http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/view/hype

I know, its MMORPG.com, but usually the hype meters comments attached to them tell at least something. Currently, people seem to agree this game is too restricted to carry the IP of Elder Scrolls. "An insult to the franchise". I suggest you read the hypes, there are positives and negatives. And most of the positives come from DAOC fans.

Edit: Bolded the comment part to clear it up; the number of hype is irrelevant, its the comments in the hype section.

There is no way to prove the hype comes from any fan of DAoC. The hype meter score is another thing for people to game. I am one of the bigger DAoC fans out there, have many posts on MMORPG.com and never use the hype meter.

MMORPG.com hype meters are nothing to worry about. Just opinions combined with honest votes and dishonest votes plus the occasional troll voting negative to everything. I am also a MMORPG.com member but never pay attention to hype.

Lol,the day you take mmorpg.com hype meter as anything but serious is the day you might as well stop following MMOs.

As I said, it was the "reviews" and things people have said about their views on the game, not the hype meter's average number that seems worrysome.


Well, many of those posts say "I loved DAoC's RvR system etc.", so based on that I'd say the person is a daoc player or has at least played the game.

They've hyped GW2 to be next Jesus 3 year now, just my opinion even Rift is better than GW2. But I guess we will see out it goes. GW2 is better than SWTOR though, at least you can call GW2 MMO...

Yeah the rating itself is always way off, but reading and regarding ONLY the comment section, it gives a good general view.

Comments changes after GW2, quaranteed. Or then they start to hype ArcheAge.

The real story will be in their open beta. If they dont have an open beta that means the game will really svck lol

It is much too early and so much is unknown for TESO to generate much hype. Middle of next year is when the hype meter should be looked at but even then only as a curiosity. Those GW2 hopefuls are only setting themselves up for disappointment in the same way that the SWTOR crowd did. It might end up being a fun game but it will almost certainly get old rather quickly imo.

The PvP zergfest comment is pretty accurate....the side with the most people will win, making it super unbalanced probably.

In DAoC when one side started to dominate, the other two would come to a small truce to knock the big guy off the top. Made it more fun than 2 faction PvP with whoever had the bigger army always being the winner.

Sort of like WAR. Once one side took over the main city and got the awesome loot it was hard for the other side to catch up. The strong just kept getting stronger.

You definitely had a lot of zeroing going on in DAoC (Albions were notorious for it). But if that happened more people would just come out and fight and soon all realms would be running 4-5 full groups and massive battles would ensue. Or you had coordination in forum boards between two realms to join up and take down the zerging realm. Also, on my server Alb was always the most populated, but they were the worst in RvR. That's why they zerged. Mid was the lowest populated but they had some hardcoe guilds that would run one full group of 8 people and they would take out 2 full groups at once.

I was Hibernian in DAOC and we were often outnumbered in RvR however that made us fight HARDER and yea teaming up to take on the leaders was often on the cards. No one stayed at the top for too long.

Funny you should mention the hype meter, actually... I've seen it steadily increase over the last couple of weeks. Of course, TONS of Elder Scrolls fans who wanted an SPRPG Online, are going out of there way to SLAM the game with 0's, and a few zeroes REALLY throws off the results and a negative direction, but, despite that, the hype meters is consistently increasing.... It's gone from 6.28 to 6.41 just in the last week...

Interesting, it has the lowest score of any in development game on there, .20 below this: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/240/FreeWorld-Apocalypse-Portal.html

Lol. If I've learned anything from following the MMORPG industry for about a decade, it's that MMORPG fans are absolutely terrible at predicting which games will be total successes and which will be total failures.

Source?

Age of Conan and Warhammer Inline were two of the highest hyped games ever on there. Darkfall and mortal were high up too.

Because that's what the people WANT....what they're HOPING for... they were just, sadly, poorly implemented

I wonder if people have even considered this.

Some MMOs have had very good ideas that were just... poorly executed.

What if TESO had the "true" first person combat but it turned out to be God awful in practice?

To add to the list: Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, World of Warcraft (no one predicted it'd be as big as it got), SWToR, Dark and Light, Everquest 2, Dungeons and Dragons online, just to name a few of the big ones. Kinda funny I was able to answer a question asking for a source even though asking for a source made absolutely no sense in that situation. lol

This sentence pretty much sums up my opinion on the combat. I'd prefer a well executed point-to-target, real-time combat than First Person Manual Aim Combat that's yet once again poorly executed and the hit syncs are horrible.

However, there's a mass PvP FPS MMO called Planetside 2 coming up, and their engine allows such a heavy load of players on the same map / fight, and its not manual aim only, its with guns.

I've never even heard of this hype meter. Not to mention a "staggering" 172 people have voted on it.

Sadly the hype meters on several sites have seemingly been good measures of how a game will do. At least for initial sales. Though I have to admit the hype meter wasn't a reason I bought a game. It just backed up my good feelings towards the game.

I can easily see why most of the positives would come from DAOC fans as the game is going to have RvR. And it's PVP designer is from DAOC. I would also hope many Warhammer fans would be drawn to the game.

I can also see how that could make PVE fans feel like the game may not have much for them. My only RvR experience was in Warhammer. I loved it's RvR. Though it was seriously weak on PVE. It also was weak in instances and raids. Which either wrongly or correctly I tied to it's PVE development. That and the fact RvR makes PVE people feel the programmers are trying to force them to PVP. Can lead to the perception the game will be PVP heavy. Which you have to admit seems odd for a game that has always been a single player and therefore a PVE game.

Obviously there isn't enough information for anyone to say. But from the early interviews the game seemed like it would be a Themepark WOW/RIFT/SWTOR/GW2/Warhammer clone. I say Warhammer as it was a RvR themepark weak on PVE. And this could keep a lot of the PVE and TES fans on the fence. As TES seems like it would fit in better with a Sandbox with "The Secret World" type character builder. Than another WOW clone. Although I understand the cartoon graphics. It really gives you that clone sinking feeling.

More interviews should let people see what the game is. Now if the game felt like it was an EQ sandbox with The Secret World's character development system and a solid RvR system. This game would get a lot more people off the fence. And I think the hype meter would be way up there. As people would know this game should have great PVP, along with great PVE, Instances and Raids. Which is what most end game guild types want.

Also you gotta pick the right people for interviews. For SWTOR Daniel Erickson was gold. He made you feel he was likable and knowledgeable. The few TES Interviews I saw the girl was great. The RVR guy was great. The other guy made me worry about the game. Just my gut feeling. But that's all people have to go on at this point.