User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-72.216.36.245-20130907213036/@comment-16047389-20130909214217

You're missing an important detail though. Those other games failed BECAUSE they tried being like WoW. If had just beta-tested TOR for the first time, and I asked "What was it like?", the most common answer would be "It was just like WoW." This time it's different. When the beta-testers are asked "What was it like?" the common answer is "It was just like Skyrim". ESO isn't building itself to be a reskinned version of the same thing we've seen over and over from MMO's. It's trying to fill a different niche that hasn't been really tried before. That's what's going to decide whether or not it succeeds. Not how it compares to WoW.