When will ESO die out?

Elsonso

3-4 years

itscompton wrote: »

lordrichter wrote: »

OrphanHelgen wrote: »

Last two patches have been the most complained patches I have seen. Many endgamers quitting.

New end-gamers take their place. These will be people who grow up in the game.

The biggest issue with end-game these days isn't people leaving, it is that ZOS has made decisions that make it more difficult to transition to it. A lot of these decisions were actually intended for the end-game players, and I think it was done at the expense of everyone else. What I see when I look at the game is people leaving before they get to the end-game, simply because it looks like an impassible mountain. It doesn't block everyone, but it certainly shortens the game for what I have to consider might be the majority of the players.

Drachenfier

BDO pc servers are dead, why would a console release matter? Nobody plays it

souravami

1-2 years

A more fitting question would be : When will ESO's endgame pve community die out?
And the answer is "Probably the next major patch if ZOS doesn't change the direction the pts is going."

idk

5-6 years

A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That ESO used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while

But 3.0 made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step

Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking skooma and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that ESO dies
This'll be the day that ESO dies.

nastuug

5-6 years

Gonna be a while, it seems.

AndrewQ84

3-4 years

If the option was availanle, I would go with anywhere from 3-6 years. By that point, I feel the engine would be outdated and we would probably have ESO 2 by that point. Realistically speaking, I give this game a total time of about 10 years. Seems to be the average life span for an MMO from what I can see.

Akselmo

Uh oh spaghettios, tomorrow

I always vote spaghetti.

xeNNNNN

Never

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Even bad MMOs are getting 10 year runs these days . Some even longer . There's no way to say how long a good title will last . Not in the foreseeable future would be best option .

pretty much this ^

Even cabal is still running and thats almost as old as WoW.

Kodrac

Uh oh spaghettios, tomorrow

They're on year 3 of a 5 year plan. Definitely tomorrow.

LadyLavina

edit: deleted b/c no more embedded video links makes me a sad panda

altemriel

Never

never

ADarklore

Never

DCUO is STILL going... although having just been back there for a couple of days... I think it's on its last legs. They merged the PS/PC platform and the game is still pretty much a ghost town compared to what it was a couple years ago when I played it full time... and just a few months after launching on XBOX, they merged the US/EU XBOX servers because of lack of population. Definitely not a good sign when they merge servers and still have low visible populations.

DaveMoeDee

5-6 years

LadyLavina wrote: »

I suspect that TES6 will cut the player base to a degree whenever it's finally out, but there are so many dedicated people that it'll probably be around for years to come. I wouldn't be surprised if it lives until TES7 and they have to shut it down when the technology/code used is too archaic, only a small amount of REALLY dedicated players are left, and the team has moved on. (TES7 is probably 10 years away at least )

That's just my opinion/thought though.

It will be interesting so see how DLC rollouts do around the time of a TES6 release.

Banana

Whens the next skyrim coming out? That will be my que

Silver_Strider

5-6 years

MMOs tend to die slow deaths. Even the worst MMOs can survive for a minimal 5 years and ESO is far from the worst, despite my personal feelings on the matter.

I'd give it another 5 years at the most though, before people get sick of the expired milk ZOS is funneling down people's throats.

Gandrhulf_Harbard

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Or longer.

ESO will easily be around for a decade. Just look at SWTOR. It's been around for about 5.5 years and going strong though many of the strong raiders and moved to other games, especially over the last two years. But it's still very populated.

I love SWTOR - some of the time. Right now I'm messing about with my Strongholds, getting them decorated.

There's is, to be sure, a strong core following for SWTOR. But it is not, by any stretch, "very populated". There used to be 120+ US Servers for SWTOR, and IIRC 70+ European servers, there's now 8 US and 9 European ones, and most of them are only lightly populated.

Now, I hope that SWTOR BY replacing the disastrous Ben Irving as Lead Producer with Keith Kanneg, who at least seems to play the game (over 10,000 hours played) and so should understand the issues players are facing, will turn the game around a bit.

But the decline in server numbers is a stark example of what happens when Developers make the game "they want" and the not the game the "players want".

All The Best

ADarklore

Never

Gandrhulf_Harbard wrote: »

But the decline in server numbers is a stark example of what happens when Developers make the game "they want" and the not the game the "players want".

^THIS! This seems to also be the problem here in ESO... and you hear it in ESO Live all the time when they keep saying "we"... 'we think that...' and 'we wanted...' but what about what PLAYERS want? Further, they keep saying that, 'players want...' but in reality that is NOT what players want. They claimed that 'players want fewer patches' to explain why they give these massive large patches less frequently... but if you look at the poll on here about the subject, almost everyone wants more frequent patches with smaller adjustments. So it makes me wonder exactly WHAT players they are listening to because clearly they are not ESO players... and I don't think, "players who are also ESO developers" should count.

IF ZOS wants to make this game remain popular and last, they need to start actually listening to REAL players here on the forums and STOP egotistically designing the game from their personal wish list. It reminds me of weapon dyeing... the overwhelming majority of players want it... but a group of ZOS devs don't... so we don't have it.

Zvorgin

5-6 years

Huge player base on console and there is not another option on par with ESO so that's an advantage it has for sure.

Surak73

You should ask this to Varen Aquilarios. Maybe the Prophet knows the answer...

Unfadingsilence

OrphanHelgen wrote: »

Last two patches have been the most complained patches I have seen. Many endgamers quitting.

Sounds like those guys should have L2P but guess most good players can't adapt to change smh.....

Megabear

Never

at least 6 years, but possibly longer so I voted never (no better option)

Gilvoth

1-2 years

they began their fall long ago. they are on borrowed time. no one can rightly predict thier time to end, but, since i was told about my health and now these blood pressure meds i'm on, so am i, lol.

tohopka_eso

Never

Heck, Look at EQ its what 18 yrs and still running.

Tholian1

When the whales go extinct.

Mojmir

1-2 years

Maybe not die,but f2p will be by end if summer.thats my prediction.

jedtb16_ESO

sometime within the next bluuuuuuuuuuuuuurb years when there will be an asteroid strike (similar to the one that did for the dinosaurs, remember them?) eradicating all life on the planet..... other than wardens.

Egonieser

3-4 years

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Even bad MMOs are getting 10 year runs these days . Some even longer . There's no way to say how long a good title will last . Not in the foreseeable future would be best option .

Bad MMO's are usually cheap to make and maintain, hence why they're bad. Some of them games can survive off 1k players +/- due to cheap production and maintenance costs.
ESO is a AAA MMO and is by no means cheap - if a game like this struggles to hit the desired numbers, it will eventually flop, just like a lot of other AAA MMOs in the past. Yet some obscure Korean MMO that barely shows up on a Google search or any kinds of listings can easily plod along with it's tiny population and development team of 4 people...

Cheap and cr@ppy games have it much easier in this regard.

pattyLtd

Nerf sorcs!!

Oh crap wrong thread.....

my crystal ball is broken and doesnt give an answer

jedtb16_ESO

pattyLtd wrote: »

Nerf sorcs!!

Oh crap wrong thread.....

my crystal ball is broken and doesnt give an answer

crystal?

so 1960's...

Darlgon

18 years

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