What’s the main reason for taking a long break or quit the game? If you do

paulychan

Other

Runs wrote: »

Sometimes you just need to get a pack of cigarettes and come back 5 months later.

Dad?

akl77

People and guild politics

The two people that voted too addictive, thanks for your honesty.

Zelos

Other

Nothing gets fixed, bugs that ruin classes for a whole 6 months and lag that gets worse with each day, the fact that zos isnt consistent with their fixes and the fact that the game is still in beta is why I dont play anymore.

AntonShan

Other

1) Bored of the game, nothing to do anymore
2) Lonely, no friends to play with
3) Technical issues with the game
4) Unbalanced gameplay

In that particular order

Aesthier

Technical issues with the game

paulychan wrote: »

Runs wrote: »

Sometimes you just need to get a pack of cigarettes and come back 5 months later.

Dad?

Oh thank you! You both made my night I can sleep happy now!

Bam_Bam

Other

Took a break of about a year after the death of a close family member. Returned after a year away.

Other things that may make people quit the game

Lack of communication and proactive responses to the community. eg: the player makes a great suggestion but is completely ignored. The player feels kind of worthless, ignored and feels that the devs aren't interested and/or have their own agenda. THEN the devs introduce a mechanic/item/system that goes completely the opposite way to the player's suggestion and creates/add to existing performance issues as well as increasing existing imbalance. Player quits AND EXPLAINS TO FELLOW PLAYERS AND ALSO GUILDIES WHY THEY ARE QUITTING - fellow players and guildies are sympathetic to why the player is quitting and start to feel the same seeds of doubt and abandonment growing inside them.

Performance issues still utterly destroying both PvP and PvE. 4.5 years after the game was released and there are lag issues that are still prevalent. Are ZOS understaffed and have a stunningly obvious lack of competent engineers who are able to fix the performance issues? Or do they just not care? Players don't know, again, because of that lack of communication.

Cyrodiil night-capping and faction-swapping. Not an exploit but let's be honest - the players who actively engage in this know that its a broken mechanic and are absolutely rinsing it - IT IS AN EXPLOIT - it's just not official yet. There's a lot of blurt players who have been carried to Emperorship this way and even more blurt players who have helped with the carrying. IT IS TIME TO FACTION LOCK CAMPAIGNS AND PREVENT ANYONE WHO HAS PLAYED FOR MORE THAN ONE FACTION DURING THAT CAMPAIGN, FROM GAINING EMPERORSHIP.

Lunstagramer

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Well, when World of Diablo will be released, then good bye ESO, it was a pleasure to meet you.
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Astralura

Other

In the past when I've taken breaks it's almost exclusively been because I've moved and the house has godawful internet stability (I'm Australian), so often I can't even update the game, let alone play.

LadyNalcarya

Technical issues with the game

shaielzafine wrote: »

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

Bad performance, server lag and bugs. At first I thought it's just my pc, but my friend has the same issues with a really good pc and this is really a shame that the game is so unoptimized.
Also I didnt like vAS trial and it made me quit my raiding group. Idk, its just super boring and annoying. I did hardmode and some other achievements but this trial just wasnt fun for me. I hope ZOS will abandon this lazy "mini trial concept".

Yeah, the "mini trial concept" does feel like lazy boss rush design compared to something like maw or hof. Idk but I liked going through maw's little map, listening to the npcs & the mechanics on top of having the add waves between bosses. Not to mention there's not as much loot/ undaunted plunder in AS or CR so as you progress / learn the trial you don't really get any rewards.

Agreed.
And it gets repetitive really fast. When I was healing vMol and we tried to improve scores, I had to deal with various bosses and mechanics. vAS, on the other hand... Oh yeah, kiting the same circles the whole time, so much fun.

eso_lags

Technical issues with the game

Laaaaaaaag

shaielzafine

Technical issues with the game

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

shaielzafine wrote: »

LadyNalcarya wrote: »

Bad performance, server lag and bugs. At first I thought it's just my pc, but my friend has the same issues with a really good pc and this is really a shame that the game is so unoptimized.
Also I didnt like vAS trial and it made me quit my raiding group. Idk, its just super boring and annoying. I did hardmode and some other achievements but this trial just wasnt fun for me. I hope ZOS will abandon this lazy "mini trial concept".

Yeah, the "mini trial concept" does feel like lazy boss rush design compared to something like maw or hof. Idk but I liked going through maw's little map, listening to the npcs & the mechanics on top of having the add waves between bosses. Not to mention there's not as much loot/ undaunted plunder in AS or CR so as you progress / learn the trial you don't really get any rewards.

Agreed.
And it gets repetitive really fast. When I was healing vMol and we tried to improve scores, I had to deal with various bosses and mechanics. vAS, on the other hand... Oh yeah, kiting the same circles the whole time, so much fun.

Oh I laughed when I read your comment, it's so true!! Back kiting is like that, MT kiting is harder with the resource drains but still running in the same circles over and over for your life while throwing synergies lol. I guess CR isn't quite the same since you have to heal, but meh it's a lot of running around in the same little arena in circles around each other.

Keldheir

Bored of the game, nothing to do anymore

I simply got bored. Back then I couldn't care less about any group activities and did everything solo. After doing the same quests over and over, for several years, I just got burned out. Took a seven months break. Now I'm having the time of my life again and can really appreciate the game.

Shadow-Fighter

Other

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Elwendryll

Busy with life, work, school

I joined the ranks of the filthy casuals against my will...

Gythral

Other

A mix of several of the options
Technical
Lack of interesting content
balance
& other things to do

DanteYoda

Technical issues with the game

My opinion..

This games biggest flaws are the technical issues, balancing between PvE and PvP and crown store prices are the three main reasons why most customers would leave..

srfrogg23

Playing other games

I play a variety of games (not just MMOs) and tend to cycle through them regularly.

Gladium

Bored of the game, nothing to do anymore

The first time I left was just before Homestead due to balance issues. I knew I was going to play again at some point, and stayed away for one year.

I can feel my interest in the game dwindling at the moment. I am excited to bash my head against the wall in the new dungeon HMs, but I just feel a bit meh in regards to what else there is to do.

jokeaccount

Busy with life, work, school

A lot of those things actually. I'm busy, a little bored with the game, and like to play a lot of other games too. ESO is pretty low priority for me right now, although I did play it once last week just to check out Wrothgar again.

KingofAnnwn

Playing other games

I jump back and forth between ESO and AC Origins on the xbox. On PC I jump between ESO and DoD:S when I feel like it

Starlight_Knight

Technical issues with the game

LAAAAAG

Dillpat

Unbalanced gameplay

the game has so much to offer but imbalance between classes and sets really burns you out with frustration, fueled further by poor server performance.

Tryxus

Playing other games

Sometimes, I lag so much irl too that it takes a while for me to log back in

Danikat

Busy with life, work, school

I don't really do quitting a game, maybe because I've never been one of those people who plays just 1 game at a time to begin with. I always have several games installed on my computer and dozens on various consoles and I'll just play whatever I feel like at the time. Sometimes that means playing the same game almost every day for weeks or months, sometimes it means I pick one up and find it's been 5+ years since I last played it. But as most of what I play is single-player games which don't get updates it usually doesn't matter how long it's been.

So it's hard to say exactly why I stop playing one because it's not a conscious decision. But I think it's a combination of choosing to play other games instead and being busy with real-life and other interests. For whatever reason I just keep deciding I'd rather do something else instead.

RDMyers65b14_ESO

Technical issues with the game

I seem to fight the game more than I do the other factions in Cyrodil. It is very frustrating. Go to dethrone, crash. Log back in after several connection errors, being told the account is still logged in, ect, requeue again(hopefully less than an hour queue) , back at the gates. Horse simulation to the keep again, crash again, rinse, repeat.

And ZOS's answer to fixing the problem, telling you not to go anywhere where there is a high concentration of other players. So, I guess that the others need to stop faction stacking in the last emp keep so the dethrone can happen.

starlizard70ub17_ESO

Playing other games

While there aren't many of them, once in awhile a game will come out that I want to play so I take a break from ESO to play it. I still log in to feed mounts, do craft writs, attend guild events, etc, but my playtime drops a lot while playing the other game. The "other" games are always single player, (although Fallout 76 may change that). My last break was Assassin's Creed Origins, before that Borderlands 2 and Fallout 4. Usually the breaks last 2 to 3 weeks depending on how involved the other game is and if anything important is going on in ESO.

Jolipinator

Other

The events end.

majulook

Technical issues with the game

Missing textures in every dungeon and delve making it unplayable.
My sub expires in 3 days, just canceled renewal, i have been playing since beta.
I am on break until (if it ever) gets fixed.

SilverWF

Bored of the game, nothing to do anymore

Just getting bored from doing the same stuff today as I did yesterday and understanding, that I would do that tomorrow and day after tomorrow etc

redspecter23

Other

If the designers make changes so drastic and divisive that it splits the community and changes the foundation of the game.