In The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO), players said goodbye in February to a well-known and beloved PvP player. Zenimax promised a memorial for the player, which has now been discovered on the test server.
What happened? In February 2020, the player james999dylan passed away at just 22 years old. He was a well-known and beloved player on the EU servers of the PS4. There, he represented the Ebonheart Pact in PvP.
His in-game memorial moved many players and even led to all 3 PvP factions gathering in the contested area of Cyrodiil to mourn together. Hundreds of players came, and surprisingly, no troublemakers appeared. The farewell was calm and harmonious.
On reddit, Brian Wheeler, the PvP lead for The Elder Scrolls Online, announced that a memorial for the player will be established. The developers also want to honor the deceased with this.
The memorial has been on the test server since Monday and has generated many positive reactions.
A beautiful memorial
What kind of memorial is it? To honor the player, a perpetually resting bear named Semaj (James spelled backward) has been brought into the game. This lies next to a candle and a banner of the Ebonheart Pact.
The memorial is located northwest of the Temple of the Ancestor Moths and will be included in the game with Update 26, the release of the Greymoor expansion.
It can be seen in all game versions, not just on the PS4 servers.
How do players react to the memorial? In a thread that temporarily reached number 1 on the ESO subreddit, many players express their enthusiasm for the beautiful memorial.
They describe it as “beautiful” and a “sad but very beautiful tribute to the player.” Some also reiterated there how much they miss James.
Solidarity among gamers: Even though online games are often referred to as toxic, memorial marches and monuments like this show that there are people behind the screens who mean something to each other. This applies not only to ESO, but also to other games.
Recently, many players in the MMORPG Tibia said goodbye to a beloved player. For this, hundreds gathered and even broke the server record.
