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[Meta]

I just heard it went free. Is it worth trying?

Not free, but Buy-To-Play. No more subscriptions. Worth trying? Maybe, the general impression suggests that this game is kinda meh (see Vendayn's opinion just above).

[Greiger]

There were many many many major bugs and balance issues earlier for the month or so I played.  (some of these may have been fixed, I didn't keep up with patch notes since I unsubbed)

Spoiler: laundry list of my biggest gripes I had (click to show/hide)

* Top dps? shieldbash the enemy until they are dead.  If you are not shieldbashing in pvp you lose.
* Werewolves being bugged so badly and so badly underbalanced that there is no reason to ever become werewolf and you are actively punished for having it even available with massive out of form weaknesses.  Unlike my other gripes this is major in PvE as well, sometimes the werewolf form transformation would simply animation lock you until the form times out making you unable to act or move.
* Vampires can lifedrain and kill a group of people in pvp faster than all those people combined can kill it while they are all using skills that do bonus damage to undead. 
* Properly built vampires can also run faster than a horse while carrying a pvp 'flag' type item that is supposed to prevent you from using your horse so others can catch up.  Vampires can also use this ability to safely flee from combat if things get too hairy, being difficult to manually hit, being untargatable with the autoaim, and having a large defense boost while doing it anyway.  Only one class can move faster on foot and they can only do it in short bursts.
* Many many skills were bugged to uselessness, there was a particular nightblade skill that was supposed to increase your attack speed.  It was proven by the community very closely timing attacks and studying damage output to not have any effect whatsoever.  It literally does nothing.

That said it has the best equipment crafting system I ever saw.  I actually enjoyed gathering and making gear.  And the combat does a decent job at actually feeling like yer playing an elder scrolls game, especially if you play in first person.

I didn't want to pay a sub for it anymore but I already own the box, and I for one am willing to see what they improved once it goes no sub.  I'd be suprised if even ESO managed to not at least partially fix many of those major bugs.

[Chaosegg]

Is this game fixed enough to be worth my time yet?

I'm an old school Daggerfall 1&2, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim player (modding the heck out TES 3-5, with Requiem for Skyrim being the only way I play that somewhat disappointing addition to the franchise)
So,
I knew ESO would suck. I really wanted it to be great, but I knew they'd f--k it up.
I've just been hoping they'd fix it if I waited a while.

If ESO isn't ready yet, what other games can people recommend I sink time into?
I am already a die hard EVE-Online player (though I've been playing casual for years now I'm hoping the upcoming nullsec changes will draw me back in more),
but a good medieval/fantasy theme MMO would be cool too.

[scriver]

..."Daggerfall 1&2"?

[Rolan7]

It was only called Daggerfall 2 in the US, in Japan it was TES 5: Arena 

[Meta]

There's this nice trailer explaining/showing the last important changes in the game: The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Launch Trailer

[Folly]

Whose brilliant idea was it to have no voiceover for the video, and list all the changes in tiny text in the corner of the screen that changes every 2 seconds?

[Flying Dice]

Meeeh. So it transitioned from a shitty generic MMO spawned from a cash-in attempt to a shitty generic MMO &c... ...which doesn't have subscription fees. Maybe once it's down to ~$10-15 purchase price.

[nenjin]

This is my reaction to the news:



Oh wait, no it's not. Everyone and their mudcrab knew this was coming. I guess I'm only surprised it took so long.

[Vendayn]

I'm still not gonna play even for free lol. Last time I played (as you can see my post above)...more than half my time of 2 weeks before I quit, was dealing with the crappiest inventory system.

WoW lets you have a guild bank with multiple tabs, a bank with tons of bag slots+area for resources, HUGE bags (up to 4+base bag) with tons of space

On every single character you can make. So you can have like 9 characters for example, each with their own guild, bank and bag system and your main character can be in an ordinary guild.

The company behind ESO only did it to limit crafting. Can't think of any other reason for the stupid system.

In fact, I'll just go and say WoW feels more like elder scrolls than ESO does lol. Not just the inventory system (though like oblivion/skyrim you can carry tons of stuff), but other stuff too even though its not fully open world. WoW isn't really a skyrim game, but it sure is closer to it than ESO will ever be.

[Flying Dice]

"a skyrim game"

ow my brain

[Vendayn]

"a skyrim game"

ow my brain

Well, skyrim is vastly different than morrowind and a lot different than oblivion. Skyrim is more linear than oblivion was IMO, and definetly dumbed down in a lot of ways. Its still my most played game cause of mods. Each elder scrolls though is pretty much its own game. Like morrowind is nothing like skyrim or oblivion, despite it being elder scrolls. So I consider them being their own.

[Teneb]

"a skyrim game"

ow my brain

Well, skyrim is vastly different than morrowind and a lot different than oblivion. Skyrim is more linear than oblivion was IMO, and definetly dumbed down in a lot of ways. Its still my most played game cause of mods. Each elder scrolls though is pretty much its own game. Like morrowind is nothing like skyrim or oblivion, despite it being elder scrolls. So I consider them being their own.

So if both Morrowind and Oblivion are not like each other nor like Skyrim, why are you comparing ESO to Skyrim?

[Vendayn]

"a skyrim game"

ow my brain

Well, skyrim is vastly different than morrowind and a lot different than oblivion. Skyrim is more linear than oblivion was IMO, and definetly dumbed down in a lot of ways. Its still my most played game cause of mods. Each elder scrolls though is pretty much its own game. Like morrowind is nothing like skyrim or oblivion, despite it being elder scrolls. So I consider them being their own.

So if both Morrowind and Oblivion are not like each other nor like Skyrim, why are you comparing ESO to Skyrim?

my main complaint that ruined it for me is the atrocious inventory system. Wow does it way better, and most other mmos have way better inventory systems. I'm not interested in destroying resources because the game has an arbitrary mechanic to limit crafting. Nor spend half the time running to the bank over and over.

Don't really care it isn't like other elder scrolls. It could be like call of duty for all I care. I would still play it. But the inventory system sucks. Its like aions one. Which was also terrible.

If they redid the inventory, I'd enjoy it a lot more. And no, removing ingredients from crafting as a "feature" only makes it worse.

But in any case, not like I'm gonna play it again anyway. So its crappy inventory has no affect on me. So hope people find it fun, everyone's taste in games is different.

[Vendayn]

But to add,the mmo itself is good as far as MMOs go. But inventory system killed it for me.

But like I added to my above post, hopefully people find enjoyment in it. One persons trash is anothers treasure So to speak all preferences to games are different.