Do you "play the game" after you finish the required dailies?

Lyserus

^This.
Whenever there are some required dailies to do (for event tickets or time limited items etc), after finishing them I just want to log off
Does it happen to you people as well?
Previously I was doing quests on my other characters (to build up their back story), play dungeon with my special builds like ice dps and stam warden etc..and I just can't find myself spending more time in ESO if I had to get several dailies done

NoTimeToWait

Other

Sometimes no. But most of the time, yes. What eso taught me one more time is to prioritize things. And to actually remind myself that the game is a game and I can do what I really want to do. So, sometimes I just play lute or kowtow to a random statue for 10-20 minutes in the game just to switch to lower gear and pace down a bit and because I feel like doing it. Lute and scenery are very good in this game

EDIT: changed the wording. Was answering to "Does it happen to you people as well?" lol

SameMeteor26

No

I’m assuming by required dailies your talking about completeing the tasks that you had set up that’d you would complete that day. If so my answer is no because I usually feel burnt out after the long grind

Morimizo

Yes

I really only consider the crafting writs to be (borderline) required, but those are done so quickly that even if there's only an hour to play I choose either some questline that's unfinished, or a couple of the impressive variety of the other dailies, alternating them often, and utilizing different characters; the events will certainly fill up this allotted time instead, but I enjoy those in their brief stints.

Hippie4927

Other

Sometimes 'yes' and sometimes 'no'. Today I did the event dailies and then the prologue dailies and then did some questing in the Rift. Yesterday I only did the event dailies and some skyshard hunting. Day before I only did the event and logged out. It all depends on how I feel in the moment.

ccmedaddy

Other

I simply don't bother with the event tickets specifically to avoid the situation you're describing. I only get to play a couple hours a day on weekdays and I don't want this game to feel like yet another chore.

Jolipinator

Yes

Need time to deconstruct/sell/sort out inventory.

Wildberryjack

Yes

I'm working on zone achievements to buy furniture, and really I'm having fun so yeah I play the game LOL.

Dojohoda

Other

Usually, not always

max_only

No

That’s the thing with events. I actually had something I wanted to do with my character but now I’m grinding fetch quests all night and then I don’t feel like doing the exploring I wanted to do.

Like I wanted to do base game faction story lines on my new Dk, and then TG/DB anniversary happened so I had to stop and do those zones on my old NB. We had 1 week off and then we had Jesters Fest. My Dk is sitting on his hands again while I grind motifs with my oldest character/crafter. So on and so on. Also, when I finally finished getting what I needed from Jesters, there was 2 days left for the pie buff so I ran the Alikr dolmen grind to maximize the leveling of skill morphs instead of experiencing the stories like I would have been doing.

I get you man. If it wasn’t for being fun this game could be a chore lol

Shawn_PT

Other

Depends. My playing day starts with running crafting dailies on all my characters. If that's all the dalies I have to do, then yeah I'll go 'play' after I'm done.

On this event though I confess. Forcing myself to run the jester quests on all (or most) characters was such a drag. I'd log in, run writs, prime each character by stealing the apples, and then moved to the next. Sometimes I was on the 6th and felt like playing something else. I'd skip doing it on the last few. Ran 4 sets of dailies and logged out. Other times I ran them on all my chars and didn't have any will left to go do something else.

It felt like a major pain, to run the same quests I've been running 3 years now to get a treasure worth 100g, 10 pies of which I probably have 1k, and a green Princess recipe which last time I checked, my mule was holding a stack of close to 70. Also 6 Dubious pages. But getting those felt like a horrible chore.


Now I'm both excited for the crafting event (1st week) and loathing the thought of spending my entire play time hunting delve dailies, running pledges on as many alts as possible, being ganked in Cyro while running town dailies....... and not actually advancing quests, shard hunts, achievements, etc.

All this for a mount I'll never use.

The motifs though. They're worth the burnout. I keep telling that to myself.

rotaugen454

Yes

Sometimes I quest,or PvP, or craft, or fish, or do one of the other multitude of things to do. I rush dailies then do what I feel like doing at that moment.

Lisutaris

Yes

You will never feel alone and it is never boring in rawl'kha.

Tandor

Other

There are no "required" dailies as far as I am concerned. I occasionally do the odd daily, and participate in some but not all of the events. Primarily, however, I play the game - by which I mean questing, exploration, crafting, character progression etc. I've always found in games that if I get locked in to "must do" things each time I log in then it becomes more like a job than a hobby.

FleetwoodSmack

Other

Most of the time, if it doesn't feel like a chore I'll linger in the game for a short time longer. And by chore I mean dealing with crappy latency/performance in both PvE and PvP, or how ever many ball groups are running around that are spamming just one skill.

lardvader

Yes

Yes I try not to do too many dailies because it's killing the fun. I'm done with the events - I miss the time when we had only a few events during the year. Now it's around 300 days with events. They have lost all it's charm and is just sucking the fun out of the game.

Also I only play my main these days to keep it simple.

Aznarb

Yes

I rarely do daily so..
What I learn from AA (except the fact than CS is MMO cancer) is if you are surrounded by daily you gonna end to hate the game.
You don't need to do daily every day and not all of them, same for event.

MMO are about chilling with friend, the activity and content are just an excuse to do thing with them.

Raammzzaa

Other

I don’t often do dailies. For the most part, I just play the game. Sometimes that means I just get on and go right into Cyrodiil, other times I run dungeons, make sure guild trader is stocked, or do quests. I have friends that describe “doing eso chores” but that never really appealed to me.

karekiz

Other

If you count pledges it just depends on how long pledges are and what time I end. Otherwise no.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

Lisutaris wrote: »

You will never feel alone and it is never boring in rawl'kha.

Mudball targets...

Strychnos

Other

Other!

Doing dailies for me depends on if I want something they give me. If I need to farm transmute crystals, I’ll do my battleground dailies. If I need undaunted keys, I’ll do my pledges.

On days I DO do dailies, whether or not I play other parts of the game depends on if I have the time. If I’ve got the time, I usually go for more questing and exploration after I’m done.

A lot of the time I just ignore dailies altogether and grind for gear I need and explore zones I haven’t finished.

sevomd69

Yes

If I have a core run...which I do 5 days out of 7...

SeaGtGruff

Other

It depends on how much time I have to play each day, how long the event quests took-- and especially what you mean by "play the game."

Even before the introduction of these events, I'd already slowed down my playing to where I'm mostly focused on doing the daily crafting writs. (My main character is a crafter.) I've made sure to do the crafting writs each day, and I've occasionally headed out to various zones to try to use up some of my growing stock of crafting surveys and treasure maps so they aren't hogging up so much space in my storage chests.

But as far as doing group dungeons or participating in PvP, I still haven't gotten into those things very much, so I don't feel like the events have been "stealing" time away from those things, since I hadn't been spending any time on them, anyway.

MrGraves

No

usually do the dailies before i get off. other stuff first.

Michae

Other

I try, I just don't always have time. But in the very least I often do one or two rounds on battlegrounds. As for dailies I do the event ones and writs, so not that much. And I don't cry if I miss a day .

fgoron2000

Other

depends on whether there are other optional goodies to get after the required dailies, or if i need to do something else in the game, i'll do it, or if there is/isn't an XP buff, or even if RL gets in the way...but all other things considered, most of the time I will continue "playing the game" after i take care of certain daily obligations related to an event...

russelmmendoza

Yes

After doing daily bg and random normal for the 100k xp.

Derp around farming mats in deshaan, and getting my revenge on every mudcrabs I see.

Yes, I effing hate those mudcrabs.

Sylvermynx

Yes

Yes, I always play after dailies. I routinely do crafting writs on all 24. However, I quit running more than each account's main for the event dailies - that's just too much, and I really don't want all my girls leveling that fast. I'm a sit back and smell the roses sort of gamer....

Canned_Apples

Other

crafting-->undaunted (if they're easy/short ones)--->pvp

Danikat

Other

Depends on how much time I have. If there's specific things I want to get done that day (which may be dailies, or may be something else entirely) I'll do that first. If I still have time afterwards I'll log into whichever character I feel like to play whatever they're doing.

Sometimes that's fairly easy - for example after the first few days of the Jester's Festival I had done everything I wanted except collecting tickets and I settled on the Auridon quest as the quickest of the 3, so I could do that in a few minutes and then usually had time for other stuff. During the Undaunted Event getting into a group, getting into a dungeon and completing it could often take my whole evening. (I was playing a healer, and mainly playing with guild groups but even with a full pre-made party the dungeon finder kept kicking us out so it took forever just to get started.)

And sometimes I don't even have time for the basic things I'd like to do. Today for example I left home at 7:30am, got back at 11:15pm and had other things to do as well as ESO so I actually had to go out of my way to make time to log in, pick up the login reward and mail and add a few things to my guild store. Tomorrow I'm not sure I'll even have time to do that.

But in answer to the question implied in the post rather than the one specifically asked no, doing the dailies I've chosen as my priority that day doesn't put me off playing the game more. If it did I'd seriously reconsider why I'm doing them. If it's a short-term thing for a reward I want enough to justify that annoyance I might stick it out, but in any other situation I'd stop doing those dailies and focus on what I actually want to do instead. It is after all a game and it's supposed to be fun.

Ufretin

No

I bet devs are watching this thread very closely for any signs of addiction that they might exploit $$$