The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Differences in Player Experiences of Need Satisfaction Across Four Games

This DiGRA 2019 study examines how players of four online collectible card games experience need satisfaction, drawing on a survey of 1,017 players of Hearthstone, Eternal, Faeria, and The Elder Scrolls: Legends.

• The study surveyed 1,017 players of four online collectible card games (Hearthstone, Eternal, Faeria, and The Elder Scrolls: Legends) and found that player experience varies meaningfully between titles within the same genre, so findings from one game should not be generalized to the whole genre.
• Game membership explained about 13% of the variance in autonomy satisfaction and about 9% in competence satisfaction, with significant differences across games but not in sense of community.
• The Elder Scrolls: Legends produced the highest autonomy satisfaction (M = 4.1) while Hearthstone produced the lowest (M = 3.3), and Eternal players reported higher competence satisfaction than Faeria players.