Started with the Nov 2013 beta. Started one of my v16s at 6 am on pre-release day. Have missed only maybe a handful of days since and usually that is only due to silly things like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

sup.
coming and going.
presently running caldwell's gold for the fifth time! and some IC and Ors...

Still here since beta. Still subscribed.

/wave

My wife and I have been subscribed since Beta- and still loving every aspect of the game. We're not going anywhere!

Still here

Still here since launch. Been through some disappointments and breaks but the game has improved a lot. Needs a lot more work still. Hope they get on their game because the way they work on this game it would seem like its their part time job. That being said I still do enjoy it.

Been away for months, because;

PvP is (were?) more or less only about spamming AOEs and heals and zergfest galore.
Proper endgame PvE is non-existant.
Bugs
Lags
I cri evertiem


But logged on today and actually had a great time in Cyrodiil. And only Cyrodiil, because there's nothing else to do in the entirety of the game. It was actually playable in big fights (hundreds of players), no severe lag or anything.
And then the DDOS attacks came and servers went down and I'm just glad (or well.. not glad, but you get the picture) to see a major issue that is not because of ZOS.

Still the good old "see only one-or-two attacks hit you but recap shows one bazillion attacks" though. But barely any actual lag in general in Cyrodiil that affected gameplay ('that') much, didn't even get one-shot/insta-killed once during my hours of play. This is a first in like half a year. This is what I got the most surprised by, because it utterly ruined the PvP earlier.

However, still no gear to get, no obstacles to overcome, no challenges to best.

But I guess.. there's been some improvements? I don't know if I dare tell myself that improvements have been made only to find myself starring apathetically into the screen as bugs and lag ruin the gameplay and I try and find a reason to play ESO that aren't affected by nostalgia.

Things are looking good, I think, and I think I actually might start playing some more in the weeks to come.

Just my two cents.

Been here since beta, preordered the game, and subscribed the whole way. Have characters on both NA and EU servers, play mostly EU.

But sadly I found the subject of this thread to be true (although I doubt people who left the game for good would even check ESO-forums to response here).

Most of the players I met at the start of the game have already left the game for very long time. IMO the best time for ESO was the Christmas of 2014, and then the decay started! Most of the people I knew left the game just after u6 hit live, and who stayed didn’t even make it through the summer! That’s why I consider u6 to be by far the worst what the ZOS came up with (also too many other reasons).

The good thing is, that ZOS has started to improve the game after almost 18 months of release. But each time I am doing the maelstrom arena, or I am in PvP I remember why these people left, and why I occasionally think about leaving.

It is frustrating, that we are still struggling with some bugs since beta (i.e. grouping or random unexplainable crashes), even new bugs get introduced with each update and patch. Not to mention the lag in cyro, and even outside sometimes. And the classes feel now to be way from balanced compared to when the game launched.

But I guess we put up with all the negatives with ESO just for the community’s sake, but I doubt the community will survive another year if things don’t improve. What ZOS promised for the next DLCs sounds promising, and makes me hope for the best, and that the game get back to its former glory…

I log in once a week, maybe. My supposed "progressive raiding guild" was strong for a year. Then there was nothing left to progress....
Guild crumbled as progressive raiding was my only interest in leading. Now I am but a mere member to trade and some fairly active guilds. But hey... I have a 500 slot guild bank to use I guess......

I played the beta as well.
Im still here and loving the game.

Still here.. One of many!

Still here

Still rolling since April 2014