Allright I understand then. Though, for the record the "Tortage syndrome" doesn't prevent anyone from leveling, it's just a matter of "we polished the shit of our game, but only the 20 first levels, rest is straight alpha quality, sorry !"
I played AOC at launch and fully understand the Tortage reference. IMO it doesn't apply.
That's ok, if you weren't in the irc channel where we basically hard the start of our quest leaked to us I'm still not convinced ANYONE would've figured that quest out. iirc was me and zad and a few others and then...Wakefield? The guy from test server that had to point us to where to go. Monk ended up being one of the first epics finished or some shit, but we were dead last starting it out, nobody had any fucking clue where to go. Even when we knew what to do shit was obtuse, the first person to hand the robe of the whistling fists in was my guildmate at the time who I took forever to convince and he ended up botching the second step and losing the robe. Good times.
After some research I think Rescorla has this one right. I found this at Massively:
ZeniMax's Paul Sage on The Elder Scrolls Online's endgame, PvP, and crafting | Massively
I have no reason to believe either of you- neither of you have provided any evidence to back up your claims. I can, however, see with my own experience that the level 1-17 content is finished but it is subjectively boring and objectively broken. Honestly, this puts you in a no-win situation when trying to defend the game to people who had a similar experience as I did with the stress tests.
I cringe thinking of re-doing another faction's newbie quests as "endgame." To be fair, that article is almost a year old- he doesn't even know if raids will be instanced or not at that point. Here's something funny. That was written March 19, 2013. In your article, Sage says there will be 24 man raids called Adventure Zones.Here's another article written March 19, 2013 with a quote from Firor.
So on the same day, Firor and Sage had interviews and said completely opposite things.
I've not played one minute on the weekend beta servers but from all accounts it had major technical issues dealing with the large the number of players trying to play the game. I have no idea how many players are in the closed beta but its fairly obvious that server isn't getting bogged down with massive numbers of players like the weekend beta test because I haven't experienced any of the technical problems the weekend beta testers have reported. As to the rest about whether I think its "good' or "bug-free", I will be more than glad to give my opinion on that once the NDA is lifted.
Yeah, I actually was a pussy and didn't do any of the earlier turn in first. I basically just waited until someone else tried it and posted the results, then I did it right after. The only thing I did "first" was the last turn in, and I forget the exact situation, but for some reason I was 100% sure where the mob spawned and that it was the last turn in. I think what happened was it was one of the earlier turn ins that they took out for an unrelated reason. We were told that the next patch would put them back in, so there were actually several people with the final turn in item just waiting for the servers to come up and turn it in. Can't even be 100% sure I was technically first, but my server came up first, I posted a ScreenShot on monkly business said "first" and no one challenged it, so I took my claim to fame and ran with it!
Good find.
LOL. You are too much. People like games and post about them on a board dedicated to liking games. Keep your notes updated, though.
Well, we all saw what happened with the last set of notes. They are now hanging in the Hall of Justice.
Wait a minute, Rescorla said he is QA? Who the fuck cares what he has to say about ESO?
I do, since unlike others he appears to actually have played the game. Fuck those people with too much time and google fu. I'd rather have a shill who actually has access.
I promise you I will be hanging out here well past the release of ESO just to keep reminding you of how stupid you have made yourself look over the past couple of days trying to get people to believe I work for Zenimax and that Grave and I are the same person.
Rare agreement! Nino did the music in VG and I think a lot more (production?) as time went on. I always thought he was a really nice and talented dude.
Two weeks! What an amazing display of openness to have a beta for such a long period of time!
Not that I am defending Zeni or TESO here (they do seem to use the NDA against the consumers), but Landmark and TESO are two different things. I suspect that if SoE doesn't get Storybricks to work properly that EQ:Next will have a long NDA as well as that one system is tied to nearly everything that supposedly makes that game special.
So it is Tortage/Aoc all over again then?Agonizing the Bait Master_sl said:
