Does anyone else feel addicted to ESO?

Odovacar

I take breaks here and there but the old Eee Es OoO keeps calling. Do you ever feel this way?

Edited title* physically for simply "addicted" …

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

It's more of a FOMO for me. I'm having much more fun playing other games right now.

yodased

I'm more addicted to my group of friends i've made over the last 4-5 years than anything in particular to the game. The game itself is fine for the most part, its the people that make it amazing.

Koolio

yodased wrote: »

I'm more addicted to my group of friends i've made over the last 4-5 years than anything in particular to the game. The game itself is fine for the most part, its the people that make it amazing.

This. I’ve had so many friends delete this game only to come back because we all play together

deLioncourt

Not really.

The first time I quit this game..it happened because I simply forgot this game existed.

I woke up one day and I said to myself, "Holy sh*t. I wonder whatever happened to ESO."

I come back for 2 months and then Morrowind drops, so I quit again.
Now Murkmire is here and I am in a similar boat.

Struggling to find the motivation to log in.

Turelus

Not really, I love the game and play when I can but I have friends who don't play ESO so I game with them elsewhere.

Normally as said above it's damn FOMO manipulation that has me log in every day for rewards.

SirAndy

Odovacar wrote: »

Does anyone else feel physically addicted to ESO?

Physically? No ... Mentally? Sure thing ...

usmguy1234

Odovacar wrote: »

I take breaks here and there but the old Eee Es OoO keeps calling. Do you ever feel this way?

Yes. When I see an epic pvp montage I usually get on to play... just to be reminded how utterly garbage pvp performance/ balance is. Then I'm left feeling empty the rest of the evening.

Yubarius

@Odovacar

I recently quit, about a week ago, for a few reasons. I've been playing nonstop for about 3 years and for the most part I'm just kinda worn out of the game. No form of gameplay is exciting to me anymore, not because it's bad but rather I've just been going for too long. I also came to the realization of the absolutely disgusting amount of time and money I've funneled into this game over the years, and the real life things I gave up just to get another raid in, or one more pvp fight.

For about a year I was going to bed later and later every night which was okay during the summers but this really became an issue when school started. I'd have school and work take up easily 14 hours of my day, then I'd play eso for a few hours and survive off only a few hours of sleep. My grades began dipping and I never hung out with anyone anymore. I let it completely destroy my life, which is primarily my lack of self control, but I think MMO's tend to do this to people because it almost becomes a job. I was constantly thinking "I have to get my dailies done for some specific reward", or "I have to go into cyro for hours to have fun and rank up". It just got the point where I was simply logging in out of habit or necessity instead of to have fun.

I enjoyed many parts of this game but I honestly dont think I'd ever be able to have the control to play for a reasonable amount of time. I gave away all my gold (I think like 1 mil) to some of my friends as a sort of mental feeling of quitting. I have tried to give it up in the past which didnt work, so I'm heavily considering deleting all of my characters and items so I will have no reason to be tempted to come back.

I know this was kind of a long read, but I hope my story shows how you should either learn to control your addiction to the game or stop entirely. Have a blessed one!

Keldheir

I used to feel that way, the first three years. Played it day and night, dreamed about playing it, thought of jute whenever I saw yellow flowers outside... Am I glad I'm over that.

ChunkyCat

I logged in for a couple hours this morning. Queued up for BGs because they’re the only thing that’s even remotely appealing to me.

Took 22 minutes to get a Deathmatch. The team that won was a known trio from the Asia region that regularly BGs together. Healer & 2 dps.

Jumped in the queue again and figured I’d try the Murkmires while I wait for the next BG match. Run here, talk to so and so, run there, grab three thing-a-ma/“-jigs, return to so and so, go kill random npc. Blah blah, not what I would call fun. At all.

27 minutes later, next BG match starts. Crazy King. My teammmates are a CP 76 stamblade and a CP 200ish mag warden. “But BGs are no-CP, so that shouldn’t matter!” Right....

One of the opposing teams is just camping our spawn point. Don’t ask me why, I can only assume that it’s because they feel good wtf-stomping newbies. Not like they’re getting any points for it.

The third team was pulling ahead in the score before I just /quit, did a few craft writs, and logged off.

Not even mad. Just seems pointless.

DMuehlhausen

I just can't handle the UI right now lol.

I have a frame I can't get moved. When I'm in a boss fight it jumps up and down. It never use to do this, but this alone might be enough for me to stop playing.



It's that stupid red bar at the top.

Gargath

I don't have friends but I'm addicted, you satisfied?

adeptusminor

For awhile there I was pretty hooked. More mental than physical though. Funny thing is the more that they have added to the game to take advantage of that "addiction" like daily login rewards and seemingly constant events the less interest I have had in the game. It's overwhelming trying to stay up on everything and while initially I felt like I was missing something for not participating in the current event, it's actually been liberating not caring at all about it.

Ratzkifal

Well, no. Currently it's more the opposite. The hype around Murkmire got overshadowed by so many things for me that this almost feels like Summerset 2.0 with more things to grind. At least I got a friend of mine to play, which means that I get to enjoy a lot of the game again with someone else. If it weren't for that and the log in rewards I might have taken a longer break a while ago already.

Lord_Eomer

ChunkyCat wrote: »

I logged in for a couple hours this morning. Queued up for BGs because they’re the only thing that’s even remotely appealing to me.

Took 22 minutes to get a Deathmatch. The team that won was a known trio from the Asia region that regularly BGs together. Healer & 2 dps.

Jumped in the queue again and figured I’d try the Murkmires while I wait for the next BG match. Run here, talk to so and so, run there, grab three thing-a-ma/“-jigs, return to so and so, go kill random npc. Blah blah, not what I would call fun. At all.

27 minutes later, next BG match starts. Crazy King. My teammmates are a CP 76 stamblade and a CP 200ish mag warden. “But BGs are no-CP, so that shouldn’t matter!” Right....

One of the opposing teams is just camping our spawn point. Don’t ask me why, I can only assume that it’s because they feel good wtf-stomping newbies. Not like they’re getting any points for it.

The third team was pulling ahead in the score before I just /quit, did a few craft writs, and logged off.

Not even mad. Just seems pointless.

If you want fun again in ESO then delete all characters except main (sell all items).

Recreate characters or start playing in different server (EU or US)

siddique

Yubarius wrote: »

@Odovacar

I recently quit, about a week ago, for a few reasons. I've been playing nonstop for about 3 years and for the most part I'm just kinda worn out of the game. No form of gameplay is exciting to me anymore, not because it's bad but rather I've just been going for too long. I also came to the realization of the absolutely disgusting amount of time and money I've funneled into this game over the years, and the real life things I gave up just to get another raid in, or one more pvp fight.

For about a year I was going to bed later and later every night which was okay during the summers but this really became an issue when school started. I'd have school and work take up easily 14 hours of my day, then I'd play eso for a few hours and survive off only a few hours of sleep. My grades began dipping and I never hung out with anyone anymore. I let it completely destroy my life, which is primarily my lack of self control, but I think MMO's tend to do this to people because it almost becomes a job. I was constantly thinking "I have to get my dailies done for some specific reward", or "I have to go into cyro for hours to have fun and rank up". It just got the point where I was simply logging in out of habit or necessity instead of to have fun.

I enjoyed many parts of this game but I honestly dont think I'd ever be able to have the control to play for a reasonable amount of time. I gave away all my gold (I think like 1 mil) to some of my friends as a sort of mental feeling of quitting. I have tried to give it up in the past which didnt work, so I'm heavily considering deleting all of my characters and items so I will have no reason to be tempted to come back.

I know this was kind of a long read, but I hope my story shows how you should either learn to control your addiction to the game or stop entirely. Have a blessed one!

Yeah, don't. Lol.

I was playing on PC since 2014/15 till 2017 when I got married and didn't really have time to play much. Eventually, my wife got me a PS4 a few months ago (yes yes, lucky me ) and I got the game last month, now I have a CP 210 character with no gold or anything and I miss my PC character with all gold Morkuldin gear and what not.

I have come to the conclusion that whatever you do, eventually you come back. So it's always a good idea to not burn all your bridges.

Kagukan

Gaming is addictive. Its science!

Abigail

No.

Mojmir

Not even in the slighest

Abigail

Kagukan wrote: »

Gaming is addictive. Its science!

Maybe for you young pups. At my age the only thing I'm addicted to is naps.

Odovacar

I always feel tha ti

Abigail wrote: »

Kagukan wrote: »

Gaming is addictive. Its science!

Maybe for you young pups. At my age the only thing I'm addicted to is naps.

falling asleep during long DPS role dungeon queues? Been there

yurimodin

no....I can quit anytime I want. I DONT HAVE A PROBLEM

Mrs_Malaka

Yubarius wrote: »

@Odovacar

I gave away all my gold (I think like 1 mil) to some of my friends as a sort of mental feeling of quitting. I have tried to give it up in the past which didnt work, so I'm heavily considering deleting all of my characters and items so I will have no reason to be tempted to come back.

When I've "quit" ESO several times throughout the years, I've always given away all that I owned, even the disgusting amounts of hoarded items in my infinite craft bag (given to someone who had just started a guild) and that sure didn't keep me away. Having some great people on my friend list also draws me back in, time and again. I think what will keep you from coming back is if you delete ALL your characters. Coming back to a blank slate may be the thing that will turn you back away from the game. I think it would work for me because even giving away insane amounts of gold and materials just didn't work at keeping me away. I knew that if I ever came back to ESO it'd be easy to earn all that good stuff back exponentially rather quickly by doing max level craft writs on all my alts after farming a quick bit of resources. Then I'd be back on the road to prosperity lol.
If I came back and saw I'd have to start all over again, I think the grind would repulse me and, therefore, I'd most likely uninstall xD

TheShadowScout

Addicted?
I am not addicted!
I am not!
I can quit ESO whenever I want!
I just don't want to...
...
...why are you all laughing?

Lysette

Well, I am a gamer and as such obviously somewhat addicted to playing games - but I try to keep this balanced with my real life and I am trying to play a whole lot of games in parallel and so my progress in any of them is very slow - simply due to the amount of time I have for each of them - very slow progression, but I am not in a hurry anyway.

Edit: As a side note - I wouldn't put all play time into a single game. Think about what would happen, if this game breaks away from you - like you are loosing interest or are really annoyed by changes to the game. Your whole gaming world would collapse instantly - never just play only one, try to stand on more than one leg. Personal experience.

Odovacar

Yubarius wrote: »

@Odovacar

I recently quit, about a week ago, for a few reasons. I've been playing nonstop for about 3 years and for the most part I'm just kinda worn out of the game. No form of gameplay is exciting to me anymore, not because it's bad but rather I've just been going for too long. I also came to the realization of the absolutely disgusting amount of time and money I've funneled into this game over the years, and the real life things I gave up just to get another raid in, or one more pvp fight.

For about a year I was going to bed later and later every night which was okay during the summers but this really became an issue when school started. I'd have school and work take up easily 14 hours of my day, then I'd play eso for a few hours and survive off only a few hours of sleep. My grades began dipping and I never hung out with anyone anymore. I let it completely destroy my life, which is primarily my lack of self control, but I think MMO's tend to do this to people because it almost becomes a job. I was constantly thinking "I have to get my dailies done for some specific reward", or "I have to go into cyro for hours to have fun and rank up". It just got the point where I was simply logging in out of habit or necessity instead of to have fun.

I enjoyed many parts of this game but I honestly dont think I'd ever be able to have the control to play for a reasonable amount of time. I gave away all my gold (I think like 1 mil) to some of my friends as a sort of mental feeling of quitting. I have tried to give it up in the past which didnt work, so I'm heavily considering deleting all of my characters and items so I will have no reason to be tempted to come back.

I know this was kind of a long read, but I hope my story shows how you should either learn to control your addiction to the game or stop entirely. Have a blessed one!

Wow, thank you for sharing!

keevil111

Abigail wrote: »

Kagukan wrote: »

Gaming is addictive. Its science!

Maybe for you young pups. At my age the only thing I'm addicted to is naps.

You play a Khajiit, don't you? lol

Lysette

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Addicted?
I am not addicted!
I am not!
I can quit ESO whenever I want!
I just don't want to...
...
...why are you all laughing?

It's like quitting smoking on new years eve - mission accomplished - just to start again at 0:01 on 1st of january - tadaaah.

Defilted

No addiction here........I can quit any time I want.

Osteos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT2SsWOCoEw&list=RDJT2SsWOCoEw&start_radio=1