From the frying pan to the skillet?

Doesn't make any sense imo. free to pay is not a good business model for gamers, you potentially end up paying more in the long run on a single game.

No thanks.

By the way , what is B2P? can someone enlighten me please and thank you?, and if this game is B2P what does that mean?

Surely no one believes that your going to buy this game and there never gonna introduce "micro-transactions" and "DLC" right?

Last thing, Monthly Subscription model, F2P model, and B2P.......don't you still END UP shelling out more $$ potentially than you paid for the game originally?

Do what you do though, but that's why I don't play these type of games.

I did see a screen shot of The Elder Scrolls Online being played on the PS4 and it looks like Zenimax and Bethesda are doing a good job with it. I have faith in them.

My review (part 1)

I've been playing it lately and I'm blown away by how close it is to an Elder Scrolls game. It has great quests that actually change the environments. You will see enemies conquer a zone, towns burning, villagers celebrating you freeing them, and so on.

The quest are really good, very interesting and really well written with great spoken dialogues, you will find allies from those quests that you will meet further on. The main quest is quite good so far, now you are the Vestige instead of the Dragon Born or the Nerevarine, though I'm only lvl 13 on the EBonheart Pact faction (levelling in this game is hard though, it will take you lots of quests to just to reach a new level, something that I love after maxing Neverwinter really fast for example), it actually seems more interesting that Morrowind story so far.

One really interesting thing about ESO is that you will get dialogue options were you have to choose your course of action with several options. Your decision may have consequences further on, with people reminding you of your choice, for good or bad, so choose carefully.

Like any good ES game, there are tons of lore everywhere, there's even a lore tab in your journal menu with all the lore you have found and the lore you're yet missing. ALso there's the Loremaster Archive on the ESO website with lots of lore.

Graphics are the best I've seen for a fantasy MMORPG game in a very long while, at least for a western themed MMORPG (Tera and other eastern/korean MMORPG look fantastic, but have lots of cute chars and things like that which I don't like much). It only helps that it works great with Nvidia 3D Vision, so watching Stonefalls in perfect 3d is mindblowing.

Zones are huge yet very well done and varied. I'm only level 13 but I have already seen snowy zone like Skyrim and lots of Morrowind-like environments, which vary from thunderous ash rain mountains with lava to beautiful plains with huge mushrooms everywhere, plus dungeons look good too, and I haven't even entered Cyrodiil yet, or the other faction environments. There are also quite a few cities that are well done and distinct enough, other than taverns and several other places looking exactly the same wherever you go.

(part 2)

You can really play it as a full single-player ES game and you won't even notice other than other people running around, which actually make the world feel alive compared to offline ES games.

Fast travelling works like ES games more less, you click at some points that let you move really fast for questing. It doesn't work with cities or dungeons, but there's always one of them close enough to wherever you want to go so that you won't be walking for hours to reach somewhere. Also you can purchase a horse quite cheap, so it will help a lot in travelling and avoiding mosters.

Sneaking works like in Skyrim and it can be quite useful to avoid difficult enemies, I'm of the warrior type but I've been sneaking a lot in this game, and it works well.

Combat is a mix of MMORPG and ES game. You have the traditional right mouse block button, left mouse button for hit and charge to hit harder, plus tapping twice on directional keys to avoid. Then you have MMORPG skills that can throw special attacks and the like, and actually I'm liking this system.

It can be rather open ended in terms of skills. Just like an ES game, you use a weapon or a skill, you get more proficient with it, no matter your class. You find a fire staff and you can be shooting fireballs and improving your ability with it like any other ES game.

Things i don't like: there aren't auction houses, only guild auction houses, which makes sense in the world but it's a bit annoying.

ALso there are some low level quests that get you inside higher level zones that can be painful.

So really recommended, even more when it becomes F2P if it doesn't turn in a pay to win fest.