grimmie92

got a tonne of friend requests this morning, great to see people picking up the game, servers are down atm unfortunately and i have to go to work soon but ill try getting in touch with you guys asap, try whispering me if you see me log in as my friends list is a massive mess atm

@extomar: Diablo, Starcraft and WoW Expansions cost approximately the same as buying ESO..

The rest of your message i cant even be bothered replying to, im too busy playing ESO to care about your negative nancy attitude

@extomar: for the large part what you are talking about is preorder bonuses, ive yeat to earn a single thing in a blizzard or valve game that has affected another game, even purchased for that matter, outside of buying collectors/preorder versions of the game which gives bonuses to their other properties. Id also like to point out that not a single on of the Blizzard properties is cheap or free other than Hearthstone, if you wish to earn these crossgame rewards that is.

One of my best friends IRL complained because ESO broke away from the genre in such a way that he (whose latest and probably most played MMO under his belt is WoW) couldnt comprehend to be a good thing. The issue he had was the lack of a Global Auction House.

• MMOs have for a long time been using AHs, but for the large part only MMOs that have you locked to a single server are after creating your character making the market limited (WoW, SWTOR, GW2).
• Other MMOs, some of which let you swap between server shards (and the community normally chooses a certain shard to be the primary Trading Shard) let you create a shop in a map that is determined by the developers to be the "Marketplace" of the game, and you can put your items up for sale, anyone who clicks on your little stall can browse youre wares (Conquer Online, Battle of the Immortals)
• Elder Scrolls Online achieves a very good hybrid in its method, the only way to sell an item to other players other than direct trade is to use a guild store. every guild with over 50 members can have a store (admittedly this requirement is a little steep) and these stores are exclusive to members of said guild, the only way for outsiders to browse the wares of the guild is if that guild has conquered a keep in Cyrodiil (the PvP map) and claimed it for the Guild. at this point anyone of that alliance can click on an NPC and buy items in the guild's store. If you wish to experience the market at large you can join up to 5 player-made guilds so you could have access to the wares of up to 2,495 people and players have already taken to creating "East Empire Trading Co." and other such guilds that will be guilds purely for trading, they are not your friends, they will likely crank up the prices for their own benefit. But if you create a guild with your friends, or as I did, with the userbase of the Giant Bomb Community, you can police your own prices, and create a micro-economy that is free from the pressure of the market at large, sell things for below NPC prices to help guild mates, or buy from the guild store instead of an NPC to give your Guild-mate the gold he desperately needs to feed his horse.

If that isnt Innovation, or Imagination, or Creativity i dont know what is. It fits lore much better than the sentiment that there is a person who exists in every town in the game simultaneously and has a backpack that contains every item ever conceived that is willing to sell it to you for a cut of the profit which will go to some random person you cant even be sure really exists. It also helps keep the market in check because the market is no loner global, if you dont like the prices in a guild, you can go elsewhere, join the Aldmeri Traders Union instead.

@karkarov: did you just describe hearthstone on purpose? or was that a legit accident?

Hey guys,

The number of members we have already accepted is truly far greater than i ever expected for such an Exclusive group, especially from Giant Bomb users who are generally speaking not fans of the genre, and there are more of you wanting to join almost every day.

In saying that I've recently become overwhelmed by the number of methods by which people are trying to get in touch with me for invites and I have reached a state where i spend almost half an hour checking all the various Forum threads, my Mailbox on the site, my In-game mail and in-game Friends list to see if can catch people while theyre online, this is especially hard because im living in New Zealand and am often online at times when the US of A is fast asleep.

So, this is my sollution:

If you wish to join the Luchadeer Crusaders use the following steps in this order:

1. Comment below with your in-game user ID
(ie. @ExampleBrad)

2. Add me using the in-game Friends/Contacts system using my account ID
(Press "O" to open your friends list then press "E" to Add Friend)

• @Grimmie92

3. Send a whisper to myself or one of our Unprofessional Co-Leaders by using the /t command in the chat bar of the game
(ie. /t @ExampleVinny Your Message Here)

• @Grimmie92
• @DeathTrap82
• @Karkarov

As long as you perform the above steps you will get in as soon as we can reach you.

Note: If you have already contacted me and are waiting to join I have a list of names and will regularly try contacting you, please hang in there.

@vonsoot: while what you are saying is at least not bashful like the rest of the Giant Bomb trolls and you actually purchased the game, id like to point out that the MMO aspects you described are present in TES games as well, boring quests and farming are known tropes of the series. and i wouldnt describe TES as "on rails", more like a theme park, you get on a ride (and island) ans you go around it, maybe even a couple of time.. but then you can move to the next one. Theyre also claiming at lvl 50 they will scale all mobs to your level, so you can go to another alliances starter zone and be challenged by the level 3 mudcrabs (cant promise this as im only lvl 24 after a week, but thats what they said)

While the game isnt massively detailed it looks gorgeous on max graphics, something you cannot claim about Vanilla Skyrim, sure, after plugging it full with Add-ons and running it on a $5000 rig it is the most beautiful game ever created, but that isnt a fair comparison. All but the horses seem to be of a higher resolution in ESO than it was in Skyrim and the art style is magnificent, I havent been to Skyrim yet in ESO, but The Summerset Isles are absolutely amazing in their art direction.

It is unfortunate that you can't seem to get the immersion you are looking for, but I can say i've found it. Isn't every videogame ever just a cashgrab?

@ttocs: Thanks ttocs, its good i finally managed to get a hold of you, very elusive!

Glad you are enjoying the guild, we finally unlocked the story so hopefully we can have some "buying, selling.. trading" going on soon.

Servers are about to go down but I'll see you all on the other side!

@ripelivejam: To be fair, Zenimax Online Studios wanted to create an MMO, while what you are describing might be a fine enough game, it wouldnt be an MMO, and plenty of people out there have been wanting an Elder Scrolls MMO, myself included.

the game needs instancing, but running private servers, or joining servers that only support 64 players at a time would have been a far lesser experience, the player-run economy would not exist as we know it now. Not to mention the PvP, when Cyrodiil shards were intended to support 200 players on screen at a time, and a count of several times that for the entire map, making it even 90 players so it could be 30vs30vs30, the map would be far less interesting.

As for your forecast of things to come, I can only speak for myself but i am not a content creator, nor have I any interested in creating game for the developers. while influencing the world is fun, giving gamers control over it gets messy so i would venture a guess that anything the players change will be either temporary or limited by the number of areas you can construct on, which sounds far less awesome than Minecraft the MMO which is what everyone is claiming this game to be.

@avantegardener: hush now child, the grownups are trying to have a conversation here

@vash108: sadly no, but with the free month of play time you could probably play through the story and play a fair amount of pvp, then call it a day before you get charged for a sub. Personally I went for a 3 month sub because I'm really enjoying this game and being the GL of the giant bomb guild I want to organise some pvp get-togethers a few months in once a bunch of the members have settled on how they want to play, people are still re-rolling characters to try new classes so getting a decent group of above lvl 10s (required for pvp) is proving challenging.