Fog nailed it. let me quote one of my generations greatest poets "Whoop there it is, c'mon whoop there it is". that got awkward... Anyway.. what?
Oh yeah. A: Yes they tried to hard to balance the ES and MMO aspects of the game. #2: They totally dropped the ball on AvA. and D: The idea that immersion is more important that guild recognition just blows me away.
The above is a Home Alone reference just so you don't think I'm completely unstable, just slightly. Sorry all of you not old enough to get it. You kids with you leather jackets and your pac-man video games, with your 8 track music...
I for one love 2 things in a MMO. Large scale kill everything, find the end and kill a boss so awesome he wipes 50 people before we take him down. And PvP. Good honest open field PvP. Clear objectives, easy to find small and large scale battles.
ESO failed me personally in both regards.
No mega dungeons. No god-mode bosses. No hidden corners for your guild to find that one rare boss that you have nightmares about for weeks after he kills your 60 man zerge.
The PvP map is so massive, I was... whats the word my kids use.... stoked..? Anyway with the large map, keeps and siege warfare. Three sided battles... Man I thought I had died and went to DAoC heaven. Then as we found out, the god-mode bosses came in the form of players with no lives and a want and need to exploit a horrible misstep by ESO. There where no open field battles, no stalking the enemy, no choke points. It was take this keep... now this one... now this one... now this one... Oh and he who hath the most forward camps wins.
As both a huge MMo and ES fan I want to love this game. I want to tuck it in at night and read it a story till it falls asleep. Kiss its boo boos and send it off to college.
I'm going to hang around ESO for a good deal of time to come. After the holidays my game time will clear up a lot more. But I really hope things change and tread more toward a MMO then they have been. Give us guild tags. Give us Bosses. Give us open field PvP. For all that is good and right in Nirn give us DAoC2 wrapped in the Elder Scrolls meat suit.
That's all I've got. I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress.
One more thing, fix the economy. The guild store idea is a joke. Give us a common market place of some type. Spamming zone is not a likable way to sell your wears. What is this, an outdoor flea market?
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