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I read many reviews on the beta from the Skyrim players who found ESO lacking in every way. That is why I do not understand how anyone can be foolish enough to be this naive about the numbers of the single player game to be interested in ESO after playing the beta and being unhappy about it.
Yes because the more people who laugh or vote in real life has always been right? I laugh at that. Millions of people have been wrong before. But I think if you were to take all the forums around the world and added all them up and all gave negative reviews, it wouldn't even matter, why? Because the player base for betheda is that great. The only reason they listen to us is the fact we are the loudest and if they can please us, they'll be able to please anyone who isn't vocal in game. So just because a bunch of people think something is wrong, most definatly does not mean it is wrong.
And yes, a lot of people did say the game was not even going to break 1 million subs... I laugh at that today just as I did three months ago.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
But you would have had to register your key in order to make you a registerd beta user, meaning you would have to had taken an active role in becoming that number.
They are not laughing for sake of it though. They are being realistic. You are not.
So in the end when you will be proven wrong they will have the last laugh. Only because Skyrim sold 20 million copes doesn't mean that ESO will have 10 million subscribers.
ESO isn't the first popular IP to transition to MMO from a single player game. Both Warcraft and Final Fantasy which have been insanely popular over the years didn't get 10 million players in first year. So one wonders how someone can be so naive to believe that ESO will get 10 million subs by end of the year.
no no no
i recieved few keys but i never registered for beta test and didnt participate
yet im counted in it
they send 5mil beta keys directly to players or various portals like mmorpg, curse and many others
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
I know a guy who sold his left kidney to pre-order the game because he couldn't wait for his next pay check to play.
Yes, it is going to be that HUGE!
I'm glad you mentioned those two games. because it has a lot to do with what you just said there. Warcraft did not get anywhere near the entire single player market but it did surpass its own single player base, that is correct, MMO's were largely unknown to a lot of people and eventually after a lot of advertisements, people were curious and then they got addicted to mmo's. So wow is a success for its day and if you were to compare that to a game of these times. We have much more of a gamer base in single player billion dollar industry, we also have millions more gamers then those days had, why just take a look at how big social media has gotten since WoW. On top of Final Fantasy, those were console game series, a lot of people did not even know what an MMO was also back then. That game was HUGE success for its time, the game is still alive today because of it.
Why is ESO diffearnt from those single player games? Because of the amount of gamer base of elder scrolls compared to those games, and the fact that its coming out in a day of modern gaming, it has brought in the dawn of new gaming, it has put RPG into an MMO, at which we have never seen since LOTRO, which will draw in a huge single player fan base, WoW was a strategy game before it was a MMORPG game. FFXI was far from a true RPG type MMO, it was good for its time but it got old fast because it had lacked the features in games of today. ESO is definatly going to be the next big game of modern gaming. No one will pick up a WoW copy as a new player to this gaming industry unless forced by friends, their numbers have continued to go down because it lacked the updates that could have brought it to be a ESO of today.
I could go on but the final word is that ESO has the single player following that would have dwarfed the following of WoW's single player games in its day. Final Fantasy also has a strong single player base following, but no where near Bethesda's following either. its got a japan base grind gamestyle to it also, and is boarderling scifi fantasyof another genre, has a lot of mistakes in its past with gamers, or it could have gotten bigger. ESO is a true west game and has massive amounts of single player followers unlike both of those games had in its launch days. I hope this wasn't too long to explain this simple fact.
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By the way your opinions are not facts. But thanks for trying to explain it to me.
Warcraf III 3 million copies sold, FFXIII 5.7 million copies sold, FFXIII - 2 2 million copies sold Skyrim 20 million copies sold...... bottom line.
Warcraft III sold 3 mill single player copies and has a sub of 8 million.
When FFXIII - 2sells only 2 million copies.., and FFXIV has 700k subs, which was marketed mainly to Japan, and west as an afterthought.
Skryim sold 20 million copies....... XX? how many ESO?
Wow and i thought people here in Colorado smoked too much weed,well done ESO the cronic must be plentiful at youer studios. /facepalm
ESO has better graphics and PVE then SWTOR, voice overs, and all the things that make SWTOR great, and a following of single players at 20 million before launch and you think its only going to do jjust as good as SWTOR?
Itll have a few hundred thousand dedicated players just like most every mmo these days. You all can argue whether that is a success or failure just like with every mmo these days heh.
Yep... how many Star Wars fans are there? How many of those Elder Scrolls single player fans will be willing to pay box + sub fee? Graphics is a matter of opinion... voice overs? I think SWTOR has better voice overs than ESO.
I stand by my prediction.
Star Wars was a movie, Skyrim was a game. Big difference there.
Skyrim is a BETTER game, than ESO.
As someone who played that game a lot, and played 2 of the ESO betas, I am not buying at launch.
Not all ES/Skyrim players like what was done with ESO, in fact, a majority probably don't.
Skyrim was one game in a series that not all of the ES fans liked and one that they modeled this game after the most. I am sorry you have your right to your opinion, but I think 10 mil is living in fantasy land. You are basically saying this game will be the best MMO of all time at launch in a land slide and I just don't see it happening... I don't see it even sniffing anywhere close to 10 mil