My ESO Decision

I haven't bought ESO yet. I've been watching news of the game for over a year now. Tracked the beta game, and tried to get a beta key myself (no luck). I was never able to get into Morrowind, but I loved Oblivion and Skyrim. I'm also a long time MMO player, and the idea of combining TES with the MMO format has been both exciting and terrifying since I first heard rumors of ESO. I was tempted to by the pre-release game, but held off, unconvinced that the game would be as good as we were promised. Two months later, I've bought an ESO guide or two, watched a bunch of YouTube videos and Twitch streams, and I'm still not sure what I want to do.

See, money is tight right now. I know that's true for a lot of people, but it's a big factor in my game buying. I can only afford to buy a couple of games a year. The subscription isn't a factor so much--I'll give up eating fast food once a month to be able to play a good MMO. But paying $60 for a bad one? That's not happening. I'm not dropping that much money unless I know for certain I'll get my money's worth.

And right now I'm not certain. I'm damn uncertain, in fact. The thing is, everything I'm seeing has ESO as a mix of really awesome and really awful. It's not a mediocre game you can just write off, it's not outright terrible, and it's not the amazing game a lot of us were hoping for. What it is, is a hodgepodge. Amazing gameplay shoved up right against horrid glitches, stupid dev behavior undermining a great in-game economy, wonderful storylines and really stupid quests.

It's not a game I can just dismiss and move on (I'm hearing interesting things about this new Wildstar MMO). Nor is it a game I can wholeheartedly spend my money on. All of the reviews sound pretty much the same, "This game could be awesome, but..." or "This game is horrible, but..." Even the ESO guides, reading between the lines, give clues to the great and the awful that fill the game.

Apparently ZeniMax is working on fixing the problems, but with the way they've been treating players the past month, I don't know if I trust them.

I guess I'm going to keep watching a bit longer. It's not like there is a deadline to buy the game or anything, and I really don't want to feel like I wasted $60 on a bad game. I also don't want to miss out on the fun character building, and storylines, and everything else for no reason. Hopefully something will happen in the next few months to let me make a definite decision. If not...well, I guess we'll see what happens.

So, yeah. Comments, thoughts and suggests welcome. What should I do? Buy ESO? Go back to WoW? Check out Wildstar?

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