As long as I play this game I will stay subbed. However depending on the direction this game goes over the next quarter I may stop buying extra crowns, or even quit entirely for that matter. Not only has performance been too [snip] for too long, it is continuing to get worse and if these performance updates they keep pointing to don’t materialize, it’s gonna be time to find another game for me.

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I cancelled a few weeks ago, but my sub actually runs out in March (paid for a year). I'm not going to re-sub until they stop this train wreck of yo yo balance swings and also the constant nerfs to everything that has killed my progression all year. I'm tired of my classes and skills being less fun and more tedious to use. I really hope things start to change for the better, but if they don't, some other game will get my sub money come March. I've been looking into some.

I've never subbed, but I bought a bank npc and the Elsweyr dlc when it was 50% off. I haven't been playing long, but they said starting next Jan they'll fix the game optimization etc. Not convinced it will work because they fixed the mount stamina running out and not decreasing speed, and then next update the bug is back again.

I feel like its clear the game is being run by 'business' people (not gamers) who are sucking the lives out of designers and developers alike, , but I go along with it because, all my friends play, and I need a low stress game (pve) for while I'm sick.

I'll give up soon enough. I'm sure.

I started in the closed beta in 2013, and have kept ESO+ almost the whole time. I never buy crowns, and still have a pile of crowns from when I subbed.

But the game has changed over the years. The focus on the cash shop and the constant turmoil every few months was too much for me. When they introduced gambling in the crates is when I started to lose interest.

I've been here since the start, always paid and recently saw for myself the reason why I'm going to continue to do so........

I finally persauded my Husband to start playing alongside me, he doesn't currently have ESO+, damn I swear we spend more time managing his inventory than we do actually playing!!

It's not as if he hasn't fully unlocked available bank and bag space either, I paid for those upgrades as soon as he started!

In my first 2 years, 2015-17 I didn't pay for subscription since it didn't have all the perks it has today, and also I wasn't certain about the game future; also content release seemed to be pretty irregular - they paused for 9 months between Shadows of the Hist and Morrowind to do a couple of general gameplay updates. Back then I used to buy crowns when they were discounted and buy the DLCs when they were on sale - got the first 4 as a pack for 4.5K crowns. But after 2 years I decided to subscribe because all the inventory management minigame was getting ever more complicated, and content was being released regularly. Yearly recurring subscription and chapter purchases - basic version, no frills - is the only expense I make. I've never bought crowns separately since I started subscribing in August 2017.

I play more or less daily, but the recent technical issues have been getting on my nerves a bit. They've been offering a sub-par experience to EU players for a long time now, at least 1.5 years - higher lag (yes, even for people living near the server), and higher downtime due to hardware failures. They've also haven't been entirely honest about the reasons. NA seems to be down/inaccessible/congested far less. It's probably penny pinching but that will cost them more in the long run, because people will move on. But the accountants will be happy at the end of the year, when they draw the line, because they save a few hundred thousand bucks by not replacing that broken server blade that kept trowing sparks in the technical room

I never paid before, but I am/would be considering paying.
However, given the current state of the EU server, and the apparent lack of interest on the developers'/management's side to fix the ongoing issues, as well as their lackluster communication when things go awry, I just don't want to give them any money (be it crowns or even a subscription) at the present time. Once/if they fix these issues? Sure - I think ESO is a pretty cool game and does a lot of things right, and I'd definitely not hesitate to pay to get access to all the DLCs that I have not played so far. But what's the use of having access to some content, when ultimately you cannot play it, due to constantly recurring serverside problems...

If I'm playin', I'm subbin'. Period.

I buy all my content from crown sellers so zos still makes their money. Just not off me.

Well except for the big ones that are not available via crowns.... But I do wait for a discount.