Only the lure of a private chef and a house once featured in a 12 page Vogue spread got me to revisit my ideas, and I like The Elder Scrolls. This is not a fair assessment of The Elder Scrolls Online as it exists in May 2017, let alone when the doors open on the Morrowind content next week, but it’s a common one. “Don’t leverage our nostalgia for your dodgy World of Warcraft knock off.” “Give us a proper Morrowind remake,” I might have said.
The news of the Morrowind expansion brought nothing but scorn from me. Probably because of attitudes like mine: I love The Elder Scrolls, but I don’t like MMOs and I didn’t enjoy ESO at release. So why is the publisher marketing the heck out of ESO right now, and why had it brought a handful of press – and after we’d been bussed out, a follow up troop of influencers – on a sumptuous getaway, at what must have been breathtaking expense? No, of course not: if it were, Bethesda would already have trashed it this is a cutthroat business. Surely The Elder Scrolls Online can’t be so far onto the rocks that this sort of luxurious excess is necessary? “Did you have to use up the ANZ budget before the end of the financial year or what,” I asked a Bethesda staffer.
ESO VOTED BEST MMO 2017 FULL
A full disclosure of the many delightful and expensive things that occurred during my little vacation would take tens of thousands of words and embarrass us all. I went, I admit it – I am not made of stone – and it was over the top fancy. If you can get past the MMO wrapper – which Zenimax Online to its credit has made as inessential as possible – there is a pretty fun Elder Scrolls game in ESO. Perhaps Bethesda overheard, because when I totally ignored the unsolicited expansion early access key I was sent, the publisher upped the ante by inviting me to stay in a great big fuck off mansion in the country to be wined and dined out of what little sense I possess – and incidentally play a little ESO: Morrowind. I once joked that you’d have to pay me to play The Elder Scrolls Online again. Morrowind is a great excuse to give Elder Scrolls Online another look, and maybe finally forgive it for being an MMO.
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