There are, by design, multiple types of dungeons in ESO. Public dungeons (a few instances, with loads of players in each), group dungeons (instanced for groups so that the only players in the instance are the ones in the group), and solo dungeons (instanced by player). It's not a bug (although I have a feeling I'm forgetting a dungeon type).

Valethar wrote: »

Welcome to The Elder Scrolls Online, The MMORPG that lets you can play any way you want to, as long as it's solo.

Even in the higher ranks the public dungeons become a solo mission...feels much like a solo game most of the time.

Ur-Quan wrote: »

There are, by design, multiple types of dungeons in ESO. Public dungeons (a few instances, with loads of players in each), group dungeons (instanced for groups so that the only players in the instance are the ones in the group), and solo dungeons (instanced by player). It's not a bug (although I have a feeling I'm forgetting a dungeon type).

I'll add that even the main quest line is solo-only instanced.

My wife and I have decided to unsubscribe until the developers fix this. If we wanted a solo-only game, we have a plethora of older TES gams from which to choose, vice paying a monthly fee for the privilege of being forced into solo-only instancing.

gougefub17_ESO wrote: »

Sometimes, a group mate will follow you into a solo instances. Happened to me of To Walk the Far shores.

If you know of a way to make that happen, I'm all ears. My wife shows up only as a group arrow.

Jim_McMasterub17_ESO wrote: »

Welcome to "as intended"

So the intent was to force solo-only play for the main quest line and the two most popular side quest lines?

If that's the case, I'm done with this game, and I'm hardly alone. If I wanted solo-only play in a TES game, we've every TES game prior to this one from which to choose.

If it is intentional - they need to do something to let people know. Right now it looks and feels like a bug.

Elember wrote: »

If I start a group and we are on a quest and we need to pick up say 10 items as soon as ONE member of the group picks up an item ALL group members item count should go up by ONE. It is simple and proper multiplayer game design however the Zenimax team is obviously only able to design single player game play because ESO has NONE of that.

Well, some quests have that, but they're the free for all ones. I've had it multiple times that I have a quest, haven't done anything toward it yet but just by being in the neighborhood, someone else finishes it and I get it shown as finished as well. E.g. saving four villagers in Crosswych, in Glenumbra. I swear, I didn't save them, but I got the quest because someone else in the neighborhood managed to save them. Shrug.

What I particularly hate by now is that we're going into quests with multiple players, even get onto the end-boss with multiple players but the boss himself you have to do alone and the boss is not alone. He can spawn anything from 3 to 5 helpers that you have to dodge and kill. More often than not you will also find that having dodged and killed the spawned helpers, that the boss has vanished and that you have to start over. Yeah, right. I'm in this game for my pleasure, not to have my blood pressure past boiling point and me about to throw my mouse and keyboard out the window.

Any day now and I quit this and go back to Skyrim, if only because the NPCs there have more lines to say than the continued repeat of whatever single line they are allowed to say. Really, I won't go to Daggerfall anymore due to the 'conversation' by Orlugash gra-Bulz and Esteve Brousseau, who owns me so many ales, I can start my own brewery.