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Recommended
0.9 hrs last two weeks / 2,345.8 hrs on record (268.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 7 Mar, 2017 @ 1:10am

I started this game during open beta stage. It really sucked big time and really didn't feel like an Elder Scrolls game. It felt like a WoW-copy with Elder Scrolls element. I avoided buying it during release and it wasn't until a year later after the prices has dropped a lot that I actually bought the game. It had improved a lot since beta and launch and started to feel more Elder Scrolls than before but it wasn't great yet. I leveled up that character up to 32 but then stopped playing and went back to SWTOR which was my primary MMO and it's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion that was closing in for a release. It was a good expansion but made the actual game a bit bad and more simplified. But not until the latest SWTOR expansion and the total break of that game with 5.0 update (Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion) that made me kinda tired of SWTOR. Also that the game lagged big time even though i have a good gaming computer.. All that made me reconsider and I started to play Skyrim as well as Fallout 3 and I started to feel an urge for Bethesda/Zenimax and then I heard that Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood was launched as well as Tamriel Unlimited plus the housing expansion. And then I saw the announcement of the first actual expansion for ESO: Morrowind! All this made me start playing ESO again, and this time as the primary MMO game. This game has improved a lot since the beta stages and feels like a true Elder Scrolls game as an MMO. Just like the way I always hoped for. Today's ESO is the actual ESO that I've always wanted to play! And it feels really good that you can start as an Ebonheart Pact player but go directly to Auridon and do the Aldmeri Dominion storyline instead. At least Bethesda/Zenimax are improving their MMO-game that was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ at start to the better with each new installment and is now a great game, unlike Bioware/EA who made an awesome MMO-game turned ♥♥♥♥ and crappy.

If you are an Elder Scrolls fan or a fan of open world games with an urge of a great story. You should buy this game and play it. It is also worth subscribing ESO Plus even if it's still very playable with only the one time buy. And since it is buy2play with optional sub, there isn't any pay2win-elements as most free2play games has.
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