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oldschoolfool on 17 February 2014

I love the idea of the game,but i think it's going to have a few problems. If you have to pay for PSN plus/xbox live to play the game online and a subscription service,then that's going to be to much to ask for alot of people. I'm not sure if mmo's on consoles can work. It's one of the few genere's were your forced to rely on people to advance. your only as good as the people playing online. I personally kind of hate that. then,there's probably going to be a bunch of micro transcations. With all of that,just playing the dam game is probably going to be expensive as hell. Am,I the only one with these thoughts and concerns???



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Adameh on 17 February 2014
oldschoolfool said:

I love the idea of the game,but i think it's going to have a few problems. If you have to pay for PSN plus/xbox live to play the game online and a subscription service,then that's going to be to much to ask for alot of people. I'm not sure if mmo's on consoles can work. It's one of the few genere's were your forced to rely on people to advance. your only as good as the people playing online. I personally kind of hate that. then,there's probably going to be a bunch of micro transcations. With all of that,just playing the dam game is probably going to be expensive as hell. Am,I the only one with these thoughts and concerns???

On PS4 you don't need PSPlus (but on Xbox One you need Xbox Gold). Also I think this is gonna fail saying it's a $60 game and a $14.99 a month fee.



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areason on 17 February 2014

Yes due to it's subscription fee. The audience that will make it successful isn't the mmo audience, but the elder scrolls fans.



eFKac on 17 February 2014

Spectacularly. Called it already a couple times on this site, but will say again, F2P in under a year on market. Played the beta a couple hours on PC, it left me lukewarm (NDA is down), and how could they make the fighting WORSE than Skyrim is beyond me :-/



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vivster on 17 February 2014

If MMOs on consoles work ask Diablo 3, FFXI and FFXIV. (the answer is yes)

TES Online is certainly missing a good portion of hype. Who would've thought that players who love single player first person open world games don't jump on MMORPGs.



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oldschoolfool on 17 February 2014
Adameh said:
oldschoolfool said:

I love the idea of the game,but i think it's going to have a few problems. If you have to pay for PSN plus/xbox live to play the game online and a subscription service,then that's going to be to much to ask for alot of people. I'm not sure if mmo's on consoles can work. It's one of the few genere's were your forced to rely on people to advance. your only as good as the people playing online. I personally kind of hate that. then,there's probably going to be a bunch of micro transcations. With all of that,just playing the dam game is probably going to be expensive as hell. Am,I the only one with these thoughts and concerns???

On PS4 you don't need PSPlus (but on Xbox One you need Xbox Gold). Also I think this is gonna fail saying it's a $60 game and a $14.99 a month fee.

I did'nt know the fee was going to be that much. that's a bit to pricey for my blood. 



Rhonin the wizard on 17 February 2014

Yes, played the beta, my reaction was "meh". It feels more like an ordinary MMO with Elder Scrolls paint than a massively multiplayer online Elder Scrolls game.

Also it is rumored the game cost about 200 million $ to be made.



HumdrumPie on 17 February 2014

Don't know, but I am intrigued by it. I hate MMOs but this is the Elder Scrolls. It is very risky though and BioWare couldn't pull it off with a Star Wars IP. I still find myself drawn to it even though I would much rather have a single player game.



melbye on 17 February 2014

$60 plus $15 every month makes me think yes it will flop



Mummelmann on 17 February 2014

I think it's relying on a model that is losing popularity fast. So my answer would be yes. Even if it sells decent amounts of copies, I think the amount of actual subscriptions after a year or two will be quite low, not unlike the massive loss of interest in Diablo III.