Exposing The Elder Scrolls Online | MMOs Exposed

I can't express well enough how much I hate it when a studio puts up a paywall for my bag space.

I think the endeavors were put in to get them around certain gaming/gambling laws in certain countries.

The intro to this was amazing! I really love ESO (3000+ hours now) but have to agree the monetisation can be a bit much sometimes. Great video, and very fair review!

when it comes to difficulty, I wish there was something in between. something that is isn't ball-crushingly difficult like Veterans are, but something that still offers more of a challenge than normal dungeons and open world do

If you want a comprehensive, fair and honest review of any game, Mitch is your guy! Love your honesty, and how you thread humour into your analysis. This is a brilliant series, already curious to know which one is next. Also love that you put the time into playing the game, so many don't but feel they can comment after a couple of hours. Just love your channel, you are such a professional, and what really shines through is that you do this because you love producing quality material, rather than chasing the dollar. Awesome content, and you seem like an awesome guy!

We need the adventures of swtor back. This time it will be the apprentice of the powerful Galacticchad

Elder Scrolls theme song never gets old

The fact that the game limits your bag space just to buy the sub for infinite space kills me

Technically the Coldharbour quest is, afaIk, the true start of the game which then sends you to Stros M'Kai. Something I want to mention is that this game is very rewarding if you take your time to do all the zone quests in chronological order. Old characters return for DLC zones and you will be given exclusive dialgoue options if you''ve completed the old quests in the base game. I absolutely love this as it feels incredibly rewarding to have an exclusive quest experience based on your previous adventuring. Reading the lore books in each zone is also great as that gives you more info about the world. My first ES game was Skyrim and I didn't know any lore and was overall confused, but I always wondered what was beyond the borders of Skyrim. Playing ESO made me fall in love with the franchise and gave me an in-depth look and appreciation for the lore. The base game and dlc zones do a great job of immersing you in the lore for the various races and the world, which is great IMO.

Monetization like this ultimately means the size of the playerbase can only head downward.

Having a hard time really getting into it as a MMO. Mostly been playing it like a single player game, but it did let me be a buff tiger man. I have always wanted to be a buff tiger man.

Dude, Im SO glad you used the saga anthem as your intro music!! I loved that so much hearing it.

It should also be noted that the Guild traders (ESO answer to Auction House) is horrendous! If you want to sell anything you need to be in a guild that owns spots where people might actually buy your stuff and those guilds usually have quotas that mean you aren't going to be using this feature casually. And the fact the AH is basically split up across vendors spread all over the world, you'll be fine if you want to buy readily available crafting mats and the like but if you want something more specific you can end up travelling the length and breadth of Tamriel desperately trying to find someone selling the item that you would have found in minutes with a proper AH system.

God I need a friend like Mitch in my life lol. Thank you for making videos sir. Always brings a smile to my face when I need it most.

As someone who has around 10k hours in ESO, I want to add my thoughts: (2014-2016 were hard years don't judge me 😅) When the game launched, it was a mandatory subscription. Once it went Buy to Play, I kept paying for the sub until I stopped playing actively in 2019. Numerous other MMO's demand a subscription, so I just bit the bullet and looked at it that way. The crafting bag is definitely the scummiest part about the game. If you can deal with paying like $15 a month, you have access to everything in the game (with the exception of the most recent expansion I believe?) plus monthly crowns and other rewards. I am not sticking up for the monetization, I'm just saying that in my opinion the best way to fully enjoy the game is to just pay the monthly sub. Although 90% of my time was spent in cyrodiil, I did all endgame content (that was available until 2019 at least) including the vet dungeons and 12 man trials. All the PvE content is super fun, easy or challenging (and REALLY BEAUTIFUL). You could honestly spend thousands of hours just questing. And it totally has that bethesda "vibe" where you can just run in any direction and find random crazy stuff happening or solving mysteries for npc's in the wilderness. The combat was what kept me around that long as well. I'm 32 and been gaming since I was 7, and some of my best gaming memories ever were made in cyrodiil pvp with my guildies. I've played other mmo's but ESO is the one that kept me around. Yes, the monetization is pretty atrocious, but again, I think the best way to enjoy the game is just pay that sub the same way you would if you played FFXIV, because the amount of content available is insane, and the community is made up of some of the nicest people I've met online, who I'm still friends with to this day!

this game is one of the most greed-filled i've played. i had a 6-month subscription for eso plus, then cancelled it when i was finished playing. they then charged me again, and when i proved to the steam support that i already cancelled it, they refunded me. i was then banned completely from the game, and every support ticket has the same thing copy pasted saying i need to revert the refund or they won't unban me. even after proof they still copy paste the exact same thing, the greed is crazy

I am waiting for Galactichad vs the Emperor saga :*

The monetisation of this game is absolutely vile.... and people actually defend it! So wild.

probably the best eso review I have ever seen. Presented in a funny and informative way. love it. BTW I also need godslayer...

Strangely, I really like ESO’s graphical style. It’s got more color than Skyrim and it’s really pretty while not drifting too much into realism. There are also some pretty cool armors that I wouldn’t mind wearing.