I play solo, too. I enjoy seeing other players in the world, but I don't really want to interact with them much, except for a rare instance when I team up with someone random to do a dungeon or world boss. Otherwise, I'm happy playing alone. If an MMO forced group play onto people, I wouldn't play it.

Sometimes being in an MMO is really amazing, though, even if you aren't grouped with anybody. An example that springs to mind is one time when I was in Daggerfall (or was it Wayrest?) at night, and a bunch of people decided to have a party of sorts. They were in the middle of everything, and were all using the same mementos at more or less the same time to create a ruckus. It was pretty fun, and yes, they attracted a crowd.

ArchMikem wrote: »

I dont have friends.

I've been reading your posts for quite some time now...i find your statement difficult to believe...you definitely seem pretty friend worthy to me

I had some friends, but my playstyle made them all die from laughter. Lone wolf ever since.

Wifeaggro13 wrote: »

Megabear wrote: »

I tried joining couple guilds that were 200 and 450 members respectively. I did not enjoy the experience at all. It was almost exactly like a zone chat, except zone chat was chattier. I will probably either remain guildless but look for temporary companions in alliance war, dungeons and what not, a perfectly viable option it seems, or in the long run create my own guild, albeit unlikely, and limit the guild to 20-40 players and foster more intimate setting with roster being periodically refreshed with active players. I've ran many successful guilds but it really is a lot of work and baby sitting to be honest, so I prefer not to run one again but hey, if it's totally casual it might be alright. I also plan on crafting all of my own gears even if it takes me over a year to do it

This is why I left eso. I want to play a mmo . If I want to play a single player game I'll play witcher or skyrim both those games do sprpg very well. Eso as a single player game is mediocre, as a mmo it's even worse because it failed to try to be one.

Here I thought you quit because you had wife aggro.

I have on RL friend who I will play with occasionally, but he is only on for a few weeks after new content. The rest of the time I'm on my own. With area chat off.

Darlgon wrote: »

Wifeaggro13 wrote: »

Megabear wrote: »

I tried joining couple guilds that were 200 and 450 members respectively. I did not enjoy the experience at all. It was almost exactly like a zone chat, except zone chat was chattier. I will probably either remain guildless but look for temporary companions in alliance war, dungeons and what not, a perfectly viable option it seems, or in the long run create my own guild, albeit unlikely, and limit the guild to 20-40 players and foster more intimate setting with roster being periodically refreshed with active players. I've ran many successful guilds but it really is a lot of work and baby sitting to be honest, so I prefer not to run one again but hey, if it's totally casual it might be alright. I also plan on crafting all of my own gears even if it takes me over a year to do it

This is why I left eso. I want to play a mmo . If I want to play a single player game I'll play witcher or skyrim both those games do sprpg very well. Eso as a single player game is mediocre, as a mmo it's even worse because it failed to try to be one.

Here I thought you quit because you had wife aggro.

I'll never quit a game because of aggro. I'll just take time off while she is working lol

Except for the one time I dipped my toes into that pledge thingy I played the game solo and have so since launch. That's just how I prefere to play ESO. Don't care about pledges, pvp, rp and soloing dolmens is no problem at all so I never feel the need to play with anyone else.

I'm here because ESO offers a scale/scope way beyond Oblivion/Skyrim - that is, a bigger sandbox. The fact that it is multiplayer is, overall, a drawback but one I've reasonably adjusted to. I enjoy not having to fret and manage a tempermental load order of mods and tweaks like I did with Oblivion/Skyrim. I also like that instead of fretting when things break, I go get a cup of coffee and let Zen fix it.

I find grouping very unimmersive, as I focus on the players instead of the game and groups move too fast. The primary reason I generally avoid formal grouping though is that I guard my time jealously. If I want to bail out of the game on a moment's notice if something real world comes up, and I want to be able to comfortably do so. If grouped, I would feel very badly bailing out in the middle of a dungeon. Simply not a position I want to be in.

One aspect of an MMO that I like is that my character has really blossomed as a healer - and it takes other players for that to work. That said, her healing/support is mostly informally just running the same quest / dungeon as one or more others on pretty much a random basis. Or joining in with others taking down a WB or dolmen.

The biggest drawback to me of the MMO side of things is skills changing/nerfing due to perceived reasons that have nothing to do with me as a mostly solo player.

I played solo from the start to about 120 cp ish.

Then I randomly decided to join a guild from zone chat....while I was struggling in craglorn.

I was playing PVP because I didn't want to run my first character through the other alliance stories, there I learnt to type "looking for group" because actually playing PVP solo is hard work. then one of those groups invited me to their guild.

Then I learnt how selling things worked for guilds, even though it was only to my other guildmates... Then one of the trade guilds I had bought things and a zone chat ad and I join them.. (Then they lost their trader :'( ) and they have been great and I wouldn't go back and not join.

I have joined another zone chat guild as well a better one than the first one that is pretty dead.

Finding people to do group content is still a real struggle though so I am still mostly playing solo, even in these medium level guilds.

As far as I am concerned they could cut out all the MMO stuff and sell the game as Single Player Game and I'd be happy still. I play the Game because I love Elder Scrolls, the world, the playstyle, the story. I enjoy the game but play strictly solo, no guilds, no groups and I like it that way.

I used to play it solo, but a few months ago I started doing dungeons and I quite enjoy it

Most of the replies here explain why GF is so bad, chat turned off, do things how they want etc. Everyone wants to play it like Skyrim.