The moment you realise...

kinguardian

How dependent (*cough* addicted) you are when it comes to eso.
I have no internet for the past 12 days. The storm broke everything here in town so no internet phone line and even a while without electricity.
The first 2 days I was like ok no problem but now I am just sooo not happy. I miss my online buddy's and I missed the event and the free circlet and lots.
For a stupid reason discord is not working on my phone at the moment so I can not even send messages to my guild mates.

*sigh* I am going eso cold turkey and I miss it so much.

Anyone else has this when they cant log in for a longer period

Sylvermynx

Eh, mostly for me it's that I know what I am missing getting done. I'm fine without the game, but when I realize I've missed tickets or I'd made plans to level a new character then I get a little grumbly. But it all smooths out once the hiatus is over.

And it's never been more than a few days (most was 4 I think - when my WildBlue satellite died, they couldn't set up repair for over a week which was totally unacceptable; I called HughesNet and got them out here so internet was back halfway through the fourth day) - two weeks might cause me to be more than "a little grumbly"....

LadyLethalla

I get like that after less than a day...

DagenHawk

I always miss Tamriel

The five year wait beteen Daggerfall and Morrowind was horrible.

kinguardian

LadyLethalla wrote: »

I get like that after less than a day...

DreamyLu

Although I do love gaming and do that non stop since decades - even for my main game - I don't feel the lack when I don't play.
I believe it's because I have several other activities in my life, that makes my heart bouncing as much as gaming does. Thanks to that, when I can't play, for day(s) or week(s), I just swap to another fun and that's no worries at all.

endgamesmug

After 7 plus years ive gotten very meh about eso, still log on to do writs of course but i put it off till much later in the day now as i have a stimulating new real life hobby now 😁

w002exp

I actually like this game because it respects your time. It's never overly punishing to take some time off from it.

furiouslog

I think that the biggest thing is not having access to your online pals. Sure, not being able to log in to the game is an inconvenience and you can miss some opportunities, but it's usually cosmetic stuff that you can get later or live without in the first place. For those of us who have developed strong online relationships due to Covid sequestering, it's a significant loss of social contact. ESO is basically like an evening out at the pub with my buddies.

Arunei

I'm currently without access to ESO, though I did manage to get it for free on Stadia about a month ago or so (had a 10 dollars off my first purchase promo and the base game was on sale for 7 bucks). It's really hard to play on a phone tho because of the clunky, janky overlay for the controller. That being said I miss RP more than anything, since that's mostly what I do in-game these days; trying to RP with the EXTRA clunky chat interface is literally painful, as my left thumb gets sore from constantly reaching across my phone.

BronzeCaiman

The game is designed to do that to you, MMOs are designed to be forever games. The fear of missing out wore off when I realized I´m logging on for mounts, styles pages and cosmetics I´ll never use, and new sets that matter little except for top tier endgame. Horizontal progression for over 5 years is a factor too, the gear cap is still "Veteran Rank 16".

If you have a community of players to enjoy the game with you have more of a reason to log on, but most players I have played with have quit over the years.

Getting married to someone who games with me is probably the main factor of me losing appeal in this game, amongst players that used to play with me, just getting married or getting a job made them leave the game.

kinguardian

DreamyLu wrote: »

Although I do love gaming and do that non stop since decades - even for my main game - I don't feel the lack when I don't play.
I believe it's because I have several other activities in my life, that makes my heart bouncing as much as gaming does. Thanks to that, when I can't play, for day(s) or week(s), I just swap to another fun and that's no worries at all.

Normally it would be the same for me but as I am ill I am often bedbound for longer periods. When I was healthier I spend my days training dogs and horses and I am a vetnurse so my days were full. The more ill I got the more I lost. Still on good days I am outside with my dogs but yeah the game became important to me over the years.

mocap

if your phone (assuming it's smartphone) has wifi access point, you can connect it to your PC/router. Not sure ping will be ok, hope enough to do crafting dailies )