Yes,

It will make a lot of money, because the name/brand sells itself.
Typical with all MMORPGs,
They don't make expansions good enough, and purposely leave stuff out, for future things to sell
Morrowind will be a flop because it doesnt have spell crafting, no acrobatics, no levitation, the dunmer doesnt look right (ever since Oblivion, they have been making dark elves differently), there will be no eerie feeling like you experience in the original Morrowind, there is no war with the houses (you join all of them, even if there is a war, it doesnt feel like a war, just like how it is right now with DC, EP, AD... there isnt anything going on, even though developers think something is going on).

So it will make money, sure, its a big company, they launch anything it makes money.
Will this expansion be anything spectator?
Nope, just the same as a World of Warcraft expansion.
Typical, new zones, new monster, new skills.
There wont be any Morrowind feeling to it.

Just look at Thieves Guild as an example.
Just another average DLC/expansion. 6 out 10 rating... ESO pays critics... it will be 8.8 out of 10. Just like the other companies that pay critics.

Just so you know ratings.
6/10 is average for high school passing
7/10 is average for undergrad
8/10 is average for grad
9/10 is average for doctoral
10/10 that's innovative.

People aren't really upset with the expansion - they are more upset with the balancing patch that comes with it. They are mutually exclusive.

No, Morrowind will not fail on it's own.

Balance patches will happen and will continue to happen - both good and bad.

Content is content. We all hunger for new content.

They are 2 completely separate things and I think people are losing sight of that fact.

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

1. Yes, it is a cash grab.
2. You sub for crafting bags. If that isn't why you sub, you shouldn't be subbing.
3. PTS notes are fine. I doubt the changes now will have as much impact as adding CP had. For some reason people freak out over "nerfs" when nerfs and buffs are the same thing so long as you keep overall power equal. Crappy parts of update still have plenty of time to be rebalanced.
4. I don't like homogenization of classes. Unfortunately, there are quite a few people who want their favorite class to be the best at things other classes were designed for.

All the drama really doesn't matter to me. I will play the story at some point because it is more TES content..

I disagree 100 % with the statement nerfs and buffs are the same thing as long as they keep the power balanced between the classes.

Let's put it this way, we have a strong character like the ones we have now, that with the correct group setup you can sustain and do good damage at the same time, rotations are fun, figuring out which group setups and gear setups work better is fun, and you feel powerful, as you should because this is a game, why would you immerse yourself in a game if your character looks, and is weak as ***?

Then there are nerfs, so let's say that you nerf every single aspect of the game, damage goes through the drain, sustain also, and the fun of the game goes through the drain as well, because now you are forced to run regen setups, and use heavy attack builds to do some decent damage* before you weren't forced to do this, this update won't solve the diversity problem we have in this game, to do that they would have to make new sets, and buff abilities accordingly so they deal about the same damage.

So even though it's true that nerfs and buffs can archive the same result (balance) for me it's pretty clear which one is the winner, and if all those buffs are leading to power creep? Just buff the bosses accordingly, or even better create a new dungeon mode for very experienced players.

Of course if something is completely and utterly op then it should be nerfed, but i personally don't think that sustain was op, you couldn't sustain for more then 1 min if you didn't have any sort of buff, and even if you used ele drain, you would get at max 1 and a half min of sustain.

*(now of course this is an opinion, but i challenge you to find anyone who would prefer to spam heavy attack all day long then having an actual rotation).

And lastly, an mmo should have some kind of progression, you and your character should never become weaker as time passes (you might adjust some aspects, but in the end your overall damage output shouldn't be less then before).

The only time i would allow for a reduction in numbers would be in a situation like what happened after wow mists of pandaria, when characters would have started to hit for billions of damage in a single hit, but let's be real, eso is far from that, and probably never will hit those numbers. an even then i still don;t think that it was such an important matter. Just reduce the font size, or just squish the number a bit, so instead of covering you screen with an enormous number, like 1000000000 just reduce it to 1000 mil or 1 bil, or even better, let player customize that aspect, if they wanna see the full number, let them see the full number, an so on.