Elder Scrolls Online Still Angers Fans

In a case of stuck between a rock and a hard place, Bethesda’s latest trailer for The Elder Scrolls Online, released to YouTube today, has been attacked by both fans of MMOs and fans of The Elder Scrolls.

It’s true that it looks a little underwhelming – especially when you consider that there are better looking options without the near £100 monthly cost – but it’s the problem with being neither one thing nor the other that fans seem unable to stomach. YouTube comments on the video are angry, some furious even, that things aren’t being handled better.

looks meh and the £100+ pounds per year for it is stupid and WoWish. i’ll save my money for fallout 4 if you ever bother making it

Gameplay looks Generic,Graphics look Good(as a casual mmo graphics)
Animation is Dull as ****,spells and effects look  like oblivion.

Ugh… ****, I really wish they would just cancel this game.
If people really want multiplayer that bad in TES, then just make stupid playlists and coop for the games. MMO is not the way to do it for this series.

Congrats Bethesda for taking a sacred series and making a game no one wants with it.  How about you give TES back to Todd Howard and Co., kneel at their feet, and apologize.

Thanks for ruining what you had by going and creating another world of warcraft. I hope it fails and falls into obscurity before eventually becoming a free-to-play that no one invests in.

Horrible animations, horrible gameplay mechanics, horrible story immersion, horrible world immersion… a theme park on rails MMO, its just a boring game in general.  There is nothing new here.  It may have mild success on console or new MMORPG players.  Old dogs like me / diehard MMO fans can see ESO for what it is… rather sad, I wanted to like ESO.

This has been too rushed. Please cancel the release and get back to the workbenches, because this game has so much potential if you just work on it more…

Hmm, not to happy with this vid, so many fps drops and poor animation and people standing infront of eachother hitting spells.. no, not a good vid to show the public guys!

I find it disturbing that even the trailer is lagging, when theres a big fight going on. a trailer is always a presentation of the content in its best form. ;( not good looking imo

Holy ****in ****, this looks ****in terrible!!! How the **** can you make a game like that and PROUDLY show it? The animations are just ****in stiff and terrible, the graphics are ****, please, just ****in stop right now!!!!!

As others have already said.  I hope there is a good excuse as to why this game looks sooooo bad.  I hope there is big plans to improve it before launch.  I have watched the video 3 times and everytime it looks worse than the time before, come on, why? why? why?  I am actually sadden, I was very hopeful of this title.

When it was first announced, fans on both sides of the fence were excited (partly thanks to a lot of big PR promises in the original reveal). In the time since, they’ve gradually become more and more disenfranchised with the MMO, with each trailer showing more and more negatives.