I say yes, because many of my friends are leaving me T_T

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I'd say so.
Because elder scrolls franchise in itself is massive across multiplatform, it's a well known name.
Look at skyrim combined (360/ps3) it took 86% of the sales on console.

I think alot of people will pick it up, also they are really pushing it on ps store and also alot of adverts for ps4 version on UK TV, aswell as on twitch and ustream.

Saying that though, the lack of features may indeed put people off the mmo - as it's not what alot are expecting.
At the end of the day - consoles sell games, whether people continue to play them or not, the devs make the money anyway, so either way, if console flops the devs will have some more money, lol.

Not in net terms. Some existing PC players will switch to console, but the console launch publicity may well attract some more PC players, and some console players may switch to the PC version subsequently. I think the PC and console player numbers will remain pretty healthy so long as there's regular new content once the console launch has settled down.

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Not as much as a lack of new content.
Not as much as lag in pvp.

This.

Other PC MMOs will hurt the PC population more than anything console related.

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I think it doesnt matter anyway because unless they do a big revamp on there end game system(again) with the champions points wich simply puts a step between casual and hardcore. And we all know that everything is coming more casual (look a lol dota 2 these are alot more casual friendly thats why they so popular pop in play a 45 min game leave thats it...)

So for those reason I think this game will be dead within a year unless they do big changes again.

I am an hardcore player and I dont see any casual mmo player staying here . No casual player wants to grind 14 million worth of xp before doing endgame or not getting 1 shot in pvp.

As of an hardcore pplayer its been 3 month I play this game and in the past 3 week spent more time in forum . Ive grinded to vr 14, grinded 600 k+ ap have a full set gear done every dungeon. Antyhing left to do is endless grinding for best rolled undaunted shoulder or vet CoA endlessly for a better helm drop ( ran coa 30 times before i got my helm WTF!!!!!!! and a damn well fitted heavy when i need infused light hahaha i wanna cry this grinding!!! makes me sick , imagine for a casual player , they will never get that)

Im not even bothering about patching right now and I dont think I am gonna play the game again unless there are drastic changes .( plz put in trash your garbage champ system , its unfair , player hates when they have an disanvatage only because that guy has the time to spend 10h/day 7day/week on this toon to have 1000 + champ point and new comers in pvp and pve cant even think to be competive against them you killed yourself with champs points. LOL

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I think it will draw more people to PC when they realise they like the game and the PC version is better. That's how I got on to PC.

Populations in certain zones are already at a dismal level. I was in Stonefalls last night and hardly saw any posting in zone chat at all. I ran over the whole map and only came across 3 other players there. With people switching to Console as well, we could loose quite a bit from PC.

I expect a very minimal number of players moving over from PC to Console and even then. Most will still have their accounts on PC to come back too.

Whatever population pops up on Consoles for ESO will mostly be players that never played it on PC. Ive currently got around 10+ friends who are Console exclusive that will be getting it while Ive got zero friends on PC moving over.

I think they already "kicked" many fans from the ESO-boat with the last patch, mainly PvP'ers, as (on EU) it is just the same crowd playing every day pvp, while there is no constant supply of new people in Cyrondil. Those are important for a genuine (inpredictable) and growing (!!!) pvp-community, which in ESO is hard to find. Words as a "shrinking" game suit ESO much better.

Second, it's never good to split a gaming community into 3 servers, 3 different gaming systems, which is exactly what the console launch is doing. I'd even say the people in numbers switching over from PC are more or not-less than "really new" players to the game.

Third, the game is handicapped in it's usability, understandability, etc.. (to mention just one) The 5+1-button design is a major step-back in computer games (and only and mainly done because of gamepad-design, nothing else), no matter how many fanboys here try to defend the 5+1 button bar as a "new fantastic & limited approach" to mmorpg), without any reason to argue: it's a step-back for every "real" computer gamer (non console player/owner). Also the usage of the "TAB"-button sucks, as you can not log-off and ALT+TAB at the same time (and many more things, too many to be mentioned here)

Fourth, even more players will play ESO as a 1-player game on consoles. This is just my personal opinion. Sure, there'll be groups of friends, or even guilds, but the whole "communication thing" and many social aspects of the game will play a lesser role on consoles.

Fifth: BUGs everywhere, pretty much unchanged since release. I just mention one: DOORS THAT DON'T WORK. Much blabla from ZOS "we'll fix this" but nothing was done, and I mean really nothing, as the problem remains unchanged. This game is a little bit like those more "graphics candy" games but the reaction time for actions like "open door" or "swap weapon", either do not function at all, or they are deeply effected by lags, cooldowns, and the like. And this is part of the "deep game design", as it seems, as nobody really managed to remove this bugs after over a year!! It seems to me, that ESO wasn't properly tested on many hardware-setups, so that many PCs (even high-cost gaming PCs) can't handle the crappy coding (if the bug lies there).

Yes, though not many, and not for long. They will be back to PC.

This poll needed more options. The only thing that has hurt the pc player base is ZOS and the way they have handled the game, updates, and so forth. It was a conscious decision to send pc to back of the bus so to speak betting all the money (and promised content) on console players.

That said, I expect the launch to go decently enough and make them some money initially....but unless ZOS has figured out how retaining players long term in an MMO works *I* expect the same high drop off rate and "one and done" even more so on console than pc. Who are we kidding, players were bored before Craglorn hit.

Since then, decent xp gain has been nerfed into the ground with the exception of the grinding race (race being find it and get it before ZOS figures it out). Champion system was introduced.... but again unless grinding, in such a slow and painful way its not worth playing past enlightenment for the average player.

What is there to log in for every day??? That is what ESO lacks (imo). Crafting writs? Not with the crappy RNG system of rewards. Awesome dungeons that give you the gear necessary to move on to the next one? Nope, the gear sucks, no content requires special gear to do...and again crappy RNG. We can keep going...

TLDR: Nothing hurts this game more than ZOS. They need to figure out how to "retain" players instead of just attracting them on the coattails of the TES line.

Lack of attention will hurt the PC version. Other PC games will also hurt the PC population.

So many PC players are conservative, they dont want play MMO's on console. They want their gaming rig and all the stuff that comes with it.

I'm sure there's console players running around in Tamriel, checking it out now and again, waiting for their version to come out. But I dont think we'll notice their departure that awfully much.