Bethesda Softworks® and ZeniMax® Online Studios today announced that beta signups are now open for The Elder Scrolls® Online at ElderScrollsOnline.com. Interested gamers simply have to go to the website and register for a chance to play. Selected beta registrants will be granted early access to beta test the game. They will be among the first to experience this epic world with others in one of 2013’s most highly-anticipated releases. Timing and details of the start of playtests will be provided at a later date to those who register.
“We’re really excited to get the game into players’ hands,” said Matt Firor, game director of The Elder Scrolls Online. “We receive invaluable feedback through the beta process, and that helps us ensure that the game will be one of the best online gaming experiences ever offered -- one worthy of The Elder Scrolls franchise.”
The Elder Scrolls Online brings the award-winning Elder Scrolls experience online for the first time. Using ZeniMax Online’s Megaserver technology, players will join one connected world with a built in social network that lets them stay up-to-date with everything their friends are doing. Megaserver technology avoids the hassle of shard selection and makes The Elder Scrolls Online one of the most socially enabled games ever created. Whether playing alone, or with hundreds of friends, players can develop their own style of play as they embark upon an epic quest across Tamriel.
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 22:00:
Go watch some dev movies, there are several unique features. The most unique is simply playing like TES but with others. TES doesn't play like wow.
Dev wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 21:07:HorrorScope wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 17:49:Such as?NKD wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:57:Fibrocyte wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:48:
Such unfounded negativity...
I'm looking forward to this.
Unfounded? Really? It's a Skyrim skin for WoW.
I found quite a few intriguing features in ESO vs Wow.
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 17:49:Such as?NKD wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:57:Fibrocyte wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:48:
Such unfounded negativity...
I'm looking forward to this.
Unfounded? Really? It's a Skyrim skin for WoW.
I found quite a few intriguing features in ESO vs Wow.
Riker wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 19:01:
Wow, that's some damned fine CG. Now, let's hope I'm impressed as much by the game itself.
jdreyer wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 19:37:
Well, y'all making me feel like a spring chicken, seeing as I didn't start with the Elder Scrolls until Daggerfall. Huzzah!
RaZ0r! wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 18:07:
I can haz interwebs ban if I don't report bugs???
Ratty wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 16:53:JohnBirshire wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:46:I guess I'm the second longest fan. I started with Arena but I didn't follow it through development like you - just played it when it came out. Don't you miss passwall?
I'm one of the longest fans of the franchise, having followed Arena in developement, and considering it to be my favorite game of all time. I was actually going to kill myself when I was younger but wanted to wait for Daggerfall, so you could argue that the series saved my life.
Not suicidal but I've often thought what a bummer it would be to up and die just before a new ES game came out. If I'm going to be hit by a bus or something, let it be when there aren't any good games coming out.
sauron wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 17:23:
GW2 did it as well and are still doing so after release. Their devs post on the official forums frequently, answering questions and taking suggestions.
Not sure I could do that, for any MMO. Rabid fanbases for those games - people spend years (sometimes decades!) playing them.
sauron wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 17:23:Axis wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 16:29:
Pretty simple formula for success these days.
1. Long beta (a year or so) with sustained player-base.
2. competent developers who listen to said playerbase.
If these two happen, the game will succeed. If not, it's bound to fail.
Last MMO with that formula was, love it or hate it, WoW.
GW2 did it as well and are still doing so after release. Their devs post on the official forums frequently, answering questions and taking suggestions.
Not sure I could do that, for any MMO. Rabid fanbases for those games - people spend years (sometimes decades!) playing them.
Fibrocyte wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:48:
Such unfounded negativity...
I'm looking forward to this.
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 17:54:Ratty wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 16:53:JohnBirshire wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:46:I guess I'm the second longest fan. I started with Arena but I didn't follow it through development like you - just played it when it came out.
I'm one of the longest fans of the franchise, having followed Arena in developement, and considering it to be my favorite game of all time. I was actually going to kill myself when I was younger but wanted to wait for Daggerfall, so you could argue that the series saved my life.
My first memories of Daggerfall was when it came out, it was probably the buggiest game I ever loaded up. Crystalware on the Atari PC's was close. Never played it until they released it for free a couple years back. 15,000! CITIES BIG! Too much of a good thing.
Ratty wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 16:53:JohnBirshire wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 14:46:I guess I'm the second longest fan. I started with Arena but I didn't follow it through development like you - just played it when it came out.
I'm one of the longest fans of the franchise, having followed Arena in developement, and considering it to be my favorite game of all time. I was actually going to kill myself when I was younger but wanted to wait for Daggerfall, so you could argue that the series saved my life.