As a PC and console player who has slowely drifted away from PC games over the last decade and more and more into consoles, I'm pretty damn excited about ESO coming to consoles.

I don't have the money, time, nor the desire anymore to maintain a top of the line gaming rig and fight with each game as it comes out to eck out good quality gaming. It stopped being a hobby in my early 20's, and has more or less become work now that I've got so much else on my plate.

With a console I have one VOIP with a reasonable expectation of everyone having mic's. Messaging and grouping is a breeze. Talking with friends who are playing other games is also quite simple. Game setup is straightforward, and I don't worry much about keybinds, settings files, .inf files, dowload states, version updates, etc, etc.

The ONLY reason I still use my PC is for one game type ... MMO's. I guess RTS would also be there, if I didn't still prefer Age of Empires to anything else. I can play that on my wife's laptop. No top end gaming rig needed. But between the Farcry's and the Grand Theft Auto's, the Halo's and the little platformer arcade games ... consoles do what I want.

Neverwinter works beautifully on console, and looks good too. Only problem with that game is the problem of the developers themselves ... being a cash-in-and-pull-out company that only does once a year updates. Still won't stop me playing. And it looks and runs a ton better than it does on my home rig.

ESO? I'm expecting more. Larger, more vibrant, less cartoony world. Yes, I want more content. YES, I want housing. Yes, I want new lands to explore and it to be easy to group with friends and more armor styles and new spells, etc, etc. But I think in the desert that is the console market of MMO's, ESO is going to be a hit.

All they really need to do is make a separate forum, one more actively moderated, to help keep some of the bitterness that the PC vets bring away from the new customers.

Audigy wrote: »

The question is, who would really play an ES game on a console, especially as an MMO?

For me consoles work well with party games such as Mario Party or sports games like Fifa, but strategy or RPG and then as an MMO where you need the ability to chat and use a mouse?

I just don't see how someone is supposed to play these games with a controller, but this is a topic I also never understood with D3. It feels so clunky and weird, but the same I always said about shooters and Halo has proven me wrong there, as it for whatever reason seems to work for todays console heroes.

So even if you and I @Wraithazraiel feel that consoles are weird to play such games on, I am sure ZOS wouldn't release ESO on them if the market wouldn't be there. I guess for minors playing on a console is much better and cheaper, but also for those who are not very technical with PCs. After all, you only put the DVD in and start playing - I always enjoyed that at Fifa & co or with TR as a child.

Some of the millions of players who already played Skyrim on the console for example.
Or some of the thousands of players who already play other MMOs on their console, might they be DCUO, FF or Neverwinter.

As you already stated, ZOS knows about the potential of consoles, otherwise they wouldn't have done it.