This has been a thing since Morrowind. We did have a glorious short time in Morrowind early access that allowed us to choose.

I seriously dislike not being able to do the Soulshriven in Coldharbour first. I wish we could choose them. I feel it is disjointed to do the original tutorial after I've leveled a bit.

That said, I also like making a new character to play the newest tutorial to get a sense of the expansions' stories. I wish we could do the new tutorials on our existing characters if we desired.

FierceSam wrote: »

I don’t think it’s so much an issue of the tutorial, the one from Elsweyr does a far better job of actually introducing players to the game mechanics than any of the previous tutorials, but an issue of where players start the game proper.

Ideally players should have some kind of choice about where to start.

And ZOS should develop more tutorials that players could return to whenever they wish.

What if at the end of the Elsweyr the next step was followed immediately by the hooded figure?

The summerset tutorial is you having to escape from an evil BRAIN PRISON!!!

But yeah it is so so stupid that we can't choose a tutorial on character creation. I'm pretty sure this is a greed based decision becuase people in the Zenimax corporate cabal of supreme evil want to force people into then new shiny things before all else.

Ryath_Waylander wrote: »

I just skip the tutorial, walk to the nearest boat/caravan, port to my alliance starting town and take a blow to the head from the hooded stranger. One way ticket to Coldharbour. But yes, this convoluted method gets irritating after the 12th alt.

💯% this. And it's also annoying that standing anywhere in your starting town you are bombarded by NPCs trying to make you go to dlc zones.

nhisso wrote: »

That is awful. I decided to make a new character today and do the tutorial just because i havent done the tutorial in many years. You forced me in to elswyr?
Just let us choose where to start damn it.

Agreed 100% -- Here's my thoughts and experience on this since I've started ESO, because it still irritates me to this day.

Because of this odd system they chose have in place to toss you in the latest chapter, when I started playing I thought Vvardenfell was the main quest being the starting zone. Understandably this is to make new players feel like they were caught up with everyone else. However, It's a hugely flawed idea and pretty frustrating to be forced into just the new content.

I spent almost a month in Vvardenfell questing thinking that I was working on the main quest. Nope....."OH the quest that is in my journal is the main quest?!". When you first start ESO, the game is DAUNTINGLY confusing on what should I do, that's what makes it unique but it's also a downside the way it's implemented until you understand the "there is no wrong way to play" gist. This also COMPLETELY foobarred starting the game fresh and understanding the storyline from the getgo. I felt like I was backtracking, especially since I like to do things a bit more orderly. Missing that main quest and storyline from the start really wasn't what I expected. Should be much clearer starting out and I have spoke to quite a few new players that had NO IDEA the main quest wasn't the starting zone in the latest chapter. They were baffled until I explained it to them. Why doesn't the game do this in the first place?

Yeah, you can say moot point and just go anywhere you want when you start a new toon....however, with that logic, shouldn't we be able to start the tutorial anywhere too? New players aren't going to see it through our eyes until they play for a bit. At least for new players make it so they can start out in their respective faction zone, and start the "Hooded Figure" quest from the start or simple choose the current/existing chapter to start and also bring back the ORIGINAL tutorial when ESO came out to match the starting faction zone/hooded figure choice. This way you have an optional tutorial regardless of your choice. This also fixes another issue---players would actually KNOW what their faction zone is. I see that question in zone chat many times.

Make it SIMPLE ZOS, two choices with a new character

• Start AT YOUR FACTION ZONE, MAIN QUESTLINE (Recommended)
• Begin at the LATEST OR EXISTING CHAPTER QUEST (Choose Which Chapter Zone To Start In)

What is so hard about that and staving likely thousands of new players confusion and understanding ESO's storyline properly from the getgo? Kind of important imho.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

just got Elswey package for it and Summerset, vote choose which one as don't see way to do SS intro /sad

As frustrating as it is for some, the idea behind is simple. New people buying the game for the first time, say after seeing promotional Greymoor material, are given immediate access to that content, and given a narrative line to drop them in.

It isn't done just to displease old timers. It's done to make the entry of new players as exciting and fluid as possible. Imagine the game still had the old tutorial but that new player just wanted to go to the Greymoor content they paid for and that enticed them to buy the game? They'd be forced to start one story thread and be left in the position of then being forced to choose between Greymoor and finishing the main story at that point. It's not good for the new player experience.

Basically this model allows new players to hop right into the newest content with no barriers and no need to worry about the other content of the game just yet.

Your better off sticking with the chapter tutorial since you get access to a skill point that characters created before owning a chapter miss out on.