User blog comment:Draevan13/Thoughts on the ESO Pre-Order reveal/@comment-9062114-20140131194129/@comment-17114085-20140202005622

What I think is that originally Zenimax Online was going to reveal the Imperial race near the launch to get people excided for the game, a race that can join any faction and everybody would get it. But then the money grabbing suits at Zenimax Studious said "NO! add it as an incentive for pre-orders. And add the feature to play any race in any faction." There was no way that ZO made that choice, they were really pushing the race restricted factions. All in all f*ck Zenimax Studios and their greediness.