If you are like me and loved Morrowind then one of the patchnotes in the recent update will make you happy--"Added an option to turn off quest-giver indicators, which is located under the Interface portion of the Settings menu. This will turn off the indicators both in-world and on the compass." I can't wait to talk to NPCs, explore the land, and come across quests naturally.

I will probably do this on my Khajiit. I turn them off in Skyrim, so yes I like it.

I will absolutely use it!

Now, to just get them to allow me to remove the compass completely and I'll be even happier.

I loved I-hud for skyrim, and I loved having to search raher than follow a quest marker, so when I solo I wont use a quest marker.

I won't remove them myself, but I am glad they added it in natively for the people that wanted it without having to use an addon to remove them.

I think it's a combination on 'Elder Scrolls' and 'Quest' = Elder Quest... I dunno.

OT: This is really good news, this is one of the things I sent a feedback ticket about, it's good to know that it's been added as an option.

Now that is funny. I guess that is what happens when you so excited and start posting.

Eh, the quest marker is pretty much a must for me. Nothing frustrates me more than being unable to find where to go for a quest. Skyrim's quest log was notorious for being completely ambiguous. They would often tell you where to go in the the dialog when you picked up the quest, but the quest journal would only say "I must find Random NPC and ask for Random Item." It wouldn't tell you where to go. So if you went and did some other quests, and then came back to that one, you'd have forgotten where they told you to go in the first place.

The option is to hide the quest giver marker, you still have the in-quest markers showing where to go inside the quest. Although there is an option to remove quest markers all-together already, it's not something I would do.

Agreed! For me it is a must too. But it is great that people that like to play without quest markers get to have fun their way too

problem with it though is that the quests are rarely fleshed out with meaningful information as it was before they started putting markers all over the place. In morrowind all the info would be in the quests giver's dialog, or you'd have to find it from relevant npcs - or risk wandering the wilds for hours without end. I tried getting rid of markers in oblivion and ended up always having to turn it back on from lack of information. I.E: Some cave I was told to go to didn't even come with a direction because the game would assume you would follow your marker.

If the quests are adequately written and designed, I would love to turn the markers off. And speak to most npcs to try finding if any have a quest ect... I find it much more fun to play, same as since its an mmo, sometimes I might turn it on (when questing in a party, otherwise I'll most likely lag behind and you know...). However don't put the effort into the feature if the quests are designed to work WITH the markers.

anyway...

Great change!

Now, I do hope that an option to hide quest markers might follow. Because then the quest journal/dialogue writers will have to start taking into account players that don't use quest markers, and thus write better descriptions of objectives rather than expecting everyone to just play the "follow the marker" game.

Sounds good in theory, but it wont work in game; I've tried this before in Skyrim. The game is designed to have quest markers and the developers depend on those quest markers in order to show you the way. In Morrowind you got specific directions on where the place was and how to get there. In Skyrim it was "follow the marker on your map;" ESO will be no exception. And assuming they don't mark the location on your map, and without a quest marker, you will be running blind until you find your location or until you ask another place.

I would really want this to work, but the directions just aren't there

The Stros M'kai treasure hunt quest proves that they CAN provide proper instructions without spoiling everything with markers. Even if that quest is a bit cryptic (as intended).

That is great! Hopefully NPCs will give a little direction though. Like - Go talk to 'x person in y town' and not just "find x person". Although I'm sure there may be a few like that.

I enjoyed MMO questing before they put in markers, my buddy and I had a rule that we would search for an hour before consulting with a "higher authority". That said, some games were notorious for bad directions, in LotRO the quest give would say something like "seek the Ranger in the hills to the North" and fail to give any clue that the target was much further to the East than it was to the North. Now that we have quest markers the lazy developers don't even try to give you any clues to work with and force you to rely on markers.