Free to play is really the only future for MMOs, in my opinion. Others might still survive, but the free to plays are where all the curious customers will stay; having a subscription will deter the casually interested, for example, me. I loved Morrowind. Oblivion was okay. I haven't bothered with Skyrim, because it looks like Oblivion with more mountains, and I'll pick it up when it's less or when the DLC included edition isn't an arm and a leg. An MMO of the Elder Scrolls, by a team that basically dissed all of the unique lore and intrigue that made Morrowind so interesting? I'm not throwing down cash to try that, and I'm not bothering with a 14 day trial or whatever with that attitude towards the series. Of course, you could always just consider the fact that they said screw you to the entire universe because "No one would believe that silly story".

Edit: Also, $15 is way more than pretty much any other game asks for, so you'd have to reallllly want to play to pay that much. There are probably people who loved Skyrim who will dive right in, but they'll probably be disappointed and unsub quickly.

I prefer subscription fees as long as the updates are worth it. For example GW2, the updates/events sucked imo..their staff was too small.

I did play the ESO beta although I only got to a few levels as I hate wasting time in betas, I just wanted to get a feel of it. Hope they change some things but it is a beta so I cant judge too harshly.

MMO on console...

HAH

so buy the game for 60$ or 50$ for example & keep wasting money on monthly sub for 15$ seriously that's bad

Well at the moment, it's only really got The Elder Scrolls brand, lore and expectations associated with a game of that series to hold it up.

Yet look how SWTOR did...grew astronomically initially, then crashed and burned.

TESO will suck

Nah :P I didn't like the beta when I played it

No. I not going to pay for playing a game.

I haven't played the beta but apparently many people were disappointed with the gameplay.
As much as I love the Elder Scrolls series the monthly subscription fee is just too much in my opinion, it's the same reason I never bought World of Warcraft. However, as someone suggested in a previous thread, I could just wait it out and see if TESO will follow The Old Republic and go free-to-play in a year or so.

Not playing any monthly sub games. I just hope The Division will not be like that.

I was very excited when I just heard about TESO, but I didn't let myself get attached too much, because Bethesda Softworks still didn't make the choice if the game will be pay to play (60$ + 15$ a month), or buy to play (60$). (they said from beginning that it will NOT be free to play on launch.)

As a very big publishing company who really has enough money for everything and not to fear for bankrupt, I am very disappointed with their choice. And I can already see that the game goes f2p within first year. There is NO CHANCE that it lives long enough to reach it's 2nd year. NO CHANCE IN HELL. Because no matter how much I love TES series (my favorite games actually :) ) I already know that the game will not be nearly as good as WoW or EvE online, the two major pay to play games.

That's just my opinion :D

What I seen.. I mean.. some of it was kind of cool.. but I will probably end up playing either EQ-next or Wildstar instead.

I think the problem is that people got way too excited over this game and too much hype built up. Even if it does turn out to be a good game there's no way it can live up to those expectations. Honestly, this game should have never existed, they should have just made a new TES game with multiplayer but Bethesda got greedy and wanted a slice of the MMO pie, just like Bioware did.

I literally facepalm when i see some of the things the gaming media is praising when it comes to TESO, i think a few days ago there was an article(i think on kotaku but i'm not sure) with a title like "In TESO you can be anything you want!". No shit sherlock i could do that in every TES game since Arena.

Imho it's also lacking some of the things requied to make it a proper TES MMO, like going crazy and killing everyone in sight or open world PvP. To be true to the series the game should have had always on PvP and full loot on death. The freedom it keeps bragging about is a lie.

I won't be buying it and i honestly think it will go free2play before it hits it's 1st anniversary. I'm actually curious when it does go f2p how greedy their business model will turn out to be.

Not going to pay subscription for any game, while there's Rift, Defiance, Guild Wars 2, ...

After the game fails and is forced to go free to play they will definitely blame it on something other than the fucking ridiculous $15 monthly payment.

I only play MP games if they have nice mechanics (good combat system), which laks in any TeS game => I have no interes in this game.

Even if it's TES, MMORPG is still MMORPG, and I doubt they'll be on the innovative side like Guild Wars 2.

Apparently the people whining about subscription fees haven't played any MMOs the past decade. All the good MMOs have a subscription fee.
What's the saying...."You get what you pay for."

The game was pretty fun in the beta. The problem is that P2P models are dying. WoW subs are slowly stopping their monthly sub. It's only a matter of time before the game dies completely.

I like subscriptions. Can't wait.

lol monthly subscriptions.

Never have, never will.

In a word, underwhelming.

I can't do the math 24 * 15 = a new video card

Making an online Elder Scrolls game was just a HORRIBLE mistake. This series is MEANT to be played offline, single-player only (full of awesome, entertaining quests, plot twists [kind of] etc.). Turning it into MMO is just wrong and Bethesda will find that out pretty soon I believe.

On the other hand, mothly fees ARE GREAT AND I SUPPORT THEM. Yep, I ain't trolling. Subscription means there will be less kids playing this game, so the immerse should be higher. I mean, there is nothing worse than playing free online game with kids under 15 (or even 20) y.o. with those high-pitched voices and childish behaviour. It's a total immersion-breaker.

Triple death. Wtg.