What brought you to Elder Scrolls Online?

SynodicOracle

If you select one of the first 3 options, you must have played it from it's release year, not someone who played Morrowind after Skyrim etc.

Aebaradath

Ancient Lich [Arena/Daggerfall Onwards]

I just wanted to kill more Elves.

alterfenixeb17_ESO

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

Long term fan since Daggerfall. Didn't miss a single TES game I think.

SynodicOracle

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

I just wanted to kill more Elves.

Whew! You played Arena and Daggerfall in the years they were released? Are you proud of how far TES games have come?

SynodicOracle

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

alterfenixeb17_ESO wrote: »

Long term fan since Daggerfall. Didn't miss a single TES game I think.

Even the mobile ones/small release ones? Redguard? Shadowkey? Or just the major 5?

kiLLahweSPe

Accidentally Came Across/Random

I like maintenance.

Charliff1966

Ancient Lich [Arena/Daggerfall Onwards]

Started TES with Daggerfall. Hundreds of hours spend in that game.

Nevto

Always hated games with functioning servers. So naturally, this game was recommended to me

GiuEliN0

Short Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Skyrim]

I'll be honest I played Skyrim, and fell in love with it. After I played Oblivion and fell in love with, more than skyrim. At last i tried morrowind but didn't played it at all
Then i tried Eso and i never left it!

logarifmik

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

Started with TES III, but have tried older games too. I like the lore of this universe so far, and this is it, the main reason I came here. I still think, that main story in ESO is on the same level at least as those of singleplayer games, despite of all this timeline mess and some questionable plots devs introduced recently.

Vostorn

Was a fan of Dark Age of Camelot. I loved the 3-way pvp.

DAOC was dead and I heard about TESO having 3-way pvp so I wanted to give it a test.

PvP was much better on DAOC however.

Aebaradath

Ancient Lich [Arena/Daggerfall Onwards]

SynodicOracle wrote: »

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

I just wanted to kill more Elves.

Whew! You played Arena and Daggerfall in the years they were released? Are you proud of how far TES games have come?

Proud? Yes, but I'm one of the rare few (or only one) who felt Skyrim was a bit "meh" in comparison to its predecessors. Daggerfall has a special place in my heart.

Gythral

Ancient Lich [Arena/Daggerfall Onwards]

Have every game from Arena, including the spinoffs Battlespire and Reguard, all DLC (including Horse Armour) & play the oldest ones still occasionaly

dennissomb16_ESO

Previously Played Other MMO's

Had been playing GW2 and came with friends that I have played MMOs with for 15 years (met while playing Dark Age of Camelot)

Fischblut

Short Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Skyrim]

I liked Skyrim, I wanted something similar...
I played and liked Oblivion also, but it was already after I tried ESO.

ZiRM

The High Elf Godly race.

Tandor

Ancient Lich [Arena/Daggerfall Onwards]

Having started playing computer games with the Hobbit in 1983, and with role-playing games taking over from adventure games soon after with Bards Tale and Might and Magic etc, I've played all TES games from Arena onwards, as well as most MMORPGs from the Realm onwards (with MUDs before that, I went online in 1997).

ESO was therefore a natural evolution from both CRPGs and MMORPGs in general and TES in particular. I didn't get involved in the beta as by then I had decided to leave betas alone and discover new games at launch, so have played ESO since launch on the PC in 2014. Two accounts, no performance issues, and no regrets. All the TES games are different, albeit with a common lore, and this one is no exception to that. It's a shame that some players expect ESO to be Morrowind Online, Skyrim Online, or some other imagined MMORPG implementation of an offline CRPG. It isn't, and was never intended to be. It's just a great game in its own right.

rumple9

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

I came for the maintenance downtime - heard it happens quite often

SydneyGrey

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

I started with the original Morrowind and have played every game since.
Morrowind was my favorite game until Oblivion came out, then Oblivion was my favorite game until Skyrim came out, then Skyrim was my favorite game until ESO.

Gargath

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

It was an obvious choice, when nothing solo was after Skyrim.

SynodicOracle

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

SynodicOracle wrote: »

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

I just wanted to kill more Elves.

Whew! You played Arena and Daggerfall in the years they were released? Are you proud of how far TES games have come?

Proud? Yes, but I'm one of the rare few (or only one) who felt Skyrim was a bit "meh" in comparison to its predecessors. Daggerfall has a special place in my heart.

Actually I share this opinion. I mean sure, as a standalone game Skyrim was okay. But as a TES game, when compared to its ancestors, it was lacking in a lot of areas, especially in lore and writing. Oblivion is my special one, because it fixed Morrowind combat issues but did not lack in writing or lore or questlines. Skyrim was bland and while the combat was improved in some areas it was worse in others.

ankeor

Short Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Skyrim]

I often become addicted to any game I play regularly. Then I picked up ESO and I saw the difference immediately. Now I can eat, sleep and do other activites thanks to server crashes one after another. It really helped me in my real life. Thanks ESO! You are the best.

jedtb16_ESO

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

got morrowind free with an agp graphics card.... hooked ever since.

Soleya

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

Playing Elder Scrolls since Arena in 1994.

Your first option should be medium time fan if you started with Morrowind and long time if you started in Arena.

ANGEL_BtVS

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

Morrowind > Oblivion > Skyrim > ESO

ESO is my first (and still only) MMO - I tried it specifically because of my love for the single player games. Love ESO.

SynodicOracle

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

ANGEL_BtVS wrote: »

Morrowind > Oblivion > Skyrim > ESO

ESO is my first (and still only) MMO - I tried it specifically because of my love for the single player games. Love ESO.

That's what brought me here too! I never enjoyed MMO's but when ESO was announced I felt obliged to buy it as although it was online, it was a TES game. And I was extremely excited to see loads of areas from TES games in HD, and to actually play in 2E.

Blackbird_V

Other:

Came to see the legendary extended maintenance for myself. Was not disappointed.

Danikat

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

I technically played Daggerfall first, but only briefly at a friends house. Morrowind was the first Elder Scrolls game I owned and therefore the first one I played properly. Been a fan ever since so when I heard there was going to be a TES MMO I was immediately interested.

I have to admit at first I was a bit wary. I wasn't familiar with the name Zenimax and I was worried this might be one of those situations where a developer makes a generic game (usually quickly and often badly) and then licences an existing franchise to dress it up and market it. But that got sorted out fairly quickly and I signed up for the beta.

Lake

Previously Played Other MMO's

I have zero interest in Elder Scrolls.

I heard about the One Tamriel concept and was sold.

Ilsabet

So wait, if I played Skyrim immediately before coming to ESO, am I allowed to vote for that option given it was several years after Skyrim came out?

AgriyaTheGrey

Long Term Elder Scrolls Fan [Morrowind/Oblivion Onwards]

Discovered/played Morrowind first, but subsequently discovered there was already a TES IV out by that time. Enjoyed exploring Morrowind so much I forked out for Oblivion before I'd completed it, and then found that Oblivion was a walk in the park compared with Morrowind: I like Oblivion OK, but whereas I've completed it 3-4 times, while I think I may have recently accidentally completed Tribunal, I've yet to journey to (that game's version of) Solstheim & I still get sidetracked wandering around Morrowind so much that I've yet to complete the main story even once. Which is a good thing IMO. Makes Morrowind the superior game experience. I like a game which swallows me whole like that. That's what I call real escapism.

Then came Skyrim, and I'm afraid I got so excited by the initial enthusiastic buzz surrounding it I may have expected too much from it. So my actual reaction to Skyrim is more 'meh'. (Veering towards actual active dislike of the UI which appears to me to have been designed primarily for console play & with little regard for PC keyboard and mouse play.) Actually, now I come to think of it, I really like the Dragonborn part on Solstheim in Skyrim, which is the best TES 'chapter' since the original Morrowind IMO.