The Elder Scrolls Online

[Martinus]

I signed up for beta also.  I actually *like* being in beta's, since I can make up my mind if I'm going to spend money before I'm forced to   I do agree that the best part about the Elder Scrolls games was the open/sandbox approach.  I'm curious how that is going to get shoehorned into a more classic MMO paradigm.

Umm yeah the current MMO paradigm is not "classic". It's "everybody copy warcraft". There used to be some serious variety out there in the MMO market before the WOW era began.

That may be true for 2011, but is not true anymore.

[garbon]

Did anyone get an email about a beta stress test tomorrow night?

[garbon]

So stress tests are stressful then?

[Caliga]

at this whole thing.

TES is pretty much the best CRPG series of all time.  Why must they ruin it by trying to MMO it?

[garbon]

With it being so open, seems like it would lend itself naturally.

[Caliga]

Good luck with all of the "LOL can I be: DOVAHKEEIN!" emotes.

[garbon]

Oh I'm not saying I'd buy this. I'm not really a person for MMOs on the whole.

[Caliga]

Yeah... see for me, the thing is I never minded that about WoW because it never previously existed in any other form that I'm familiar with (never played any of the Warcraft games as I hate RTS).  But I have a feeling it'd really bother me in the TES-universe.

[Syt]

Yeah... see for me, the thing is I never minded that about WoW because it never previously existed in any other form that I'm familiar with (never played any of the Warcraft games as I hate RTS).  But I have a feeling it'd really bother me in the TES-universe.

I can see that. Guild Wars 2 is similar for me. A player called LOLH4XX0R doesn't bother me near as much in that game as it would in The Old Republic or Star Trek Online.

[Grey Fox]

I still miss Earth and Beyond

[Anatron]

I'm not sure I like Khajiit being grouped with elves, lore-wise. At least they made some effort to explain the Nord-Dark Elf alliance, but why would Khajiit be fighting to promote elf supremacy?

Yeah thats strange.Considering the Nords and the Dark Elves are ancient enemies in this game.

[katmai]

So was sent a beta invite for this weekend and of course I'm away working on show till Mon.

[Scipio]

Ah, it ain't all that.

Typical step and fetchit bullshit in Tamriel.

[sbr]

Everyone I have talked to that tried the beta have been very meh about it.

[garbon]

Another test this Friday. I skipped out on my last invite so maybe I'll try it again. Surely has to be a bit more evolved since September, right?