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madilomadilo Member Posts: 7
in Elder Scrolls Online
Like the title says, is there a way to try out this game before i buy it?

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  • AuntieSpeaksAlotAuntieSpeaksAlot Member Posts: 57
    No.  It is a lot of fun but very buggy with many bots and spammers.
  • BetaBlockaBetaBlocka Member Posts: 222

    No OP there is no free trial as yet and I would not expect to see one for some time IMO.

     

    a free trial of the game right now would be commercial suicide, not even ZOS would be that silly...

  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916

    They might do a limited free trial weekend sometime in May, but it's probably not very likely.

     

    Plenty of game videos on Youtube and live streamers to watch if want to see how it plays.

  • paul43paul43 Member UncommonPosts: 198
    They'll probably have trials in a month or two. They're far too busy fixing bugs and stuff atm. 
  • Lord.BachusLord.Bachus Member RarePosts: 9,686
    Originally posted by paul43
    They'll probably have trials in a month or two. They're far too busy fixing bugs and stuff atm. 

    Make that a year or two.....

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  • GwapoJoshGwapoJosh Member UncommonPosts: 1,030
    They won't have a free trial until there is a big drop in subs.

    "You are all going to poop yourselves." BillMurphy

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  • DeddmeatDeddmeat Member UncommonPosts: 387

    I hope they never do a free trial .. The surge in gold sellers, power levelling services will be huge. Chat will be one huge advert and due to the sudden boost in numbers I'm sure Zen would keep running free trials despite the fact the majority being gold selling accounts.

    If anyone wants to try it it is dead cheap jugs to buy a cd key and get the free month, it's a much better way to see if you like the game as no trial limits, less gold sellers and much more time. Plus people are generally more welcoming of what will hopefully be converts to the game who will be continuing their sub.

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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,178
    Free trials are a horrible idea for games these days because it allows gold sellers to make accounts with very little effort. At least the other way they would have to jump through a few more hoops.

  • PanzerbasePanzerbase Member Posts: 423
    Originally posted by madilo
    Like the title says, is there a way to try out this game before i buy it?

    Give it a month or two and your wish will come true, though I'm not sure you'll want to play by that point.

  • Dreamo84Dreamo84 Member UncommonPosts: 3,713
    Originally posted by kitarad
    Free trials are a horrible idea for games these days because it allows gold sellers to make accounts with very little effort. At least the other way they would have to jump through a few more hoops.

    Pretty much every free trial these days limits chat. No /tell no public chat besides /say. So ya, they could sit there and /say all over the place if they want. But that's hardly effective.

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  • niteflynitefly Member Posts: 340

    Originally posted by Deddmeat
    I hope they never do a free trial .. The surge in gold sellers, power levelling services will be huge. Chat will be one huge advert and due to the sudden boost in numbers I'm sure Zen would keep running free trials despite the fact the majority being gold selling accounts.If anyone wants to try it it is dead cheap jugs to buy a cd key and get the free month, it's a much better way to see if you like the game as no trial limits, less gold sellers and much more time. Plus people are generally more welcoming of what will hopefully be converts to the game who will be continuing their sub.
    That would probably not be a problem. Most free trials these days limit access to Zone-wide, Trade or similar chat channels, prohibit joining a guild and disallows trading and access to Auction House services.

    You will have access to /say and /party but that's hardly very disruptive to the general population.

  • DeddmeatDeddmeat Member UncommonPosts: 387

    Originally posted by nitefly
    Originally posted by Deddmeat
    I hope they never do a free trial .. The surge in gold sellers, power levelling services will be huge. Chat will be one huge advert and due to the sudden boost in numbers I'm sure Zen would keep running free trials despite the fact the majority being gold selling accounts.If anyone wants to try it it is dead cheap jugs to buy a cd key and get the free month, it's a much better way to see if you like the game as no trial limits, less gold sellers and much more time. Plus people are generally more welcoming of what will hopefully be converts to the game who will be continuing their sub.
    That would probably not be a problem. Most free trials these days limit access to Zone-wide, Trade or similar chat channels, prohibit joining a guild and disallows trading and access to Auction House services.

    You will have access to /say and /party but that's hardly very disruptive to the general population.

    Will still be a major problem, they will just constantly spam /say even more than they do in /zone and make new accounts faster as they are now free. Also means they can have aload of accounts spread about since /zone is disabled.

    Probably the very first place they will be is right outside your arrival point into the game, so any new player will just see one huge wall of text from god knows how many gold/power levelling companies.

    Even City of Hero's had them in it's free trial and that didn't actually have cash as such but they still were ingame trying to outdo the AH.

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  • GwapoJoshGwapoJosh Member UncommonPosts: 1,030
    Originally posted by Deddmeat

     

    Originally posted by nitefly
    Originally posted by Deddmeat
    I hope they never do a free trial .. The surge in gold sellers, power levelling services will be huge. Chat will be one huge advert and due to the sudden boost in numbers I'm sure Zen would keep running free trials despite the fact the majority being gold selling accounts.

     

    If anyone wants to try it it is dead cheap jugs to buy a cd key and get the free month, it's a much better way to see if you like the game as no trial limits, less gold sellers and much more time. Plus people are generally more welcoming of what will hopefully be converts to the game who will be continuing their sub.

    That would probably not be a problem. Most free trials these days limit access to Zone-wide, Trade or similar chat channels, prohibit joining a guild and disallows trading and access to Auction House services.

     

    You will have access to /say and /party but that's hardly very disruptive to the general population.

     

    Will still be a major problem, they will just constantly spam /say even more than they do in /zone and make new accounts faster as they are now free. Also means they can have aload of accounts spread about since /zone is disabled.

    Probably the very first place they will be is right outside your arrival point into the game, so any new player will just see one huge wall of text from god knows how many gold/power levelling companies.

    Even City of Hero's had them in it's free trial and that didn't actually have cash as such but they still were ingame trying to outdo the AH.

    It is a mega server.. They could just put the free trial on a seperate instance and let you move over to the main ones after you buy it.

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  • strangepowersstrangepowers Member UncommonPosts: 630

    Originally posted by madilo
    Like the title says, is there a way to try out this game before i buy it?

    How did you miss the free trial that they already had?

  • RosenthorneRosenthorne Member UncommonPosts: 94

    No...just No

    This would be a goldseller's heaven. At the moment I console myself that they at least had to buy the game.

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