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I'm the leader of "The Secret United Intergalactic MMO Player's Committee" We are 3 Trillion with a "T" member's strong and we will be playing. I can 100% guarantee that we are not the only group of beings, in this galaxy, that feels this way.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
At launch if they announce 2-3 million buyers, know that part 1 of the 10 million has happened.
Interesting choice of words...
Yeah, this is pretty amusing actually, treating the sales for Oblivion and Morrowind as though they're entirely separate audiences instead of what is almost certainly an audiences with at the very least, a majority overlap.
Also, too: X millions of console MMO players followed by 'unknown since they aren't any!'
I don't think he is familiar with the term 'irony'.
There's "insanely exaggerated" and then there's "batshit crazy".
I think we're well past the latter here...
I think we need to emphasize this.
My "uneducated" estimate is that this game will have 3-4 million players at launch and then settle around 2 million players year after.
WoW did 10+ million because they managed to drag in large new group of players (RTS gamers) who hadnt played MMOs before, RTS players didnt play MMOs before WoW but established RTS title going MMO changed that. Elder scrolls, while established title with strong following, wont pull that because RPGs and MMOs generally share same group of gamers.
Best an AAA+ mmo can hope for these days is stable 2 million.
Well it's possible!
All we can really do is wait and see what happens after launch, but I have to ask...
What other AAA MMORPG's have launched on PC's and have also included Next Gen Consoles like XB1 and PS4?
Seems like a wider target / larger population of players to me.
The possibility is there
Correction. My dream came true with A Realm Reborn on the Playstation. You keep acting like ESO is the only MMO on Playstation. and that we are all going to play it.
I am a CONSOLE PLAYER and i WILL NOT be playing ESO!
Fixed it for you
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
I've seen this sort of exaggeration before.
Let's be clear here, the press for the game was not good initially.
As an MMO, it doesn't bring anything much to the table, and seems to have been written with old school World of Warcraft in mind. This approach reminds me of SWTOR, and what I felt playing that game. It had none of the polish and new features that I had come to expect, and from the Press, it's a similar feel with Elder Scrolls Online.
The numbers mean nothing. Talking about 5 million Registered users is misleading, and once we confirm that the Developer's PR needs to be misleading at this point, we know there are problems. If there were 2 million Active Beta Players then they would have said so. Which means there aren't. We have no idea how many people actually played in the Beta. And of that number, how many submitted favorable Survey reports?
The announcement is pure PR, with nothing meaningful in there beside the new subscription plans information in my view. Adding servers? Ok...how many did you have before and what were your original estimates? Were they 500,000 and now you are adding capacity for 1 million?
Lots of fluff but we still don't know. I hope the game does well, and it probably will. But I think within a year we will have a different game, and a different subscription model...again very similar to SWTOR.
It seems like Skyrim is the only benchmark you know and use when it comes to legitimizing TESO as an ES game. Those features you listed aren't just Skyrim features, but also Morrowind and Oblivion features. It makes it seem like you are the one that really isn't a "True ES" fan, but more like just a Skyrim bandwagon fan which makes you late to the party. Also, those are BASIC features that should have been in the game since day one, not after beta testers told them those features needed to be in there.
Sorry but I'm willing to bet most of us "True ES" fans are the ones who are NOT buying this game. The only thing that says "Elder Scrolls" about this game is that they have the Khajiit race in the game and "Elder Scrolls" in the title. That's it.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
I have logged far more hours in TES games Morrowind and earlier than in Obliviion and Skyrim and consider myself a long term fan of the series and I am going to be playing ESO. I have no idea how typical I am and among my friends we are about 50/50 split on ESO.
It's not that there are not things in ESO I wish where more like a traditional TES game but I'll say this. ESO is more a Elder Scrolls game than I feared it would be but less than I had hoped. At the end of the day that's good enough for me as I always knew there would be trade offs when making this game a MMO. Will I put the hours into this game I put in past TES games? I have no idea at this point but I have at least seen enough to give it a try and see how it goes.
The problem with trying to judge ESO based on how much it fits with the other Elder Scrolls games is that those games have not been consistent with each other. You can judge it against any one game fairly well, but judged against the series as a whole I find it hard to point to anything specific about ESO that someone could use to argue that it absolutely does not belong in the Elder Scrolls IP.
For the things I actually like in the series, I would say ESO feels more like an Elder Scrolls game than Skyrim did, substantially so.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
And what has next gen consoles got anything to do with getting 10 million players in less than a year? remember OP said 'less than a year' and you say its possible.... ehmmm not gonna happen.
Everyone is laughing at this guy and we are just taking this thread to be a huge farce.
I'm just gonna lay this little nugget here.
Not everyone who played ESO enjoyed it, Just because we played the beta doesnt mean we will play the actual game.
Because i can.
I'm Hopeful For Every Game, Until the Fan Boys Attack My Games. Then the Knives Come Out.
Logic every gamers worst enemy.
My guess is that within a month or two of launch, OP's account will disappear and he will make a new one under a different name, to avoid exactly this scenario.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
The thought occurred to me this morning, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere in the thread because I stopped tracking it after 30+ pages
If the number of pre orders for ESO were anywhere near the OPs guesstimation, would Zeni not have been all over it in the industry press?
Surely, if ESO has pre orders running into 3, 4 or 5 million that would likely make ESO the biggest/most successful pre order PC game in history and their marketing/PR team would be making sure that everybody in the world knew about it? No?
So why haven't we heard about it?
In my experience the lack of PR over this means they have an "acceptable" number of pre orders but certainly nothing newsworthy....potentially not even as many as other recent launches such as SWTOR or GW2.....otherwise we would have heard all about how ESO tops the pre order charts etc etc.....
Just a thought....
That's my though too.
If Zeni had more than 1M if pre-order, I think it would already be known in every gaming magazine. When GW2 became the fastest selling MMORPG at release, it was advertized everywhere