Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-6881629-20130802171552/@comment-7153552-20130808184354

Well, the beta methodology they use is the even-style. They work on game production and release large sections of the game to the beta servers and allow people to stress-test and over-excite and bug-report the hell out of it all. So what we saw was most likely something released along those lines. Base-level mechanics in a quarantined zone built to run in a certain way. We also might need to keep in mind that they don't want you to do that much single-player stuff. They've built the mechanics and added followers and are allowing for you to see and do things on your own, but at the end of the day this is an MMO. It's a TES MMO, but it's still an MMO. For all the people QQing about how badly Oblivion and Skyrim needed multiplayer, this is the answer. For all the people who wanted to challenge their friends to things in the games, but could only do it one at a time, this is your answer. For anyone who wants a Massively Single Player Online TES game, this is not your answer.