Hype or not, it's an Elder Scrolls game. There will be giant cutout ads in every GameStop, Walmart and Target in the world for this shit.
I think you are totally underestimating how wide this game's target market/appeal is, while simultaneously overestimating the number of people who have been actively following its development.
No. This game sucks too badly for that scenario to play out. If the game were at least SWTOR-level bad it'd be one thing, but the negative hype train for this game is going to be ridiculously strong. Anyone who remotely follows gaming is going to be well aware of how much the game sucks by April.
I don't know =( I haven't been following the game closely enough.
Really? You think an Elder Scrolls online game is going to perform the same as Guild Wars 2? I dunno... I expect quite a bit more. I hope I'm wrong... Well actually I hope I'm right because I am probably gonna get an avatar depicting Bob & Doug McKenzie in a 69 covered in Poutine if not.
Because SWTOR was actually entertaining up until you started to hit the mid 30's or so. For all the flaws that SWTOR had, it still had a reasonably ok 1-35 path. It's only when you had to face the game's MMO aspects that it really began to fall apart - it was fine as a single player game.
How does it feel being so delusional? There's no hype for TESO anywhere at this point. Lets look at a forum far larger than our own for reference:
GuildWars 2 came out at a time when there was a huge demand for a new MMO, and also had hugely positive hype. Now you have PS4/XBone/new Wii U titles coming next year, MMO masses have went back to WoW, and huge endgame coming to FFXIV. Couple that with the fact that probably 70% of the MMO population has been burned badly in recent years and actually do a little more research, I find it hard to imagine this will sell well besides the 12y/o impulse buyers and diehard fans (and even most of them are informed).
I almost logged out on the run to "grab a weapon". This coming from a guy who actually played and enjoyed vanguard for 5 months.
Did you live in a cave prior to the release of SWTOR? SWTOR had shitloads of (mostly) positive hype going into its release. It wasn't anywhere close to FFXIV levels, but people were generally excited about the game. SWTOR's star faded very quickly after release, but at least it was fucking shining up until the release. TESO is practically the persona non grata of the MMO world 5 months before it's official release. The two games are in not comparable in the least.
