How long will you subscirbe?

p.hurst1b16_ESO

one month-three months

My partner is on a 3 month sub. We will decide after that. I would like to stay longer but there needs to be some significant improvements.

Cogo

I'll be here until the end!

AvalonRanger wrote: »

Level progression in Veteran area is too slow.
(reward XP is too small or too hard difficulty)
I need more cusual level quest for earning XP.
(I'm not cusual gamer,but don't have much time for free .)

These type of game doesn't fit for busy worker.
It is difficult to make time for playing such a slow pace game.

It depends on how you see it. If you only can play 30 mins per day...then I understand that this or most MMO would be hard to play.

But there is nothing stopping you from playing your hours and in your pace.

IF, however, you feel that you want to have everything everyone else has who plays 12 hours a day, then I think its a bit to much to ask for.

Our guild have many casual players beause they are parents. They still manage somehow.....

AvalonRanger

one month-three months

>>Our guild have many casual players beause they are parents.
They still manage somehow.....

How to search and join the guild ? I'm intersted in your guild...

Cogo

I'll be here until the end!

AvalonRanger wrote: »

>>Our guild have many casual players beause they are parents.
They still manage somehow.....

How to search and join the guild ? I'm intersted in your guild...

First of all, if you are sincear, our invite process do not yet require a written application, but no one gets an instant invite. We get to know eachother a bit first. Mainly cause our guild is based on thrust, and it worked very good so far.

Are you on EU server? Then contact me @kurnn
You can also check our webpage in my signature. And nooooo, its not an art of work, its a tool for our guild to communicate. And do fun updates :-p

The guild is NOT big and we dont attend to be. 55 players atm. lvl range 40 -vet lvls. What we do? We do stuff together that ESO presents to us.

McDoogs

I'm already unsubbed!

loool 23% say they are unsubbed. BTW I'm unsubbed with 10 days left, waiting on pvp improvment patches before re-upping.

wafcatb14_ESO

one month-three months

i give every new MMO that i buy 2 months of playing before i decide to pull the plug or keep playing . this one is leaning to the pull the plug Cat.

Cogo

I'll be here until the end!

23% on this forum is a pretty nice number since over half here claims to unsubed.

Ask the same question of playing player in game. I bet the most common answer you get is "What are you talking about, this game rocks!"

Oh, not talking about Vet levels who took a week or 2 to get there, using leverling guides, fastest quests, lore book map and the horrible skyshard map (I do not understand why anyway wanna rob themselves of this HUGE pleasure of finding 1!!!!)

LIQUID741

I'm already unsubbed!

Un-sub'd, Ill keep track of the game...but moving on from the dumpster fire of VR.

Tavore1138

one year or more

I played previous TES games for years at a time on and off so if they get past the worst of the bugs and keep dropping fresh content I imagine at least a year and probably more. I've never done an MMO before so I don't really have anything to compare it with.

Niastissa

I'm already unsubbed!

The game itself I enjoy a lot. I just beat a level 12 boss at level 11 on my own. Blocking makes a real difference. I was able to sit back and fight at my choosing which is a lot like the Elder Scrolls I know and love.

A few things have ben nagging me though.

1st) The game runs horribly. At first I didn't notice the degrading performance of the game. But I have lately. The performance of the games gets worse and worse. The graphics in Skyrim look better and run faster on my computer. I don't know what the difference is other than it being an online game so I don't buy that as an excuse.

2nd) Maintenance is not something you do on the weekend. I got up this morning to find the game offline. Sure it was only for a little while and then the game was back on. But by the time it was online I was upset and then I ran into issue number one again.

I'm going to quit for a few months and give ZOS time to finish their game. If the reviews are more favorable in the future I might give it another shot. In the mean time I'm going back to Diablo 3 and Skyrim thoroughly disappointed in this game. I wish I could get a refund.

FrauPerchta

one month-three months

I always give a new MMO 3 months to shake out the big bugs and start to settle in. Then I decide if to continue or to move on. If I like the game but think it needs more than 3 months to cook I will leave then come back in 6-8 months for a second shot. If it still is working right after another 3 month I leave, most likely not to return.

Niastissa

I'm already unsubbed!

Buck wrote: »

42 people unsubbed... and yet they are here to take part in the poll lmao

Unsubbed doesn't mean the play time has run out. I have a few weeks left. You know ... because it's prepaid.

daneyulebub17_ESO

I'll be here until the end!

This poll needed this option:

"Forever--unless they go Free to Play"

Vacerias

one month-three months

1 to 3 months. If the EU Server doesn't come to the EU then I will unsub after those 3 months and waiting for a real EU server (if that ever comes) and subscribe again. I like the game very much but I focus on PvP and lag in PvP sucks.

Nox_Aeterna

one month-three months

Niastissa wrote: »

Buck wrote: »

42 people unsubbed... and yet they are here to take part in the poll lmao

Unsubbed doesn't mean the play time has run out. I have a few weeks left. You know ... because it's prepaid.

Hehe same , i think i still have like 7/8 days.

Not that it matters , im not playing anyway right now.

All i do is feed my horse and check my research.

Melian

Can't answer, don't know. It really depends on what direction they take the game. If they cave in to all the whiners and make it more like WoW, I'll leave, if not, I'm likely to stay.

PharmaChief

I'll be here until the end!

I ll be here until the end...wait, i don't feel so good...uugh...this is the end.... baaahh...uuugggh... need... to.... unsub... "silence"

Lalai

I don't know, honestly. I'll be subbed up until I get to a point where I'm not having fun.

Calendyr

one month-three months

I am on a monthly subscription plan. Right now I am ok with the game. Lots of things I like and also lots of things I despise. Inventory management and bugs/crashes being at the top of the list. I will play until one day I get so feed up with the "Inventory full" message that I will quit the game and un-install. When will that happen? I have no idea. But I do know that will be my reason for moving on to an other game.

Sandhya

six months-nine months

Samuruzi wrote: »

I'm a working man, persuaded by a good friend of mine to get the game after he gave me a beta key. I had a great time with this game, but it doesn't allow me to role-play the way I could in the usual Elder Scrolls games, I keep hitting these walls that limit my freedom.
VR for instance... I did not want to be dragged through the other factions storyline on my Ebonheart character. Why would I want to do that? My character, why would he do that? He had such a strong belief system and that meant naught because some (or most) players like to do everything on one character- that's who the developers are appeasing, I get that. But, what about the option to gain VR ranks without the redundancy or making my character change his belief system?
I just don't have the time, or the will, to trudge through all that and I don't feel my character would like to see through the eyes of the other factions. That's why I made multiple characters, so I can experience the different factions through different eyes. Then I get the VR quests and it truly felt like a slap in the face. The game, I felt, had promise but below is a list of things that it fails to do for me and my gameplay style which turned me into the critic I am today:

1. Be a Badass:
I cannot be a badass in this game. Anytime I develop a new armor set, or level up ten more levels, my character seems "stuck" in a way never before seen in an Elder Scrolls game. Maxing two-handed and heavy armor isn't what it should be, an aluminum tank is how I would describe my armor, and my sword feels like a two-handed cardboard cut-out even at Level 50.The level-scaling makes me feel stuck and in constant limbo where I never feel my character grow.

2. Be a Lonewolf:
This is an mmo... I get that. my few attempts at synching with friends, joining a like-minded guild, dungeoneer with random strangers, have been mixed experience at best. My worst experiences: being completely ignored when it came to finding members for my own guild, being treated and called a "noob" by someone because i had never tanked before and was looking to do a run, not being able to progress in a quest because it forced me to have a crowd-control build (Which I lack because I didn't know it would ever be REQUIRED to have crowd control builds)

3. Not be a Lonewolf....:
Again, this is an mmo... I've long played lone-wolf characters and used to it because of the single-player nature of the ES series. So here comes ESO, and I think, great I'll give socializing a try... well, I've tried many times. I've been fairly successful at doing a handful of dungeon runs with people, but most of these has been with friends on lower levels than I, and between the phasing problems and mobs not dropping loot due to the level difference, well you can guess how well that went (here's a hint: there were bumps/wrinkles/frogwarts). So here I am, no- here WE all are, thousands of people, players, like-minded people, unable to actually bond freely. On a game built on cooperation, rivalries, and a doomed world- We cannot bond! How about that! Now, those of you who are or were already in large guilds, good for you, but there are some people, like myself, that went into ESO with no other community, mmo or otherwise, under my belt. So on top of not being able to lone-wolf... it's a struggle to meet and find players on the same exact level willing to do the same exact thing, thereby creating a dilemma for some.

4.Learn a Relevant Trade:
This is the only gripe I cannot fault Zenimax with entirely...
I decided early on that my trade, and only trade, would be blacksmithing. I would slowly realize that capitalizing on a single trade would not really matter in the long run as there was no realistic economy to justify it. To exhibit my point, a high level smith like myself would probably be rejected by low levels if I offered to give them free armor at their level (unless of course it was blue or higher grade) On that note, it seems any items below purple or gold grade are completely worthless. Just the nature of the beast I suppose.

5. Feel the Rush of Combat:
This complaint should come to no surprise... Those of us who play games like Dark Souls, Chivalry, and well... Elder Scrolls games, do so because of the rush we feel in the combat. More specifically, the joy of inflicting damage on something and seeing it: This is called feedback. I slash something, I see it happening, I feel it, hear it, and the enemy does too. Not so in ESO. The first red flag were when I first tried the bow and arrow- "huh? it can only go 25 feet? where is my arrow?" So away went my dreams of being a bow sniper like I was in Skyrim, or Oblivion for that matter. I can bash a common creature even, say a Skeever, or power-attack it, but it will attack at a near constant rate unaffected unless it GIVES me the opportunity to "counter" it (which doesn't need precise timing at all). This is poor feedback, and feels like I'm playing a game that is trying to keep up with my bandwidth or vice versa.

6. No Real Challenge:
Lockpicking got easy after the third chest. After opening chest 3, I would say I opened the next 150 or so chests without losing a single lockpick. dungeons and quests don't have that "oh ***" moment, there is little reason to use your wits, or prepare at all, for any of the quests, which frankly are strictly "rinse and repeat" as far as I'm concerned. I liked that they were varied at first, but one realizes soon that each quest is nary different from any other, with a few exceptions (those exceptions are rather quite refreshing). You just stop reading, stop caring... even if you wanted to care. I tried, I really did. But I guess I fall in the minority of players that like to be challenged and think in order to succeed. Elder Scrolls has strayed more and more from this concept. It resembles more and more the type of games which forgo challenging the player with reasoning skills, and instead attempts to distract the gamer when there is no deep gameplay, and automate even the simplest of tasks in what feels like an attempt to patronize, pointing out the most obvious solutions by way of the most obvious hints.

7. Seems to Try to Appeal to Many, and Succeeding With A Few:
You ever heard of the saying "There's no making everyone happy"? This simply has no bearing in the MMO world, if an MMO doesn't make every one of its players happy, then it has failed to be the game it set out to be. Let's imagine for a moment I represent only 1% of the player-base. That 1% still matters. Profit-wise and in principal, I matter and what I think matters because X amount of others also feel the same. In fact, many of my gripes mimic other people's aforementioned gripes but with my own flavor attached.
When I play, I'm constantly trying to do what I always do in games: hoard items, explore on my own completely self-sustaining, quest with a buddy, become a master of my domain, give my character a role and meaningful existence, and escape into its reality because its more appealing than real life. These are the basic joys I extract from gaming. ESO denies me them all.

What ESO does succeed at:
Offering great voice-acting, talent, and dialogue which breath life into npcs, a remarkably open world to explore and learn about, varied creatures and monsters, tons of items to see and collect, some well-designed quests... everything it succeeds at is static. Which makes me think... should ESO just have been a sequel in the ES series?

Only the next few months will tell. Unfortunately, I'll only be around for less than that. I am not simply stating I am unhappy with the game, dislike it, or am disappointed. I am stating I feel pushed away by its design choices, and its community. When I load the game, I feel I am entering a world where I am between a rock and a hard place, never quite free to do as I wish. I have two choices only: Trudge on toward no particular goal and in the process waste real world time and money, or stay at my level toward no particular goal and in the process waste real world time and money. In the previous ES installments, you could choose who you were, what to do, and if you were bad or good. This one, you are railroaded through a plot where you are good, and then when you complete it you are told to do it again, two more times. Like I said, I'm a working man. I don't have time to wait for the game to get better. It had many chances.

Well that's my rant, if you read all that, please feel free to reply with any and all rebuffs, rebukes, or long-winded replies stating how I am wrong to feel or think any of this, I'll be sure to read none of them.

With that I bid you all adieu.

But we are looking into it, and appreciate your patience and understanding.

All jokes aside - you make valid points. People should read this.

meghuskoow

I'll be here until the end!

I paid already for 3 months but it will be much longer, much much much much longer lol.

ers101284b14_ESO

I'll be here until the end!

I expect to play til the bitter bloody end. But after being burnt by FF14 ARR I chose to sub month to month.

Matt.vanelsenb16_ESO

This poll seems a bit pointless to me, I think most people will just keep playing as long as they're having fun, and then unsub for a while and come back later to play the new content, rinse and repeat until ESO dies or until the next ES game comes out.

AinGeal

I'm already unsubbed!

Already pulled the plug. There are the bot/gold seller issues. A huge imbalance with regard to class/build combinations. Game economy is horrible. Bugs. I've taken the time to sneak up behind a mob to have some DK pull the mob away from me far too many times. Public dungeons on a megaserver that will zone you in with others from the start is a horrible design that forces group play and spits in the face of their own design philosophy.

I could go on. To sum it up, it looks as though ZoS are over their heads.

Noctisse

three months-six months

I had already bought 3 months of subscription when buying the game, so I went for the 3-6 month option, since I'm constantly fluctuating between ''it's a nice game'' and ''I hate this game''. I guess time will tell.

twev

one month or less

With the bot situation, not much longer, unless I get bored.

I had put in for 6 months, and thats about to get terminated because the company isn't showing me that they care that actual human beings subscribe.

I'm willing to consider month to month, but I'm not feeling really optimistic right now.

tordr86b16_ESO

I'm already unsubbed!

Cogo wrote: »

This is defently my MMO time for a long time.

It keeps getting better and better. And with all confirmed future plans already in motion......this is awesome.

Spent the night doing quests for once. Usally I just roam around and explore.
There are some pretty nifty quests!!! Crazy but good minds must work at Zenimax!

We must be playing a different game.

AvalonRanger

one month-three months

>>@Cogo
>>Are you on EU server? Then contact me @kurnn
>> You can also check our webpage in my signature. And nooooo, its not an art >>of work, its a tool for our guild to communicate. And do fun updates :-p

Thank you for your reply ! But sorry,I'm in North American server.

Chrysolis

I'm already unsubbed!

My faith in ZOS is starting to dwindle, and though I unsubscribed after patch 1.1.2 it's fairly likely I'll just resub before my time runs out.

It all depends on the manner of grievances that continue of course; some things I can handle albeit with a bitter taste in my mouth, others I cannot. What is bothering me most recently is the dwindling numbers, which is the beginning of a vicious cycle. People quit because the game feels empty, which makes the game feel emptier, which causes more people to quit... and so on. This kind of vortex is something that should be avoided at all costs in MMOs.

Today at 6:45 prime-time Saturday evening, for example, I could not find one other person to assist with a Dolmen in The Rift. That is the kind of thing that may ultimately result in my quitting.

Cogo

I'll be here until the end!

AvalonRanger wrote: »

>>@Cogo
>>Are you on EU server? Then contact me @kurnn
>> You can also check our webpage in my signature. And nooooo, its not an art >>of work, its a tool for our guild to communicate. And do fun updates :-p

Thank you for your reply ! But sorry,I'm in North American server.

There are a lot of different guilds. I have a hard time believing that our guild is one of a kind.

There must be other guilds who's main focus is on the person behind the player, and that that person is what that guild is looking for.

I common factor among these types of guilds, is that they never aim for numbers or level. That comes much later.

Keep looking. I dont know about US zone chat, but EU zone chat is actually working. Ask around. When you group and find someone you like, ask about their guild.

Use a zone chat yourself if you wish. However, there still are a lot of guilds who just takes anyone for the sake of numbers, and goldsellers have came up with a good idea to invite people to get their ID to spam. Normaly they make "trade guilds"

Looking at guilds webpages is also a way to get an idea what type of guild they are.

Good luck!