Elder Scrolls have always been a lore filled world, rich with flavor and politics. Please dont make this another mmo that is just about fighting mobs and pvp.

Theres crafting and lots of books if you like to read them.

Seems like they want you to explore too... as some quests are picked up just from picking a direction and walking.

Also if Im not totally mistaken, Cyrodil isnt just one big bloodbath either, theres stuff to do like upgrade the keeps etc. Whats one of my concern PVPers aint getting enough PVP from Cyrodil, thats one somekind of alternative factionless PVP could work nicely, yeah, many time mentioned "arena".

They had that in WoW too when it launched. Books were barely touched by players... the concept totally abandoned by the first expansion. And crafting was ONLY designed for one thing - promoting fighting mobs and PVP.

The CLOSES thing WoW had to a side-profession that is about quality of life was Engineering, and most of those fun stuff were designed with PVP in mind.

I long for the days of Ultima Online... where I could actually make a Carpenter, or a fisherman... where I could build furniture for houses and catch food to feed my friends, and not have to kill a single damn thing.

ES:O could've done that... Skyrim is basically just a single-player Ultima Online, and could've been adapted for Online very easily - instead they had to go and make it the spiritual sequel to DAoC2.

Sure, it may be a good game of THAT kind of themepark style MMO rubbish... but it was such a wasted opportunity for them to actually re-capture and bring back MMORPGs to what they were all about...

WOW, tell me about it? People always whine about lore, story, etc, but who actually does those? Finally osmeone understand me. Rift has TONS of books, but I believe no-one read them.