» Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:19 am
As a counterweight to the rediculous excitement percentages referred to in earlier posts, allow me to present another view:
I am still interested, as the game tentatively seems to be OK, and I have greatly enjoyed both Morrowind and Oblivion. (For Oblivion, I actually bought the game and all the DLC's twice so I could have backup copies, as I belong to the mature/affluent/well-educated segment, and the cost of a game like this is no real issue, if I want to have it.)
However, I am not excited. This is largely due to the prospect of the game requiring third party online activation software. To give an example, I have all the Civilization games apart from the latest, which I did not even consider buying because of this issue. A friend of mine, who is a software professional, and a greater fan of the Civ series than I am, is even more adamant, that he could never get Civ V and agree to have 3rd part software like that on his personal PC. Why? I think my friend does not want mystery software doing mysterious things amidst his personal data. Personally, I mostly feel insulted (yes, really) by the notion, that I would be deemed stupid enough to pay good money for a product, when its EULA gives a third party every right to withhold that product from me at their whimsy, and potentially cause other frustrations as well. That is a bad deal, plain and simple, and I think it is insulting to even suggest it. (See, I repeated that word.)
So, I am still keeping tabs on the situation, but mentally I am preparing to call it a day/close the book/pull the curtains on Elder Scrolls. To be honest, as time goes by, I am gradually feeling less and less disappointed and more and more comforted by the notion, that I may be able to spend a couple of hundred hours more constructively than playing on my PC.