I wonder how many of the folks who've paid nearly $300 for ESO now wish they'd waited a year -just like all the people who have pre-ordered console games that turned out to suck. The biggest limitation when you play for free would be inventory space, but even that can be upgraded decently by upgrading your horse (which you can get for free trough leveling up, trough daily gifts or by buying one with gold) and buyi. It's how obvious it was that ESO was never going to stay pay-to-play, and how video game consumers should think twice before paying big bucks to get into a new game at launch. The bottom line, though, isn't how smart my colleagues are.
Yeah, I know it's a little suspicious that I won my own contest, but I think what's really telling about this is how close we all were: Even the biggest "misses" were only off by 10 weeks in either direction.Īlternately, if you measure our predictions to the date the game actually goes free to play (March 17 for PC, with Xbox and PlayStation to follow in June), not the date the move was announced, then Alex Knapp edges out Erik Kain by a single day -and our collective guess was still only off by 9 weeks, or 63 days. Individually, we were all very close, too. That means our group predicted the announcement would come on Tuesday, January 13. On average, the six members of the Forbes Games team who contributed to the pool thought that Elder Scrolls Online would throw in the towel after just 284 days, or a little over 9 months from launch. So I asked them all to answer a question: On what date will Elder Scrolls Online announce it's giving up on its subscription model and going free to pay?Ĭollectively, they nailed it. According to fans of both, there are many things Classic does better, but definitely, some things working for ESO. The consensus among my Forbes Games colleagues was that developer ZeniMax Online Studios and publisher Bethesda Softworks were going to drop the paywall as soon as they'd wrung as much cash from hardcore Elder Scrolls fans as they could. The most debated comparison is how Classic compares to Elder Scrolls Online. That's $224.88 to play the standard version of the game for twelve months, and $264.88 for the Imperial Version. There's not many gamers willing to shell that kind of money out -and the few who would are probably already deeply committed to another MMO, like Whether you plan to spend a relaxing and enjoyable month of intense gaming, or you wish to have access to all add-ons all year round without having to worry about refreshing your subscription, you have the following options: 12 months 139.99.
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