After Zenimax's announcement last week that The Elder Scrolls Online really is going to happen, the MMO-niverse has been packed with fans discussing TES. We've got our own unique take on the game and invite you to check it out.

Welcome to our first Elder Scrolls Online column at MMORPG.com. This feature kicks off a series that will follow the game all the way to launch and beyond. After the announcement last week we are just as excited as you guys to see what Zenimax has in store. Game Informer ran an amazing interview with Paul Sage, Creative Director on the project. Paul’s career goes all the way back to Ultima Online and he is a true veteran of the industry. One of the major points that Paul brings up in the interview is the three faction PvP system. Being that the Elder Scrolls has never had official PvP in it, I thought this would be a great aspect of ESO to begin the column with.

Read more of Garrett Fuller's The Elder Scrolls Online: Three-Faction PVP a la DAOC.

This is like hot sex good!!

FIXED factions..? I'll pass... If TES online would be a REAL sandbox like the RPG-series, it SHOULD NOT have fixed factions. Let players make their own factions like they should in a real sandbox FFS!

Yeah.....

3 Faction PvP with Hero Engine.

Illum rings a Bell? *spit*

Can't be any good. 2013 will give proof of that. Until then, its the usual Marketing "blabla".

Northing of worth.

LOL fixed factions. more fuel to the fire that is already burning....

3 Faction PvP is the only way to go !!!!

It could have 10 different factions and still suck if we're talking about instanced or battleground-like PvP.

But why is the game not DAOC2 then?
There is a big risk of a marketing failure bcs of misled exceptions from the games name alone. Elder Scrolls stands for a specific type of gameplay!

PS: Was not excited about the Screenshots released yet - they look very clean and artificial and could be from almost any generic fantasy mmo.

When they say three factions, are we talking three seperate PvE areas? Because if not, its not like DAOC, but rather, more like one of these other three faction MMOs, where the factions didnt really mean all that much.

Does that seem like nitpicking? To me, it just seemed huge the way DAOC seperated the factions into their own lands, and played a key role in how well they clashed.

Nowadays, devs would just say itd take way more effort than itd be worth.. yet why wasnt that the case when DAOC was made?

DAoC was the first MMO i ever started on. So hearing that the Elder Scrolls MMO is going to have pvp akin to it...well its the best news ive heard so far.

But on the other hand, i've heard plenty of other MMOs promise to have pvp like DAoC only to screw it up beyond recognition. (Warhammer anyone?)

Originally posted by Ilaya

Yeah.....

3 Faction PvP with Hero Engine.

Illum rings a Bell? *spit*

Can't be any good. 2013 will give proof of that. Until then, its the usual Marketing "blabla".

Northing of worth.

 

SWTOR was two faction with a fail model and nothing to do on there and no point

So you`re comment /fail

Finally, a dev team that realizes that DAoC's three faction system is the way to go when it comes to faction pvp. Far too many devs are clueless these days when they create only two-sided faction pvp and wonder why it doesn't work. This is awesome news about ESO.

please just stop calling a game that plays nothing like TES a "TES mmo".....please just stop.

Originally posted by Vhaln

When they say three factions, are we talking three seperate PvE areas? Because if not, its not like DAOC, but rather, more like one of these other three faction MMOs, where the factions didnt really mean all that much.

Does that seem like nitpicking? To me, it just seemed huge the way DAOC seperated the factions into their own lands, and played a key role in how well they clashed.

Nowadays, devs would just say itd take way more effort than itd be worth.. yet why wasnt that the case when DAOC was made?

 

I fully understand you on this one, i do hope they split the two up like DAOC did. That is one of the reasons i loved it.

Originally posted by Reizla

FIXED factions..? I'll pass... If TES online would be a REAL sandbox like the RPG-series, it SHOULD NOT have fixed factions. Let players make their own factions like they should in a real sandbox FFS!

Forget that idea, if the devs allowed players to switch sides they would find a way to exploit it like always and create problems. I am glad the devs are using fixed factions. It will weed out the problem-kiddies.

Looks like Imperials are Forever Alone in this one.

Originally posted by Ilaya

Yeah.....

3 Faction PvP with Hero Engine.

Illum rings a Bell? *spit*

Can't be any good. 2013 will give proof of that. Until then, its the usual Marketing "blabla".

Northing of worth.

First off, SWTOR had only two factions. Secondly, BW doesn't use the traditional Hero engine, they use a gutted version of it that they botched. If you doubt it, read BW's own interview discussion about it.