No native english speaker sorry about mistakes.

I really love the elder scrolls games, but im afraid this game is going to be only 1 more standard mmo.
After everything i heard about the game from interviews and videos, it seem to be nothing special, its seems to be mmo mainstream with elder scrolls story.
Why no Housing and Player Cities? Why no Player driven economy (eve online is an A+ Example)? No Player driven Shops?
The Players are the one who keep all the TES Games alive ... with mods and community work.
So why dont give the gameplay to the players?
SWG did it ... ok ... the players messed it up because exploit using, but you can learn from that mistakes and make a game that feels like you really change the world of tes ... design the world ... i dont want more static world mmo sh*t ... the 121th wow clone.

Dont take WoW as an example (even it is so popular and money making) take the real mmo"RPG"′s (with the more mature community) as examples ... they are games who last a long time and you really had that special feeling of community with the players and the game. These games are Everquest, DAOC, SWG, Ultima, Linage.
In DAOC i remember a friend of me telling she had a guild and when the enemy fraction attacked it was about 3 a.m. on a weekday and they called her on the phone "they are attacking you have to get online and help us defend" and she played an defended and than get to work with a few hours of sleep ... in newer mmo′s people would give a sh*t about that ... because they are not connected to the world ... or the community.

So please ... cancel the whole project ... dump your "mmo in 12 steps" construktion kit you buyed from blizzard and design a whole new TES online ... together with the players who are playing TES since childhood and love to see a true mmoRPG again.

Otherwise the elder scrolls online will release with millions of players and a few months later the news will come "TES-Online will become Free2Play" and you all know what that means.

And now ... throw stones at me if you want.

Good news, if you like DAOC, you're gonna love ESO, it's being developed by the same people, with a lot of the same ideas.

I think you need to read more information on ESO, this game is skill based and level based which is not like WoW. This game will have the same type of combat mechanics found in Skyrim, that is also different from WoW. This game will also have the same type of Realm vs Realm PvP that DAoC had, in fact the lead game designer is the same guy who developed DAoC, Matt Firor. Anyway if you read through the posts on this forum you will find lots of links to information about ESO and I would suggest reading before making rash statements like you did in this post

ESO will be different then WoW, no doubt about that in my mind.