Elder Scrolls Online defends subscription fee with regular, "significant" content

Sorry, not gonna do it. Sure, if I was 17, lived with my parents, and had a PT job with some disposable income, sure. But as an adult, with FT work, family, responsibilities, I just don't have the time to play the game for hours a day to justify an additional $15 an hour. I

'll just pass.

<< LINK REMOVED >> yes, WoW does have a subscription fee, but they also make it free to play until level 20, so you can at least try the game out and see if you want to spend the money for the game+sub, where Bethesda you have to buy the game in order to even try it, and if you don't like it, you just screwed yourself out of however much you spent on it. I bet ESO would get many more people to subscribe and play if they did something similar to this.

So far the changes have been huge and game changing for me, I had my doubts at the start but now I am very happy paying such a small fee for a superb game.

I played it, They can defend it PAY to Play model till there bankrupt. Game I played looked Great but Engine and scripting got to be rewritten. It looks and feels great I was Like WOW , But a one time fee of 75 buck I would do, Throw in a home server so my friends could Play Private games And I pay another 300. Then they could of sold expansions at 35 a pop for home.75 for server. And still hosted Public Servers, Or they could of done it with a store F2P and a one time fee to buy the client say 45. Or Even did it with an Auction house that takes bitcoin dose conversion for real world cash then charges a Auction house fee on Auctions. Now those Models works and are the future.

But this? Its yesterdays business Model . Fanboys sorry no matter how good a game it could be the Markets to competitive to suport yesterday Crusty Old Man Subscription plans .

No need to convince you wait and see. Even Blizzards saying subscriptions an Outdated Idea. SO Enjoy your ESO and tape it on your BetaMax Player, Because it will not last.

ESO is well worth the cost of the game AND the sub fee! They will have over 10 million subs by the end of this year and will go on the become THE most successful MMO to date.

well you cant have your cake and eat it too Bethesda. give the game for free and charge subscription (like EVA)or charge for game and do away with subscription like (guild wars)

All of you haters can just suck it right now. WOW the so called most successful MMO has a fee. Millions pay for it. You're all forgetting one big key factor. This is Bethesda they have won game of the year 4 out of the 5 last games they have made. Morrowwind Game of the year, Oblivion game of the year, Fallout 3 game of the year, Skyrim game of the year. And Skyrim didn't even drop from $60 till the game of the year edition came out. This game has so much to offer, and the insignificant amount of $15 a month that you know you spend more on in food and other stupid stuff monthly. That will only help add to the experience, and make this game great. I cannot see you having a valid argument over such a small thing. If you can't afford $15 then you need to get your priorities straight and stop living in your dam parents house. Really think about it. Netflix for basic streaming $8 a month average combo meal when eating out $7

nah, i am gonna skip this one, I like the game but this subscription fee or the upgrade thing, nope. I did that with LoL and it ended up costing me a lot of paysafecards. Next please.

My disappointment with this game is the fact that I am a fan of the previous Elder Scrolls games, and would probably enjoy playing this game but don't want to pay $15 a month just to play it. I spent various amounts of time playing Skyrim over the course of a year to fully enjoy that game. To do the same thing with this game I would end up spending an extra $180 over the course of a year. That is nearly half of what I paid for the PS4 that I would be playing it on. Add in the initial cost of the game and you are looking at over a $200 investment for one game. Its just too much for one game regardless of the content that is "added" after the fact.

Aw. Look at all the ESO haters that forgot about the horrible the WoW beta was and the horrible WoW launch. Yet WoW fixed the issues...with time.

I'm tired of hearing industry apologists sitting around saying 'get a job', or '$15 is only 2 hours work!'.

it's clear as day that you 5 year olds have never had to work for a living and pay actual bills. If you had a mortgage to pay, gas+electricity and water bills, rents etc to pay, you wouldn't be spewing this garbage. I make very good money in my line of work, yet I wouldn't spend a red cent on this dire failure of a video game. I'd CONSIDER it for a game that appears worthy, and this is NOT such a game. You idiots are making pathetic excuses for greedy companies to release BROKEN GAMES, whilst laughing all the way to the bank. You are SUCKERS. If you clowns had played the beta, you would know how horribly unworthy of a monthly sub it is. Even WoW (one of the best-established MMOs, regardless of whether or not you enjoy it) isn't worth paying a monthly sub for. Having played a lot of the ESO beta, I can confirm that ESO is not worth the initial sale cost, nevermind a recurring subscription. It is utterly broken and barely playable, and riddled with stupid issues and horrible design flaws (designed to emulate the single-player ES experience...it does not translate well to MMO format).

1) you have no cursor, so trying to ask someone for help as they dart past you in the wilderness is next-to-impossible. Even vanilla WoW had this basic feature sorted 10 years ago, whilst ESO cannot sort it today.

2) you have to click for every single weapon swing. RSI here we go! After playing the beta for just a few hours, I could feel the carpel-tunnel syndrome kicking in, as well as irritation and pure annoyance at the shoddy controls.

If you have a brain, you'll avoid this worthless spin-off. It's NOT a proper ES game, and it is frankly embarrassing to play, and to behold.

“We want to do the version that we think is the best game and the coolest experience. And that means putting a lot of people and a lot of content creators towards having stuff that comes our regularly; every four weeks, five weeks, six weeks. Big new stuff that you want to do."

I still don't understand how monthly fees for these games are legal and even more so how players justify them, It is basically a legal form of extortion, If you don't pay your monthly extortion fee that $50+ dollar game you bought is a coaster.

I tried the beta and while I find it entertaining I don't think it is worth $60 + a monthly fee

****! i bet what I'm about to say has been said by everyone and there grandmother but WHY IS THE MONTHLY FEE SO HIGH? i love elder scrolls but come on. dose anyone out there think they will lower the fee or take it out all together eventually?

" There's no aliens. It is a massive, 'Go where you want, do what you want' game that we think offers the kind of experience that's worthy of a subscription."

Just lied about your game. I can't go anywhere I want right at the start of the game. I STUCK in a ISLAND and force to finish the main story there then ported to another island that is If I'm luck with out the bugs....

Keep your multiplayer out of my Elder Scrolls. Please and thank you.