I mean what's the point of logging in otherwise?

How can I play the game when the finder hasnt worked properly in a year?

I do crafting dailies most days - hubby and I run the guildhouse for one of our guilds, so we are currently working on getting all crafting set stations. 1st week of event won't change much for us as we do them anyway (thanks Lazy Writ Crafter!). My main knows most motifs, so I often get to make quite a bit of cash selling the extras, so for me, those are also worth working for. Some days I will likely do less, others more. I want and will use all the indriks - I love indriks - so getting tickets will be a no-brainer and this time easier than ever.

When my interest wanes a little, the events give me something to do.

Only dailes who is required for me is crafting on main and the event related ones for tickets. Ran the jester event 3 times a day used this to level up skills in plan to turn my Khajiit stamblade magic.
Else I did other stuff.
Granted the anniversary will change how i play a bit

During the week it would be "no, mostly not" unless you consider RP "playing the game". But it's mostly the festival dailies I do, no crafting writs or any of that nonsense that "keeps players occupied". I only do dailies if I want a certain cosmetic reward, not for gold. Sometimes I do the summerset world bosses for fun but not daily.

At the weekend I usually play a lot more, do dungeons or raids with the guild or more festival dailies on more chars (or levelling low levels). It will be a relief to have a month without an event, even though I don't mind getting mounts/pets/cosmetics for free. But after a while they start feeling like a chore.

it depends if I have the time to really, and I'm finding I have less and less time as of late

Whats playing the game mean? That could mean farming for someone.

Depends on how I feel that day. Sometimes there's another game I want to play. Sometimes I don't feel like gaming. Sometimes all I wanna do is eso.

With events in particular, I do my best to make things as far away from a chore as possible - so if I don't want to do something, I often just don't. Having said that I also realize that if I don't put in the time, I'm not going to get the rewards (which is entirely fair), so sometimes I do log in real quick because I want the rewards. But I don't have to. This is not a job.

If I do different dailies every day, are they still dailies?

Sometimes all I want to do is do writs on multiple characters while I chat with guildies. Sometimes I want to work on a character to get through a couple of quest hubs. Sometimes I want to do pledges. Sometimes I just want to run a random normal. Sometimes there are guild events.

So outside of training riding skills on characters that need it, I don't do the same thing every day for long. Right now, the only "daily" that I'm staying on top of is the Sacrament because I want the achievement for killing all the targets.

Obviously, with the Jubilee event starting, I'm going to be doing different dailies each week, but if I get tired, I'll just do that cake for the tickets and do whatever I want, since it doesn't look like there are motifs in the boxes this year (styles don't really count for me).

For the Jester's Festival, I set up several characters on the weekend with completed quests and then just handed them in throughout the week. That was 5 minutes and then I went off to do something else. I could have gone super-slacker mode and just handed in one quest each day for the tickets.

But I'm ready to not have events after the Jubilee and we all about Elsweyr HYPE! for the rest of Q2 while I get some of the previous zones finished.

I hate these lame repetitive events, but the rewards are just too good so I do them. Afterwards I log off and think about uninstalling the game to be honest.

It has become too much mindless grinding like WoW was becoming for me 5 years ago and why I began looking for another game to play to begin with. I loved that ESO wasn't like that the first 3 or so years. Their events were such that whatever drops you wanted/needed were doable relatively easily and you could go back to your normal gameplay. Now I hardly just play anymore. It's not fun anymore ZOS. I get it's a choice to do them just as everything in the game is, but this is the deal...no one is just playing the game anymore either. Now all my friends are banging their heads over these events and complaining about it and then disappearing from the game. The social aspect is falling off the planet because people are just too burnt out. Go back to the way it was so I can work on my houses again, or an achievement that matters to me, or leveling that new character I made last month and had to shelve for an event, or derping around in group content with my friends. Please don't follow the other mmos example and ruin such a wonderful game.

For now I still try and play, but the game is losing ground to hold my interest when my friends are dropping like flies.

I only do what I want to do. Festival dailies like New Life or Jesters I consider "playing the game" because I find them a fun change of pace. Otherwise, I ignore dailies and MMO chores and only play the game. I'm here to have fun, not fill some arbitrary list of requirements.