Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-87.64.225.224-20140403210442/@comment-24770978-20140403221721

Um, I would think Zipper's response above was a bit hasty.

Character info is stored by zenimax, not on your local HD. Backup, mesh, texture, area, object, sound, and settings info is local but if they allowed character files to be hosted soley on player systems that would open a HUGE secuirty hole for cheats as players learned how to edit those files and uberfy their toons.

Also, consider if your system flat died and you lost all your data. After reinstalling ESO on your new PC you would of course expect your characters to be saved, right? If you left the game for the summer, such as soldiers who get deployed, upon reactivating your subscription you would expect to see your old toons come right up. Zenimax hosts that stuff.

Therefore it only makes sense that loading ESO onto a new Mac, updating and logging into your account would port in any required info/files and all your characters will be intact. Same hold true for about every other major MMO ever since Everquest.