...is that I wanted and still do want it so badly to succeed.
Sure, if it were branded as your typical lackluster fantasy mmo, it wouldn't suck so much that the game is doing as poorly as it is. But it's not branded that way. It's branded as an Elder Scrolls game, and this is what we all expected.
For a little over a year, we became like kids counting down the days until christmas again, eagerly awaiting the day we would unwrap our shiny new present and get...a pair of socks. Thanks, grandma.
TES is a series where the fans are notoriously devoted and we put a lot of love and faith into this game with each new reveal. For a good long while I was slightly irritated with the dull questing grind and the many,
many bugs but I still was one of those people that said "It's just been released, give it time."
But some time passed, and nothing got better. I still tried to stay positive and said "Looking at it strictly as an mmo, it's pretty decent." More time passed. It's been about 2 months and the future seems bleak. With each new patch, the game doesn't seem get better, it seems gets
worse.
I've given up on this game at this point and don't see it surviving much longer. Of course, we can't really say how many people have already unsubbed until we see the official numbers, but as an average mmo launch tends to lose about half its subs immediately, this one has been particularly rocky, getting a lukewarm response across the board from critics and even very negative reviews from popular critics such as Angry Joe.
The game feels like it's been dead and buried before it can even get going, which is truly a sad thing. There's no doubt that my plea will only reach other players in the same boat as I am and will be passed by by the dev team, but in the case that this reaches someone who is involved...I know most of what I post on this forum is some form of QQing. There's a lot to QQ about. That doesn't mean I've shut this game out completely; I am open to positive change. I have 2 months left on my sub. I'm not feeling too hopeful, but I can ask anyways...please restore my faith in this game.
Sincerely,
Arandil, Daggerfall Covenant