Okay I have been feeling the OP recently.

I bought Morrowind on Friday
And all I want to do is the quests,
My internet has just been randomly disconnecting the last few days . and i have wait a couple of minutes for it to return and log back in.
I picked up a bunch of quests in vivec city and, like I do in the single player games I looked at where my quests were located and started walking to pick them up when they are in a similiar location.

Then... I got to the world boss quest.... can't do this alone.. I ask in zone and guild chat and get a grouped together and we beat the world boss. Okay good... but I mean i got all these people together seems like a waste to just disband. A group member suggests we do all the world bosses in vvaadenfel. Then we ported all around the island taking on all 6 world bosses for an hour or so.

But honestly...secretly... all I really wanted to do the whole time was go back to solo questing. I was unfortunately the highest cp character in the group and they were unlikely to be able to take on the bosses without me. I now have all these wayshrines in locations I feel i shouldn't they should all be reached on foot as I explore.

Yesterday someone was selling motifs in zone chat, I agreed to buy as I was questing. They grouped and said
"Hey I am in vivec city"
"Can't you just CoD it I am questing"
... no reply...
Then my internet cut out and when I returned there was no CoD and they were still standing at the vivec temple wayshrine and since my questing was already interrupted I finally went to pick up the motif.

Sometimes I don't feel like dealing with people... I am somewhat social really... but lets just say I like that I am in Australia so I can quest alone when its quiet....but I also hate it because of the *** terrible internet.

Well zenimax must of listened, since cwc eso has been elder scolls offline

i think it's nearly impossible due to:
- client-server output (thats why all mmos doesn't have pirated torrent versions, they don't even need any of DRM like Denuvo);
- all savegame files hold on server (protecting us from "savegame editor" cheaters like the ones in Borderlands 2);

This question could be (and still hardly) addressed to games like Diablo 3 or Path of Exile, but clearly not to ESO.

MrGarlic wrote: »

Questing could be done offline. There's no need for interactions with other players for that.

Would give us something to do when we have patch maintenance too, rather than go to bed or fumble around outside in the dark

Questing and vMA. One issue would obviously be cheating. way easier in an single player game. You would notice then some started selling BoP vMA weapons

zaria wrote: »

MrGarlic wrote: »

Questing could be done offline. There's no need for interactions with other players for that.

Would give us something to do when we have patch maintenance too, rather than go to bed or fumble around outside in the dark

Questing and vMA. One issue would obviously be cheating. way easier in an single player game. You would notice then some started selling BoP vMA weapons

Encryption could solve that. It would need to pretty good encryption though as some people would be pretty keen to crack it and see it as a challenge. It is doable though. No encryption is safe, but if it is good enough, the effort won't be worth it.

Won't happen anyway.

Sure, why not. But only if you could never transfer your offline progress to your online progress and vice versa. Lots of games already have an offline mode that works that way.

Offline mode with all its characters and progress remains and exists forever offline - completely independent from online mode. This addresses any concerns of unfair gameplay or advantages that playing offline might provide.

Bax wrote: »

The thing is that if we talk about cheaters, separate offline version might be just as bad as offline mode, because the server side logic would have to be released in downloadable package and that would mean easier exploration of exploits in offline version which could be then used in online one. Unless offline version would have completely different logic, but that would be inefficient cost-wise.

Also if your only concern is lore, you can always use walk-through videos or even lore oriented websites and youtube channels. You don't really have to play everything. Sometimes I watch lore videos just to see different approach to the stories or to catch connection I missed before. You don't really have to play this game if you don't meet requirements for it. I understand it might be a bit of frustrating, especially if you are "completionist" type of a player, but MMO is the way ESO is released and if you can't play online or you don't like MMO, it's no problem, just play something else. That's nice thing about gaming, you have so many choices and options to pick which suit you and your playstyle best.

Just out of interest, did you play Arena? Daggerfall? Redguard? Battlespire? Morrowind? (and I don't mean the latest ESO expansion by the last one). If no, then why is ESO lore suddenly so important?

To be fair it's a burden to play old MS DOS games, at least for me. I don't see *** on it. And even the original Morrowind (which I played several years from the release on) is hard to watch. People get used to nice graphics and a combat system that is not entirely rng-based... oh wait...

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

Bax wrote: »

The thing is that if we talk about cheaters, separate offline version might be just as bad as offline mode, because the server side logic would have to be released in downloadable package and that would mean easier exploration of exploits in offline version which could be then used in online one. Unless offline version would have completely different logic, but that would be inefficient cost-wise.

Also if your only concern is lore, you can always use walk-through videos or even lore oriented websites and youtube channels. You don't really have to play everything. Sometimes I watch lore videos just to see different approach to the stories or to catch connection I missed before. You don't really have to play this game if you don't meet requirements for it. I understand it might be a bit of frustrating, especially if you are "completionist" type of a player, but MMO is the way ESO is released and if you can't play online or you don't like MMO, it's no problem, just play something else. That's nice thing about gaming, you have so many choices and options to pick which suit you and your playstyle best.

Just out of interest, did you play Arena? Daggerfall? Redguard? Battlespire? Morrowind? (and I don't mean the latest ESO expansion by the last one). If no, then why is ESO lore suddenly so important?

To be fair it's a burden to play old MS DOS games, at least for me. I don't see *** on it. And even the original Morrowind (which I played several years from the release on) is hard to watch. People get used to nice graphics and a combat system that is not entirely rng-based... oh wait...

OP said in one of his posts that he loves lore and old games are part of it. You obviously love gameplay, so maybe look for similar type of game in offline environment.

Also there is Oblivion mod which lets you play Morrowind on Oblivion engine. There is even mod currently developed to do the same on Skyrim engine.

It is not an imposible task to make this game playable in offline, at least technikaly so i say why not.
The game is basicly could be soloing in every contest so i dont see why not. For those who think this is a stupid idea, i am not trying to convince anybody to think again, because we all know how their closed mind works. It is reguardless if this game is titeled as an mmorpg, while almost zero communication between players in dungeons, and tirals, not to mention the toxicated behavours, and the dungeon runs with pugs, 80% of the eu player base still havent got a clue about their role and how to play with it in dungeon contents. also guilds are mostly silent even if you are a meember of 5 guilds. At least in PC Eu. they hardly even greets you when you login and kindly say hello to everyone...
I like this idea to add a single player mod for the game wich could be played in offline mode, with separated toons, progressions, wich cannot effect the online one. it is not imposible, knowing even if some one is afraid about cheats or haxes, because the offline toons are cannot be ported on the ZOs servers, we all know how online character storages works, wich is all serversided, while single player toons canot effect serverside toons for 10000000000000000000000%.
so yeah it would be nice to have an offline version too. Not to mention even with my 500mb/sec internet speed the game is so laggy somtimes, wich is clearly a serverside issue not mine while other mmorpgs latencies are 60 and in a very extream case it is 100 but in eso i have constant 200 and 600 and many times 999+ (and dont come for me about my bad connection stuff even speed tests are legit infos about my connection is way beter then how the eso servers are communicates with my pc and flushing dns wont fixing teh bad communications between me and the ESO servers)
The end conclusion is it could be done there is no technical issues to not make that happen.

PlagueSD wrote: »

Slick_007 wrote: »

there is an offline version. in fact there are 2. oblivion and skyrim.
you do understand what an MMO is right?

^--- This. There is no "OFFLINE" mode for a MMO.

Dark Souls... Bloodbourne... Phantasy Star Online... Kinda style games? I mean I've seen offline/online hybrids before, but for ESO... The title literally says online, and that would be way too much work for the development team

i would tkae that,
our internet in australia is ***.
id be happy tro just run around doing devles, maelstrom, some quests, crafting and farming telvar in stead of suffering thru this for another year. if the servers dont come to oceania / asia or get better around here im done

A game with an offline mode needs to be planned BEFORE or DURING DEVELOPMENT. Obviously it's much much harder to turn a single player game into a multiplayer game, but ESO was developed to have mega servers. You won't be able to do a lot of the content offline, and it would take a lot of money and development time to make a playable offline mode. I would rather have a mobile companion app or just play an entirely new TES game than gut ESO for an offline version.