I tried to give the closed beta a fair shake, but I was so bored. I like their class/skill system, but its poorly implemented. Be and do and wear anything you want, but you'll be subpar unless you follow the cookie cutter setups and bonuses that are built into the trees and races. (This is an assumption, as I don't truly know the impact of this at higher levels. Though this is rather moot since the whole "suffer early game until you reach the real endgame" development mentality is still shitty design.)
I can see myself doing the usual MMO flow: buy it, play it until you've ridden all the rides, then never log in again. If they pull that off I'd call it a success for Zenimax, though still a failure for the genre.
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