I'd like to get into a beta for this and check it out.  Playing GW2 led me to believe that completely shying away from the familiar isn't always a good idea, so I'll be keeping an eye out for this one.

WOW bill your foresight is truly astounding NOT

Lets face it,  ESO has been the worst kept secret in gaming even worse kept than SWTOR was.

Bragging about calling it is like bragging that tomorrow will be Saturday.

Either way so long as it has a decent 3rd person mode and the 3 faction rvr lives up to DAOC then it could be worth looking at,  if its 1st person or be gimped garbage like Oblivion, skyrim etc then I'll give it a miss.

Well, like many, I fell inlove with Skyrim, and at a certain point I felt lonely, with whom can I share all my loot and wonderful swords I've prepared? Who will strategize with me how to slay these foolish bandits sitting there so assured they've won?

But then, oh then, I reminded myself of the horrible chat, the mess of people running around, running around in a forest which inhabitants were friends of mine when I finished the quest, but hey, now they're not. The sensation of futility, no action you take really changes anything, because hey, other people ought to have quests as well, and the same ones...

If it would have kept to a max of 4 people multiplayer inside skyrim, that would have been brilliant, anything more, I say it'll sink faster than a rock...

Originally posted by MyBoot

Can I pre order yet ?

This is so 2011 - one pre-purchases these days ...

Has the potential to be Ultima Online.

1)a class system will be in place.

2)the combat system will not be the same real time combat the Elder Scrolls games are known for.\

3)Players will be unable to contract Vampire and Werewolf diseases, but there will be Vampires and Werewolves in the game

4)skills will be activated from a hotbar.

5)Some of the provinces may not be completely available

6)there are no plans to include a system that allows players to invest in property as they could in the single-player experirience.

How is this an ES game?I dont think so....

Well written article.

But as far as the title goes...  ESO doesnt mean s#*& for MMORPGs.  Because until proven otherwise it is just going to be another WoW clone.

3 factions bodes well but what we really need is some confirmation on sandbox gameplay.

Originally posted by TalEly

If it would have kept to a max of 4 people multiplayer inside skyrim, that would have been brilliant, anything more, I say it'll sink faster than a rock...

I agree completely.  It would have done better as a co-op game.  Like DIABLO III except with your personal mosaic world and you can invite others to it or fight in others worlds (which then has an effect on that area of your world, a la mosaic). 

@enoch420 :  I expect more shoddy work from Bethesda. Level 45 and I beat the main story in Skyrim....the rest is just boring and it still has tons of stability issues. Thanks to the mod community, it's better than what it would be. Still, I don't trust Bethesda anymore after failrim

Keep on trollin trollin trollin , LOL SKYRIM OWNS !!! 

Big name, big title and probably will be a big dissapointment too.

Untill its actually been made and then released i am not going to get hyped up about anything anymore because simply put they have all tended to be extreamly dissapointing release's

It's really good news but so far off that it is only going to remain something "I heard was coming'. Once they actually start development and move somewhere with it..cool beans.

Starting a report off with, "I don't think I'm reaching if I say we have all spent hours of our RPG time in the world of the Elder Scrolls ," is a bad idea. Claiming to speak for everyone pretty much always means that you are wrong...as is the case here.

"Matt Firor, who has been running the studio, was one of the top people on the classic Dark Age of Camelot MMO. He is known as one of the people who conceptualized DAOC’s famous RvR system. This would mean that an Elder Scrolls game in Matt’s hands will produce a very awesome PvP system. "

You should probably have said, "has the potential to produce a very awesome PvP system." Someone who has done something right once previously does not mean that they will be able to recreate the magic of their past achievement in the future.

"The crew at Zenimax Online has just jumped to the MMO All-Star list"

How did they become all-stars without having ever produced anything ?

Originally posted by ABRaquel

I would much rather have a co-op Elder Scrolls where I and friends can just roam around, instead of having to deal with xXDrizztXx or Legollollas123 running around.

This, this, this, this, this.

Honestly this news makes me kind of sad. Also where the damn is my Skyrim DLC? Mods can only hold me for so long.

Well this is Bethesda's TORtanic/TORcraft, i guess.

IF already streamlined and  uninspired Skyrim did not kill them for me, this will..

Oh well, back to re-playing Morrowind. 

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Originally posted by Yuui
Well this is Bethesda's TORtanic/TORcraft, i guess. IF already streamlined and  uninspired Skyrim did not kill them for me, this will.. Oh well, back to re-playing Morrowind. 

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Bethesda isn't making this game, and Skyrim was a fantastic game that only made Bethesda richer.

Everyone please read up on ESO before spouting nonsense.

Eeee... it's a 3-rd person themepark with limits on character development, clunky and retarded controls, probably limited and linear world (like in TOR) and trinity system acording to info I get so far.

What part of this sounds like TES ? :| I see they want to show us another TOR-like failure. Gues what, if someone is willing to pay 15$ then that person will play WoW and not another clone of this game.

Originally posted by BigHatLogan

I must be the only person on the planet who didn't like Skyrim.  I couldn't play it for more than 6 hours.  I just hated how I could only cast 2 spells as a mage without pausing it.  I didn't really find the combat to be very challenging either.  Of course I will admit that Skyrim came out at around the same time as Dark Souls which ruined other single player rpgs for me.  I did put in close to 100 hours in Morrowind though, so i recognize how these types of games can be fun.  If they are going to make an mmorpg though they had better go sandbox, these type of games would fail pretty hard as themeparks.  

 

This is off topic, but I still have to ask this.. What's with the "having to pause"? I mean, you can have hotkeys from 1-9 in use (Like in any Elder Scrolls to date, starting from Morrowind), why would you need to pause with that amount of hotkeys? I've managed to stack all in combat spells there, along with my weapon and summons. Even two different shouts.

But yeah, compared to Skyrim - Morrowind just had that something.

Who's making the game? If its Todd Howard and company i will get excited but if its some stupid online division of Zenimax filled with old mmo developers then ill pass.

Last I checked Todd Howard had no interest in making a Elder Scrolls MMO. Either they twisted his arm or got his go ahead to make the game with a completely new studio with the game set in a time period that Todd would never use in his games.

Originally posted by Digna

It's really good news but so far off that it is only going to remain something "I heard was coming'. Once they actually start development and move somewhere with it..cool beans.

 

 

Dud ethey have been developing it for eons, or do you think they hired Matt in 2007 for him just to twiddle his thumbs for 5 years ??  they already have a customer service team in place in Galway in the exact same office block Bioware was prior to Bioware moving to the custom built facility on the outskirts of Galway.

they said the game was going to be WoW style mechanics. that it would not have the freedom tes players expect. lol.. complete fail. with heroic modes and raiding.