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 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Yeah, considering the size of the village here its bad. I'm getting 86KB download at the moment, and tbh that's a good day, seen it as low as 30KB last year.

On a positive, the whole of Suffolk is getting a broadband upgrade at the mo, but our village is due early to mid 2015 so doh.
It will bounce us up to about what you have mind, which to be blatantly honest would be an absolute dream.


It might make it, but will have to wait and see. Sadly its not sounding too great mind based on what folks are suggesting but I'll have a look. Oddly I might be more interesting in nabbing it on the Xbox One depending on how it is converted to a controller.


On a side note didn't spot you where in Aber, going to the Uni?

What the.. I've had faster dial ups then that. How can you live at that speed!?

It's actually pretty well thought out even it's current state. Claiming it's a WoW clone is disingenuous as there are hundreds of fantasy MMO's out there currently, all of which utilize a lot of aspects present in EVERY fantasy MMO.

Gameplay is solid, I didn't find myself irritated with a lot of what I've played last time, bugs aside. The community is better than any MMO I've had the pleasure of being apart of (which is huge for me given the horrible human beings that permeate the online scene nowadays). Graphics are on par with Neverwinter (a game I hold MMO's to in terms of presentation). To touch back on gameplay, I feel like every mmo is going to bear the curse of the 'WoW clone' moniker (which really sells so many games short as the description is a silly one), but the elements of 3rd person RPG/mmo's is certainly there.

All in all, I'm excited to see how it goes. Subscriptions are a way of life for MMO's (barring those that claim to be F2P, which is crap and we all know it), and I think it allows for a better product in general.

I could agree with that. If Skyrim had allowed split screen multiplayer me and Aura would probably still be playing the hell out of it, compared to our fairly long stints as it is.

 Kanluwen wrote:
As of right now the working price for a subscription is $8/month, with the first two months of play time free.

Looks like it's actually going to be $15 a month.

What payment model will The Elder Scrolls Online use?

We will be announcing exact payment methods at a later date, but globally we will be supporting multiple payment options. Players must purchase The Elder Scrolls Online in order to play it. They will have unlimited access for the first 30 days following activation and can continue beyond that with a subscription of $14.99/month (€12.99 / £8.99).

http://help.elderscrollsonline.com/

Anyone able to post a brief review or impressions of this to date?
Sort of looking forward to it but having played multiple mmos am not getting too excited over it.
Cannot endure another "first 20 levels are good and then poof" syndrome again.

I'm in on this current testing phase

 mega_bassist wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
As of right now the working price for a subscription is $8/month, with the first two months of play time free.

Looks like it's actually going to be $15 a month.

What payment model will The Elder Scrolls Online use?

We will be announcing exact payment methods at a later date, but globally we will be supporting multiple payment options. Players must purchase The Elder Scrolls Online in order to play it. They will have unlimited access for the first 30 days following activation and can continue beyond that with a subscription of $14.99/month (€12.99 / £8.99).

http://help.elderscrollsonline.com/

See? Things change quick.

Please remember though players in this current beta/stress test--you are under NDA, which means you should actually read the NDA. Whether it's legally enforceable or not, Bethesda might be willing to really bring the hammer down on people revealing too much.

Well, that means I won't be playing.

I don't believe any mmo that says they will be using a subscription fee. It just doesn't work out.

Seems to work just fine for WoW to me.

I won't be saying anything other than the fact I am in... if I get in. Its bloody odd though, its downloaded about 16gbs but its only noted its got 23% down. It's probably one of those finish a file update the progress bar type deals, but its not going to be done tonight, maybe tomorrow night.

I have 4349mb remaining as of right now.

WoW is a unique case no other MMO has been able to mimic. Probably best I don't say more before I start offending WoW players

 Melissia wrote:
WoW is a unique case no other MMO has been able to mimic. Probably best I don't say more before I start offending WoW players

90% of the WoW playerbase deserve to be offended, the other 10% don't care.

 Melissia wrote:
WoW is a unique case no other MMO has been able to mimic. Probably best I don't say more before I start offending WoW players

WoW is a unique case because of WoW. It's such a big whale that it ate all the fish and now mmos have to eat shrimp or something.

The tutorial isn't good.

But its Skyrim - online? maybe they hope "vets" will be used to it?

I got the beta....downloaded it whenever i got the email (the 7th maybe?)
Haven't played it yet just not really in the mood right now to try it for some reason haha

Subscription ontop of a $60 game sounds like a jip but you are basically just paying a subscription for constant updates and expansions. Instead of paying $60 then $30 for expansions etc etc

I am not sure if I will get it yet because its like Star Wars The Old Republic. Was $60 then 10-15 subscription. I was pumped for it and then ended up not buying it because I don't play much video games anymore and still haven't played the free to play.

I think this is just a different direction that the Eldar Scrolls series wants to take and that's not a bad thing. They will make other non online versions so I am not worried about this "ruining" the series. Just a different approach. If games didn't take different approaches to things we wouldn't have a lot of games some of us love.

Just a scruffy Canadians opinion

 Ratius wrote:
But its Skyrim - online? maybe they hope "vets" will be used to it?

It's just uninteresting, especially compared to Skyrim's tutorial.

Though take that with a pinch of salt as I wasn't actually able to complete the tutorial due to performance issues and getting stuck in a wall.

Played an hour or 2 and got to the main area. It felt instantly like an Elder Scrolls game until you see a load of players running around.

Its decent enough though not something I would pay for monthly. I dunno maybe playing more will help me decide.

I'm going to attempt to complete the tutorial again with a new character later on today, hopefully things will get better.

I've been thinking about playing, but I keep thinking of this picture. Not what I want in elder scrolls.

Are those the actual graphics/is that the actual interface? Because they're terrible.

~Tim?

No. That's a meme, where people took Oblivion or Morrowwind's interface.

Morrowind.

My client consistenly crashes when I try and run the game, the repair tool failed to fix this and my attempts to redownload the 20Gb clinet have been twarted by a glacial download speed. Frankly I'm not sufficently interested in the game to try and overcome these issues.

I like seeing the "I'm not really interested" posts from people who got the invite, when folks like me who really are interested, didn't.

:(

Well I was interested enough to try it, the problem is that I'm not interested enough to try and find a solution to fix it.

 djones520 wrote:
I like seeing the "I'm not really interested" posts from people who got the invite, when folks like me who really are interested, didn't.

:(

IKR?

 Palindrome wrote:
Well I was interested enough to try it, the problem is that I'm not interested enough to try and find a solution to fix it.

I'm not knocking on you specifically, I've just been seeing it around the internet a lot actually. I signed up for the beta when they first announced sign ups, and I haven't been invited to any of it, yet I'm constantly seeing people who have, who've treated it with ambivalence at best, and it just kinda gets annoying.

I was interested until the subscription news came up.

If nobody had posted about it then my interest wouldn't have immediately tanked.

As an aside, I haven't gotten an invite, so don't think o fme as one of those people lol.