I have no time to kiss your inexperienced-in-the-mmo-field asses, Zenimax. I'm jumping right in the instant action with the hopes that you're not adopting a sunk-costs investment policy in which I HIGHLY SPECULATE YOU ARE. I'm a long-time veteran mmo player with more than 10 years of dedicated experience on every popular title you can conjure but above all, I am a MASSIVE Elder Scrolls fan. I'm not claiming or enforcing that my opinion is better than anyone else's either. I'm here to voice many of the concerns that you seem to be ignoring or downplaying intentionally to hide behind the NDA to secure sales via deception and discreetness.

No Open Beta - This is INCREDIBLY suspicious to many of us; thousands of us I dare say. The game debuts its retail launch in less than 2 months and it's still heavily restricted and covered by the NDA. I have but one question as do thousands more: Why is there no open beta? What reason is there for this? Thousands of other players are waiting to test the game or try the game and they will not be able to, ever. As a result, you are relying on that your game isn't possibly tarnished by leaks or footage, again, to secure sales. THIS IS NOT A SMEAR CAMPAIGN.

Combat Animation(s) - slow, sluggish, terrible latency behind them and potentially game-breaking. Abilities and the way they queue in combat are slow and often cause a brief pause between you and a hostile NPC in which you stare at each other until an animation has finished OR the terrible combat animations cause awkward character gliding and pivoting.

Public Dungeons - What were you thinking? So, now people get to go spelunking in MY dungeons and loot my potential epic chest..? OK, for real, here's the entirety of my beef on that choice: All of the main quests seem centered around public areas in which players SWARM by the dozens on dozens on dozens and utterly annihilate everything that can be tabbed hostile in a matter of seconds. This results in me being able to complete many, many, many quests by simply walking up to the objective NPC and pressing "E". All lootable objects are shared in this case. NO. If I wanted to share with random players, I'd invite them come along. (Public dungeons ARE NOT the dungeons you'll be doing in a group to defeat bosses and obtain loot.)

Lied about hybrid playstyle - Same old talent tree from every mmo that will NO DOUBT enforce cookie-cutter builds come endgame as in not every class can work as a hybrid playstyle. For instance, Nightblade with a restoration staff or abilities invested into staves...what? That's about as useful as trying to burn fire with fire.

NO ENDGAME RAIDS - Have the articles, can't post them.

PRE-ORDER BONUS = all races playable to any faction - ...What? Doesn't that defeat the entire concept of HAVING FACTIONS? I mean, that's self-defeating right there and basically just makes the game mean less to me. Next to that definition is a .jpeg of ESO.

PRE-ORDER FOR IMPERIAL BONUS - Again..what? Do I even need to expand on this after the massive public backlash from the fans? I can began posting all of those articles that I'm sure your fans would love to read.

NOTE: I AM NOT HERE TO SPREAD MISINFORMATION OR SMEAR ZENIMAX OR BETHESDA IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. I am regurgitating information that is being suppressed intentionally or just being posted in the incorrect places.

The beta felt lackluster, and, despite what you may think, it wasn't because of your graphics (which I found utterly beautiful BY THE WAY), it's because you're delivering to us a single-player RPG experience with multiplayer capabilities and then enforcing a sub, wait, WAIT, here's the part most fans DON'T KNOW, upon launch, they are releasing MICROTRANSACTIONS! So, me having a degree in business, let me see. Sounds like you plan for the eventual failure of the games subscription module and are planning to use the microtransactions as a bailout once the game drops to f2p.

Matt Firor was quoted: There are no raids, after all – "That's not Elder Scrolls," says Game Director Matt Firor – but there are four-man dungeons and three-faction open PvP with sieges in the beleaguered province of Cyrodiil.

Again, I'm not here to bash, there's a lot more. I wanted to get feedback from the community before I listed the many more problems Zenimax will choose to ignore. All I can say is if you refuse to listen to your fans and those concerned enough to post feedback, you'll tarnish the next Elder Scrolls title and create a massive level of apprehension in buying future products. You'll have become BioWare or EA and no one wants that.

No, you aren't.

And judging from a cursory glance of your wall of text, this was probably your first test. Slow your roll and settle down because you don't know what you're talking about.

Ignored. Replied in less than 2 minutes. You didn't read at all or weigh what* I posted. Immediately took me for trolling.

Slow comba animation... Your doing cocaine ?

It's a posted topic that is being debated and Zenimax has taken notice to the awkward combat animations as well, next.

Cuz your post start with

Still 2 month before release and I don,t remember any MMO who had an open beta more then 1 week before the release. NDA is often lifted 2-3 weeks before a release.

So I guess the rest was as clueless.

Love me some arbitrary statements!

Bah your a troll bye bye.

Your first sentence pretty much said all that needed to be said, and what it didn't say the rest of that paragraph did.

I don't think you're trolling, I think you have your opinions. And that's fine. But you're not the voice of the people and your opinions in this situation are based from incorrect assumptions, bias and possibly other things at which I can only begin to speculate on but have no reason to go into.

edit: Starting to reconsider the bolded part.

edit2: Yep. Retracting this statement.

I'm not here to troll, go away if you've got no logic and you come here with fanboyism to debate with. I've seen that for years and I've watched them tuck-tail behind their failed f2p mmo.

If you are offended, you may leave, however, if you respond to this with troll or open hostility, I have no reason to reply and AGAIN, I'm not here to troll..

Again, I don't mean to offend your delicate sensibilities. I'd love nothing more than this game to succeed but 5-combat action bars and more stance dancing than a vanilla prot warrior is nothing to come rushing to, relax.

lol what

So wait, all the fanboiz are up at 2:30am? I mean, there's been nothing but "YOU'RE A TROLL" since I posted. Trolling - posting an opinion that you've waived with disclaimers ahead of time throughout the text.

your very first sentence shows you are either clueless or the other word we are not supposed to call people here

Yeah, all those MMOs they worked on like DAOC, UO, etc. Bunch of newbs.

You clearly have your head in the game, buddy. I bet you pre-ordered the game before you even touched the beta. No, 10 years of business school makes me clueless to incredibly intelligent marketing schemes being masked by title alone to depend on sales. And to whomever got the NDA confused with open beta...lol @ you.

ok then since you are so damn smart, tell me why you think this dev team is clueless in the mmo field? i would love to see you try and prove this

Eh, your avatar is a cliche troll, says much about you and what you do on forums.

Its actually a frost troll.

I agree with everthing OP said. Its pretty much spot on.

The worst about ESO (which we knew since last summer) is that Bethesda/Zenimax's greedy xplatform choice has produced dumbed down actionbars with 5+1 slots with lackluster abilities, a la Neverwinter.

The weapon/abillity system which slightly resembles that of GW2 is also a failure. As OP said; whats the use for a Nightblade to use a restoration staff? Its dumb and clearly it doesnt work in an mmo setting.

Another example: I leveled a sorcerer to level 12 and I realised that in order to be a healer I had to FOREVER be stuck with a restoration staff...huh? Where are my choices?

Most people cant see it yet, but this game is going free to play before the year is over. It will like SWTOR only cater to the dedicated ES fans who eat whatever they get served...but for true MMO fans what weve seen so far isnt enough.

This game will have huge initial sales and then itll "go to Oblivion" (pun intended)

Only thing to conclude here: DeAlchylmist = whining troll. QQ I'll go cry for you later.

I hope a moderator locks this one down. TY

Sure, I can just post SWTOR. That's enough proof. The dev team is clueless because they're trying to mass market, cross-platform a niche title with the hopes that it brings new players and welcomes them to the world of Tamriel. They followed the same broken module SWTOR did and they are using the same old Hero Engine that can be made in a paint shed... Between your gutted words and awkward hostility and being so damn testy over the game already sort of proves that your a devoted fan right off the bat, dude.

Uh, having the ability to carry a restoration staff and be a healer as a Sorc is your choice. And some of the best healers I've ever played with were Nightblades.

GOD I can't wait for what's coming.

Well i agree and disagree.

I AGREE that there should be raids and other group content but i DISAGREE that there needs to be a open beta . This is to protect the content.

I'd like to say this thread escalated quickly, but the manner of the first post has dictated it.

As a tip, if you're trying to get your point across, don't try make out that you represent the majority of the 'people', that never goes down well.