I respect everyone's opinion as games are selective choices but..
wow.
What I was intending to write there was that ESO's world is almost great, other than my criticisms that followed. Don't get me wrong, I do think the game is pretty good but I liked both GW2 and TSW both more at their release. I do enjoy ESO quite a bit, and am actually happy that I had the technical issues with the game I did; the questing may slow you way down but seriously who gives a damn? I am going to chew through this game like I do all others, eat everything on my plate, and then be done with it in 6ish months. I really still like ESO and TSW but can't be assed to log in to either one, although in GW2's case that is the fault of the Living Story. ESO's main story beats the balls off of the main Treesus questline in GW2, though.
ESO has some great class/skill/crafting systems that I hope future games (if there are many Western AAA MMOs left in the pipe) copy.
I will say that while SWTOR's main class stories were good, there was too much filler in everything; the travel, the quests themselves, crafting, etc. Bioware's main drive it seems was to slow leveling way down not by making the content hard or providing a ton of it but by making.every.single.thing.take. for f'ing ever. I finished trooper, and played fairly far into a few of the others; SW was pretty good, and I hear IA was awesome but I was done by the time I got there. There was no way in hell I was doing all of that pointless filler running again.
And just to jog the memory, I have liked this game since I played in my first beta weekend and came into this thread when it was the world against Blackwolf and said so. For whatever reason, other than my DX11 renderer issues, I don't seem to have had nearly as many of the problems/bugs/issues people have had with with the game. I am not burning through PVE for a PVP advantage as well, so those two things along with what I am looking for allow me a different perspective.
Thing is, I haven't heard anyone who is VR10 who likes the leveling process. Most of the people who give the most praise to TESO haven't played it that much.
I just finished Greenshade up at 34 and am now working my way through Mal-whatever Tor. That puts me at about a 3rd through the leveling process, IIRC, and am perfectly happy with the pace and questing. There are some great little narrative moments hidden away in some unlikely places. In one small part of Greenshade, you can help a gay couple regrow flowers in the spot where they met as one partner prepares to pass away and then a stone's throw away help a magical automaton come to grips with the nature of his being. Those moments are not common and what's important to take away in this genre for me.
