Is ESO community friendly? Toxic? Somewhere in between? You decide!

Megabear

Edited to ESO community, the poll is anonymous.

ProfesseurFreder

It's impossible to make a statement on this forum, good - bad or indifferent, without being attacked or mocked or made the victim of some "humorist" who thinks he's a good deal funnier than he is.

Tryxus

Toxically friendly

svartorn

It used to be really good.

A lot of us are sick of being sh*t on by ZOS though.

Hippie4927

There is so much complaining and negativity! When someone asks for help, they have to dig through all the smart remarks to get to a helpful answer. There are plenty of friendly, helpful people but the toxic ones always stand out.

Wait! @Megabear Are you talking about the ingame community or the forum community? My answer was about the forum community. If you're talking about ingame, my answer changes. I think the ingame community is pretty decent. I have had very few problems with other players.

overclocker303b14_ESO

Overall I think ESO has a great community but there are definitely some bad apples out there...

vyndral13preub18_ESO

I really think it is in the middle. There are people that you just don't want to respond to because they won't let go. Once you learn who these people are you can ignore them and have a good ole time on the interwebs.

But to me it can be hard to label people as toxic. Since it is only natural that you think the people that disagree with you are being mean and disrespectful and those that agree with you are funny and enjoyable.

Waffennacht

As long as you don't duel, PvP or wipe, everyone can be so nice lol

Pops_ND_Irish

svartorn wrote: »

It used to be really good.

A lot of us are sick of being sh*t on by ZOS though.

Really, you think with any sense you would move out of the way !

Tornaad

My Answer is yes to all of thee above.

Pops_ND_Irish

There are always bad apples. They have no other way to whine. They think people will listen on forums.

Reverb

I've been a part of truly toxic online gaming communities. This one isn't. It's also not truly benevolent. It's a good solid middle.

Jailbirdy

Based upon employees that have left, the forum environment is the same as the work place environment at ZOS.

Acrolas

I was minding my business in Vvardenfell when this skinny naked Argonian named Hunger ran up and literally spewed all over me.
Maybe if he kept that *** in he wouldn't be hungry all the time... #reported

LadyNalcarya

It depends. Forums are full of trolls, but the community is general is very friendly compared to many other games.
Of course, there are jerks and idiots, but the majority of players are decent.

Dracindo

Mostly end game player are toxic, RP'ers and casuals players less.

Tonnopesce

Childish and sarcastic

Warraxx

git rekt nerd

GeorgeBlack

Ingame most people are friendly. Only once I was fighting with someone on discord.
Forums are a troll cave. Every forum on the net that is free to public.

Cyro chat would be less toxic if people could spew their vomit on the enemies more freely

Turelus

Now are we talking games for forums?

Bouldercleave

ProfesseurFreder wrote: »

It's impossible to make a statement on this forum, good - bad or indifferent, without being attacked or mocked or made the victim of some "humorist" who thinks he's a good deal funnier than he is.

I resent that remark - it hits WAY too close to home!

Megabear

Turelus wrote: »

Now are we talking games for forums?

Both!

mesmerizedish

Online video game communities are always toxic.

Flaminir

Its the same as real life... most people are very nice, with the odd moron thrown in here & there.

I do find Argonians quite toxic generally though... does that count?

rootimus

I find that words like "toxic" (also "griefing", "bullying", "cancer", etc) get thrown around without any regard for their actual or contextual meaning. There are certainly some people who play ESO that I would prefer to remain distant from, but mostly people are just trying to play the game and have fun. I've been very fortunate in that I'm in three guilds that are varying degrees of awesome and I've seldom experienced an unpleasant member in any of them in the past three years.

For the most part, it's been my experience that ZOS are the root cause of most of the negativity, though there's that special guy who recently started a thread to complain about the free ESO+ trial and some others like him.

rotaugen454

The forums are not toxic!

GeorgeBlack

ProfesseurFreder wrote: »

It's impossible to make a statement on this forum, good - bad or indifferent, without being attacked or mocked or made the victim of some "humorist" who thinks he's a good deal funnier than he is.

Who cares about others??
It's like the first time you did a number 2 in the school as a kid. You realized that nobody can stop from doing a smelly #2 with lots of farts. Nobody can stop you from posting.
As long as you promote your position HOPING to catch ZOS attention who cares about others??
As for those humorists, I find it sad that they think they are important because they did a #2 at your threads.
Personally the more humorists in a thread, and the more toxic the conversation becomes you increase your chances to get a moderator to read your original post. And then who knows.

Avidspark

As with any community, there are toxic members...overall though, I meet more decent folks than nasties

rootimus

GeorgeBlack wrote: »

the more toxic the topic becomes you increase your chances to get a moderator to read your original post. And then who knows.

Except most of them are Bethesda moderators, not ZOS moderators. Most of them probably don't have much clue what ESO is and they're not likely to go running to the devs because they've seen a good idea. If they were actually ZOS employees and part of the ESO community team, like in pretty much any other game, you'd likely have a point.

Megabear

My personal experience is that ESO community is pretty average overall. There are some on the extremes, very friendly or very toxic, but overall the ESO Community has been very.. steady. WoW for me was the worst example of MMO community while TSW (The Secret World) and FF14 community have been the best.

Father_X_Zombie

Stay out of PvP and trials and your fine, also don't mention anything political in zone chat.

PvP is about as toxic as a barrel of radioactive waste