** The Elder Scrolls Online - EXCLUSIVE PRE ORDER EARLY ACCESS **

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Coming 4th April 2014, Bethesda Softworks bring us the long awaited ** The Elder Scrolls Online **

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Arguably one of 2014s most eagerly anticipated games.

Pre order now and recieve the explorer's pack at launch:
  • Play with any of the nine races in any alliance
  • Scuttler vanity pet
  • Bonus treasure maps
  • Three day early game access





The Elder Scrolls Online - PC **EXCLUSIVE PRE ORDER EARLY ACCESS** @ £39.95 inc VAT

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After years of rumour, denials, more rumours and more denials, an Elder Scrolls MMO has finally been confirmed.

The first details on Bethesda's entry into the online games space will be in the June issue of Game Informer, and will reportedly cover the entire continent of Tamriel, including Skyrim, Morrowind and Oblivion's Cyrodil.

Arriving in 2013, The Elder Scrolls Online is being developed by Zenimax Online Studios and will continue the series' focus on exploration. There will also be player vs player combat, in which users align themselves with one of three factions.

It will be set 1,000 years before the events of last year's Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, telling the tale of daedric prince Molag Bal as he tries to pull Tamriel into his demonic realm.

"It will be extremely rewarding finally to unveil what we have been developing the last several years," said Elder Scrolls Online director Matt Firor. "The entire team is committed to creating the best MMO ever made - and one that is worthy of The Elder Scrolls franchise."


Pre Orders recieve a 3 day eary access code allowing early access to the game, Exclusive Treasure map, play in any alliance with any of the 9 races & scuttler vanity pet!


Only £39.95 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Have to say after the Beta it certainly felt like a step back from Skyrim...

Pay up front + monthly subscription? thats just not how these things are done... unless the upfront cost includes some play time of a few months then thats just a rip off.
 
never liked the pay for the game then pay to play way. Lotro was the only time I did that and that's because im a fanboy of lotr. This though.... major ripoff console prices.
 
never liked the pay for the game then pay to play way. Lotro was the only time I did that and that's because im a fanboy of lotr. This though.... major ripoff console prices.

Kind of a hypocritical statement.

Fans of the Elder Scrolls universe could see it exactly the same way.
 
God awful MMO that will sell bucket loads regardless.

It's using a gutted version of the Hero Engine and strangely enough, suffers from the exact same GCD/animation combat issues that SWTOR did - fancy that.

Avoid.
 
40 is the high end of a new AAA PC title, (I expect Wildstar will come in around that price point). But yeah, trying to milk the unsuspecting ES fan into parting cash for this pile of ****
 
Wow... looks like Zenimax are really hoping to ride along the success of Skyrim, and hoping people are willing to pony up an awful lot of money for what appears to be a very overrated game, and certainly one that's in a pretty 'saturated' genre.

"Ooooh look, another sword-and-magic MMO... like the last 100 or so!"

Not bashing OcUK for trying to promote this, and I'm sure there'll be some people interested, but at least with War Thunder I could play it entirely for free, and I've chosen to spend about £35 so far in total on in-game currency, and I still haven't spent all of that!

I can only see that kind of pricing model working for a truly epic game, the likes of which just doesn't exist.

For 1 year of ESO, that's £148 at current pricing.

Or you could spend £148 on the Steam christmas sale and buy everything! :D
 
I'm pretty sure with World of Warcraft you had to pay upright and then monthly? Or at lesat you used to.

WoW was the perfect storm at a time when there was a strong demand in the market for a tripple A MMO and when social networks were in their infancy.

It attracted everything: hardcore gamers (raids), casuals (leveling, instances), gaming socialiates, which lead to a huge user base due to there being not many alternatives on the market.

Since then, we've had a tone of MMO's as well as social networks rising up and offering both casuals and socialites alternatives. There's still a skeleton of the former user base that allows WoW to continue with the subscription model but there are signs this is changing.

ESO walks into the picture and offers what? Less polish and less content aimed at a single player fan base.

Good luck to the developers, they're going to need it.
 
Good luck to the developers, they're going to need it.
Nah, they will make their dev costs back and then some through box sales and initial 2-3 months subs - the $99 imperial edition is already Amazon's PC game number 1 seller in the States. Once everyone realises how bad it is and cancels, they have turned a nice profit and can go f2p with microtransactions to keep them afloat. It's SWTOR all over again.
 
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