If it took me say, 30 hours, to explore* Stonefalls (exploring includes listening to all quests and completing a group dungeon).

Say each area takes 30 hours and there are 17 areas.

Say the starter islands take about 3 hours each.

Say Cyrodiil would take roughly 50 hours (due to it not being as quest heavy as the leveling areas).

30 x 17 = 510,

3 x 3 = 9,

50,

Add them all together..

It then take an estimated 569 hours, or around 95 six hour play sessions (which is about 3 months) to explore all the land ESO has to offer.

*Please note: this does not include pvp, crafting, roleplaying, or whatever endgame content available.

P.S. I had too much fun making this mock-up, haha.

Number 1: No one knows. As it's hypothetical you can come up with any numbers you like. Doesn't mean ANY of them will be right.

Number 2: It's sub-based game. That means ongoing additional content. Doh... lol

Number 3: People said the same when WoW released, yet there they were years later...

Oh I am an ES fan, I'm not trying to be a downer. I thought I'd have a little fun and share a layout that others could apply to their playstyle for exploration.

I truly hope the additional content they plan on adding is worthwhile. I believe the major pve sticking point to WoW would be its raids.

I think he's saying these things as a...positive... are ya mate? lol

I spent approximatelly 50 hours playing my character between the feb 4 and the past beta. 5 hours in coldharbour + bleakrock. 5 in Cyrodiil, 6 in dungeons, and the rest in Stonefalls + Balfoyen which is 34 hours. I tryed to discover as much as I could in the area, and do as many quests as I could. And I can sincerelly say that I could not finish it completelly. I still have about 1/8 is not a bit more of Stonefalls to go. I did not listen to most of the npcs dialogues since I didnt want to spoil it for release, I didnt even stop by the daeric anchors. So 34 hours in stonefalls wich if you look at it is only a really small part of Morrowind.

IMO: This game has a massive amount of content, playing 50 hours in other mmos I would have been close to max lvl, if not abit lower.

As a first play through that amount of content would be amazing! Three months before I have to even think about playing through the veteran ranks, adventure zones and any endgame PvE content gets the royal thumbs up from me!

Yeah, it's not rough huh!

I realize a lot of people will not be playing six hour sessions either. So if you halve that to three hours, that means it will take you about six months - not bad!

I will have to attempt to pace myself, though .

I read a post by Zenimax that each area has 150 hours of content, but depending on your rate of leveling and amount of exploration, I could see surpassing that.

Hmm they will possibly be including crafting also. 150 hours in one area (edit: I thought you meant zone) seems excessive though, to be honest. That's like a month and a half of 3 hour play sessions on a single zone. I don't think so lol. That would actually just be annoying to me.

150-200 hours per alliance, so 450-600 total over the three alliances. Can't be bothered to search the direct quote, but I think it was from one of the Q&A's.

569 was pretty close o.o. Nice.

450 is less than 569.

Either way, I have spent 5K hrs playing Skyrim, across 45 characters. I will surpass that with ESO. My play sessions will be 10-12+ hrs for the first couple of months. Maybe longer. One of my characters could spend a couple of days in the starter Island.

The 450 hrs was just for doing the quests in all 3 faction areas. That doesnt include Adventure Zones, dungeons/heroic dungeons and Cyrodiil.

I thought areas and zones were the same thing.. Whops. 150-200 hours per faction area makes sense.

yes and that gives 3*150 or 450 hours with exploring, say 50 for Cyrodil and you have 500.

Not 150 for each of the leveling zones after the weekends testing most would be ready for the 15-25 zones.

The 50+ and ++ areas is endgame, most will probably combine it with dungeons or PvP.

I know.

Ok... he has 50 hrs for the content outside of the alliances. That's obviously quite low.

If by 'he' you mean my womanly self (lol) then the reason behind my estimation of 50 hours in Cyrodiil is due to it not seeming as quest-heavy as the leveling zones. There is more land to explore, yes, but quests take the biggest bulk in my estimations since they tend to cart you around to new places (therefore aiding your exploration). I would be comfortable with negotiating that 50 up to a.. 70..

450-600 hours as someone already mentioned sits well with me.

This is only for questing, exploration and one dungeon per zone.

I've heard rumors of 150 hours to max level and 450+ hours to 'complete the content'.

I'm quite sorry, my dear. No offence, I assure you. I assume every single person on the internet is a 26 year old male unless presented as otherwise.

I see your reasoning. However, I think they will have just as much, if not more, PvE content available in Cyrodiil. I thought they gave an estimated gametime for the Cyrodiil content, as well. Still I can't find it. I guess, not.

No offense taken! .

I do hope they have a lot of pve content in Cyrodiil. I'm not a pvp enthusiast myself; I spent my most of my time fleeing from enemy players and exploring to my hearts content. It was all fun and games until you get killed and sent all the way back to base haha. I need to figure out how to get my soul gems to work in Cyrodiil, if they do.

I think there will be plenty of things to in Cyrodiil.

I'm a PvE and SP game enthusiasts and a TES fan before any MMO feature. I have interests in this game because of TES and the ability to solo it's content. I just look at Cyrodiil as another area, a dangerous one nonetheless, that contains enemies that want to kill me on sight. No different than the any of the other SP experiences. Everyone in the game is just another NPC, to me.

Why are your soul gems not working?

You mean you cannot soul trap anything in Cyrodiil or you can't use them to charge your weapons?

You're being kind, I always go for the fat balding 50 year old male

50? 26? At my age, they're all the same.

Well exploration is one thing, but as you get into higher zones you will not survive if you do not level as well. So total time for exploration only, will have to add leveling just to survive the exploration.

it was from a dev interview. i watched the video. The guy said in the office with SKIPPING CONTENT and RUSHING to lvl 50, they were doing it in 130-150 hrs per side.

No crafting, skipping side quests, etc etc.

So for a smell-the-roses guy like myself, I expect more like 200-250 hrs per side.

Took me 39 hrs to get to lvl 17 with skipping dialogue, no PvP and some crafting.

I expect there will be some organized experienced max lvl rushers who will beat the record and do it in less than 100 hrs, but those will be outliers.