[Megathread] Elder Scrolls Online

[Greevir]

That's not the point. The point is that is better to have just a text telling you why you are killing them and then experiencing an amazing combat than having an amazing voice actor telling you why to kill the pirates but then experience a dull and boring combat. If we can have both the actor and the amazing combat... hell yes! but right now TESO has the amazing voice actor and the dull combat.

I find the combat in ESO to be 200% more entertaining than WoW. To each their own.

[Kazlofski]

Yeah it's more story oriented so more RPG, less MMO.

instead of MMORPG, i'd call this mmoRPG.

Unless you look to be more immersed in story while being online with others around for PVP and stuff, it's bad.
If you look for exactly that, do quests especially and get into the story and leveling and have dungeons/pvp from the side with people, it can last for some time, until you experience all the zones and quests I guess.

[Sellest]

What's up with those 30 minute loading times. That's insane

[Morgaith]

for the 9001th time, long loading times is because of the heavy server load during this huge stresstest.

[Deleted]

What's up with those 30 minute loading times. That's insane

It is intentional, the idea of a stress test weekend is to try and break the system.

[Deleted]

What's up with those 30 minute loading times. That's insane

The servers are stressed....

It was literally a 10 second loading screen at max for me last beta.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Bethesda: When Tamriel is ashes...you have my permission to log off.

[Sellest]

Silly me, I thought they want players actually to try and test the game and they want them to stare on logging in screen. Anyway this game is probably not for me. I like when there is some more movement on my screen besides rotating circle with message "requesting character load"

[Deleted]

Silly me, I thought they want players actually to try and test the game and they want them to stare on logging in screen. Anyway this game is probably not for me. I like when there is some more movement on my screen besides rotating circle with message "requesting character load"

Wrong, the whole idea this weekend is to stress the system not let you play a demo.

[obdigore]

Logging on for 2 hours now. Stress test is stressfull

Was having a lot of fun DK damage staff and resto staff, Wiping in a dungeon over and over was actually entertaining because even though we were too low leveled and a pretty shitty put together group, it felt like we had a chance, but would have to play well.

Hoping to do some more group content later.

Don't think I'm violating the NDA here.

[Luko]

Silly me, I thought they want players actually to try and test the game and they want them to stare on logging in screen. Anyway this game is probably not for me. I like when there is some more movement on my screen besides rotating circle with message "requesting character load"

Silly you for confusing "Stress test" for "Free demo."

[Morgaith]

The only purpose of this stress test is to stress the servers, there has been numerous closed beta tests to see how the game works with a decent number of people playing at one time, as well as an exclusive ongoing beta test with access to the latest build.

I think the game is better off without you if you judge a game by issues caused by the servers during one of the largest stresstests in gaming history.

[Deleted]

I don't get how there can be people on this planet who think a beta test, especially a closed beta test such as this one, is somehow a free trial so people get to play the game without paying for it.

Is the concept of beta testing really so hard to grasp?

[Greevir]

I don't get how there can be people on this planet who think a beta test, especially a closed beta test such as this one, is somehow a free trial so people get to play the game without paying for it.

Is the concept of beta testing really so hard to grasp?

For today's average gamer? Yes.

[WillFeral]

Guarantee this mmo will fail just like all the other ones before it. All hail World of Warcraft.

[Morgaith]

I don't get how there can be people on this planet who think a beta test, especially a closed beta test such as this one, is somehow a free trial so people get to play the game without paying for it.

Is the concept of beta testing really so hard to grasp?

I can understand part of it though, because of all paid "beta" tests coming out from other games within and outside of the genre.

Look at the numerous Demo betas from for example EA.

[Deleted]

yep, I'm done for today, this is a bit too much, even for me ... from the 6 hours I planned today for playing I got to play for 2 hours, rest was loading screens.
I'm okay with the concept of a stress test, but I haven't seen something like that

[Deleted]

Guarantee this mmo will fail just like all the other ones before it. All hail World of Warcraft.

Some of us are bored of raiding Garrosh until a new expansion hits.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Guarantee this mmo will fail just like all the other ones before it. All hail World of Warcraft.

Sarcasm or not, this doesn't help the view of WoW players -_-

[Luko]

Guarantee this mmo will fail just like all the other ones before it. All hail World of Warcraft.

"Fail" to do what?

Almost every popular MMO out there is currently turning a profit and has a very steady playerbase. What was this comment even based on?