Is this game dying?

wabajaa · April 2022

Every time when I log in, I found less player than before. Also I found nothing to do so that I log off instantly.
I really want to enjoy the game but I don't know what I can do or any fun in this game.
Need help.

JanTanhide · April 2022

Not on PC NA. Lot's and lot's of people always on.

deleted221205-002626 · April 2022

wabajaa wrote: »

Every time when I log in, I found less player than before. Also I found nothing to do so that I log off instantly.
I really want to enjoy the game but I don't know what I can do or any fun in this game.
Need help.

Not sure where yur loggin in bro but its packed nearly everywhere.. As for things todo my god theres too much its mindblowing. What did you used todo when there was far less?

Drammanoth · April 2022

Hopefully the OP is to the 'dier' as there were a plethora of those in WoW.

"WoW is dying..." - this had been going on for ages before you-know-what.

essi2 · April 2022

Most of the hubs seem packed during peak on PC-EU, hell even PTS was pretty packed in High Isle the first few days

blue_peaceful_Manticore · April 2022

wabajaa wrote: »

Every time when I log in, I found less player than before. Also I found nothing to do so that I log off instantly.
I really want to enjoy the game but I don't know what I can do or any fun in this game.
Need help.

ofc

AwA - Destroy PvE
Rotation - Destroy fun
Everyone use Daggers - Destroy Role Play (Mage with daggers?)
PvP - Not even PvP
Etc... Ofc people are leaving the game. But others like me, only waiting for Card Game in Elder Scroll

Heartrage · April 2022

Well, march’s steam’s numbers were low but it’s hard to tell that the game is dying based on only a month of one platform stats. The next chapter is also controversial but i don’t think that the card game will make that many people entirely leave the game and never look back.

LostHorizon1933 · April 2022

…take one down, pass it around
586,231,479 bottles of beer on the wall…

Dark_Lord_Kuro · April 2022

Still full of people on psn na

Veinblood1965 · April 2022

wabajaa wrote: »

I really want to enjoy the game but I don't know what I can do or any fun in this game.

Too generalized of a statement. OP what do you consider "fun"? For all we know the only thing you consider fun is hunting lore books and killing skeevers. Ton's of skeevers but lorebooks are limited.

I see people everywhere even in lower level zones and out of the way places.

Tenthirty2 · April 2022

No, it's not dying and frankly these types of threads have gotten WAY old.

I'll assume that you actually are concerned about your play experience in the game and this isn't just another negative press thread to colour up the front page of the forum.

So. From what you describe OP, boredom is the issue here.
And as far as what you can do, you kinda answered your own question in your post.

If there is absolutely nothing left to interest you in this game and you find no joy in any of the likely 1000s of ways a person can enjoy this game, then you need a different game.

Vaoh · April 2022

As a whole the game is doing well but the population is down from this time last year.
- Questing/Overland population is healthy.
- Endgame trials population is minimal.
- Scorepushing/serious raiders population is extremely minimal.
- Cyrodiil Population is minimal
- BGs population is minimal

Basically the game is doing great as long as you don’t care for PvP or Endgame PvE.

DMuehlhausen · April 2022

If you believe over 15 active subs across all platforms is dying then yes it's dead.

DMuehlhausen · April 2022

Vaoh wrote: »

As a whole the game is doing well but the population is down from this time last year.
- Questing/Overland population is healthy.
- Endgame trials population is minimal.
- Scorepushing/serious raiders population is extremely minimal.
- Cyrodiil Population is minimal
- BGs population is minimal

Basically the game is doing great as long as you don’t care for PvP or Endgame PvE.

So for 90% of the playerbase it's doing well.

Danikat · April 2022

If you're not having fun with the game and not sure what you want to do it might be worth taking a break. One of the nice things about this game is you can do that and the worst that will happen is you miss some event tickets. Play something else, pick up an entirely different hobby and come back to ESO when you start thinking you'd really enjoy some aspect of it - then do that.

I suspect the perceived lack of people is either due to the areas where you're spending the majority of your time or a symptom of feeling bored and directionless in the game - you're looking for The Thing everyone is spending their time doing so you can do it too and then it will hopefully be fun because it's the thing everyone is doing. Instead you see individuals and small groups scattered all over doing different things which either you've done or aren't interested in doing and nothing signalling that one area is where to go to start having fun with it again.

Gundug · April 2022

I got confused for a second, and thought this was a post from 2015, then 2016, then 2017... Looking forward to next year’s ESO is dying post!

Stamicka · April 2022

Depends on what you like to do. If you like casual overland content, the game is thriving. If you like PvP or veteran trials/arenas then yea the game is genuinely dead. PvP hasn’t gotten any updates in a long time, the performance worsens each patch, the populations are declining, PvP is genuinely on its last leg.

Endgame trials are declining as well, they still work but there’s more performance issues than before. There’s also a lack of challenge and reward for many, so there’s definitely less score pushing teams than before.

Welcome to Casual Scrolls Online.

Gaeliannas · April 2022

It is impossible to tell how many people are playing, as the game uses instancing. Saying "the cities look just as crowded to me", while accurate, doesn't reflect how many instances of that zone are active, the cities will always look active, there will just be more or less instances of them. People will be saying the game is doing great and it is crowded, until the last instance of Vivec starts emptying out.

Only ZOS has the full numbers, and Steam puts out the numbers for their subscribers publicly. So if you go by opinion and "full cities, the game is going great, if you go by Steam numbers, not so much. If you go by ZOS numbers, well ZOS doesn't like to share active numbers and keeps their numbers secret, so you can't. ZOS will share how many accounts they have though, which is like 20+ million now, but that includes every free player who logged in for 5 minutes and every alt account players have (some have many), so it is basically a meaningless number.

everseeing_njpreub18_ESO · April 2022

When it comes down to it, it is a video game. Growing or dying if YOU aren't having fun and enjoying your time online, you might consider a break for a while, try other games. I do this each expansion, i play very little for 6 months or so (also work schedule related) then fall/winter i play a lot to enjoy all the new stuff. For me at least it keeps things fresh.

Molydeus · April 2022

No. If anything it is too crowded.

Gaeliannas · April 2022

Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one way to sort of tell how busy the game is. Do crafting writs on 10+ characters. It used to be very rare that I would log back into a previous instance when swapping characters, now it is more like a 50/50 chance, the other day all but one of my characters ended up in the same instance, which was very surprising.

ApoAlaia · April 2022

Gundug wrote: »

I got confused for a second, and thought this was a post from 2015, then 2016, then 2017... Looking forward to next year’s ESO is dying post!

Daed gaem posts crop up far more regularly than that.

They have been a staple of dedicated gaming forums since... well, records began.

UO started daeding I'd say ca 1998.

I'm too young to have played BBS based Muds but I wouldn't be surprised if those garnered a fair share of daed gaems as well.

The advantage we have now is access to figures we can liberally interpret to our own ends. Great progress! Much advancement! \o/

Iselin · April 2022

wabajaa wrote: »

I really want to enjoy the game but I don't know what I can do or any fun in this game.

Take a break. Sounds like you need one.

Silversmith · April 2022

The game is dying with less overall population.

belial5221_ESO · April 2022

You could just be getting thrown into low pop instances,or it depends on the zone you hang out in.Always lots of people playing,when I'm on.

Maitsukas · April 2022

Here we go again...

kringled_1 · April 2022

For me, it is. I'm not saying this on the basis of less people in zone or something like that. It's more that my friends circles and guilds/groups have people leaving the game at a rapid pace and finding people to do things with at an appropriate difficulty level is getting to be extremely difficult. I no longer have any standing scheduled groups for trials or dungeons.

ZOS_Lunar · April 2022

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