Would you play this game if add-ons didn't exist?

xv1_me

I just thought about this, and I honestly do not think i would play this if add-ons weren't a thing, but then again, I wouldnt know what i was missing so maybe I would. What about you all?

ankeor

In a universe where ESO addons have never existed I would play the game but idk how long would it last.

If all addons disappear today probably I would not play it any longer.

ADarklore

No

I was once thinking about going to console, but after considering how many of the absolutely essential addons I use, there was no way. If addons were disabled, I would never play again. Absolutely serious.

xv1_me

ankeor wrote: »

In a universe where ESO addons have never existed I would play the game but idk how long would it last.

If all addons disappear today probably I would not play it any longer.

nice i should have worded it like that

Sarannah

Yes

I play on PC, and never use add-ons! Which is also why I feel some add-ons should not be allowed. (like the resource/chest-locations add-on)

Iarao

No

Sarannah wrote: »

I play on PC, and never use add-ons! Which is also why I feel some add-ons should not be allowed. (like the resource/chest-locations add-on)

just making your eso life much much harder. if you dont wanna see the chest icons, there is no need.

JoDiMageio

Yes

I played without addons for the longest time. Sure, they make life easier, but it wouldn't be a deterrent if they didn't exist. Honestly, I think some are useful (especially for trading and crafting) and some just make it easier to be lazy (Harvest Map), but none are necessary to play the game.

TwinLamps

No

no

Starlight_Whisper

Yes

👀 stadia users be like not a problem

Kalik_Gold

Yes

Yes - I'm on console and do not wish to be on PC either. Also see a lot of PC players use controllers, and if I'm going to need to do that, might as well stick to where I am.

kargen27

Yes

Like others if they took away add-ons now I would need to rethink playing. I do new content without add-ons that show locations and all that stuff so I get to experience discovering everything. Then I go back to using the add-ons again.

I think the one I would miss most is the one that lets me change UI so my screen looks how I want it to look.

Agenericname

Yes

I would adapt. I would really miss some of the add-ons, but I'd play.

I doubt I'd ever level the mages guild again though.

CrimsonGTX

Yes

I already did when I played Xbox before switching to PC. I don't play ESO as much these days but for me addon's weren't a complete changer, it absolute helped for map things like skyshards, lorebooks & etc. The combat in the game is already straight forward and on the easy side, so combat addon's did nothing for me.

ghost_bg_ESO

Addons at start were a thing partly because player base couldn't imagine Bethesda game without mods, but removing addons without working(!!!) alternatives provided from ZOS would definitely drag me away from playing. There is a lot of QoL for different playstyles. For me running in dungeon without mini-map is a torture; people in trading guild without addons - don't think they will be happy; small things like auto refiling enchantments with soul gems or repairing armors or switching build to change role in dungeon with one click (and that green tree?)... there is a lot of things that make life less tedious.

SeaGtGruff

Yes

I don't use any add-ons now, so if add-ons didn't exist it would make absolutely no difference for me.

Everest_Lionheart

Yes

Console player here, what’s an add on? LOL!

Kidding of course but watching some raid videos I wonder how some people even see what’s going on in the game through so many layers of information on the screen. Pop ups for this, counters for that, warnings and messages going off every couple of seconds. Too much clutter for me. I get QoL stuff, wish we had it, some metrics would be OK as well to get an idea of where to improve, but count me out for all that other stuff.

UntilValhalla13

Do you really even play ESO if you need add-ons to make it bearable? XD

kichwas

Yes

The addons in this game, for me at least, are more about making the UI nicer.

I know there are addons like WoW's "Deadly Boss Mods" but I've yet to get those working to the level DBM does. To the level where an addon is so good at telling people how to play that the developers have had to design fights with the assumption that the addon is being used, and thus make mechanics specifically intended to be 'work arounds' to still challenge people when there's an addon scripting your actions.

If the Addons here ever get to the point of exact scripting every last action and timer for us, and pre-warning before any telegraphs appear, moving marks around, telling you who to target with what and when, and so on...

Then yeah - different story.

But mostly they're just giving me an easier time keeping track of crafting writs, moving where my magicka / health / stamina bars are, and giving me a mini-map I can ignore while pretending I'm not ignoring it.

Addons here feel like convenience rather than necessity.

Even things like combat metrics. It's a very nice graph of info post fight. But it's NOT doing something like telling me "HOLD BLOCK 5 SECONDS FROM NOW" like a WoW addon does... Unless it should be and I've just not configured it yet to do that...


EDIT: Missed a 'not doing' there that made the end of my post read the exact opposite from what I meant to say...

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Yes

I played for over a year without them. Would I have 18 toons and gone as far as I did into endgame or wealth building without them? No way. To many QOL things missing from Base Game. If they removed addons like combat alerts, I really wouldn't care, but things like inventory insight would be such a hassle to play without.

AcadianPaladin

Yes

I came from modded Oblivion and Skyrim and was reluctant to try ESO due to the fact that it couldn't be modded.

I was pleasantly surprised that the devs had obviously monitored mod progress in the previous TES games and had a reasonable feel for what TES players wanted. That is, ESO's need for mods is not great. I do run a few add ons but they are hardly essential to enjoy the game. Unmodded Oblivion was not bad. Unmodded Skyrim was a game that I would not play until I had numerous core and mechanics features heavily modded. I was particularly pleased how well you can create a nice looking character in ESO.

Goregrinder

Yes

There weren't a lot of UI mods during beta, if any. There was probably only like a handful of them during the 2 week headstart, so I never actually used any mods for ESO until maybe a year later, so yeah it'd be easy to transition back to no UI mods. I still have higher frame rate, high refresh rate, and mouse + keyboard at my side anyways.

Linaleah

No

honestly? no. I've played other games without addons just fine, but they weren't missing a lot of the functionality I can get through addons only in ESO. bear in mind that I first started and then came back to the game back when a lot of things were NOT available in game that we have now. no multicrafting, no list of things you need to craft for daily writs visible (so you kinda had to memorize or write down task list for each quest), no search function for guilds, completely bare bones inventory search function, no ability cooldown trackers, etc. its better now as all of the above things and a few others were added to base game functionality.... years post release. so maybe if I were just starting to play right now, I would not be AS put off... but

still not quite there yet IMO (I honestly have no idea what ZoS has against minimaps for example, or being able to move around and individually adjust various UI frames). I played without addons on pts. and while it was doable, I did NOT enjoy a lot of the things just because they added so much more tedium to my game time.

B0SSzombie

Where's the "I'm on Console and I don't mind at all and don't care to be on PC" option?

Alpheu5

No

I hate the base game's combat UI.

The attribute bars are too low-profile to notice in combat, there's no way to adjust their color, you can't reposition them anywhere else on the screen, and healthbars that decay toward the center make it hard for me to tell how much health is really left.

The buff tracker tracks way too much stuff in one location for general use and the filters don't allow you to blacklist skill effects you have no desire to see. I started using Action Duration Reminder so I could keep track of the skills themselves rather than have all of their effects get lost in a litany of buff icons. They implemented their own version of ADR to the base game with this patch, but fell short on the biggest reason I installed it, that being a prominent countdown on abilities on your other bar. I continue to use the actual addon for this singular design difference.

The damage numbers kind of just... exist. While you're fighting you'll see two different groups of numbers popping up to show direct and over-time damage, but there's no context for the numbers so they don't really serve much purpose other than to show you're hitting a thing with stuff.

Because pets don't have a persistent healthbar, the only way for you to tell that it died/was unsummoned is to look at the skill's icon and notice that it's different. The change is so subtle that it's impractical to expect the user to notice until they go to use the active ability and realize their pet is dead.

Gythral

No

Default UI
No chance...

Not played a single TES game without mods & wouldnt start here!

redlink1979

Yes

Add-ons aren't essential.

Hurbster

No

Life is too damn short.

rumple9

No

vanilla is just a half unfinished game

El_Borracho

I'm on console but want to be on PC

I chose #3, but that would be in a world where I could justify buying a gaming computer for a single game

Kagukan

Yes

I don't use add-ons. Never have and have been playing for years now.

Sylvermynx

I'd have to try it, and see if it was workable. (Considering that after my first half hour in game three years ago, I went to esoui.com and downloaded a bunch of QOL addons, I honestly think the real answer is "no".)