Imagine that you had never played the game and didn't know anything about ESO Plus except for what the official web site said. Do you see anything at all on that page that would lead you to believe that "Full access to all DLC game packs"(bold in the original, not mine) means "Full access to all DLC game packs except for Summerset"? Or perhaps that some but not all of what every other game would call a DLC game pack are regarded as something else by Zenimax so that they're not included with a subscription? Anywhere else on the same page is also legal to check, including the fine print.
That's what I was looking at when I made my decision on what to buy.
If they meant "all DLC game packs except for Summerset", then they should have said "all DLC game packs except for Summerset". A browser search demonstrates that the page doesn't even mention Summerset.
For the record I'm not trying to defend them. But they provide you all the info. Good luck man.
That page doesn't explain it, either. That lists 13 things. It specifies that 9 of them are free to people with ESO Plus. Three of the other four are also free to people with ESO Plus. It never explicitly says that Summerset isn't. Indeed, that page doesn't distinguish between Morrowind and Summerset at all in their business model, even though the former is included with ESO Plus and the latter isn't.
Besides, that's in the game updates list. Have you ever in your life picked up an online game more than four years after launch and read through the complete list of updates since launch before buying the game? Ever? Even once? Do you know of a single person who ever has for any game ever? That's far beyond doing due diligence before buying a game. Even if that page had explicitly said that Summerset isn't included with ESO Plus--which it doesn't--that's far beyond reading the fine print.
Furthermore, if you're trying to sell a product, information about the product should be on the page about it. Even if somewhere else on the same web site contradicts what is strongly implied by the main product page, that's no excuse to make the page for a product intentionally misleading.
For the record I'm not trying to defend them. But they provide you all the info. Good luck man.
That page doesn't explain it, either. That lists 13 things. It specifies that 9 of them are free to people with ESO Plus. Three of the other four are also free to people with ESO Plus. It never explicitly says that Summerset isn't. Indeed, that page doesn't distinguish between Morrowind and Summerset at all in their business model, even though the former is included with ESO Plus and the latter isn't.
Besides, that's in the game updates list. Have you ever in your life picked up an online game more than four years after launch and read through the complete list of updates since launch before buying the game? Ever? Even once? Do you know of a single person who ever has for any game ever? That's far beyond doing due diligence before buying a game. Even if that page had explicitly said that Summerset isn't included with ESO Plus--which it doesn't--that's far beyond reading the fine print.
No. If i buy a game 3 or 4 years or however long after release I buy the cheapest version available. Then I see if I like it before spending my hard earned money to unlock other things in the game. I don't just assume I will like it.
Hmm there really isnt much of a learning curve with ESO , pretty simplistic game tbh , you should have most things figured out in a day or 2 , as far as it systems go , then its just a matter of settling into a build you are comfortable with , Plenty of guides online to help with that ...Really no need to split on build for ex.. go full Stam Nightblade and you can solo almost the entire game
Plus there are only a few viable builds with mandatory rotations which will be thrown at you when doing a simple dungeon run and you don't do well on the dps meters.
Complete BS.
I've run many dungeons, over and over, on Regular, Vet, Hard Mode, etc... From the easiest on up to Trials. Never once has anyone ever "thrown" anything at me regarding builds or rotations. Have people made suggestions they thought could help? Yep, and I welcomed their advice. But at no point has anyone ever "thrown" or made demands of me.
And frankly, if it did happen.. I'd safely know I could ignore it, because it would be some min-max obsessed player trying to impose their playstyle on everyone else.
In FFXIV? Yep. Happened all the time; people love telling others how to play in that game. In ESO? Nope. Not once.
You can always tell when a MMO is doing really well, by the amount of misinformation people try to spread about it; they're so desperate to convince people not to play something they don't like.
Not that I needed to read forums to know - I play the game and see how active it is every time I log in - but ESO is clearly doing very well with some of the nonsense I see people trying to put out there.
I don't have a problem with paying for a game I like. I do have a huge problem with the false advertising, though. The problem is that they advertise that if you pay $x, you get Y and Z. Then you pay $x and get Y, but they say no, you have to pay more money to get Z.
Except it's not false advertising. It's you, the reader, misinterpreting the advertising and/or reading into it what you want it to mean, instead of verifying what it actually does.
On the official site, the option to buy Summerset clearly says it comes with the Summerset Chapter, plus the base game.
On the ESO Plus page it clearly lists what you get with ESO+ versus what you get without it. It's organized in an easy-to-understand table.
On the DLC/Updates page, it clearly explains, at the very top: "... DLC game packs as part of an active ESO Plus™ membership or acquired via the Crown Store, and Chapters available online or from retail stores."
- You get DLC either through ESO+, or via purchase in the Crown Store. - You get Chapters online (which they link to the purchase page), or retail stores.
Clear as crystal.
And each of the content packs is clearly indicated as DLC or Chapters, so there's no misleading or ambiguity there, either. DLC is labeled DLC. Chapters are labeled Chapter.
It's all right there in plain English. Nothing obscure or ambiguous or misleading about it. Your inability or unwillingness read what's right there on the website does not constitute "false advertising" by ZoS.
I don't have a problem with paying for a game I like. I do have a huge problem with the false advertising, though. The problem is that they advertise that if you pay $x, you get Y and Z. Then you pay $x and get Y, but they say no, you have to pay more money to get Z.
Except it's not false advertising. It's you, the reader, misinterpreting the advertising and/or reading into it what you want it to mean, instead of verifying what it actually does.
On the official site, the option to buy Summerset clearly says it comes with the Summerset Chapter, plus the base game.
On the ESO Plus page it clearly lists what you get with ESO+ versus what you get without it. It's organized in an easy-to-understand table.
On the DLC/Updates page, it clearly explains, at the very top: "... DLC game packs as part of an active ESO Plus™ membership or acquired via the Crown Store, and Chapters available online or from retail stores."
- You get DLC either through ESO+, or via purchase in the Crown Store. - You get Chapters online (which they link to the purchase page), or retail stores.
Clear as crystal.
And each of the content packs is clearly indicated as DLC or Chapters, so there's no misleading or ambiguity there, either. DLC is labeled DLC. Chapters are labeled Chapter.
It's all right there in plain English. Nothing obscure or ambiguous or misleading about it. Your inability or unwillingness read what's right there on the website does not constitute "false advertising" by ZoS.
How about if you try reading your own links, or at least the rest of the thread before you reply? Morrowind is included in ESO Plus. Summerset isn't. The DLC/Updates page doesn't make any distinction between them in business model. And even if it had, that isn't on the ESO Plus page that you link.
You're basically arguing that anyone who buys something from a web site can be assumed to have read and understood every single page on the entire site, not just the main product page for the product they buy. Apply that to a site like Amazon and it means that they could ship you literally anything at all for your purchase because there was a caveat on some other page that you didn't find.
The difference between DLC and Expansion (Chapter). Learn it, use it, love it.
Because expansions are not a form of downloadable content?
ESO does make a distinction, they just fail to explain it well. It started with Morrowind, so it's relatively recent.
I think you have good grounds to get a refund if you choose to do so. That being said, apart from the moral righteous ground, I don't know that it's worth the effort. The base game itself is B2P, enjoy the MVP access while you have it, and having access to the game in the future may be worth the price of learning the lesson that Zenimax isn't a straight shooter and not burning that bridge.
I bought the game on sale a while back. I did try it in beta and hated it. I still don't really like it, but I support it mainly because it has a decent PS4 port and an OS X port and I like MMO options beyond just Windows. I still log in from time to time to fool around, but the game just has never hooked me. I did finish the main story line eventually, that was worth the 20-30 hours it took solo. The dungeons are interesting, but they get run so quickly by veterans I have no idea what's really going on.
The difference between DLC and Expansion (Chapter). Learn it, use it, love it.
They themselves have never called chapters expansions. Apparently though it does help some people feel OK about paying extra for that one yearly DLC if they think of it that way
Neither Summerset nor Morrowind added much (any?) more to the game than Orsinium did and Orsinium was a DLC simply because that was the business model at that time. It would definitely have been a "chapter" if that had been their model back then.
The whole "chapter" horseshit is nothing but a business model change -- and I'm not saying that games can't change their business model, they obviously can and do -- from all DLC included with ESO+ subscription and/or available to buy with crowns, to a model where they batch the meatiest yearly additions into one DLC, call it a "chapter", charge extra for it, exclude it from ESO+ and make it not available to buy with crowns.
Quiz has a point. We know what's what because we play the game and have seen all the changes and the spin but to someone brand new it really isn't clear enough in their store what is or isn't included not to mention the confusion with all the different editions for sale that change all the time.
If you scroll up you'll see that even people who do play the game currently don't even know for sure what is or isn't included with Morrowind now that they have "de-chaptered" the zone but separated the Warden class that used to come with it into something that you can buy with crowns but is no longer included.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
If you scroll up you'll see that even people who do play the game currently don't even know for sure what is or isn't included with Morrowind now that they have "de-chaptered" the zone but separated the Warden class that used to come with it into something that you can buy with crowns but is no longer included.
When I created a character, it gave me the option to create a warden. I didn't try clicking on it and actually creating the character, so it's possible that it was just a tease there to give me an error message if I tried it.
If you scroll up you'll see that even people who do play the game currently don't even know for sure what is or isn't included with Morrowind now that they have "de-chaptered" the zone but separated the Warden class that used to come with it into something that you can buy with crowns but is no longer included.
When I created a character, it gave me the option to create a warden. I didn't try clicking on it and actually creating the character, so it's possible that it was just a tease there to give me an error message if I tried it.
Who knows? Maybe your edition included it lol. So many editions and they keep changing...
For those that don't have it it's 1500 crowns (= one month's sub) in the store:
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
If you want to defend Zenimax wording their web site as it is while not making Summerset part of "all DLC game packs", then I think the best possible defense of is this. They're using "DLC game packs" as a technical term only loosely correlated with the ordinary English meaning of the words, and what it really means is a game update that is for sale in the DLC section of the crown shop.
If you cross-reference their DLC/Updates page with the DLC section of the crown store, there are four things on the former not listed on the latter. Homestead and One Tamriel are free for everyone, Wolfhunter isn't launched yet, and Summerset is the other one. So that would seem to imply that Summerset isn't included.
To make that argument, you have to expect the prospective player to check not one but two other particular pages and cross reference exactly the right portions of them against each other. In my case, I probably read 30-50 pages on the game's site before my purchase, but not the DLC/Updates page. And even then, "DLC game packs" not meaning the ordinary English meaning of the words is quite a stretch. That we're far into the second page with a number of people inclined to defend what Zenimax did, and no one had yet come up with that argument, points to just how arcane and obscure it is.
If the best possible defense of Zenimax's actions is that it's intentionally misleading but not quite a lie because a lawyer researching that particular question (as opposed to the dozens of other considerations that go into deciding whether to purchase a game) probably could have come to that conclusion in under an hour, then Zenimax is a very shady company and not to be trusted. And if they'll do that on the very first day that I try the game, why should I believe that anything else that I buy from them will be what I expect? The most rational response in that case is not, give them more money to fix it. It's to never give them another dime ever again.
I'm willing to overlook a lot more if I like a game. I thought Uncharted Waters Online was a great game, for example, so I played it anyway even though I strongly disapproved of them monetizing it almost entirely via loot boxes actively trying to make the game pay to win. (I didn't buy any loot boxes, and only spent about $20 in total to actively play the game for about two years.) If I thought ESO was a great game, I'd probably just pay the $30 to add Summerset, complain about it, and keep playing.
I don't want until more than four years after launch to try a game that I expect to be great. I was ambivalent about the game before I tried it, and my brief experience with the game wasn't a positive one. Even if you completely ignore the business model concerns, the rest of my original post doesn't exactly scream "this is a really fun game".
I think that ultimately, I'm going to wait and see what response I get from customer service. If they accept either of my demands (either give me what the site promised or refund my money), I'll consider the matter closed. If they ignore my ticket for a few days, or give me an insulting response of "you can add Summerset for only $30" (whereas it would have been $20 if you buy it as part of the game), I'll probably declare Zenimax a scammer site, do a credit card chargeback, and file a complaint with the FTC. For anything else, I'll wait and see what they say.
Actually, if you really want to avoid assuming bad faith on the part of Zenimax, then the best defense of what they did is that it's akin to a site having a typo in a price that they list on their web site. Suppose, for example, that the main product page for widgets says that they're $8 each, so you buy 10 of them for $80 in total. But the intended price had been $10 each, and somewhere else on their site it says that they cost $10 each.
A reputable company might say, fine, it's our mistake, so you can have the widgets you ordered for $8 each. Or they might say, we can't afford to honor that price and ship a ton of inventory at a loss, so we'll cancel the sale and refund your money. But what they can't do is to say, you paid $80, and widgets are $10 each, so we'll send you 8 widgets, and you can't return them for a refund. If they try to do that, then they're by definition not a reputable company.
The other very important thing is that, upon having the mistake pointed out, a reputable company would also change the price listed on their web site. I'll be surprised if Zenimax promptly changes the ESO Plus page wording to explicitly specify that Summerset isn't included, but if they do, I'll recant my claims that they were intentionally trying to mislead people.
I paid $10 for it, I wont pay anymore...its a pretty world but a pretty lousy game...The combat is just boring as can be and I dont like the scaling world.
If you buy any version of the game now, Morrowind is included.
Still, to this day, it totally depends on which approved ESO retailer you buy it from (see sticky in this forum for official ZOS approved list.)
Amazon, Greenman Gaming and many others still sell pre- Summerset editions that do not include Morrowind.
I think Steam and the ZOS store sell only new editions that do include it but I'm not even 100% sure about that.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
― Umberto Eco
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?” ― CD PROJEKT RED
Zenimax has agreed to refund my money. That means that I won't need to consider a chargeback, and that makes it a lot cleaner.
Ultimately, the general principle involved is that I do not wish to do business with a company that actively tries to deceive me. I don't want to have to read and decipher 20 pages of legalese to figure out what I'm getting. If a company is going to strongly imply a factual claim, then it had better be true, not accompanied by fine print that says it's not at all similar to what they were trying to make you think it was. If I let this go and kept playing the game, it probably wouldn't be the last time that they tried to trick me into buying the wrong thing. I don't want to deal with that.
So congratulations, Zenimax: you get to join Electronic Arts on my boycott list. That doesn't quite mean that I'll absolutely never buy anything from them ever again. But it would have to look awfully good for me to give it a try, which is a threshold that EA hasn't managed to meet in the last 25 years or so. I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt the way I would for ArenaNet, Cryptic, Blizzard, Trion, En Masse, Daybreak, IMC, KOG, or any other studio for which what I've gotten for my money has been what I expected, at least apart from perhaps not enjoying a game as much as I had hoped.
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https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/esoplus
Imagine that you had never played the game and didn't know anything about ESO Plus except for what the official web site said. Do you see anything at all on that page that would lead you to believe that "Full access to all DLC game packs" (bold in the original, not mine) means "Full access to all DLC game packs except for Summerset"? Or perhaps that some but not all of what every other game would call a DLC game pack are regarded as something else by Zenimax so that they're not included with a subscription? Anywhere else on the same page is also legal to check, including the fine print.
That's what I was looking at when I made my decision on what to buy.
If they meant "all DLC game packs except for Summerset", then they should have said "all DLC game packs except for Summerset". A browser search demonstrates that the page doesn't even mention Summerset.
For the record I'm not trying to defend them. But they provide you all the info. Good luck man.
I've got the straight edge.
Besides, that's in the game updates list. Have you ever in your life picked up an online game more than four years after launch and read through the complete list of updates since launch before buying the game? Ever? Even once? Do you know of a single person who ever has for any game ever? That's far beyond doing due diligence before buying a game. Even if that page had explicitly said that Summerset isn't included with ESO Plus--which it doesn't--that's far beyond reading the fine print.
Furthermore, if you're trying to sell a product, information about the product should be on the page about it. Even if somewhere else on the same web site contradicts what is strongly implied by the main product page, that's no excuse to make the page for a product intentionally misleading.
I've got the straight edge.
I've run many dungeons, over and over, on Regular, Vet, Hard Mode, etc... From the easiest on up to Trials. Never once has anyone ever "thrown" anything at me regarding builds or rotations. Have people made suggestions they thought could help? Yep, and I welcomed their advice. But at no point has anyone ever "thrown" or made demands of me.
And frankly, if it did happen.. I'd safely know I could ignore it, because it would be some min-max obsessed player trying to impose their playstyle on everyone else.
In FFXIV? Yep. Happened all the time; people love telling others how to play in that game. In ESO? Nope. Not once.
Not even close.
You can always tell when a MMO is doing really well, by the amount of misinformation people try to spread about it; they're so desperate to convince people not to play something they don't like.
Not that I needed to read forums to know - I play the game and see how active it is every time I log in - but ESO is clearly doing very well with some of the nonsense I see people trying to put out there.
On the official site, the option to buy Summerset clearly says it comes with the Summerset Chapter, plus the base game.
On the ESO Plus page it clearly lists what you get with ESO+ versus what you get without it. It's organized in an easy-to-understand table.
On the DLC/Updates page, it clearly explains, at the very top:
"... DLC game packs as part of an active ESO Plus™ membership or acquired via the Crown Store, and Chapters available online or from retail stores."
- You get DLC either through ESO+, or via purchase in the Crown Store.
- You get Chapters online (which they link to the purchase page), or retail stores.
Clear as crystal.
And each of the content packs is clearly indicated as DLC or Chapters, so there's no misleading or ambiguity there, either. DLC is labeled DLC. Chapters are labeled Chapter.
It's all right there in plain English. Nothing obscure or ambiguous or misleading about it. Your inability or unwillingness read what's right there on the website does not constitute "false advertising" by ZoS.
You're basically arguing that anyone who buys something from a web site can be assumed to have read and understood every single page on the entire site, not just the main product page for the product they buy. Apply that to a site like Amazon and it means that they could ship you literally anything at all for your purchase because there was a caveat on some other page that you didn't find.
"This is not a game to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force"
I think you have good grounds to get a refund if you choose to do so. That being said, apart from the moral righteous ground, I don't know that it's worth the effort. The base game itself is B2P, enjoy the MVP access while you have it, and having access to the game in the future may be worth the price of learning the lesson that Zenimax isn't a straight shooter and not burning that bridge.
I bought the game on sale a while back. I did try it in beta and hated it. I still don't really like it, but I support it mainly because it has a decent PS4 port and an OS X port and I like MMO options beyond just Windows. I still log in from time to time to fool around, but the game just has never hooked me. I did finish the main story line eventually, that was worth the 20-30 hours it took solo. The dungeons are interesting, but they get run so quickly by veterans I have no idea what's really going on.
Neither Summerset nor Morrowind added much (any?) more to the game than Orsinium did and Orsinium was a DLC simply because that was the business model at that time. It would definitely have been a "chapter" if that had been their model back then.
The whole "chapter" horseshit is nothing but a business model change -- and I'm not saying that games can't change their business model, they obviously can and do -- from all DLC included with ESO+ subscription and/or available to buy with crowns, to a model where they batch the meatiest yearly additions into one DLC, call it a "chapter", charge extra for it, exclude it from ESO+ and make it not available to buy with crowns.
Quiz has a point. We know what's what because we play the game and have seen all the changes and the spin but to someone brand new it really isn't clear enough in their store what is or isn't included not to mention the confusion with all the different editions for sale that change all the time.
If you scroll up you'll see that even people who do play the game currently don't even know for sure what is or isn't included with Morrowind now that they have "de-chaptered" the zone but separated the Warden class that used to come with it into something that you can buy with crowns but is no longer included.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
For those that don't have it it's 1500 crowns (= one month's sub) in the store:
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/crownstore/category/7#class
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
If you cross-reference their DLC/Updates page with the DLC section of the crown store, there are four things on the former not listed on the latter. Homestead and One Tamriel are free for everyone, Wolfhunter isn't launched yet, and Summerset is the other one. So that would seem to imply that Summerset isn't included.
To make that argument, you have to expect the prospective player to check not one but two other particular pages and cross reference exactly the right portions of them against each other. In my case, I probably read 30-50 pages on the game's site before my purchase, but not the DLC/Updates page. And even then, "DLC game packs" not meaning the ordinary English meaning of the words is quite a stretch. That we're far into the second page with a number of people inclined to defend what Zenimax did, and no one had yet come up with that argument, points to just how arcane and obscure it is.
If the best possible defense of Zenimax's actions is that it's intentionally misleading but not quite a lie because a lawyer researching that particular question (as opposed to the dozens of other considerations that go into deciding whether to purchase a game) probably could have come to that conclusion in under an hour, then Zenimax is a very shady company and not to be trusted. And if they'll do that on the very first day that I try the game, why should I believe that anything else that I buy from them will be what I expect? The most rational response in that case is not, give them more money to fix it. It's to never give them another dime ever again.
I'm willing to overlook a lot more if I like a game. I thought Uncharted Waters Online was a great game, for example, so I played it anyway even though I strongly disapproved of them monetizing it almost entirely via loot boxes actively trying to make the game pay to win. (I didn't buy any loot boxes, and only spent about $20 in total to actively play the game for about two years.) If I thought ESO was a great game, I'd probably just pay the $30 to add Summerset, complain about it, and keep playing.
I don't want until more than four years after launch to try a game that I expect to be great. I was ambivalent about the game before I tried it, and my brief experience with the game wasn't a positive one. Even if you completely ignore the business model concerns, the rest of my original post doesn't exactly scream "this is a really fun game".
I think that ultimately, I'm going to wait and see what response I get from customer service. If they accept either of my demands (either give me what the site promised or refund my money), I'll consider the matter closed. If they ignore my ticket for a few days, or give me an insulting response of "you can add Summerset for only $30" (whereas it would have been $20 if you buy it as part of the game), I'll probably declare Zenimax a scammer site, do a credit card chargeback, and file a complaint with the FTC. For anything else, I'll wait and see what they say.
A reputable company might say, fine, it's our mistake, so you can have the widgets you ordered for $8 each. Or they might say, we can't afford to honor that price and ship a ton of inventory at a loss, so we'll cancel the sale and refund your money. But what they can't do is to say, you paid $80, and widgets are $10 each, so we'll send you 8 widgets, and you can't return them for a refund. If they try to do that, then they're by definition not a reputable company.
The other very important thing is that, upon having the mistake pointed out, a reputable company would also change the price listed on their web site. I'll be surprised if Zenimax promptly changes the ESO Plus page wording to explicitly specify that Summerset isn't included, but if they do, I'll recant my claims that they were intentionally trying to mislead people.
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/updates
You can see it there.
Morrowind is included with the base game purchase now. It has nothing to do with being a ESO Plus member.
The info about it is here:
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/news/post/26355
I've got the straight edge.
"Soon, the Morrowind zone and story content will be available for purchase in the Crown Store and be accessible to all ESO Plus members."
So basically, the game's business model is messy enough that no one actually knows what it is.
If you buy any version of the game now, Morrowind is included.
If you bought the base game before that change, Morrowind is included with ESO Plus.. but not the Warden class.
Kind of a punch in the face for people who paid full price for Morrowind and confusing for returning players.
Amazon, Greenman Gaming and many others still sell pre- Summerset editions that do not include Morrowind.
I think Steam and the ZOS store sell only new editions that do include it but I'm not even 100% sure about that.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Ultimately, the general principle involved is that I do not wish to do business with a company that actively tries to deceive me. I don't want to have to read and decipher 20 pages of legalese to figure out what I'm getting. If a company is going to strongly imply a factual claim, then it had better be true, not accompanied by fine print that says it's not at all similar to what they were trying to make you think it was. If I let this go and kept playing the game, it probably wouldn't be the last time that they tried to trick me into buying the wrong thing. I don't want to deal with that.
So congratulations, Zenimax: you get to join Electronic Arts on my boycott list. That doesn't quite mean that I'll absolutely never buy anything from them ever again. But it would have to look awfully good for me to give it a try, which is a threshold that EA hasn't managed to meet in the last 25 years or so. I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt the way I would for ArenaNet, Cryptic, Blizzard, Trion, En Masse, Daybreak, IMC, KOG, or any other studio for which what I've gotten for my money has been what I expected, at least apart from perhaps not enjoying a game as much as I had hoped.