Maybe they'll decide to ditch the faction lock thing.

I guess we can dream can't we?

Lets hope all the people who have been chosen to beta test ESO will complain about the faction lock so much that Bethesda will get rid of it

New ESO trailer up, with a lot of shots of Coldharbour in it (in fact, it's all about Coldharbour). Digging the Dark Souls vibe it's giving off.

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

Lord Molag Ba'l's realm of domination goodness! Still upset we can't join him.

Okay. This looks EPIC. But I agree with DE that you can't join molag bal in his quest to drag Tamriel into Coldharbor

That sounds Awesome!

What kind of playstyle you guys gonna be playing?

I'm going crossbowman with dual wielding swords and heavy armour.

Most likely a battlemage of some sort. I don't use magic too often, I usually stick to weapons, but I like the battlemage style.

Wow. That looks great!

Checking email for a beta invite to no avail.

A Redguard! He's going to be a pure warrior, and hopefully there will be spears added. Light-armored. He's going to be the ancestor of my male Imperial, Kraven, an Imperial with Redguard blood.

I just have to think of a better name for him . . .

Something Arabian/Middle Eastern. Hmm.

Now now, we all know that spears are impossible to do in computer games. The game jam video proved that!

How about Salah Al-Din for your Redguard?

Hmm. Yeah, only state-of-the-art games like Morrowind are able to do such a tremendously difficult task

Heh, Kingdom of Heaven? It crossed my mind, though this time I wanted something not used in film or books, but also lore-friendly. Most Redguards have few normal names, and only a handful have Middle-Eastern names such as Abdul-Mujib Ababneh and Afa-Saryat. I'll have to do some research. Probably use my own name in another language(my name is Hebrew).

I GOT AN EMAIL FROM ZENIMAX OMG I'M IN THE BE....

"New Trailer,also why don't you sign up for the beta?"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

GAAAAAAAH !!!!!!

lol. THEY LIED!

-sigh-

I didn't sign up for beta sadly. it wouldn't let me submit the form

You can still sign up.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T USE THE BETA FOR EARLY ACCESS!

Too many people do this it isn't just for early gameplay it's to be actually beta tested so report bugs and stuff if you ever get in.

*throws VtM:B at DE*

http://87.249.58.242/eso/eso_0.1.html

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discu...hat-is-going-on
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discu...inally-resolved
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discu...cancel-your-sub
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/201...scrolls-online/

If, IF, I've even had the urge or craving to potentially play ESO in some future, even wait a year or more for it to become F2P, things like these "mishaps" in links have dissuaded me from even bothering with it. If I give money to someone, it creates a sacred bond between a seller and customer - I'm supporting a company and am expected to play fair and by their rules; the company, in return, has to treat me fairly and with due respect. Zenimax obviously has no ****ing clue about any of that and treats people who have paid everything they wanted and are in no way exploiters or scammers like crap.

Youch.

Well said!... ...

We went to a games store last weekend, surprisingly enough, it's called Game...But anyways, they're selling that giant set with the statue for £30-off...And the smaller version was down from £50 to £30...

Methinks if they don't get it sorted soon, Bethesda's gonna be in much trouble, money-wise...

They so haven't thought this through properly...

$200,000,000 / $15 = $13,333,333

$13,333,333 / 12 = 1,111,111 subscribers paying for the game for a full year.

Not including purchase of the game itself, but also not including running costs for server maintenance & traffic, bug fixing, community relationship repair workshops etc.

Over a million player-years. I wonder what mileage other games are getting.

Yeah, but stranger things have happened...Hell, even Costner's Waterworld (which I actually enjoyed btw...And at the cinema too...) managed to make its money back...Eventually... ...

If it was just PC that figure would be worrying...But split over the three consoles?...That's "just" 400,000 each platform...

Hmmm...Yeah, writing it down doesn't do much for it either, actually... ...

We're doomed!!...

It's a trap!!!... ...

I liked the question posed in the Forbes thing..."Did we ever actually need an Elder Scrolls MMO?"... ...Well, I was interested right up to the mention of a subscription...

I haven't followed ESO at all (except to drool over KC's screenshots of Valenwood). Anybody know how it is doing after debuting to rather mixed reviews?

The last thing I heard is that the PS4 and Xbox One releases have been pushed back six months, which should put it around November. Other than that I’m in the dark and also curious.

I haven't been on it lately. Everyone I knew that played it stopped, and I'm not really interested in playing with total randoms.

Has the Free2play countdown started yet?

If it has, maybe I´ll look it up

I’ve actually cancelled my preorder (PS4). I just don’t have the stomach for multiplayer. *shrug*

You could have kept it in your TES collection, Grits

I guess ESO came out about seven months ago now, and I've heard almost nothing about it since mid-summer. Anyone have any news on how it is faring or any big changes based on the initial not-so-good reviews?

runlykhel (wherever he is) said he's been enjoying ESO. He said this a few weeks ago, so maybe they've improved things.

I am still holding out for the single player version...

As far as I´m concerned, TES simply cannot be a MMO. If one does have ES written on it it´s something else.

Does it have a campaign mode?


Truthfully, I would love to RP with a few of the people whose characters I've come to know and love - like Buffy and Teresa - meeting them in game and clearing a dungeon or just sitting in a tavern sipping a glass of Tamika's and talking - to me, that would be awesome, if there was a way to tone down interaction with every online RP'er out there who has a sword and wants to fight you. Like a co-op mode or something, a way our characters could really hang out together. I would love it, if we could do it that way.

When my son first got on an online game, he was repressively shy and wouldn't talk - just listen to the others. Within a month we never saw him without his headset on, he was on that thing constantly talking; and it helped his shyness outside the game too. Many of the guys he played online with went to the local high school, so when he left middle school and started high school, he had established friendships already walking in the door - he didn't go through the same scared nervous period that he did going into middle school.

Speaking of online RPing, I saw a hilarious vid on YouTube of someone playing Skyrim and doing their RP verbally as they met Vilja; really funny vid series.

While it would be nice to link up with friends, I guess mods that do more than change user interface are not possible. One of the things I love about ES is the ability to change whatever aspects of the game world suit my whims via mods.

There is much wisdom for me in SubRosa's sentiment about an SP version. To me the biggest draw of ES(O) would be the ability to explore all of Tamriel - and an on line game is not needed for that.

One can only hope that, in the future, the answer to 'Where will the next SP TES game take place?' will be 'All of Tamriel.' I don't mind one bit if travel between provinces is simply crossing borders (like the Elsweyr and Valenwood mods do in Oblivion) or if each province is its own world space (like Oblivion did with Shivering Isles and Skyrim did with Solstheim).

Anyway, I continue to be curious about how ESO is doing.

You mean in this collection? I can't think of it as a TES game!

I'd love a co-op type situation in a real TES game, but there's too much about the ESO game world that's all game and not enough world from what I've seen so far.

I love your mousepad, be careful not to spill that liquid brown stuff onto it! Is that Venus, with Cupid flitting by in the corner? I don't see any wings, so I suppose not.

That would be great, to visit the familiar places and characters but with friends in game beside us - really don't want to play in a totally strange environment both ways (online gaming and the game itself) - but if they had a campaign mode where you could become comfortable in the world first, then ease out amongst a few friends - that would be easier for me.

Does anyone know if it includes campaign mode? (I know Todd Howard would be ticked at hearing that said after all the years of begging for them to make TES a MMORG - but he should have considered his target audience and made the campaign mode just in case, lol).

The only thing I hate about this is folks ruining it for you.

Seriously, when people don't rp it ticks me off. Most mmorpgs let you in a RP server but even then people don't respect it.

I would like it if there were small parties that could play together - like five friends from here or something - people we know and like, lol.

I am always reminded of the scene in South Park where Eric Cartman's mom is holding the pan behind him so he can play without stopping when he needs to take a crap, ROFL !! I'll try to find the vid and post it, lol.


http://vimeo.com/89858791

Eso will be free to play!!!!!!!!'m

Oh good so someone had mentioned it. As of March of 2015 Elder Scrolls Online will be going Free to Play.

So awesome!

ESO isn't so bad

How does one become a werewolf though?

If it's like most MMO's these days, you pay extra.

Hmm. You have to find the high-level NPC werewolves in the wilderness that spawn during full moons. You fight them and get bitten and infected with Sanies lupinus or Canis Hysteria. After that you'll find an NpC werewolf female in the city who can tell you to find a priest or follow the scent of her glove to a pack leader.

If you choose the pack leader route, you'll search for Songamdir in a shrine of Hircine. You'll be taken to the Hunting Grounds and, well, I won't spoil what happens.

Hunt well, friend! Who knows we can see search other in the game and go attack some villages!

As I understand it, March 17, 2015 is when it goes free to play. I wonder if that will respark interest and help revive/recover the game from its less than impressive initial reception? I mean, I hope that it will and would like to see the game do well.