I'm an ESO fan... I play ESO and I personally also saw that screen last Friday afternoon during the last hours of voting. Then TSW, who had a forum mod participating in their thread about voting since round one, added a similar message to their log-on screen.
So, yes, it did happen. Now everyone yawn and move on.
pre-game Patcher thingy, not log-in screen. Forum mod has no acces to that.
While we are at it; I never saw the message.
No. I saw it on the log-on screen exactly as the picture posted above.
Any way you shake it, this has been very good PR for these games. And both ESO and TSW still seem to want publicity... LOTRO and EVE don't care enough for the companys to get involved promoting votes.
I was talking about TSW, and it was a Community Manager btw. Details etc.
We have seen an influx of new players in TSW, but Steam/Origin/anyplace sales probably have to do with it as well.
Ah, OK I misunderstood.
The ESO starter zones are also busier than they have been for a while lately but it'd be hard to say how much of that was just Christmas (most I would think) and how much from extra PR.
But in the ESO subforum for this site, I have noticed several people--some of whom admitted having hated ESO with a passion when it released--post new player questions about the game. This could also be due to the fact the game has fixed many of its launch problems and added a few enhancements...hard to say why they're picking it up now.
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What do these accounts have in common? All created recently and all voting for ESO........ESO fans seem desperate.
Havrim - Member since December 30, 2014 Goresnort - Member since December 23, 2014 oolou - Member since December 4, 2014 TequilaFire - Member since December 23, 2014 Alphashado - Member since December 16, 2014 factory_666 - Member since December 24, 2014
And they all only have posts in this thread.
lmao. I created an account to vote for the game I like. Isn't that the point? lol Desperate? lmao - Dude, grasp another straw.
These comments are almost as good as the current fight ZOS has caused on its own forums by slapping the most dedicated players in the face.....only here doesnt seem as heavily mod'ed....fight! fight!
Obviously I voted for TSW and then for Lotro (I have lifetime accounts for both). I love the huge world of lotro, I admit it is now just chaining new zones along to get to Morder buuuuut I have a soft spot for it.
Also for ESO I am a bit burnt from the start, I played it and didn't like it, it may have changed now bu tI am unwilling to pay for a months sub to see. *Cough* Welcome back weekend please?
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What do these accounts have in common? All created recently and all voting for ESO........ESO fans seem desperate.
Havrim - Member since December 30, 2014 Goresnort - Member since December 23, 2014 oolou - Member since December 4, 2014 TequilaFire - Member since December 23, 2014 Alphashado - Member since December 16, 2014 factory_666 - Member since December 24, 2014
And they all only have posts in this thread.
lmao. I created an account to vote for the game I like. Isn't that the point? lol Desperate? lmao - Dude, grasp another straw.
Agree with the all the new accounts with ESO. I made this point may times. I found very similar patterns and its sad people go to this extreme. Excluding new accounts would have helped get a better picture. This reminds of Pirate 101 and Kingsisle's push for its game a few years back. In the end though does it really matter?
What do these accounts have in common? All created recently and all voting for ESO........ESO fans seem desperate.
Havrim - Member since December 30, 2014 Goresnort - Member since December 23, 2014 oolou - Member since December 4, 2014 TequilaFire - Member since December 23, 2014 Alphashado - Member since December 16, 2014 factory_666 - Member since December 24, 2014
And they all only have posts in this thread.
lmao. I created an account to vote for the game I like. Isn't that the point? lol Desperate? lmao - Dude, grasp another straw.
I made this point may times. I found very similar patterns and its sad people go to this extreme. Excluding new accounts would have helped get a better picture. In the end though does it really matter?
I have come to MMORPG many hundreds of times over the years. I've never felt the desire to register until now. I just wanted to show support for my favorite MMO. Especially considering all the unfounded (imo) hate this game recieved at launch mainly due to an unrealistic expectation. It's not perfect. It has it's flaws. But it fits my taste. It's the first MMO i've played since leaving WoW 3 years ago that feels like home.
If MMORPG wanted only the opinion of currently registered voters, they could have locked registration. But we all know that wasn't the objective. Quite the opposite in fact.
People are just going to have to accept the fact that ESO has a larger and more active community than the haters want to admit.
Do you have a screen shot of that accusation? I log in to ESO every day and I never saw anything like that. The only thing I've seen from the staff is a forum moderator on one thread pop in to say great job.
Yeah, i never saw that. ESO haiters Photoshop?
If somebody, except screen author proves this, then i will believe.
I can confirm. I saw it too. It was during last voting. Didn't make a screenshot, but I don't see anything wrong about it. Voted for ESO and EVE. Over & out.
We should've gotten one poll for worst MMO of 2014. I am pretty sure which one I am going vote for that one - very farmville heavy MMO...
It starts with "A" and ends with "rcheage"? Biggest disappoint of my gamer live, I have been supportting it from the first beta until a month ago when my patient run out. Well, at least, the experience served me to give ESO a second chance.
Originally posted by TalulaRose My vote for Lotro is a vote against ESO.
Bwuahaha, I just countered your vote! >:D
Although it's not really a fair one, since I never played LOTRO. (but I like ESO well enough to give it my vote)
And TSW is a no brainer for me.
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Originally posted by Dreamo84 Go TSW go!!! The little game that could... *tears up*
You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
Originally posted by Dreamo84 Go TSW go!!! The little game that could... *tears up*
You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
Pointless as ESO has more players and a developer who is not shy about letting all players know about this contest via a splash message on the login screen.
If Blizzard did the same on their launcher though.....
But they don't care about these meaningless contests because they don't need the publicity.
Smaller devs like ZoS and Funcom do however - otherwise they wouldn't bother either.
It would be great to see this broken down in two ways:
A poll including all votes (which will be ESO and TSW wins - the two companies that let their players know about the contest)
And a poll excluding ALL votes from new accounts - I'd love to see that
Ohhh, someone sounds cranky that their favorites are out of the competition, or not winning. :P
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Originally posted by Dreamo84 Go TSW go!!! The little game that could... *tears up*
You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
You know what they say about opinions.
Strange how nobody gave a damn about TSW for the last year. Its an okish MMO, great writing, reasonable graphics but everything else is average to drab. If it was amazing then everyone would be playing it - its free to play.
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I am here to ensure the games that I want to win, do in fact win. I'm pretty sure my ESO guildies and me took down Secret World with our sheer amount of votes, especially looking at the closeness of the vote. Time to make our presence felt again. BTW you don't think all these new accounts on here on an accident or without purpose do you??????????????
ESO doesn't deserve to win. Totally biased voting. I can't believe that a game that has bled subs, that has less than 200k players, that sucked so hard that it's rebooting on january can beat LOTRO. People voting for ESO prolly haven't played the game :-/
Originally posted by magnusnet ESO doesn't deserve to win. Totally biased voting. I can't believe that a game that has bled subs, that has less than 200k players, that sucked so hard that it's rebooting on january can beat LOTRO. People voting for ESO prolly haven't played the game :-/
Nope its actually a bloody good game now, have you played it recently? ah you created an account to post about biased voting, i see.
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Originally posted by Dreamo84 Go TSW go!!! The little game that could... *tears up*
You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
You know what they say about opinions.
Strange how nobody gave a damn about TSW for the last year. Its an okish MMO, great writing, reasonable graphics but everything else is average to drab. If it was amazing then everyone would be playing it - its free to play.
It's B2P actually. So it still requires some investment. Not to mention tons of people don't even know the game exists, it's not like Funcom has a huge advertising budget. And on top of that it's pretty much a niche game theme-wise.
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ah true, these days i think of free to play as no sub, since we can buy these games for pennies on Steam etc. The game has been out long enough that most MMO fans are aware of it.
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Pointless as ESO has more players and a developer who is not shy about letting all players know about this contest via a splash message on the login screen.
There isn't a splash screen on ESO talking about the contest at all.... where are you getting this garbage?
Originally posted by Bladestrom ah true, these days i think of free to play as no sub, since we can buy these games for pennies on Steam etc.
Yeah, I know what you mean. But it still stops plenty of people. Just look at all the "Should I buy TSW/GW2/etc.." threads that pop up frequently. Small as the investment is, it's still enough to keep a lot of people from just jumping in. (Especially when they are looking for a new MMO to play immediately and there's no sales going on at the time)
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Originally posted by Dreamo84 Go TSW go!!! The little game that could... *tears up*
You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
You know what they say about opinions.
Strange how nobody gave a damn about TSW for the last year. Its an okish MMO, great writing, reasonable graphics but everything else is average to drab. If it was amazing then everyone would be playing it - its free to play.
In case you haven't noticed... TSW has been the #1 rated game on this site for over 2 years. Also most player reviews from all kinds of sources are positive, which isn't something you can say about other MMOs.
Pointless as ESO has more players and a developer who is not shy about letting all players know about this contest via a splash message on the login screen.
There isn't a splash screen on ESO talking about the contest at all.... where are you getting this garbage?
There isn't now. There was when that screenshot was taken last week...
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Ah, OK I misunderstood.
The ESO starter zones are also busier than they have been for a while lately but it'd be hard to say how much of that was just Christmas (most I would think) and how much from extra PR.
But in the ESO subforum for this site, I have noticed several people--some of whom admitted having hated ESO with a passion when it released--post new player questions about the game. This could also be due to the fact the game has fixed many of its launch problems and added a few enhancements...hard to say why they're picking it up now.
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lmao. I created an account to vote for the game I like. Isn't that the point? lol Desperate? lmao - Dude, grasp another straw.
Obviously I voted for TSW and then for Lotro (I have lifetime accounts for both). I love the huge world of lotro, I admit it is now just chaining new zones along to get to Morder buuuuut I have a soft spot for it.
Also for ESO I am a bit burnt from the start, I played it and didn't like it, it may have changed now bu tI am unwilling to pay for a months sub to see. *Cough* Welcome back weekend please?
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Agree with the all the new accounts with ESO. I made this point may times. I found very similar patterns and its sad people go to this extreme. Excluding new accounts would have helped get a better picture. This reminds of Pirate 101 and Kingsisle's push for its game a few years back. In the end though does it really matter?
I have come to MMORPG many hundreds of times over the years. I've never felt the desire to register until now. I just wanted to show support for my favorite MMO. Especially considering all the unfounded (imo) hate this game recieved at launch mainly due to an unrealistic expectation. It's not perfect. It has it's flaws. But it fits my taste. It's the first MMO i've played since leaving WoW 3 years ago that feels like home.
If MMORPG wanted only the opinion of currently registered voters, they could have locked registration. But we all know that wasn't the objective. Quite the opposite in fact.
People are just going to have to accept the fact that ESO has a larger and more active community than the haters want to admit.
I can confirm. I saw it too. It was during last voting. Didn't make a screenshot, but I don't see anything wrong about it. Voted for ESO and EVE. Over & out.
It starts with "A" and ends with "rcheage"? Biggest disappoint of my gamer live, I have been supportting it from the first beta until a month ago when my patient run out. Well, at least, the experience served me to give ESO a second chance.
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Bwuahaha, I just countered your vote! >:D
Although it's not really a fair one, since I never played LOTRO. (but I like ESO well enough to give it my vote)
And TSW is a no brainer for me.
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You mean the game that could...have been decent, yes, it definitely could have been. But it isn't.
Combat is terribly clunky and that's what you do for the vast majority of the game, performance is very bad, and those are just the two most obvious flaws.
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You know what they say about opinions.
Ohhh, someone sounds cranky that their favorites are out of the competition, or not winning. :P
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Strange how nobody gave a damn about TSW for the last year. Its an okish MMO, great writing, reasonable graphics but everything else is average to drab. If it was amazing then everyone would be playing it - its free to play.
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Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
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I am here to ensure the games that I want to win, do in fact win. I'm pretty sure my ESO guildies and me took down Secret World with our sheer amount of votes, especially looking at the closeness of the vote. Time to make our presence felt again. BTW you don't think all these new accounts on here on an accident or without purpose do you??????????????
Nope its actually a bloody good game now, have you played it recently? ah you created an account to post about biased voting, i see.
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It's B2P actually. So it still requires some investment. Not to mention tons of people don't even know the game exists, it's not like Funcom has a huge advertising budget. And on top of that it's pretty much a niche game theme-wise.
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Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
There isn't a splash screen on ESO talking about the contest at all.... where are you getting this garbage?
Yeah, I know what you mean. But it still stops plenty of people. Just look at all the "Should I buy TSW/GW2/etc.." threads that pop up frequently. Small as the investment is, it's still enough to keep a lot of people from just jumping in. (Especially when they are looking for a new MMO to play immediately and there's no sales going on at the time)
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In case you haven't noticed... TSW has been the #1 rated game on this site for over 2 years. Also most player reviews from all kinds of sources are positive, which isn't something you can say about other MMOs.
And no, it is not free to play. It's BUY to play.
There isn't now. There was when that screenshot was taken last week...