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So, I wasn’t there to hear the Q2 “earnings” for Blizzard-Activision. But heelz was, and the news is both good.. and sad at the same time.
WoW has gone down to 5.6 million subscribers. The WoW Token did NOT help Blizzard! 😀

Though I don’t know if to cheer, or be depressed. I guess it’s a mixture of both. Still like WoW for what it was. Met some nice people and nice guilds. Learned what MMORPGs really are. What mounts are. Learned so much from WoW. Not even my years in TSO were like this.
And I’m also hearing, that this sub loss is lower of the time that I had joined WoW (which was late in 2005) when we were in Vanilla. That… that’s really insane. That’s also sad at the same time. I..really don’t know what to say. Except.. Blizzard deserves this.

They do deserve this loss. They need to feel the hell we went through, mindlessly grinding Apexis Crystals as a form of soloable endgame content.
And what’s really bad.. they lied about themselves getting “bumper profits”. It was all to please the stockholders, and another way to trick people in giving them more money (via the WoW Token). They’ve turned into EA. But why? Because they never gave a flying fuck about you, and the rest of their playerbase.
Everyone saw the sub loss since Cata (which is when Activision joined Blizzard). I personally, never bitched (that much). With MoP and most were all “WTF PANDAS?!?!”, I didn’t care. I absolutely loved the expansion. Yet subs dropped.
Then WoD was unveiled. The Warcraft 3 lore nerds were getting boners, and it really raised sub numbers. Now… now it’s lower than when I had joined WoW.

All they cared for anymore is “hey, could you make us even more rich? Doesn’t mean we’ll actually do anything! We’ll just keep shitting out expansions, and you’ll buy them! Because that’s just how gullible you are!”

Not anymore. You lost my trust a year ago. And that lost trust was so bad, I lost faith in all gaming companies. I… I now know what it means to give into hype. And even when I think about it, it makes me upset. Hype is a dangerous thing. It’s like what you feel is a good drug then find out you have to go to the hospital to get it pumped out.
Never… give into hype. NEVER!! Don’t make the same fucking mistake I made! There is no such thing as “the perfect game”. It can never exist.
Who’s going to be the next one that just stops giving a fuck about their players and more about their money? Ubisoft? Square Enix? Bethesda? SCS Software? ID Software? It could be any one of them.
As long as Activision lives, more great companies will go down the shitter.

And the next expansion? Fuck no, I’m not getting it. They claim WoD is “done”. They claim, we’ll be contended with sub-standard content for a good year. Fuck Patch 6.3. Fuck having any hope to bring back your playerbase. You just don’t give a fuck anymore. But you sure as hell love our money.
The only way… they will ever gain my trust is if what was mentioned in Gamescon, stays there through BlizzCon to the release. No more cut content. No more sub-standard content. Actually have a fucking POINT to reach the level cap (and I don’t mean twiddling my thumbs in an NPC town that is claimed to be mine and have a title I don’t deserve).

You can turn this around, Blizzard. Don’t make Legion a pile of fel shit. I still remember when I was told how they “don’t like cutting content” in Twitter. If they really don’t like it, then DON’T DO IT! And if you do, fucking replace it with a good alternative. And I DON’T mean more fucking Apexis Crystal grinds!!
Of course, the Q3 earnings are right around the corner. If Blizzard doesn’t recover their sub losses by then… it’s pretty much game over for the titan of MMORPGs. Might as well cancel this expansion and put the final nail into the coffin. Personally, I feel this is best. As they say, nothing lasts forever.

WoW is trending on Twitter again, and it’s not about what a mess WoD is. Blizzard during Gamescon 2015, announced the next expansion (titled “Legion”).
Gul’dan is going to be playing a roll in this. Illidan has been resurrected, and Gul’dan’s heading to the Tomb of Sargarus (the one seen in Warcraft 3 during the Night Elf campaign). In other words, history might be repeating itself. Though in Warcraft 3, Gul’dan dies a painful, slow death due to trying to get Sargarus’ power for his own.

This is what is known from the announcement;
-We’re taking the fight to the Burning Legion.. AGAIN! Because The Burning Crusade was “merely a setback”! *rolls eyes*
-Level to 110 (would make late game Pandaria dungeons and early game WoD dungeons soloable).
-Demon Hunter Hero Class
-Artifact Weapons
-Order Hall (possibly ‘Garrison 2.0’)
-PvP Honor System
-New zone: ‘The Broken Isles’
-Level 100 Character Boost (THIS will be useful)

First off, remember NONE of these are set in stone when the release hits (likely late 2016 to early 2017). Do not give into hype. Let the release of WoD remind us what hype does. It disappoints us. It’s makes us raged, and depressed.. and not trust another game company feeling they’ll do the same damn thing.

So yeah, they’re definitely done with WoD. No Patch 6.3. No hope. They’re just… done. I can’t wait to see all of those empty chairs at BlizzCon. Lore would be all “WELCOME TO BLIZZCON!!!” on the stage, and all you’ll hear is the sound of crickets.
I would so laugh my head off. Not to mention fistpump at all the players tired of the bullshit, double-talk, and lies. It would be the greatest BlizzCon ever. And then Blizzard would close their doors and I’ll never hear about their cash cow company ever again!

Wishful thinking, I know. There would be a few “hardcore” fans there, but I would imagine not as much as there was during 2013’s BlizzCon.

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Zarhym was seen in Twitter when the announcement was made, claiming how they “don’t like to cut content”. I said to him “Save us the BS. We’ve heard it with WoD back in 2013.”
He responded a day later, saying “Yes, we had to make tough decisions. We still hate shelving/cutting features we’ve announced.”

“had to make tough decisions”, yet never offering a clear answer of why the promised capital cities were cut. Just powdered bullshit.

This is a highly debatable topic. My original post about this subject was very… well, you know me when I feel something is really stupid and/or pointless. I let whoever does it, have it with vulgar words!
The debate over PC Game Trainers being paid for, I’ve always been against it. In my opinion, trainers should be free! It is the game you pay for, and that’s it. But that was back in the turn of the century. Wherever this is purely corporate greed or not of programmers asking for a lot of money to make these trainers, remains a mystery to me.

Some will say “well they should be. They have to go through hell to break the game’s code so you can have your God Mode or Unlimited Ammo!” And I say, that’s fine… as long as it’s a donation and NOT a forced monthly fee. And this is why I went with their Unlimited option. Pay one time, and I’m done. No more money goes to them. I spent nearly $80 when I did it.

All the sudden, I get this email about this “Unlimited PLUS” option. How it came to be, they state how they’ve been pretty nice in not asking another penny from Unlimited members. Then they state “but games have evolved, and we had to hire more programmers over the years.”
In other words, they’re stating they can’t keep doing this Unlimited option as the programmers are having to put more hours into making these trainers. I hardly use the site, so why should I care?

Why can’t they just go with a donation system, instead of a monthly fee? Let people pay these programmers. Because not everyone’s generous (including myself). This is why they have to force these payments.
Either that or they’re too stupid to think that was an option when they created the website. Or they did, but they damn well knew it wouldn’t work. Personally, I go for the former “too stupid to think of that idea”. Because it wasn’t even stated as one of their options in the email.

So they claim “many current lifetime members have asked over the years” to help them. Personally, why in the fuck couldn’t these “many current lifetime members” fall back to their monthly option? Perhaps, no one wants to. Yet why are they wanting to give them more money? Such stupidity makes my blood boil.

Whatever, I don’t care. Well, at least I wish I wasn’t FORCED to… because they state this near the end of the email (the good part is in bold);
We want to continue offering our lifetime membership to new users but if the gaming landscape continues to evolve and we have to keep adding more and more programmers to keep up then ultimately it will have to go away in favor of more costly monthly and yearly options. We hope that by offering Lifetime PLUS that we will receive enough support so that we can keep prices where they are and continue producing the level of content that everyone is accustomed to.

“it will have to go away in favor of more costly monthly and yearly options”. Now I must remember, this is just a warning. A warning that is probably very likely to come true.
But also note the second part of the paragraph, where they say how they hope this Lifetime PLUS option helps to not make this a reality. But we all know, it will in a year or two. There’s going to be more games, and with that will require more programmers to work longer hours to allow us to cheat in them.
And guess what? I’m going to be forced to pay it. Because it’s the only reliable source of trainers. As much as I bitch and moan about it, this is the reality. This isn’t the 2000’s anymore. Nothing can be forever free(as much as I wish them to remain forever free).

I don’t know who to blame. Steam for allowing devs to release Alpha and Beta builds of their game? The programmers for not putting their foot down and saying “we’ll only do trainers for released games”? … People for not FUCKING using their monthly service?!
Blargh.. whoever’s fault it is, the damage has been done. No one can reverse it.

A day ago I said ESO TU was “my MMO of choice”. The devs actually tried to make me regret that statement yesterday…
There was a patch, and usually I have no issues with getting a patch. This one, I kind of am. It’s telling me how it doesn’t know what version of ESO TU I’m running. I tried to repair, it won’t let me repair. Sometimes it will, yet the error persists.

Yet for some reason, the game works just fine even with the error. This is so weird. Though I do hope after I get done typing in this blog post, this stroke of luck will continue for me.

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Another thing I wanted to state that’s kind of relevant to the second part of the story. I joined a guild (named “Enlightened Alliance”). They claimed “all player skills are welcome” and seemed really friendly in their recruitment message. So I thought “What the hell” and joined them.

I also asked them if they knew of this second bug I was having that involved quest hubs. This bug seems to not give me the achievement when I complete all the known quests in the area, and also claims I didn’t even do the quest. They say they don’t have this bug (and also everyone I spoke to in zone chat, didn’t have this issue).

Due to this, there’s only one thing I could blame; the addons I was using. The thing is, even when I disable all of them.. it doesn’t help. The damage has already been done. The only thing I could do is ask for help via a ticket, and have them reset the quests. Yet this really wasn’t needed, and the “problem” was never a problem.

A few people said “there has to be a followup quest in the area that’s keeping you from completing the thing”. I did find a mod that shows all incomplete quests. Tried it out, and it actually showed me that they’re right.
I completed these quests…and I got the achievements and the “you helped these people!” messages as I was supposed to in the first place. I knew it wasn’t my mods that caused it. They cannot (and aren’t allowed to) change anything about the game. They aren’t like mods in Skyrim, where you can cheat-unlock a locked door (and have an uber bow with powerful arrows that can 1-shot even Alduin).

So yeah. Gotta be careful what I say is “my game” or “my MMO”, as it can downright make me regret my words.

I was really hoping ESO TU would be my MMO of choice, and it is. Mainly due to playing the Single Player series since Oblivion.
Because of this, I had to make a tough (well… not that tough) decision. I left the guild I joined in Wildstar (and of course no one gave a fuck. No one even said bye to me). It’s not their fault I left, it’s my own. Wildstar isn’t my MMO… it’s not even close to being. I have just stopped playing it for the past 2-3 days.

It’s just too punishing on me (even leveling is hard). But does this mean I’m leaving Wildstar for good? No. I might come back when it goes FTP.
Though the main reason I’m leaving the guild, it’s not as “helpful” as I was hoping. The only helpful things they did are thus;

-Made gear for me (once).
-Gave me build advice that went in one ear and out the other.
-Told me how to practice on really hard mobs to learn position and crap.
-Helped me out (once) with a quest.

It’s just a bunch of people looking out for themselves. And asking for help, I feel literally embarrassed. Plus, there’s a lot more people playing ESO TU than Wildstar. And I can usually rely on others to help me (even if I don’t ask for help). Though ESO TU’s community is slightly similar to WoW, they will actually take time to answer my questions (usually).

ESO TU is hard too, but at least questing isn’t. I get lots of quests(and they’re usually my level). Plus the chosen font of the game is easy on the eyes. Also, quest givers actually take the time to read what they want from you. I can feel the quest; feel what it’s about and be immersed into it… unlike Wildstar.
Plus, Wildstar’s plot feels like it was glued and stapled together in such a way that it looks like a mess, and badly planned out. ESO’s looks neat and nice (plus knowing the lore from the Single Player series helps).

I’m currently Level 21, hanging out in central Morrowind. Though I can’t help but feel there’s just so many things strange about this game.

For one major thing, it’s not clear what era the game is in. Is it before Oblivion and Skyrim? Is it before the Single Player series started? Or is this nothing but an alternate reality, where the events in Oblivion never took place (the Dragonfires were never lit, the Sentums never took power. Akatosh never helped you defeat the final boss).
There’s not even a mention of how “a lone Dragonborn defeated Alduin”. There’s just.. so much.

The Thieves Guild doesn’t even exist. Maybe its existence is only in Cyrodiil and Skyrim. This is a shame, because I would love to be able to use the Skeleton Key for these locks.

Here’s the other things I’ve seen different from Skyrim;
-You don’t get the weapon an enemy was using when it dies.
-You have infinite arrows, and a bow is the only thing that can determine their strength.
-Advancing in the ‘main questline’, you cannot focus on it and beat the game. You’re required to rely on ‘side quests’ to level. This forces you to be Level 50 to beat the game (instead of beating it at whatever level you end up when you defeat Alduin in Skyrim).
-As I said in my initial thoughts, items have no weight. It’s all based on how much inventory space you have. Also, bags aren’t a thing(unlike most MMOs). You can simply pay money to increase your inventory space by 10 slots.
-Unlocking locked doors and chests is a lot different from Oblivion, Skyrim, and even Fallout 3. Instead of using a screwdriver and a lockpick on a lock and listen for cues, you visually have to push the pins inside the lock, down at specific times. If that’s not bad enough, it gives you a time limit(which can get really fast if you try to unlock a hard lock).
-The Lockpicking skill doesn’t exist. Which is probably why the timer is a thing.
-Going to Skyrim from Morrowind is a bad idea (until you’re Level 30+).
-I got to see what’s beyond that pathway that leads into Morrowind from Skyrim.
-Iron is the only material you can have when making armor and weapons. No Glass or Daedric armor.
-Arrows don’t travel as far as in Skyrim. There’s actually a distance limit. Plus as long as you aim at your target, the arrow will hit (even if the enemy runs by you). You don’t have to adjust for gravity.
-Dungeons aren’t as cool-looking as the ones in Skyrim. Plus there’s hardly any puzzles or traps.

Those are pretty much (so far) the differences. There’s bound to be more as I advance.

Here’s what I know so far;

–The minimal UI is really annoying me. I get it’s supposed to feel like the Single Player equivalent of using your keys instead of your mouse to use abilities. But I cannot tell how much bag space I have, what buffs and debuffs are active, if I’m standing in AoE.. anything like that.
–Been getting into addons. Found several useful ones. Such as first person while on a mount, a Minimap, a timer to tell me when I can sell my stolen crap(as you can only sell 50 items every 24 RL hours), and stuff like this.
–If you listen real carefully to some of the songs (like in capital cities) you might hear Skyrim’s main theme song. So cool.
–I have to say… shame on the devs. “Solo” Dungeons are a fucking joke. I still see people inside them, so where’s the ‘solo’ part in these Solo Dungeons? There’s very minimal enemies. Some of these ‘dungeons’, there’s no quest to do. So it’s just endless killing.
–I seem to be able to infinitely sprint while on a horse. Seems to not matter when its Stamina bar is empty. Feels like an exploit, but I’ll take advantage of it.
–Doesn’t feel like enough slots for all these abilities. And here I felt Wildstar was bad(how you have to swap abilities). However at Level 15, it will allow you to swap between two sets of abilities and weapons (like in Guild Wars 2).
–It’s important to acquire lots of Soul Gems. There’s an ability that anyone can use to fill an empty Soul Gem. To get them is similar to Skyrim (buy them from merchants(mainly ones in the Mages Guild) or loot them). The size of a Soul Gem is level based (unlike in Skyrim). In other words, you can’t fill a Grand Soul Gem until Level 50.
–Can’t seem to find the Thieves Guild for some reason(one of my favorite NPC Guilds in Skyrim). Maybe they never got established in this day and age? I’m actually tempted to join the Fighters Guild.
–Enemy blips don’t pop up on the compass (unless they’re attacking another player or you), unlike Skyrim where they do.
–Level cap seems to be Level 50, same as Skyrim (and Wildstar).
–Cyrodiil, the heart of Tamriel, is where the “Alliance War” is. It’s a giant PvP zone, apparently.
–Wayshrines are ESO’s mode of Fast Travel. You can teleport to any existing one for a specific amount of gold, or travel there and Fast Travel to any discovered one for free. Your choice.
–Skyrim as a whole seems inaccessible when viewing a Wayshrine of where you can Fast Travel to. Yet you can go to The Rift which is a part of Skyrim and visit Riftin(my most disliked city in Skyrim). You can also visit the town at the summit of The Throat of The World(where Paarthanux and Odaviing hang out). If they’re actually there, I have no idea. I really pray they are.. even more so of being attacked by a dragon while in The Rift. That would be so epic. Hearing that badass dragon battle music…. oh god. 😀
–Nords look better in Skyrim than in this game. Just saying. However, they still have the same desire for good mead from Riftin.
–Looking for better gear is a pain in the ass. It’s a freakin’ mess when looking through the list. There’s no sorting options at all.

That’s pretty much it. The game’s still pretty good. Liking it so far.

I’m getting really annoyed of seeing a lot of people (even lower level than myself) owning mounts. I’m Level 7, and I’ve seen people on horse mounts as early as Level 5 (mainly the white one which seems to be a favorite). To own even the “cheapest” mount costs 10k Gold. Why are they so expensive, especially this early in the game?

I think it’s possibly because you can literally steal your way to victory. Stealing is a thing in this game, and it has similar consequences of the Single Player version. The only differences is you can ‘get away with it’ if someone sees you stealing. You’re given a bounty. If you’re willing to wait a half an hour or more depending on how much gold the bounty is, you’ll eventually be cleared of being considered a thief. You can also get away with murder (as long as a guard or anyone else never saw you commit the crime). Though I don’t know if The Dark Brotherhood pays you a visit afterwards in this game.
Another thing, if you let a guard catch you, you can just pay the fine and have your stolen items taken from you. You’re not sent to jail over it.

Also, GTH(Grand Theft Horse) isn’t possible. In ways this is good, given the number of players who would be constantly taking every horse at the stables (which is probably why it was disabled).

Stealing isn’t the only option to get quick money. Some say you can get a lot of money from fishing. Of course, they left off the “as long as you sell it to other players” option. Others say get into Blacksmithing and let people buy your stuff, other say to just do lots of side missions.

My only alternative from hard work and possibly having no mount until I’m Level 15 or so, is to pay real money for Crowns, and literally buy a mount on the Crown Store. That way I can focus my gold on buying useful things like upgrades to my gear (instead of hanging around the starting city forever, stealing everything I can to get up 10,000g (only to blow it when I do and have nothing)).

And that’s basically what I did. The horses in the Crown Store are 900 Crowns each (that’s just the standard ones). I had to simply pay $8 to get up to 1,250 Crowns (had 500 when I first started). Bought the horse, everything’s good… except you can’t go in first person. However, you can’t do that in Skyrim or Oblivion. There was a mod in Skyrim that made it possible (that a lot of the people that were trying to help me with the C++ crash were claiming it could be the culprit). But it was still awesome.
Oh well. It’s not that big of a deal. Now I have a horse (finally), I can stop stressing myself over feeling like I have to give up everything to get one, and actually play the game (with a horse)!

Also, that whole thing I said about the “train your horse” thing? It’s actually a waste of money. They give your mount a ‘Crown Lesson’ of depending what you buy, to make your horse have one point in speed, bag space, or how long your horse can go before it tires out. All of zone chat said it’s not worth the money.
However, I’m hearing rumors that you will have to feed your horse. There’s even a mod on Curse (ironically enough, ESO TU supports mods) that tells you “when to feed your horse”. This has me curious.

After many long days, I’m no longer stuck with this game! It’s now working! … And it was simple too. Basically, I kept putting a semicolon in the install folder. Apparently the game cannot handle this and causes the “missing dll” thing.
Removing the semicolon, finally made the fucking thing launch! When I saw it launch, my jaw dropped to the floor and then I cheered.

So, WOOT!! No more broken game! Anyway, I saw the intro climatic. And here I thought Alduin was a threat. Wow. So Molag Bal (one of the Daedric Princes) is dooming Tamriel).
Anyway, I had to wait a good two minutes after this for the character creation screen to come up. I hope this is just a one time thing.
So I created my char. An Argonian Dragon Knight (because why not?). Plus I have dragon-like abilities (such as the power to fucking breath fire). That measures a 5 on the badass scale.

Starting the game, I found myself in a prison. Because, all Elder Scrolls games start of you being either in a prison or sent to one, and someone saves you. Quite typical. However, this prison isn’t in Tamriel, it’s in the Daedric plane of Oblivion. So you take a sword and get killing of a few things.
Soon you meet a spiritual figure of ‘The Prophet’. You gotta bust him out too. But this is when you’re able to ask questions about where the fuck you are. You’re in a prison called ‘Coldharbour’ (obviously the devs are British, but that’s fine. I like British people), and… you’re “dead”, somehow. Your rescuer (who’s named ‘Lyris Titanborn’) explains how you and several others were a sacrifice of a powerful Necromancer named ‘Mannimarco’ who works for the Daedric Prince, Molag Bal. Somehow, you still have your body (and you’re not a zombie). You literally play as your character’s soul (as his or her soul is gone). Rescuing the Prophet is the only way you and her are getting out of this prison.

First you must do a few things to get access to his prison. And then it comes down to another sacrifice, where she has to let herself be imprisoned in-place of The Prophet. It’s sadly the only way he and I can escape. So I had to let this happen, and freed the Prophet. He wanted to make sure her sacrifice didn’t go in vain, and tells you how you’re just the body without the soul (barely living). And the only way for you to leave and get back to Tamriel is to get your soul back.

So you have to help this guy who is blind, through the rest of the prison (which is pretty short) and you’re able to get your soul back. Then you and him are sent back to Tamriel. You on the other hand, get sent to a different location and end up nearly drowning (which is ironic since I’m an Argonian). You’re rescued, still alive, and sent to a town called “Davon’s Watch”. Though you don’t see this happening, you find yourself in a house with the ghostly version of the Prophet here to greet you.

He says how you must “go your own path” and how “you will find many others that share the same courage and strength in this world” (aka other players). He also mentioned how you should join with them and blah de blah…
So this town is in Morrowind. I instantly knew when I stepped out and saw the ash flying in my face, and also some of those mushrooms which are native to Morrowind.

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Anyway, having playing for awhile, I was convinced that this was some parallel universe of Nirn, where Alduin never came to Skyrim. Hell, it seemed to be even before the events of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Because they never said how “a lone hero” stopped a certain powerful Daedric Prince and helped to get the Dragonfires lit. It doesn’t even mention the murder of Sentium(horrible spelling here) the IV. It really does feel like an alternate reality.

But the truth is, this is before the Elder Scrolls series ever existed. It’s before the first game; before the Sentium dynasty. There was also a discussion about “the Dragon Wars”. Which everyone knows from playing Skyrim, it’s when Alduin was banished using the Elder Scroll. Now, Molag Bal (with the help of Mannimarco) seek to pull Tamriel into Oblivion and make everyone their slaves.

Of course you (and everyone else playing the game) need to stop him, retrieve the Amulet of Kings, and relight the Dragonfires to keep Oblivion from tearing into Nirn. As long as the Dragonfires are unlit and the Amulet of Kings is not recovered, the veil between Oblivion and Nirn will continue to widen until Nirn becomes part of Oblivion.
How Molag Bal will do this, there are what are called ‘Dark Anchors’ that come from the sky and grip the world at specific points. They’re powered by the souls that Mannimarco acquires. They can be stopped, but require the strength of allies.

Oh yes, “you will not walk this path alone” the Prophet tells you.

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Think it’s time for my review of what I thought so far (currently Level 8);

Good:
-First person view that’s similar to Skyrim. You see your hands, your weapon, and you can also harvest nodes in first person. There’s also head bob to really pull me into the game. The only thing that doesn’t work in first person is crafting. Meh.
-UI that’s sort of similar to Skyrim. Minimal HUD. All you get is a compass and a chat window.
-Availability to use your own style of combat, be it a Greatsword, Sword and Shield, Duel Weld.. whatever. There’s no weapon class restrictions.
-I like the interaction window when talking to a quest NPC. However, the NPC tends to look away while still talking to you. It’s still better than the way Guild Wars 2 does it.
-You don’t require a pickaxe to mine ore.
-I absolutely love the “GET OVER HERE!!!!” chain pull ability as a Dragonknight, where I can pull a mob over to me at the cost of Magicka.
-The Armored Scales buff looks epic in third person. You get dragon-like horns on your back.
-Item Weight isn’t a thing in this game (thank the maker). It uses bag space to base on how much you can carry.

Bad:
-3rd person Argonian sprint animation looks like a faster version of the regular running animation. Not a lot of work has been put into this.
-Neutral mobs that you accidentally scare off, disappear into the void when they run away. They literally just fade into nothingness.
-Mobs respawn too quickly.
-No enemy indication on the compass. That sucks.
-How to get side quests is quite confusing. But you basically explore icons that are grayed out (like Skyrim).
-No option to heal myself as a Dragonknight. Don’t even see a heal option in the class talents.
-Combat gets annoying. I kind of expected to automatically cast an ability (like the armor buff).
-The game forces you to use your keys to use your abilities due to how minimal the HUD is.
-Due to how minimal the HUD is, I can’t even see what cooldowns and buffs I’m using. It seems to be all based on how much Magica I have available. Maybe cooldowns don’t exist?
-You have to go to a specific capital city of your faction to reset your skills. Depending on how many you have set, defines your gold cost.
-The game deters you from “abusing” the wayshrine teleporters by making you pay a hefty fee to use it again. However, the cost decreases with time until it goes back to what it was when you teleported.

Neutral:
-Waving my right hand to open doors. This was done by NPCs in Skyrim, and now you do it.

What I don’t know;
-Can you go to all of Tamriel (or is it based of your faction)?
-Player Housing?
-What’s the level cap?

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I’ll be making another post about mounts quite soon (and how it’s downright unfair to have to pay this much).

Still trying to fix that damned granny2.dll missing issue with ESO. Just seems like it just doesn’t want to be fixed (just like the C++ 2010 crash with Skyrim…), and I feel like I’m going to be stuck with a game that I can’t play.
Hell.. I WILL be stuck with it. Green Man Gaming has downright refused to give me a refund. All because… they sent me a key. When they send a key to you for a game, you are not allowed to get a refund. I can’t facepalm hard enough to express how… retarded this is.

And going to the Better Business Bureau is impossible, because they fucking operate in the UK! They might as well replace their “Refund Policy” with ‘all sales final, NO REFUNDS!!’ Because this is what they did to me.
I.. can’t believe this. I thought I was getting a hell of a deal with ESO being only $15. And now I’m fucking stuck with it!

And if ESO’s Tech Support can’t figure out why this dll is missing, I’m really stuck with it. It’s… all I got now. Also, I did send Green Man Gaming a nasty email (as my final response to them). I used some pretty choice words, like “How in the FUCK is this fair to people that download a game using a key?!”
I also said “Don’t bother to respond unless it’s a $15 refund coming back to my bank account. If it’s not a refund, close the ticket.”
I am so fucking pissed right now. I really… really want to get the BBB on their asses. They made T-Mobile scream for mercy when it came to not being able to buy a phone (yet taking my money anyway).
I want to see these guys suffer as well. But since they’re in the fucking UK and I’m in the US, they’re literally untouchable. Bastards…