So ESO will be coming to PS2 and Xbox1,

Normally I have nothing against consoles, I just cant see how an MMO could be more than an casual zergfest if has to be adapted to the consoles also.

For example, how do you look for people for endgame PvP and PvE? For a console, I guess an auto-group tool would be necessary. You could definitely NOT do anything like Normal or Heroic Raids in WoW from a console, the organization required for something so hardcoe cannot really be done from a console.

Does that mean that content will only as be as hard an automated generated PuG can clear? The very thought of that scares me.

I cant help but feel that ESO will be completely dumbed down in order to fit the consoles. I just cant imagine how an MMO with any level of challenge can exist in the consoles.

Thoughts?

FFXI pretty much proves you wrong. THe console players kept up with the PC players quite easily. If the control and gameplay is designed properly, there should be no reason to make things easier.

Took the words out of my mouth. FF 14 will also be a testament to this.

The only thing that was dumbed down in FFXI was the graphics.

TESO won't be dumbed down by console access anymore than it would have been before this announcement. The real worry here is how will the console companies affect the game as far as content/patches go.

That shouldn't even be a problem. They can do like defiance does and patch the pc first while waiting for the console patches to get approval.

That's exactly what I'm hoping they do, if they play it like that then there will be no problem at all. The segregation of servers gives some hope that this will be the case also.

All discussion for ESO on consoles can be found http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1462937-eso-coming-to-pc-mac-ps4-and-xbox-one/

Feel free to join in.