{"id":7966,"date":"2017-07-27T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2017-07-27T23:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T03:28:53","slug":"i-okay-talk-about-being-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/07\/27\/i-okay-talk-about-being-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8230;okay. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finally got ESO fully downloaded while I&#8217;m going over all of my old ESO posts. I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the coin, I&#8217;ve been trying to get Saint to.. yep, you guessed it. Help me &#8216;beautify&#8217; my deed. All and all, I&#8217;m better off asking the Wurm Forum than waiting for him. See, he gave me one plan, then said how I don&#8217;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&#8217; evening and night. He claimed the next day (today) his wife was editing photos (she&#8217;s a professional photographer, and that&#8217;s pretty awesome). But seriously, Saint needs his own computer.<br \/>\nAnd also today, he&#8217;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&#8217;ll just ask the Wurm Forum for help (as I did before).<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to ESO. Here I was ready to play and check out the new content! Load the game up, and I see a &#8216;new&#8217; climatic (though I believe it&#8217;s from the Imperial City DLC). And then I&#8217;m presented with a thing that claims that Morrowind is not active on my copy. Mmk, that&#8217;s fine I thought. I got ESO+, so I&#8217;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&#8217;s for the Morrowind Closed Beta (also the key doesn&#8217;t work, claims it&#8217;s invalid).<br \/>\nI&#8217;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&#8230;which shocks the FUCK out of me. <em>&#8220;Morrowind isn&#8217;t included in ESO+. You need to buy separately a code for the expansion itself.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uhh. You.. you got to be kidding. There&#8217;s no way. You&#8230; wow. There&#8217;s just, so much &#8220;wow&#8221; in this, both frustrated and shocked. How&#8230;WHY?! WHY IN THE FUCK, ISN&#8217;T THIS INCLUDED IN THE $15\/mo I GIVE THEM?!? That&#8217;s. just. SO much WRONG!! THEY WANT $40 ON TOP OF THE FUCKING $15?!?!<br \/>\nWHY?!?!?! 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&#8217;t even use Crowns to pay for it!<br \/>\nDid a quick Google search after being told there&#8217;s been debates &#8220;several months ago&#8221; about this, and there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.elderscrollsonline.com\/en\/discussion\/317326\/morrowind-and-eso\/p1\" target=\"_blank\">a post<\/a> from January of this year which looks like a 50\/50 split of people furious about this, and people calling the furious &#8216;entitled assholes who don&#8217;t see this is a major thing&#8217;. This thing costs $20 less than the game, and it&#8217;s roughly around the price of an EP from WoW. Yet when it came to WoW, we knew our subscriptions didn&#8217;t include getting the EPs. These guys lied to us.<br \/>\nAlso, and this is just awesome, I read that this thing is only 40 hours long. That&#8217;s NOT an &#8216;expansion&#8217;! It&#8217;s screaming &#8220;SCAM&#8221; to me!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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 &#8220;entitled&#8221; all you want, but they have no right to go back on their promises. It&#8217;s a spit in my face. You don&#8217;t DO that to your customers!<br \/>\nI can see this game is going to be losing a lot of subscribers. Also I went over the &#8216;content&#8217; of the &#8216;expansion&#8217;, and&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/RKE3VCR.png\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s barely any there<\/a>. THIS is 40 hours worth of content, an unnamed boss, having another class&#8230;and a fucking PvP Arena!? I think I&#8217;m better off waiting for <em>Skywind<\/em>(of when there&#8217;s <u>ever<\/u> a release date). At least it would be FREE (for owning Skyrim)!<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nSo, 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.<br \/>\nThis &#8216;expansion&#8217;..(aka an overpriced DLC that should had come with ones ESO+ subscription(yet they labeled it as an &#8216;expansion&#8217; 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, <strong>that&#8217;s $100<\/strong>) comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/3Vl5Hnl.png\" target=\"_blank\">all of THIS<\/a>!<br \/>\nAhahah.. wow. Of course, this also comes with the base game. But..and this is the good part, it does NOT include the DLC&#8217;s! \ud83d\ude00 AWESOME BARGAIN, HUH?!<\/p>\n<p>Fuck everything. \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\nAnyway, even though I no longer have a subscription, I can still play the game; it&#8217;s not required to pay for the expansion(thank the maker). There&#8217;s a way to say &#8220;no thank you&#8221; and it showed my two chars still there (as Level 50 each). So&#8230; I <em>could<\/em> still purchase the 4 DLCs with the just over 26k Crowns I have (but never buy Scamwind). Infact there is this &#8216;Guilds &#038; Glory: The 4-DLC Mega Pack&#8217; for 5,100 Crowns. This seems more fair as it wouldn&#8217;t cost me anything (financially). And.. even if I decided to reconsider and buy this thing, I couldn&#8217;t afford it this month.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also this thing I see in the Crown Store of&#8230;player housing?! \ud83d\ude2e NOW we&#8217;re talking!!<\/p>\n<p>However, thinking hard..without this expansion, I feel there hasn&#8217;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&#8217;m still waiting for the &#8220;has endgame been changed&#8221; one.<br \/>\nEhh. I&#8217;m not really going to lose anything by joining, right? I&#8217;m not paying for the game anymore, and the DLCs are technically &#8216;free&#8217; with how many Crowns I&#8217;ve been collecting. I really have nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Though, I also think I might revisit the two other MMORPGs I&#8217;ve played, Guild Wars 2 and Wildstar, and see if <em>they&#8217;ve<\/em> improved over the years (or have gone the ways of this video game company that I don&#8217;t see how they&#8217;re still in business).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finally got ESO fully downloaded while I&#8217;m going over all of my old ESO posts. I&#8217;m re-remembering what also annoyed me about this game. Yet I hope that after not playing for so long, maybe the game &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/07\/27\/i-okay-talk-about-being-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}