with 1 trait, that's the advice i give and it helps me.

Ofcourse i am looking for that divine helmet, or that sharpened vMA Dagger, but i have my mind set that if i get it it's great, but i probably won't so i just keep going with either doing another run or having fun in the world.

Greetings from,

RiddleDiddle the advice Horker

jedtb16_ESO

RiddleDiddle wrote: »

I enjoy this game a lot, so should everybody else.

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Greetings from,

RiddleDiddle the advice Horker

really?

because you enjoy it everybody else should too..... hmmmm, that's a tad prescriptive isn't it?

i love the game, think it is great fun, but i'm willing to accept that it may not be everybody's cup of tea.

Alucardo

- You only care about roleplaying

Ah, that's all I've got.