I was on the beta tryouts .... and yes it sucked in my opinion. I have played many different MMOG and when they said this will be more open and freedom in skills choose "sandbox". I though "oh good,that means no more endless hack and slash to get anywhere" ... how wrong was I.

As a formerly die-hard Elder Scrolls fan, nothing has mortified and disgusted me quite like the look of Elder Scrolls Online.  Don't get me wrong, I actually do like WoW (although I haven't played it in forever, more accurately I'd say I do like Old Republic), but the idea of turning Elder Scrolls into a WoW clone is absolutely abhorrent.  Bethesda has so completely failed to understand what people loved about their games, I can only imagine the experience of launching ESO is something like launching X Rebirth but with fewer bugs, and even less potential for recovery.

Suffice it to say, having originally worried about being able to resist purchasing ESO for a few months at least, after seeing a few gameplay videos (and expending great mental discipline to watch more than one) I will never play it.  

While I'm at it, I usually have open contempt for the ridiculous story lines of video games, but Morrowind had me absolutely entranced (more due to the depth and richness of the backstory and the non-generic fantasy setting than from the main story line).  Oblivion was a step down from this, but Skyrim was a flush down the toilet.  Still a great game, but Elder Scrolls is owed better than the same old inane dragon silliness which gets plastered over every single RPG.