Last week's developments on The Elder Scrolls Online mark the kick-off of the official TESO hype machine and we're using this week's column to weigh in.

With The Elder Scrolls Online set to release sometime this year, this latest development essentially marks the true beginning of the familiar marketing song-and-dance that many MMO veterans often try their hardest to steel themselves against (and ridicule MMO neophytes for easily succumbing to). It’s an important consideration for both the game’s developer and for fans themselves. On the one hand, the developer must take care in setting realistic expectations while also trying to maintain significant levels of excitement over a sometimes long stretch of time and this is much easier said than done. On the other, players need to do well to not set their own expectations too high based on the ensuing marketing madness.

Read more of Michael Bitton's The Elder Scrolls Online: All Aboard!

hehe- u said...' hype train'

:-)

TESO is looking good, from the very little thats been put out. Im not on the hype-train, but I am looking forward to this game.

Hopefully Ill get into the beta,.

Originally posted by PyrateLV

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Till the next game come out. Then people will jump on that! LOL

Cautious optimism.....

There are a lot of things that I like, and I think these guys have a better grasp of factional PvP than the folks at GW2 gave us. Not saying that GW2 is bad, but for me 3 faction PvP was defiined by my experience in DAoC. 

I do have plenty of questions, like a 2,000 person cap in a PvP area on a megaserver, with potentially hundreds of thousands of people online at the same time? The phasing? I'm not caught up with the fact that this title is an MMO first, and Elder Scrolls second, I'm okay with that compromise, although I know many people arent.

Right now, I've got a very patient approach, and will wait and see where this title goes. Promise? Sure, a lot of games have promise, but we'll have to see how Zenimax delivers.

The Repopulation and TESO are the only two games that I am excited for.

If a game gets my interest, I'll buy it.

If I don' like it, I stop playing. Simple.

I may be out $60, but it only happens 1-2 times a year, so i'll live.

If I can get that Skyrim style First Person Sword + Shield gameplay that I love in a MMO setting - with a truly well done progression system (I also really like the perk trees in Skyrim)

I'll be happy.

Good PvE, open world dungeons, plenty of party-only content, and decent PvP too.

If I get those things.. might be a great game for me.

"I do want to take a moment to address some of the reactions to the CG trailer last week, though. There’s really no reason to bring up the fact the trailer is worthless since it isn’t a gameplay trailer or that the game ‘won’t be like that’."

To me at least it is worthless, though I understand the target audience for a trailer may not be me.

I'm feeling no different than I do about any game that sparks my interest. I look at it with a wait and see attitude, never failed to get into a beta someway for games I had an insterest in. I have confidence I'll get to see it before I buy it.

I do wanna say I like their approach to the hype this far, more companies should wait as they did to unleash that "hype train".

Ahahaha Hype! hype! hype!

Oh! I weed a bit

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