Played Morrowind, around the time of Oblivion's release (loaned by a friend)
Played Oblivion maybe a couple years beyond release?
Played Skyrim on release.
Only came to ESO last spring, after feeling bored & seeing a sale.
(played a number of other MMOs in the vanilla-WoW-and-later era)

I remember I rented Morrowind back in the early 2000s from a Blockbuster video. I think by then it was slightly old and the out of date graphics turned me off, so I didn't get far. A few years later I picked up Oblivion on a lark and was blown away, as I had never played a game like that before. Well, I guess I did but didn't know it, as I didn't give Morrowind much of a chance.

Many hours were spent in Cyrodiil on multiple characters, builds and questlines, and then I moved onto Skyrim, although it didn't capture me like Oblivion did. I still played it quite a bit of Skyrim in any case, and when I first heard about ESO in 2012 or so, I knew it was something I was going to try out. I never managed to get into the closed beta, but I was there from the open beta weekends onwards, and the rest is history; been playing ESO heavily with intermittent breaks since 2014.

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Loved Morrowind, along with KOTOR 1, it's one of the 2 best games I've ever played. Nothing has ever matched that feeling of "This is my world to go play in, I can do anything". The ability to go anywhere but at the same time not because you're not powerful enough was eaten away over the course of Oblivion and Skyrim so I've become less and less of a fan.

I also played many MMOs prior to ESO so it's a bit of both options for me. Anarchy Online, Mankind, Earth and Beyond and SWTOR were all major highlights in my gaming history.

So a marriage of the two elements, MMO & ES, is awesome. It's not as great in practice as I'd like, especially as a I just find overland too easy to enjoy properly.

Where is the “other” option?!?

I picked it up because there was no Fallout 4 yet, so this was the next best thing.

I’d only ever played a tiny amount of Oblivion and never even finished Skyrim (just because I get stuck doing side quests all the time).

This was also my first ever MMO and to be completely honest, the only reason I stuck with it, after the release of Fallout 4, is because I get to run around as a freaking tiger!

I played Skyrim and Dragon's Dogma (loved playing both of them) when I found ESO last August. I had never played an MMO and ESO is the only game I've been playing since I started.

Very new to MMOs, but wanted to try ESO because I was a big fan of Skyrim and Oblivion.

Played Oblivion first. I'd never seen a game with sword/shield first combined with first person before, so I bought it on the xbox live store and fell in love.

Then I went back and played Morrowind and disliked it at first since I couldn't understand why every hit was missing.Once I figured out that I needed a high weapon skill I fell in love with that game too.

A few years later I began playing MMO's in the form of World of Warcraft, which I still play to this day.

Then Skyrim came out several years later. I didn't like it, I felt it was too watered down and it barely felt like an Elder Scrolls game to me anymore, plus the lore just wasn't as interesting imo. Fortunately the modding community saved that game and made it one of the most fun games that I've ever played.

I was worried about Elder Scrolls Online at first. The first screenshots they released made it look like they were changing to a rather strange art style with blue plastic-bits on shields and whatnot. Over time things started to look better though, I used to watch Elder Scrolls Online Weekly over on ShoddyCast and my desire to play the game became almost unbearable as I saw more and more of it.

Fortunately I got in the beta in January 2014 and fell in love with ESO just like I fell in love with Morrowind and Oblivion. The only time I considered quitting was shortly after I hit level 50 due to the whole business with Veteran Ranks and Cadwell's Silver/Gold. The difficulty spike felt a little ridiculous, especially around VR3 and I unsubscribed for a few months. Craglorn was incredibly underwhelming too since I couldn't do any of the content due to it being tuned for multiple players.

Then they announced that they were going to get rid of Veteran ranks and I hopped right back into the game and have remained subbed since. I was so relieved when they finally started doing proper, single player content like Orsinium, the Thieves guild and Dark Brotherhood. Then One Tamriel came out and the game seems to have been on the right track ever since.

Long time TES fan AND MMO player.

Other,

Read about it coming in a PC Gamer magazine.
Got to try it out at PaX East which peaked my interest and made me sign up for the beta.
Got into the beta and loved it.

i played ES since morrowind but not actually a fan of the series, even skyrim

i came here because im burned out of WoW and i want a fresh start on MMO, i knew ESO since its released but didnt get it due to reasons and my heart is still in WoW at that time. actually im debating between FF14 and ESO to be my next mmorpg, guess i made a perfect choice

I've played Oblivion and Skyrim. I never heard of ESO until my mate showed me the game a little after its official launch. After showing me this class (now known as the Dragon Knight class) enveloped in this spiraling fire I just had to get it. I first played on his account for a while then later made my own but man those days were fun, less lag, classes with strong identities/lacking similarities, etc.