> There are many live-service games out there, and some of them are quietly raking in millions (or even billions) of dollars without much fanfare. According to ZeniMax Online studio director Matt Firor, The Elder Scrolls Online is one of those games, and he pointed to its $2 billion in cumulative consumer spend (first announced at this year’s GDC) as evidence of this.
It’s a pretty mediocre MMO but people crave Elder Scrolls so…
Northdistortion on
This game needs cross progression and crossplay
YouCantEatGemStones on
I really should play this again. I had it for PS4, liked it a lot, became a Vampire as I recall.
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Going off Steam concurrent users aren’t all that different. I’ve played both a bit for the questing. ESO is nice for the questlines and voice acting but its gameplay feels worse because it’s like most MMOs where there’s this constant enemies everywhere and dungeons with a ton of enemies you have to kill and it’s an action mmo.
Gameplay isn’t that different than Oblivion/Skyrim but those you don’t have to keep clicking incessantly because enemies are way less frequent and leveling way less important. Auto-attack tab-targetting MMOs are actually pretty nice for how MMO’s design most quests to be fetch or kill with minimal narrative, player leveling importance so grind, gear importance so grind. It’s all centered around grinding so action combat gameplay becomes a chore compared to tab target spamming hotkeys
I think that’s why ESO has way more mixed feelings about it even from its active playerbase. FFXIV, everyone talks about the story and I’ve met so many people at work where it’s what they do with their friends. The gameplay doesn’t get in the way. It’s not annoying like ESO. ESO people talk about it’s storylines, voice acting, etc but complain about it’s gameplay. A lot of people drop it because of how annoying the gameplay even with friends and play FFXIV for social mmo gaming
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> There are many live-service games out there, and some of them are quietly raking in millions (or even billions) of dollars without much fanfare. According to ZeniMax Online studio director Matt Firor, The Elder Scrolls Online is one of those games, and he pointed to its $2 billion in cumulative consumer spend (first announced at this year’s GDC) as evidence of this.
> “ESO isn’t often talked about as one of the successful live-service games,” Firor told [GamesRadar](https://www.gamesradar.com/after-making-dollar2-billion-in-10-years-the-elder-scrolls-onlines-director-wants-you-to-know-that-the-mmo-is-definitely-one-of-the-successful-live-service-games/) in a recent interview. “But it is, it very much is on just about every level.” He further said that the studio revealed the $2 billion stat was intended “mostly to shine a light on the game.”
It’s a pretty mediocre MMO but people crave Elder Scrolls so…
This game needs cross progression and crossplay
I really should play this again. I had it for PS4, liked it a lot, became a Vampire as I recall.
Going off Steam concurrent users aren’t all that different. I’ve played both a bit for the questing. ESO is nice for the questlines and voice acting but its gameplay feels worse because it’s like most MMOs where there’s this constant enemies everywhere and dungeons with a ton of enemies you have to kill and it’s an action mmo.
Gameplay isn’t that different than Oblivion/Skyrim but those you don’t have to keep clicking incessantly because enemies are way less frequent and leveling way less important. Auto-attack tab-targetting MMOs are actually pretty nice for how MMO’s design most quests to be fetch or kill with minimal narrative, player leveling importance so grind, gear importance so grind. It’s all centered around grinding so action combat gameplay becomes a chore compared to tab target spamming hotkeys
I think that’s why ESO has way more mixed feelings about it even from its active playerbase. FFXIV, everyone talks about the story and I’ve met so many people at work where it’s what they do with their friends. The gameplay doesn’t get in the way. It’s not annoying like ESO. ESO people talk about it’s storylines, voice acting, etc but complain about it’s gameplay. A lot of people drop it because of how annoying the gameplay even with friends and play FFXIV for social mmo gaming