I use one addon, and I only added it last month when I was looking for a lead that was in a chest. I'll soon disable it.

I would sorely miss my Grid and Lazy Writ crafting addons. I might be able to get by without the others. Maybe.

Very infrequently if at all, ZOS slowly starting to add QOL changes is nice, but most of the features added by addons should have been part of the game long ago.

I played ESO for 6 six without addons.
But since I started my own guild a year ago, I downloaded more then 40 addons and I can't remember how I ever played without those addons. Specially addons like Bandits UI that are giving me notifications of boss mechanics, so I can warn and explain those mechanics in voice chat to my other guildies.

I played this game for a loooong time before I got into using add-ons. It was OK then, but as a late-game player, I would not want to now.

Sarannah wrote: »

I play on PC, and never use add-ons! Which is also why I feel some add-ons should not be allowed. (like the resource/chest-locations add-on)

One thing I tired of greatly, as someone who's played a lot of ESO both with and without addons, is this pretense that it's some kind of virtue to play without addons. If you don't want to play with them, fine, but don't use your preference as justification to say or imply others should not.

That said, I do not use Harvest Map and to this day I don't know why ZOS allows it. It's always struck me as one of those grey area things that if everyone using it abided by the TOS, it's OK-ish despite it clearly giving players who use it an advantage over access to valuable resources, but not everyone using it abides by the TOS, and that's where it gets super problematic.

I play on PC and use no addons.

I do use some addons, but the majority are fairly minor so I could definitely play without them. Now Advanced Filters has been made part of the game I think the only ones I'd really miss are Tramriel Trade Centre for finding things to buy and the mini map, because I have no sense of direction so without one I'd have to constantly open the main map to check where I'm going.

My full list if anyone is curious:
From that list I'd say 12 are minor conveniences, one is just for fun (random mount) and 3 are genuinely useful (the trade ones and the map) but even those I can and have played without, I just don't buy much from guild stores and spend a lot of time opening the map.

If it were not for add on's I would not have stuck around, they were a selling point for me when buying the game on PC.

i would just play an ORC

Addons are little more than quality of life buffs. There's a lot of things in the game they improve, but they aren't critical to enjoying the game, they just streamline some of the more annoying inconveniences, sorting/trashing loot, tracking chat history, saving equipment setups, auto-crafting for writs. These and many more are all great time savers, but I'm not going to bail if they cease to be tomorrow...
But I REALLY would miss the saved chat history most of all. Tracking people when they need the services of my other characters after a relog can be arduous sometimes.

Probably not. Addons added so many QoL things that make the game easier to play. Without them, I wouldn't have a reliable source of income with writs, and I wouldn't be able to easily swap between gear and CP loadouts. The game would wear thin in a hurry without them.

Limited time along with family time etc. Not only would I not play anymore, I would not even worry if my ESO+ ran out in a few months, I would just stop playing.

Life is to short to be hobbling yourself IMO.

Zyreist wrote: »

Addons are little more than quality of life buffs. There's a lot of things in the game they improve, but they aren't critical to enjoying the game, they just streamline some of the more annoying inconveniences, sorting/trashing loot, tracking chat history, saving equipment setups, auto-crafting for writs. These and many more are all great time savers, but I'm not going to bail if they cease to be tomorrow...
But I REALLY would miss the saved chat history most of all. Tracking people when they need the services of my other characters after a relog can be arduous sometimes.

your very words actualy state that YES they are essential to enjoyment of the game, because of how many inconveniences they remove.

for me, not having minimap, not having ability to move around my UI elements, not having ability to track variety of things without having to constantly go through multiple menus just to which fish I'm still missing for an achievement, having to change my house primary just so that friends guildies can visit it (for contests or whatnot) without me having to be online and inside it, manually junking every little thing and yes, saving equipment setups. while I do use lazy writ crafter, base UI now has a functionality (finally, dear god it only took forever) that doesn't require me to essentially memorize or write down which items quest requires on any given day. I can actualy see it now! and it only took... how long to add it into base game? having to log in and out on multiple characters or keeping and updating a gosh darn spreadsheet just to see which character I left a particular item on (I use inventory insight right now, so I only need to log in and out once instead of going down the entire list of alts, hoping its on the one closer to the top rather then the bottom)

all these little things add up to so much time spending on minutia instead of actualy playing the game that yeah.... I would quit if I had to deal with it. inventory management is already a drag even with some help from addons.

is it possible to play without addons? yes obviously. the question is - is it actualy fun? for some of us the answer is no. no its not fun.