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How do you spend the majority of your time playing in ESO? Group or Solo?
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Kel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭DarcyMardin wrote: »I thought the poll was interesting, so I responded and checked out others’ responses. (I usually group only with my husband, although I occasionally join larger groups for dolmens or PVP or world boss killing). I like to play solo so I can take my time and do my thing without rushing or chasing madly after others.
I used to raid several times a week regularly when I played Lotro, so I’m not opposed to teamwork...I just haven’t devoted the time and energy to raiding in ESO.
Reading thru the thread, I found the various arguments about the poll itself odd. None of these polls prove much of anything about the entire population of ESO players. We’re a tiny, self-selected minority here on the forum.
Cheers.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/381562/why-are-you-locking-an-event-behind-forced-grouping/p1
It's because the guy who made the poll made the post above a few hours before he put up this poll.
What he doesn't understand is that no one has ever argued that people play solo. The argument comes from his stance that ZOS is having an event for players using the group finder tool when in his opinion players who only solo should get a reward too, made clear in him linking the dungeon finder event as a complaint. This poll is his way to say "See! I told you people play solo"...that was never the argument, though. It stems from his first "I'm forced to group to get a special reward for grouping" post...
I agree, the poll is meaningless. It's the attitude of "I want the reward, but I hate the thing I have to do to get the reward, so I'm going to complain about it" that rubs me the wrong way. It's true, 90% of the game is set in his preferred playstyle, so he wants that other 10% as well? That doesn't sit well with me.Edited by Kel on November 21, 2017 12:51PM0 -
Tandor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Wow, this poll is revealing.. no wonder they are pouring development into questing zones and arenas like Maelstrom.
Im truly surprised at how many people want to solo in a multiplayer centric game. This is why te golden age of mmorpgs is long gone.
It rather depends on how you define the golden age of MMORPGs. I suspect you're referring to a time when the games plus the internet connection were horrendously expensive, the games looked very poor and primitive, there were very few of them, and people tended to group because they had to rather than because they chose to. The only "golden" aspect was that they were new and exciting. There was certainly a "buzz" you got back then that is long gone, that I'd certainly agree with but then nothing remains new for long.
Now, however, there are many more games of excellent quality, the early players now have family and other responsibilities, and there is a broad choice of playstyle available depending on the amount of time available and the degree to which the games are played for social rather than pure gaming reasons. I look at the number of top-notch games I play today and the degree to which they've advanced since I started playing MMORPGs in 1997/98 and genuinely consider this to be the golden age of MMORPGs. We've never had it so good!2 -
sudaki_eso✭✭✭✭✭When i log in the first things i do are the crafting dailies and some zone dailies for about an hour. After that i start the pledges and group up, if its through the dungeon finder i leave the group once we are done, if i did the pledges with guild members we usually stay in group and do some other things together. So i usually start playing solo for a while end end the session in a group - so its probably 70/30 for me.PS4 EU - StamDK0 -
Jade1986✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Too bad this is only a portion of the game's population. Even if you put this poll on Reddit and Steam. So only ZOS can disclose the true metrics.
It is always interesting to see actual statistics get released by game companies. Those infographics that Bioware put out about Mass Effect 3, for instance.... the internet was constantly gushing about FemShep, how much better Jennifer Hale's voice work was than Mark Meer's, etc, etc, etc...
...and 80% of the overall playerbase played MaleShep. There were plenty of other interesting stats, but the most interesting thing was seeing how the real stats differed from what the vocal internet crowd tended towards.
Shame it's so rare that we get to see numbers like that. The marketing & PR guys tend to prefer releases like "10 Million Players!*" (* have logged on at one point or another in the last 5 years
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edit: and you know, we see the same thing with DLC/lootboxes/microtransactions. The internet screams and yells about never supporting these things, and meanwhile, the average joe out there in gamerland buys away.
The problem with the metrics is, the same problem SWTOR had in fact, is that while you are waiting for a group you are playing solo. So NATURALLY the metrics will skew in favor of people playing solo more often than not. Its the same thin they did in swtor " more people have active characters in story mode than people have in a flashpoint ", I mean really? Of course they do! They log in, and are in story mode right away. And have to wait to get into a group, either by group finder, or even longer if it is asking in gen chat.0 -
Jade1986✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Wow, this poll is revealing.. no wonder they are pouring development into questing zones and arenas like Maelstrom.
Im truly surprised at how many people want to solo in a multiplayer centric game. This is why te golden age of mmorpgs is long gone.
Of course the poll is going to say that, you have to play solo while you are waiting to group : face desk : . And a lot of the quests are FORCED solo instances, questing in this game with a group is pointless for 2 reasons.
1. Its broken AF, if you did anything remotely different from your friend you will NEVER be able to quest with them.
2. Its insanely easy, as is demonstrated by the poll I recently made, yet somehow everyone dismissed my poll as being inaccurate, but somehow this one is telling?
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kaiage✭✭✭Seeing as how this is a single player game and all of you are computers. I typically play solo. Must smash computers.
Regarding the above post, just goes to show you that if you program something, someone is going to p*ss, moan, and yell "broken!"Edited by kaiage on November 21, 2017 6:38PMan anonymous EP nightblade and Templar...
also; a warden and nightblade of the aldmeri flavour.
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ZOS_KatP✭✭✭Hi all,
Since this thread has become off-topic and combative, we've decided to close it.
Thank you.Edited by ZOS_KatP on November 21, 2017 6:52PM1
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