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The Elder Scrolls Online Beta Update

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Are you checking your e-mail every day, hoping to spot a "Invitation to The Elder Scrolls Beta"? Are you watching everything ESO, and dying a bit inside of waiting for the beta?

Well, you still have to wait a bit... But, the good news is that beta invites will be sent out nearing the end of this month!

The first beta events are smaller ones that primarily takes place during the weekends - and to those who haven't participated in a beta before, and thought it would be "fun" to test; Well, if you get into the first stage, let's just say you're in for a "treat".

The beta will start out small, and will expand gradually over the coming months. Meaning that if you are not selected for the first events, you may still be selected for later ones (and being selected into the first one does not guarantee selection for the later ones).

They'll be announcing it on Facebook, twitter and their official sites once the beta invites has been sent out (so if you get an invitation, and they haven't announced anything, it is most likely scam).

If you want more details, head on to The Elder Scrolls Official Website.

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  1. Trunham
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    All these people today taking the games industry serious give it up already, its clear all any developer cares about is making MONEY and yes this is just a cop out, MMO's will be popular no matter how poor the games development is and there will be enough gullible idiots out there and some times I admit I am one of them, that will spend their money with out a seconds thought.

    It makes me laugh that more effort has gone into a CGI Trailer than the actual game its self, but that's marketing for you. "OOOOOH SHINY! must buy the dull colourless rubbish."

    I did sign up for the beta, because I was hoping that I would be able to test it out yeah sure but too also see if the finished game would be worth getting, because at the end of the day Todd Howard isn't spinning BS to the foolish masses witch gives people hope.

    And if YOU enjoy a game that you have bought and it keeps you entertained then its at least worth some of the money you paid for it and that's what matters, Your happy because your having fun and the developers are happy because they get paid.
  2. hamas222
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    emmm
  3. Siwel187
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    If they announced Skyrim style first person MMO set in the Elder Srolls setting, then it would be in keeping, but as such, i feel what the others have said is true and its a staple on name to sell copies.
    1. Itachi 92
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      keep in mind that not everyone enjoys first person rpg games....I for one would hate it if there was no third person view in skyrim or oblivion etc


      also, I dont think it can be a greater disappointment than guild wars 2 was (and still is) so I'd
      say it's worth a shot
  4. kleinstaff
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    In response to post #7508101. #7513185, #7514216, #7519731, #7527454, #7556163 are all replies on the same post.
     

    If I can recall TES fans have been asking for multiplayer for years...

    for making a TES into a MMO yes not  for making a MMO that has  TES related names
     
    like somebody else mentioned it is a sell out ,  they pretty know well that the fans will by anything that has   The elder scrolls name  on it ,  doesn't matter if it is a rip off or the genuine thing
    this is a rip off it is a remake of a older game ( Dark age of Camelot  with  different map and different  races and names
    sure  graphics look  sweet  even considering they are too lazy to put in  real argonians and khajiths , but other than that it is a empty box
    the quality of their game is of no importance  what is important to them is  how long they can keep their customers playing wuith   cheap gameplay gimmicks and  themepark  content
     
    Even the  and i quote ( game only becomes interesting at level 50' comment of one of the main dev  says enough  for me ,
    that made me  resent the MMO before it was even launched
  5. kleinstaff
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    ESO will not work that is plain and simple    they are abusing a well known franchise name in the hope ofselling what is  otherwise a remake of a old game  and a empty box
    we all seen what happens if you use a well known franchise name in a MMO
    Warhammer online ,  died because of greed on the publishers  side
    Star trek online   after all the hype  you are basicly playing a  repetitive and boring single player game online
    SWTOR no comments needed
     
    and ESO will probably  be a bit of everything above
     
    Did they ever asked if we wanted a MMO
    Did they ever asked us  what kind of game concept  we would like to see
    , no   they just  hired  some  guy who had some experience in a MMO and told him he has carte blanche  with  the  franchise name so  he  just  renamed his own  old MMO and   voila you have a new MMO and with a name like that  all those mollions of people who bought skyrim will rush out and buy a copy  or a subscriotion .surely.....money money
     
    Yes they already started to review of the feedback but they also started to hype this game  as THE GAME of the decade
     
    in my opinion it will be DaoC II  and nothing more nothing less less and another mutant WoW clone that brings nothing new in a MMO market already  saturated by medioric themepark  WoWclones
    ..
    1. WookieeCookiee0
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      umm SWTOR is epic. i don't understand why people didn't like it. Alot of poeple said endgame content was limited compared to WoW but duhhh. WoW has been around for 10 years and SWTOR has only been around for a year. Anyways if ESO is even close as good as SWTOR then it will be a great game. And seeing as how it is Elder Scrolls it will probaly be better. And if you wish to insult ESO please do it on a forum that isn't about Elder Scrolls Online.
    2. kingqueenjack
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      @elfman123 because SWTOR is a replacement for perhaps the greatest game to the star was franchise, Knights of the Old Republic I and II. If you ever get a chance to play them, do it, they were great and actually very modable.

      @kleinstaff I do think that ESO has a chance of greatness, what i've seen is not what most think of an MMO, it looks more geared towards the "Elder Scrolls" than the "Online".
    3. galahad1313
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      I can't decide if you're simply an idiot or misinformed. Where did you get that bs info about eso? Your comment about daoc is assinine. just ebcause they're adapting something along the same lines as daoc in as far as the 3 factions so what? Nothing wrong with adopting something that worked in another game and giving it their own twist. Just because they're using something from another game doesn't make it that game. This game will bne nothing like daoc.

      As for SWTOR, iloved it! but when the powergamers were donw with it and many of the servers' populations started dropping, it made doing many of the instances and group quests undoable and when they went ftp, i quit. I started playing and within 2-3 weeks of the game being out, already the powergamers were whining about endgame this and that. I've written a diseration on why powergamers are bad for mmo's and got an A+ on that assignment but won't get into it here lest these same whiny powergamers start a flame war(though i admit that by what i said above, i may be the flame war culprit hehe). Everything i've seen so far tells me this will be something special in mmo'dom.
    4. Tigersan
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      Wow... This actually shows how much actual knowledge you have about game development...
      Dont like it? I see no point in commenting here. However it is hard to see how could you like it if you havent played it yet... Ridiculous...
    5. ngreen
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      That all seems rather silly to me.

      Does an IP guarantee success in the MMO world? No, obviously not. Some of the biggest and well known IPs have been huge flops as MMOs. But not because they are big IPs. Because they were bad games.

      There are a few things I don't like about Skyrim but on the whole it's a pretty awesome game and the fact it has been so financially successful is a good indication that a lot of players enjoy it.

      The same company is making the MMO.

      Can we think of another example in the MMO industry of a well known IP being used for an MMO by a developer who made good single player games?

      *cough* World of Warcraft *cough*
    6. kjackson344
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      If I can recall TES fans have been asking for multiplayer for years...
  6. kleinstaff
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    God I can't wait for this game.

    and you will feel so dissapointed with a nagging dejavu feeling when you log off
  7. Brassm0nkey
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    God I can't wait for this game.
  8. kleinstaff
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    In response to post #7557379.
     

    "they never made a MMO before..."

    I never said they did. Neither Blizzard before WOW nor Zenimax now.

    Both were / are successful developers of offline / singleplayer games who entered the MMO market.

    You committed an association fallacy, listing a bunch of MMOs with well known IPs (like TES) and concluded that because they flopped TESO must also flop.

    Of course that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

    "instead they took the cheap way to please the investors not the fans"

    Investors are interested in making money. WOW clones have proved time and again to be bad investments. Skyrim has generated a measly $620 million for them - roughly 12 times the cost of most triple A MMOs. Zenimax has proved they can make fun and profitable games.

    Not to put too fine a point on it but investors know where their money comes from - us. Ergo Zenimax pleasing as many of us as possible pleases them.

    I never said it will because they are using  a well known IP  i said they are using  this IP in the hope  look like it is the game all of us fans been waiting for,  to give what  looks to me another pretty medioric MMO like there are 2 dozen others  were everything they have shown us  has been done before,  ,
    in realirt  the whole game concept   has nothing to do with what  most of the fans  of the singleplayer TES are waiting for it is just a copy of the old DaoC with TES related names and better graphics
    So yes i do hope it fails miserablely  so they can start  putting back their  rescources into the other studios  so we can have Fallout 4  soon and in a few years  TES VI
    and Blizzard had  more than 10 years to perfect their game  or more precisely  turn their game into a kindergarten
     
    and no i do not hate MMO s  i ve been playing them for amore than t10 years now  7 of them in EvE online  which  is the only one i still play  regular)  so i ve seen my share of them, but the last thing the MMO market needs os another  WoWclone  with a well known  franchise name
  9. kleinstaff
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    In response to post #7508101. #7513185, #7514216, #7519731, #7527454 are all replies on the same post.
     

    That all seems rather silly to me.

    Does an IP guarantee success in the MMO world? No, obviously not. Some of the biggest and well known IPs have been huge flops as MMOs. But not because they are big IPs. Because they were bad games.

    There are a few things I don't like about Skyrim but on the whole it's a pretty awesome game and the fact it has been so financially successful is a good indication that a lot of players enjoy it.

    The same company is making the MMO.

    Can we think of another example in the MMO industry of a well known IP being used for an MMO by a developer who made good single player games?

    *cough* World of Warcraft *cough*

    they never made a MMO before and instead  of developing  something new  they hired someone who did   and he is just remaking his old game   but now  he can abuse a well know franchise  name for the remake of his own old game that failed  eventually because it was too  constricted
     
    They had the chance to make something  new in the world of MMO s  with new concepts and ideas that would suit the world of TES perfectly  instead they took the cheap way  to please the investors  not the fans  , and when those investors say  they want  cute panda s and dragons in the game because that sells well we will see panda s and dragons in ESO
    1. ngreen
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      "they never made a MMO before..."

      I never said they did. Neither Blizzard before WOW nor Zenimax now.

      Both were / are successful developers of offline / singleplayer games who entered the MMO market.

      You committed an association fallacy, listing a bunch of MMOs with well known IPs (like TES) and concluded that because they flopped TESO must also flop.

      Of course that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

      "instead they took the cheap way to please the investors not the fans"

      Investors are interested in making money. WOW clones have proved time and again to be bad investments. Skyrim has generated a measly $620 million for them - roughly 12 times the cost of most triple A MMOs. Zenimax has proved they can make fun and profitable games.

      Not to put too fine a point on it but investors know where their money comes from - us. Ergo Zenimax pleasing as many of us as possible pleases them.
  10. Hannibalektr
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    Yeah I've been in several beta's for games. I can't believe how many whiney little babies there are in them. They complain the game is broken and forget they are playing free in a "beta" which I guess thier spoiled little 13 year old butt doesn't comprehned means "testing for bugs" so it releases somewhat fixed.

    Lamers... 99% of all beta testers are pathetic and lame.