Are you trying to cause Utnayan and Vitality to have a conniption fit?
I enjoyed all the dungeons the first few times. Problem is, Zenimax has been trying to stretch those dungeons as "end game" content for the last 15 months. They showed a lot of really cool content they were working on at Quakecon last year. Then some suit said fuck all those PC subs - drop everything and get this shit ready for consoles. Poor Nick Konkle. One of the first casualties. I wonder if they'll ever pick up his spell crafting system and finish it.
Your argument is completely different than most of the haters here. Since you actually played the game, you know the group dungeons are high quality, challenging and entertaining. Your beef is with the ZOS business decision to not deploy new content until after console release. That is a legitimate beef and one I share as well but in the end it doesn't bother me since 1) I'm not paying a monthly sub anymore and 2) there are other games I can play while waiting for the post-console DLC to eventually arrive.
So dreamy.
This is a fantasy game. From what I've understood via the thread, they just totally fucked what could have been Elder Scrolls but multiplayer and made it a generic MMO.
The issues with phasing that caused those grouping problems you mentioned were all fixed a long time ago.
Those who make the claim that TESO failed to capture the "magic" of what made the TES single player games great never explain exactly what "magic" they are referring to. As mentioned earlier, any new MMO that isn't an EQ1-like sandbox MMO is going to get shit on by a lot of people here even if it's a good game.
Console or PC? Phasing on PC got totally revamped about a year ago so that groups are always synched to the group leaders phase. Console should be functioning the same way.
I guess the "magic" is that it's a good game. This doesn't seem to have the magic.
I liked Skyrim, and the last thing I wanted was anything more MP than co-op. Not sure what the market for this was if not current and former WoW players.
Its weird seeing so many posters here bash TESO yet have a massive hardon about FF14 when FF14 has one of the most slow-paced, boring combat gameplay systems of any MMO I've ever played. FF14 is a WoW-clone theme park MMO with the same crappy kill X number of bear and collect Y number of bear asses quest system that has been bashed countless number of times on this board for years. Despite all the contempt shown towards WoW clones on this board for years, FF14 for some reason gets a free pass.
Can you clarify what you mean in the first paragraph? Sounds like all you wanted out of TESO was ability to group up with a couple of people and do quests and group dungeons and that you weren't concerned that much with endgame PVE raiding.
