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50.137.151.44 wrote: These companies are for profit, not charities. Yeah I guess that always excuses everything that companies do. Good job random internet person. Way to think outside the box.

I find it hard to argue against subscriptions, I'm not sure how this kind of game earns money and gets support without it,  but I'm not sure Zenimax has thought this through, I mean PC players and Console players are paying the same amount, but console players are also paying for live/ps+ ? It seems like a lot to ask from a potential customer. Also, put yourself in the shoes of a parent with a kid asking for ESO, imagine how all of these fees look to an outside observer. If paying 290-300 bucks for the first year of this game does not give you pause, well damn, you must be living on some other plane of existence from the rest of us and I'm not sure we're ever going to understand you.

"Half of all players" might be a bit of a knee jerk estimate, but I find it hard to fault it. I'm a firm believer in the "complain but end up buying it anyway" mentality of people, but I'm not sure that applies the same way to MMO's. You really expect more than half of all the people who loved Skyrim to play this game for a whole year? It would have to be a hell of a lot better than WoW and SWTOR combined.

Anyway I really expect this game to suck. I love elder scrolls games, I love open-world RPG's, but I've played a fair bit of WoW and its just a different experience without a whole lot in common. It might seem like mixing chocolate and peanut butter to some business guy, but to me it seems more like mixing chocolate and ketchup. This will not end well...

...unless it somehow gets us a Co-op elder scrolls game, I could totally get behind that, but an MMO just isn't the same thing...