At the beginning of the year, YouTuber and streamer NefasQS explains why all platforms related to ESO University have been switched off and there will no longer be any Elder Scrolls Online content from him.
Who is NefasQS? The well-known YouTuber and streamer goes by the name Caspar and has been producing videos on MMORPGs in particular for several years, with his roots in Elder Scrolls Online. The latter is demonstrated by several factors:
Over all this time, NefasQS says it has produced more than 1,000 videos on the topic of ESO (via YouTube). He himself has been playing since the beta in 2013 and has been able to set various world records in terms of raid and arena successes over the past decade.
NefasQS was the driving force behind the “ESO University” project (via esouni.com), which has been providing those interested with guides, tools and information about the MMORPG for years.
With Vitality, the Hardmode stream team and Council of Raiders, he has set up various other community projects for the ESO cosmos.
He was one of ten players selected from the community who were able to give direct feedback to the developers regarding classes and combat.
It is therefore not surprising that NefasQS has been part of the official “ESO Stream Team” since 2020.
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What has NefasQS announced? In his first video of 2025, the YouTuber stated that he will no longer be producing Elder Scrolls Online content in the future. Even as a private gamer, he no longer wants to have anything to do with the MMORPG.
This decision of course has a direct impact on ESO University, the associated Discord server, ESOU’s Patreon campaign and the podcast: everything has already been discontinued and taken offline. Caspar has also not been part of the “ESO Stream Team” since December 2024.
Bye, bye – Tamriel!
What is the reason for the drastic departure from ESO? NefasQS took more than 42 minutes to answer exactly this question. If you want to know everything in detail, take a look at YouTube.
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Below is the – still quite long – summary of the most important points:
In 2022, a group said to have ties to alt-right movements launched a coordinated hate campaign on Twitch and Discord. Those who suffered were members of the NefasQS guild and community as well as the YouTuber himself. Several other affected streamers even withdrew from the community due to the constant attacks.
ZeniMax’s initial reaction was “frustrating” as it was apparently seen as a simple “PvP drama”. Nothing officially happened until the hate campaign spread to other areas. Officials are said to have even apologized later on the phone because they had not taken the reports seriously at first.
Shortly after these incidents, one of the worst content patches in ESO history was announced, Update 35. For NefasQS, many of the combat adjustments were pointless, too extreme and poorly timed (too soon after the new raid was introduced). Many players are said to have lost trust that the developers know what they are doing and how to improve ESO.
When the update landed on the test server, the gaming experience was so bad that NefasQS’s Vitality community project, which had previously included more than 300 raid leaders, collapsed in a very short time: 185 raid leaders announced their departure almost immediately from ESO because they had no hope for the MMORPG anymore.
When NefasQS released a video about the update titled “The Worst MMO Update Ever,” he was criticized by a ZeniMax community manager for not being constructive and fair in the video. You shouldn’t report on the game in such an emotional way. You’d better see for yourself whether the criticism is justified on YouTube.
At this time, the stress from working with ESO is said to have had its first negative impact on NefasQS’s health, in the form of shingles.
In 2023, NefasQS increasingly felt like it was just the “quota Asian” in the official “ESO Stream Team”. While other members often received super quick and positive responses to inquiries, things were often different for him.
There was always the idea of involving ZeniMax employees (not just developers) in the podcast or in community raids or organizing an ESO stream as part of certain events. According to NefasQS, there was no serious discussion of these proposals.
Instead, the “ESO Stream Team” tried more and more often to influence podcast guests, video content or Discord moderation (e.g. user XY should be banned).
There were several big events related to ESO on the program in 2024, such as the anniversary party in Amsterdam or TwitchCon 2024. According to NefasQS, not a single event came without problems with the officials.
NefasQS found the moment particularly bad when Senior Creator Engagement Manager Gina Bruno forced him to end the stream while the stream was running at TwitchCon in San Diego. He speaks of a form of “public humiliation” that he has never experienced in this form before.
In addition, the increasingly fewer videos about ESO caused more and more trouble.
For example, although NefasQS had already reported several times about data mining leaks and always made it clear that he would not do any data mining himself and that the leaks should not be spoiled for anyone, after his video about the battlefield leaks he was apparently approached by a community manager saying he would thus besmirching the hard work of the developers.
It later turned out that the community manager had not seen the video at all, but had only responded to a report from the ESO community.
During the course of the video, NefasQS repeatedly shows video scenes or messages that support its claims. He claims to have deliberately withheld many other screenshots and evidence in order to protect the affected employees at ZeniMax. He definitely doesn’t want anyone to get fired because of these things or for the community to initiate a boycott or shitstorm.
How does the community react to the allegations? It’s clear that NefasQS’s video elicits a lot of reactions – for example, more than 1,880 comments on YouTube or more than 670 comments in this Reddit post.
sawmanUK also had a bad experience (via YouTube): “A certain Richard Lambert described my content as “shock jock” content… I then went on to work with a number of other game studios.”
PainInTheAxe is stunned (via YouTube): “It’s such a shame because you’ve always been someone who tried hard to make this game/community great.”
Arttea can understand the feeling of public humiliation (via YouTube): “The clip from San Diego was really hard – I got anxious just watching it, and I wasn’t even there, so I can only imagine how you felt at that moment “Must have felt.”
General-Oven-1523 summarizes the case on Reddit as follows: “It’s really nothing interesting, just one of the so-called content creators who think they are the center of attention and realize that a company doesn’t care about either she still cares about others.”
Ukonkilpi is also not on NefasQS’s site (via Reddit): “I don’t know the guy, but after this video I have the impression that he is a narcissist who is incredibly difficult to work with and everything is different always revolves around him.”
How do you rate the situation and the end of NefasQS’s ESO career? Can you understand that the streamer is no longer interested in working with Bethesda and ZeniMax? Would you have liked the developers to have been more sensitive at one point or another? Tell us in the comments! You can find out what the future of ESO holds here: Gold Road was the last chapter for Elder Scrolls Online, everything will be new from 2025
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