The Elder Scrolls Online Beta

[Mizel]

Tried out the beta Fri and Sunday. Of all of the beta's that I have participated in... this one takes the cake for the absolute worst, buggiest, full-of-issues beta ever

On Friday I got everything downloaded and attempted to log in. Took about 6 or 7 attempts of the game crashing on log in for it to finally work. Then after I got a character created I went to enter the game… it just sat on the loading screen for a good 4-5 minutes before I finally just exited the whole thing and tried again. Same issue again, exited and restarted again. Third time I just let the loading screen sit there forever while I was making dinner and whatnot and when I came back it was *finally* loaded. No idea how long it took to load, but I was gone for at least 20 minutes.

So, I’m finally in the game where you start out in a dungeon in a cell. You basically just explore it, talk to a dude, and get to leave the cell. To leave, you activate the door. But for some reason the game was not giving me the option to open the door. Figured it was buggy and went to log off and log back in to see if that would help. Welllll, on log out the game crashed like it was doing on log in initially. Got it back up and running, and got logged back in. Same issue again. Log off again, game crashes again. Finally on the third time of logging back into the game, I was able to open the door and leave the cell.

Played for about 15 minutes or so… and then got to a quest which I needed to complete for the next set of quests…. And guess what? The quest giver guy was not showing up. Another bug that everyone was experiencing. Whatever, it is beta after all right?

At that point I was pretty annoyed, so I just decided to log out for the night (upon logging out the game crashed, of course) and check back on Sat/Sun to see if they had fixed the non-existent quest giver bug, etc. I log in on Sunday (without any crashes, surprisingly) and see that the quest giver I need is still not there. So I made a whole new completely difference character… start playing that new character… and then run into the same issue again with missing quest givers. I just got pissed and logged off.

My husband was having all of the same issues I was and from what I could see in chat, so was everyone else. It was really disappointing. As far as I know, ESO has been in beta for MONTHS. At this point in time, I’m not sure how they’re having so many issues. But if you’re going to launch and continue beta you should probably make sure that some of the key elements necessary for playing your game (as in the ability to log in and receive/hand in quests) … actually work!

It was just frustrating. Every single time the game crashed, it brought up a report screen so I was able to report it directly and let them know what I was doing when it crashed, but man I could only take so much before I just said screw it. It just boggles my mind that at this point there are still so many major issues. I’m hoping that I will be invited back to the next beta test because I really wanted to see what the game was like :/