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Angry Nerds: Elder Scrolls Online Director Welcomes Fan Criticism
A video on Game Informer from late last week offers some insights from Matt Firor, the director of the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls Online. Firor says he’s taking the fan furor about every little detail about the ZeniMax Online-developed game in stride—in fact, he says he welcomes it.
“Having been in MMOs for a very long time, I know and understand that community very well. And that is a very vocal community–a lot of the time vocal critics of what you’re doing. But those people who take the time to pick your game apart, and sometimes they tell you things that you didn’t know was wrong with the game – those are the people you want playing your game, because they’re the people most invested in your community, because they care enough about it to complain.
The worst situation for a game community to be in is where no one posts on the boards because they don’t care. And If they’re posting on the boards, they care. Even if they’re not being so polite about it. But that’s a fact of life: you’re an internet game, you’re on the Internet, you have an Internet community. And the Internet community is always very vocal. So what you do is learn from it. You make sure you do the best job to deliver the best game that you can and then you go from there.”
The rest of the interview’s pretty good too, as Firor goes into detail about some of the ideas they’re looking to emphasize with the new game—primarily, concepts like players who team up to kill monsters each getting fully rewarded, and ways to minimize feeling like you’re “waiting in line” to beat the bosses. It sounds like they’ve got some interesting ideas with this thing…but then again, you Internet people are always skeptical. What do you think?
Via Game Informer
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Maiq is very practical. He has no need for an Elder Scrolls MMO.
I don’t like the idea of an Elder scrolls online but maybe zenimax online can pull it off.
Sounds guild wars 2 ish … No Queues, Loot 4 everyone etc.
I generally don’t like MMOs because they lack the feeling of actually making a permanent difference in the game world. I also hate that so many things become simplified in order to make the experience fair and consistent with other players. Like, you can’t kill a shopkeeper because the other players will need him, or you can’t devastate a zone because people will need those monsters to level up. I would much prefer playing an MMO that deals with these issues differently, in a way that works and makes sense. This sort of thing may be impossible to do well in an MMO, but that’s the reason I can’t stand playing them. I don’t want a dumbed-down Elder Scrolls title.
Amen – turning Elder Scrolls into an MMO would remove by necessity all the elements that make the series awesome.
which is why it’s better to think of this game as a spinoff of some sorts :)
in terms of an Elder Scrolls game it’ll probably suck
but in terms of an mmo it looks like its shaping nicely
I’d agree with that. First off, the format of MMOs require a lot of elements that make Elder Scrolls, and now Fallout games, stand out and feel unique. They might just be jumping on the MMO bandwagon, rolling off of Skyrim’s popularity, trying to make a decent MMO that will hold enough attention to pay off the development costs and then realize that that universe belongs outside of massively multiplayer games.
I agree. Though let’s be honest, player actions in TES never had much of an effect on the game world in the first place.
They know why fans are not liking the idea and are trying to avoid that, if they pull it off or not it yet to be seen.
Subscription MMOs died after WoW, devs need to stop wasting their money on these get rich quick mmo schemes
Kind of agree, no one has been as successful before or after WoW. That was ingrained into popular culture, even people that have never played games before know what World of Warcraft is to a degree. It could be just a very long-winded fad that is slowly winding down. An MMO works off of a very large group of people, if there are multiple MMOs the community is split and there is no way any one can be sustained for a long time.
At least the guy knows how to deal with angry MMO nerds.
Im looking forward to giving it a go. I must be one of the few gamers in the world that has never played WoW, i installed the trial but never actually launched it :P
To be honest, im not a huge MMO player, i did kinda get into Runes of Magic, but even then it was sort of just a way to pass time between bigger titles….