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Some info from PC Gamer
Belgaraath
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Remember folks, this is in EARLY beta and any concerns have plenty of time to improve. This article has some very good info (at least to me). Enjoy.
-http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/252-the-elder-scrolls-online-hands-on/
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They just started sending invites to closed beta just over a month ago didn't they? End of the year could be December, so they could stay in closed beta for 5 months and leave a month or two for stress and performance testing which is all that open beta is. I'm not sure where you are getting your info from where you say 'I don't forsee", but a beta tester on another site felt that it was more like 6 months away from release. Regardless, even if it was a few months, not a couple like you just 'foresaw', there is plenty of time for things to improve and the article agreed with that assessment.
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Its really sad to see with this game as I've been an avid TES fan since the 90's. This is definitely a "wait and see" before buying game. The whole other factions being invisible in the game world really upsets me
...He meant that it "sounds like failure," similar to (or worse than) SWTOR. His opinion on that of course.
OP: Maybe I'm confused here or something, but this sounded very thin on the "great info" front. It sounds like he barely saw anything. Apparantly he didnt see the intro, he was just told about it?
Then he played 6 levels, saw a ruin with traps and found a skyrim-treasure-map. Then he encountered some NPC that seemed to be story-related. And other peoples followers will be phased to look like "random mercenary" to hide the fact that everyone is the special snowflake.
And it sounds like everything else in the article was demonstrated or told to him by the devs, and seemed to be mostly stuff that we already knew about. So unfortunately I wasnt very impressed with it.
First, give me a break. That post was a troll post through and through. He's actually posted the exact same thing in more than one thread.
Second, you didn't find a two page detailed article useful, I did, to each his own. I especially liked a little more detail around his impression of the phasing which is the first time I saw that much detail. For example his reference to another identical character that looked different in phasing to the character he had to make it feel more immersive. That was an example of something I didn't know which I guess you already did. In TOR, you would see the same character running around for dozens of people, so thats no small thing to me.
PS I decided to edit the title because it did sound a little too fanboish and I wouldn't want the WildStar fanbase to be upset.
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There is nothing wrong with that, but you may get a better chance to see for yourself by trying Open Beta rather than relying on a gamestore rep lol.
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Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
Its just the typical forum wars going on. He's a supporter of Wild Star and Neverwinter, the latter being one of the biggest fails I have tried recently. Hopefully this game wont follow in the foodsteps of TOR like he said because I'll be disappointed. Little by little the leaked feedback has been positive, but way too early to tell.
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I don't see anything similar to Tera. The only thing Tera had going for it was combat. The questing was generic boring PVE storyless crap. From the little I have seen, I doubt the PVE at least will be anything as boringly horrid as Tera.
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First, factually, it is early closed beta. Its not a debate, its a fact. Second, what you just wrote is illogical. The game may end up sucking, nobody knows, so if your opinion is based on the very scant information we have received and that is how you form an opinion about a game without even trying it, its pretty sad to me. Even though the goofy childishness of Wildstar doesn't appeal to me, I'm still going to try it to form a final opinion rather than forming illogical conclusions with so little play time or even game play videos of any recent build.
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I can only assume you mean the combat. And how does a combat where aiming is "key" any different from skyrim or oblivion?
edit: also, I don't see anything new about this PC Gamer info.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
This info all comes from a Press Beta. It is widely known that press betas are almost never representative of how the actual game plays. They are scripted bits of the actual game that shows the game in it's best possible light, with PR suits sitting over your shoulder the entire time making sure your not doing something or seeing something you shouldn't be.
Massively actually just released an article highlighting just what I'm talking about not long ago. In it he talks about how press never get beta invites to AAA games. And that the only time they ever get to see the game prior to release is when they are invited to one of these very controlled press beta events.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/23/ask-massively-the-irony-of-media-and-betas/
If you REALLY want to find out how the game is in it's current beta form. Find a guild mate or friend in the beta, get them plastered at a bar, and then hound them for questions.
I enjoyed the article, thank you.
I got some good info from it I didn't know about.
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yay an appreciative forum member :-) lol. You're welcome.
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I agree with you, but can't anybody post anything in a forum for those that may not know everything already just to provide some more info? lol Such a tough crowd. I love MMORPG.com lol.
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I think it's not about you and more about PC gamer's article.
I know that was my initial thought.
What you did was find a very recent article but one that mentions a lot that has been said. So I wonder why PC gamer even bothered.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Until Zenimax comes out and says the game isnt coming out in 2013 like intended, the game is close to releasing. The year is almost halfway over. Yes, 6 months counts as close to me.
Say what? Check again my friend I have bad things to say about Neverwinter, I even charged back my founders pack as the game is so bad, ya it looked good to start but the more I played and learned what was going on the more....ya, Wildstar from what I have seen it looks good and I'm keeping an eye on it as it's the only mmo currently that has what I am looking for (other than playing Rift again June 12th).
Lol I have posted something like this once....not more than and it was a reply to someone else saying something about it failing like TOR, but added the reason why was because of the way they are going with PvP.
I guess they wrote it for me and Tokken since not everything in it we knew and probably for several other people who are afraid to post here in fear of nerd rage attacks on them, thats why lol. I have tough skin, I enjoy the bickering lol.
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