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   Barney Google-Goo
   Member

   You’ve conquered Morrowind's Red Mountain, closed the jaws of Oblivion and saved Skyrim from the dragons. Now a new adventure is beginning that takes place across the whole of Tamriel.

   The Elder Scrolls Online is the epic new chapter in the award winning series that lets you explore and battle with other players across a massive world.
   Click here for 15% off The Elder Scrolls Online pre-orders.

   Two pre-order packs are available, Standard and Digital Imperial Edition. Here’s a rundown of the features in both.

   The Standard Edition includes:

   3 days early access (from 1st April)
   30 days included game time
   Explorer Pack - Play in any alliance with any of the nine races plus a Scuttler vanity pet and bonus treasure maps

   The Digital Imperial Edition includes all the features of Standard plus:

   An extra 2 days early access (from 30th March)
   Play as an Imperial in any alliance
   Imperial White Horse mount
   Craft and transform Imperial Gear
   Rings of Mara item
   Mudcrab Vanity Pet

   Our pre-order offer ends when The Elder Scrolls Online launches worldwide on 4th April. Please note that this title requires a subscription to play.

   Have fun,

   The Get Games Team

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   The Elder Scrolls Online is coming. To prepare you for its arrival, we’ve created a fantastic unique 25% off Reward Voucher just for you! The amazing offer doesn’t stop there, if you purchase a copy of The Elder Scrolls Online you’ll receive another 25% off voucher for you to buy another copy for one of your friends - so you’re not left to brave Tamriel alone.

   This will be the best discount that’s available on this title and the voucher expires at 1600UTC Monday 3rd February, so don't miss out!

   GMG offer sans code

   code should be easily obtained

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Barney Google-Goo
   Member

   The Elder Scrolls Online Is Really Very Expensive

   By John Walker on January 29th, 2014 at 4:00 pm.

   Good gravy, Zenimax must have a lot of money. (Which only fits my firm belief that a company with a name like that is going to be behind the great zombie outbreak.) A sprinkling of their vast coffers has been used to create a very luscious cinematic for The Elder Scrolls Online, featuring your mum as the big baddie. They release this to mark the announcement of an Imperial Edition of the forthcoming MMO, a “premium collector’s edition”, or as I like to call them, The Expensive Ones For Mad People. Except, bloody hell, this game’s going to be expensive for everyone.

   Because, blink, the standard version is a touch pricey. £50? For a genre that’s now primarily free? Cor. So that’s like a decade of subscription, right? Nope, that’s 30 days. Before a further £9/€13/$15 (€13 is of course currently worth $17.70 and £10.70, so fuck you, Europe!) monthly tithe. This game costs more than the broadband connection and monthly ISP fee you’ll need to play it.

   Fork out £70 for the Imperial Edition, and what do you get other than the same game as everyone else? A whopping 30 days subscription! Indeed, no more access to the game, but rather trinkets. You get to be an Imperial in the game, with an Imperial horse, Imperial gear and a “Mudcrab vanity pet”. The only useful thing in there, unless you particularly want to be playing as an Imperial of course, is the Rings Of Mara – this is a quest for you and a chum to complete, that then gives you experience bonuses when you play together.

   Calm yourself down with a very impressive eight minute cinematic:

   Charging infinity more than most MMOs, and nearly double a standard PC game, before people can even start playing is going to be the mistake we all look back on. It dealt The Secret World a massive blow, and that was cheaper. I still believe there’s room for subscription models in MMOs, but I don’t think it can be sensibly combined with a whopping great fee to even find out if you want to play it in the first place. That’s where the damage is done. Let people into your game for free, then charge them to carry on. It works for drug dealers. Otherwise, you restrict your customer base to those with a spare £50 to spend to find out if they want to spend far more money to play something… Just crazy. Presumably Bethesda are relying on the breathtaking success of Skyrim, to assume that people are going to pay whatever it takes to get back into the Elder Scrolls’ world.

   But don’t let me stop you. You can buy a copy of the game, or its Imperial Edition, right now, before any reviews are out to warn you whether it’s any good or not. Gosh, it’d better be good now, eh? The game is out for reals on the 4th April. Hopefully we’ll be getting our hands on it for a preview nice and soon.

   article plus 8 minute trailer

   I will try to find a more uplifting opinion. (:)

   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   I played the beta and for the asking price (almost £50 for the standard version plus monthly subscription fees), sadly I very much doubt I'll be buying into this game despite the Elder Scrolls being my favorite RPG franchise of all time (I love it even more than Baldurs Gate).

   They should have done what some excellent character did with that brilliant open world sandbox game Just Cause 2, where an enterprising and obvious fan of JC2 created an online version for free. I'm sure that would have brought more people into the Elder Scrolls fold than charging such exhorbitant prices. Shame on you Bethesda.

   From my limited experience of playing the Beta I found the graphics very disappointing considering game slike crysis have been around for several years now. As with the initial release of Skyrim (that is, before they released the improved texture pack for free), the textures look rubbish and are probably a console port. Which is such a shame as the latest graphic cards are brilliant. You won't need the latest ones for this game uinless they do the same as withskyrim and release a graphics patch once the game has been released.

   Yes, I'm very disappointed.

   I received a 25% off coupon via email for pre ordering Elder Scrolls Online from GreenManGaming, not 15% as the threqad suggests i

   Posted 10 years ago #

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