I haven't read the article yet, but from your statement I'll assume that their end game is assumed to be AvA (which is what I assumed prior as well).
Just like in Gw2, people complained in the beginning that there was no defined end game other than 5 man dungeons, when the fact of the matter is that the end game was/is WvWvW, which in my mind is better than the gear grind raid focused end game you find in most MMOs.

If anything that's come out can turn me away from my ddo addiction, this game will.  I'm a huge fan of the series, have every game, and still play them.

That and it still sounds like it has the clunky non fluid combat of an Elder Scrolls game.

Yeah, I know a lot of people feel that way as well.  I'm just not one of them.

A couple more vids in my feed today.
Dev on progression and design creed here (builds/etc)
On new features and beta here (the faction locked territories hot button issue is addressed here)

When I tried it out at PAX, the combat felt more or less the same as in Skyrim to me. FWIW.

Cale wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2013 at 1:01am:


IIRC, and I might not be, everyone played from the beginning of the character they were given, but the character didn't start at 1. It was a few levels in. Kmack or Maxwell might remember where it started.

That sounds right.

Schmoe wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2013 at 1:30pm:



Not recently...and when I did raids and epics provided a challenge.

http://beefjack.com/news/elder-scrolls-online-has-at-least-440-hours-of-content-...

Elder Scrolls Online has at least 440 hours of content (if our maths is any good)
Jamie Donnelly March 25, 2013 - 2:40 pm

I’ve been having fun with numbers. At PAX East 2013, Elder Scrolls Online creative director Paul Sage broke down just how much content the MMO will have, and if his numbers and my numbers are accurate, we’re looking at 440 hours of content (at the very least).

MMOs tend to live and die on how much content they have to offer. Run out of content too soon, and suddenly you’ve got a world full of players twiddling their thumbs and looking to move on. This is why we see so many updates and expansions within the genre; as soon as players have bested the last content update, they’re desperate to be given more.
In the Elder Scrolls Online, players are going to have a lot of content to get through, right from the off. Without even considering PVP, dungeons, and starter zones, there’s going to be 440 hours of content on offer… if my maths skills are in any way up to scratch. Speaking to JohnsGameChannel at PAX East 2013, Creative Director of Elder Scrolls Online Paul Sage broke down the size of each zone and how much content their is in each.

“The map is huge, right, literally if you take one of our zones – that’s about a 3k by 4k map – that’s huge,” explained Sage. “We expect to get at least 20-40 hours content out of that, and that doesn’t even include the dungeons in there. Then you take that, there’s in one alliance 5 of those maps plus Coldharbour and plus the starter areas in that, so you know, it’s just massive. So then you have three of those alliances, then you have Cyrodiil which is at least 7 of those zones put together.”

So, that’s 5 zones per alliance, with 3 alliances. Add in Cyrodiil which is comprised of at least 7 zones, and we’ve got ourselves 22 zones worth of map, before you consider all the extras. If we assume the minimum content limit (20 hours) that Sage suggest is the correct one – it usually is – then that makes at the very least 440 hours of content in Elder Scrolls Online, and – if we’re being optimistic and taking the upper limit Sage states – a possible 880 hours of content. See, Maths is fun!