The Elder Scrolls Online's Emperor Is Dangerously Time-Consuming
I’ve been losing myself in The Elder Scrolls Online since I was 13, but this year I finally made the move to playing the MMORPG on PlayStation. With that came trophies, so I opened up the list and took a little browse to see if the Platinum was achievable. Beat every dungeon, easy. Get through the main quest, already doing that. Oh, and become the Emperor of Cyrodiil. How hard can that be? Surely Zenimax has made it less tedious than it was eight years ago. Right? No. It’s still a dangerous task with incredibly demanding, unhealthy requirements that in the game’s current state just aren’t that realistic.
To become Emperor, you have to be the number one player in your PvP alliance in that month or week’s campaign. What this means is getting the most points by handing in repeat dailies, capturing keeps, killing players, etc. There’s also grinding. Lots and lots of grinding while others are also busy grinding to get ahead of you in the race to glory. If you go offline, chances are someone who is grinding even harder will take your spot, so you have to catch up or simply not log off.
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Basically, you have to no-life the game for about a full month. Forget sleep, forget work, forget your social life. That, or help somebody else no-life in a guild, and then somebody else, and then somebody else, and hope that eventually your ticket comes up and you get boosted. But even that’s not guaranteed because you’re running the same gauntlet as everyone else across three different alliances. It’s nigh impossible if you have a job, school, a partner, a social life, or anything else to do at all. Becoming emperor pushes you to sleep
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