The Elder Scrolls Online - gone B2P

'k who will start Codex guild?

 

Interestingly, the item upgrade system also features a made-for-F2P mechanism where using only a single upgrade component has a 90% chance of destroying your item, even for level 1 stuff. I bet we're going to see those components pop up in the item store sooner rather than later.

 

Areas available at launch.

 

And not even the more interesting parts of the continent. For shame, guys. For shame.

 

There are also no large cities in the game. The biggest city in the beta - Daggerfall - is roughly the size of Anvil or Whiterun. Loading screens call it a "city state"

The dungeon recycling is worse than in Oblivion or ME1, but I guess that was to be expected.

 

waiting in queue to login ...only to get error 103

 

Man, you know something went REALLY wrong when even the AAA "game journalism" doesn't like your game.

... i'm kinda starting to feel sorry for these guys. I mean, their theme park mmorpg doesn't seem to do anything different from the other theme parks mmorpg (see shit like the recent ARR), but none of them get the same shit.

 

Collective Skyrim worship has come to bite them in the ass.

 

I don't know, this one seems p. different from your average MMO. Even SWTOR put the player in the action right away, all gameplay I've seen of this mostly consists of walking around and talking to npcs, and then fighting 2 or 3 monsters with 6 other players.

 

They're just showing off the best parts of the game. Dungeons are lousy with mobs, respawn timers are about 20-25 seconds, you can kill shit 24/7 if you want to.

By the way, I played one of the public group dungeons yesterday, it consisted of a shitload of trash mobs, a couple of questgivers and "collect x of y" sidequests, and a choice between two final bosses, neither of whom did anything noteworthy in combat. Quest reward was cash.

 

Thats all nice guys, but will loverslab mod it ? Now thats an important question...

 

Another important question, how codexers are going to use their rings of mara ? With who/ what ? thats something i cant wait to behold.

 

Actually the elsweyr starting island is pretty good and there are quests with multiple choices. The daggerfall and skyrim islands looked boring though.

 

Your mom

 

Wait, what? There's a paywall content in a 60+15/month game? Fuck them in the ass!

 

It's only perks like getting +15% to fire damage or 20% faster magicka regen in every faction, instead of only in the default faction those races are assigned to. And whatever bonuses Imperials get, those are indeed paywall content.

But Imperials will probably be available in the cash shop even after launch, so you can decide if they may not be worth a bit of extra money after all.

If you prefer, you can see the 110 Euros for the Imperial Edition as the real price of the game, and the 60 Euros for the standard edition as a discount for the light version.

 

This ship was built underwater.

 

The new of mmorpgs. This shit makes WoW look good... I never thought I'd say that.

 

It is a shame to see how this game turned out. An Elder Scrolls MMO has a lot of potential, too bad they left all the strengths of the series out of this game. What they should have done with this game is to create some kind of Ultima Online Lite, instead they created GW2 meets DAoC while pretending to be a TES game with its presentation.

 

FFS John Walker.

 

But is it worse than DA2?

 

No. I'd say there are three main components to the smaller dungeons/solo areas (long-ass corridor leading to main room, main room, optional shortcut from main room to exit). I've seen three different corridor shapes, five different main rooms, and two different shortcuts. Different themes (like cave or Ayleid ruin) provide further permutations. That's quite a bit of variety, eh?

 

No, there is no paywall in the game.

The comment was a suspicion that one might, one day, appear in the game. It's as if the game designers are resigned to the likelihood that the game will go free to play so have already put in the framework to support that should it ever happen.

Having run around as a kitty for a bit (up to level 12 or so) I think the game is okay. Probably better than the latest Final Fantasy MMO but that isn't really setting the bar too high.

At around level 10 I started hitting quests (okay, two quests) that were better off grouping up for... but, oh my, their grouping mechanism is.. uhh.. simplistic.

I'm done with it so I won't be experiencing the PvP which, given the comments on the ESO forums is pretty much par for the course for PvP in that all sides feel that the other sides are OP and that PvP is "unfair." On second maybe PvP is going to be interesting since that tends to imply some sort of mystical balance but, then again, the max level in the beta isn't very high.

Overall, I think it's a solid MMO and probably worth the price of admission if you are an Elder Scrolls fan.

As an aside, I did notice that some random NPCs reacted to some of my quest choices (there are a few, very few, quests where you get to pick between two outcomes) in the villages. They were rather upset with my character 'cause I had been picking all of the "evil" options. So that was kinda neat.

 

I kind of like it, which is weird because I didn't think much of Skyrim. I wandered around, killed some stuff with my magic staff thingy. It was ok. I would maybe pay an upfront fee, but definitely wouldn't sub

 

Since you played as a kitty, you got the faction that has 90% of the "C&C" in the early game. It's really weird how the other factions almost completely dump that mechanic; maybe there was a directive to make one of the newbie areas especially presentable for release footage.