Why is DC the least played alliance?

Rohaus · April 2018

Most people can’t handle being a lion.

ParaNostram · April 2018

RebornV3x wrote: »

Maybe because AD has some existing lore prior to ESO and ED has some stuff to do about Skyrim so every alot of people picked ED. DC on the other hand is something that was made up just for ESO and didn't exist prior to ESO also no recent Elder Scrolls game has taken place in DC areas.

Daggerfall while not recent is still one of the best TES games

psychotrip · April 2018

For me it’s because I couldn’t stand High Rock. I love gray, gloomy places when they’re done well, but Jesus. High Rock is probably the most boring, most drab place in all of Tamriel.

I remember making a redguard and completely abandoning him when I realized I’d have to suffer through like 3 more regions of High Rock. I just couldn’t do it.

Drdeath20 · April 2018

Blue is a less appealing color

duendology · April 2018

ragnarok6644b14_ESO wrote: »

So, as an RPer,

My favorite race is Altmer, because they're beautiful, and I get to roleplay a deeply conflicted race, convinced of its own superiority while simultaneously trying to open up to the rest of the world and earnestly help them. The Altmer knowledge and lore-seeking penchant is also a soft-spot for me; I'm an academic in real life, and in Altmer society, wise men and mages are above even princes in the social caste system.

My favorite faction is the Ebonheart Pact, because they are bitter enemies brought together by necessity, which causes almost as much political upheaval as Ayrenn's policies for the Altmer. They also defeated the recent Akaviri Invasion with essentially no help from the Empire, which is pretty badass, and each race has a strong and proud military tradition.

The Convenant... meh. The Redguards are sort of one-trick ponies from a Lore perspective: non-native (over 1k years ago admittedly) migrants who do well with swordplay. The only tension is the Crowns vs Forebears, and that's essentially like democrats vs. republicans; hardly an upheaval. Orcs are ugly (well, at least the ones I try to make anyways), and their whole storyline is "clannish barbarians don't get along with up and coming king" which is literally a fantasy trope. It's subverted after the king turns out to be evil, but it's not nearly as compelling as the Altmeri struggle for personal improvement and to downplay their superiority in favor of participating in the world. And the Bretons.... just kinda do. They're like Medieval France, and there are some vampires or something... bland bland bland.

From an Rper's point of view
Although all my nine characters are different they have one thing in common, they don't care about alliances. They're mercenaries, they will fight for money or...they can't be bothered to fight at all. In that, they are a lot like their creator...I couldn't care less about alliance loyalty or which one is better...supposedly. Lore-wise...only AD makes sense...the other two are made for the sake of ESO and pvp purpose...so I wouldn't attach much ideology to it.

Among my characters you can find an Orsimer (and she's BEAUTIFUL and cute and badass support tank, in her free time she can be found in her garden or studying magic), a Redguard, a Dunmer, an Altmer, a Breton and Imperial. I could write pages about their background stories...not place for that.. but, for instance, my Altmer Sorc feels more attached, if anything, to Nords than his Altmer natives...BECAUSE of his background story.

Character background stories matter to me more than racial/alliance premade stories.

Anyway, where was I going with this...
Hmm don't know BUT....how's that Altmers and their story is not fantasy to you but Orcs' or Breton's are? o_0

VaranisArano · April 2018

Doctordarkspawn wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

EP was the most popular faction according to the stats ZOS revealed recently. This makes sense since it contains Skyrim and Morrowind, the two most popular zones in the entire series (due to the single player games taking place there).

AD has high elves, which are cool looking and have good racial passives. The Khajiit attract the furries and the Bosmer are cute.

Breton is the worst of the magicka races (Altmer and Dunmer are both stronger) and Orcs and Redguard just don't seem to be that populat even though they're good stamina races.

That's because the stamina to magicka ratio is out of wack. Take a look at Rubedo leather prices sometime and judge from that.

I don't judge anything by leather prices thanks to Bots.

Sergykid · April 2018

all factions are surprisingly very well equilibrated. The most has 36%, so the other, so each has an average of a third. Also argonian is the most op race.

BuyMe500Pugs_Please · April 2018

I've seen full dc dominating on kyne xbox na server

DemonDruaga · April 2018

Choosing between eagle, lion and dragon, going for the ones wielding a dragon on their banner was the obvious joice for me.
It is just more bad ass

Doctordarkspawn · April 2018

LaMagrank wrote: »

Um...Daggerfall? Redguard? My first played tes game was Daggerfall.

They said no recent TES game. Daggerfall came out over 20 years ago. I guarantee no more than 5% of Skyrim fanboys ever played Daggerfall.

I'd have tried if I could ever get the damn thing to work. DOSbox isn't exactly for the feint of heart.

SickleCider · April 2018

I have a Breton in EP. I wanted a human sorcerer and wanted to start in a snowy region. I like snow. Red's one of my favorite colors and dragons are pretty cool. That's all the forethought that went into the decision.

ChefZero · April 2018

I am Dunmer on DC since headstart PC.

Dunmer cause it is my fav race and Morrowind is my fav TES game.

DC cause my first guild was kind of RP racists.

Vrienda · April 2018

Furries and those looking for super pretty characters go to AD.

Scalies and Skyrim/Morrowind fans go to EP.

Personally I chose Covenant because I find the Dominion a little bit boring and I don't like the idea of working with Argonians and Nords. I'm pretty burnt out on seeing Skyrim too.

Plus Orcs, Redguards and Bretons are some of my favorite races after Dunmer.

The storylines of DC are also so much better imo.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · April 2018

The High King is indecisive, slightly sexist, and left all the people of Craglorn to die. The questline is disjointed, the region isn't particularly interesting as far as landscape. Almost the entire main DC region is Breton; the Orcs get cut out entirely except for a part of the tutorial and the Redguards get only one zone. In short, it's boring. The Dominion plotline is more cohesive and the Pact territories are more diverse (swamps - volcanoes - snow).

Mindcr0w · April 2018

I'd have tried if I could ever get the damn thing to work. DOSbox isn't exactly for the feint of heart.

I would keep trying to get it to work. Daggerfall has a lot of problems, but it is a truly unique experience in all of gaming that is worth playing through at least once.

I am very much looking forward to technology catching up to vision and someone creating a modern spiritual successor that replicates the vastness without replicating the repetitiveness.

Only a matter of time I am sure.

Also regarding the subject of the thread itself: True Blue or I don't know you. #DCforlife

Jade1986 · April 2018

Emerick, simple.

Leandor · April 2018

On PC-EU it's very obvious. Abraxxus played DC at launch

Mz_Jo · April 2018

I chose DC just before console launch because

I liked the few streamers at the time
They WERE the underdog
Blue is my favorite color
I rejoined a DC Guild
I ordered All Races All Alliance
I totally didn't like a certain streamer
I like the Queen the best but the Wings are awful
Dragon is cool but they haven't been born yet as per this game lore
Lions are KING

ALL my toons are blue!

I BLEED BLUE NOW AND TOMORROW

Mazbt · April 2018

Least played? LOL. PC NA buddy, PC NA. (pvp related)

Minalan · April 2018

Paganini wrote: »

From my PVP-point of view:
DC has by far the most conceited and boasting players

Nah, AD are the biggest cheerleaders.

God help us when they win the current NA PC Vivec. Just wait for the threads.

runagate · April 2018

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

It seems, across every server now that DC is the most unpopular alliance, and has the lowest pop by quite a long way. Why is this?

I guess I have always had a soft spot for them, having just resurrected my DC chars after a long break from using them. I was EP for the longest time there, but that was when EP were less popular on the Xbox EU server.

Gotta agree that Morrowind and Skyrim are to blame for the EP population. But the carebears who love Legolas (holy crap Cyrodiil used to be filled with 10000 variations on Legolas in 2014) certainly are why AD is filled with RPers. Even in Cyrdodiil. Which must add to the frisson of using /emote chat to talk like a bad Jane Austen character. I heard recently an RP guild decided that one of the capturable towns is their HQ and just hang out there to defend it. That's about the coolest thing I've heard community-wise in a long time.

I myself love Hackdirt for some reason and am quite sure I'm alone in my interest in that town

I guess I could just talk aloud to myself there to baffle the bimonthly passerbye.

The imbalance in population is nowhere near as bad as it once was. When the three alliances couldn't interact outside of fighting, literally being in different layers of the same zones when in PvE, DC was must further in third place population-wise.

VaranisArano · April 2018

runagate wrote: »

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

It seems, across every server now that DC is the most unpopular alliance, and has the lowest pop by quite a long way. Why is this?

I guess I have always had a soft spot for them, having just resurrected my DC chars after a long break from using them. I was EP for the longest time there, but that was when EP were less popular on the Xbox EU server.

Gotta agree that Morrowind and Skyrim are to blame for the EP population. But the carebears who love Legolas (holy crap Cyrodiil used to be filled with 10000 variations on Legolas in 2014) certainly are why AD is filled with RPers. Even in Cyrdodiil. Which must add to the frisson of using /emote chat to talk like a bad Jane Austen character. I heard recently an RP guild decided that one of the capturable towns is their HQ and just hang out there to defend it. That's about the coolest thing I've heard community-wise in a long time.

I myself love Hackdirt for some reason and am quite sure I'm alone in my interest in that town I guess I could just talk aloud to myself there to baffle the bimonthly passerbye.

The imbalance in population is nowhere near as bad as it once was. When the three alliances couldn't interact outside of fighting, literally being in different layers of the same zones when in PvE, DC was must further in third place population-wise.

Hackdirt really needed the tunnels beneath the town and more creepy townspeople.