I enjoy how people seem to exclusively express their frustration on this forum through the medium of created polls.

A better question to ask would be something like..

"If Zos made an Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley/Cosy Grove style game set in the Elder Scrolls world, would you play it?"

Which I absolutely would.

Yes, there are lots of stuff in this game that isn't combat related, but that makes it a richer, more involved game. If I only wanted a game that was all combat and nothing else, I'd play a different game.

I don't know of any RPG that does not involve some kind of fighting.
Housing etc. per se don't require fighting, but you still need resources (gold/exp/mats) that do require fighting, so this poll is completely pointless.

opalcity wrote: »

A better question to ask would be something like..

"If Zos made an Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley/Cosy Grove style game set in the Elder Scrolls world, would you play it?"

Which I absolutely would.

Well they actually did make a game like this. It officially released in 2014 for PC and 2015 for consoles, it just had a lot of unneeded features (like PvP) and not enough relaxing/solo content. I think it will be fully complete by 2025 or so. Soon.

Im here for the combat love it, storywise i have no clue or paid much attention to it.

Yeah we would let our pets fight for us, so we gotta catch em all.

Yes. Personally, I get bored of having to fight almost everything I see. It's nice when a quest comes along where you don't need to. I'd start adding puzzles if I was reducing combat, however.

Considering that my Vestige is a serial mass murderer by this point, yeah, I would like a nice long break from combat. Gimme a mini chapter where all we do is talk.

Being brutality honest, combat system in ESO is the weakest part of the game. It was changed way too many times and the concept of "zero cooldown" with "animation canceling" is flawed since day one. I never understood why it is a thing. I guess the intention was to make the combat feel more "dynamic", but the result is that combat feels "glitchy".

In many other games interrupting one animation with other action that has shorter animation so that you can perform more actions than intended is considered an exploit that can result with a ban lol.

I didn't vote because it depends...

If combat was replaced by puzzles and needing to sneak past enemies then I probably would continue to play because I spend most of my time here playing solo. I like a challenge but it doesn't have to be fights.
That said, a combination of combat, sneaking and puzzles would be far more to my liking.

If combat was simply removed, then I'd have to add up the time and money I've already invested and consider if playing a game with a gaping hole in it and no group content was worth while.
I'm not sure I would play in that case, but if there was nothing decent to move onto, I'd probably stay.

@OP - Maybe I'm reading you wrong but it sounds like you've a bit of an issue with the non-combat aspects of the game and feel that catering to players who don't play primarily for combat is somehow taking things away from you or watering down the game.
Most MMO's I've played have fairly easy combat for the overland and story, that makes sense as companies want a lot of customers to enjoy the game and stick around. Pegging combat too high is going to turn a lot of people away. WoW tried upping the difficulty in WoD and being dismounted and aggro'd by every single mob wasn't an enjoyable challenge, it was just annoying.

Personally, I like hard fights, but I also like decent stories, involved crafting systems, fishing, running around looking at virtual sunsets and picking virtual flowers. To me, that mix is what makes a decent MMO.
I have some friends who only raid, others who only PVP and some who mainly want to decorate their houses and hang out, that's cool. The beauty of a game like this is no matter what your play-style, you probably have years of content before you start feeling bored or that the new things are just more of the same re-hashed with a new coat of paint. Obviously if you just enjoy one aspect of the game you'll get bored quicker.
For example, I might never play ToT, but I'm still glad it's there because one day when I've nothing else I want to do, I might pick it up.

I wouldn't have to choose to stop playing as the game would fail and be put to rest if combat wee removed just as surely as removing questing, furnishing or roleplaying.

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

In many other games interrupting one animation with other action that has shorter animation so that you can perform more actions than intended is considered an exploit that can result with a ban lol.

It's bannable here all the same, you can't "speed up" abilities or perform "more actions" here without external means. The game is just balanced around actual gcd's and not varying flavour animations lengths that came after it's already triggered, so it's not the same canceling that can get you banned by any means.

I can’t imagine how if would get removed, without breaking all the activities left behind. Even housing has training dummies you couldn’t use if combat was eliminated.

A resounding 'no'. I keep playing because I enjoy the combat system so much. For me, ESO has one of the most satisfying combat systems, and although I like other activities as well, combat is what I love the most about the game.

Quackery wrote: »

What a pointless thread. ZOS will never remove the combat.

So far 1 in 3 voters would play ESO without any combat. The developers don’t have to do it. This just gives insight into what types of players are playing the game.