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

AhPook_Is_Here

Cancerously friendly.

Roovin

People saying this community is toxic haven't and/or aren't comparing it to other MMO's.

This place is super tame

neverwalk

Toxic now because Zenny is not fixing their broken crap. NEW games coming up that look awesome, Zenny will lose alot of players over the ignoring their player base. Only person i saw a reply from was Bethedsa, not Zenny. Whats up with that unless Beth is going to take over and give us a creation kit to make mods.

ofSunhold

Anlace wrote: »

Have to admit I keep zone chat off everywhere but Cyrodiil. It's not necessarily toxic but I still don't want to deal with it.

The forums at worst are a bit cranky - and people in the PvP threads should probably not drunk post - butok. There are always personality clashes and frictions when you have a large group of people all talking.

No, they probably shouldn't.

Smackosynthesis

Father_X_Zombie wrote: »

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

It's pretty easy to ignore those people and just follow a zerg, but yeah it seems like a bunch of kids trying to prove how good they are. It's also like that in any game with pvp.

Izaki

Depends

Stovahkiin

Eh, I've seen toxic people in all parts of the game, but there are a lot of good cookies out there. I think a lot of the nicer people simply keep to themselves or their personal guilds, while the trolls are the ones that you see more in zone chat and whatnot.

Malamar1229

ever since it went free to play all the bunny hopping 18 yr olds from Call of Duty came over

leeshi

In game I find people to be amazingly friendly. I know I always am. I have the smallest ignore list of any mmo i've ever played on eso.

I craft for people and have always had them send the gold or send the mats in advance. Lots of trust in the game. Nobody ever seems to scam. Unlike most mmos.

On the forums, the minority of actual players, things can get a bit "toxic". But even there it's not that bad. It's usually just a vocal few that are the toxic people.

This is all PC/NA I can't comment on the EU servers or the console ones.

TLDR: ESO has an awesome community.

Vrienda

Toxic but not as toxic as the Bethesda community in general.

Infinite_Pudding

I didn't vote because there wasn't an option that fit my opinion. I say the forum community is highly toxic and the in game community is very friendly. I haven't met many jerks in game but a ton on here.

Vahrokh

I play MMOs since before 2000.

ESO's community is probably top #2 or #3 nicest of all I have played with.

There are some cesspools in other MMOs you couldn't believe they could exist.

Mordack

Pretty good for an MMO. Wanna know a bad MMO community? Check out MapleStory.

Rickter

The forums are a complete cesspool. Well i take that back, the ROLEPLAY and COMMUNITY CREATIONS subforums are VERY friendly and community building. I go there some times to have my faith in the playerbase restored. Literally every other subforums is a toxic cesspool.

I avoided these forums the first 3 years of this game. Only popping in to lurk. Im glad i did. Reading these forums would have made me want to quit the game. The amount of doomsaying and get gud and zos doesnt care and blah blah blah, if youre just playing the game you wouldnt know any of this crap. Exploits are revealed here too. It literally spreads disease.

You want to save this game? Burn the forums. You want community news - play the game instead of keyboard commando.

And to be fair its this way with every game. Guild Wars 2 Swtor wow you name it they are all toxic.

Nemesis7884

The best community ive ever seen in an mmo has gw2 and tsw....what generally helps with friendliness is appealing to women and older people...what doesnt help is a strong focus on pvp...toxicity comes usually from young males and is ime stronger in certain regions...my exp overall are still decent tough...so there you go appeal to older people and women and youll have a great community

Appleblade

Area chat off.

Olupajmibanan

As every game in the universe, it has friendly and toxic players as well. I came across both but generally I find mostly friendly players. Toxic players are common in PvP and end-game PvE.

CaptainBeerDude

Rikkof wrote: »

Worst community from all MMO's combined, hands down.
Take a look at the posts rolling right now on main page, most are:

1. click bait trolls
2. nerf requests posted mostly to create bad atmosphere and to draw in trolling
3. hackusations, insults
4. trolls
5. trolls
6. trolls
7. and some more trolls afterwards

I play many MMO's and many online games, but from all, combined even, this game has got to have the worst community ever, both in game and on forums
The forums in particular are atrocious, i remember 1 and a half month ago how i got attacked on my first post ever on this forum by the troll army, i was barely 2 weeks into the game, even if that.
Many players here are f2p loaders tho, and these are the worst type of gamers a game can attract, sadly.
I would vote yes in a glimpse for a mandatory subscription, this will clear a lot of issues.

To be fair, you spouted a controversial opinion and were trying to defend the weaker argument. When provided with proven advice you ignored it and said you can play how you want.
You can absolutely play how you want, just don't expect the gankers to care that you decided to run no impen pieces.

I have seen forums that go both ways. Some more toxic, some less so.
The only constant is that trolls loves the intahwebz.

Edit: typos and ***.

Radinyn

Toxic only on forum
Very Friendly in game

Turelus

Roovin wrote: »

People saying this community is toxic haven't and/or aren't comparing it to other MMO's.

This place is super tame

My experience has been different. I have found far worse players here and been in more toxic situations than I have in other games.

Titansteele

In game the community is very good, I have been playing since beta and can count on the fingers of one hand just how many people I have encountered that were toxic.

The forums however .......... :@D

LadyDestiny

I say somewhat toxic because their are still a few good people. I blame it on unhappiness with the game.

Sylianwe

Neutral/Very Friendly/Other

It depends on who you encounter I suppose, there will always be individuals who have no other calling but to make life hard for others. Though generally speaking, I try to gravitate towards the many wholesome members this community has to offer and it has made me very proud to be part of this community.

Comixfan

Very toxic on Xbox. Sick of getting kicked from dungeons when I've done nothing wrong all because some elitist jerk decides I'm not good enough.

Banana

Burn the server. Get some new ones and everything would be great.

FierceSam

Players in ESO - mostly harmless, very easy to ostracise the tedious

Forum - waaay more toxic, but occasionally really interesting. On rare occasions you find people who understand it’s possible to have different opinions without insulting one another.

Hippie4927

Necromancers.............necromancers everywhere!!

OneForSorrow

I have my concerns and complaints about the crown store (and I have a sub!) but in my experience, at least for casual content, this is probably the most friendly MMO I've played so far (PC).

Granted my others are Guild Wars 2 which I never really progressed in, Final Fantasy XIV and World of WarCraft.

FFXIV has some fine people in its playerbase and trends towards the friendlier side since it has social mechanics that are meant to foster a positive atmosphere (getting bonuses for running content with a newbie, being able to vote for people who make meaningful contributions etc) but the most toxic experiences I've ever had have been in FFXIV.

WoW has sunk so far into its reputation for toxicity that I actually think it's slowly entering a nirvana state on the other side....

ESO is a big sandbox so I think it has more people experimenting with things and that's come to be expected, at least outside the veteran content...and some DLC content. DLC dungeons should probably be locked behind CP 160 but that's a complaint for another day.

Irfind

SydneyGrey wrote: »

The game is fairly non-toxic, at least most of the time.
The forums are poisonous as heck. I've seen so much bullying and harassment on these forums that I wouldn't be surprised if it made some people leave the game. I think the mods just let the bullying and trolling go on for so long that people think it's OK now. Basically, they only seem to care if people use a bad word, or write something racist.
When you're playing the game, though, you don't see so much of it, and the game is really incredible.

^this, nothing more to say!

geonsocal

wow, megabear...there's a blast from the past...