What makes you keep playing ESO?

xHotguy6pack

With how horrible performance is as a whole and how bad the class balance is for PvP and PvE is. What keeps you playing? What makes you want to log in and play?

Orion_89

For now? Nothing. I see loading screens even in the vanilla cities... Yeah, I enter the game just to do the endeavors, but then I immediately quit.

SydneyGrey

I'm really attached to my characters. Yes, I know it's silly. I love working on them to continually improve them. I also love theory-crafting armor sets. I'm trying a new build for an ice mage at the moment, so I was super happy to hear that Destructive Touch is going to be buffed for ice.

Kr4ftw3rkub17_ESO

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I'm really attached to my characters. Yes, I know it's silly. I love working on them to continually improve them. I also love theory-crafting armor sets. I'm trying a new build for an ice mage at the moment, so I was super happy to hear that Destructive Touch is going to be buffed for ice.

This, plus I'm able to meet people, help new players and craft for those that need it. Make lots of gold selling motifs along with crafted items (don't belong to a guild). Do dailies and continuously trying to improve.

Performance isn't that bad, couldn't care less about class balance and for an interactive cartoon that's set in a graphically aesthetic set... it isn't half bad.

DreamyLu

For me, two reasons to keep playing:
- I don't have performance troubles for the content I do (no PvP, no dungeons).
- ESO is a "back up" game I use to relax only. So it's comfortable: if it's fun, I play, if not I leave and go play my main game. I then return to ESO when I feel for it again. No worries.

Girl_Number8

Been playing since beta and I still enjoy the game with my friends. PvP + BGs mainly. Though any new trials or vet dungeons must be devoured quickly.

Class balance is the wrong way to look at it versus Class uniqueness. That is what the game used to have. Certain classes were counters to other classes which was fun.

I mean, ESO PvP has always been casual at best compared to other games. It just has gotten watered down more and more. Since Worbel left the picture the changes have been quite drastic and at a fast rate.

So what keeps me playing
Muh Friends
Game is still fun
Our ERP/PvP guild *we had to add in our own worthy changes to PvP*

GenjiraX

All the things. I only wound down my activity when there was doubt over whether character data was secure. Now that’s resolved, I’m back in. The bugs bother me and there are a couple that seem specific to me so I don’t know when or if they’ll be resolved. I can wait for the others. I get very few performance issues, a bit of input lag, maybe, on Xbox.

I’ve said elsewhere that this game has so much to do that, when I’m feeling ground down by one activity, I just switch to doing something else in the game. It’s incredibly satisfying and I just wish I had more hours in the day to be able to play.

Alucardo

Nothing really. I haven't had the motivation to login for the past 3 days, and I'm not even sure I want to going forward, especially when I look at the changes they want to make.
Until they hire someone to actively work on PvP and who understands it, I can't see myself wanting to play at all. I used to love it during the IC update, but it's slowly degraded over time.

Ringing_Nirnroot

It’s addicting to me, I’d stop if I could but I can’t, must keep playing

phaneub17_ESO

No mandatory monthly fees. I play WoW too, but I do that via gold tokens so its been free since 2015. I only play the free trial on FFXIV as well. I only sub 1-2 times a year to clean out my inventory for Craft Bag or wait for ESO Plus Trial to pop up. I don't PvP and most of my game time is casual solo play, questing, dailies, and farming; I do serious content on WoW up to heroic raiding, don't PvP on there either.

Iluvrien

Anything rooted in the world itself. Lore, antiquities, housing, the stories, etc.

Combat has always failed to provide a source of fundamental interest. In the end, keyboard tap-dancing has its limits. There are far fewer limits on the imagination.

Brrrofski

Lack of new games and lack of time.

Firstly, there's no new games which have really grabbed my attention.

Secondly, I don't always have a huge amount of time these days. So ESO is just an easy game to jump on when I have an hour or so.

Lugaldu

I only play PvE and have no performance issues. I love ESO and the Elder Scrolls franchise in general, and I feel no need or wish to play any other game.

xHotguy6pack

Alucardo wrote: »

Nothing really. I haven't had the motivation to login for the past 3 days, and I'm not even sure I want to going forward, especially when I look at the changes they want to make.
Until they hire someone to actively work on PvP and who understands it, I can't see myself wanting to play at all. I used to love it during the IC update, but it's slowly degraded over time.

This is exactly how I feel.

Grandchamp1989

Honestly, I think at some level I'm addicted to the game.
This is from my perspective only...

But in my optics:
-The sledgehammer approach to balance
-The performance (both PvP and PvE)
-The Bugs
-What seems to me being the same formular of content every single release

And yet I can't turn it off..

I'm pretty discouraged by the game, and yet I play it every single day.

I mean I adore Tamriel, I think it's a fantastic fantasy world.
I love the beauty of ESO and when they get it right, they get it REALLY right.

And yet since Greymoor I can't help but think to myself the creativity isn't the same (for me atleast) and the streamlining I sometimes feel I'm playing a different game than I played 2 years ago?

I don't know what it is honestly. I love the game, otherwise I wouldn't keep playing it.. I dunno.

xHotguy6pack

It's good to see everybody's reasons for still playing. It's nice to see that people are still enjoying the game. As for me, a hardcore ESO player I don't find it fun and haven't for quite some time. PvE content in my opinion has been lacking compared to older dungeons or trials. Mainly anything after Moon Hunter. Although Stone Garden is very fun and probably my favorite 4 man content besides Fang Lair. I don't think we players get rewarded enough for the 4 man content like we use to.

As for the PvP aspect which is my main area it's not as fun as it was 3 years ago. Classes have lost identity like Girl_Number8 said. Performance is probably at it's worst. And the overall game balance in PvP is atrocious. Also lastly the community as a whole for PvP I find extremely toxic. I would go far as to say it's THE MOST toxic game I have ever played. I could go into detail about that but I think it's best if I don't.

xHotguy6pack

Grandchamp1989 wrote: »

Honestly, I think at some level I'm addicted to the game.

I'm pretty discouraged by the game, and yet I play it every single day.

And yet since Greymoor I can't help but think to myself the creativity isn't the same (for me alteast) and the streamlining I sometimes feel I'm playing a different game than I played 2 years ago?

This right here 100%

JTD

My weekly trials, not much more. Blackwood is a disappointment.

zelaminator

I don't really have many performance issues, so that's no problem for me.. and then I just like the game

xpixelatedtkox

I'm a casual player, even though I've played for a few years now. I stopped chasing meta weapons, meta armor, and focused on just enjoying the game. What brings me back now is fishing, going for that Master Fisher achievement!

Mythreindeer

Brrrofski wrote: »

Lack of new games and lack of time.

Firstly, there's no new games which have really grabbed my attention.

Secondly, I don't always have a huge amount of time these days. So ESO is just an easy game to jump on when I have an hour or so.

So true.

The state of gaming, especially MMO gaming, has been in decline for several years. Given the cost of development of new games and the overarching business model of content for profits above all else (meaning above basic upkeep of the game), those of us who like to game for entertainment are between a rock and a hard place. I hear more about planned games that were under development being scrapped than new games being readied for release.

I am coming up on a year with ESO and frankly the bugs, like skills not firing, has become tiresome. Not giving up but I'll likely download SWTOR this weekend as that's one I never got around to trying and I still hear good things. The last two games I played are still fubar - rip.

Alucardo

zelaminator wrote: »

I don't really have many performance issues

What game are you playing? Are you on the right forums?

zelaminator

Alucardo wrote: »

zelaminator wrote: »

I don't really have many performance issues

What game are you playing? Are you on the right forums?

I'll tell you what I've told all the others before you.. just because some people have issues, it does not mean that everyone is effected.. my game runs just fine, in all activities and at all hours

Anne13

My core raid team and the huge amount of what I have achieved since day release.
But tbh im logging in less and less. I could never quit because I'm addicted. Zos knows this. They know people are addicted and will keep playing and spending because (we can manage working around bugs and bad performance) we have been for years.
When the money stops rolling in that's when they will pull their socks up and realise.
We won't ever come before them making money. It's a business. Sad but true

essi2

:shrug:

Taggund

I'm watching more Netflix than playing ESO now. The reliance on dailies has just gotten to the point I don't really care, and this is the only MMO I've played I don't regularly play alts. Once there is a new MMO out there, I'll probably switch.

Tandor

I play because love the game, have never had any significant performance issues since PC launch as a solo/cooperative and non-competitive PvE player, with which playstyle I also therefore have no class balance issues.

Easily_Lost

Lugaldu wrote: »

I only play PvE and have no performance issues. I love ESO and the Elder Scrolls franchise in general, and I feel no need or wish to play any other game.

This is why I continue to login everyday.

Kiralyn2000

OCD + sunk cost fallacy + no sub

(I jump in and out, depending on events, content releases, and dailies. Right now, I'm doing Endeavors and not a lot else. Too many other live-service/no-sub/daily task/skinner boxes all having their summer events and/or new seasons right now. )

Thoragaal

I really don't play much these days.
I got fed up with the constant changes (gear and skills etc) and how it felt like a constant uphill battle, only to be kicked back down again shortly after. So I quit PVP about 2½ years ago (iirc).

2 years ago I "quit entirely". 1½ years ago I thought to myself "Maybe I should check out NA instead. No CP, no gold, no gear, it might keep me occupied for a bit at least"
I was playing casually for a year on NA until I basically reached the same point I was at over on EU (albeit a bit less CP). However, with the new CP system I don't feel enough incentive / reason to go get more CP's.

I can't say I've actually played the game for a few months now, even if I still log on once in a while only to remind myself "ah yeah, it's just more of the same old same old".
If ZOS wants to expand on the horizontal progression (like they've already declared), and stop the vertical one, it's even less likely I'll come back to play it properly again.

Destai

I'd say the world and the attachment to my characters. It's my main because I both love the IP and it's a game that suits nearly any mood. I love the sense of progression, I even have spreadsheets so I can track my progress.