Lets say you are in the Daggerfall Covenant.  The megaserver will try to put you into a campaign where the DC is outnumbered to help even out the factions in that campaign.  Unless you have a specific guild or friends you want to play with that are already in a campaign; then it will put you with them.  

   A big reason ZOS decided to do a three faction game is to help balance the PvP.  Three factions make it very difficult for one to dominate because they are always up against two other factions.  If one faction is dominating, the other two can always temporarily ally with each other to take out the dominating one.

 And i dont remember where i read it but i believe ZOS stated you wont be able to just reroll and join the winning side. Plus campaigns only last around 1-2 months and then start over.

Either a nord, redguard, or possibly an orc.  Havnt made my mind up yet.  Im gonna have heavy armor with a sword and shield and focus mainly on melee combat and im gonna spec my skills to be more dps than defensive.  My health:stamina:magicka ratio is gonna be 2:2:1.  All three of these races would be good for this, which is why i cant decide.  Any suggestions?

Im tired of seeing all the posts by ignorant people who havnt done any real research on this game and are writing it off as another generic, mediocre mmo.  So i wrote up this synopsis to inform some of you TES fans that are on the border.

 You start the game as a prisoner of Daedric Prince Molag Bal, who has stolen your soul and is trying to drag Tamriel into Coldharbour (his plane of Oblivion) using dark anchors.  Molag Bal has an agreement with the imperials of cyrodil to help him and his army of undead conquer tamriel.  The main story involves you trying to stop this and get your soul back in the process.  All the quest NPC's are fully voice acted and give you dialogue options when talking to them.  Some NPC's even help you complete quests. IDK about you but this sounds very rich and similar to the single player games to me.

 Basic gameplay mechanics are pretty much the exact same as Skyrim:  Right click to attack.  Hold right click to power attack.  Hold left click to block.  Hold left click and tap right click to do a shield bash or stun.  Kill-moves are in the game (once your skill with that weapon/spell/ability reaches max level). Very non-intrusive HUD (max of six abilities on the hotbar which disappears when not in combat).   Abilities and attacks dont have cooldown, instead they use up stamina and magicka just like in other TES games.  Sneak is confirmed. TRUE FIRST PERSON MODE (where you can see your hands) is in the game. There is NO heat-sinking so you actually have to aim at what you are attacking.  Classes are very loosely based and any class or race can use any weapon/spell/armor in the game.  

There will be a crime system.  So you can steal items off of tables in NPC buildings.  If caught you either pay a fine or go to jail.  Lockpicking is also confirmed.  

You can explore the entire continent of Tamriel.  You can only explore your faction's territory until you reach max level.  Upon reaching max level 50 you can choose to explore and quest in one of the other two factions' territories.  The quests in this territory will scale to your max level and be much more difficult, consequently giving you better loot.  Once you finish everything in the second territory you can then enter the last faction's territory to explore/quest.  Here is where you will find the best loot in the game.  

The leveling system is very similar to that of Skyrim.  When you level up you can invest one point in either health, magicka, or stamina and once point to use in a skill tree of your choice.  There are also runes hidden throughout the world.  Find 3 runes and you are granted one skill point to use however you want.

Gamespot isnt the best site to go to for info about ESO.  Some good sites are tamrielfoundry.com, elderscrollsforum.com, and obviously elderscrollsonline.com

     The world has the generic grindy one monster every five square feet design, which is nothing like Elder Scrolls.

Sanligo

Where are you getting this information?  ZOS has certainly said nothing along these lines.

 It was designed with third person and action bars in mind, which is nothing like Elder Scrolls, and it sounds like there's gonna be generic fetch quests, also nothing like Elder Scrolls.

Sanligo

Here are some facts about the game stated by ZOS:  Left mouse button to attack.  Hold left mouse button for heavy attack.  Right mouse button to block.  Hold right mouse button and quickly click left mouse button for shield bash.  There is no hard-locking system so you actually have to aim at what you are attacking.  You can attack and use abilities while sprinting.  Sneaking is also confirmed.  Also there is going to be TRUE first person, where you can actually see your hands.  All the quest NPC's are fully voice-acted and some NPC's will help you complete quests.  There are also random-encounter quests that happen by discovering or finding something.  This is all EXACTLY like Elder Scrolls.

As far as the action bars go, its only six slots.  Five abilities and one ultimate.  Oblivion had a hotwheel which is not much different from this and Skyrim made you pause the game and pick from a list (ruining the immersion and flow in my opinion).  The hotbar disappears when you are not in combat.  And its only six slots, nothing like the twenty to thirty in most other mmo's.  The disappearing, six slot hotbar improves the game.  

It also doesn't seem very immersive. I doubt we will be able to steal items off counters and get caught and go to jail, or attack villagers, then steal a horse and run while being chased by the guards.

Sanligo

ZOS has stated that there IS a crime system and you WILL be able to steal items, get caught and go to jail.

Hopefully the class system will be like previous ES games, where you still have a skill system and can level your skills up, since it won't be like Skyrim's classless system.

Sanligo

The class system will be very loose and organic.  Any class can use any weapon, spell, armor, etc found in the game.  There will be numerous skill trees like in skyrim (dont remember if oblivion had skill trees) where you put points into whatever skills and abilities you want.  When you level up you get one point to put into either stamina, magicka, or health and one point to put into a skill tree of your choosing.   The more you use heavy armor the more proficient you will become with it and will unlock abilities for it.  This is pretty much exactly like skyrim.

It just sounds to me like you havnt really done a whole lot of research on this game.  I dont blame you.  ZOS hasnt really been the best at releasing much info but the things ive told you ARE facts stated by them.  I got most of this info from press articles released by people who have either played the game themselves or interviewed with ZOS.  You have to remember that this is an mmo.  Its going to have to be a little different from the classic Elder Scrolls experience.  But they are also keeping alot of the great stuff from the original games.  Theyve also done a great job at listening to fan feedback and have made several changes to keep the Elder Scrolls fanbase happy.  

Dont give up on this game.  It looks amazing in my opinion and its only in closed beta so they have alot of stuff to fix, change, refine until launch.  At least wait until it comes out to watch some good, solid, in-depth gameplay (and read some reviews) before you make your decision.

     Will weapons and armor in the game degrade over time?  I personally am not a fan of this.  I just hate having to remember to repair all my stuff when im in a town and it just seems like a big waste of time to me.  What is the point of weapon/armor degradation in the first place?

Is this game going to be free to play like LoL and almost all the other MOBA games or is it gonna be P2P?

i cant wiat for this game but i want to know if it will ne for the xbox because i think i would enjoy it so much better if it is

remello2

Unfortunately, no, this game is only going to be released on pc and mac.  At least initially.  If they did bring it to consoles im guessing they will probably save it for the PS4 and new Xbox.

I get on all the time and it says i have new updates. But when i check my feed there isnt anything new. It hasnt updated in at least a week. And i know that there should be new updates because ill check the games' pages that im following and ill see new stories/videos/etc. Any help or a fix to this problem would be greatly appreciated.

     Sure.  Lets go ahead and completely abandon a game series because a subsidiary company of Bethesda that specializes in online games (and whose members have quite an impressive amount of experience) is making an online game.  

     Nothing new or innovative?  Running, crouching, sneaking, blocking, and diving are all in the game for every class.  Every class can use each and every weapon, spell, and piece of equipment found in the game.  Smaller user interface with only six active abilities.  Synnergy system allowing multiple gamers to combine their abilities to make more powerful moves.  Extremely intelligent, reactive enemy AI that works with one another making real-time decisions to kill you.  No magic numbers or indicator bars when fighting.  Not to mention the 200 player pvp battles, castle sieges and all-out open-field warfare.

     Please dont pass on this game when there has yet to even be any gameplay footage released.  And if i buy this game it wont be because of my loyalty to the Elder Scrolls; it will be because it looks like a good, fun game.

And here's where i found all of that info in case anybody wants to read up:

http://www.gameinformer.com/p/elderscrollsonline.aspx

I am completely with you on this.  I hate when i see people putting this game down when none of us have yet to see any actual gameplay.  Sure its gonna be an mmo, but from what ive heard and read so far it looks like it has potential to be a great game, breaking away from the current mmo norm in many ways.  I also hate seeing people say just make another classic single player ES6.  Zenimax Online is making this game, not Bethesda Game Studios.  When Bethesda is ready to make ES6 they will.