http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_elder_scrolls_online/b/pc/archive/2012/05/11/what-elder-scrolls-online-offers-skyrim-fans-mmo-players.aspx
Man, Game Informer is trying pretty hard to shill a game no one wants. It's somewhat telling when every other sentence is "It's totally not a WoW clone guys". If you cut the words "Elder Scrolls" out of the Sage interview, you would think he's talking about WoW. It's also funny that the games they compare it to are Skyrim (boils down to "it will share some lore" despite Zenimax Online having little contact with Bethesda and having turned down M.K.), WoW (has the largest comparison block), and two failed WoW-clones.
It feels much worse than that.
It's like someone posted a game idea on the Internet, saying, "It's basically X game, Y game, and Z game all put together,
but better than all of them put together!". Hardly two days pass before some green-eyed executive reads it, sees the big-name titles under the flag of a big-name title, and barks the command for the weary game-making slaves to build a golden pyramid that will be his personal money printing machine. Somewhere between setting the first stone and opening to the public, the golden pyramid will be pilfered and defaced in short order, abandoned and forgotten. It shall stand as little but a jagged reminder that games are much more than taking the best of everyone else's ideas, and throwing your own in there. And people will look at the dusty, sad ruin, scratch their chins, and say, "Dude, that gives me a great game idea! I'm going to go write this down real quick on the Internet."
Hardly two days pass before some green-eyed executive reads it...