An Incomplete Review of Sorts
Day 1:
As with every morning, I hop on my phone to read the latest gaming news. One of the highlighted articles was regarding ESO and it's servers having issues with the traffic volumes. While I wasn't shocked, I was more concerned by how quick a fix would be for this.
The work day passed and I rushed to my local game store to pick up my reserved copy from months back. Rushed home and installed the game with a huge sense of urgency, as if I were missing vital things in the game. After a long 15gb day on patch I finally logged on and began to create my character. I went with a Sorcerer Class, an Ebonheart Pact Alliance and a Khajiit as my race. Out of the normal build from previous games in the franchise. After an hour of customizing and tweaking to perfection I was ready!
The story began just like any other in the franchise, no weapons, ragged clothes and stuck in some dark dungeon level having to complete yet another game tutorial. I ran through this pretty quick picking up everything as I ran through to sell later. The feeling of excitement was slowly fading as the tutorial dragged on longer than I had hoped.
With two hours of game play, all I had accomplished was building a character and learning the ropes. I wasn't really satisfied until the world finally opened up for me to explore! Unfortunately, like most people, I had to head to bed as I had work in the morning and being 30 means you don't recover like before pulling a late night gaming session.
To wrap my thoughts on the first day I would have to say I was pleased with the character builds, but underwhelmed with the game play so far. At least the server issues had resolved for now.
Day 2:
After thinking about my adventures ahead all day at work and watching others play on streaming sites, I rushed home to explore Tamriel!
My character loaded right where I had left off and I was ready to start taking missions. The first mission was just a basic fetch mission where you just run and get items and kill enemies while exploring an linear dungeon. This was a breeze and I even gain a couple levels! As I proceeded into the nearest town to collect more missions, the game was starting to lag. During the mission I was able to accept, the characters around me randomly were frozen in place. As I walked up to them, like I was going to wake them or something, I wondered what was happening in Tamriel. Was this the end of the world? Was this a glitch or lag? I found my answer moments after that as the game timed out and even dashboarded my PS4...
This would eventually lead to the end of Day 2 for me as servers crashed. I would love to continue to share my journey, but today would be Day 9 as I am writing this and the servers are still inconsistent for me.
Is this the future of games at launch for us? What is causing this continued trend we are in? I really wish I had the answers, but I feel at a loss for words with the industry now. This will be at least the tenth game that I have been burned on for either of the leading consoles since the launch of the new generation.
Please share any of the thoughts or problems you have endured with ESO or any game that you have been burned on.
Thank you all for taking you time to read my journey with ESO.
Travis L. with DNA
As with every morning, I hop on my phone to read the latest gaming news. One of the highlighted articles was regarding ESO and it's servers having issues with the traffic volumes. While I wasn't shocked, I was more concerned by how quick a fix would be for this.
The work day passed and I rushed to my local game store to pick up my reserved copy from months back. Rushed home and installed the game with a huge sense of urgency, as if I were missing vital things in the game. After a long 15gb day on patch I finally logged on and began to create my character. I went with a Sorcerer Class, an Ebonheart Pact Alliance and a Khajiit as my race. Out of the normal build from previous games in the franchise. After an hour of customizing and tweaking to perfection I was ready!
The story began just like any other in the franchise, no weapons, ragged clothes and stuck in some dark dungeon level having to complete yet another game tutorial. I ran through this pretty quick picking up everything as I ran through to sell later. The feeling of excitement was slowly fading as the tutorial dragged on longer than I had hoped.
With two hours of game play, all I had accomplished was building a character and learning the ropes. I wasn't really satisfied until the world finally opened up for me to explore! Unfortunately, like most people, I had to head to bed as I had work in the morning and being 30 means you don't recover like before pulling a late night gaming session.
To wrap my thoughts on the first day I would have to say I was pleased with the character builds, but underwhelmed with the game play so far. At least the server issues had resolved for now.
After thinking about my adventures ahead all day at work and watching others play on streaming sites, I rushed home to explore Tamriel!
My character loaded right where I had left off and I was ready to start taking missions. The first mission was just a basic fetch mission where you just run and get items and kill enemies while exploring an linear dungeon. This was a breeze and I even gain a couple levels! As I proceeded into the nearest town to collect more missions, the game was starting to lag. During the mission I was able to accept, the characters around me randomly were frozen in place. As I walked up to them, like I was going to wake them or something, I wondered what was happening in Tamriel. Was this the end of the world? Was this a glitch or lag? I found my answer moments after that as the game timed out and even dashboarded my PS4...
This would eventually lead to the end of Day 2 for me as servers crashed. I would love to continue to share my journey, but today would be Day 9 as I am writing this and the servers are still inconsistent for me.
Is this the future of games at launch for us? What is causing this continued trend we are in? I really wish I had the answers, but I feel at a loss for words with the industry now. This will be at least the tenth game that I have been burned on for either of the leading consoles since the launch of the new generation.
Please share any of the thoughts or problems you have endured with ESO or any game that you have been burned on.
Thank you all for taking you time to read my journey with ESO.
Travis L. with DNA
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