The Elder Scrolls Online

[Sir T]

Every so often we must rekindle our hate.

[Venkman]

Every so often we must rekindle our hate.

Better than nurturing virtual pets

[Lantyssa]

I miss my dalyrakes.

[Ingmar]

Early anticipation was high and that means nothing.

Um, it certainly means something for whether or not a game gets a subforum. Which was what I was actually talking about there.

[Ard]

Instead of a suibforum, can we get this thread itself moved directly to the gaming graveyard?   I'm pretty sure everything that's needed saying has been said by now 

[Sir T]

Wow, a game getting a section in the graveyard before its even released. That's a new record.

[Falconeer]

No it isn't. When we got our Blood Bowl subforum it actually started in the Graveyard, before getting promoted into the PC/Console gaming section.

[amiable]

Warhammer 1-11 was fun, and it was one of two games (EvE being the other) where I had a really good experience playing with f13'ers.  Levels12+ were a total shitshow and it kind of makes me sad.

[Senses]

I think we already talked about Warhammer sucking, has this thread come full circle?

[Paelos]

I'm tired of hearing companies say they're working on a "AAA" title. At best they'll release a "B" quality game.

This is full circle. Still applies today!

[Samprimary]

By working on an AAA title they usually mean they're wasting an AAA budget

[Paelos]

A B quality game is optimistic really.

[UnSub]

We could make a guild named "Schadenfreude".   

Schildenfreude.

I may have just said something incredibly offensive in German.

F2P or equivalent by 9 months post-launch. Good launch sales, followed by a lot of dead servers.

[Ginaz]

F2P or equivalent by 9 months post-launch. Good launch sales, followed by a lot of dead servers.

Way to go out on a limb.

[K9]

Watched the video just now, and it struck me that I have never seen - in any MMO that I've played - two factions line up in battle formations before charging at eachother. Yet marketing teams insist on including such scenes in every damn MMO trailer. The same goes for people having "duels" on the battlefield. Reality of MMO combat is either full out chaos or 5 vs 1 gankfests, not 1 vs 1 duels scattered across the entire battlefield. </minor rant>

Fake edit: Wait, actually, I lie. I have seen two factions line up in battle formation and charging in. It happened in the early UO days, and the factions were identified by the color of their cloaks. Capes. Whatever they were. Oh well.

We used to get it all the time for tower wars in Anarchy Online. The lack of any meaningful AoE damage meant that blob vs blob was definitely the way to go.

[Nebu]

WvW in GW2 is also blob v blob with the limits on aoe damage.  I find it terribly dull.

[UnSub]

F2P or equivalent by 9 months post-launch. Good launch sales, followed by a lot of dead servers.

Way to go out on a limb.

This time won't be different. 

[Senses]

Even Massively voted this game "Most likely to Flop 2013."  By the time they find out something its usually already been true for 6 months.

[Samprimary]

Have these guys talked even just a little bit about dropping the NDA or

[Threash]

They would be crazy to do that.

[Ard]

Not that dropping the NDA is anymore likely to help them than not dropping it.

[Soulflame]

I watched the video.  My eldest watched the video.

Eldest: "Holy shit there's lag in this video.  That's promising!"

I had to laugh at the animations.  What year is it indeed.

[Fabricated]

Trigger Warning: Kotaku writer.



lmao if true.

[schild]

Seems low, actually.

[Kail]

I dunno, $200m is higher than I was guessing, if it's true.

SW:TOR was rumored to be about $200m, and that was presumably because of the cinematics and voice acting budget, and I was pretty shocked at that.  AFAIK the highest budget game of all time (marketing included) is GTA5, and that's only $250m or so.

[Numtini]

$200m is something that should make one laugh hysterically followed by slitting ones wrists.

[Ingmar]

They got a lot less for their 200 million than Bioware did if that's true.

[Paelos]

They easily could have saved $100M of that if they cut ties to the project back a year and a half ago in my mind.

The only question left is will they make up the variable cost they laid out in box sales to offset the damage this will do to the brand.

[Ingmar]

Brand will be fine even if/when this tanks.

[Malakili]

They got a lot less for their 200 million than Bioware did if that's true.

I'm waiting for the surprise announcement that all the text is voice acted.

[waffel]

I'm sure the development team won't fall into the trap of adding more servers in the first month due to release hype only to have empty server graveyards 4 months out. 

[Lakov_Sanite]

I'm sure the development team won't fall into the trap of adding more servers in the first month due to release hype only to have empty server graveyards 4 months out. 

"But look how many people are buying copies of the game! Even if we lose 25% we're golden!"

[satael]

I'm sure the development team won't fall into the trap of adding more servers in the first month due to release hype only to have empty server graveyards 4 months out. 

Queues to actually get into the game and a monthly fee could be a very bad combination... unless your game is something truly special (of which there is no indication on ESO's part so far)

[Threash]

Wasn't this going to be a megaserver type thing?

[Ginaz]

Might want to check you emails.  Beta invites for this weekend have been sent out.  Also  .