http://youtu.be/SLp0ykvotEI?t=7m3s

Here is a video from someone who got to go to the zenimax studios and play and EARLY version of alpha. He goes on the say the questing is linear like Warcraft and even has phasing. This is what worries me most. I really hope they change this.

BUT KEEP IN MIND: This is from October with alpha and it is not set in stone. But still worrisome.

i actually don't mind phasing.  how linear it is may irk me.  hopefully they go for a more ES feel than a theme park mmo feel with the quests and exploration. 

not sure why you would compare it with MoP.  WoW had phasing in WotLK (maybe before that). 

i'd say wait and see what questing is like before passing judgment.

The fact that Zenimax continues to try to build the game to cater to TES and MMO fans means we'll definitely see a lot of phasing and personal instances.

It's really the only way they can appease both types of players.

From the videos I've seen the game looks really beautiful and I'm still looking forward to it even though I'd like to see the genre shift back to it's "Massively Multiplayer" roots and stop trying to make every player the hero of the story.

My problem is...

"Look at those ruins"

"What ruins?"

"The ruins of that inn that got burnt down during the Orc invasion"

"What Orc invasion? The inn is still there!"

As long as that kind of thing doesn't happen I am fine with phasing. I remember playing LOTRO and always seeing other players apparently afk at the same location in Rivendell. It wasn't till I got a high enough character I realised you had to talk to an NPC that only appeared when you hit a certain level or got the quest. That kind of thing really irked me for some reason but it was playable. Anything more is bad imo.

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

 Everything you just said is made up on your own beliefs.  I heard the guy who actually played it and will take his advice over yours. I like factual information not your make believe BS.

Originally posted by zukster2k5

http://youtu.be/SLp0ykvotEI?t=7m3s

 

Here is a video from someone who got to go to the zenimax studios and play and EARLY version of alpha. He goes on the say the questing is linear like Warcraft and even has phasing. This is what worries me most. I really hope they change this.

BUT KEEP IN MIND: This is from October with alpha and it is not set in stone. But still worrisome.

Hold on now.  Jesse Cox is a huge WoW fan and the majority of his followers are WoW players.  He uses WoW as a point of reference but don't take that to mean that the game is WoW clone.  You have to understand who the audience of this video is.

"I don't know what that means but I am excited for the potentiol there..."

The guy is a blathering fool. Who really trusts anyone so obviously hyped to be in the pocket of the Dev enough to get excited by what he says at this point?

Originally posted by ShakyMo
Meh, just want to wander about and bump into stuff, this is worrying.

Same here.  One of my favorite things about ES was just wondering around seeing what trouble I could get myself into.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

 Everything you just said is made up on your own beliefs.  I heard the guy who actually played it and will take his advice over yours. I like factual information not your make believe BS.

 Go read the LATEST interview on this very site. And NO, you cant have liner questing without gated content unless that content is SCALED... With no SCALING content, it means that zones will have set level content, set level content means zones with level restrictions. Deal with it.

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

 Everything you just said is made up on your own beliefs.  I heard the guy who actually played it and will take his advice over yours. I like factual information not your make believe BS.

Its well known information its nothing like Skyrim and has linear instanced phased zones.

I like people who think for themselves and not believe someone elses bs. You shame your age imo.

related blog written by an ESO fan

http://eso-guides.com/elder-scrolls-online-vs-world-of-warcraft/

What’s will be the difference between ESO and WoW? There is a big fear among the Elder Scrolls fan base that ESO will simply become another MMO, another World of Warcraft with Elder Scrolls names and themes.

While the developers at ZeniMax are working their tails off to make sure this doesn’t happen, we’re going to take a look at some of the differences that we’re already aware of.

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

 Everything you just said is made up on your own beliefs.  I heard the guy who actually played it and will take his advice over yours. I like factual information not your make believe BS.

 Go read the LATEST interview on this very site. And NO, you cant have liner questing without gated content unless that content is SCALED... With no SCALING content, it means that zones will have set level content, set level content means zones with level restrictions. Deal with it.

The queting isnt hub based like in most mmo's its exploration based, there are multiple paths to aquire the same quests, its not as linear as most themeparks

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy

Originally posted by jtcgs

Originally posted by Betaguy
I cannot wait for this game, that was amazing.  It plays and feels just like Skyrim he said.

 it cant hagve phasing and liner questing and still "play and feel" just like Skyrim.

To have liner questing means that there will be level brackets for zones. One area for levels 1-10, next area for 2-20 and the like. This goes hand in hand with their stating that levels 1-50 are just to get you to the heart of the game, PvP. It means the faction zones themselves are meaningless even to the designers placing all their focus on end game PvP. Prepare for another MMO that places its focus on a small portion of the game creating a whole lot of meaningless content.

The game is not going to be like TES except for names of places and NPCs...

 Everything you just said is made up on your own beliefs.  I heard the guy who actually played it and will take his advice over yours. I like factual information not your make believe BS.

 Go read the LATEST interview on this very site. And NO, you cant have liner questing without gated content unless that content is SCALED... With no SCALING content, it means that zones will have set level content, set level content means zones with level restrictions. Deal with it.

 False