I'd give it 7/10 as the game is enjoyable and fun, I like exploration and the story best. I also enjoy the combat and the variety of skills, armour and weapons you can use. Like that it has a darker edge.

Things I don't like: UI is terrible without mods
No proper AH. Even being a member of 3 trade guilds I rarely ever sell anything.
There's way too many bugs and broken animations.
Not enough inventory or bank space. I feel like I spend 40% of the time playing inventory management game instead of playing ESO.

Even with the things I dislike I will keep playing as there is no other MMO that interests me. Competitors are too cartoony, comical, cheesy and light hearted. eg.GW2 and Wildstar.
I'd rather have a buggy darker edge of ESO over less buggy comical, cartoony MMO's.

A three. A four when I can actually get past the borked launcher and play. And maybe a five on the days the client doesn't crash for no reason.

You have to look at mmo's differently for reviewing them. You simply have to just look at the core features and fast forward yourself into the future then decide the replay value. The core features ive fast forwarded myself into the future for are

storyline and story flavor. This is a 7/10. The mainstory and fighter/mage/undaunted stories are interesting. Not epic, but the work was put in to make them have an aceptable standard.

Interface and controls. This is a 6/10. The controls were known to me to be clunky before i bought the game, but the interface is terrible. Especially the grouping interface.

Crafting is an 8/10. If offer a large amount of options and though the interface is bad, i think they did a good job.

Class system and Skill tree. 9/10. The classes are interesting and the skill tree is likely the best feature for me in this game. However, the skill tree is so great and fun that i find myself ignoring the games other features for the sheer desire to gain the next level or skill point.

Pve and Questing 5/10 I quested in a few mmo's with my wife and diablo3 as well, and i find that this games questing is not friendly or sociable to do with other players. Many Many times one of us find ourselves having missed one part of a quest, while the other has it, and this problem deters us from wanting anyone else in our group. Backtracking is the norm for questing with my wife. We have no desire to find other people to quest with because they simply arent very well designed for group play. Dungeons are the only reason we ever have a 3rd person in our group.

Pvp and latency 9/10. The pvp is well designed and very fun. I believe a particular amount of time and money was put into making this aspect of the game shine. This will make it a hit in the console market. The latency for the massive amounts of player onscreen is pretty good too, though i have to drop my settings to low and turn off some minor environmental features even with a top alienware comp and blast internet.

Overrall, this games saving grace is the pvp and classes/skill tree. Beyond that, they arent going to be making any major changes to the core direction they took for questing/pve/interface. Thank jeebus for addons.

B for still in Beta

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Best game I have ever played in thirty plus years...just want to group in Cyrodiil without major bugs, and stop seeing PvE'rs complain about bots when PvP is still broken

Foxhunt wrote: »

This game receives a 9/10 from me. Some problems aside, I've been having a blast playing this game and loving every minute of my adventure. I've yet to feel 'worn out' from playing.

Lol...anyone that feels worn out must be playing 20+ hours a day

I would give it a solid 7.

Mainly due to it being fun. The quality and depth of it's class and crafting systems deserves recognition. The expansive world is complete with interesting quests and plenty of reasons to explore. The sound and graphics are also beautiful. The combat is enjoyable. There is a lot here to love.

I wouldn't give it above a 7 in its current state though, due to a horrible in-game economy. It deserves to lose at least a few points for that. I also think the game is paced poorly. My character levels up too fast for me to enjoy the content on par with my level. But it's definitely above average and they did enough things right to merit a good score in my opinion.

8/10. I love the game,I do. The quests are fun, the graphics are amazing (for an mmo anyway). But, it most defo loses points for the banking. I'm always having to shift things from toons I made, but are just packhorses. It costs a lot to upgrade your bank space and bags. For those of us enjoying the journey with a pitiful amount of gold, it can be really frustrating. Not game breaking though. I love how we can choose how we want to play our classes, and I like combat. That is when the enemies are there. Sometimes they just don't appear for me. Reloading the ui fixes it. Normally. Also..Falling through bridges..Always...I have broken gear from always having to /stuck often. Infuriating but, I still play. Overall I'm excited for the future of ESO, and hopeful the kinks are worked out.

**Edit to add** I really dislike guild stores. I don't want to be in a guild. But I want to be able to buy stuff when I'm lazy, or actually make some gold so I can buy more space. I don't want to be forced into a guild for that. Some people want to be solitary and sometimes group up for content..It needs to be sorted somehow. Maybe have guild stores for people who don't want to share with the world...And then an alliance wide AH for us loner types that enjoy certain aspects of mmos, but not all the time.

I would give it a 6 out of 10.

What's stopping a 10 out of 10? It's not a decent MMO. There are lots of people but the game is horrible for groups. Now days I do not understand how a game can even consider itself a MMO if it doesn't have voice chat. Why should I have to download 3rd party software to get this game to do what it should have been included with. Text was fine back in the days of turn based combat but trying to type anything meaningful while figthing is futile.

No auction house. I'm not sure if I'll sub to this game or not so I don't want to join a guild for a week or 2 and then quit until most of the issues are fixed. I also see so many posts in chat from people trying to sell items that having a conversation can be difficult. At least let the Mage, Fighter, and Undaunted guilds have guild stores.

Inventory space. The costs to expand are exponential and you can still easily struggle with room. Mule toons are almost a requirement.

No controller support. 95% of what you need can easily be mapped to a controller and would make the game much more enjoyable to a lot of people. We would still have keyboard handy for the rare times it was needed but that is it.

Glitches, spammers, and bots - no surprises here and since they seem to be working on these issues I'm not holding these issues against them at this time.

I like the game and the combat. The graphics and music are decent. I like how the world changes based upon what you've completed but wish that ESO wasn't so single player focused on many of the decisions they made.

7.5 out of 10.

Negatives:

Bots, bots and more bots.
Inventory micromanagement is driving me crazy. I just get going with a good dungeon and "Your inventory is full" pops up.
Economy sucks. It's hard to know what to sell stuff for and it's hard to find stuff.
Repairs needs looking at. Either reduce the damage suffered when in combat or reduce the costs. Maybe increase the death damage but reduce or eliminate regular combat damage?

Positives:

Love the graphics.
Love the character creation and flexibility.
Quests are great-don't feel like I'm killing 10 rats (though sometimes I actually am, lol)
Crafting is great with the exception of Enchanting. Enchanting needs tweaking.

I know it looks like more negatives than positives, but at its core this game is a lot of fun for me. And that's what counts the most (imho).

As of now, i'll give the game 7 out of 10. It's a rough gem that needs more work to actually shine with the future competition in sight. I'm almost rank 5 with my sword & board/resto staff dk and i'm not sick of the class yet. That's a good sign.

The issues the game has and is facing have been voiced on the boards many times. Zen has to deliver fast and efficiently. Downtimes are inevitable, player outbursts will be seen and more problems will most likely come up. That's the nature of this kind of beast. The next few months will tell what will come of this game.

Finagill wrote: »

I would give it a 6 out of 10.

What's stopping a 10 out of 10? It's not a decent MMO. There are lots of people but the game is horrible for groups. Now days I do not understand how a game can even consider itself a MMO if it doesn't have voice chat. Why should I have to download 3rd party software to get this game to do what it should have been included with. Text was fine back in the days of turn based combat but trying to type anything meaningful while figthing is futile.

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It is easier to communicate in voice. I'll give you that. But text has its benefits.

Nothing can ruin a game faster for me then some annoying person on the mic. I have had to suffer through hours of listening to drunks spew garbage while doing raids. And I felt my soul die a little more each minute. And it's not so easy to just say leave and find a new guild. Often times there are friendships or other such ties that bind me to a place.

So I'm ok with voice as long as remains an option. But generally I wish people would not try and force party members to participate in voice chat if they do not wish to. Because they do not know of the cruel unabated torture this can be for some of us.

witnezzb16_ESO wrote: »

Lack of an AH is just blatantly dumb

Amen.