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If the name of this game wasnt "Elder Scrolls Online"
rodarin
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It would be getting buried by everyone everywhere. Is there ANY redeeming quality this game has? I am being serious here.
Every day there is something new getting 'exposed' in this game as totally broken. Although the duping things (this weekends big revelation/admission) has been going on since beta. But to fix it they would have to rework the whole game so they released it and hoped people wouldnt exploit it.... yeah good idea.
But the game is four major patches in and another 4 or 5 random downtimes and hot fixes and the game is performing worse and worse each and every 'fix'.
So if this was random MMO number 5 what would people be saying about it?
The IP and name recognition is saving this game from a complete disaster. Not to think it is a success by any means but because of its name the burial of it isnt completely 100% there are still enough white knights and fanboys and defenders because of the title of on the screen.
Its so obvious people arent even bothering to be critical anymore its like putting an extra bullet into a corpse that has been cut in half by gunfire.
Now the new mini game is to watch the forums and see what else screws up as the days go by, or see how long before they get to 10K posts in the customer support forums. Theyre at around 8800 and getting almost 500 new ones a day so sometime by Wednesday I would imagine.
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No, you're not being serious. If you were, you wouldn't ask a question that you already know the answer to, in an attempt to start a flame war.
This game has issues, but it's got a hell of a lot of redeeming qualities: The ability to create your own class from limitless combinations of active and passive skills, an MMO that rewards exploration, a beautiful environment to explore in, a quest-driven game that actually manages to break out of the "quest hub" grind by requiring you to find your questgivers throughout the world, a great feeling of immersion, a well-crafted story, very fun PvP in a massive PvP zone, a very deep crafting system...etc.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Some people like the game, and i even believe some of them (not all lol).
That being said, no i don't think ESO would sell or even be mentioned anywhere if it was not for the name. The game itself is so generic that every name would fit just as well. But it HAS the Elder Scrolls written all over its title screen, so people will buy and insist on having fun due to it.
The more pressing question: Why would you care? I for one care because it is a sub game. I wanted subs to return. Really. I hate FTP. But ESO is like a nail in the coffin for subs,... so that is why I care.
MMOs finally replaced social interaction, forced grouping and standing in a line while talking to eachother.
Now we have forced soloing, forced questing and everyone is the hero, without ever having to talk to anyone else. The evolution of multiplayer is here! We won,... right?
I don't play games that I don't enjoy.
I'm enjoying myself. So you can move on.
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It needs a lot of work, but it's not a bad game or anything, at least so far (I'm only level 12). I am liking the combat and quests, but haven't gotten into much else yet. Only like an hour in Cyrodiil, though it was fun. A shame that leveling is generally restricted to PvE, but meh.
But yeah, it can be kinda buggy at times, and the loading screens can sometimes take a while to finish up, but nothing game breaking for the most part for me, as of yet.
One bug I hate, is that randomly during combat, I'll suddenly not be able to attack with any abilities or my basic attacks, I'll start moving really slow, and my health and stamina don't recharge (or at least very slowly, not that it matters), and all I can do is wait to be killed and hope it's gone when I respawn. Sometimes it persists through death and I need to re-log. Happened to me like 3 times so far, and hasn't really been overly annoying, but it is basically a cheap death here and there, so kinda sucks.
But I like the world, character creation, character and ability animations, and the quests quite a bit. I liked the few quests up to now where they give you decisions more than the rest.
I realize not everyone is into the story and quests, but they're definitely what makes the game, imo, so if you aren't into the story, you might get bored really quick.
I wasn't aware I was forcing myself to have fun and forcing myself to pay 15 a month, guess we ESO fans got possessed or something?
I, like many people, enjoy the game enough to sub to it. Zenimax will have to prove whether its game is worth 15 a month down the line, of course. Nobody's exactly sure what they're got in-store as of yet other then the Craglorn dungeon thing. And if it isn't good enough, then naturally people will unsub. Don't you think its a tad obnoxious you think you know what is fun or not for everybody?
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