Elder Scrolls Online

You get access to all of DLCs save for big yearly expansions called Chapters, so you won't have access to Greymoor after it gets released - everyone has to buy it separately. Keep in mind though that eventually past Chapters become unlockable via ESO+ - I'm not sure whether Elsweyr is unlockable yet (I think that'll happen when Greymoor launches), but paying for Plus unlocks Morrowind and Summerset.

I did get it and Elsweyr is unlocked.  It's actually where I started.

There was a new big patch recently, so occasional crashes are par for the course.

There's a big sale on right now, for sure on Steam and XBox. We had the base game but did not realize the DLCs were locked to the profile of who paid for them so only hubs had access to anything else. I picked up the base game, Morrowind, Sommerset, and Elsweyr for $15 yesterday.

I quit playing ages ago because I got so attached to my main and her original story. She hit end-game and I found out she'd be shipped off to join another faction if I completed the story. With nowhere else to go, that was it for me! Normally I'm totally alt-oholic but I just couldn't maintain interest in any of my new PCs. Maybe if I hadn't started with a High Elf...

That was my point--I didn't have them and didn't want to pay for them. I'd done all that I had and didn't want to switch factions. At the time, it was only Morrowind which hubs had bought but which didn't unlock for me so we would have had to pay for it twice to play together. Now I'll have more places to go!

I still play ESO, but not regularly and I am not here as often as I was as well...

Anyhoo - there are NPC companions coming with the next big update, aside from Blackwood and some other goodies

...No, we won't be able to romance and/or marry them, but it is a system they plan on expanding in the future, heh heh. We will be able to bring them everywhere aside from PVP and SP arenas - so if one lacks a group dungeon or trial buddy or wants to have a better shot at soloing world bosses or some other content, they can spec their companions to be additional DPS, tanks or healer.

Anyway, I'm happy for Blackwood, because Oblivion was the first big sRPG for me and also the first TES game, so I expect some nostalgic stuff - but I also expect it to not just be a copy of Oblivion (I liked how they brought dragons to ESO, clearly because they're the most prominent feature of Skyrim, but they have not tried to just blatantly repeat the formula and we got dragons in Elsweyr )

Have fun!

There's a ton of content on the web that is helpful to new ESO players, but in case you have a question or two you can ask here and some of us keeping an eye on the thread will likely answer them