We were discussing gaming in general last night, 118 of us in channel and the subject of ESO came up, 50% of people began to rage about it, the rest either did not know or had not read any details, links were provided and with random swear words being uttered.
Disbelief and disapointment was the general consensus.
The people that follow TES do not need simplification, we do not need healers and tanks we do not need to be spoon fed, we wanted a true ESO.
Hell most of us would have thrown our money at you if ESO was just a patch allowing you to play skyrim with 3 friends, you have took out everything that makes ES such a great series, instead you give us a DAOC/WOW with ES reskin.
While 118 people is not a large cross section we are most of us a loyal fanbase of ES games most of us actually growing up around them, this is a kick in the teeth and we will not purchase or take part in this travesty.
My advice scrap the entire project and spend a small percentage of the budget to make skyrim multiplayer even with just the following points.
1)Master Lan client/server where you all play, has a master mod list so all people joining can keep upto date.
2)Basic chat/voice
3)4 player co-op with ability to increase npc count hp
4)Master client able to save progress.