Every year in every MMO I have played over the last 2+ decades around April or May we see the same posts on these game forums: "This game is dying!!" Every. Game. Every year.

Then around August or September people are amazed at the sudden influx of new and returning players.

Gee, wonder why.

@akl77

As allready mention the game devs are actually using polls for what the community wants and implements it in a decent speed contra how slow it seems for Zenimax to actually release new content, fix bugs and listen to its community.

But Runescape are way more simple to add stuff in to compared to ESO cause lets face it Runescape aint that good looking or have that many working system below the surface as ESO have, the depth is there in Runescape just way more simple.

ParaNostram wrote: »

People "completing" Morrowind I have a question, does that mean you've done every quest or just the main story? Does that mean you've explored every little bit of content? Did you listen to the dialogue or just skip through it?

Like, to say you've completed something in the TES series feels... Idk it feels so off to me maybe I've just been playing these games too long but TES games never felt to me like something you play to complete, but rather something you play to experience ya know?

Every quest, gone to every part of the map, have all achievements excluding the motif ones and the ones associated with dailies, listened to, well, read all dialogue.

Bots? Something just aint right, 220 mill player and only 1 mill on Facebook. I would almost bet my life its bots. Business world is full of scams and self-lying.

Vizikul wrote: »

faerigirl wrote: »

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

akl77 wrote: »

drakhan2002_ESO wrote: »

akl77 wrote: »

ESO looks amazing and is elder scrolls, yet it's dying.

This seems rather subjective; is this based on your opinion or do you have facts/numbers/developer numbers to back that claim up?

ESO's content is running out fast, even Morrowind have been completed in a week by someone on this forum. It need something that will hold the long time players, it's already ran out of juice long ago.

I completed Morrowind in about a day. Was lucky enough that my study schedule meant I had a half day on the patch release and a day off the following day

I finished it in about 3 days (that's 3 playing sessions not 72 hours) I still need to finish up the skyshards but that's it.

Yea, it was stated that morrowind contains 30 hours of gameplay. A professional mmorpg game reviewer said that these 30 hours are most likely the time it takes for a dev to complete and for players it's probably much less.

30 hours plus warden class, that's an expensive expansion...

So go play Runescape? I don't get the point of this argument. Runescape sucks. ESO is amazing.

fisheatsteel wrote: »

So go play Runescape? I don't get the point of this argument. Runescape sucks. ESO is amazing.

You need to read the whole thread discussions if you don't understand the point.

Pretty self explanatory , Runescape has a far bigger playerbase and community than ESO has or probably will ever have.

Eh, I don't understand streaming at all, honestly. From either side, watching or broadcasting. So weird.

fisheatsteel wrote: »

akl77 wrote: »

fisheatsteel wrote: »

So go play Runescape? I don't get the point of this argument. Runescape sucks. ESO is amazing.

You need to read the whole thread discussions if you don't understand the point.

I have. All I saw was a lot of complaining for what seems like no point. People streaming a game doesn't mean that it's a better game. There are a lot of factors that come into play with streaming. Alot of people probably don't feel the need to stream ESO as they would rather just play it. It also has better graphics and takes up more resources than games like Runescape which means there is more of a chance for the game performance to get crappier with ESO while streaming it. It also has to do with the community that is there. If streaming is more popular in Runescape, more people are probably going to stream it as a result. This entire post just seems like, "Runescape is awesome, ESO sucks. What's up with that?!" The problem is that liking a game has more to do with your opinion.

As I said I don't understand why so many people still plays runescape, I asked because I don't play runescape so I'm curious. Your assumption of me liking runescape just doesn't make sense, cos I don't even play it.
2ndly, I commented earlier that runescape game credit cards are selling on top shelves in retails everywhere, it means people are still buying it, nowhere do I see any ESO game credit selling.

I mean runescape looks ridiculous, yet it's got the point, it's Addictive till the point you can't put it down I guess.

akl77 wrote: »

I mean runescape looks ridiculous, yet it's got the point, it's Addictive till the point you can't put it down I guess.

Sure it looks garbage , but the fact it still has player retention means it does things right.
ESO will never have a huge community for multiple reasons that are quite obvious.

Graphics don't make a game good, the community and content does. I've played Runescape for 5 years now, achieved all 99's and all boss pets compared to 1 year of ESO. In my opinion the Runescape community is nicer and more interactive, for example, many players that play Runescape have set up twitter accounts dedicated to the game and go to Runescape game events every year to meet up with their online friends. Because of the strong community it's easier to find people to boss with.

As for the content, I feel like Runescape has some more challeneging solo/group content which keeps people engaged whilst watching streams. The loot system, which is heavily RNG based, is also really nice - some of the loot from bosses scales depending on how well you did in the fight or how many kills you've done without dying. It's exciting to watch a streamer get a huge rare drop which sells for millions.