It is not possible to have 100 friends. There is no way to actively build meaningful friendships with 100 people.
Quantity is not quality.
100 contacts yes kind of like the old phone book but it's not possible to say remember every friend's birthday and make an effort to do something special for each one of your friends...imagine christmas sheesh.

Facebook has started this whole fake friends trend. Really people these are followers not real friends.

How on earth do you socialise with 500 friends? Go to work or study or raise your kids and clean your house, shop and cook and do your live streaming and play eso; quest, do trials, go fishing, decorate houses and freaking have 500 friends.

With that many friends you would get nothing done because texing would take up your time, chatting on discord would also take up time and how many of the 500 friends could you be in constant chatter with in one call?

I think it's all a load of old horse [snip]😆😆😆jks

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Recent wrote: »

It is not possible to have 100 friends. There is no way to actively build meaningful friendships with 100 people.
Quantity is not quality.
100 contacts yes kind of like the old phone book but it's not possible to say remember every friend's birthday and make an effort to do something special for each one of your friends...imagine christmas sheesh.

Facebook has started this whole fake friends trend. Really people these are followers not real friends.

How on earth do you socialise with 500 friends? Go to work or study or raise your kids and clean your house, shop and cook and do your live streaming and play eso; quest, do trials, go fishing, decorate houses and freaking have 500 friends.

With that many friends you would get nothing done because texing would take up your time, chatting on discord would also take up time and how many of the 500 friends could you be in constant chatter with in one call?

I seriously think it's all a load of old horse [snip]😆😆😆

The ESO ingame system uses the term Friend's List, not Followers or Contact List, so that's what we're using here.
This thread is not a debate about what traits and characteristics qualify a typical ESO player as 'friend' -- someone on your ingame ESO Friend's List -- nor is this thread about what makes any someone in particular good enough to qualify to be 1 of your 100 ESO ingame friends.

ESO ingame friends (e.g. the ESO Friend's List) is not at all comparable to Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn/social media friends or 'followers.' On any ESO Friend's List, one cannot see their friends' messages/posts/pictures/biography, etc.
You literally see their UserID (@name), Character-name, Location/Zone, Class, and Level. That's it. It's up to you to start the conversation/topic and see what your 'friends' are up to, if they are even online.

But, alas, once again, PS2/PS3/X360/PC cross-platform MMORPG, FFXI, in 2002, had 300 friends list limit max and an infinite number of linkshells (guilds) that one could be in. ESO has only 100 friends and 5 guilds. And the 5 ESO guilds can hardly count towards one's 'friends' because you need trader guilds to actively participate in the ESO economy. Most of the people in those large 500-member guilds are not your friends, they are guildies, traders, opportunists, and hey, maybe even some of them join your daily random BG/dungeon runs or help you farm gear; and, then, maybe they are your friend.

It's just the game industry trend: better graphics, more bugs, more loot crates, more cosmetic skins, less ingame gameplay/combat features, and less ingame social features/social systems. Cash cow. Milk, milk, milk.
Just look at every recent major failed game in the entire industry in these past few years: Fallout 76, Anthem, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Star Wars Battlefront II, Wildstar, Bless Online, FFXIV 1.0, and so on.
They all had a major Achilles heel, many had more than one.
Don't even get me started on the fact that consoles in this current console generation no longer even support split-screen co-op nor split-screen multiplayer on literally almost every game released in the past 5 years. Xbox was literally founded on the blockbuster app-killer success of Halo / split-screen play, LAN parties, couch-potatoes buddies, etc.

Yet, here we are today, in ESO, with 2,500 guildmates but only 100 friends... Surely 200, 250, or 300 would be reasonable?
Hell, ZOS can sell this as an additional ESO Plus feature. We already get double-bank space. May as well add double or triple friend-space, too? Amirite?

TL;DR:
FFXI, released in 2002: 300 ingame friends. (Cross-platform/shared-account on PS2, PS3, X360, and PC).
ESO, released in 2014: 100 ingame friends. (No cross-platform play at all. Separate servers for PS4, X1, and PC).

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ChunkyCat wrote: »

Must be nice to have friends.

Will you be my friend?

If they do this I'd like to see them raise the ignore list also. I'm sick of only choosing 100 people to ignore, [snip]

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ChunkyCat wrote: »

Must be nice to have friends.

Nah. They're a huge drain on your time & energy.

Make a guild called "Friend list"
If you dont' like my idea, imagine how we feel when we're told "well just play without CP and no gear if you want harder content xd"

It's a struggle every time someone wants to add me to their friend list. This really comes into play with player housing where our options for allowing visitors are already ridiculously small and we're forced to rely on add-ons to allow friends and guild mates to get to our non-primary residences. THAT entire "system" needs a huge overhaul. But since all things housing seem to be incredibly low on the [snip] priority list at least increasing the friend limit would help!

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Darkmage1337 wrote: »

You can be in up to 5 guilds per account, that hold up to 500 members each, for a total of 2,500 potential-unique guild members; but, we can only have 100 people on our ESO Friends List?
4 years of ESO have past. @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Maybe it is time to double the Friends List size limit from 100 to 200. For ESO subscribers-only benefit, even?
I've been playing since launch/beta, and 100 is way too low for a modern MMORPG, especially one of ESO's caliber and potential.

Final Fantasy XI, the first cross-platform mmorpg that came out in 2001, had an in-game friends-list size of 300 or so people, and I played that from 2006 to 2013, until ESO came out in 2014.
It really does not make much sense that you can have 2,500 people across a multi-tiered guild system but only 100 people on your ESO in-game friends list.

I constantly find myself at 100/100 friends all the time, even if many of them are currently inactive and on a long break from the game, they may still return to the game at any point in time. And I constantly find myself not wanting to delete anyone, especially if the ESO friends-list is my only mode of communication to that person and we don't share a Discord server or other mode/means of communication to get back in touch.
As far as leaving your friends in guild(s) go (if you happen to share a guild together with them), they usually get kicked for being inactive or you/they left for a more active/larger guild (trading guilds, especially!), which further polarizes the player-base, but that is a separate issue entirely.

I can't be the only one in 2018 who thinks that a limit of 100 for an mmorpg in-game friends-list is too small. Is there a technical reason behind this, or did a ZOS employee pull a number from a hat, or what?

Does anyone else feel the same way? I know my '2,500' guildies do.

Only 1% of my friends list play still....I must be on the wrong side of the server...

1%? That is literally 1 friend out of your allotted 100/100.
Play on PC-NA? I'll be your friend.

RPGplayer13579 wrote: »

Friends List? What is that?

It is that thing that pops up when one presses 'O' ingame in ESO on PC.