Also if they wanted me to listen to everything they should have gave me replies like Swtor did, that was the best part about Swtor.

PVE aspect isn't bad at all, enjoying it actually. I also take my time but that's something I've learned after 15+ Years of MUD and MMORPG.

I can't find the right way. my first time on Auridon was full of cold sweat and rumbling heart. terrible, awful experience. buildings are almost as if taken from any random elves from other fantasies. animals? the most exotic ones are monkeys. what about 'Altmer' themselves? they are polluted with humanly feelings, as if they were sniffing MAN' thyroids and brains; crying, wailing, sickly caring. what is this? lorkhanic joke or cheap and low method to gain popularity? I do not know if I should even mention this ayrenn thing, it is a disaster, one of those cheap fable princesses who stand against proper values and behave like peasant hags. anti racist anti bigot, really? she should not have become queen in the first place. some golden dropout who led her life outside hallowed Alinor. there are even Altmer homosexuals! how did they pass after birth examination, why weren't they exiled. an Altmer who willingly does not contribute to positive birth rate? sacrilege.

game, story limits your choices. I haven't been able to assist in eugenics infanticide. there was no chance to torture khajiit and bosmer at the College of Aldmeri Propriety. Listening to this sub form of existence called raz is horrible. I want a proper Thalmor officer who will feed lesser races children with skooma, who will trade women and children for prostitution, who will order pogroms, lynching and wide spread massacres.

And what is with all these 'Altmer' who have human skin colour.

If not for the few haughty Altmer and combat system then this game would be unplayable for me. but even combat is far from ok: obligatory participation in 'classes' is against what I perceive as TES: freedom of gameplay. why I can't throw javelins, breathe fire or summon supernovas with my Sorcerer? I do not care if some people will join the rabble and start playing 'fotms'. I want to use abilities that I like, because of their visuals, overall feeling and theme.

for its age rating, I would expect much less whitewashing and watering down.

the best way to approach this game is to approach it with the stick. I do not wish this game bad, quite the opposite, but in my opinion many things must change before it becomes good.

Swordguy wrote: »

I played for 2 months, exactly as you are describing (taking it slow), but for the love of Talos, Don't level VR by doing the other 2 factions quests.... find another way, or level alts to 50 in the other 2 factions first.

This is exactly what I would be doing... IF the max level was 50, but since its Vr12 I have to get there to be able to effectively pvp and just for my satisfaction.

You cant play ESO like skyrim, in skyrim I skipped around the entire map.
In this game you can only skip around to a dozen quest nodes in the same zone.

Plus Aldmeri Dominion quest/lore is so boring that it made me want to rush through as quickly as humanly possible. I dident do it fast enough and lost all interest.

Daethz wrote: »

You cant play ESO like skyrim, in skyrim I skipped around the entire map.
In this game you can only skip around to a dozen quest nodes in the same zone.

Plus Aldmeri Dominion quest/lore is so boring that it made me want to rush through as quickly as humanly possible. I dident do it fast enough and lost all interest.

Some great discussions have been recently had regarding ESO and its lack of openness, as this article articulates further:

When The A.V. Club reviewed Skyrim back in 2011, it wrote, "Where many games with lavish production values seek to direct players' imaginations, Skyrim seeks to ignite them."

I’m sorry to report that at almost every opportunity, The Elder Scrolls Online violates that principle. There are plenty of examples, but one really stands out: the game world is rigidly segmented.

All of The Elder Scrolls Online’s content is divided by level, so if you try to move on beyond the path the developers have laid down for you, and you'll quickly be killed. You must level up your character to proceed, and doing that necessitates sticking to a very clearly defined route through the world.

It's their imagination, not yours, and they won’t let you forget it.

Gone is the sense of exploration and freedom. Gone is the ability to wander to whatever corner of the world you want to tell your story. It’s bewildering to see that ZeniMax missed that mark so completely, especially given that there have been many MMOs over the years that were actually more like Skyrim or Oblivion than this one.

Why did ZeniMax draw inspiration from World of Warcraft– a game whose highly directed experience is counter to the emergent freedom of The Elder Scrolls – rather than Ultima Online, EVE Online, Meridian 59 and others that are more spiritually similar to what franchise fans know and love?

I know it has "Elder Scrolls" in the title, but ESO is also an MMO. I'm trying to play it as an MMO.

I never finished a single ESO single player title before becoming bored...and I own them all lol. Not even Skyrim.

But I love MMOs and here I am trying to run some dungeons (which are terrific fun in ESO), and then discover I am getting no XP in them. MMO, right? Apparently not.

For some players (me), quests eventually become a snoozefest (the main quests, and the mage and fighters guild quests are wonderful). I love playing group content in MMOs, but refuse to mindlessly grind mobs for levels. And I love PvP'ing, but hate getting facerolled by full vets that typically grinded mobs to get there (my toons are all in their 20s still).

Thus, I find myself logging into Wildstar more than ESO, which is a shame. All it would take to get me back to ESO would be an XP quest for completing dungeons, or a buff to PvP xp. ESO has a lot of potential for MMOers, especially the PvP.

Falmer wrote: »

Completely agree. I would say the vast majority of people complaining about the game are playing it like the first person to max level wins the grand prize. There is no prize for 'max level'.

Yes, there is. The prize is not getting one-shotted in AvA. Forcing those of us who prefer to AvA to level up doing quests was a horrible decision on ZO's part.

SK1TZ0FR3N1K wrote: »

As for nameplates...I like it without them.

You can't have nameplates on NPCs.

Here is your action bar on the right hand side, and vertical...just as you requested

What addon is that?

Also, how do you have a multiple potion bar?

This is the crap that is upsetting. This stuff should be an option in the game instead of having to search for all these addons, just to have the options most other MMOs offer normally.

"You people are playing this game wrong", theres never that option in polls, lol.

How can anybody play it the wrong way when it's "Play How You Want".

glitchmaster999 wrote: »

It seems like people are trying to play ESO like any other game and not like and elder scrolls game.

The root of all my ESO-related whining is exactly the fact that I am trying to play it like an Elder Scrolls game, when it's really closer to any other mmo.

Blackwidow wrote: »

[*] no open world to explore,

"I do not think" open world "means what you think it means"

From 1-50 you can go anywhere within the factional zone, that's "open world". Just because you can't get to the other factional zones does not mean it is "not open world", "open world" means you are not stuck rigidly to a rail-road line of story like CoD.

I really hope they balance things out within the next couple of months because this game has great potential but it is being judged harshly on a base game.