My every player in my PF game cancelled today, for different reasons.

Coincidentally, Elder Scrolls Online just started up...anyone here playing? Is it worth me getting?

I like ES, but I'm not paying $15 a month to play it.  I only play video games less than 10 hours a month anyway, though.

The current word is that it isn't as bad as initially feared.
Which might be damning it with faint praise, as the initial fear was pretty intense.

I played a bit with the beta.

I never played any ES game but I'm told it plays a lot like Skyrim.

It's got classes and levels. I'm not terribly fond of their class set-up because, while the Templar, Nightblade and Sorcerer do a fine job of covering the cleric/paladin, thief/assassin and mage archetypes... the fourth class, Dragon Knight, is equal parts knight, pyromancer and Dragon Disciple (a la the D&D 3.5e prestige class). And a game where you can't just be the good old-fashioned no-frills warrior type makes me sad.

The gameplay's okay, but I got into the beta very late and didn't really have the chance to explore much of the game world. I rolled a sword-and-board Redguard Templar and a dual-wielding Orc Nightblade. Combat is sweet.

does it scale again?
I enjoyed morrowind, but as the later games scaled the foe with the pc, I stopped playing it.

Haven't played it yet.

Does it help that Zeb Cook worked on it?

It uses a flexible class based system. So, it's a departure from Skyrim's pretty much free form skill based system. If it was more like Skyrim, I would be sold. But I would rank it "meh".

Oh, and armor in the game (especially light armor) just looks like ass. I know, I know, different art styles and all, but robes are just this horrible texture that is just shrink wrapped tight against your body. There is just no attempt at it trying to resemble something that would pass for cloth.

Didn't play the beta, and I'm not really interested anyway.

Of the upcoming MMOs in the next year or two, I'm most interested in EQ Next.

I played in the beta briefly.   Was hoping for skyrim online; was more like MMO with 'elder scrolls' branding.  This Penny Arcade comic pretty much summed it up for me.

Quote from: Doom;741224My every player in my PF game cancelled today, for different reasons.

Coincidentally, Elder Scrolls Online just started up...anyone here playing? Is it worth me getting?

It pretty boring.

They tried to make an Elder Scrolls game and an MMORPG, failed at both.

WildStar is about 10 times better... its a finished game. ESO currently is a buggy beta version of a average MMORPG.