The players of The Elder Scrolls Online are considered particularly friendly. On Reddit, players praise the community of the MMORPG, which is said to be nicer and more helpful than, for example, in WoW.
Not only did Kai Schober, the Community Manager of ESO in Germany, point out in our last stream about ESO on MAX that the community of The Elder Scrolls Online is remarkably nice, friendly, and helpful.
Also on Reddit, the player “Warhungry” praises what he considers a great community of the game and compares it to World of Warcraft: “After three days in the game, I can already say that the people here are much nicer than in WoW. And much more helpful. And not as cranky as in WoW. I love this community!”
The players in The Elder Scrolls Online are so nice
The kind words from Warhungry quickly resonated with the mentioned community. The thread received over 200 comments and 700 upvotes (as of June 1, 2019, at 2:45 PM). Some were simply pleased about the nice words:
- “ESO is the Canada of MMOs”
- “I raise my dorsal fin in greeting!” [Typical greeting of the Argonian lizardfolk]
Others provided clear examples of how they were positively surprised by the community:
“I was level 30 and asked in the chat if someone could craft me gear for leveling. For a fee, of course. I received a private message immediately asking about my class and build. Shortly thereafter, I was given two full armor and weapon sets, and he even said to let him know when I am champion level 160, then I would get even more. I’ve never experienced something like this in 5 years of MMOs!”
A similar example was actually mentioned during our ESO stream about Elsweyr on MAX, where a player reported that she received 50,000 coins when she asked about mounts to buy a horse.
Another player describes his three years in ESO as follows:
“My character name is Quen, and someone once wrote to me calling me an idiot because I had misspelled “Queen”. That was pretty much the peak of the meanness I have ever experienced in ESO. The ESO community is a picnic with teddy bears compared to other MMO communities.”
Are there no negative examples? Only in one aspect are not all players united in their view of the friendliness of the ESO community: Dungeons seem to occasionally cause negative moods:
- “When you start trials [raids] and veteran dungeons, you’ll experience the same crap as in WoW and other MMOs.”
- “Too many bad experiences. And then someone always talks trash like ‘How can you have champion rank 300 and not know how x or y works?'”
- “Veteran dungeons on Xbox are really cancer! You get people at levels 500 to 800 who have no idea what they’re supposed to do and just keep insulting or kicking the player with the lowest level.”
But there are counterarguments that also apply in the dungeon area
- “I was once insulted and kicked, and once someone explained everything to me again in a friendly manner.”
- Typically, it is worse during double XP events. All the “elite players” come in droves and want to grab their rewards. And they are usually much less relaxed than the majority of players.
That’s why dungeons are still more relaxed than in WoW: One player finds the dungeons in ESO much more relaxed than in WoW. The reason is that in WoW with mythic+ instances, there would be a time limit, which would greatly encourage toxic behavior among players. In ESO, however, you can take your time and calmly explain the boss to the newcomers.
Jürgen’s conclusion: The ESO community is great
I, Jürgen, can only confirm the statements of ESO players. The community is very helpful and I’ve also received gifts from strangers, in my case fresh fruit.
In dungeons, my teammates were usually friendly and helpful. I can only remember one time when I was insulted and attacked. And in that case, I really acted very dumb and probably deserved it.
But enough about me: What do you think about the statement that ESO has one of the nicest communities in the MMORPG genre?
