I was working one day and bumped into someone super pumped for ESO. I think I might have broken his heart after I told him that I was a beta tester and that the game will not live up to hype, seeing his look, I kept reminding him that Beta was Beta and I may be wrong...
I still feel that I wasn't...
Anyone got it and was in the beta? Did they improve it???
They fixed a number of bugs and improved the crafting to make it seem more obvious (giving refining raw materiel it's own tab and making it the first tab was a great start.)
While they havent improved much they also have a couple big things a lot of people miss.
* If this was NOT an elder scrolls game the combat would probably be revolutionary, or at least a big selling point. It's far more engaging than combat in any other online game I played. Guild Wars 2 came close, but I feel that this is even better than that. It does a good job of making combat feel like elder scrolls while still being light enough on data to work in an MMO. It's a step down from skyrim, but skyrim didn't have to handle all that combat from hundreds of players at once. Hell, Skyrim's, a single player game, even it's system kinda breaks down a bit with more than a handful of combatants at once.
* They haven't fouled up the launch. Broken quests are present, but not as prevalent as broken events were in GW2 at launch, and you can easily go for 4 hours and not encounter even one. There are no server connectivity issues to speak of during launch. And if there are any major crippling bugs I haven't encountered any, and folks are not very vocal about it.
And the thing people complained about most, the cash shop, has no presence whatsoever ingame. It's all website only, I would not even call that a 'cash shop' that's more account services than anything.