The Elder Scrolls Online

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  1. Mizuiro
    Jul 22, 2023
    4
    Mediocre MMORPG not because of graphics ( that are bad and boring style by the way) but because of so POOR and boring gameplay mechanics.

    Not even worth it as a free game. An example of how to ruin a great game ( Skyrim , Oblivion, ..) because of not following their main mechanics.

    Also the people everywhere doing the same "unic" quests ruins the atmosphere of "you are the chosen one"..
  2. zcat5
    Jun 26, 2023
    0
    A mediocre MMORPG that wasn't even as good as SWTOR or TERA (lol). A complete failure by Bethesda to compete in the MMORPG genre.
  3. dmitriy_savenok
    May 1, 2023
    1
    "Как же эта игра пытается вас на*бать"
    Первые впечатления, как всегда положительные. Практически тот же Скайрим, только немного упрощённый и с небольшими ограничениями. TES Online, в отличие от других донатных помоек, делает умнее и в первые часы даёт расправить крылья. Как только немного осваиваетесь, начинает душить и вымаливать последнюю копейку и при этом наговаривая:
    - В Скайриме и    "Как же эта игра пытается вас на*бать"
    Первые впечатления, как всегда положительные. Практически тот же Скайрим, только немного упрощённый и с небольшими ограничениями. TES Online, в отличие от других донатных помоек, делает умнее и в первые часы даёт расправить крылья. Как только немного осваиваетесь, начинает душить и вымаливать последнюю копейку и при этом наговаривая:
    - В Скайриме и других RPG ты мог бесконечно собирать ингредиенты ? Ой, у нас же они имеют ощутимый вес. Неудобно ? КУПИ ПОДПИСКУ !
    - Играя с Скайрим и выполняя определённое задание, по пути, ты мог встретить множество путников, выслушать их, записать себе их проблемы (квесты) и когда находил время, выполнял и их. Таким образом ты мог брать и записывать себе бесконечное количество заданий и выполнять их в любом порядке.
    В этом же ПОМОЙНОМ ВЕДРЕ ONLINE, МАКСИМУМ сколько вы сможете записать квэстов - ЭТО 25. 25, КАРЛ !!!
    - Да. в TES Online огромный мир. Быстрые перемещения, как в любой адекватной игре, есть ? Да. НО ОНИ ПЛАТНЫЕ ! Т.е. вы расплачиваетесь своим игровым золотом, которое добывали потом и кровью. МАЛО ТОГО, чем чаще вы перемещаетесь, тем дороже становятся перемещения (со временем цена падает).
    Возможно подумали. Да я прокачаюсь и буду отдавать одну копейку, как за билет в городском автобусе, а *УЙ ТЕБЕ ! Прокачиваясь, дорожает и минимальная цена за перемещения.
    В ИТОГЕ: Когда ты играешь, все эти проблемы, в связке, ставят тебя раком. Особенно, когда большинство крупных кество, происходит, по ходу действия на многих материках. Начал в Даггерфелле, закончил в Скайриме, что бы сдать нужно поехать в Морровинд. В ЭТОТ ЖЕ момент, что бы продолжить (сюжетно) это задание, вам взять квест у мужика, который стоит рядом, а *УЙ ТЕБЕ, у тебя журнал полон. Точнее кусок туалетной бумаги, раз герой не может записать более 25-ти заданий.
    Решение, которое предлагают разрабы, очевидно: Не хочешь страдать ? ДОНАТЬ !
    Обидно, что игроки не могут увидеть другого решения: УЙТИ !
    И это только верхушка айсберга проблем...
    1/10    … Expand
  4. Giero
    Jan 3, 2023
    4
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  5. Gaming_Bear
    Dec 27, 2022
    4
    I'll start of by admitting that I am not huge into MMOs, but this is game just feels so bland and empty. I came to this game because my friends and I all loved Skyrim, but literally all the elements of what made Skyrim great (the story, the detail of the setting, the beautiful music) are all not here. I am struggling to play this game. At lvl 8 and it all just feels meh.
  6. Rickyboblin
    Dec 26, 2022
    0
    They ran this game into the ground. Their “DLC” is like stacking more trash onto a teetering garbage heap with a loose foundation. I played 1000’s of hours and the game has only gotten worse since 2017. It was salvageable if they could have focused on gameplay instead of creating more “content” behind paywalls. Their content is just reskinned zones with fetch quests and a few must havesThey ran this game into the ground. Their “DLC” is like stacking more trash onto a teetering garbage heap with a loose foundation. I played 1000’s of hours and the game has only gotten worse since 2017. It was salvageable if they could have focused on gameplay instead of creating more “content” behind paywalls. Their content is just reskinned zones with fetch quests and a few must haves to stay in the competitive loop. You just feel used for your money when you are paying $15 a month and you have to buy a $60 expansion every year that ends up being free if you buy the chapter next year. They only screw over their loyal base of players. The pvp used to be kinda fun but they completely screwed up the class identity and the pvp content has been the same for 6 years.… Expand
  7. vovik86
    Nov 17, 2022
    0
    I recently tried ESO again and was so disgusted by the direction it has taken that I wanted to leave a warning so hopefully no one else makes the mistake of buying this garbage in its current state. ESO has always been pay to win... unrestricted storage, access to all DLCs as soon as they're released if you pay a monthly fee. In other words you have to pay 15$/month if you don't want toI recently tried ESO again and was so disgusted by the direction it has taken that I wanted to leave a warning so hopefully no one else makes the mistake of buying this garbage in its current state. ESO has always been pay to win... unrestricted storage, access to all DLCs as soon as they're released if you pay a monthly fee. In other words you have to pay 15$/month if you don't want to run weaker suboptimal builds and use your characters as storage banks. I've found ways around this but it's very tedious. It gets worse, though. ESO also changed how loot works to make it much more grindy. Now you have to run the same dungeon up to 30 times (more if you're unlucky) if you decide to use a weapon that you can't craft. There's no other way to get loot that's dropped in dungeons and only the final boss drops weapons. Even players from eastern MMOs would consider this level of grind inhumane.

    The worst part is recently they changed TOS to allow them to sell your user data. And in usual bethesda anti-consumer fashion (think fallout 76) they are very secretive about it. And if you ask too many questions they will ban you (again, think fallout 76). Pretty sure I'm still banned from posting about this on official forums but it doesn't really matter. Any post on their forums that hurts their bottom line immediately gets locked and deleted anyway... I mean, it's bethesda so why would you expect anything else?    … Expand
  8. Kardinal305
    Sep 29, 2022
    2
    Have played ESO since it’s initial and is definitely of my top player games ever. It used to be amazing but over the years became what it is now; a money grab with predatory systems. Also it’s not only the gamble crates I have an issue with, the developers seem to be out to get the PvP community as every single patch or update they screw over pvp players by an array of unwanted changesHave played ESO since it’s initial and is definitely of my top player games ever. It used to be amazing but over the years became what it is now; a money grab with predatory systems. Also it’s not only the gamble crates I have an issue with, the developers seem to be out to get the PvP community as every single patch or update they screw over pvp players by an array of unwanted changes that require a completely new gear set up on a very regular basis. You couldn’t put this game down and come back to it after a year and use the same load out despite after a certain point all gear is the same level to wear. The developers have never listened to their own community complaints but instead do little streams that they refuse to tackle actual issues brought up in the chat. I wish this game was better, again I’ve loved eso for a very long time, it’s just in such a bad spot right now and honestly could use for a change in leadership… Expand
  9. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    1
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  10. OberiousLocke
    Jul 28, 2022
    2
    Not a bad game. GFX are pretty good, story is good, world is awesome.

    Too bad the combat is jank garbage that nerfs any interest I have in it. If they'd just nut up and fix their animations so audibly clunky crap like weaving didn't exist, I'd probably be more willing to play the game. There is also the complete lack of a sensible Auction House system, so if you don't want to join a    Not a bad game. GFX are pretty good, story is good, world is awesome.

    Too bad the combat is jank garbage that nerfs any interest I have in it. If they'd just nut up and fix their animations so audibly clunky crap like weaving didn't exist, I'd probably be more willing to play the game. There is also the complete lack of a sensible Auction House system, so if you don't want to join a guild, you're SOL.    … Expand
  11. Markski1
    Jul 2, 2022
    0
    Things have improved a lot since launch, and now that it no longer requires paying a subscription, this games makes a looooot of sense to try if you're into TES
  12. LastContrarian
    Jun 13, 2022
    2
    I think the dev team is full of tools, so I might be biased.

    However, you definitely should not buy the game or expansions over a full game, like the guy that asked whether Elden Ring or expansion purchase was a better idea. The expansions are very anemic and lack content, despite what people say (fanboys). Objectively, the game is largely a DPS race. DPS determines almost everything    I think the dev team is full of tools, so I might be biased.

    However, you definitely should not buy the game or expansions over a full game, like the guy that asked whether Elden Ring or expansion purchase was a better idea. The expansions are very anemic and lack content, despite what people say (fanboys).

    Objectively, the game is largely a DPS race. DPS determines almost everything in the game.

    Combat is terrible, esp. PvP. Combat is lifeless and boring, and actually too slow. Most bosses are just hp sponges that soak up damage that you do with little threat or surprises when you know the mechanics, making it formulaic and boring. There isn't really much to pressure the DPS and make the sweat or make DPS skillful besides learning how to "cancel" animatioins -- the less said about that, the better, as it's something you either do and get the DPS increase or don't and possibly flounder.

    PvP this patch amounts to "get Oakensoul" or get toasted. Anyone saying otherwise doesn't know how to build PvP builds nor PvE ones, and I have already started releasing all of the ones on PTS that are nasty and will ruin PvP with one shot or "god-mode" builds. Only a matter of time before you need that ring in PvE to join a trial or PvP to compete.

    PvP could be good if they bothered to increase more trickplay and counterplay, instead of making it a stupid contest between build stats and holding the block button. Instead they NERF counterplay, they NERF trick play, and they make PvP entirely stat-based and, once again, a DPS race of sorts.

    PvP on the game is extremely bad and skilless this patch, if you want to get the game to PvP, don't.

    Housing, outfit system, etc. are one of the game's stronger points, yet they don't add enough customization to hairs every patch and instead focus on housing that's out of reach for most players with their head screwed on (a digital house for over 100 dollars, then you need ESO+ to get double the space to actually furnish it. THEN some items are only available in the cash shop for furnishing...can't make it up!). It's all setup to make you consume, consume, consooooooooooooom.

    Where ESO is weak, it's weak, and where it's strong and could gain uniqueness, it's neglected or going the wrong direction. It's sad this game is being killed by a totally aloof dev and management team.

    It's sad, because I like the game, but the management is very bad and I don't see the game lasting much longer unless they either wake up and start listening to player feedback or add surprises.

    My guess, they won't do either because they don't care to, or still think they don't have to answer to stakeholders other than themselves (shareholders, and PLAYERS too).

    @ResidentContrarian - former "forum poster" since permabanned by tempermental mods and a dev team that can't take criticism they ask for    … Expand
  13. Capellini
    Feb 23, 2022
    4
    the story is **** didnt understand wtf was happening, i was planing a heist and for some reason i was on a ship traveling the world? dialog is garbage and I could not even find the main story after 10h of pure gameplay. there is just a bunch of things trown at you at the same time and a **** ton of menus, nothing like the single player games and also nothing like other mmos, i dont no ifthe story is **** didnt understand wtf was happening, i was planing a heist and for some reason i was on a ship traveling the world? dialog is garbage and I could not even find the main story after 10h of pure gameplay. there is just a bunch of things trown at you at the same time and a **** ton of menus, nothing like the single player games and also nothing like other mmos, i dont no if there are guilds cause i also could not find apparently race or politics dosnt mean anything and no clear instruction. wanted my money back but just the firsts quest already took more than 2h. Also couldn't find any battles that took affort or at least a friend. I dont know how but gtao is better than this ****… Expand
  14. JackPlack
    Feb 11, 2022
    4
    Too much worse than Skyrim, to boring. Too much reading/skipping dialogues. When skipping whole game is too pointless. Level up system unsatisfying. Ai of mobs to much MMO like. Not much graphics/details, Skyrim is still better, a specially with mods.
  15. JakeFoxUwU
    Jan 22, 2022
    0
    Я как бы всё понимаю, но почему лаунчеру нужен исключительно диск C? Купил в итоге в Стиме за 824 рубля, так и не поиграл.
  16. sealkv
    Nov 29, 2021
    4
    When I bought ESO , nobody no warned me that in this reality I would be attacked by cretins and trolls, who cause healthy irritation in any normal living person, with their defiant behavior. I'm talking about ostentatious idiocy and trolling. Bethesda not doing anything to put an end to this all these 7 years this ESO has existed. More worse. ZOS( ZeniMax Support) help the scoundrels andWhen I bought ESO , nobody no warned me that in this reality I would be attacked by cretins and trolls, who cause healthy irritation in any normal living person, with their defiant behavior. I'm talking about ostentatious idiocy and trolling. Bethesda not doing anything to put an end to this all these 7 years this ESO has existed. More worse. ZOS( ZeniMax Support) help the scoundrels and trolls when they provoke players to respond and write denunciations about them. And ZOS employees receive their money for blocking game accounts due to the fact that some player said something personally in a private chat to some other player. It is enough to tell the troll in the game that he is a troll, and ZOS immediately block the game account of the one who was not afraid to say out loud what is obvious. This is stealing. If ZOS block game account, they DO NOT RETURN your money. What is the connection between the money paid for the game and a private conversation between two adults in a private chat? I pay $ 500 when buying this product 18+ and lose it due to provocation and trolling. This is how they steal money from people. ZOS wrote a letter to me(automatic mailing robot in response to my complaint about trolling by another player) the following: "If another player said something bad to you (in your opinion), you can add it to the ignore list. If you see harsh words, turn on the automatic blocking of swear words in the game." ZOS made it clear to me that this is how they solve these problems. When I write to ZOS a complaint about the actual trolling in ESO, they send me a spit in my face. ZOS send me a robot letter, where they give advice on how to behave with moral monsters and scum.
    ZOS help the trolls in ESO, that's why they hide their names and positions in ZeniMax because they are afraid to meet me on the street one on one, where they will have to return the money that ZeniMax stole from me when blocked my paid account, just for the fact that I expressed my dissatisfaction with the fact that ESO is propagating abomination. I am sure that ZOS are trolling this game themselves in order to provide themselves with a "job". ZeniMax security service is committed to eliminating threats to "business". And the threat to business is public voice over what you do. And when I say out loud that Bethesda are creating problems in this MMO, ZOS began to fight me. Roughly and effectively, they set provocateurs trolls on me. This happens in ZeniMax "Official Forum". This happens in ESO.
    ZeniMax has created an MMO(product and services on the Internet) that promotes perversions and pathology. Necrophilia,satanism,sexual perversions,drugs. Their bosses receive orders from politicians to reduce the population on Earth. They kill people, kill the health of their soul and mind. What I mean? Here's a simple example. You have made it possible in this game when a player puts on the outer shell of a corpse, and in this form is in the reality of the game among other players. This is a product from in-game Store, the name of this product is Skeleton Polymorph outer shell. There are many such examples. "Scary Clown" shell, or Mount "Rainbow Unicorn", and many others, this is a monstrous abomination created by and for devils anti-humans.
    I am a healthy adult, raised in a traditional strict family, in the correct religious and moral traditions. And I openly say that Bethesda are creating a product that can only please psychopaths and freaks who are actively trying to change this world, making it as ugly and scary as they are. In fact, they create the conflict situations yourself in this game. This is an MMO game. Players kill each other here. All know that. This means ESO is bought by those who want to kill people. That's why they came here.
    Here's what's going on. I meet in the game location another player who has put on a suit of a rotten corpse. Yes. These are the kind of players that walk in your game. And ZeniMax call it "Halloween Party". What kind of holiday is this? It is an abomination that causes anger and nausea, it is a walking corpse, it is a spit in the face of Nature and God. And my normal reaction to that is to destroy this abomination. But they have calculated it all in advance. This is provocation. They have deliberately created this situation. They know perfectly well that walking corpses are an abomination that causes hatred among normal people. And they deliberately create this to incite hatred and conflict in ESO. And when this happens, ZeniMax takes the side of the devils, and block the normal person's game account. I already wrote a letter to Bethesda about this. They are waging a war against normal people. They have created a "troll factory", ESO is a garbage dump, a ghetto for drug addicts, maniacs and freaks and other evil spirits, this is a stinking grave.
    The Bible says, "Judge the tree by its fruit." Judge a person by his actions. So who are Bethesda if these are their actions?    … Expand
  17. OceanoPiTi
    Aug 17, 2021
    0
    acho que ja vi aquele veio do flame ( um tal de pandinha) falando sobre esse tal jogo, deve ser um lixo iogual a ele
  18. blazinfool
    Jul 26, 2021
    2
    Great story, terribly made game. This the only game that has given me so many issues. The game is built very poorly. Lots of disconnect issues. Lots of crash and lockup issues. Too many bugs, there are quite a few missions that cannot be completed due to bugs, Some are main story quests that you cannot complete. The events they run are so badly done. I think this company must be anGreat story, terribly made game. This the only game that has given me so many issues. The game is built very poorly. Lots of disconnect issues. Lots of crash and lockup issues. Too many bugs, there are quite a few missions that cannot be completed due to bugs, Some are main story quests that you cannot complete. The events they run are so badly done. I think this company must be an inexperienced startup, because they don't know how to build and deploy a working product. Do not invest time or money into this product.....such a shame!… Expand
  19. Dan224
    Jun 26, 2021
    0
    this game evokes hatred of the LGBT community, there is a lot of LGBT content in the game, the developers and their streamers launch streams where they subscribe streams for gay, LGBT, gay, if someone asks they immediately block it, all this toxicity causes aggression towards LGBT
  20. Fergusonz
    Jun 20, 2021
    0
    This game is trash in terms of a combination of bugs, lags, ping for people live in "wrong" part of earth. The release of monotonous content, the lack of pvp and arcade pve, etc.
  21. MAX90
    Jun 7, 2021
    0
    the game is filled with toxic LGBT content, it creates a bad image for LGBT people
  22. ruslannikulin
    May 15, 2021
    3
    Постоянные вылеты и отвалы серверов в PvP и в подземельях. Игре уже больше 7 лет, а они ни как не сделают стабильное соединение. Но самое забавное, это когда после отвала сервака вы не можете вновь зайти на очередь подземелья или PvP-арены, так как вам причисляют штраф за дезертирство. То есть за свои косяки они игроков штрафуют. Серьёзно, Зеня, серьёзно?!!Постоянные вылеты и отвалы серверов в PvP и в подземельях. Игре уже больше 7 лет, а они ни как не сделают стабильное соединение. Но самое забавное, это когда после отвала сервака вы не можете вновь зайти на очередь подземелья или PvP-арены, так как вам причисляют штраф за дезертирство. То есть за свои косяки они игроков штрафуют. Серьёзно, Зеня, серьёзно?!!
  23. Kadirov
    May 10, 2021
    0
    Бездушное говно. Играя не чувствую себя как "дома", в отличие от Skyrim. Какое-то отторжение к игре испытываю, что-то очень коммерческое и не ламповое. Своих денег не стоит. Дропнул на 15ой минуте, ибо очень скучно и нет сил дальше проходить.Бездушное говно. Играя не чувствую себя как "дома", в отличие от Skyrim. Какое-то отторжение к игре испытываю, что-то очень коммерческое и не ламповое. Своих денег не стоит. Дропнул на 15ой минуте, ибо очень скучно и нет сил дальше проходить.
  24. dontezz
    May 4, 2021
    0
    I would only recommend this game to my enemies..
    I am a returning player from 2015. Played since Beta for a yr or so.
    Heard some good and some bad about returning.. Took my chances and lost, this game is not worth coming back too or starting new. It is plagued by so many GAME BREAKING bugs, Severe Lag, and Disconnects. The Mail System Bugs and Inventory Bugs are a few of these. All of    I would only recommend this game to my enemies..
    I am a returning player from 2015. Played since Beta for a yr or so.
    Heard some good and some bad about returning.. Took my chances and lost, this game is not worth coming back too or starting new.
    It is plagued by so many GAME BREAKING bugs, Severe Lag, and Disconnects. The Mail System Bugs and Inventory Bugs are a few of these. All of these start on PC then get pushed to Consoles without getting fixed creating new problems. While ESO pushes that next big Release. This game is a Bugged Hollow Shell of what it use to be.    … Expand
  25. Andizzzzy
    Apr 19, 2021
    0
    I've thought about whether to give this game a good review or not. I almost did, but it would be unfair to the gaming community as a whole, as I would be advocating online gambling and loot boxes essentially saying that it is OK to include that in games. The most painful issue I have with this game is the in-game shop and the way that this game has been monetized. ZOS claim to only sellI've thought about whether to give this game a good review or not. I almost did, but it would be unfair to the gaming community as a whole, as I would be advocating online gambling and loot boxes essentially saying that it is OK to include that in games. The most painful issue I have with this game is the in-game shop and the way that this game has been monetized. ZOS claim to only sell cosmetics and conveniences, however both of these things clash with the core gameplay of ESO.

    There are a number of rewards which are only obtainable through purchasing crowns with money, and with extremely expensive costs too. The game is objectively worse off by the existence of these things. I can count on one hand the number of mounts you can collect in game, but the number of mounts you can buy or obtain through ZOS's loot boxes is closer to 100. This gives players less things to actually play for, less things to collect and fewer targets to set for themselves.

    In addition, you can buy time-savers which grant you ability points (if you've collected them on other characters), experience scrolls, mount training and the research scrolls for professions. The issue I take with the existence of these items is indicative of the fact that ZOS are aware that these grinds are a slug. They are literally time-gated; you can learn one mount training skill every 24 hours, of which there are 180 skills to spend. That is half a year of spending points to max out your mount training. This grind must be done on each character. The research scrolls speed up the rate at which you research a trait in a weapon. When researching a trait, you must wait an increasing amount of actual time before unlocking it and researching another. My main character has gotten to the point that she must wait 20+ days to learn a new trait in some professions. Or I can throw my wallet at ZOS and get it done instantly. ZOS, I want to enjoy your game, but you're making it so hard. This game has become a chore for people who cannot afford pay-to-win "cosmetics", but has become a breeze for new players who have the money to spend in the Crown store.

    The largest houses you can buy typically sell for around 14,000 crowns (a whopping $140 JUST FOR A digital HOUSE!) and are unobtainable otherwise... - just stop and think about that. On the other hand the housing system in the game is alright. However, it suffers when considering how expensive furnishings actually are, especially when compared to how little gold you actually get for just playing the game. While players can obtain some furniture pieces through playing the game, these are extremely few and far between when considering just how many furniture pieces there actually are in the game (majority of which are sold in store - because "cosmetics". The nicer furniture pieces are often priced at 10,000 gold, up to 100,000 for the fanciest pieces. When you only get 300 gold for completing a quest, as a player, you must look to get money through other systems if you want to engage fully with housing and furnishing. ZOS, PLEASE increase the amount of gold you get from quests. This leads me to the auction house in-game, and ESO plus.

    The best way to obtain money in this game, is by engaging in the auction house. I love the auction house system in the game, and the way it forces players to be a part of a guild(s). One thing to help you make gold is the use of the extra bank storage and (literally infinite) crafting bag you get when subscribing to ESO plus. If you plan to sell any crafting materials and you don't have the crafting bag, be prepared to have a full inventory every 10 minutes. It's like ZOS are aware that not playing with the crafting bag is a handicap, and so they move it to a pay-wall. There are other ways to make money in the game, such as farming for rare item drops for hours on end, hoping that one will eventually drop which you can sell for a lottery cash out

    ZOS are masters at creating problems and selling you the solution - if there is a way to make money, ZOS will find it. The in-game store and the monetization is in direct conflict with the soul of this game, and I never feel satisfied playing this game. I want to engage in the housing, but the rate at which I can actually buy furniture, if I just do quests is extraordinarily slow. The crowns I get with the ESO plus subscription make it a bit better, as they allow me to buy furniture and housing with crowns instead of gold, but I can't help but feel like this doesn't have to be a problem at all.

    ZOS, fix... no improve your monetization such that the game still has a soul, that it still offers players many more chances to obtain amazing loot by just playing the game, reward players - stop putting every damn thing in the Crown Store! I paid for this game and like many/every other PERSON that has also paid, we keep paying for every new chapter as well, let us play it without locking features behind time-gates and pay-walls.    … Expand
  26. Zycomag
    Apr 14, 2021
    3
    I just started playing ESO as a free monthly offer on Play Station. I enjoyed Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim a lot, so I am quite familiar with the ES universe.

    Since then I got hooked by the Soulsborne/Sekiro serieswhich I absolutely adore - especially Bloodborne - and kind of set as a standard for myself. That said, after playing ESO for a week now (no worries, I spent literally    I just started playing ESO as a free monthly offer on Play Station. I enjoyed Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim a lot, so I am quite familiar with the ES universe.

    Since then I got hooked by the Soulsborne/Sekiro serieswhich I absolutely adore - especially Bloodborne - and kind of set as a standard for myself.

    That said, after playing ESO for a week now (no worries, I spent literally days there due to the pandemic), rising to level 30, I think this is quite a boring game with some really annoying mechanics. Mind you, the landscape is beautifully done, the characters are well designed and the interaction a real progress to the older games. The myriads of tasks and story lines that are thrown at you contain some gems, that make the game fun in the beginning (and even made me buy the Greymoor Addon. I can’t tell if I’ll be motivated enough to play it after experiencing the downsides of ESO. And there are a lot for me).

    First of all it’s the unnerving map. Apart of the (black and white. Why not give them colours at least?) symbols being so tiny and only zoomable to a slightly bigger, but still hardly distinguishable size, I run around a lot, travel to the wrong places, pay to get to another wrong place till finally finding the quest I am looking for. If I don’t get distracted by another task. That in itself can be part of the fun, motivating you to explore the area. What’s off-putting is, that if you accept a quest it’s automatically set as your new goal. Not a huge problem as you can switch your actual quest in the Journal. But more than once I didn’t find the original quest that I went on. So I had to run around and search for the place I was supposed to go to. You get help though to not getting lost totally, as arrows on the quest bar show you the direction. Which still can be confusing as they don’t tell you if the quest is in the same area or in another part of Tamriel.

    The second, and probably for me the biggest issue, are the fighting mechanics. Unlike e.g. Soulsborne games, where you have to time very precise moves to hit someone, which makes a win often so difficult, here in ESO I just run around between foes and push buttons, not really knowing what I’m doing (actually I do more or less, but it feels random). Really infuriating is, that sometimes enemies attack from 10 meters away and still hit me. There is no way you can foresee if someone is able to strike you down or not (not talking about the red AOE markers!). It’s just awful. Well, I don’t blame anyone who thinks a game like Sekiro is too hard. I don’t mind going for something easier, but hell, at least you want a fight to feel a bit more realistic and challenging, no?

    A ridiculous blow to the atmosphere is that if you get attacked standing in a group of people, they don’t bother AT ALL. You swing your weapon in all directions, no NPC gets hit, but hey, why should they, if a fight for life or death doesn’t affect them.

    Then, if you finish a quest by slaughtering enemies, more of them still pop up and attack you even when the quest tells you that you pacified the area. Or, attacking one single baddy, you find them miraculously multiplying into 2, 3, sometimes more enemies. Yes, ridiculous!

    The various guilds and the possibilites to develop and train certain skills like alchemy, cooking, clothing, woodwork etc. are kind of nice in the beginning, but get also kind of boring after a while. I just don’t care anymore to decide if I keep some random plant and throw something else from my inventory, not having enough space (which you can expand and is probably no issue anymore later in the game).

    As mentioned above some quests are more interesting, sometimes even funny, some are short (and often too easy), some quite long (and can lead you into more difficult territory). But did I find any quest up to now thrilling or scary? Making me yearn to go on? Naw. Running through a swamp, fighting crocodiles and hags, looking for a dangerous witch, could be creepy. Not not here. It seems that they really go for quantity at Bethesda, not for quality.

    I can’t say too much about the PVP or groups as I’m in general a solo player. It might be more fun in a group tackling the real baddies that are indeed hard for one alone. So if you are a group person you might have a lot of fun in Tamriel.

    I will keep playing for a while, even have a look into Greymoor. But I guess that will be about it. If I change my mind at some point, I will revise my review. For the moment I’m not a fan.    … Expand
  27. furiouslog
    Mar 3, 2021
    2
    I've played this game for about two years now. Here are the pros and cons:

    Pros: 1. Elder Scrolls IP (if that is something that appeals to you). 2. Beautifully designed graphics with an immersive quality (particularly newer content) 3. Multiple ways to play the game with highly customizable build options that are very accessible to newer players. 4. Very flexible for single player    I've played this game for about two years now. Here are the pros and cons:

    Pros:
    1. Elder Scrolls IP (if that is something that appeals to you).
    2. Beautifully designed graphics with an immersive quality (particularly newer content)
    3. Multiple ways to play the game with highly customizable build options that are very accessible to newer players.
    4. Very flexible for single player and multiplayer content – there is something for everyone here.
    5. Combat is very dynamic and requires some practice and skill to master.
    6. Your abilities in the game are not contingent on paying any additional money. The only thing investment gets you is inventory control convenience and cosmetics.
    7. The community is, on a whole, very friendly, and the guild options make it possible to meet people who engage with the game on a variety of levels and interests.
    8. There is a very active and creative third party addon community.
    9. There are many ways to engage with the game, including the housing features, single player, multiplayer for 4 man and 12 man content, role play, and a number of PVP options.

    Cons:
    1. Constant changes and tweaks to gear, gameplay, and mechanics make it near-impossible to settle down and hit your stride. Once you get used to playing a certain way with an optimized build, the rug gets pulled out from underneath you and you are starting over.
    2. Viable participation in endgame is locked behind so many grindy requirements that it can take a new player months to get to the point where they are even teachable for veteran trial content.
    3. The combat system mechanics are inscrutable and difficult to learn. In order to understand your characters and their builds, it literally takes hours of research on third party sites to get to the point where you comprehend the interplay of character stats and how that affects your in-game performance.
    4. The PVP offerings in the game are broken. Cheaters are not rampant, but definitely present, and the game design does not make it easy for ZOS to put walls in place to prevent exploitation. Each third party script or bot that gets produced needs to be individually researched and the code re-written to prevent cheating, so it’s prevalent. Furthermore, performance of PVP with respect to the servers is truly awful. Lag is such a bad problem that ZOS has literally been running player tests for months wherein mechanics are drastically changed in pursuit of identifying the root cause of the lag, and after all of that, they still have not figured out what the problem is. During some battles in Cyrodiil (a large PVP zone), the lag can get so bad that it almost acts like turn based combat.
    5. Many of the changes that ZOS makes causes considerable harm to the veteran player and their gaming experience, because the changes are meant to accommodate newer players and make endgame more accessible. The principle of accessibility is not the problem – it’s that after you have played for a certain time and achieved a certain level, you are not guaranteed to retain what you have earned in the game, forcing regrinds of content you’ve done over and over again just to get at parity with where you were prior to the change.
    6. The game is almost unplayable without the addons that the player community provides. You can technically play it, but the time wasted without the addons is such that it would be ridiculous to make an attempt to play without them. Console players: you are SOL.
    7. The “crown crates” that drop various cosmetic items are a third party currency gambling black box. 8. If you run a guild, the cash outlay to provide offerings to your guildmates (such as crafting stations, practice dummies, and various conveniences) can run into hundreds of dollars. You don’t have to do that, but people who want to run a successful guild by providing attractive offerings to retain membership need to be aware of the stakes.

    Despite the positives, I’m not recommending this game because, ZOS as a company does not listen to their customers. When changes are made, it’s obvious that part of their motivation is to force more seasoned players to keep grinding over and over again to recapture what they had prior to the change. They keep moving the finish line, both to attract new players, while also willfully and needlessly punishing veteran players for their loyalty in the name of increasing veteran player screen time in order to increase the probability of cosmetic sales. These players are essentially exploited.
    If you love the story and world of Elder Scrolls, and want a single player experience with casual multiplayer engagement, then none of this will matter, and I’d recommend the game. But given that it is an MMO, whose ultimate objective is to better your play to a point where you can clear difficult content and/or play against excellent players in a competitive setting, the journey is ultimately not worth the destination.    … Expand
  28. Mnobody
    Feb 23, 2021
    0
    Im a major ES fan. I tried this game in 2014 when it first released. I hated it then. I tried it again recently in 2021 thinking it might have improved and bought the heavily discounted expansion set. It did not.

    I hate this game for its most critical aspect - the combat. I tried playing as Dragonknight and Necro - two classes supposedly ranks as the "most fun". Yet the combat stayed so    Im a major ES fan. I tried this game in 2014 when it first released. I hated it then. I tried it again recently in 2021 thinking it might have improved and bought the heavily discounted expansion set. It did not.

    I hate this game for its most critical aspect - the combat. I tried playing as Dragonknight and Necro - two classes supposedly ranks as the "most fun". Yet the combat stayed so painfully tedious and grinding that there is no joy in playing at all. Fights follow the "let me spam 3 skills" 20x for mobs that are on health steroids and offer no notable rewards or exp for it. It will feel like literal minutes to take down 1 basic mob and get that "generous" 2 xp. Occasionally I got a monster part for fishing or 5 gold - wtf in 8 hours i didn't even find anything to spend gold on and never discovered any fishing spots. Currency seems worthless until you get about 10k - that's about 20000 mob kills assuming you get a drop on 25% of them. After 8 hours of tedium and mostly quests, i hit lvl 5. Woo. My joy in leveling was being able to unlock a new skill that seemed to make no difference in grindy combat. I couldn't tell if i was killing mobs faster or not v. continually swinging my junk sword in basic attack mode.

    Trying to just run by mobs doesn't work either. Mobs will pursue you relentlessly where they seem to hit regardless of where you are in and youll usually die. UI is extremely frustrating and I did not appreciate it at all. I could never find a map, so couldnt tell how far quests are, I have to "unlock" levelup rewards (why?!), no way i can tell to summon mounts or equip pointless costumes (and yes, I had them with the special edition). What a great consolation that you can have a pet that literally does nothing but stand by while you grind and/or die; it wont fight or help you in anyway. It is literally a roaming decoration. No comment on the in-game store - rip off city. $30 some dollars and you can have another decorative pet that does nothing. $20 to get a quest you don't want. Yay. What bargains. Id rather buy bitcoin.

    In short. I hate this game. I wish it never was made. It feels like a game made for an iPad and I can only imagine the depraved people who enjoy playing this. I guess if you never had video games before nor got over the WOW addiction, this seems like heaven. For me, the resources that went into this junk game should have beenspent making a proper tribute to Elder Scrolls in the traditional RPG format. At any price, this game is a fail.    … Expand
  29. iaai1001
    Jan 23, 2021
    2
    So many bugs that absolutely nothing works properly!
    It is now January 2020. I have played this game for 1.5 years and yes it is very entertaining. But what about its future? as it costs money to play. It can be played for free but, imo, there is that appeal for addicts, which costs money.
    Shortly after starting my adventure, the Patch for "threading" came out. After several months, it    So many bugs that absolutely nothing works properly!
    It is now January 2020. I have played this game for 1.5 years and yes it is very entertaining. But what about its future? as it costs money to play. It can be played for free but, imo, there is that appeal for addicts, which costs money.
    Shortly after starting my adventure, the Patch for "threading" came out. After several months, it basically works but currently players complained about the increased "lag," which ZOS said they would fix but 1.5 years later the same lag is there. ZOS has a tendency to say that they will fix something but that may never occur and be down the road many years away. There are still serious problems with threading where consecutive actions are out of order, e.g. there is an execute ability that can be used when your enemy's hit points are less than 25% and frequently the execute ability occurs out of order giving damage at 1/300 of what it should be: there are many more examples.
    The last major patch is Update 28, which was advertised as an inventory overhaul. There was no overhaul but a significant inventory UI improvement. There are many minor inventory problems like doing a writ quest where the searches are inaccurate (you have an item but the game doesn't know it), increasing your armor rating from 4 stars to 5 and getting a 20% reduction in DPS where the displayed base weapon damage has increased by over 100 plus many increased damage increases.
    But I digress, as the key problem today is what I describe as "the bug threshold." With the Update 28, it appears that ESO has hit the "bug threshold," which I define as the point where a software package has so many bugs that programs can no longer code normally as everything they now write is a work-around the existing bugs to accomplish a stated function. And the end result is a choice between the new bugs and the old bugs, which does the most damage to the game. Recently ESO had an Undaunted Event where they delayed the launch by more than a week to fix dungeons. They did significantly improve the dungeon queueing system that works most of the time but left the dungeon CTDs (crash to desktop). Then ZOS announced that they couldn't fix this. Also during these famous/infamous Updates a slough of fixes are announced. Often after a few days some or many of these so-called fixes are removed because they cause CTD"s or more significant other problems. These removals are not acknowledged by ZOS and may never be addressed again except possibly by luck. As Microsoft has purchased ZOS and has a software personality where bugs are fixed instead of writing work-arounds (of course they don't fix all bugs for games), what will happen to Bethesda's beloved Elder Scrolls? Where does one start with trying to fix the massive amount of bugs and obvious work-arounds to create a working game? First you would have to delete the work-arounds, recording and retesting what actual bugs you have, which would be an awesome task. Plus the new chapters and DLC's that are now composed of significant work-arounds would basically have to be rewritten from scratch.
    The current status of Daily Dungeons is that CTD's occur frequently and ZOS said they cannot be fixed. There is a player work-around from your CTD and that is to log out of the game completely and then relog and rejoin your team: takes about 2 minutes, which can occur to any team member in a dungeon that is experiencing this bug and multiple times as long as your teammates have not kicked you from the team. But of course this is better with the current dungeon queueing system, which generally works, tha it worked before.
    Regards,    … Expand
  30. Xonerix
    Jan 15, 2021
    3
    Garbage mmorpg, a very bad gimmick of Elder scrolls games. Nothing in the game is interesting enough to keep you playing for long.
    The world map is huge in ESO, but it's literally blueprint copy paste regions everywhere, if you fully completed at least 1 region, then you can count it as if you played the whole game.
    Even though PVE is not p2w, PVP is pay to win, because you can buy DLCs    Garbage mmorpg, a very bad gimmick of Elder scrolls games. Nothing in the game is interesting enough to keep you playing for long.
    The world map is huge in ESO, but it's literally blueprint copy paste regions everywhere, if you fully completed at least 1 region, then you can count it as if you played the whole game.
    Even though PVE is not p2w, PVP is pay to win, because you can buy DLCs that you can complete to gain more powerful skills to use in combat, which gives you unfair advantage over other people that didn't buy that specific DLC.    … Expand
  31. CyberPUK
    Jan 8, 2021
    0
    Played for a whole year. I do not advise, too lazy to explain what is the matter, but the game does not develop, the developers are mediocre.
  32. R3DTHR3AT
    Dec 17, 2020
    4
    Очень слабая мморпг с отсутствием мотивации как в пвп и пве. По сути не мморпг вовсе, что в итоге признали и сами разработчики.
  33. rafaeal
    Dec 8, 2020
    1
    Atualizações gigantescas, nada de conteúdo, servidor vive caindo, gráficos de ps3 mas é tão pesado quanto o red dead 2, fiquem longe desse lixo.
  34. gman321
    Dec 5, 2020
    1
    The game was a very good, fun Game. Great for solo or group. However in the last year the quality of the game's servers and customer service has dropped. After their recent update very few players, including myself, can play a dungeon or even log in to the game due to the constant freezing and crashing. Sadly Bethesda has already said only pc players will receive any compensationThe game was a very good, fun Game. Great for solo or group. However in the last year the quality of the game's servers and customer service has dropped. After their recent update very few players, including myself, can play a dungeon or even log in to the game due to the constant freezing and crashing. Sadly Bethesda has already said only pc players will receive any compensation although xbox and ps4 players also pay the $25/ month.… Expand
  35. Volevanya
    Dec 5, 2020
    0
    Its even worse then PerfectWorld you know. I will prefer to play minesweeper on windows 7 than this
  36. Pitchyburdell
    Dec 4, 2020
    3
    It's a good game if you live in 2006. Bad graphic, bad animations, bad quest and bad immersion, totaly waste of money, buy it if you like to farm everything everyday in a ugly world.
  37. No_LGBT
    Nov 23, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Присутствует ЛГБТ( мало, но есть). Только из-за этого ноль… Expand
  38. drusmanbashir
    Nov 15, 2020
    4
    This game is the video game versioh of a clickbait.. the trailers will show you amazing visuals and paint a picture of an immersive adventure with danger lurking in every corner, super-powers etc.. whereas in reality this is a vast traipse through a landscape filled with monotonous battles - nothing new here from Bethesda which has never disappointed to disappoint. If you're into visualsThis game is the video game versioh of a clickbait.. the trailers will show you amazing visuals and paint a picture of an immersive adventure with danger lurking in every corner, super-powers etc.. whereas in reality this is a vast traipse through a landscape filled with monotonous battles - nothing new here from Bethesda which has never disappointed to disappoint. If you're into visuals and vistas exploring an open world, better pack your bag and go out in real-life. If you're looking for an immersive RPG with intelligent combat, play the Witcher3 or (the outdated) world of warcraft. I have been fooled by this games trailers several times and ended up buying several DLCs only to uninstall it an hour later.… Expand
  39. Filipmr
    Sep 5, 2020
    1
    The most boring game i've ever played. Do not buy it, I regret buying it......
  40. Macleres
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    In 2020 i played this game for more than 3000 hours and all i have to say is LAG LAG BUGS CANT CAST SKILLS DEVS DONT LITSEN **** SETS P2W SETS
  41. TheWaffle
    Jun 20, 2020
    4
    I have to watch the company logo animation and accept 4 different end user license agreements every-time I log on? No thanks.
  42. Anonymious
    Jun 20, 2020
    1
    Even if you don't compared to other MMORPG's gameplay:
    - The customer support is by far the worst i have ever been in contact with.
    - Bugs in the ESO World (base game bugs) didn't get fixed since ages - they have become part of the player knowledge they were never planed to be a part of the world or the combat mechanics. For example you can get feared (by bosses) into walls and stairs -    Even if you don't compared to other MMORPG's gameplay:
    - The customer support is by far the worst i have ever been in contact with.
    - Bugs in the ESO World (base game bugs) didn't get fixed since ages - they have become part of the player knowledge they were never planed to be a part of the world or the combat mechanics. For example you can get feared (by bosses) into walls and stairs - which are part of the boss room. Party members in objects are completely out of the fight.
    - Game and addons are full releases? I don't agree with that - missing the "beta" note somewhere on the screen. When i bought the game i was sure i buy a full released base game.
    - no refounds when you bought the game
    - ESO forces you to buy addons to play with your friends ALSO as a new player you CANT collect all the materials cause you are not able to upgrade your bags/storage (double storage for eso plus additional to unlimited materials bag)    … Expand
  43. npace
    Jun 14, 2020
    2
    I participated in the beta testing, I barely spent a week, the game is terrible and has almost nothing similar in the gameplay with its predecessor Skyrim. This is a complete disappointment.
  44. andreasran
    Apr 29, 2020
    1
    I have 8000 hours in this game. This game had a lot of potential. But is unfortunately run by a company too money greedy to even bother about creating a finished and WORKING product. It’s staff has promised improved server performance for over 4 years. It has yet to happen. Every patch this studio releases something breaks. The performance of this game is getting worse for every patch.I have 8000 hours in this game. This game had a lot of potential. But is unfortunately run by a company too money greedy to even bother about creating a finished and WORKING product. It’s staff has promised improved server performance for over 4 years. It has yet to happen. Every patch this studio releases something breaks. The performance of this game is getting worse for every patch. Stay away from Zenimax Studio!… Expand
  45. MrEddie26
    Apr 23, 2020
    0
    Broken crap! Developers don't fix anything. Player desync, lag, bugs, performance issues since «performance improvement» patch.
  46. T-Babyboi
    Apr 7, 2020
    4
    I give it a 4 because I'm below indifference, I call it negative. Let me point out I enjoy the feel of combat, the world looks cool, it's awesome running around with the realization real people, maybe even a group of friends are there with you, but the kicker for me is this.
    The game I think could be played for what it is, spending hundreds of hours getting mostly everything you want out    I give it a 4 because I'm below indifference, I call it negative. Let me point out I enjoy the feel of combat, the world looks cool, it's awesome running around with the realization real people, maybe even a group of friends are there with you, but the kicker for me is this.
    The game I think could be played for what it is, spending hundreds of hours getting mostly everything you want out of the game with very little real money besides base game and maybe major DLC, what phucks my brain is being in a game with options for the indulgencies such as housing, furniture, dyes and more.......only to find out that **** is blocked up behind a formitable grind wall, one so high it is designed, obviously to make you pay for it all.
    Housing things like an in house banker, crafting stations, must be purchased from grind gold or crowns, one phucking the other because both are designed to prevent one or the other.... Making it a loop of mediocrity and tedious trash.
    Idk about anyone else, but when I sit down to play a game in the back of my mind I need to know everything will be accessible to me within a reasonable accomplishment accommodation., otherwise the whole story is mucked with the background noise.... CROWNS.
    It is truly pathetic, the world as we know it cannot function without micro transactions and little schemes, so much time wasted for so little gained.
    I know it's as pathetic I sit here and rant over time lost, expectations let down with general mediocrity, I should move on and not even give this the time of day... And you're right, but I'm so at loss with how ****ty the silver lining of this world really is, I'm better off just **** until I'm dead.    … Expand
  47. chekb
    Mar 25, 2020
    3
    ESO is rather strange and ambiguous. On the one hand, NOT BEING a bloody copy of Warcraft, this is a very good MMO game. ZoS made it good (not great) for quite some time. On the other hand, it would be great if they continued to do it better. Of course, they release DLC that increase the number of hours spent in the game, as well as the amount of money that ZoS earned. However, this isESO is rather strange and ambiguous. On the one hand, NOT BEING a bloody copy of Warcraft, this is a very good MMO game. ZoS made it good (not great) for quite some time. On the other hand, it would be great if they continued to do it better. Of course, they release DLC that increase the number of hours spent in the game, as well as the amount of money that ZoS earned. However, this is all unimportant, because they only complement the game, and not improve it. I spent almost 700 hours at ESO. During this time I received a lot of pleasure, but also disappointment. In fact, I do not remember the moment when ZoS did something that could improve the game. I don’t remember more than one damn patch that saved us from bugs. Seriously. I started having problems with ping, downloads between locations only after the last NOT LARGE patch. And what will happen after Greymoor? I used to have a stable ping (90 - 120), but now I have a stable 300-999 +. Great, isn't it? For all my 700 hours, this is my first ping. And why did I pay them money? Is this game worthy to be paid when it is not worthy of it? Thank you for making at least some DLC free. They would have made it so that everyone could use the jewelry machine, and not those who have Summerset; generally there would be no price. But I think I forgot something. Oh yes. I forgot about server crashes and group searches. For those who don’t know, ZoS has been trying to solve this problem for so long. Event associated with the search for groups, only means that there will be a breakdown of the search. Players will still try to do something, find a group. All this will cause server failure and subsequent technical work, which can take a very long time. This game has a lot of disadvantages. Most offensively not for the fact that they are present, but for the fact that it is quite possible to fix it.… Expand
  48. Tragedy
    Mar 4, 2020
    0
    New update has ruined the game.
    Lag
    Crashes
    Skills delayed
    Cast times on ultimates
  49. BeatHour
    Dec 29, 2019
    0
    Doesn't even work.

    It's a common complaint that this game is a massive download, and after it's all done installing the game won't launch. There's no technical support. None. Either the game works for you or it doesn't, and too bad if you wasted all that time and data in the process. I have at times managed to get it working in the past. it's just another MMO with rush-grind levels.    Doesn't even work.

    It's a common complaint that this game is a massive download, and after it's all done installing the game won't launch. There's no technical support. None. Either the game works for you or it doesn't, and too bad if you wasted all that time and data in the process.

    I have at times managed to get it working in the past. it's just another MMO with rush-grind levels. You hit something with one ability slot until it dies as an overpowered deity at the very start of the game. You might as well play World of Warcraft or any single player RPG. The miniaturized world scenes from the Elder Scrolls games are nothing to write home about; the set design seems phoned in and designed by committee; very lifeless. The classes seem to be random and have nothing to do with the classic Elder Scrolls experience. It doesn't feel like an Elder Scrolls game.    … Expand
  50. Minix
    Nov 19, 2019
    0
    Im played this game since closed beta up to may 2019... And all i can say about this game its a trash, zos team can ignore game breaking bugs or exploits for a year or two but if its a crown store (cash store) bug they gonna fix bug in 0.4 seconds and even take servers down.eso team is a garbage which don't care about balance or anything else besides cash store.
  51. kira84
    Oct 30, 2019
    3
    This was bad at release, turned okay after 1.6 but since then the game is worst with every new release. Server crash, game crash, lag, the dungeon finder tool which is a basic feature in every mmo is bugged and the developper are unable to fix for almost a year now. Trial (raid) runs at 25 fps with a High end PC (1080 TI and 8700K). Cyrodiil (the big pvp area) have lag spikes of +999 ms,This was bad at release, turned okay after 1.6 but since then the game is worst with every new release. Server crash, game crash, lag, the dungeon finder tool which is a basic feature in every mmo is bugged and the developper are unable to fix for almost a year now. Trial (raid) runs at 25 fps with a High end PC (1080 TI and 8700K). Cyrodiil (the big pvp area) have lag spikes of +999 ms, frame rate drop there too to less than 20 fps on the same RIG, players with average PC play on a slideshow. Crown store is full with overpriced item (+30 € on average), skill tree are sold so you don't have to grind them because Zenimax made them to be inncovenient on purpose. Loot boxes are sold too where the chance to get the best item is less than 0.01%. Expansions turned into chapter with half the content of previous ones but with the same price. What can you expect from a company like Zenimax who own Bethesda (yeah the one that made Fallout 76).… Expand
  52. Kenstar
    Oct 22, 2019
    0
    Games is garbage and a utter failure in my eyes. Also the pvp is a joke, no its actually worse its the worst pvp Ive seen in my life and I have played them all... this is pure trash, its just a mess. Who on earth thought this was a good idea. The pve is alright I guess if you can overcome the utterly boring combat with even more boring animations.
  53. Rsharp254
    Sep 28, 2019
    4
    I have played from the very beginning, all the way back to Beta when the game looked horrendous. While the overall game and gameplay has improved 1000% - the combat still sucks the life out of me every single time I try to play again. It's...simplistic and borderline stupid! At level 5 you spam 3 basic attacks, at level 30 you spam almost the same type of attacks and even at max levelI have played from the very beginning, all the way back to Beta when the game looked horrendous. While the overall game and gameplay has improved 1000% - the combat still sucks the life out of me every single time I try to play again. It's...simplistic and borderline stupid! At level 5 you spam 3 basic attacks, at level 30 you spam almost the same type of attacks and even at max level / max champion level - you are still spamming the same damn 3 type of attacks you were when you were level 5. Sure those attacks morphed and got better...but the simplicity of the combat is just the worst combat I have ever seen, in any MMO!!!
    Now the other parts of the game, stealing/sneaking/chest hunting - I could almost play this entire game for that and nothing else. That is until I am forced to fight and I quickly remember why I quit very shortly after coming back.

    Not considering the combat - this game could easily be 9/10
    But...since the combat is something you'll be doing 100,000 times over and over, it's a 4/10.    … Expand
  54. EpicGhost
    Aug 21, 2019
    0
    Le pongo un 0 por falta de respeto a la comunidad española al no tener ni sustitulo en español. Editado: 3 años después y sigue sin estar subtitulado, directamente el juego es una basura.
  55. bemused
    Sep 2, 2019
    0
    Soulless, depressing, tacky, repetitive, pointless, unengaging, unintelligent, uninspired, unforgivable.

    Every six months or so I give this pixilated and pixelated turd another chance. Several misleading prompts and a 50GB download later, I find it's still the same repellent dung-heap of a game. Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves, as should the brain-dead WoW refugees up-voting    Soulless, depressing, tacky, repetitive, pointless, unengaging, unintelligent, uninspired, unforgivable.

    Every six months or so I give this pixilated and pixelated turd another chance. Several misleading prompts and a 50GB download later, I find it's still the same repellent dung-heap of a game. Bethesda should be ashamed of themselves, as should the brain-dead WoW refugees up-voting this crap.

    it's a bad game and if you like it you're a bad person and you should feel bad.    … Expand
  56. MashMash
    Aug 22, 2019
    1
    I've played this game from 2014 - 2019. It has gone downhill so bad. You can have an incredible net connection, video card, but the lag in battle is so bad that you cannot get skills to go off. Forget about bar swapping while in a battle. There is a bug where you're in constant combat so you cannot ride your horse, cannot change your quick-slots. Currently, as of 8/19/19, they did theirI've played this game from 2014 - 2019. It has gone downhill so bad. You can have an incredible net connection, video card, but the lag in battle is so bad that you cannot get skills to go off. Forget about bar swapping while in a battle. There is a bug where you're in constant combat so you cannot ride your horse, cannot change your quick-slots. Currently, as of 8/19/19, they did their Monday update patch and people are crashing every few minutes. They insist we play like this even on 8/22/19. They said a fix is coming Monday 8/26/19, but it is too late. They have lost so many good players due to the issues in-game. My opinion is they have a 10 yr plan to push out as many DLCs and store items to make money on a broken system. They do not focus to fix the current issues in-game since 2014. Do not waste your money or your time on this game it is a lost cause anymore.… Expand
  57. Rcarlos3
    Jun 25, 2019
    3
    At first this game looks awesome, cool quests, interesting skill system, a lot of dungeons and raids. PvE content is fine. PVP has lots of different builds, game modes, Cyrodiil, skilled players can 1v6 win fights. But there is one problem, because of which all recent reviews are negative. DEVELOPERS AND PERFOMANCE. The lags are unbearable, and they last in Cyrodiil for 3 years with 0At first this game looks awesome, cool quests, interesting skill system, a lot of dungeons and raids. PvE content is fine. PVP has lots of different builds, game modes, Cyrodiil, skilled players can 1v6 win fights. But there is one problem, because of which all recent reviews are negative. DEVELOPERS AND PERFOMANCE. The lags are unbearable, and they last in Cyrodiil for 3 years with 0 fixes. In prime time you literally have 3000 ping, buttons are not working etc. it is hard to believe that this is possible in such a game. Even in 4 man dungeons and raids you have 130 ping and sometimes buttons are not working. Pvp is impossible. Group finder is broken for years and you have to press ready for 40 mins to get into a battleground. Now when ppl stormed the forums, devs implemented a new mechanic: spam left mouse button for 20 secs to get into a queque, there you will spam ready only for 1 minute. It is way better, but there is a 30% chance that you will be kicked from server...
    You cant believe this? Than how about the fact, that ultimate from psijic skill line (it is live for a year and a part of a paid dlc) is working only in 50% cases. You just press it and you lose ult points but nothing happens. And devs are not fixing it. Everyone is like ok, it is a nice ultimate, but it is not working, so put it for passive effect, but never press. So forget it, the game will never get fixed. It is a pity, without lags and broken skills this game would be perfect. Dont pay for it, pls.    … Expand
  58. Allon4ik
    Jun 25, 2019
    1
    I hate this game! The worst fighting system in mmo-rpg, like in Korean mmo! I bought game for relax, not to break my nervs, with swapping, light attacks every 1 second and idiotic Maelstron Arena!! Return my money!!! They didn’t say, that it is dark souls! Lies
  59. xrobhal
    Apr 29, 2019
    2
    Once again another 'MMORPG' with the same repetitive mundane quests. The story is just a mess that can't be followed, the classes are tasteless, the rewards aren't satisfying, the graphics are dated and the overall feel of the game is just depressing. ESO just feels deflated, it brings nothing new to the table and flopped on launch as well as after the 'new update'.
  60. hulkmaster
    Apr 21, 2019
    0
    Typical
    Non-intuitive
    Overcomplexed
    Laggy

    Started to play that game only because my friends asked me to join them, but its just "yet-another-typical MMORPG" and not even average among them.

    I guess i'll go back to my beloved GW2 and will be waiting for Ashes of Creation to come
  61. muzmuz
    Apr 11, 2019
    4
    A 2014 game that looks and feels like a 2011 game. Feels even worse to play in 2019. Five years later and the game still looks like a visual bugs galore noticeable at the very first hour of gameplay. Did I forget to mention that this game doesn't have a single Asian server? I'm not a big fan of MMORPGs and Elder Scrolls Online definitely didn't help change that.
  62. YaLich
    Jan 28, 2019
    2
    + Игра выглядит красиво в статике
    - Уродливые анимации
    - Унылая боёвка - Исковерканный лор свитков - Донат торчит изо всех щелей - Нет официально локализации и не будет - Все игровые механики реализованы через жопу (БГ, данжи, маунты, крафт, собирательство, личные дома)    + Игра выглядит красиво в статике
    - Уродливые анимации
    - Унылая боёвка
    - Исковерканный лор свитков
    - Донат торчит изо всех щелей
    - Нет официально локализации и не будет
    - Все игровые механики реализованы через жопу (БГ, данжи, маунты, крафт, собирательство, личные дома)
  63. Dementia
    Dec 4, 2018
    0
    Of course is not a 0 out of 10 game, but when the login-password thing doesn't even work propertly and don't let me log into the game, then is not even a f*cking game, so here goes the 0. I've tried to reset my password, it worked, after a while, then when I tried to log in with my new flagrant f*cking password the game blocked my PC, nice, send me an email with a code to put on the loginOf course is not a 0 out of 10 game, but when the login-password thing doesn't even work propertly and don't let me log into the game, then is not even a f*cking game, so here goes the 0. I've tried to reset my password, it worked, after a while, then when I tried to log in with my new flagrant f*cking password the game blocked my PC, nice, send me an email with a code to put on the login menu to unlock the **** and guess what. Oooops, doesn't work. So **** it.… Expand
  64. JavaSquirt
    Oct 1, 2018
    0
    15 баксов за ремесленную сумку? Вы bleat серьёзно? Bethesda stupay nahooy.
  65. marc5477
    Jul 31, 2018
    4
    Tried it back in beta, and I didnt think much of it at the time. 4 years later, I finally got a copy of game with the Morrowind expansion for $15. The game is just as I remember it, a boring casual experience with no character. A generic grind which is sad, because they clearly put a lot of work into it and it does look decent. But the gameplay is just down right coma inducing.

    1st    Tried it back in beta, and I didnt think much of it at the time. 4 years later, I finally got a copy of game with the Morrowind expansion for $15. The game is just as I remember it, a boring casual experience with no character. A generic grind which is sad, because they clearly put a lot of work into it and it does look decent. But the gameplay is just down right coma inducing.

    1st problem right off the bat. There are only 5 classes to choose from? Yep, thats right, just 5. Okay, but there must be a lot of differences between them right? Nope. Its true they each have a class tree, but all the classes have access to about 20 trees and as it turns out, most builds end up using very few skills from the class trees and most will come from the other ones. Which means that you can literally make a character with any class, use common trees, and they will play exactly the same... think about that for a minute. That said, some classes give advantages to roles they play, like the Dragonknight who has some unique tank skills but even with these distinctions, there is very little to choose from and each class can be boiled down to 2 builds. Either its a magic build, or a stamina build. Rarely, someone will make a Dragonknight tank with just health instead but thats the only exception. To summarize, all the people running around are carbon copies of each other with little to no variation. Mind you, we are in 2018. I expect this back in the late 90s, and maybe early 2000's, but not in a modern game.

    Next, they did nothing to push the front on questing, or combat. Quests are fairly well written and voice acted but they are still the generic quests you see in every RPG since the dawn of time. The real weakness here is that questing is trivially easy. Its so easy in fact, that I would say that this is the most casual MMO I have ever played, much more so than WoW and even more than GW2. One possible reason is that the entire game is level scaled to the player. This means you can go anywhere and enemies will be within your level. And despite looking different, most enemies are the same and are trivially easy to dispatch which makes running around very boring. GW2 handled this much better by only scaling down rather than scaling up which takes away any feeling of progression in the game. This was the big problem with Oblivion and to a lesser extent, Skyrim as well. Level scaling is a big problem and should be used very sparsely in an MMO. As for combat itself, well the skills are what you expect from any MMO. Block, roll, fast attack and heavy attack. Nothing new or exciting in this game. There is a cloaking class and a pet class with, laughably, no pet controls making it somewhat tedious to play. Dont expect to see anything unique, there is nothing of the sort.

    Other features are also lacking. Crafting is a minor step up from the normal select a recipe and click combine, now you can use more resources to increase quality to a defined limit. Still nothing like older games such as EQ2 or SWG. If you are looking to make cool stuff, this is not the game for you. Its entirely too easy with the only limit being the grind to collect materials since there is no easy auction house to buy them. I actually like the fact that there is no auction house in this game, but they players found ways around it by creating trading guilds. The game allows you to join 5 guilds so you can always join several. Unfortunately, the guild shops dont seem to work. At least when I tried them they never seemed to have inventory. Perhaps I had to be in the guild to see their items which is actually very silly. If someone sets up a shop, it should be available to everyone. EQ1 had this feature and it would have been awesome if they didnt also add a search feature to take the immersion out of it.

    Overall, its a very average MMO. It lacks any character and has no defining features. The one big plus is that it went F2P recently so you can pick it up cheap and play without ever subscribing. Unfortunately, without a subscription, you lose some very important features such as bigger bank and more space for trade supplies. As it turns out, this game is insanely loot heavy and you will run out of bank space in the 1st hour and this is how they hook you to subscribe. You can manage it with some alts if you want so its still manageable but it is a chore. There is another review that covers this problem below.

    Give it a shot if you are itching for an MMO but dont invest too much into it. GW2 is superior since it has some unique features and WoW is still viable to this day. Even EQ2 is leagues better in some ways, especially crafting.

    If you are going to buy this, make sure you get the retail box copy! The box copies come with a lot of features included without extra cost and they are cheaper. For example, the digital version of Morrowind costs more than the box copy and does not include the Warden class. You have to buy that separately...    … Expand
  66. GainesvilleGuy
    Jun 16, 2018
    3
    The cash shop absolutely ruins this game. There is no reason to play, as most of the best cosmetic rewards are purchased and not earned. I stopped playing this game and refuse to buy any expansions due to this absolutely horrible cash shop. I give this a 3 and not a 0 because it actually is a decent MMO. If there were no cash shop it might be a 9.

    Cosmetic is pay2win in an MMO where    The cash shop absolutely ruins this game. There is no reason to play, as most of the best cosmetic rewards are purchased and not earned. I stopped playing this game and refuse to buy any expansions due to this absolutely horrible cash shop. I give this a 3 and not a 0 because it actually is a decent MMO. If there were no cash shop it might be a 9.

    Cosmetic is pay2win in an MMO where cosmetic rewards is about half the reason to play. Those who defend cash shops just don't understand gaming and why most people play. And I have a ton of money it isn't about being able to afford this pay2win cosmetics shop, it is my refusal to pay2win out of principle. I will never give one dime to any game with a cash shop. EVER.    … Expand
  67. RomperStomper
    May 23, 2018
    1
    Well this game walked a long way. Most of the bad reviews are from the release of the game. I played the open beta and was total **** Then bought it 2015 on promotion and didn't play it. Started playing it October of 2017. Game runs smooth @ 4K with more than 100 fps. Haven't seen a bug so far at level 50. I'm not saying there are none - a software without bugs is a dream but it seems theyWell this game walked a long way. Most of the bad reviews are from the release of the game. I played the open beta and was total **** Then bought it 2015 on promotion and didn't play it. Started playing it October of 2017. Game runs smooth @ 4K with more than 100 fps. Haven't seen a bug so far at level 50. I'm not saying there are none - a software without bugs is a dream but it seems they really fixed a lot. Engine looks amazing now nothing to have with that ugly buggy engine SWTOR used. Only the trees are telltale of what engine the game is using. I like the quests, everything is VO, it's relaxing with tons of content. I mean this is the first MMO that I will give a 10 for being amazing for what it is. Of course it's not for everyone. But for hardcore PvP I'm playing other FPS games.… Expand
  68. megabear
    Oct 23, 2017
    0
    Edit: The game has been taking a spiral downward and the crashing of game is so frequent that I've had to adjust my score. I've tried taking the mods off, use repair function, even reinstalled the game. I built my PC using compatible parts. I'm guessing the issue specifically has to do with hardware compatibility with the game however. Note that the issue I'm experiencing is ratherEdit: The game has been taking a spiral downward and the crashing of game is so frequent that I've had to adjust my score. I've tried taking the mods off, use repair function, even reinstalled the game. I built my PC using compatible parts. I'm guessing the issue specifically has to do with hardware compatibility with the game however. Note that the issue I'm experiencing is rather common in PC servers.

    Pros:

    - Immersive gameplay full of lore, beautiful world and life
    - Subscription is not required
    - Base game has tons of content
    - Voice acting everywhere
    - Has the most roleplayers I've seen
    - Can turn into werewolf/vampire, and can steal/kill innocents
    - Diverse build potentials

    Neutral:

    - Toxicity level of community hovers at average. Better than WoW, but worse than FF14

    Cons:
    - Too, many, bots
    - Plenty of bugs
    - Character models are pretty bad
    - Housing that serves no utility aside from DPS dummy and craft stations if you are incredibly fortunate or wealthy enough to afford them
    - Content development lags while introduction of cash items are unrelenting
    - Randomized cash "crate" (like Korean MMO's) that produces duplicates of undesirable items at a very high rate
    - Overpriced and inflating cash shop items
    - Starving players of inventory space then offering inventory space for subscribers
    - Dressing Morrowind as an "expansion" when it's actually the size of DLC, then announcing DLC's tied to the said "expansion", preventing subscribers from any future DLC content tied to the "expansion"    … Expand
  69. mileafly
    Oct 22, 2017
    0
    Fake. If i had to wrap up the Elder Scrolls Online in one word that is the word I would use: Fake. Everything in this game feels fake and artificial. It honestly feels like someone took the real Tamriel from the real Elder Scrolls games and made a Theme Park of it and then posted actors there as the npc:s and enemies.

    It is impossible to take anything happening in this game seriously    Fake. If i had to wrap up the Elder Scrolls Online in one word that is the word I would use: Fake. Everything in this game feels fake and artificial. It honestly feels like someone took the real Tamriel from the real Elder Scrolls games and made a Theme Park of it and then posted actors there as the npc:s and enemies.

    It is impossible to take anything happening in this game seriously and while immersion have always been one of the main components in real TES games, immersion is the one thing that is lacking the most in this game. The whole game is just an unimaginable bland clone of every other WoW style MMO out there with a TES skin on it. There is no love or passion that have gone into this project, it was solely made just to cash in and milk the IP Bethesda have created with TES.

    This game feels like it is cheapening and a big disgrace to the whole franchise and world that Bethesda have built over the years. It is if taking it all and then throwing it in the toilet and putting a steaming dump on it all. It does not help that everything it does is made to make money and you always feel dirty playing it from all the disgusting greedy practices that Zenimax is using to squeeze you of your dollars, as is is blatantly obvious that is the main focus when they made this. Nothing in this game gives the impression that it was made with passion or love and with the focus or intent of making something groundbreaking or fantastic. It was purely made with corporate greed in mind.    … Expand
  70. Malanthor
    Apr 15, 2017
    0
    What a horribly boring game. Everything is just so.. bland.. same old gather this, kill that quest.. not a single innovative thing.. this might as well have been made 20 years ago..

    Also what were they thinking, 3 realms =great idea, if it had not been for the fact that every realm have the exactly same classes, the same races and you can even play through the same storylines. They    What a horribly boring game. Everything is just so.. bland.. same old gather this, kill that quest.. not a single innovative thing.. this might as well have been made 20 years ago..

    Also what were they thinking, 3 realms =great idea, if it had not been for the fact that every realm have the exactly same classes, the same races and you can even play through the same storylines.

    They might as well have advertised that they had 100 different factions! Just a load of bull.

    I also hear that their customer support is full of rude morons, but i cant personally vouch for this.

    This **** would have been better of for not being made.    … Expand
  71. AuldWolf
    Jan 7, 2017
    0
    A bad time for casuals.

    This game started off as having more of a casual focus, sure. Since One Tamriel, though, it's been supremely exclusionary of casuals. Dungeons scale to appeal to end-game PvE players, balance changes that regularly wreck concept builds to appeal to PvP players, and world bosses that used to be soloable that now require a large group. If you're a very competitive    A bad time for casuals.

    This game started off as having more of a casual focus, sure. Since One Tamriel, though, it's been supremely exclusionary of casuals. Dungeons scale to appeal to end-game PvE players, balance changes that regularly wreck concept builds to appeal to PvP players, and world bosses that used to be soloable that now require a large group. If you're a very competitive sort, you'll love it. It's just too toxic of an environment for casuals. It's moving ever more and more toward appealing to the people who play WoW and League of Legends.

    Crafting used to be a level above all drops, so it was easy to craft great armour. Crafting stats have been nerfed, and crafted gear is the same level as what drops now (and inferior in every way). This is something they promised they wouldn't do, but hey, it's just too easy to get good gear and the high-end PvE players don't like that. They added duelling, which meant that roleplayers are now getting trolled all the time by people checking roleplaying site schedules and having duels there. Unlike Champions Online, it doesn't even have no-duel zones. You can duel anywhere.

    The only thing that ESO still has going for it is slightly above sub par writing.

    If you want the MMO that is all the things ESO promised to be? Hm, that's hard. TSW is a good choice, and it's more in line with casual players than ESO is now. So... I'd suggest giving that a try instead. Just keep in mind that ESO has gone in a Bold New Direction, the management at Zenimax Online Studios now wants that sweet, sweet WoW money. And we all know how well that worked out for Champions Online, Wildstar, Warhammer Online, et al, right?

    So don't bother with ESO and ignore the promises made about it. It used to be a casual game, not any more.    … Expand
  72. AmarnaSunrise
    Nov 20, 2016
    0
    As a long time player, who started in Alpha/Beta, here are my reasons for negative review;

    1:) A complete change from the original design concept. Those who take the time to look back on the promised 200+ player RvR PvP and in fact, any meaningful faction rivalry at all, will find that has been now watered down/is unplayable with lag and bugs/generally no longer developed. The devs    As a long time player, who started in Alpha/Beta, here are my reasons for negative review;

    1:) A complete change from the original design concept. Those who take the time to look back on the promised 200+ player RvR PvP and in fact, any meaningful faction rivalry at all, will find that has been now watered down/is unplayable with lag and bugs/generally no longer developed.

    The devs have unofficially admitted this by suggesting that Arena's and smaller PvP environments are under way. However I believe it to be a testament to their terrible engine.

    2:) The recent advent of One Tamriel and level scaling in all content. Whilst I can understand the general idea of keeping content relevant for longer by introducing this, as well as creating more of a 'skyrim'esque' feel, the result is a very trivialized and casual progression system. With scaling you are essentially just as powerful at level 1 as you are at endgame. Sure in the very start you may lack access to a few abilities but with how bad the animations are in this game and the poor balance, it scarcely matters. This is compounded by the absolutely terrible 'champion points' system, which has replaced leveling. Essentially once you hit endgame this is the only thing you work towards. Tiny % increases to what you already have, complementing skills and builds.

    I disliked the effect on progression personally then but in other area's the games previously linear story lines no longer make any sense. It the vanilla game, quests were designed (scripted) to be completed in a certain order, with a sense of progression in the story line. This is also now trivialized and makes little sense, as a level one character can go to any zone out of sequence and find every challenge the exact same difficulty as the first.

    3:) The anti-social nature of the game. Yes you CAN socialize under your own steam. However unlike traditional mmo's the game is 90% solo with no real NEED to play with others. I think this creates a potentially lonesome and pointless experience. One where the trivial nature of the fairly boring classes and animations, makes you feel like you have very little worth in the game world.

    4:) The horribly slow content release rate. This caused the games veterans to ditch the game and ZoS themselves stated that One Tamriel was for new players (likely realizing that with the game direction change many vets would leave anyway). I however, feel that the horribly slow trickle of content stems from the payment model change (sub to cash shop rip off ...I mean a mount costs more than a DLC pack lol!) and how it no longer sustains the bills for expensive content (voice over and so forth).

    This has meant that new zones and other game releases have been very very tiny. One DLC pack only consisted of the addition of two dungeons! with no more planned for release for well over a year.

    Granted the developers focus on designing content for solo players, but this was supposed to be an MMO not a glorified single player game with co-op and few dungeons. The game punishes you for playing with others during questing, because of the story based quests with voice over and dialogue that are unique to each player. It means that you almost don't want to interact with others during that time, because of not being in sync with other people.

    I could go on and on. And whilst this game offers some novel modern features, it suffers from a massive identity crisis and a constant lack of developer vision. With being b2p now (free weekends are dragging in lots of f2p gamers) you wont find the game empty.

    However it was built around a very incoherent design philosophy, one where it becomes clear that the designers had no clue who or what this game was aimed towards.

    It doesn't know whether its audience is anti-social solo player, or MMO group orientated player. So it tries to appeal to all and ends up delivering sub par content for all.

    To those joining knew, I will understand much of the above will seem like nonsense. So bare in mind this is a veterans reasoning. I do however believe that with the incredibly rapid leveling process now in game, the trivial ease of gaining gear - and a rapid realization of how shallow the games dungeons and content is, that any semi competent hardcore MMO fan will get rapidly bored.

    No new skills since launch pretty much. Along with Dungeons that are so woefully poor next to offerings such as FFXIV make this game (with its constant flipflop development) one I'd highly recommend avoiding now that the funding is low and the cash shop RNG boxes are on the way.

    This game couldn't cut it at launch and whilst it has improved, the lack of continuing development really shows. All they have planned for the future is housing... as you can imagine as someone who came for the PvP that was the last straw.

    An average PvE game at best, a unsupported laggy PvP experience at best - pick other games in the genre, or stick to solo play TES. You wont regret it.    … Expand
  73. berkay1122
    Aug 5, 2016
    1
    ". Now think about that for a minute, exactly how much $$$$ has Blizz got from it's fans and dedicated gamers over the years and what exactly do we get to show for it................WE GET A FUC*ING PANDA TO PLAY WITH....WTH!!! Of the hundreds on millions and millions of $$$ that Blizz has managed to take from it's community from Gamers....ask yourself something, has the game "ACTUALLY''". Now think about that for a minute, exactly how much $$$$ has Blizz got from it's fans and dedicated gamers over the years and what exactly do we get to show for it................WE GET A FUC*ING PANDA TO PLAY WITH....WTH!!! Of the hundreds on millions and millions of $$$ that Blizz has managed to take from it's community from Gamers....ask yourself something, has the game "ACTUALLY'' got better??? "

    Yes WoW got better, alot better but you were far away while it happens. also teso is not f2p it's b2p...    … Expand
  74. Robo1234
    Jun 24, 2016
    0
    I have never had so much trouble with on online game in all my life. Does the Katzenjammer kids run Bethesda or what? First, I have to disable security measures on my PC just so I can get their web pages to load. I've had a few issues with other sites, but nothing like this. Second, I can't find an option for ESO Plus that isn't non-recurring. They say buy a game card, but that'sI have never had so much trouble with on online game in all my life. Does the Katzenjammer kids run Bethesda or what? First, I have to disable security measures on my PC just so I can get their web pages to load. I've had a few issues with other sites, but nothing like this. Second, I can't find an option for ESO Plus that isn't non-recurring. They say buy a game card, but that's nearly impossible. OK, well I just get the DLCs. But wait! The DLCs are only available using ESO plus and a recurring charge. There is a log in for the game, one for support and one for the forums. But wait!! You have to be invited to the forums!!!! I assume that would AFTER I download the game........ I assume...

    I never downloaded this game and from what I can tell, I'm not missing anything. I doubt I'll get a refund, but if I don't, I will find a way to gift it to someone.

    Searching the internet, I find A LOT of people willing to pay for ESO Plus, but can't. They don't have Credit cards (a pre-paid doesn't work) and can't find Game cards. Bethesda is one of the dumbest companies I think I've ever seen. I'm shocked at the stupidity of these people.    … Expand
  75. antihax
    Jun 7, 2016
    0
    I've been playing for six months and this game just keeps getting worse. This latest patch was the last straw since the PvP is now unplayable due to all of the bugs and exploits.

    1000+ ms lag spikes, abilities which don't fire, being flung across the map, repeated crashes to desktop, random load screens 2-3min long. Rampant cheating (unlimited ultimates, flying in the air, invincible    I've been playing for six months and this game just keeps getting worse. This latest patch was the last straw since the PvP is now unplayable due to all of the bugs and exploits.

    1000+ ms lag spikes, abilities which don't fire, being flung across the map, repeated crashes to desktop, random load screens 2-3min long. Rampant cheating (unlimited ultimates, flying in the air, invincible players, keep jumps) only to get a slap on the wrist because they are paying customers. Exodus of players (recent merge of servers and reduction of pvp campaigns is a clear sign). Getting decent gear requires months of grinding the same dungeons over and over.

    Each successive patches adds more bugs and exploits.

    Do not waste your time and effort, there are better games out there with much better communities.    … Expand
  76. archanjo
    Mar 4, 2016
    3
    god this game is terrible.. where should i start with...ok lets see hmmm oh got it
    pros: has uninstall button
    cons : the rest

    so so so bad....i died a little inside
  77. xenjajvex
    Jan 17, 2016
    1
    I've been playing for a couple years now and I'm now vet rank
    16, have 500k+ gold and have done everything there is to do...
    The two expansions have recently made me realise the direction in which the game is going and that is nowhere. Let's just say all these expansions introduce is more grind (collectibles with insanely low drop rates) and more headache and cringe with the crappy    I've been playing for a couple years now and I'm now vet rank
    16, have 500k+ gold and have done everything there is to do...

    The two expansions have recently made me realise the direction
    in which the game is going and that is nowhere. Let's just say all
    these expansions introduce is more grind (collectibles with insanely
    low drop rates) and more headache and cringe with the crappy voice
    acting and spazzy character animations.

    The graphics and sounds are clearly last gen! The voice acting, animations,
    story and plot are not worthy of being tied to the Elder Scrolls name and let's
    not forget the really bad community, half of which are not true ES fans but MMO
    fan boys and math nerds that care only for stats, numbers and the best gear, not
    story and content and lore which should be priority. Oh, and another thing with these
    MMO **** is their obsession with breaking the lore with their suggesting of dragon
    mounts and other "fun" additions to the game which often completely disregard the
    awesomeness that is Elder Scrolls lore. Obviously, ZOS loves their little community
    and goes ahead and listens to them anyway because all they really care about is money!

    I feel sorry for Bethesda, honestly... I can't imagine what's going through their minds as
    ZOS (the parent company) does some squats and sh!ts all over the lore.

    The sad reality is that this could very well be the end of the Elder Scrolls franchise. I can't
    believe though that I actually dropped out of college for this POS game! It's addicting for sure
    but I guess it's the same for every MMO. Obviously, as an ES fan I believed for a very long
    time that things would change because how in the hell could an Elder Scrolls game f*ck up
    so badly?! How naive I was. ESO is just another MMO for the brain dead masses with no taste
    and those who have forgotten what fun is. No true ES fan should touch this game; don't let the
    name deceive you, this isn't an ES game. It's a cash grab! & an epic fail. You must believe me!

    If you ever play this game you're life will hit rock bottom faster than you can say Oy vey.

    RIP Elder Scrolls 1994 - 2014    … Expand
  78. Subspace12345
    Dec 8, 2015
    1
    Read this before you purchase this game!
    If you want to play this game on PC, don't. This game is made for PS and Xbox.
    The UI is rubbish. The quests are rubbish. The level curve is obscene. The scenery is ugly and depressing. The combat is below par, you can only have 5 moves on your bar, this is due to being a game for Xbox and PS. There is no proper targeting system in combat, prepare    Read this before you purchase this game!
    If you want to play this game on PC, don't. This game is made for PS and Xbox.
    The UI is rubbish. The quests are rubbish. The level curve is obscene. The scenery is ugly and depressing. The combat is below par, you can only have 5 moves on your bar, this is due to being a game for Xbox and PS. There is no proper targeting system in combat, prepare to aim the cross-hair like an FPS. The NPCs although talkative have dull conversation and you skip the dialog anyway. The classes are poorly designed and the faction system is pointless. Finally, the social dynamic (which is generally why people play MMO's) is lacking in all aspects. The chat system is clunky and targeting another player to add to party/whisper/inspect is next to impossible unless they're not moving, and people only stay still when they're AFK!
    Overall I had a very bad experience and this game is not worth the $30 I paid for it. I wouldn't get paid to play this game.    … Expand
  79. Braghez
    Oct 27, 2015
    2
    Not a game appealing to MMO players, not a game appealing to TES players...they tried to make an hybrid to attract people from both "worlds", but in the end they just created a mediocre game.
  80. TobiasKen
    Oct 25, 2015
    4
    If you are looking for an MMO, sure - get this game. If you're looking for an Elder Scrolls game - you can forget about it. I'm not even going to bother giving this a normal review like I usually do. Let me just tell you that this is the worst in the Elder Scrolls Series. I know what you might be thinking - this is an MMO FIRST, then Elder Scrolls. But you can't call it Elder Scrolls whenIf you are looking for an MMO, sure - get this game. If you're looking for an Elder Scrolls game - you can forget about it. I'm not even going to bother giving this a normal review like I usually do. Let me just tell you that this is the worst in the Elder Scrolls Series. I know what you might be thinking - this is an MMO FIRST, then Elder Scrolls. But you can't call it Elder Scrolls when it simply isn't. It is lacking oh so much stuff, and wants you to buy DLC and crowns even after paying for the full game. You're even locked out of an ENTIRE RACE UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM MORE MONEY. Seriously, the combat is worse, you barely get anything out of looting people.

    If you're looking for an Elder Scrolls game, I repeat: DO. NOT. BUY. THIS. GAME.    … Expand
  81. BrianD
    Oct 14, 2015
    3
    Are you a PvPer?
    Do your research before buying this game!
    As it stands, if you are in a group of more than 6 you will gain a 50% damage reduction in PvP. Yep. AoE is capped at 6 targets. To be fair there is talk of removing the cap, but do your research before you come here. It was always capped but now its even worse because damage in PvP is halved. See, this gives every guy after    Are you a PvPer?
    Do your research before buying this game!

    As it stands, if you are in a group of more than 6 you will gain a 50% damage reduction in PvP. Yep. AoE is capped at 6 targets. To be fair there is talk of removing the cap, but do your research before you come here.
    It was always capped but now its even worse because damage in PvP is halved. See, this gives every guy after the 6th a 75% damage reduction. Yikes.
    Search AOE caps on Zenimax forum you'll see what I'm talking about.    … Expand
  82. Rouce
    Sep 29, 2015
    0
    I had terrible white artifacts/jaggies around all objects in the game, although using a modern gaming PC. The graphical bug was caused because of ESO's poor AA and Lighting engine implentation - there's nothing I could do about it. Game unplayable.

    Contacted the support team, they weren't able to help me other than telling me to send a bug report which I won't get any response to. Asked    I had terrible white artifacts/jaggies around all objects in the game, although using a modern gaming PC. The graphical bug was caused because of ESO's poor AA and Lighting engine implentation - there's nothing I could do about it. Game unplayable.

    Contacted the support team, they weren't able to help me other than telling me to send a bug report which I won't get any response to. Asked for a refund and nada. Bought the game from a third party, so it's somehow understandable. But they neither refunded the Plus subscription of 30 days of which only 3 days were over nor the ingame Crown purchase which was supposedly "used" because spend in the shop. But I didn't even use what I bought there because the game is unplayable..

    Worst game and user care experience since years.    … Expand
  83. houjo2000
    Sep 22, 2015
    2
    I will give the PC version some credit- it's better than the ps4 atrocity. You can at least mod this version for things like a mini map, and there's social options that make the world feel more alive. If you must play ESO, the PC version is the best of all of the versions.

    That said- it's still a bland WoW clone with horrible combat and few positives.
  84. XBurningDogX
    Sep 10, 2015
    3
    I am not here to rant, downscore this game, or just to write a quick review, I am here to inform gamers who are considering buying this game.

    For the millionth time IF YOU ARE EXPECTING A ELDER SCROLLS (SKYRIM, OBLIVION ETC.) YOU WILL MORE THAN LIKELY FIND YOUR SELF VERY DISAPPOINTED! this is a MMORPG not an RPG. I took a vacation a week off work a month ago and wanted a new game to    I am not here to rant, downscore this game, or just to write a quick review, I am here to inform gamers who are considering buying this game.

    For the millionth time IF YOU ARE EXPECTING A ELDER SCROLLS (SKYRIM, OBLIVION ETC.) YOU WILL MORE THAN LIKELY FIND YOUR SELF VERY DISAPPOINTED! this is a MMORPG not an RPG.

    I took a vacation a week off work a month ago and wanted a new game to get into playing. It has been a while since i've gotten lost in a mmo such as runescape or world of warcraft. I love rpgs such as skyrim and witcher 3 yet interacting with other players removes that "lonely" feeling we all get time to time playing a single player game.
    I played this game for two days straight and I must admit, the "new game woah this is cool!" phase lasted for 2 hours. I became very bored with this want to be mmo. ALL YOU DO is go talk to this npc, oh and then that npc tells you to go talk to this npc, and then find this npc and talk to them, and you might kill a couple monsters running from npc to npc. Am i being a Debbie Downer? No I am stating all I expereniced playing this game for two days. I reached level 10 and quit.

    The graphics are pretty good for an mmo, but other than that the game is so "empty" like a desert. Their is very little to do other than zone chat with other people about real life things. I have tried picking this game up over and over harder than ever, because I WANT that go to MMO that I think about at work all day, I WANTED to come home and get lost in the world of elder scrolls online. But unfortunately it is too dull and boring to.
    Try this game at your own risk, even with the free subscription this game is worth no more than 5 bucks. It feels so unfinished you will want your money back worse than bringing home a game and opening it up to find broken disk. Thank you for reading my review, I am sorry i sound so negative, but then again, you want to read a honest review right?    … Expand
  85. mmdc
    Jul 3, 2015
    0
    I bought this on PS4 on Thursday and prepare to play it on weekend. Played it 2 hours on Friday (game play very laggy), then got disconnected and cannot login for 8 hours. Took the disc off and never want to play it again.
  86. randomname420
    Jun 16, 2015
    2
    To be fair, I've only put a couple hours into this game, so it's hard to give it a thorough review. That said, there's a reason I've only put a couple hours into this game. It's not up to the standards of any current generation platform. It feels dated, even by last generation standards.

    In general, RPGs are my favorite genre of game. So far, I haven't been able to get past the horrible    To be fair, I've only put a couple hours into this game, so it's hard to give it a thorough review. That said, there's a reason I've only put a couple hours into this game. It's not up to the standards of any current generation platform. It feels dated, even by last generation standards.

    In general, RPGs are my favorite genre of game. So far, I haven't been able to get past the horrible graphics and terrible game play. That might have something to do with the fact I've been playing Destiny (which has its own flaws) so much for the past few months. To go from Destiny to Elder Scrolls, it feels like I broke out my old PS2.

    I'll try to give it another chance considering the game wasn't cheap. But after that, I expect it'll be on ebay sooner rather than later.    … Expand
  87. strangefruit
    Jun 12, 2015
    0
    If you're a big fan of Elder Scrolls, you will more definitely hate this game. If however you're just a fan of MMORPGs, well you'll likely think this is below par at best...who was this game targeted to again? On the plus side, you can play as an Imperial for the low low price of $95 for your first month!
  88. JoshLuck1995
    Jun 9, 2015
    4
    Got this through today, the update took about 40 minutes, it all depends on your internet service, thats nothing to do with the dev.

    But for the game it self, it is poor, i really love the elder scrolls series and i think thats what the problem is, i just doesnt feel like a elder scrolls game therefore producing a feeling of dissapointment, so i tried to look past that and see it for    Got this through today, the update took about 40 minutes, it all depends on your internet service, thats nothing to do with the dev.

    But for the game it self, it is poor, i really love the elder scrolls series and i think thats what the problem is, i just doesnt feel like a elder scrolls game therefore producing a feeling of dissapointment, so i tried to look past that and see it for what it is but it still feels like a let down, the story so far is pretty pants, the gameplay is boring, and it comes across as complete chaos when it comes to interaction with real world players, its just complete chaos, people running about like headless chickens, trying to tea bag you, starting fights with guards who then start on you.

    I now have an issue where i am in Daggerfall and a real world player started a fight with a guard and the guard then attacked me and it placed a bounty on my head as it thought i was the criminal, this was early into the game. it just all feels so chaotic. No structure or enjoyment so far what so ever.    … Expand
  89. gathor
    Jun 3, 2015
    0
    This is not an MMO, it's a Single Player game turned MMO with boring PvE and unbalanced PvP.
    If it's an Elder Scroll game you were looking for just play Skyrim or the older ones like Morrowind (my favourite).
    If it's an MMO you were looking for just do yourself a favour and keep looking.
  90. CodySellers
    May 28, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have stayed with this game for a year thru all of its hardships. and I must say, I am very disappointed. There has been little-no improvement over the last year to ESO. Yes there has been new content, and new content is all well and good, but improvements? No.

    The PvE is boring and so easy that it is possible to one man world bosses and public dungeons, which are supposed to require a group to take on. The trials are a joke. they are nothing but blob up and spam crap. No strategy, no planning required, just run and gun. the Veteran content is boring, and is nothing but a long, tedious, mind numbing grind. The story too it does not even make sense, one is forced to go thru the other alliances story lines, making it difficult to find a reason to make characters of other factions, and it is just lazy. the player will spend more time watching that slow XP bar chug along than actually enjoying the content once the player completes level 49 and enters the veteran ranks,

    PvP is an utter joke. It cannot support hundreds of players at once. In truth, it can barely support 40 players on the screen at once. As soon as a huge force of players start fighting, the game literally turns into Microsoft Powerpoint. The lag is atrocious, and has been around for almost a year with little done or attempted to fix it. There are numerous cheats(such as getting thru outpost and keep walls without knocking them down, which ZOS has confirmed is an exploit) that are downright abused with little-no consequence. The cheat I mentioned above has been done for about 6-8 months now. As soon as someone provides video evidence on the forums, it is closed due to the "name and shame" policy. ZOS would rather ignore evidence than fix the issues. The game is a cheaters paradise, and has made it a joke to play.

    The balance in PvP is non-existent. the game is currently dominated by infinite resource builds(and that has sadly found its way into blackwater blade) throwing any kind of strategic resource management out the window. This, combined with block casting, low Time to kills, and one shot wonder builds finding their way into the game, has turned ESO PvP into an ancient 3rd person era of Call of Duty, with blocking. No strategy, just hold down block and spam abilities. its pathetic.

    The worst part? the developers simply do not care. ZOS ignores any evidence of cheating, they let bugs and game breaking exploits stay in the game for a ridiculous period of time, and they would rather "upgrade" their "crown store(aka cash shop) than work on the actual game. ZOS lets issues remain in PvE and PvP for far to long, and do not fix them in a satisfactory rate.

    I give this a 3/10 because I have played it for a year and because it is an elder scrolls game. Do not get this game unless you are a die-hard elder scrolls fan.    … Expand
  91. Termin8ter
    May 27, 2015
    4
    This is a huge disappointment for the elder scrolls franchise. Skyrim and Oblivion were so good, but stupid Zenimax online decided to take a dump on the franchise. Elder Scrolls Online is over hyped, laggy , glitchy and just plain awful. the only good thing about this horrible game is the soundtrack. So disappointing. *sobs*
  92. Suss
    May 27, 2015
    0
    Do you want a quality MMO with engaging gameplay, attractive visuals and engrossing lore? Then play WoW. TESO felt like a real grind from the get-go, leveling was an arduous task marred by bugs. Enemies leash at pitifully short distances, making combat easy and dull. Combat inevitably ends up being about who can click the quickest. The ambitious removal of cooldowns leaves fighting boringDo you want a quality MMO with engaging gameplay, attractive visuals and engrossing lore? Then play WoW. TESO felt like a real grind from the get-go, leveling was an arduous task marred by bugs. Enemies leash at pitifully short distances, making combat easy and dull. Combat inevitably ends up being about who can click the quickest. The ambitious removal of cooldowns leaves fighting boring and removes the thinking behind how you're going to fight a certain foe.

    The art style of The Elder Scrolls Online is uninspired and bland, a far cry from the engaging, revolutionary graphics of previous installments. While not terrible on the eyes, it's nothing new and certainly nothing to get excited about.

    The lore of TESO is heavily contradictory to the already convoluted intertwining established lore of the series, with Zenimax even having the nerve to say that Bethesda got it wrong themselves in past games. This feeling of confusion brought about by having the world you've grown up exploring and researching cast aside as "transcription errors" or "fanciful tales" is an iron curtain over my enthusiasm to explore this shoddily-crafted world.

    If it's an MMO you're looking for, literally any other MMO does the genre greater justice than TESO does.
    If, however, you're craving Elder Scrolls, I'd recommend any of the other games in the series - they're all great games with more to do than TESO.    … Expand
  93. Duroga
    Apr 27, 2015
    3
    I couldn't even manage to get to mid level on this one. The graphics and sound are OK, but the gameplay is probably the most horrible I've ever experienced. A complete waste of $60
  94. 0437590
    Apr 16, 2015
    0
    Not worth your time. If it isn't the bugs or glitches closing your game, you will be because it is amazingly boring and dreadful. I am a long time Elder Scrolls fan and have played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim with such enjoyment and fun. I have also played some brilliant MMO's like WoW and Guild Wars 2 however ESO is nothing on this and is painful to play. Even though its nowNot worth your time. If it isn't the bugs or glitches closing your game, you will be because it is amazingly boring and dreadful. I am a long time Elder Scrolls fan and have played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim with such enjoyment and fun. I have also played some brilliant MMO's like WoW and Guild Wars 2 however ESO is nothing on this and is painful to play. Even though its now free-to-play it is still glitchy as ever and the loading times have gotten even worse. I highly recommend NOT getting this game. Bethesda and Zenimax have really taken a massive **** on their fans with this one.… Expand
  95. erezike
    Apr 7, 2015
    0
    A very bad online game, a terrible single player game.
    It starts off nice with a decent intro-cut scene and a familiar location in molag bal daedric dimension.
    The combat is familiar and reminds of skyrim and oblivion. the four classes gives you enough to play with and the 3 different factions fighting for control over the realm seems promising and balanced. But that where the good ends    A very bad online game, a terrible single player game.
    It starts off nice with a decent intro-cut scene and a familiar location in molag bal daedric dimension.
    The combat is familiar and reminds of skyrim and oblivion. the four classes gives you enough to play with and the 3 different factions fighting for control over the realm seems promising and balanced.
    But that where the good ends and the bad starts to kick in.
    The world doesn't encourage you to play with other people, people run from one boring quest to the next without any incentive other than to level up and push the boring story forward, the game doesn't manage to lure you in,. this is due to the doll quest, unimmersive environment which doesn't react to your actions with spawning enemies every 30 seconds and other player runabouts who are completeting the exact same quests as you, so there you are stuck in this chain of quests and poorly done exploration, where you are about to embark on this important quest only to find out someone else finished that gravely important quest only seconds before, and someone else is going to finish the exact same quest after you seconds after. Its ridiculous.

    The leveled enemies - enemies are leveled in order to guide you on the right path of exploration, there is no lore difference between the enemies you defeat when you are level 1 and the enemies you defeat at level 20 other than to guide you on the right path of the developer, this makes no sense storywise.

    enemies spread - enemies are spread in pairs across the map and seem to take no notice of their friends 20 meters away who are engaged in deadly combat.

    Graphics and sound are mediocre in comparison to 2011 skyrim, everything feels dead and flat.

    Despite the fuzz it gave me to play an elderscrolls game. and the prospect of engaging in a battle as part of the alliance, this game is a total letdown and isn't worth your money.    … Expand
  96. koniolub
    Mar 31, 2015
    4
    I gave this game 2 before, now it went b2p and fixed some of the most glaring issuses. Nonotherless, its still good looking, fully vocied medicore MMO. You start in quest hub do quests (at least 95% - go kill/activate/gather) get some more quests on the way, move to another hub.

    When you reach lvl 50 and finish the main story suddenly you find out that you need to do the same amount of    I gave this game 2 before, now it went b2p and fixed some of the most glaring issuses. Nonotherless, its still good looking, fully vocied medicore MMO. You start in quest hub do quests (at least 95% - go kill/activate/gather) get some more quests on the way, move to another hub.

    When you reach lvl 50 and finish the main story suddenly you find out that you need to do the same amount of content x2 and you end up with over 1000 (yes 1k) quests done from which you remember handful.

    In pvp on veteran campaigns you have to be at least lvl 12 to have fighting chance, but dont worrty- PvP works just half the time anyway - massive lags, crashes and so on at least on EU server.

    Overall: still absolutllely on rails themepark MMO painted to look like Elder Scrolls game. If you have nothing to do with 60 $ go ahead, but at your own responsibility.    … Expand
  97. Patches13
    Mar 27, 2015
    2
    Do NOT be fooled by this game and it's false advertising!

    CONS: 1. Puritan armor design that gets more prudish the higher lvl you are (worse armor I've seen in a MMO) 2. Unbalanced classes with the Sorc class being totally forgotten about 3. Frequent game crashes for a lot of players 4. Frequent FPS lockups and stutters for a lot of players 5. Race choice makes a significant impact    Do NOT be fooled by this game and it's false advertising!

    CONS:
    1. Puritan armor design that gets more prudish the higher lvl you are (worse armor I've seen in a MMO)
    2. Unbalanced classes with the Sorc class being totally forgotten about
    3. Frequent game crashes for a lot of players
    4. Frequent FPS lockups and stutters for a lot of players
    5. Race choice makes a significant impact on ability
    6. No real endgame content with little benefit from doing any of it
    PROs:
    1. Fully voiced (when the sound doesn't cut out)
    2. Active combat
    3. Ton's of quests (mostly standard go kill X or go fetch X)
    4. 3 faction's with interweaving story    … Expand
  98. Blockz888
    Mar 22, 2015
    2
    3 months subscribed and I gotta say.. ESOTU still lacks value.. While everything is new, when you begin the game its great, its awesome! the newness creates immersion and I think for one to enjoy something you have to be immersed! but once you passed that butterfly phase you will quickly lose interest because the game is generally not immersive. As both MMO and Story based. Sadly that is3 months subscribed and I gotta say.. ESOTU still lacks value.. While everything is new, when you begin the game its great, its awesome! the newness creates immersion and I think for one to enjoy something you have to be immersed! but once you passed that butterfly phase you will quickly lose interest because the game is generally not immersive. As both MMO and Story based. Sadly that is the reason it will fail. It has many great ideas but they havent stood to standards, crossed the line many time for "money".There isnt a really clear msg to what eso is about? Its just this mix of elder scrolls content, place for you to do stuff but thats about it! It obvious, if they were doing well they wouldnt of switched to b2p. If you feel like playing it, I say try it out! Im sure you will enjoy it but I am also sure you will lose interest once you get past the butterfly phase. With every game that has existed you will always end up leaving it, but you will either leave satisfied or unsatisfied. ESOTU is definitely an unsatisfied experience... :(… Expand
  99. ESOPlayer
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    If you want to waste money, just click on the "buy" button.

    They haven't released new real playable (new zones etc) content in 7 months. (they claimed new content would come every 4-5 weeks) Game launch was a failure which is why they went B2P and all the issues that where there since game start have yet to be addressed: - AVAVA is laggy, they keep advertising the game with "Epic    If you want to waste money, just click on the "buy" button.

    They haven't released new real playable (new zones etc) content in 7 months. (they claimed new content would come every 4-5 weeks)

    Game launch was a failure which is why they went B2P and all the issues that where there since game start have yet to be addressed:

    - AVAVA is laggy, they keep advertising the game with "Epic Battles" which are impossible because of the lag.
    - Clunky UI.
    - Clunky Combat.
    - No balance between Magicka & Stamina builds
    - No balance between classes.
    - Solo quest feels empty and doesn't feel like a TESO game.
    - Veteran Levels are still there and still a pain to level up to the point hundreds have quit because of it.

    They also recently implemented a "Champion System" that offers endless progression (years of progression), and each point makes your character stronger, which means that any new player that isn't max level yet will always have less points than the older players and will always be weaker.

    Moreover Zenimax Online (which is a horrific company to work for from what reviews say on the net), does not care the slightest about their customers. Many times they have implemented game changing patchs without any compensation to their players thus making them loose a lot of progress and advancement.

    If you want to play a game for a company who cares only about money, that lies repeatedly to it's customers, has a harsh forum moderation (to silence people who complain) and doesn't care about it's customers, Elder Scrolls Online is the place to go!

    This game was supposed to be great, it doesn't deserve to be successful after how they ruined it. Zenimax is just a bunch of liars led by a Marketting team that takes all the decisons and will stay in Mat Frior's resumee like a big failure.    … Expand
  100. MaesterBest
    Mar 7, 2015
    0
    Nothing like any of the other Elder Scrolls games at all. If you want to play somthing that feels more like an ES game, play Guild Wars 2. This is just so horrible, i had such fate in this game.
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#4 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#14 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 64 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 64
  3. Negative: 1 out of 64
  1. CD-Action
    Jul 23, 2014
    60
    Eight years of development, a team consisting of even 250 people at some points, budget reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s a pity that this ‘Skyrim Online’ disappoints both fans of previous Bethesda games and MMORPG veterans who expected some fresh air in the stale genre. [06/2014, p.44]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 8, 2014
    60
    A well done MMO that can lure players not familiar with the genre. But if you've played MMOs before, this one doesn't offer anything new, nor anything exciting.
  3. DarkStation
    Jun 16, 2014
    50
    60 days was more then enough time for me to determine that I would rather spend my time elsewhere.
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