The Elder Scrolls Online

dechire_sl said:

I wonder if with xbox you will have to pay for gold membership and THEN your sub fee. This killed my usage of my 360 and shifted all my focus to the PS3 all because of the difference in costs for using Netflix.

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kudos_sl said:

Enough with all the misinformation around here.

PS4 WILL NOT require a subscription fee to use things such as netflix and possibly MMO's. Planetside 2 and DC Universe will not need a subscription. Who knows about Elder Scrolls at this point it's too early.

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Bondurant_sl said:

BothXboxOne and PS4 will have a online service fee.

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dechire_sl said:

UGH fuck that.

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Quaid_sl said:

It's like... $4 a month...

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Bondurant_sl said:

They didn't say anything about PS Plus cost for PS4.

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Quaid_sl said:

PSplus is $50 a year... Has been for quite some time. Also, I've never seen a subscription service that provides as much value as PSplus does.

They have destroyed XBox ONE on pricing, quite intentionally, at every turn. I don't see them stopping any time soon.

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Lizzy - What sort of "Fun Stuff" can we find at the cash shop?

Maria - I think [Matt Firor] might be able to answer that a little bit more than I can. Right now we're not going into the cost of it because we're still working out with Sony and Microsoft, making sure that all of the players are paying the same amount for the same experience, because we are delivering the same game on all four platforms. So we want to make sure that players have the same access on the game and not have to worry about subscriptions for their consoles as well as subscription for the game. So we're still working on that which is why we're holding off on costs right now.

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Lizzy - Will you have in game seasonal events?

Maria - We certainly will have community type events as we launch. We don't have an exact plan right now only because we're so focused on making sure that we clean up all those sorts of systems. We have lots of things in mind for post-launch. Actually we have in the works right now a justice system. So currently you can just steal bread off the table and nobody's going to do anything about it but after launch we will be introducing the justice system to the game we will also be introducing The Dark Brotherhood as well as the Thieves Guild and when we do that it's not only entire skill lines you get with all those but also entire story lines. So we're certainly going to be on adding more in those sorts of aspects later on.

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Lizzy - Will there be weather?

Maria - Absolutely! So there's entire weather patterns that go across the zones and there not zone specific I should say, they're more region specific. So for example if you're in the northern region in Skyrim, if you're in Windhelm or the Riften area you'll see the Northern Lights in the sky and you might be able to see the stars during the day just because the type of light that is in the area. But if you're in Morrowind and if you're near volcano the sky will be much different. Instead of getting snow storms that you would get in Skyrim you actually start getting ash falling from the sky and ash wind storms. If you're in areas like Stros M'kai which is a desert you'll see sand storms that will start whipping up and those are all within a region. So you could be in Black Marsh and it is raining in the marsh and someone could be in Skyrim and it is a beautiful sunny day. The day night cycle is continent wide so everybody will experience day and night at the same time but not weather patterns, weather patterns are based on your region.

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Lizzy - What sort of powers will the Emperor have?

Maria - We're working on it right now because the thing that we absolutely want is when you become Emperor you are the most powerful person in the entire empire. You get an entire skill dedicated to just being the Emperor and only players that have ever achieved Emperor status will have it. While you're Emperor, while you're crowned, the powers will be much more devastating and they will be a little bit more PvP oriented since Emperorship is pvp oriented.

The way you're crowned Emperor is your alliance must own all of the keeps that surround Imperial city, it's very hard. As long as you're Emperor you have the strongest powers so when you're crowned it's because you have the highest Alliance points of your entire faction, and what that means is Alliance points are earned for killing players or healing players that are in combat, so that's the highest reward. One of the lowest rewards is taking a keep. We do not want keep flipping at all. We don't want you trading keeps with the enemy Alliance.

You get Alliance wide bonuses for taking and maintaining the territory of your keeps and that works in PvE as well as PvP. When you have an Emperor they can do things like make siege much more effective, be able to knock down walls much quicker, they have voice of the emperor sorts of commands. We're still working on the exact abilities right now because in all of our PvP testing at the company so far we have not manage to crown an Emperor, it is very very hard to do so. So we haven't really done the full balance. We have the abilities made but we haven't been able to test them in a real live environment.

One of the other things you can do is steal Elder Scrolls. So each alliance holds two Elder Scrolls you can literally take the Elder Scroll and put it in your alliance, in your alliances forts and if you keep it you also get Alliance wide bonus. Now when you're Emperor, it's great, but of course somebody's going to come along and dethrone you and become Emperor of the other Alliance when that happens you don't lose the skill line but the abilities in it and become much less powerful. So they come down to the normal level and the normal power expectancies of all the other abilities that we have but while you're Emperor our ultimate goal is to make you the most powerful force on the battlefield.

Lizzy - Will there be other PvP titles beside Emperor?

Maria - Yes there is also all the ranks. We will announce the ranks a little bit later because we're working on the exact number that we want to have, but you'll have ranks. You also have titles that you can use from gathering lore or doing certain quests or doing certain achievements within the game. So you can either use the title of your PvP rank or you can use the title of anything that you've achieved in the game, lore master and things like that.

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Utnayan_sl said:

You will not need to be a PSplus member to use any of the apps. Only multiplayer. But Quaid is right. You get 6 free AAA games per month as well as very good deals and 60 minute real time game trials on everything.

Its well worth it for the free games alone.

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Sabbat_sl said:

PvP ripped straight from Aion. What. The. Fuck.

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