Top three reasons you considered leaving.

DHale

I did not have one until today.No Cp pvp. Sad sad sad.

Gracous

Violynne wrote: »

Armitas wrote: »

List the top 3 reasons that have aggravated you so much that you considered leaving the game.

I can only name two:
- Fallout 4 or another new game I must play right this second
- Boredom due to the repetitive nature of the game.

Ironically, I just find myself shifting from one boring game to another. Soon, I'll be playing Minecraft or Fallout 4 again.

This generation of games sucks. It's either resells of older games or a few gems like Dishonored 2.

Where the hell are the good games? Isn't this gen supposed to deliver us better games?

Right.

All games at their core are the same.

Look at first person shooters. Get a gun go shoot something get a better gun. Go shoot something get a better gun and armour. Next level, get a gun shoot something and get a better gun and med pack. Go from point "A" to point "B" and kill everything in between. Get a bigger and better gun.

MMO's: Start at level one and kill a cat. You are now level two. Get a sword and kill a goat. You are now level three and get a bigger sword. Kill a monster and get armour (die five times trying). Reach level cap, get bored and quit game. Buy new game and do it all over again.

Abilities, weapons are all the same but with different names in different games.

The graphics are better so that you will think that you are getting something new (but really you aren't) and you will buy it.

For the companies its all about the almighty dollar and how many they can get. Can they beat their rival to the top.....just like video games.

LegendaryArcher

1. vMA loot RNG
2. vMA loot RNG
3. vMA loot RNG

No other reason. Otherwise the game is great. I quit ESO half a year ago for BDO because I want to play and spend money on a game with a fair loot system. Best decision of my gaming life. I now have full Tet armor and even a Pen Kzarka weapon. If I stayed in ESO, I'd still be grinding for that vMA Inferno.

Blackmoon777

1)money grab
2)money grab
3) even more money grab

Vildebill

1. The sick RNG this game has, like Maelstrom or dungeon set weapons.
2. The grind.
3. The greed. The B2P convertion, the value went down for us that still pays, and obviously we didn't get "all downloadable content" since some jackass introduced the word "chapters". Not even buyable in crown store for crowns the subscription bought.

Auros

1. Lag (so far acceptable)
2. P2W (not yet)
3. Disturbance in the Force (unexpected decision about the future)

Knootewoot

Armitas wrote: »

List the top 3 reasons that have aggravated you so much that you considered leaving the game.

1. RNG
2. Loading screens
3. Major bugs (ex invisibility, double selenes)

I have takes several "breaks" due to frustration mainly PvP related. Mostly is was the downward spiral since 1.2.4. Before 1.2.4 there was little to no lag and we had deer and torchbugs in Cyrodill. After that it went downhill.

There are still youtube video's up from before 1.2.4 and you would see massive armies charging and fighting, even with AOE's and not fps drop or lag.

And there are video's that show after 1.2.4 with massive fps drops, lag, crashes, loading screens, class balancing gone haywire etc.

A break mostly fixes it for me as I always return. One Tamriel certainly made me come back to try my first alt. But I wait for Warden for that. Currently I still have fun on the non-CP PvP, but there are still issues I bet won't be fixed on short term. And the battlegrounds also will not help Cyrodill but will only result in more demand for class balancing since people are pitted in small Arena's on small scale.

Pops_ND_Irish

Never considered it.
But if I wanted to leave I would. I wouldn't try to threaten ZoS with leaving hoping they would fix some crazy thing

Pops_ND_Irish

Vildebill wrote: »

1. The sick RNG this game has, like Maelstrom or dungeon set weapons.
2. The grind.
3. The greed. The B2P convertion, the value went down for us that still pays, and obviously we didn't get "all downloadable content" since some jackass introduced the word "chapters". Not even buyable in crown store for crowns the subscription bought.

Like this.
ZoS should just give everything away for free.

Guarantee you people would still complain

De_Mysteriis

1. Too high subscription price. I can afford it, but it's just feeling that it's unfair, with the only benefit being a craft bag and ZOS doing everything to make playing without one a painful experience.
2. Homestead, absolutely useless update for me.
3. Bugs, bugs, bugs... And devs doing very little to fix them (sometimes making them only worse), introducing new content instead.

Valorin

I can't help finding the idea of leaving a game like you quit a relationship pretty absurd, to be honest.
ESO is an mmo and as such I expect a few things I wouldn't expect in a TES game. There were a few decisions that went over a certain border though and made me squint. In short:

Crown crates (first on the list and still baffle me)
Favoring dropsets over craftsets to the extend we have now.
A few design decisions like shiny red plastic ore/wood as highest level material, which also led to pink candystick weapons, the shield symbol when blocking which can't be toggled and a few more cosmetic things which are of great importance to me since I would play Pong if wouldn't care for eyecandy. Game designers wouldn't spend so much time on immersive and great graphics if it wasn't important and I bet a few of them look at the beautiful and fantastic landscapes they made and hate the shiny red material nodes in it as much as I do.

Dexter411

1. RNG for EVERYTHING. Sets have chance to do this and that. You get a chance to get upgrade mats. Chance to get loot You want. Chance to get Master Crafting Writ(got only one...). Chance for a specific mechanic while fighting (vMA).

2. Crafting is useless even after last update. You can farm really nice looking motifs but 99% of the crafted sets are underpowered comparing to dropped sets.

3. One dumb rule to rule them all: Do tons of damage and You can ignore most mechanics. With this goes the current meta for PvE dps builds and build diversity in PvE.
BSW,moondancer,maelstrom inferno staff, Grothdarr/Ilambris for ALL magicka classes.
Mealstrom dagger/s or axe, VO and TFS, Kra'gh/Velidreth for ALL stamina classes.
Of course every magicka build will use the wall of elements, destro ult, harness, rearming trap and most likely force pulse(unless it's magplar). Every stamina build will use, flurry, rearming trap, endless hail, poison injection and steel tornado.
What a joke.

Ozstryker

Uhhh RNG cos I saw other people write that.. And... Uhhh, lag! Yeah lag even though I don't get it on PC, but someone else does so yeah..., also, ummm balance, or maybe crown creates cos... Oh I dunno, just agree with meee.

LOL /sarcasm intended.

wolfxspice

1. RNG
2. other friends left (because of rng)
3. $150.00 into crown crates still not one mount (so more RNG)
I came back though, took a two month break

Troneon

1. Inventory Management Online / Guild Store Alliance Monopolies / Bugs and exploits since beta still in game..
2. Focus more on cash shop and copy pasta crap than actual content, then charging more for fake DLC expansion....lack of incentives to bother subbing anymore.
3. RNG is god damn awful / over the top grind or luck/RNG for some content, achievements and for some items, less about player skill.
4. Broken LFG Tool since forever on and off broken.
5. Completely unbalanced sets and classes where one setup is always completely overpowered compared to all others causing nothing but flavor of the patch builds every time.

I know you said 3 but honestly fix those above issues and the game will be 100 times more enjoyable...and less feeling like work than play.

DurzoBlint13

1. RNG/endless grinding
2. broken PvP- more issues than I can list in this post
3. lack of consequences for exploiters/cheater
......4. RNG
5. RNG
6. RNG

Tempah

1.RNG
2.People
3. The download size of the patch that just hit ps4 and xbox

Dragonnord

1 - PvP and PvE manual cheaters not permabanned.

2 - Bots not removed.

3 - Exploits used to gain gold with ZOS not taking stuff/gold back from the players after the exploit is fixed. IE: PvP scrolls decoy that many got them while they were BoE (ZOS mistake) and sold them for millions. Now that was fixed, BoP again, but those players still have their millions.

Silver_Strider

Already left because

1) Game Imbalances - This was the absolute main reason I left. Be it in PvP or PvE, the game was just horribly imbalanced. PvP has proc cheese and Eye of the Win Button. PvE it's just burn everything quickly, with maybe 10% actually mechanic based.

2) Lack of new content on a consistent basis - The lack of decent sized content was just really getting to me as time went on. I'm already in BiS gear with all the hardest content on farm, so what's left for me to do? Play house? Really? No epic quest to recover the Mace of Molag Bal? No comedic relief questline that would leave Sheogorath in stitches from laughing so hard? Give me something to do other than grind for loot I don't need in the same dungeons/trials we've had for years.

3) Community - Toxic, close minded, and overall kill joys. I get enough of that at work, don't need it playing games too.

4) Bugs - This is self explanatory really. Nothing like doing a quest/dungeon/etc only for it to bug out on you.

5) Exploits - Exploits are also just sad and ZOS really doesn't do much to discourage it either, what with a 3 day ban seemingly being the worst result. If it was up to me, I'd make a pet and skin for exploiters. It would be a talking skeever pet that would constantly make the most annoying sound as it let out a caption of "filthy cheater" as it followed its owner around and the skin would be just like the momento that traps your character in a bubble, except it would be a permanent effect til the skin was removed. To make sure this wouldn't be a one time punishment, I'd make sure that they both applied upon logging into your character, EVERY SINGLE TIME.

billp_ESO

I'm not really going to quit, but I am taking a break now. Why?

- the 1-50 game is wonderful. I like the quests, the main story, and the environment.
- after that, it looks like a massive grind grind grind with lousy RNG, as if this was content
- don't want to grind for all your stuff? prepare to be kicked off of teams doing dungeons
- housing was the last straw, no functionality but a giant grind grind grind again.
- lastly, I don't like the game's direction: gambling crates using real cash?? really???

It's not really P2W, it's P2NotPlay. Pay cash now to skip the grind!

Cavedog

1- lack of storage options
2-lack of storage options
3-lack of storage options

Ghost-Shot

1. They broke my DK, but that's better now.
2. Getting pvp gear requires potentially hundreds of hours of pve dungeon farming. We need pvp equivalents of lich, burning spellweave, huking, etc. that actually come from pvp.
3. No proper raid progression. Hopefully the new chapter/expansion system will help this but 1 raid every 12-18 months isn't going to cut it.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

• RNG
• ***hole players
• no transmog system
• cheaters and botters continue to abuse the game (and other players) and are not punished
• game seems to only reward the wealthiest/elite players

Tito86

Can I have your stuff? All of You!

o0Velius

Over all the game needs a lot of work work that won't happen for awhile.

The lag
Rng
Can be fixed
Toxic community cannot
Can't fix players only the game itself

Armitas

Ghost-Shot wrote: »

2. Getting pvp gear requires potentially hundreds of hours of pve dungeon farming. We need pvp equivalents of lich, burning spellweave, huking, etc. that actually come from pvp.

Amberplasm sword and board is at the top of my to-do list for PvP. I might have a better chance winning the lottery. That is such an awful dungeon to need anything from. They don't even have unique items for that dungeon, so you have to go through the whole dungeon for 1 shot at a weapon. It's not even an overall BiS for anything, it's just a normal set.

I played BDO which is known for RNG and it wasn't anything like how bad the RNG has become in this game. The RNG in this game is choking the life out of the game, and the devs just keep feeding and watering it.

Cogo

qsnoopyjr wrote: »

Actually for the guy who did
1. Lack of communication between developer and community

In GW2, they use to run this youtube show every month, cannot remember what its called, but basically developers would give you short spill what they doing, and answer a few questions.

Now, because they did stuff like that would I keep playing?
Nope, to some people, hardcores, they may enjoy that. TO me, I just want a good meaningful game.
MMORPG that actually pushes and strongly suggests 'YOU PLAY WITH OTHERS'

Not some MMORPG, typical 'today standard' MMORPG, "its okay to solo" "matter of fact you should solo"
I'm playing an MMORPG to play with others... Not to be encouraged to solo and not able to find groups because 'this game is 100% encouraged for soloing'.

Should you be able to solo? yes... But should it be strongly emphasised and encouraged that you play with others and not just a 2 min deal aka dolmen... But a whole day type of deal.

"hey since you doing stuff in this zone too, what you plan on doing next? I have to do that too, so lets go do it" type of deal, type of encouragement.

I actually want an MMORPG...
Where being in a guild actually matters.

Tired of this norm "join all the guilds you want" "guilds are meaningless, just join all the good ones"

I miss days when guilds meant something, like in Everquest, you see someone with guild tag Triune, you think, holy crap, a legendary player is in the same zone as me.

Also, because that guild is 1 of two guilds to be so far in raids... Matter of fact... Its the norm to have raids everyone can beat too.
All that hardcore, all that aspect of MMORPGs.... Down the drain.
Players are MORE hardcore today, than several years ago.... Yet the developers do not realize it, and content gets 'EASIER' not 'HARDER' when it comes to end game.

The game itself... Is EASIER not HARDER than before.
Back in my days... You die... You lose half your current level progress. DEATH was EXTREMELY bad back in my days... Hence why few people were highest level. Guess what... It felt good making levels, actually had feeling, and commadre it brought, very good too.
Its as if, easier game gets... More people start HATING the game.

People start [snip] about RNG, instead of enjoying the game for what it is, when stuff is too easy.
Its called a grind when stuff is too easy. Its called PROGRESS when stuff is tough.

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I agree with everything here! Maybe us EQ players share some kind of a mind set?

You nailed it! Easy, easy, easy, easy, fast, quick, easy, console muppets. Bleh!