The great thing about pre-orders is that no one knows the answer, for certain, until it releases.

I'm definitely waiting till it is on the PTS to decide.

It certainly sounds underwhelming so far, I don't imagine I will care about a card game within the game I play. The new companions might be fun, but if that's all this game has then I will wait till it becomes available through ESO+.

No. Greymoor and Blackwood weren't worth their price either. The last reasonably priced Chapter was Elsweyr 3 years ago.

Too early to tell IMO
Need to play it first.

Maybe the story is amazing, i enjoy the card games, love the trial and think the new companions are awesome.. maybe not. Time Will tell, but too early to call.

I will get 200+ hours out of the High Isle chapter. At $39.99 that's $0.20 per hour.

To me, $0.20 per hour is worth it.

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

I will get 200+ hours out of the High Isle chapter. At $39.99 that's $0.20 per hour.

To me, $0.20 per hour is worth it.

No idea how you can get 200 hours out of a Chapter when the story can be done within 10-15 hours. I'm curious. I'm someone who's reading all the quests and none of the Chapter zones main story took more than 10 hours for me to finish. Add another 10 hours (being generous here) for the side quests and maybe another 10 hours (being generous as well) for the delves, world bosses etc. and you can get ~ 30 hours out of a Chapter.

Glacku808 wrote: »

Considering what comes with it: a new zone and the ability to play a card game, is the chapter really worth its price?

I think having a reductionist argument of the Chapter doesn't really reflect the content you are buying.

To the question, sure. But each of us is a single consumer, so individually we make a call on the Chapter's worth.

I'm more of an explorer/dungeoneer/thief type, so I'm looking forward to exploring nooks and crannies, dusty caves/ruins, and rummaging through towns to find treasures and recipes.

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

I will get 200+ hours out of the High Isle chapter. At $39.99 that's $0.20 per hour.

To me, $0.20 per hour is worth it.

Where is that playtime projection coming from, exactly?

It really depend on what you want from it

This will be the first time I don't preorder a DLC. What I saw the other day on Twitch was... underwhelming. The story is not very interesting, and visually it was nothing unique or interesting. I also don't understand why a very important part of breton lore, which is how magically skilled they are, keeps getting ignored in all breton areas only to treat them as your run of the mill medieval fantasy human race. It makes me think the people developing these stories have very little grasp of Elder Scrolls lore, which is amazingly rich.

Then there is the card game. I confess I was thinking of preordering it until I saw the card game. It completely put me off.

I miss the days of Morrowind DLC. I've never liked these year long stories split in two tiny areas and two DLC dungeons. They've grown more stale with each new release. It's basically an area, some quests, 6 delves, a couple of group delves, world bosses and your anchor-substitute. It's the same thing over and over again. The area is so small I can explore it in a single day. The awesome thing about Elder Scrolls games was how huge they were, and I am aware this is a DLC, but then Shivering Isles and Dragonborn were relatively large maps with plenty of content to do. Wrothgar and Morrowind were very good DLCs. Summerset felt small, but ok, it's a beautiful area. Northern Elsweyr feels empty, and S.Elsweyr is tiny, but they're okayish. Everything after that is utter meh. Not keeping my hopes high for this one, so I might as well pass and see what happens.

No not worth it for me. £40+ for a couple of hours questing and a card game seems like a rip-off for me. Only things of interest will be the new mythic items and perhaps the trial, just not enough really and it's quite embarrassing for an MMO like ESO.

The chapter will be much cheaper after about 2-3 months after launch once a flood of players run out of things to do as per usual given these last few chapters. Best to wait until then I'd say to pick it up you'll probably be much happier for it.

Faulgor wrote: »

If you pay full price for ESO chapters you're not paying attention.

E.g. greenmangaming.com has a 22% discount for the new chapter atm..

Not anymore

I’ll say yes without even seeing it because the price of entertainment per hour is so much cheaper than most other forms of entertainment.

For me, with 4 accounts, the real question is how many accounts do I buy it for?

I didn't watch the reveal, so I'm not sure if it is worth the price, but based on what I've read thus far, I'm going to say "no." The only new feature is the card game and the sets aren't very exciting, so this may be the rare occasion that I don't pre-order the DLC.

This feels more like $20-30 worth of content than the same $40 I paid for Elsweyr which came with a new class. So while I really want to play the High Isle storyline, I'm seriously considering waiting for a sale.

The last time ZOS did a survey, I told them the chapter price was a big sticking point when they keep saying they are doing smaller features. My guess is that ZOS has decided on a base $40 price no matter what features there are. For me, that's a problem when the special features are supposed to justify why this is a cash-only Chapter and not a DLC included in ESO+.