Nurse: "My bounty is so high it would take 2 years+ for it to disappear."

Lil ol lady: "Thieving is my specialty /flex."
(Showed me many thieving routes. She stopped logging in, had health issues so probably gone.)

Ganker on day 2: "git gut noobcakes, I been here since beta ya ain't gonna win."
Me: "PvP is PvP my dude. I been PvPing since your momma did, with you on her lap."
(Took 2 months, in the end.)

Oh and a PvP Guild from another game from long ago. Ran into them in Eso by accident.

The list of memorable people playing MMOs is long.

Fengrush! I was getting tired of tanking dungeons and DPS really was feeling stale even before I properly got started doing it. I was considering moving on after just a couple years of playing on-and-off since dungeons really just felt repetitive and predictable.

Up to that point I had only dabbled in PvP and never really considered it something I liked. Then I saw a video posted in a guild's discord feed of him and two of his buddies holding off an entire guild of werewolves in Imperial City! I'd never even considered it possible for me to fight one were wolf at that time much less and entire group and the level and speed of decision-making was beyond anything I'd experienced up to that point. That was the exact moment it clicked for me and I pointed at the screen and proclaimed, "That! I wanna do that!" (I actually literally did that lol) It truly looked like something a heroic figure in a fantasy game should be doing and I dove in headfirst and never regretted it.

The lad (whose name I forgot) who showed me and another random player the ropes in Cyro. Guy was going for Emp during the last hours of a mainly empty campaign, and the other player and I had decided to follow the small group who flipped resources and castles. He invited us to the group, asked us if we knew anything about Cyro campaigns, and when we both said no, he told and showed us pretty much everything, from how to use siege engines effectively to Cyro etiquette to which skills to invest in. In the end, he let each of us bring a scroll home, just for the feeling xD.

AScarlato wrote: »

I was heavily into Roleplay, having founded a Roleplay Guild during Covid that went strong for about 3 years. So many amazing stories, and I couldn't narrow it down to just one. That entire community was just amazing, and I'll have fond memories of them long after I stop playing ESO.

If you don’t mind my asking, what happened to the guild?

UGotBenched91 wrote: »

AScarlato wrote: »

I was heavily into Roleplay, having founded a Roleplay Guild during Covid that went strong for about 3 years. So many amazing stories, and I couldn't narrow it down to just one. That entire community was just amazing, and I'll have fond memories of them long after I stop playing ESO.

If you don’t mind my asking, what happened to the guild?

It got benched.

Most of the time it feels pretty daunting for me to reach out to strangers to help me do a specific thing I want in a game. I'm just not used to MMOs. But I remember first getting set up with a guild that actually supported me and helped bring me on as a new fellow. Even though I'd had the game for about a year at that point I'd never touched dungeons or anything of the sort. I remember feeling so relieved and excited to get my first monster helm– it seemed impossible before.

After a long break and most of the guilds I was a part of dwindling down, I'm kinda in that boat again of not wanting to reach out to people and join a voice call and all that. There is still a lot of gear I've wanted for a long time but never attempted to get. Some things out of trials and trifectas and pvp. I play games to unwind from people and to fantasize. Scrounging up a group of people so I can get a staff that hardly changes the gameplay feels like a chore now. But, I'll still always fondly remember that first time of joining a guild and when all sorts of aspects and possibilities opened up to me.