We’ve seen an increase in population jsut at the mere hype of that patch. While I’ve been subed since launch because I’ve enjoyed what the game offered, in my opinion, it is at this point worth a sub for non fanboys. It also will finally remove the aoe target cap that has ruined PvP since months, and in that sense is kind of a jesus patch. It also adds on the ongoing effort of balancing stamina and magicka builds by adding stamina oriented morphs to class abilities (exclusively magicka before) PvP wise, there is a revamp of most abilities and how buffs stack to make it more “sane”. There is an upcoming patch, 1.6, adding the champion system (semi horizontal, semi vertical progression system similar to perks in skyrim), it will also add some player driven content in the form of the Justice system (stealing, pickpocketing and murdering inncocents or playing a guard to prevent it) Very fun when it works, but some exploits and player behaviour get in the way some times. PvP is the only aspect that is mostly unchanged aside from the removal of the forward camps.
They also have a hard mode now for extra challenge. There is an actual PvE endgame now.ĭungeons got some repeatability, they scale to the groups leader level and have some sort of daily “pledge” reward with a faction that unlocks passives as you work with them. It fixed most of it issues i nthe first few months then went on to expand the game, They added a new high end group zone, some 12 man content and a 4 man “heroes defense” like dungeon. It is a much better game now than it was at release. If I can play a little ESO with a few friends whenever we want, tossing the devs a five or ten every month or two, I could see that working. If its far closer to the game most of us wanted it to be (again, multiplayer Skyrim or something at least close), that would be great. How much better is ESO today than it was in the first month or so of release? If it’s generally the same game, that’s not good. If it’s one bleh pack every six months, that’s not going to work. I think, if they can pull it off, having $5-$10 DLC ‘mission packs’ ala Payday 2 would work for them, but only if the quality was high and the release pace was decent.
What exactly is the B2P model going to be? It can’t be the failed GW2 model, where (at least while I kept my eye on the game) spending extra was borderline pointless (crappy looking fluff and nothing else). While I wasn’t in love with ESO after the first zone, it’s not a game I hated either, and so being able to fire it up and check it out, without it reeking of the usual stench of a F2P MMO, has my interest. So ESO is going B2P (pending what the cash shop contains, but I doubt they are going to sell you hotbars or guns out of planes), which is of some interest to me.
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