Is ESO really going to die soon?

[DJ qqld]

I'm new in ESO and not a long time ago bought gold road dlc along with previous chapters. But all i see in discussion threads is how the game gets closer and closer to death. So tell me your opinion on this, cause i really like the game by far and it would be a shame that i spent money on a thing that would die soon. I hope to have a chance for at least checking the solo content. For how long it'll be possible you think?

[BrokenG3ars]

Originally posted by Gigantic Slam:

Originally posted by Mr Conspicuous:

Reportedly 265,000 players login everyday from all playforms. It has well over 20 million subscribers, you be the judge.

I'd like to see crossplay the Cyrodiil battles would be total insanity.

"Reportedly 265,000"
EA reports 1.6 million people bought the new Dragon Age :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

No genius EA reported 1.5 million players ENGAGED with the new dragon age. Reading isn't your strong suit is it?

[Maw]

Originally posted by Gigantic Slam:

No MMO dies. Look at SWTOR. the content will get slower and slower (unless if it's crown store items) before it just stops adding huge expansions and focuses on small updates or events.

Wrong, countless of previously success making mmorpg's have already taken down and quite a lot of them coming directly from triple a's

Mmo's do die, way more of them than you may be aware of. This has nothing to do with the credibility of the publisher, a mmorpg not generating enough profit will most of the time net a closure but sometimes a smaller studio will keep the services on but I'm afraid Eso isn't running on a small studio

Although, it's safe to stay Eso still has a very long life since it's almost a flagship mmorpg

[DigDog]

I left years ago because of the changes they constantly make, completely reworking the classes I play or making big changes. I am not interested in games that become different games. If they ever release the server files or someone else does. I will play again and hopefully we will one day be able to play older versions.

They really ruined the only mmo I liked for me. I check once in a while to see the buzz is why I check the forums still.

[Vyrtualis]

Originally posted by Molag Bal:

You shouldn't care about any of that, man. I started ESO because I love the Elder Scrolls series, I've never played any MMO game except ESO. I'm now in a position called “end game”.

And every day for almost 10 years been told “ESO is dead” or “ESO is dying”. Nothing has ever happened to the game, it is still what it was in its first form.
In fact, it is spreading to new players day by day, although not many.

Yup, same. I'm not here because I like MMOs. I'm here because I love TES.

I was there, Gandalf. I was there during closed beta when the "dead game" crowd swore ESO was dead before arrival for not being "Skyrim 2". I was there when the "dead game" crowd declared ESO a goner because of server crush during release week. I was there when Lower Craglorn released in Update 1 and the "dead game" crowd screeched about a half-zone releasing as proof that ZOS was incompetent and prophesied a content drought and mass exodus. Year after year, the ESO doomsayers have been the loudest bunch of whiners this side of Summerset, and every year they've been flat wrong.

Don't even need to reach back that far to prove that point though. Just 2 years ago when ZOS decided to change their release pattern to 1 zone and 1 dungeon pack, people were saying ESO was entering "maintenance mode" or "dying". Here we are 2 years later in 2025, on the cusp of a new zone, new dungeons and new base game updates, with a big announcement event in April for the new content and new seasonal release system.

It doesn't make business sense to devote time and resources to new systems, graphics refreshes for old content and new server farms if the game is going to die. For anyone paying attention, ZOS is doubling down on ESO for the long haul.

[Vyrtualis]

Originally posted by PlayGame:

Originally posted by Daoin:

ESO had a little jump again recently in popularity making it back into steams top 100 list of most played games, which is a testiment that this game is a good game and built to stand the test of time. would like to see it climb higher in daily players but thats down to when people have time to play. in my opinion the game will not be dead anytime soon just seems players that have already been around 5 to 10 years making room for newer players alot seems never keep the numbers stable

LMAO, since when top 100 is a good thing. luckily not top 1000.
and its same category as some 3A games which have heavily discount like 90% off.
brain man

Let's see your game get into the top 100 then man, since you think so highly of your opinion.

[Question Mark]

Those "gains" are usually during events or f2p-trials etc. and fall down right after the event/trial ends (Probably why ZOS is spamming grindy "events").

Compared to other big MMOs ESO has some of the lowest numbers of active players (Accounts created vs player actively playing) - and even those numbers are kinda fake since many people have several accounts (for storage guilds, doing daily writs for money etc).

For example: I met some guy who has 80 accounts for crafting writs/money-making while some others made around 50-100 free accounts for storage guilds....

Last but not least: COVID pushed the numbers in all games and ESO has been available for free before

That said.... pretty much every digital game is dying. ESO has probably a few years left, but I don´t see it outliving older MMOs like WoW.... Especially since there won´t be any new ESO chapters in the future, problems/bugs not getting fixed, lag in PvP, bad balancing, p2w, paywalls etc.... This game had a lot of potential, and has a lot of problems...

ESO also copied features from other games (in the worst possible way). There is nothing innovative in ESOs game design.
It is seemingly unclear what market they are targeting. For MMO fans there is not enough focus on multiplayer, coop and PvP. For RPG fans every single player RPG offers more immersive experiences

At the same time ESO is one of the most expensive games out there (unless u stick to the base game), thanks to all the paywalls (Chapters, DLCs, Crown Store, eso+) with real money transactions all over the game

Many of the old players and content creators have already abondoned ship, while new players usually prefer newer MMOs

Can people still have fun in this game ? Yes
Is this one of those great/legendary games ? No

[Vyrtualis]

Originally posted by PlayGame:

Originally posted by Vyrtualis:

Let's see your game get into the top 100 then man, since you think so highly of your opinion.

thats why nothing wrong i call u die hard fans. i dont need to have any favourite game in top 10 or top 1000, i never need to bow down and lick any game, totally different from some ppl. i only discuss what is good what is bad, rationally, not blindly support or hate any game

Lmao, you really believe that don't you? I feel sorry for you. You sit on this board trashing ESO nonstop, you're the furthest thing from rational. Let's see your top played game then, Mr. Rational. What's your idea of a "good game"?

[jcv5000]

Simple explanation, ESO, FO76, GTA5 online are games that will never die!!!! It will take something extremely, extremely major for those 3 games to close!!! And, I don't think it will ever happen!!!

[Seiikima]

Lol)) It is very funny to hear about crown store)) For now crown store used only by dealers and crown sellers)))

[Skuly]

I just started playing again after 6-8 years away. I remember buying the gamer right after they released One Tamriel update and introduced world scaling. Then I left within a few months and I think I tried the game again 1-2 years later. Each time I came back people were in in zone chat saying the game is dying and ZeniMax Online Studios was ruining the game etc.

Here we are in 2025 and the game still exists and has added a lot of content since I last tried it in 2017 or 2018.

[Commancho]

Last dungeon DLC was released 13 months ago and some people still belive that the game is not in the maintenace mode ahahaha

[..::Krea::..]

no game isnt dying , even when steam player count is lower in the end its all about how much money they make and last year game was still silver rated in gross revenue https://store.steampowered.com/sale/bestof2024 . Not even talking about how much they make on their own store and console .

[Vyrtualis]

Originally posted by Commancho:

Last dungeon DLC was released 13 months ago
and some people still belive that the game is not in the maintenace mode ahahaha

Gee, imagine having an annual or even bi-annual content release schedule as an MMO. I guess WoW and FF14 are also dying?

Too many smoothbrain zero-level bozos in this thread.

[br]

No, the game is still going strong. There's so much to do, including the DLCs.

[Commancho]

Originally posted by Vyrtualis:

Originally posted by Commancho:

Last dungeon DLC was released 13 months ago
and some people still belive that the game is not in the maintenace mode ahahaha

Gee, imagine having an annual or even bi-annual content release schedule as an MMO. I guess WoW and FF14 are also dying?

Too many smoothbrain zero-level bozos in this thread.

2020 - New chapter zone + DLC zone + 4 dungeons + Trial + Arena + Antiquities
2025 - No new chapter, no DLC zone, last dungeon DLC - 13 months ago