I for one have now lost complete intrest in ESO. I was pumped and was soo ready for ESO...after reading all the great features i came across one game breaking feature that IMO is why ppl play MMO's for, the abillity to create your story. Now with the idiotic feature of NOT being able to enter opposing faction land confirmed the entire aspect to make your own story is blow up, gone. If you cannot go any where and for a game they were stating is going to be focused on exploration and not having the ability to do so this is a game breaker. IM AMAZED no one has created a petition to get this fixed as i see many other out there asking for a seamless world like its the biggest issue this game has....

Shur u got a PvP area but where is the thrill of being where your not suppose to? I for one loved going on the opposing faction land and killing the enemy on there own land in many other mmos. To me this feature might just stop many from even looking at ESO. I for one have now given it a second look and im on a ledge on wither of not i want to get it now...cuz they have taken out a much needed aspect of ANY MMO game....exploration....

Well....skyrim has loads of exploration...and is it a problem you cant go from skyrim to morrowind or daggerfall ??

Now you have the option to go ALOT more places....

I see why they did this, because with out it things would look stupid...the factions are at open war...but hey look..there goes an orc in morrowind just walking around..talk about immersion breaker. plus they want to avoid PVP freaks gooing nuts and ganking new players.

But hey..if its not for you... don't play the game.

Plus another faction locking thread will be locked before you can say Skooooooma

I also dont like the fact that i cant go to the enemy territory, but still even without that feature right from they start im sure the will add it later.

1. We don't need anymore threads complaining about faction locking.

2. This is an MMO. Of course there are going to be some restrictions and you may not always be able to "create your perfect story" as the game has millions of other players who want to "create their own story" too so I'm sorry that the game hasn't catered to your specific needs and desires but tough, that's life living in a world with other people.

3. Just because there are faction specific zones does not mean that there is no exploration in the game as we're still getting 4 whole provinces to explore rather than the standard 1 and you still have the ability to explore all of them.

Basically, the game still has a TON OF EXPLORATION.

4. From the sounds of it, you're the kind of player who enjoys ganking PvE players or hunting down lower levels and just generally harassing them as that is generally the type of player who complains whenever they are somewhat restricted like this.

5. That is all 100% your own opinion and while you're completely welcome to it, if you're not going to play the game then fine, just leave quietly as we don't need a "QQ game isn't catering to me" rage thread all about how ESO isn't catering specifically to you and how you're so done.

6. While I fully respect and apprciate that everyone is entitled to their own say and opinions, please don't create an account here for the sole purpose of starting a thread on a topic that already has many threads running about it simply so you can get some attention and let the whole community know that you, an unknown person we really don't care about, is now on the ledge because of something we've known about for months.

Thanks.

By the way, this will soon get locked.

i might be harsh but you're not goin' to be missed <,<'

btw you can explore every place of tamriel (not from launch). not with one character but w/e i don't see the issue.

not being able to explore everything with one character is not game breaking.


they are likely not going to add it later.

So you thought it would be a good thing to make a profile here just to complain and to say that you aren't playing the game?

Okay then. Well, happy hunting for other games, man!

I wish people would understand that this game isn't TES VI.

Yes but in that world everyone would see eye to eye, there would be no conflict, we'd have world peace and global economy would be stabilized...

What I'm getting at is that like all of that, people understanding that this isn't TES VI is little more than a never to happen dream...

No, but it is immersion breaking.
Making an entire explorable continent and not letting people explore it properly. Ho-hum.

That game is probably gonna be even more streamlined and dumbed down than the previous game,
although Skyrim still was a tad better than Oblivion, overall.

Welcome to the forums!


..and goodbye!
In the future may I suggest not making an account only to tell strangers your reasoning for not doing something?

Well I don't speak for everyone, but when I'm exploring High Rock and Hammerfell the last thought on my mind will be "Hmm I wonder what's going on in Elsewyr?" I'll be concentrating on levelling and questing.

When I think 'exploration' I think 'finding new and interesting things on your own'. Levelling and questing are different goals altogether.
Of course you can't be anywhere at the same time, but having the opportunity without being stopped by invisible borders is still less immersion breaking than that other option.

How do we know they'll be invisible borders? How do you know there won't be gates and elite guards?

How do you know there will be invisible borders exactly? are you part of the development team? what other secrets about the game can you tell us then hey?

It could be the Great Wall of China for all I care.
There will still be something invisible in the air preventing you from crossing over to "enemy" provinces.

A wall and guards wouldn't be invisible . . .

However this is pretty moot as its not going to be changed. *certainly* not for release.

How is a massive wall invisible? Unless you're a master climber or the wall is built like [censored] and has a million handholds I don't think you'd be getting over it in the first place so whatever is in the air really doesn't matter.

I sometimes question how so much logic can be missing around here...

Thank you for your contribution to the community regardless... oh wait this was your first post...

What keeps you from going to far in the wrong direction in Oblivion? I can't remember but was it mountains or 'walls'? I expect they will have something a bit cleverer than invisible walls in TESO in any case.

Mere extensions of the developer's will to keep exploration and freedom out of their carebear setup.

I still fail to see how having three provinces as opposed to the usual one is keeping exploration out, but there we go.

You have a strange way of looking at things. The devs didn't stumble on a great game and then spend the last 6 years adding restrictions you know, they started from nothing and worked in as many freedoms as they could.

Except there's still plentiful amounts of exploration and freedom in the game, and how you associate the term "carebear" with the fact there's factions is beyond me, I'm sure we're all really sorry that you and the OP can't go around ganking low level PvE players out of the blue like what constantly happens in unrestricted open world PvP games.

That sounds like a freudian slip. Scribonate must only want 'exploration' because they are scared of PvPing in the PvP zone and would prefer to do it in the relative safety of a questing area. Faction locks are just a convenient straw to grasp and hide behind.

Edit: I should point out that anyone using the term carebear looses all my respect. Resorting to insults is a sure sign that you have no real reasons to back up your points, beyond "I want it and you svck for not wanting it".

it doesn't make any sense to have only three provinces available when you could have all the nine provinces. So much wasted potential.

I don't care about ganking, I just want to be neutral.
There are ways to solve the ganking abuse but it is far too late for any of that to be implemented now, of course.


You're right, I couldn't care less about PvP. The factions and their motives are too unlikely for me to care about anyway.