Well, i've been playing MMO-RPG's, for almost a decade. And during this time, i've tried out the majority of them. I currently have only been playing World of Warcraft (WoW), and Neverwinter. I've also played, and greatly enjoyed Oblivion and Skyrim (I gladly burned out my last laptop on Skyrim, lol, it might even be my favorite 1 player game to date), so I just thought i'd give a suggestion.

World of Warcraft has been around for quite a while, and i've played it since Vanilla. But here lately, the devs of said game, seem to not care about balancing things out whatsoever. Certain classes are just laughably superior in every situation, and world PvP has been taken over by the PvE players, due to horrible itemization design.

To make matters worse, the Devs don't really seem to care what the player base has to say about any of it, and delete all threads on the forums that cover the many imbalance issues, that apparently will never be corrected.

I'm just hoping that Elder Scrolls Online will pay close attention to PvP balance (sadly, I don't really play MMO's to raid / PvE). And perhaps consider pushing back the release date until some months after World of Warcraft's newest expansion is released.

When Warhammer Online came out, all of my friends and I, back in the Navy played it. The PvP aspect of the game was in our opinion, superior to World of Warcraft's, so we all played it for a few months, but the game as a whole just felt kind of rushed, and more like it was in a Beta or even Alpha stage of development.

I believe that Warhammer's biggest mistake, was rushing their development, in order to try to beat Wrath of the Lich King's release date. You can't steal WoW's playerbase by releasing before an expansion, especially with a game in a Beta state. Needless to say, every single one of my friends stopped playing Warhammer, roughly around the same time.

Star Wars failed because there wasn't enough for max level people to do apparently, so all my friends left for that reason. I personally left it, because I didn't like the PvP, I only liked the character's well written story lines.

The game itself has potential (and quite a new and confusing talent system), and i'm just hoping that the game would come out after WoW's Warlords of Draenor, since true gamers are going to buy both anyway, make a comparison, and play the one that they like more. But, WoW has a weakness, max level gear grinding for PvP or PvE takes 2-3+ months, and once you've done the weekly things (raid, Conquest, Valor), there's almost no point to play until the next week.

The other real reason i'd like the release date pushed back, is because of WoW's history of taking what they like from other games. For exmaple, Achievments were only released because people liked them in Warhammer Online, and the AoE Loot system was only added because it was a very nice feature in Star Wars: The Old Republic (or the TOR-Tanic, as me and my friends now call it).

I'd hate to see WoW take what they like from ESO, and add it into their finally declining world (mainly due to imbalances, pandas, and now unstable servers).

And I know that it's probably not your intention to beat out WoW or anything, and you probably have a team for balancing things within the game. But there's my 2 cents, sorry for the wall of text.

Who cares about WoW? I'm following THIS game.

Anyone who wants to play it won't give two craps about WoW and whatever they're doing whenever.

True, i'm just saying... Most of the MMO players that I know, tend to only play one subscription based game at a time.

I'm looking forward to Elder Scrolls Online (been following this game for years it seems), but let's face it... It's subscription based, which means if not enough people play it, it can go offline like Warhammer Online did.

If this game grabs the gamer attention on release day and 30 days after, then it will be fine. Doesn't matter when it releases, most gamers are always up for buying a new game they hope will be of quality.

First point they set the release date to then they was ready, not so long since they set 4/4 as date. They also had the option to delay it even later for some loose of face.

So if they felt the game was not ready they would delay it.

More important the console release comes 2-3 months later, if the pc version flop the console version will sell terrible.

Remember the closed betas we play is for stress testing servers, check that clients for on all sort of pc and find rare bugs.
They has additional smaller teams of players in an more intense beta who goes over longer time. They also test internally, so the players are mostly to get balance right, find exploit and verify that stuff i fun.

I think Cyba's right. There probably aren't many WoW fans interested in ESO. I myself lost interest in WoW some time ago- I never even considered getting Kung Fu Panda expansion, or the next one, whatever it is. It's honestly not even on my radar. I doubt I'm alone in that. I played WoW for a few years, it was fun, but now I'm done with it.

By the way, anything besides simply saying you're in the beta violates the NDA, including (especially?) giving your impressions of it. Just an fyi for you.

Balancing a game around PvP is a horrible game model and has been the deathnell for many.

First, you're walking awfully close to that NDA borderline.

Secondly, you're gonna be one of those guys. Developers know they are not going to put a dent in WoW's subscriber base, this is a dead horse that needs to be laid to rest. So, there's no reason to wait until after WoW's next failure of an expansion.

Achievements in MMO's existed before Warhammer Online, Guild Wars had 'em, but that's irrelavent, as is this company stealing that company's ideas.

As far as the fear of nothing to do at end game, another dead horse, the easy remedy for that is to take your time and enjoy the game. If you reach max level in two days, then all I can say is your beat.

There is no time to change anything, you would have to push back the date YEAR(s) to change anything! Either they did good job or not, we will see in two months.

I have no idea what im doing