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Don't have a before picture of him, but the his face was to close to this

https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Potato-Head-27657-Playskool/dp/B005KJE9L2

Kinda on topic, MMORPG.com just published Top 35 MMOs of All Time list, and ESO didn't even enter it!?!

Here's the list:

1. World of Warcraft
2. Guild Wars 2
3. Star Wars Galaxies
4. EverQuest
5. City of Heroes
6. EVE Online
7. Ultima Online
8. Final Fantasy XIV
9. Dark Age of Camelot
10. Final Fantasy XI
11. Asheron’s Call
12. Meridian 59
13. Rift
14. EverQuest 2
15. The Secret World
16. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
17. Anarchy Online
18. Runescape
19. Star Wars: The Old Republic
20. WildStar
21. Lord of the Rings Online
22. Planetside 2
23. TERA
24. Darkfall
25. Lineage
26. Planetside
27. Path of Exile
28. Age of Conan
29. Wizard101
30. Fallen Earth
31. Ragnarok Online
32. Lineage 2
33. Shadowbane
34. Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
35. A Tale in the Desert

The list was actually a result of 40 man poll, and here's what Bill Murphy (site's editor and the one that submitted the list) had to say:

"Frankly, I'm shocked too. ESO was up there for me, but we polled around 40 writers and staffers, and not enough voted for ESO. Here's hoping it makes it in when we do this again in a couple years. "

Strange stuff.

If you're on console, "the eso app" is great for skyshards, lorebooks, etc. Xbox/NA also has "eso price check" for pricing.

PC doesn't really have apps, they have add-ons.

Edit - here's links... the eso app and eso price check

Hey, no sweat. Let's go look at the Oxford Dictionary instead.

It is absolutely an informal use. But it is also a correct and accepted use. You (and actually me, too) might be rubbed the wrong way by this because we know the latin roots-- but to ignore that language is by its nature a consensus system that changes with time is to completely fail to understand language in general. If this one is enough to get you worked up, I urge you not to look too closely at most words. There's no spirals on a "helicopter," for example, despite the greek root.

The asterisk on the sign means the product won't be reordered. The 7 at the end of the price means the price has been marked down. ^Source Based on that, it's likely the item is on clearance at OP's store. Whether or not it's on clearance at every Costco, I'm not sure.

As the guy who wrote the review, I just want to add that the full text review is here, which does a better job of clarifying my points than the video review. Enjoy!

Using the dyes I have available this was the closest I could get.

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=F13A718562294591&id=F13A718562294591%211898&v=3

Soul shriven gray, Hunding Gold, Champion red

Being good will be rewarding sometime in the future, when the Enforcer part of the justice system is added.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/9007/Elder-Scrolls-Online-The-Justice-System.html

Great post @Crunkzzor. ZOS is pretty clear about their philosophy. I have faith in them to stick with it, especially after today's release. http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/8282/page/1

This vid @ 3.30 http://youtu.be/hD-t_GvYBv4 says it all very very clearly, they've always been going for this, and they seem to be sticking with it. Good for them.

We have an app out for both iOS and android to help with tracking. New version for android will be out within the coming few days.

iOS: The ESO App Android: The UESO App

PC & Mac users will soon be able to have the tracking happen automatically.

"At the weekend" is actually gramatically correct and is used more often in British English.

"At" is used for a point in time, which the weekend is.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/at-on-and-in-time "We use "at" with particular points in the week:

What are you doing at the weekend?"

Just in case you didn't see it, don't get the DLC pack with crowns right now. Get the gold edition from GreenManGaming for $20.57 like /u/Malffy said and activate the code on your ESO account page.

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/the-elder-scrolls-online-gold-edition/

Development for ESO started in 2007. Consoles weren't even on the radar for this game until Sony practically begged ZOS to bring it to the PS4 in 2013.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/07/sony-pushed-for-the-elder-scrolls-online-to-come-to-consoles

Have you played the game? If you are judging the graphics based off of streams and videos which get severely nerfed for size constraints, you would be grossly wrong. You keep comparing the game to single player titles. It is not. It is an MMO, which requires a bunch of different technology requirements.

TERA graphics aren't bad, but they are way worse than ESO.

I think you may be just looking for a reason to dislike the game, because your arguments although subjective to a degree are not the judgement of the vast majority.

May you find a game you are looking for.

That is incorrect but often confusing because most people bought the collector's edition at release. You actually need the explorer's pack which was a preorder bonus that had nothing to do with what version of the game you bought. You can still grab it from resellers for under $2.

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html

 

Edit:This is a key reseller and prices will vary based upon what the seller thinks they can get. When I typed this the price was up to $13. It'll fluctuate. Check back often.

For those who are interested, this recipe is from the official Elder Scrolls Cookbook which you can find on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Elder-Scrolls-Official-Cookbook/dp/1683833988

The reason this one waited from Early Release to Release date is because the recipe called for a 2-week waiting period for the infusion process.

Bright moons fellow Scrollers!

You can still get the Explorer's pack now btw :)

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html

I never pre-order games, so I thought it was pretty sweet that you can get the bonus afterwards

It's ok, but I prefer this one from another redditor on here, the colour and compartmentalization of Excel appeal to my eyes more. Kudos for taking the time to make your own! That probably took a while.

BSOD is a hardware/driver fault. Since Windows XP, the OS is build to prevent the software to interact directly with the hardware and thus preventing BSOD.

To understand what went wrong with your system do this after a BSOD.
c:\windows\Minidump
Open: File -> Advanced Options
Bluescreen view: Options -> Lower Pane Mode -> Blue screen in XP style

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Blue screens usually mean buggy drivers or (less often) hardware failure. A game itself shouldn't be able to cause one, especially not the installer.

It'd help if you could take a picture of the error, including the driver name and the error codes. Or something like BlueScreenView might be able to retrieve the details of past crashes.

I do not concur on the any race any alliance except for those who pre-ordered the game. It was advertised as "exclusive" and should remain that way.

That being said keys are still available for that perk in particular

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html?___store=canada

However, I do agree that given that the group dungeons are Undaunted related, there seems to be "lore" to allow for cross-alliance dungeon groups as the Undaunted is alliance-neutral.

It's normal for a program to allocate space before it begins writing information. This is to prevent the end user from filling that space before the operation is complete. In the case of ESO this is particularly inconvenient because it is a very large game. If you do not have enough disk space and do not want to remove anything from your current disk then yes, you will have to buy a new drive. You can normally get 120GB SSDs for around $40-$60 on sale, I would suggest going that route as it's fairly cost effective and will help boost your load times.

Otherwise, looking into some space saving utilities to help clean up your current disk. WinDirStat will help you see where the greatest concentrations of data are on your machine, and help you clean up efficiently. BleachBit will help to clear out junk taking up space on your PC. I recommend this over CCleaner. ESO is worth the pain of getting it installed if you're a fan of MMOs and Elder Scrolls

Take everything im about to say with a grain of salt, im by no means an expert or whatever. One of the biggest issues at hand for ZoS, is that ESO runs on a really old engine (http://www.heroengine.com/he-games) so optimizing things is quite the challenge. Rewriting everything over to a new engine would take a crazy ammount of resources, something they do not have to spare right now. On pc, the performance right now honestly isn't all too bad, by all means is it still worse to competing games, and I think ZoS has still a very far way to go to get to an acceptable state, but there is improvements. The addition of multicore support has pushed a few frames, but it's still pretty subpar, and still doesn't utilize all cores efficiently, such as other, new up to date games does.

But I completely agree with what you're saying, this should NOT be acceptable, and there needs to be improvements. Not only in terms of performance do we need to see an improvement, but also in terms of balance for the likes of PvE, and other things. We've been waiting for a long time now, but there's still pretty marginal improvements that's being done. I can only imagine though for you as a console players, all these issues must be way worse. On my new desktop at home, running an 8700k, clocked to 5ghz at all cores with a 1080ti, I still run into performance issues. I hope to see improvements over the next year, but I highly doubt it after what I've seen in terms of improvements over the years.

I just wish we could atleast have some transparency, we're being completely left out in the dark, and it sucks.

If you mean this weekend, beta starts at midnight Friday-Saturday for you. (If I calculated right)

~~edit: http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20140110T18&p0=179&msg=TESO+Beta+Weekend&csz=1~~

edit2: some guy already made a nice one: http://go-slander-24341.usw1.nitrousbox.com:8500/

Yes, you can group any race with any faction if you have the explorer pack. You can buy it here: https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html

Just add that code to your account after you have the game activated and choose the same faction.

Edit: elaboration

Since the serial keys are actually DLC included in the purchasable Steam packages, they could simply create a new package without key DLC, and then grant us a Steam key for that.

SteamDB l ESO DLC

Not to mention that the Steam forum has now been restricted to owners of the Steam ESO client, giving out Steam keys would allow veteran players to help out newcomers(like me!) on the Steam forum.

> occasional: twice a year maximum.

Quick search for Steam issues on this subreddit :

• 3 days ago

• 4 days ago

• 7 days ago

• 18 days ago

• 19 days ago

• 28 days ago

• 29 days ago

• A month ago...

Seriously i'm stopping there but you're far from the truth and it's always like that, every month.

>(it's 2x or 3x times in other sites)

https://www.greenmangaming.com/search/elder%20scrolls%20online Is also at 63% off, except Morrowind which is 50%.

Buy the steam version at your own risk.

Actually, the number is more based on just sales, not even registered accounts.

Original source article: http://www.mmorpg.com/elder-scrolls-online/news/matt-firor-85-million-eso-players-right-now-based-on-sales-1000043197

The biggest problem is that screenshots don't capture the actual experience of playing the game.

The animations are jerky and rather bland. Some look just outright silly.

There is also no proper Anti-aliasing, which creates a very poor visual experience when actually playing the game. Objects shimmer, the detail on buildings and characters gets muddled generally giving a bad impression.

The art and art style looks great when static, but as soon as you start moving around you can see some glaring image quality issues. This is all running on a GTX Titan at max settings from being in the closed PTS beta for over 6 months.

Edit: Here's a sample taken directly from in-game showing what I'm talking about: http://tinypic.com/r/vebpr8/8

https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4839/kw/early%20access%20time

>More specifically, the following locations, dates, and times for the 5-day early access are:

>* North America (East): 7:00 AM EDT, Sunday March 30th

>* UK/IE: 12:00 PM WEST, Sunday March 30th

>* Central Europe: 1:00 PM CEST, Sunday March 30th

>* Sydney, Australia: 10:00 PM AEDT, Sunday March 30th

>* Singapore: 7:00 PM SGT, Sunday March 30th

>The following locations, dates, and times for the 3-day early access are:

>* North America (East): 7:00 AM EDT, Tuesday April 1st

>* UK/IE: 12:00 PM WEST, Tuesday April 1st

>* Central Europe: 1:00 PM CEST, Tuesday April 1st

>* Sydney, Australia: 10:00 PM AEDT, Tuesday April 1st

>* Singapore: 7:00 PM SGT, Tuesday April 1st

BST = WEST. Therefore times above correct and take account of Summer Time differences in both regions.

Note that if the stress beta weekends are any indication, the servers may actually be accessible for normal play up to 2 hours before the formal start time.

Countdown

Hey man :)

I bought game on steam 12 days ago after long time of thinking about it, but it was on sale so why not try it.

I bought gold edition so all dlcs but that doesnt matter now..

I am VERY happy that I decided to buy the game. Game is SUPER populated (second most populated mmorpg actually after WoW) and there are players just EVERYWHERE!

yea, as dps its kinda "hard" to get into dungeon (that means you will wait about 10 minutes in queue), but me, as healer, I never, NEVER wait more than 15 seconds! Tanks are on the same stage.

There is lot of retailers if you want to save money but its risky (they can ban the key if it is from stolen credit card etc.) but thats very rare...

And yes, there is "bundle" where you get ALL dlcs in game (except 2 that adds only 2 dungeons, no another content) and its called, as I already said, GOLD EDITION.

https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/1554-buy-key-the-elder-scrolls-online-gold-edition/

For example here 22€ for gold edition (base game + mount + all DLC that are currently un game except that 2 dungeons)

Worth of money, trust me! I cant stop playing lol! There is soooo much things to do... You will never get bored!

EDIT:

If you decide to buy the game feel free to contact me later, can help you in game with starting and explain some things that you will not understand :) I like to help new players because I also needed help and people gave me it. Community is very nice and helpful there!

No - source: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/8237/Elder-Scrolls-Online-Brian-Wheeler-Talks-PvP-and-Darkness-Falls.html

"Brian Wheeler: There’s no specific stat or anything along those lines. Any of the gear you get, independent of wherever you get it, is perfectly usable in PvP or PvE. The difference will be that some of the armor sets will have different passive abilities in PvE vs. PvP, but there’s nothing that’s really favoring one stat or anything like that, that you have to get for being a “good PvPer”."

There's a list of VPN providers here:

For example, BTGuard allows connections to port 80 (which is web traffic, so no blocking), so if you were to connect to that all your traffic would go through that tunnel. (including gaming)

You'll have to see which one is closest to where you live and how they perform for you, but with a decent VPN and connection the added latency shouldn't be all that much.

has servers in many different countries as well. They also support port 443 which should be fine too.

For reference, Port 80 = HTTP (web traffic) and port 443 = HTTPS. Firewalls normally don't block them because otherwise you wouldn't be able to browse the web.

Good luck, let me know if you need more help!

I know you said no apps, however if you have an android I live and breathe by The UESO App. Can't remember if there's a fee, but they update it regularly (morrowind is already patched) and now lists builds and sets in addition to skyshards and map locations. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nexuindustries.theuesoapp

I figured a way to get rid of the Darkened right side of the images, I captured two copies of the images from two different menu points. One with stuff in the middle but no dark right side, and then the ones you have.

A little image editing and we're clear as day!

https://imgur.com/a/5Pk6V

ENJOY EVERYONE!

IGN is up. Positives and negatives both.

Edit: Nope, not the console version tested. Controller on the PC.

https://www.twitch.tv/zenimaxonlinestudios/v/35627537

Watch from 39:13 - 39:49.

>"So we're actually working hard to better support fun in-game events that spice up things in Tamriel. We believe that these special events should come with equally special thematic rewards. And we're actually looking at Tamriel-Specific Holiday Events, and figuring out which ones we want to do special things for. It's happening."

I was able to buy Morrowind from a trusted third party: Green Man Gaming here in the United States. Notice that it has a release date posted from 2017, which is the now defunct version that isn't available on steam. It included the morrowind content and the warden class.

I looked up “bank upgrade” on this sub’s search bar and found this, which I’ll complete with what you found and what I remember:

EDIT: Updated, thanks to /u/odin912, /u/Rivan1270, and /u/alexsuslin.

Now that you have edited your comment another reply - have you seen wow token prices 230k thats like it woud be 3 million gold for 1 month of eso+ even as a hardcore player you won't make that without spending the whole week at the auction house. Other way around its somehow pay to win if you buy a token for 20€ and get 230k gold for it to buy some raid gear random drops. Still wow charges for shop mounts, pets... oh and wait even for transmoggear! I play both wow and eso so I don't judge how they make money, its just how it is both have pros/cons.

Much goodness here:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/8282/ESOs-Addon-Conundrum.html#post

"We reached out to Zenimax Online Studios for comment on this issue and this is what they had to say:

As we get closer to launch, our beta events have continued to grow in player-size, and that growth has resulted in even more and more of you taking the time to experiment with our UI modding tools. It’s exciting to see the amazing add-ons you have come up with and for us, as developers, it’s also a very important part of the beta process. Seeing what the community wants to add or change is helpful as we continue to tweak and balance the game – what are people looking for? what works? what doesn’t? Finding the right answers to these questions often means leaving the API very open during this beta phase. It helps us see where limits may or may not be and helps us determine what makes the best possible ESO experience for everyone.

We welcome creativity and have built ESO on player-choice, but as a game played with thousands of others, we also must be mindful of any mods that give clear mechanical advantages in competitive situations. Maintaining a level playing field will always be our first priority. Our intent with add-ons is to encourage you to modify your UI in a way that is more fitting for your personal play-style, but not ones that could allow you to make choices for others. We do not want those who aren’t interested in using an add-on to feel compelled to do so because they cannot remain competitive without them. As we continue beta testing, we’ll continue to evaluate add-ons and the implications they have on other players, but you can expect changes to the API before launch and will share that information as it becomes available. Thank you to all of you that have created add-ons during this time – we appreciate your help in making ESO the best it can be."

> Stay moist.

If y'all get a chance to, take a minute to take this survey. I made it earlier today, have quite a few responses so far, but more feedback would be excellent.

RESULTS SO FAR

Most favorite aspects of the game from most liked to least:

1. Skill/class system
2. Combat system
3. Openness of the World and dungeons
4. Crafting
5. Player vs. Player
6. Graphics/Art
7. Story
8. Questing
9. Community
10. Group (instanced) dungeons
11. Itemization

LEAST favorite (most disliked to least disliked):

1. Community
2. Itemization
3. Questing
4. Combat
5. Group dungeons
6. Story
7. Open World/Dungeons
8. Player vs. Player
9. Skills/class sytem
10. Crafting
11. Graphics/Art

• 51% of people included Skills/Class system in their top 3.

• 48% of people included combat in their top 3.

• 55% of people included Community in their bottom 3.

• 51% of people included itemization in their bottom 3.

Status on people pre-ordering or planning to buy TESO at launch.

1. 69% will be pre-ordering, or buying the game inside the first week of release.

2. 21% are unsure. They might buy it if the game improves in its weak areas.

3. 10% of people do not plan to purchase the game at all.

What kind of MMORPG payment option do these people like most/least?

1. 62% Pay2Play.
2. 33% Buy2Play.
3. 4% Free2Play.
4. 1% Freemium.
5. Everybody hates Pay2Win.

ESO Helper. Best $2 I've spent in a while. Let's you track Skyshards, delves, dungeons, Lore books, etc. on an interactive map so you can track what you've found and what you need. Has timers for research and horse training, track researched traits and known motifs. Even has survey locations marked AND M'iq locations! Only thing it doesn't do is keep an in-depth character sheet and that's not really a big deal.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moonsugar.esohelper

edit: added link to app on android.

Hey man, I didn't have any issues like this, but I do have a suggestion. First, you could try out some of the well known paid vpns like NordVPN or PIA. Free VPNs won't do cuz their quality isn't great and probably won't solve your issue. Also do you get similar ping on other games too? Maybe you're in the wrong server or region

If you decide to have VPN long term and willing to commit to 3 years, NordVPN has a 75% off deal.

I use them myself. Even has an Android app so my phone can use VPN too.

You could try our app. It lets you track them per character as well as a lot more.

iOS: The ESO App Android: The UESO App

There's a one dollar app that is super helpful, significantly better than any website imo, except it doesn't sort by set, it just shows everything on the map... But you can mark them as found to hide them which is awesome

We have an app out that can help you with some things

iOS: The ESO App Android: The UESO App

But we do suggest you play through the storyline first so not to ruin the story.

You can check out all sets and their possible items in my Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dpb.esotoolkit

I'll soon start working on a Windows Universal App version, which would hopefully allow it to work on the Xbox One :P

A leak that predicted the name of the game 7 months ago? I'd call that accurate rather than sketchy.

There's also Jason Schreier saying it is not like a traditional Fallout RPG and that it will have an online component. You can see the vault in the trailer is heavily customized, unlike any of the other vaults we've seen in previous games. Plus, the speech on the TV saying "you must rebuild".

Everything so far seems to point to a survival building game. I seriously hope I'm wrong and those leaks are wrong, because a survival Rust-like Fallout game would be fucking disappointing.

EDIT: And now this article that confirms it's a survival online game.

1. No further transfers

2. From $24

3. https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26345/kw/eso%20plus

4. VR will be going away AFTER console release. no definitive time frame.

A quick crash course, each item in-game has a code associated with it (Item ID) and to link an item you need a full "item code", for example the item code for Crawlers (the bait) is:

> |H1:item:42871:30:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0|h|h

The "42871" is the item ID of crawlers, "30" is the item quality/level modifier and the "1" is the actual item level. You can change the item code to display what you want.

Now, the item code for "Vein From the Heart of Lorkhan" is "64277", so we edit the link code:

> |H1:item:64277:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0|h|h

If you copy-paste this and link it into ESO chat you will get the item linked, huzzah! :).

As for locating the item IDs, they are all in a giant .xml file which I have uploaded here. Just CTRL+F "Vein From the Heart of Lorkhan" and find the entry, the code in the second column from the left is the item ID. Edit the item link code with the ID you want and you are done! Thankfully all the "epic" Justice Items in the OP are in the same place around where this particular item is in the .xml.

It is a little more complex than this, some items are linkable, others aren't, some items have multiple copies which means you need to find the right one, you can make some items legendary/whatever level you want and others you can't. It's just trial and error to learn what you can and can't do/use.

Hope that helps!

I would avoid G2A like the plague right now.

It's been reported that the keys they're selling were generated using Steam accounts and while the keys do work on the ESO website, Zenimax sees them as Steam copies (because they are). The problem with this is that if someone redeems one of these keys on the Zenimax website, they cannot buy Crowns from Zenimax because it's a Steam version, but equally they cannot buy Crowns from Steam because they don't have ESO in their Steam library (and the keys from G2A do not redeem on Steam because the game is already "owned" by someone else, namely the douchebag that originally sold the key to G2A).

On top of this there's also a high chance that these keys were obtained through fraudulent means (either purchased on hijacked steam accounts or with stolen creditcard details), which means there's a risk that Steam will notify Zenimax once the chargebacks start rolling in and Zenimax may choose to revoke the keys or ban the accounts. All in all this is NOT a position you want to be in with an MMO. You could lose all your progress as a result of G2A selling keys they shouldn't have.

My advice would be to pay a little bit more and go with an official retailer or buy directly from Zenimax. As someone pointed out GMG has a good deal right now with their VIP program and another retailer called Gamesplanet has the Standard Edition for 27% off, which is the best non-voucher deal right now in Europe.

This site is pretty good for checking the lowest prices, although they don't display "hidden deals" like GMG's VIP offers - they also list ONLY official third party retailers that get their keys directly from the publisher, you won't run into any grey market resellers here: http://isthereanydeal.com/

Article: http://www.mmorpg.com/elder-scrolls-online/previews/finally-return-to-morrowind-1000011695

MMORPG.com's preview is considered an exception to the NDA by Zenimax

And for those unaware, the map on the right is Vvardenfell, the one on the left is just Craglorn

I used to be a fan of w3schools.com, but then I Googled it. And I found lots of negative stuff and inaccuracies and bad practices, summarized by http://www.w3fools.com/

Instead, I recommend http://www.codecademy.com/

Won't happen. The logistics and programming alone of what you propose isn't feasible. I think the problem you had in beta was exacerbated by everyone logging in over a two day period and all being squished in to a single zone. The game plays way more like a single player game than you realize. You should look for great deals and just give it a try. For the $20s linked, it's worth the risk.

First off, you won't be able to buy Morrowind with crowns.

Secondly, you're conflating preorder and collector's edition bonuses. Check the two graphics at the bottom of this page. Nothing in the preorder or collector's edition makes you more powerful than just buying the regular edition

If you order before tomorrow you'll get the preorder bonus on either standard or collector's edition. Note that the only thing you'll be able to get with crowns later is the XP scrolls and crown crate.

It is possible that they'll add the collector's edition items as a bundle to the crown store later on, but that's purely speculation based on the fact that they call it the Discovery Pack

Lutris and their ESO installer works without any fiddling for me (GTX1060, proprietary nvidia driver 396.54).

Solution: http://www.random.org/

Roll 1-9 for race, 1-4 for class, 1-4 for weapon, and 1-3 for armor.

As for character appearance, there's a randomize button in the interface, solving THAT problem.

That should be enough to get you started :)

I'm in the same boat. Just resubbed. This article gives you the gist of all the updates since the beginning: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/9258/A-Look-Back-at-2014.html

Full changelog: https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/wiki/returning

I can't find anything too substantial. Here has one sentence about it in the 5th paragraph. Everything else I find is vague sentences or forum posts =\ No official word yet it would seem.

Edit: Here is another article mentioning it (Section II, last paragraph). I'm only giving these two credence because they mention they got the info during visits to Zenimax, but they are both rather old. Zenimax has defiantly played with the idea then. We'll see if they implement it.

I had many times when MMOs went bad with connection.

usually what helped me "get around" until it is fixed was this:

1. go to open DNS and update your computer to use Open DNS: https://www.opendns.com/

2. open CMD and type: ipconfig /flushdns

3. launch the game and check it out again.

if that is not working try to ask zos for an address to run pathping command on to see which pointing the way is slowing you down, might be something with your ISP which pathping can give you indication on what to tell them.

If you have Firefox or any browser that supports it get Ad Block plus

https://adblockplus.org/en/firefox

Ads? what ads?

Block frames Ads Youtube commercials too. Well I don't see them.

Can't speak to Drop Chance but I just came across some new price sites/apps:

ESO XBOX Price Checker - Site and Android App

ESO PS4 Price Checker - Android App

I'm PC so I haven't tried them though.

You're situation is unfortunate and increasingly common. I banning can be inconvenient for consumers, but is one of the few reliable tools server mangers have to combat DDOS attacks. I wouldn't necessarily blame ZOS for this, but I understand the desire to blame someone for your situation (just remember the blame falls solely on those who organized the attacks that prompted this countermeasure. As far as a solution, you're probably going to pay out of pocket if you want more reliable access to the ESO servers. You can probably pay a fee for a static IP from your ISP, but they might not provide you with one that isn't blacklisted by ZOS, and I'm unsure how cooperative they would be in troubleshooting that problem. My best advice would be to subscribe to a good VPN service, if that's within your financial means. I personally use NordVPN, which is fairly expensive as far as those things go, but provides clients for a broad range of platforms and devices and provides excellent connection options. A VPN would be useful to you beyond connecting to the servers as well, while a static IP may have more limited utility.

I have the same issue. ESO is the only game that kicks me randomly every 10-30 minutes. I am connecting from Germany (Provider: 1&1).

I bought a VPN account from a service called "Mullvad" (5€ a month) and connect through a VPN in Germany to the ESO servers which eliminates the issue. So in my case it is likely to be a routing problem by my ISP. While reasonable, it feels strange that ESO is the only game I have issues like that with though.

iOS: The ESO App Android: The UESO App

It also lets you toggle off the ones you find per character.

Welcome back weekend starts in 5h 30min I think. link countdown

I'll look it up later when I'm not on my phone but there's a program people commonly used for streaming, I forget the name. You can limit the recording area to your minimap in game, and then have the stream preview on full screen on your second screen. Obviously pixels become an issue, but I don't know of any other alternatives. I know some friends who did this for league.

Edit: it's open broadcast software. https://obsproject.com/

Using this with the minimap add on would be a rough workaround.

Op couldn't remember his reddit password like a little bitch so I posted this shit for him De nada

Thanks so much! That really is high praise and I hope to live up to it in the coming chapters!

I am hesitant to sell anything that involves others intelectuel property, especially a game series I love as much as this. However, I did just recently start up a patreon where people can donate to me to keep the work going. Its a monthly thing but you can set limits on how much you'd like to donate and in that way pay a set sum of your choosing for the work. I'd like to keep it free for everyone to share and enjoy though, but monetary help does go far to keep me focused on this and future projects for the betterment of the game and community.

Here's the patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/roguesfolio

Cheaper:

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited-cd-key-global.html

Possible trials:

http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/2jexeu/discussion_zos_is_working_on_trial_accounts/

The codes on the secondary market

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html

work with the current version of the game. I'm not sure if they will work with the TU version though.

http://www.filedropper.com/loadscreenseso201

This is a free hosting site with many clickable ads. Make sure you click this download button and enter the Captcha.

FYI, it's 350 MB.

You are faction locked by race unless you have the explorer's pack which allows you to make any race in any faction, a code can be bought separately from websites like this https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-explorer-s-pack-dlc-cd-key-global.html?___store=englishus.

So I just found a cd key on this website for $14.25 but I can't tell if this is legit or not. Anyone have experience buying from here?

Do G2A. The version linked gives you the explorer's pack as well for $16.50.

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-standard-version-explorers-pack-dlc-30-days-game-time-cd-key-global.html

You can upgrade to Imperial Edition at any time.

You can grab the game with explorer's pack here for under $20.

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-standard-version-explorers-pack-dlc-30-days-game-time-cd-key-global.html

You could upgrade to imperial later when the upgrade is on sale (if you even wanted it).

 

Not sure about your charges. Are they "pending"? Some banks take a day or two to release the money even though ZOS (or anyone) already released a hold.

 

CS as a rule is generally very good. But I don't think they have any control over changing the store pricing.

There's no reason to pay $60.

https://www.g2a.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-key-global.html

Or

http://store.steampowered.com/app/306130/

 

It's worth the $60 plus the sub though.

 

All versions come with an initial 30 days of game time.

ESO's 10 million press release uses vague wording but earlier this year it was confirmed that Zenimax's "unique players" metric is indeed based on copies sold.

GW2 and FFXIV haven't released such information since 2015 when both had around 5 mil. But judging by Google trends and other random bits of information it's safe to assume that both games maintain their popularity more or less.

Blizzard was never too keen on releasing copies sold information but until 2015 they had a quarterly active players report. There also was a recent leak (read "PR move") that stated that the population is back to 8 mil quarterly subscribers.

Judging by the aforementioned statistics WoW's liftime copies sold is guesstimated somewhere around 70-100 mil. Again, this is just an educated guess based on active players and widely agreed upon. It can be 50 mil, it can be over 100 mil, no one knows for sure. But bottom line is that it's obviously much higher than the same metric for any of the runner-ups.

Lol...

1. "Runs bad" without saying which aspects in particular?
2. Matchmaking has always been a pain in most MMOs. It's far from being perfect in ESO but it still works most of the time and I rarely have problems with it. In the end, the best way is to be part of a guild. You're not suppose to always be a loner in an MMO.
3. "Why ESO never went anywhere"??? You can't accept the truth for what it is. There's currently more than 8 millions ESO account and ESO is consistently in the top best MMOs (http://www.mmorpg.com/games-list/show/all/sCol/rankHype/sOrder/desc, http://www.mmogames.com/topmmos/best-mmo-of-2016/, etc.)

I you're angry at the game, it's your own problem. Doesn't mean the game is shit.

This week on Episode 120: Way of the Voice, Arkhaniir, Avi Optimal and Ryluke get together to go over game news including PTS Patch Notes, Changes to Crown Crates, Interview with Rich Lambert by MMORPG.com

It’s the Tales of Tamriel podcast, an action-packed show full of game news, tales, opinions, and listener emails! And remember, if you’d like to send in your own letter to the show, head on over to our website, DungeonCrawlerNetwork.com and click the Contact Us on the top menu or email us directly at !

Show Notes:

• News: Reddit AMA w/ Devs (https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/546mo4/welcome_to_the_one_tamriel_eso_ama/)
• News: PTS Patch Notes v2.6.2
• News: Changes to Crown Crates
• News: Datamined Items
• News: Inverview with Rich Lambert (http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/11193/Elder-Scrolls-Online-GroupFriendly-Content-by-Way-of-Dungeons.html?hootPostID=1c459e76aea2f7ecf2681f9c91e74b02)
• Discussion: One Tamriel; What we love, What we hate?

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MassivelyOP is a pretty reputable site usually on MMO news, they've been in the business for a long time (formerly massively.com), the source they claim to have is a press release, which suggests Bethesda disclosed this to gaming press first to make headlines rather than tweet about it themselves.

Either way, if they went to the effort of photoshopping those pictures to troll with something that was kinda expected, whatever.

Edit: MMORPG.com have it as well now: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/news/read/40456/Elder-Scrolls-Online-Gold-Edition-Announced-Contains-All-Four-DLC.html

Edit: MMORPG has it too, http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/news/read/40456/Elder-Scrolls-Online-Gold-Edition-Announced-Contains-All-Four-DLC.html

I don't think it's fake though, it was kind of expected with the datamined 'All DLC' in the Crown Store and 'finally' having TG and DB in and One Tamriel coming in Autumn. It's also in line with the retail price dropping to 39,99, at least on Steam - will Gold replace standard or be a more expensive alternative to standard?

Thats a awesome write up - thank you so much for that. I have one last question though. there's a sale for the "base game" on the Microsoft store (https://slickdeals.net/f/10290432-elder-scrolls-online-xbox-one-microsoft-store-8?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1) will this not work? You said that that base game was switched to "Tamriel Unlimited" does that mean I'd need to purchase the TU expansion? Or is the one I linked literally get me the same as the TU version

In terms of Safety for the end user (i.e. ensuring you get your key) I know these sites are trust worthy as I have used them both on more then 1 occasion without any problems:

http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/The-Elder-Scrolls-Online-CD-Key-%28Digital-Download%29.html

http://www.cdkeyhouse.com/digital-download/652-the-elder-scrolls-online-cdkey-digital-download.html

However, its worth noting /u/Shinni42 comment about the profit not always ending up with the developer. I can't say where these sites get there CD keys from, so you'll have to make that judgement yourself.

I bought eso: Summerset standard edition from greenmangaming on Friday for 32 dollars using the code PAYDAY20 for 20% off and it gave me the base game, morrowind, a mount, and the pre-order to obtain summerset when it releases. I'd say that is the best option for buying. Don't worry they're legit.

I got all of those things immediately upon activating my code, of course summerset will have to wait.

New players can grab the Standard Edition, which includes The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset Chapter as well as The Elder Scrolls Online base game.

Pre-purchase Standard Edition and receive The Queen’s Bounty Pack pre-order bonus content, plus get access to The Elder Scrolls Online base game as well as a bonus copy of The Elder Scrolls Online:Morrowind Chapter , and the Nightmare Senche Mount.

Edit : use code APRIL20 for 20% off at that website

Quick note: there are addons on PC that improve the experience with controllers (eg: [BetterUI])(http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1272-BetterUIGamepadInterfaceImprovements.html)

You can also use Xpadder

Name another MMO that does DLC releases where it's free? WoW is a Sub based MMO and it's DLC (expansions) are as much as the original game cost.

Personally I think this system ZOS has is actually pretty decent. With a few exceptions such as there is no value in the ESO plus membership.

Other than that shelling out $25 every 3 months is still cheaper than the sub fee and you get all the content for that price, no limitations.

They talked about it at some summit last october, here's an article summary: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/9007/The-Justice-System-Revealed.html

For enforcer: >In order to become an Enforcer you have to go to the Enforcer Towers, typically located just outside the city walls. Once there you’ll need to obtain your Enforcer tabard. This tabard is what will flag you as an “on duty” Enforcer. Allowing you to see acts of crimes and to engage with the outlaws in a battle to the death. Yes, that’s right you can engage in PvP combat with other players of your faction, if they are seen committing a crime. I can see this smaller scale PvP being utilized to test out builds and abilities before going into Cyrodiil. Using the filthy, no good, scoundrels of Tamriel as your target dummies.

>If you do witness a crime, as an Enforcer you must stop the Outlaw from getting to the Outlaw den. These dens are safe zones for Outlaws and if they get to one of them, they’ll be safe from Enforcers, and have the ability to sell off their stolen items.

>You can wear your Enforcer tabard at all times, you do not need to take it off. Having it on at all times will allow you to see if anyone you pass has a bounty on them. If they do it is your job to take that outlaw out, and confiscate his items and return them to the Enforcer Tower for your rewards.

It's a little bit more squirrely to find sources for outlaws that haven't already been implemented (locked chests, breaking+entering, pickpocketing), but in addition to bounty, performing Outlaw actions will increase your overall infamy level which (as of last fall, so almost a year ago) will factor into the whole cops vs robbers game.

Love the horse fix and the group fix as I experienced that last night where me and a friend went into a dungeon and when we left, he could see me and I couldn't see him except the icon over his head..so we had to fix it by going back into and out of a dungeon to resync ourselves....at least hopefully the patch fixes this.

However, I'm still disappointed they haven't fixed what I have been experiencing and others where hitting 'E' to interact sometimes doesn't seem to work..or things don't seem to work unless you change weapons and then back again with some skills. There was a thread about this at mmorpg.com, though the symptoms are very sporadic.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/forums/thread/430023/combat-responsiveness.html

MMORPG.com: The 10% bonus to XP does that also include a 10% bonus to earning faster champion points?

A: As Champion Points are gained by earning experience points, the answer is yes – it applies to both.

Source

 

Pretty sure rings of Mara do too.

>Paul Sage mentioned that it would take (approximately) an average time of one hour per champion point. With there being 1200 points total, we’re going to be playing the game for a while in order to fully maximize our characters. It will take roughly 50 days of in-game time in order to cap out the champion system. That’s if you’re constantly doing something every moment you’re logged in. For the average game session of three hours a day, it’ll take them roughly one year and a month to complete. That’s if Zenimax doesn’t release any new content which expands on the current champion system.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/9003/The-Champion-System-An-Entirely-New-Game-Design.html

VOTE HERE

 

Sorry if I spam this daily until Friday. ;-)

 

How the Competition Has Played Out So Far

 

Original Newbie List: ArcheAge, Darkfall: Unholy Wars, Defiance, Destiny, Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Firefall, Guild Wars 2, Marvel Heroes 2015, Planetside 2, Rift, Star Wars The Old Republic, The Elder Scrolls Online, The Secret World, Trove, Wildstar

 

Original Veteran List: Age of Conan, Aion Ascension, Asheron's Call, Champions Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Eve Online, EverQuest, Everquest II, Guild Wars, Lineage II, Runescape, Star Trek Online, The Lord of the Rings Online, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft

 

Here is an article about what Zenimax was contemplating before making this latest round of API changes. You'll have to scroll down a bit to see what they actually said. My interpretation was that having addons that give tactical advantages to gameplay (for instance an on-screen timer counting down a DoT expiration) would compel those who preferred a cleaner UI experience to install those addons simply to remain competitive.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/8282/page/1

It was said weeks ago that this was being planned. The addon API was made intentionally open and robust from the beginning to see how players would use it in beta. Then ZOS would judge how to make the API information balanced and fair for everyone, which they have just done.

Not true, there is a website you can use that is for XB. Unfortunately, so many ppl don't know about it

https://www.appsheet.com/start/43423716-eaba-4dd8-b693-b839226a0a80#appName=ESOXboxSales-1905971-20-10-04&group=%5B%5D&page=detail&row=10640&sort=%5B%5D&table=Woodworking+Mats&view=Woodworking+Mats_Detail

it really could be. First, that generation of amd processors simply doesnt perform in games nearly as intel does. Even if they pull similar benchmark results, for some reason i5+ is just way faster in practice.

Here is a comparison of your cpu vs mine. And even on paper at the exact same price point i5 is doing better.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=801&cmp[]=368

Edit : also mmo's, unlike single player or small coop games are much much more CPU reliant. Most of the times in almost all modern MMO?s its the CPU that is the bottleneck.

Just get puush.me and you can use one button combo to take the screenshot and upload it to the website, and have it on your clipboard ready to pop over to Reddit and paste the link. In about 1 second flat.

Heres a post from a redditor called greedoshotkennedy showing wildstar isnt any better than ESO or even LOTRO:

"It's behind Age of Conan for launch month, for god's sake, and wildly behind ESO, LOTRO, and Champions Online"

"Alexa numbers , which are the best generalized source of overall hype available without the studio being willing to cite specific numbers of sales and subscriptions."

Google trends? who cares It's in no way a representation of sales or subs. heck, i havent googled eso since launch i have all my pages bookmarked now.

People spend an awful lot of time worrying about their games popularity rather than playing. I've noticed this about W* fans on various sub reddits of other games defending to hi heaven how good the game is, you would think they would be playing if it were so.

EDIT: Here is a comparison of figures currently

ESO vs Wildstar vs LOTRO vs EVE vs FFXIV

You could try using a VPN. I personally recommend Windscribe. https://windscribe.com/
The free version has a limit of 10GB per month, but if you use the voucher "50GBFREE" when signing up, it'll turn into 50GB per month.