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Elder Scrolls Online Reaches 13.5 Million Players (Up from 11 million last year)
- Thread starter Strakt
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It's a good ass MMO. Especially for those like myself who don't have the time to organize with other players and just wants to jump in by their self. This thing really has come a long way.
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F2P, and it's legitimately good. World and quest design is ace.
EDIT: You do have to buy the base game and expansions, but they go on steep sale often
because its good and it doesnt have a sub
its not f2p
Shit you're right, you have to at least buy the base game.
Yes.
It's buy to play not free to play.
Because it's an amazing game packed with content.
I definitely seem to be hearing about the game more and more over the last year.
One day I'll give it a shot.
One day I'll give it a shot.
Base game is alright, all of the DLC is better from dungeons to overland content. The game gets better and better. At least in my opinion there have been no missteps in added content where something is worse.
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you can play like 90% of things solo ; if you buy the latest expansion (chapter), it includes all previous chapters. smaller story DLCs unlock with a $15 subscription or you can buy em separately
Is that content I wouldn't be able to access until I got through the base game content anyway or will I be missing out on not having the expansions at the beginning?
I leveled a Warden a few months ago just doing the Summerset content. So I basically played a single player rpg for about 30 hours doing the Summerset expansion with that new character. And then I jumped off again, I was "good" until elswyer came out. It's one of the best things, everything scales so you can level whereever you want, even with a level 1 character.
One of these days ill do Morrowind when im in the mood again.
After a poor launch and not a lot of QoL things, the game has really changed a lot since launch. I play it on and off on Xbox and there are always a ton of people on. Even in obscure out of the way places I find people running around. They have been great and providing new content and expansions and the game has really been great.
It's not a theme park MMO where you are restricted, it's more snadbox-like where you can go into whatever zone you like. Obviously there's a correct order to approach things for faction quest lines and some of the DLC chapters have an overall arc too, but you can access what ever zone you like. As for dungeons, the DLC dungeons are much harder so those should only be done at higher levels.
One of the best MMOs ever. Have almost 4000 hours playtime on PS4 and was EU #1 on the leaderboards in raids like vAS. Sadly I gave up on it due to it being equivalent to a full time job. It's still worth it for solo or role players since you can always play at your own pace. PvP is also very active.
it's a really fun game, I play it casually when I take a few days break of EVE Online, I just love questing most of all (and do some vet dungeons/trials now and then with my alliance mates from EVE), because it's not traditional MMORPG questing, and it's voice acted. It's just a really fun game esp. if you're a fan of TES.
Sort of in two minds about trying this. I've been watching the WoW Classic streams and getting excited about maybe playing that again in August but I've also started playing SWTOR recently too and I dunno whether to continue with that.
I've got the MMORPG itch basically but not sure what to scratch it with!
I've got the MMORPG itch basically but not sure what to scratch it with!
Elder Scrolls Online's success and improvements are a big part of why I have faith in 76 moving forward.
This is Zenimax Online, a studio that specializes in MMOs/live service games.
The Fallout 76 team has zero experience in live services games. I wouldn't look at this and assume it means good things for the future of Fallout 76.
Whenever I've jumped on randomly there's absolutely tons of people on the servers.
Bethesda Game Studios Austin was founded by a number of people from Bioware Austin with history of online games going back to Star Wars Galaxies.
WoW and SWtoR are the classic experience with SWtoR having really great class story. TESO's combat takes adjusting to if you're used to standard Tab to Target;Hotkey stuff. TESO's combat just isn't for me.
Combat is serviceable but not great. I don't think it sucks although there's definite room for improvement, ZOS just got a new combat designer. The game shines mechanically in dungeons and trials where bar rotation and attack weaving come into play, but I wouldn't fault someone for never getting to that point.
It's the second most active MMO behind WoW. I think Final Fantasy is also around it as well, probably depends on time of year. It's also divided per platform. I hope they can add crossplay once the new consoles hit.
I just bought it yesterday on Steam (Base game was down to $10). Gonna try it out later today actually.
