I bought The Elder Scrolls Online today. This should not be a shock to anyone. I think we all saw this coming. I won't be seeing you for a while, well, ever again. I have decided to dedicate my life to this game. Game? Did I just call it a game? SHAME ON ME!

But, I digress, I just want to say I love you all, but I found my calling. I plan on gaining 50 pounds a year on a strict diet of Cheetos and Mountain Dew. I think that will help me stay grounded.

My beautiful wife, I can not ask you to wait for me. Go be happy with someone less deticated to ESO. I just want you to know you will never find anyone who will love ESO like I do.

Children, I never liked you. Go away.

All I have to say now is, they can pry ESO away from my cold dead hands.

You're gonna have to fight me for it.

you're going to be pretty lonely for 8 months....

I am willing to wait for my precious.

Lol your wife sees this your video card will mysteriously end up in the oven on launch day

Can i have your wife?

Take the kids, too. Never know when you'll need extra hands while farming gold.

Entirely depends on their ages. You get landed with a two-year-old, get ready to say goodbye to any free time.
Lucky me, looks like my wife's bun in the oven will be born around March 2014. I'd swear she planned that... >_>

Ah... but you assume this will be only yourself. As far as I can see, initially only a few hundred-thousand of us shall disappear from society, however:

-LAUNCH + 6 Months: As more and more people desert RL for ESO, essential services will begin to break down. Millions of police desert their posts, to chase nightblades about in ESO; anarchy takes over the streets. Water, sewerage and power fail as maintenance workers abandon their jobs to concentrate on "crafting". Cities are reduced to blackened ruins as firemen become fire-mages.

-LAUNCH + 1 Year: As the billions playing ESO now outnumber those not, most of the world will be reclaimed by nature. Wild beasts will roam the streets. Outside of Detroit, the world will become un-recognisable.

-LAUNCH + 50 Years: Temperatures drop globally, as all carbon-emissions cease; a new ice-age begins.

-LAUNCH + 50K Years: Researchers of the evolved successor species (Octopi, Cats, Crows?... Our money's on Crows, but who knows.) speculate on the causes of humankind's extinction; your newly-recovered post is much commented upon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ5AvnR1-AY&feature=player_embedded

Somebody indeed liked the beta.
My questions are answered. Thank you.

I'm sorry. I can not comment on beta.

Have a nice day.

What's a "beta"? Who are you?

...

Where am I?