I know the feeling. I have a single friend left on ESO. All my friends I've known for years have left the game except for the two of us. My entire guild of 120 some odd people have completely stopped playing.

I'm in the process of trying to build a new guild off a a merger with someone else's dying guild. I'm doing all the work right now and, even though our new guys play almost daily, none of them bloody talk in guild chat.

I don't get it. There are plenty of people playing plenty of the time but Dumac take the idea of anyone being social.

Stubie wrote: »

I figured once I hit vet lvls I could at least do the daily dungeons quest but nope it never pops. I'm literally sitting here waiting. This will be the fifth night in a row trying. I just hope it gets better soon as I level more.

Group finder broken. Will be fixed and improved on game base patch for orsinium (dlc purchase not required)

Wasn't going to bring up the chat box issue lol. Good news about GF being fixed though. Now to just find an active guild!

Well small update. I did get a group and finished the daily. Met three very cool people and joined their guild. We are now otw to do the vet dungeon daily. The eso gods have shined on me today my friends. Guess all ya have to do is complain sometimes!

If you're on DC. PSN: dday3six add me I'll run with you. I'm VR16 but I don't mind at all to run stuff at lower levels.

GuyNamedSean wrote: »

I'm doing all the work right now and, even though our new guys play almost daily, none of them bloody talk in guild chat.

I don't get it. There are plenty of people playing plenty of the time but Dumac take the idea of anyone being social.

Being social ?
Maybe the issue is more complex.
I play on PC but since we use TeamSpeak as a guild some aspects are comparable.

1/ Talk... ok, but about what ? If we're not doing some content together, or talking about sole game-related stuff, I don't see what we would talk about. It's a fantasy escape world and there's nothing more annoying to me than people starting small talk in TeamSpeak about their day at work, what the weather is like IRL, or their children's poops. I believe that in order to have people talking you need to create guild events (not necessarily dungeons or raids, could be other stuff like hide&seek, enigmas, roleplay and such).

2/ Talk while playing ? Unless it's something related to what's happening on the screen, talking and playing are incompatible. I cannot feel immersed in the game while chatting vocally with someone, I cannot listen to an NPC while someone else's voice is covering. Either I talk/listen to someone, or I play, but not both. Text chat is different : it stays there for a while so I can catch up and participate to the conversation whenever I'm ready to take a break on my quests.

3/ Talking also means listening. From my experience, as soon as there are more than 4 people in one vocal channel, there's a 100% chance that someone has a badly tuned microphone, background noise or music, talking to their RL people without shutting down the mic, or eat/cough/breathe heavily in the microphone. This is game-breaking. (I'm not even mentioning racism/sexism/agressivity/general stupidity - those are frequent in guild chats too, even though less than in area chat).

4/ I live alone at the moment but if I didn't, I wouldn't like to impose my talking ingame to my RL loved ones, even when they're awake. It would make me look pretty silly and it's something that I wouldn't like them to do to me either. As soon as you're making noise in a common room, you're occupying everyone's space.

Bottom line : people not using microphones are not necessarily "anti social", they just want to enjoy the game without too many unrelated parasite noise and conversations, and to respect the people living with them.

Bottom line 2 : I'm glad I play on PC because there's text chat. Looks like consoles really need text chat.

Stubie wrote: »

Love this game but ......

AoE caps.