Last night I finally got ESO fully downloaded while I’m going over all of my old ESO posts. I’m re-remembering what also annoyed me about this game. Yet I hope that after not playing for so long, maybe the game is better.
On the other side of the coin, I’ve been trying to get Saint to.. yep, you guessed it. Help me ‘beautify’ my deed. All and all, I’m better off asking the Wurm Forum than waiting for him. See, he gave me one plan, then said how I don’t need all this space. Though I had to go eat dinner before I could explain. Then when I came back, Saint went AFK all freakin’ evening and night. He claimed the next day (today) his wife was editing photos (she’s a professional photographer, and that’s pretty awesome). But seriously, Saint needs his own computer.
And also today, he’s semi-AFK watching a movie while making mortar, barely responding to me to the point he goes AFK again. Alright, Saint. Fine. I shall never bug you with these silly requests ever again. Again, I’ll just ask the Wurm Forum for help (as I did before).
Now, back to ESO. Here I was ready to play and check out the new content! Load the game up, and I see a ‘new’ climatic (though I believe it’s from the Imperial City DLC). And then I’m presented with a thing that claims that Morrowind is not active on my copy. Mmk, that’s fine I thought. I got ESO+, so I’ll just find the code somewhere. Looked at my member info, and I see no codes. Starting to get concerned, then I remembered the email they sent me back in May of this year. I go over my email and find it..but it’s for the Morrowind Closed Beta (also the key doesn’t work, claims it’s invalid).
I’m thinking maybe they did send me the code but maybe it got lost, so I tried asking in the forum. Get a response less than five minutes later…which shocks the FUCK out of me. “Morrowind isn’t included in ESO+. You need to buy separately a code for the expansion itself.”
Uhh. You.. you got to be kidding. There’s no way. You… wow. There’s just, so much “wow” in this, both frustrated and shocked. How…WHY?! WHY IN THE FUCK, ISN’T THIS INCLUDED IN THE $15/mo I GIVE THEM?!? That’s. just. SO much WRONG!! THEY WANT $40 ON TOP OF THE FUCKING $15?!?!
WHY?!?!?! They fucking PROMISED additional content would come with your ESO+ Subscription! They have NO RIGHT to label this as an expansion and make this an additional charge. Plus, you can’t even use Crowns to pay for it!
Did a quick Google search after being told there’s been debates “several months ago” about this, and there’s a post from January of this year which looks like a 50/50 split of people furious about this, and people calling the furious ‘entitled assholes who don’t see this is a major thing’. This thing costs $20 less than the game, and it’s roughly around the price of an EP from WoW. Yet when it came to WoW, we knew our subscriptions didn’t include getting the EPs. These guys lied to us.
Also, and this is just awesome, I read that this thing is only 40 hours long. That’s NOT an ‘expansion’! It’s screaming “SCAM” to me!
I’m not supporting this bullshit, and I feel like kicking myself in the ass for doing it since I left and not being informed of this.. months ago. Cancelling my subscription. Call me “entitled” all you want, but they have no right to go back on their promises. It’s a spit in my face. You don’t DO that to your customers!
I can see this game is going to be losing a lot of subscribers. Also I went over the ‘content’ of the ‘expansion’, and…there’s barely any there. THIS is 40 hours worth of content, an unnamed boss, having another class…and a fucking PvP Arena!? I think I’m better off waiting for Skywind(of when there’s ever a release date). At least it would be FREE (for owning Skyrim)!
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So, no ESO afterall because of this. I wasted a night being all hyped up waiting for this thing to download, for nothing. Wow. See what I mean about being hyped, folks? See what I mean about it crushing your spirit?! I think what happened with WoD was actually a good thing, to not trust mainstream gaming.
This ‘expansion’..(aka an overpriced DLC that should had come with ones ESO+ subscription(yet they labeled it as an ‘expansion’ to circumvent their own promise)) is a joke. A $40 joke. Ohh, but that $40 is just the standard edition, folks! For $60 MORE (yes, that’s $100) comes with all of THIS!
Ahahah.. wow. Of course, this also comes with the base game. But..and this is the good part, it does NOT include the DLC’s! 😀 AWESOME BARGAIN, HUH?!
Fuck everything. 😛
Anyway, even though I no longer have a subscription, I can still play the game; it’s not required to pay for the expansion(thank the maker). There’s a way to say “no thank you” and it showed my two chars still there (as Level 50 each). So… I could still purchase the 4 DLCs with the just over 26k Crowns I have (but never buy Scamwind). Infact there is this ‘Guilds & Glory: The 4-DLC Mega Pack’ for 5,100 Crowns. This seems more fair as it wouldn’t cost me anything (financially). And.. even if I decided to reconsider and buy this thing, I couldn’t afford it this month.
There’s also this thing I see in the Crown Store of…player housing?! 😮 NOW we’re talking!!
However, thinking hard..without this expansion, I feel there hasn’t really been any major attempts of improving the endgame. I have asked in a few forum posts about this and some other subjects. I’m still waiting for the “has endgame been changed” one.
Ehh. I’m not really going to lose anything by joining, right? I’m not paying for the game anymore, and the DLCs are technically ‘free’ with how many Crowns I’ve been collecting. I really have nothing to lose.
Though, I also think I might revisit the two other MMORPGs I’ve played, Guild Wars 2 and Wildstar, and see if they’ve improved over the years (or have gone the ways of this video game company that I don’t see how they’re still in business).