What's your average daily playtime now?

Elsonso

Less then 1 hour

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

About 4 minutes. Log in, grab daily reward, maybe do an easy endeavor, one set of writs, see ya.

I love ESO lore, but its the combat system that has kept me playing since Beta. It is a disaster right now. Sorry, dont have a better word for it.

Right now, for me, about as long as it takes to log out. It's not every day, either. Nothing much happening in the game over the last couple months, so no reason to play.

TaSheen

More than 3 hours

BenevolentBowd wrote: »

Playtime has been reduced by a health issue making it difficult to use mouse / keyboard for past few weeks.

I appear to be responding to treatment and I hope to increase my playtime over the next few weeks.

Sorry to hear that BB. Hope you get that licked and back in game soon!

Nestor

1 to 3 hours

I am doing more DPS now than before, so that is not an issue. It is the lack of Achievements on my Alts that suck the life out of the game. Strange, as i have never been an Achievement Chaser, but they are, or were, an easy way to track progress.

AzuraFan

1 to 3 hours

Closer to the 1 hour than the 3 these days (some days less than 1). It varies. I'm not playing as much as I used to. I don't want to run out of things to do, and I dusted off Skyrim and have been having a blast going through the anniversary edition, especially since I've finally forgotten many of the locations (though I'm embarrassed to say that I still remember quite a few of them after not playing for years - spent hours in that game when it was released).

I expect to only play about an hour or less a day until the chapter drop next year. I might even take a break at some point (*cough Starfield *cough).

Jaraal

Less then 1 hour

Over 12,000 hours played on my account. But since U33 and the inability to get separate achievements for my alts, my playtime has gone way down. And after the disappointing combat changes in U35, I only log in long enough to do some dailies now.

I love the game that I started playing years ago, but it's changed into some overly commercialized, every three month musical chair-like chore of trying to keep up with unexplained and incomprehensible combat changes. Performance never gets better, even though technology has come a long way in the last ten years. And things that we have enjoyed for years are continually being taken away, first for performance reasons, and now for reasons we aren't privy to.

Unfortunately, there aren't any comparable options coming out in the near future. And I'm sure they know that.

BretonMage

Less then 1 hour

A lot less than pre-U35. As a pet sorc, my DPS hasn't suffered, thankfully, but my rotation's a mess, and I keep wondering if I should practise it or if things are going to change again. (I hope they will - for the better. Better for us players, that is.)

Tornaad

Less then 1 hour

I am working 40 hours a week, and studying for class 25 hours a week and make sure that neither of those activities fall on a Sunday. I rarely get close to an hour during the week. Sundays, I tend to get a bit more.

the1andonlyskwex

Less then 1 hour

Even at my peak I was probably only averaging about 2 hours per day. At the moment I'm well under an hour though.

While I think my reduced playtime is mostly just ordinary burnout, it definitely wasn't helped by the addition of daily endeavors, which tend to be awfully chore-like (and if I play without doing them I get FOMO).

Amottica

My playtime is unchanged.

RickHolt

My play time is restricted by real life rather than the game itself. My main issue with the game is that daily tasks take up the majority of my play time even with one character. I feel like I can't just log in and do what I enjoy without missing out on bigger rewards. I'd like it if dailies could stack for a few days so you can log in and do a few days at once. Similar to games like heroes of the storm. I'm working through completing the different zones and haven't tried other classes yet so I've still got tons of content to be going at.

Lady_Galadhiel

1 to 3 hours

Between one and a half to 2 hours most days.

robofly

Less then 1 hour

Post U35 I only really play around 6 hours/week, basically just logging on to group up for my surviving two raid teams, and then logging off as soon as time is up. In comparison, back around the time that Blackwood was coming out, I would be playing multiple hours a day every day either in raids, or just running around farming gear to sell.

Natakiro

More than 3 hours

Obviously the event is skewing my time, but I play about the same amount even after U35; some days less than an hour, others for more than 3 throughout the day. ESO is one of my destressing games - I love to hop on, do my writs and endeavors, most of the daily WB and zone things like dragons/harrowstorms if I have the time. And if I have extra time, touch up my home decorating or character appearance, maybe a random/pledge dungeon, guild activity, or recently vet dungeons. Or when I really have the time, some Cyrodiil action. Now that I have a Steam Deck alongside a desktop, I honestly play more, since I can squeeze in small sessions more often, even with three rowdy children taking up most of my time.

Lebkuchen

Less then 1 hour

I started playing with real life friends when ESO came out on console. We played everything this game had to offer. Up to 20 hours a day and 7 days a week when we had nothing else to do. The performance in Cyrodiil killed 3 of my PvP guilds this year. I started to become active in the forums when my last good friends left the game. In 2022 my experiences with the game, the forum, customer support and twitch streams have been 90% frustrating and depressing. I gave up after the PvP event, when they managed to completely ruin Gray Host. Now i do not even care about the events anymore and only log in once a week to see if something changed.

martinhpb16_ESO

Less then 1 hour

Stopped trading, farming, dailies and writs etc. No-one to do trials with anymore. Cancelled sub which had been going since launch.

Reduced pvp time to around 3-4 hours a week only. Will usually log in now for less than an hour for a small pvp session, usually driven off by performance issues (PC EU)

Refuse to purchase High Isle and be lured by the OP Mythic and current event scam aimed at contributing to the ZOS cash grab.

The new content on offer, and sloppy Dev performance and communication does not warrant the cost IMHO.

Reasons: U35, constant meta change, lack of challenging overland, no new pvp content, poor Cyro performance, OP mythic and sets meta, the slow drain of class and build diversity that made ESO fun, allowing toxic crown seller whales to ruin the trading guild community. I could go on tbh.

I really do love this game but feel that the Devs are literally pushing me away.

FeedbackOnly

Far less since update 35. Got to always remtthe fun when doing game design

ixthUA

Less then 1 hour

Around 5-10 minutes per 2 days, just to do one RND. Used to do RVD (20-40 minutes), but after DPS nerf i stopped.

UnassumingNoob

Less then 1 hour

I used to play a lot. U35 hurt my enjoyment of Templar a lot. Now I’m logging in for daily reward maybe some writs. Knowing myself unless something changes soon with the combat I’ll simply stop logging on.

Grandchamp1989

Now? Usually less than half an hour in work days, and sometimes quite a bit more in the weekend.

tgrippa

Less then 1 hour

I’ve moved onto other mmos, so I play 0 minutes now.

TechMaybeHic

Less then 1 hour

Per day? I'd have to average it out. I played probably 3 hours the past month so thats... 6 minutes?

UnabashedlyHonest

Less then 1 hour

DigiAngel wrote: »

I'll start this off. Pre U35 I was at least a few hours a day. Now I'm down to 10 minutes now...pop in, get daily reward, upgrade horses on alts, log out. I was hoping to not be a casualty of U35, but sadly I am. I haven't played DPS since.

U35 was the straw that broke the camels back for me. My impression of ZOS as a company has become irretrievably broken for a number of reasons now.

colossalvoids

Less then 1 hour

Not even daily nowadays, which is a huge shift from past years. Guess constant barrage of bad decisions and unfulfilled promises finally made me find a better entertainment for myself.

moleculardrugs

More than 3 hours

DigiAngel wrote: »

I'll start this off. Pre U35 I was at least a few hours a day. Now I'm down to 10 minutes now...pop in, get daily reward, upgrade horses on alts, log out. I was hoping to not be a casualty of U35, but sadly I am. I haven't played DPS since.

My time is unchanged, and I almost always tank for dungeons but DPS in open-world.

The decrease in DPS is disheartening because I used to be able to hit a lot higher. I think instead of scaling or whatever they did, they should have just made the new zones harder if they were to introduce them...

Chadak

1 to 3 hours

My playtime is unchanged, but I've been soloing a lot more than usual. A lot of key people I often play with have taken a break due to dislike of overly massive changes that just keep happening to classes and skills here.

Change fatigue more than u35's specific changes are the problem, and I thoroughly agree that it's annoying as heck.

I've been soloing a lot more, and I redid all of my characters to work around Pale Order and Oakensoul accordingly.

I'm gonna continue to be a soloist for the indefinite future. It isn't like u35 broke the game or even made everything objectively worse. The problem is that massive overhauls are the norm and it seems like that's never changing.

No point in getting too attached to how anything works or how anything plays when it's all going to get chainsawed and reinvented once or twice a year. So, I'll stick to very basic gearsets and mythic that will probably be nerfed once or twice a year and try to not care too much about any of it.

SammyKhajit

1 to 3 hours

During an event: 1 hr to 1.5 hr

Non event: less than one hour.

Kitziboo

More than 3 hours

It’s very much my happy place. I’m very fortunate that I can play every day, often up to 12 hours with lots of breaks for everyday life.

I’ve been playing all my characters during the event and have only noticed a problem with the templars. The new animation for jabs makes me feel nauseous so I’ve switched them all to the second skill which has the original spear.

vsrs_au

Zero. I've totally lost confidence in the game.

Just after quitting ESO 2.5 months ago, I started playing Horizon Zero Dawn, that was great fun. Now I'm on to Elden Ring. I even installed a Skyrim content mod (Wheels of Lull) that I hadn't played before, and started on it. I'm a big fan of the open-world games, obviously.

I *may* return to ESO one day, I'm keeping an eye on this forum to see what ZOS does in the coming several months.

FluffyBird

Less then 1 hour

Two log-ins a week, to sell hoarded loot and do weekly endeavour. Maybe jump in for a second every day if there's something really interesting in daily login rewards.

I'm not saying there's nothing to do in game, but there's nothing I personally want to do in game now. I have other games, one with more satisfying farming and one with more engaging exploration, so until Witches Festival and Firesong I won't be actually playing.

UntilValhalla13

Less then 1 hour

Aside from the two or three remaining trial nights, less than 10 minutes. I do my stables and the stupid endeavors, and just log off.