For gear? I say yes. You hit the level cap and you grind for gear. In order for this to work that needs to change. I want something new and fresh. I'll give ESO a chance to give that to me just like I give every mmo a chance. Getting gear is fun but in the end that's all your left with. I was sitting and playing DCUO and im thinking to myself all I do is play for a week and get that chest peice I wanted or that back peice. I get those peices to get into the raids where I do the same exact thing. It's truly pointless.

Bring us something different and I'm on board. Elder Scrolls online sounds awesome on paper but in reality it has to be perfect to really be awesome. Messing with one of the best single player games of all time is like messing with the devil, tread carefully or your going down.

I want this to be the game I play all the time. The game that I can't put down. I'm all for it as long as they don't change what we know too much. This is what scares me. They have to change it in order to fit the mmo style. It's how they change it and how much they change it that will make it or break it. Good luck. Truly good luck.

Well I haven't played an MMO before but I want to give TES:O a try with hopefully a few friends (I made my peace with a TES MMO back 2007 when it was said Zenimax online was established).

Ultimately im interested in exploring other provinces and can give a nice bit of new information to them plus be pretty cool hanging around Mornhold with a few friends will be pretty cool.
Im also aware of the game play changes and can I realize changes do need to made when changing what type of game it is

Cancel this game.

I don't play MMO's for gear. They are a nice bonus however!

I play MMO's for the same reason I play Elder Scrolls - I love being able to create my own character, in my own vision, and being placed into a world where I have free reign to do as I please. I can create my character in my own way, I can make decisions my own way, I exist in that world as I see fit.

Unfortunately, MMO's of late haven't really satisfied that niche for me. Not really since SWG. SWG, pre-cu, pre-nge was the perfect MMO in my book. Total freedom, total control over my character, completely open world that I could exist in as I saw fit. Unfortunately, they ruined it, and no other MMO (that I am aware of) has been able to replicate that, but luckily for me I have The Elder Scrolls games which do, albeit in a single player form.

Unfortunately, I don't anticipate The Elder Scrolls Online to appeal to this niche for me either, but hey, it's whatevs. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll never get the MMO that I am looking for.

From your description it sounds like EVE online.

As much as we say this isn't cool. I truly think feel down we want it to be awesome. I really want to love this game and soon I'll determine that. There is one problem with this. If they released this game and called it Lair of Factions or anything besides elder scrolls the game would be likely to get a ton of good feedback. They automatically think slapping ES on it will bring the whole comminty over but it's actually the opposite. I'm looking at like this, right now it only has the title elder Scrolls, that it. I know nothing about it to judge. A game informer arcticle and a teaser video will not let me form an opinion. I need more. I need some gameplay video of the game in its final stages. Then and only then I'll form a real opinion. I won't lie I really want it to be great.

the grinding in wow is what made me quit
I want to play the game for fun and skills (well as much as possible) not the derpy: "I haz bettor gearz I win automatic" crap

Sounds like the MMO you're looking for is Eve Online. As long as you can get past the http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kzhOK3LqB4Q/TqKk4OY4GbI/AAAAAAAAACk/n4ti6iTKE9A/s1600/Eve+Learning+Curve.jpg, anyway. I recall you talking about the open, player-driven production and market dynamics that SWG had, and Eve most definitely has that, along with a lot of other player-driven gameplay dynamics.

I've not played an MMO except a beta version which I quickly stopped playing due to just not knowing what I was doing (maybe 2 hours total) I do plan to play this because quite frankly if it's in the world of Tamriel, I'm going there. I dread trying to find my way around a MMO with all those people screaming at me when I am doing something stupid and I dread having to ask simple questions about how to do things and trying to figure out my way through but I must figure it out.

In some ways it's quite exciting to me because I will be learning how to play nice with others after playing my own game my own way for all these years but on the other I do dread being called a noob because I'm so green on playing with others.

But regardless I will play this game and I do hope to enjoy it. The kids in my neighborhood are really pumped about this way more than I am. And a few of my friends from back in the MW days that don't come here any longer but I've as friends on Facebook and another forum all seem jazzed about it as well. Most of them play WoW and Guild Wars and are excited for something new to fill their time with. I'm just not going to tell anyone who I am and play incognito until I figure out what the heck I'm doing.

This is pretty much why I rarely play WoW. What's there to do besides levelling for no good reason and grinding for gear?

It's the same reason I stopped playing Guild Wars.