It really is up in the air at this point. The majority of people who have commented on gameplay here have made to level 10, maybe. Most the naysayers didn't even make it that far.

The few people who have commented regarding the mid and end game have said its fantastic. There is a post regarding mid/end game in my old thread from last beta weekend.

My point is we haven't seen enough to really condemn the game to failure. In my opinion the beginning of the game is just fine. 1-10 may not be the most exciting gameplay I have had but its solid.

By level 10 in EQ you have a rusty sword, some cloth armor and are still killing orcs with a group.

Give it a fair shake before you shit all over it

Don't bother arguing with haters bro.

Might not be this way in release, and this will be the last nda breaking thing from me. Just did the last boss of a dungeon. We wiped once, and when we killed her two people died. Was a four person dungeon. We had a shitty composition, but the boss was actually challenging. Everyone had their own personal loot from each boss fight. Fun was had. Good time for all.

Your game is in trouble if you need a fair shake. UO, EQ, WoW did not need fair shakes. There was no question, everyone knew these games would be hits.

Theres a huge difference between people now and the people back when EQ and UO were top dog, ever since wow people have felt entitled to EVERYTHING.

Yeah i would love to see this generation of kids play everquest with AOL........ GL with that.

Rogean is the biggest gaming disaster in 2014 tbh lol

Except the 1-10 game in Everquest was fun..

Yes it's very easy to make a good judgement on how a game is going to be in the long run when the initial "hook" sucks.

And no one wants to play a FF13 type game either. Yeah sure the game gets ok after 20 hours of playing,.. but no one wants to slog through that first 20 hours to get to a generic game. Just like here, no one is going to want to get through generic to crappy early game just for the hope of seeing something great at the end. Especially when there are SO many other choices out there that don't suck early on.

And to add to the fact of "The late game is ok!" that I've heard before, do you know the attention span of the average MMOer these days? Any dev. with a clue knows you have to hook your audience early. When a majority of people can't even stand getting past lvl 10... that's a bad sign.

Hell even I got happily past lvl 10 in FF14 before it completely tanked and they had to revamp the entire game.

I would have loved an online multiplayer version of Skyrim, but that's not what ESO is.

It's just another cookie cutter MMO, with a bad camera angle, and shit gameplay. Playing ES with other people should never be about having 50 people all attacking the same group of rats and bats.

dunno what game some of u are playing. but one of my fav things about ESO is that its not like wow