I really want this game to succeed. I already purchased my Imperial edition for 80$ and i'm not a blind hater. This is my fourth beta weekend.

I followed this game very lightly, hoping not to kill any surprises. I watched the official videos and the hype stuff. Was excited.

First and second Beta weekend, I just did solo PvE. I had a lot of fun, I felt the combat system was really interactive and cool, I felt powerful and it was an enjoyable experience. That was over a month ago, there were quest bugs but i just brushed them off "its beta, it will be fixed before live."

I even bought a brand new $300 video card solely for this game's launch to better play the game.

Third weekend, i ventured into Cyrodil for the first time. I did the tutorial stuff, learned how to make siege and ran 10 minutes down to an epic siege battle of like 300 players. It was fun as hell, but then the famous lag problems from stress weekend halted that.

Yesterday was a pitiful experience...Yes yes, "Its Beta!" but you know, the game launches in 2 weeks and it was more bugged than ever. I decided to make an archer and I hate that they took away the starting bow. I didn't get a bow until level 5 and that was from a nice guy in zone chat giving me one.

My escape key stopped working and nothing would fix it, not even restarting the game. My entire map was a black square so I could not see where I was going. Constant 5-6 second freeze ups (My PC is extremely over specced for this game). Quest lines were so bugged I couldn't complete them... Every quest npc bugged my view so i had to reloadUI constantly. Quest NPC"s dialogue would intermittently stop working. Action abilities having a blank icon so I had no idea what i was casting...

I started noticing how much the UI was limited (I recently re-subbed to WoW to fill the time inbetween TESO's beta and launch) --- Having no minimap actually does svck. It was compounded by my "black map" glitch to be sure, but it identified to me personally how just relying on the compass alone felt so poor. Only being able to bind 5 abilities with no quickswap felt very limited.

But this wasn't the worst of it. The worst was....

I was bored.

Completely, Bored...

I devoted almost all of last night to Cyrodil. See, I'm a PvP player at heart. I enjoy PvE for what it is, but my end-game staying factor for any game I play is competitive, skill-based, rewarding PvP. I did cyordil on my Nord dragonknight for around 7 hours last night. I want to say about 4-5 hours of that was riding through an endless backdrop of tree's and grass on a white horse with 50 other players, and then running into another zerg and dying very fast; most times dying to overpowered NPC's.

I tried small group skirmishes. 6 players and I decided to break off from the zerg, and go attack an undefended lumber mill 40 minutes travel south, to see if we could build a resistance far away from the zergs.

We dominated any smaller groups we ran into, but once we got there, were immediately killed in 15 seconds by NPC guards. It was a terrible feeling.

I received less than half a level of XP in all 7 hours. There was no progression, and i certaintly was not having fun.

I don't even want to log in today and am heavily contemplating stopping payment and getting a refund. I don't think after last night that i want to spend an entire month riding a horse 40 minutes to die to npc guards and then run back, or deal with a game so bugged that the solo pve content is nearly unplayable...

What am i missing here? Please someone explain to me why I should stay, because I love Elder Scrolls and I want this to work. This isn't trying to be a "Im threatening to quit zenimax!" post, its an honest attempt to retain excitement for this game and actually stick around.

Maybe it's not for you. I've been playing for a long time and continue to love it but I'm not sure anyone's words would be more impactful than your own, first-hand experiences. Good luck.

I made it to level 5 and i can't bear to log in. I also already preordered. If I have to struggle this much to get past the low levels(in hopes that pvp) or higher levels are more entertaining, then I don't want to do it again in a few weeks. So I guess I'll just wait till its live before I actually play any more.

From my tiny amount of experience.. it is the most boring MMO I've played( at very early levels). Actually Kind of reminds me of my experience in WoW, in which I quit at level 29 and didn't play it again for like 7 or so years? When my wife convinced me to try it again and play with her.

My experiences with other MMOs are..

DAoC- I couldn't stop playing since minute 1 for many years.(7 years, then 3 years off and on)

WoW- Quit @ lvl 29(few weeks?)

Warhammer- Fun, until endgame (2 months).

Rift-Fun until free to play(2 years?)

FFXIV- Fun until endgame, very little to do(2-3 months?)

I Hope my first impression of this game are wrong, and I find enjoyment in the endgame. As endgame is much more important to me than leveling up... I can usually push through the leveling, even if I don't find it quite as enjoyable as other games.

i would say to you sir... keep in mind that you are most likely playing with a lower lvl toon without optimized gear in an area most likely meant for endgame pvp and rts.

U get a bow in the urn as soon as you leave cold harbor.... Whine some more about self imposed issues

You should try diablo 3. It's a really easy 3 button game...I think that would suit your play style. Best of luck!

Cyrodil was not much fun, I played it for an entire day and It was mainly running 30-45 minute expanses with nothing going on until you ran into another zerg of hundreds of players, lagging horribly (server lag, not fps lag) and randomly dying to NPC's. Very little reward on an individual scale and you don't gain any XP from pvping. You can gain xp in cyrodil from the pve and select pvp quests, but its a pittance compared to PvE and takes hours to travel around the map doing the small quests you do get.

I'm sorry to hear this, but it simply seems like this formula doesn't work for you. If you're bored, move on; there's nothing else to say. I know it's disappointing when you've been waiting a long time for something, only to find out it wasn't quite what you hoped for, but that's life.

I love the game to bits. The only reason I'm not incredibly invested in it right now is because I know my character will be reset in a couple of days. Roll on launch day!

You could cancel your pre-order. If the game isn't for you, it isn't for you. Not everyone will enjoy the same things.

I've played d3. It was okay, and i had every character maxed with inferno beaten and two paragon 100's.

Nothing about teso so far is "Hard" or "skill based" and this is a "5 button game" so what is your point? Lol.

Ranged attacks are heat-seeking, and melee abilities have 15 yard range? Zerging with 200 players and dying to NPCs?

It was just, not very fun and riddled with bugs.

I popped over every urn and interactive object I could see. Most were empty and definitely did not give me a bow. Either I missed it or you got lucky and found a bow.

The profit gives you a container, in which you will find armor and a bow.

On topic, the point is not to play but to test. So no worries.

He's talking about the urn that the Prophet gives you once you leave Coldharbour. I got one too, and it had a leather chest piece and a bow inside.

Which means, it's in your inventory.

No actually it is to play. The bug testing is for all purposes done until launch and anything you find now is more than likely fixed in the internal test build.

There's hundreds of things to do in Cyrodiil. Daily quests, bounty board missions, dungeons, random quests, dark anchors, small skirmishes, keep sieges, solo play, and a lot more. Not to mention the plethora of various strategies you can use to accomplish those goals. They gave you a ton of things to do, but they can't make you have fun. My Dad used to tell me "Only boring people get bored." I'm not trying to be rude. There are bug issues, and I'm sure some of those activities don't appeal to you, but being bored is on you brother.

The fact that you didn't pay enough attention to know about the urn that was given to you, with the bow you desired in it, kinda illuminates the problem on why you are so easily bored. As others have already stated; Perhaps this game isn't for you. You could hang around arguing that it is the games fault, and not just that you are obviously wanting something else, or you could just say "Thanks for the offer, but no thanks..."

Got the same feeling about World of Warcraft - I'm logging in, doing half of a quest - logout - freezing my account. Same with GuildWars 2 - Login - Joining the public elitist zerg in WvW - circle raiding - logout.

These games are not for me just as TESO seems not to be the right game choice for you. Just move on, don't try to enforce people to have the same opinion as you and thats it. I could tell you A LOT what I like, especially about AvA. I kinda thing the other way ... I love a lot of those features, and when I see a bug I move on - You might hate this but: This IS a beta.

If you start to dislike the content then its one more reason to just not playing the game.

People have to see that not every game is designed for everybody. This is not how games are developed ...

No its show the inexperience of the people that made the MMO that it couldn't point you in the right directing either with that first box u get or pointing you to places with quests.

Yes, I hear they hire monkeys to do all their programming. This is what happens when a small, inexperienced company with very little funding try to make an MMO..

You quoted the wrong person. I didn't start this thread.