THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE SERIES PC

Which left me unable to separate ESO from what I was used to, and of course The Elder Scrolls Online wouldnвЂ™t quite measure up as I already had the title of one MMO stamped into my digital life. Friends had dragged me kicking and screaming into Final Fantasy XIV with the Heavensward expansion, and IвЂ™ve been subbed ever since. My quick delve into High Isle for the press preview just a few months ago had me questioning whether I had ever given ESO a fair shake after its 2014 launch crisis. Even expansions into Summerset, Elsweyr, and Blackwood couldnвЂ™t get me to spend more than a handful of hours gathering an opinion of new content before quietly backing out of the game again. As ESOвЂ™s player count continued to rise it became clear that players were finding something in this game that I just could not see. IвЂ™ve continued to cover the game despite my personal feelings, though IвЂ™ve often kept to first impressions pieces. The lacklustre empty landscape of an undeveloped Vvardenfell left me, once again, disappointed. The Morrowind expansion of 2017 nearly got me back, as IвЂ™ve always seen The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as the seriesвЂ™ best entry by far, despite its obvious flaws and abysmal combat. Only a year later and my expectations for MMORPGs had left ESO in the dust. I attempted to return to The Elder Scrolls Online with the Tamriel Unlimited relaunch, and found it underwhelming. It took a long time for ESO to make up for that rough start, though it currently exists in something of a freemium space which is rife with its own issues.

THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE SERIES PC

That enthusiasm would be relatively short-lived after the gameвЂ™s abysmal launch to PC on a subscription model just a month later.

While that laptop never quite forgave me for attempting to run a high-end MMO on hardware that was already struggling to keep up, I was absolutely enthralled with the gameвЂ™s concept and execution. In March 2014 I attempted to assassinate my MacBook by installing 60-odd gigabytes of The Elder Scrolls OnlineвЂ™s beta test.

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