User blog comment:Dark Jeto/Why I Believe ESO will Survive and Thrive/@comment-4705438-20140306155826

Will ESO play a part in the fall of WoW? Probably not. WoW has a higly anticipated expansion coming out this year as well. Updated character models, Dreanor, no more flying mounts, stat squish. It's a lot of stuff people have waited for for a long time and WoW has a pretty stable userbase and can play on people nostalgia.

ESO will not be nearly as succesful. The idea of a WoW-killer is ridiculous. But I would like to believe, that ESO will survive it's subscription model. It has a couple of unique things to it. The console support, first person perspective and action combat, huge PvP battles, not-so-limited class system, unique crafting system, elemental damage and vulnerability, elite zones and public dungeons.

The thing that could and will harm ESO a lot is the current TES fanbase, who will come to it expecting a multiplayer TES game, but will not recieve it. This will cause a lot of negative feedback initially. It's an MMO, and should be approached as such.